Chapter 466 The Suddenly of Wolf

Qingluoyuan, gunpowder smoke filled the corpses, there were countless huge craters on the ground, and the blood stained the knee-deep snow. Fire broke out everywhere in the huge Tubo army, and thick smoke rolled for dozens of miles. A team of Tubo prisoners were escorted by Tang soldiers and walked out of the camp.

Hou Junji rode a horse in the military village, his face was tight, and his eyes were as cold as ice. A team of prisoners were escorted beside him. He looked sideways and saw that several of them seemed to be Han people, so he raised his hand and waved the whip and pointed to them: "Bring those two people here."

The guards came forward and took the two Tubo prisoners suspected of Han.

"Are you Han Chinese?" Hou Junji asked.

"Yes, we are the captured people of the Tang Dynasty. We were used by the Tubo people as serfs to graze and plant. When we fought, we went to the barracks to feed horses as firemen and serve the knights of Kunlun iron horses. Every Kunlun iron rider is served by slaves, and there are three or four more. One of them replied tremblingly in Chinese, which was indeed an authentic Kansai accent.

Hou Junji squinted at them, and his eyes pierced into their hearts like a blade. Judging carefully, the two people did not seem to be lying.

"Don't be afraid, I won't kill you. When your true body is verified, it can really prove that you are the abhorted Han people, and you will be released to return to your hometown to reunite with your relatives. Hou Junji said.

"Thank you, General, thank you, General!" The two Han slaves knelt on the snow with joy and kept kowtoing.

"Get up. I will ask you, why are there only these old, weak soldiers and groom slaves left in the Qingluoyuan camp? Where is the main force of the Kunlun Iron Horse of the Chalqin Mausoleum? Hou Junji asked.

"This... The villain is just a subordinate who feeds horses and boils water. I'm not sure." One of them replied, "I only know that in the middle of the night about three days ago, there was a big movement in the barracks, and most of the people turned to Jishi Mountain in the southwest. The next day, when there was no light, the stewling general let us fire-headed grooms ride on horses and run around the barracks with flags. In the middle of the night, we still ran back and forth with torches, but we were not exhausted.

"Buffing, secretly crossing the warehouse!" Hearing this, Hou Junji had completely understood in his heart and was completely cold.

Previous bad premonitions and speculations have now been verified.

Since Hou Junji was ordered to lead the army to guard Dafeichuan, the "wounded beast" Karqinling has never stopped provoking and attacking Dafeichuan. Although the Tubo people have been defeated twice in a row, they still have the remnants of 150,000 troops, and the main force of Kunlun's iron cavalry still exists in the garqinling. With the strength of 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses in his hand, it is really difficult to compete. Therefore, according to Qin Mubai's advice, he strictly guarded the camp to attack instead of defense, and let time, cold and hunger kill the fighting spirit and strength of the Tubo people.

In the cold winter, it is difficult to transport grain and grass in the mountains with heavy snow. In fact, not only the Tubo people, but also the whole Lanzhou has been short of food. According to Qin Mubai's pre-plan, when the ice and snow melting grain road is smooth, the front line will be contracted to concentrate troops, and then raise enough food and grass to fight head-on with the Tubo people. Moreover, in the cold winter, the field ability of the Tang army will be greatly reduced, which is far worse than the Tubo iron horse, which is used to the cold of ice and snow.

For all these factors, the tactic of "attacking instead of defense" is reasonable. At that time, Hou Junji himself did not raise any objection. Although he was eager to make contributions, he also recognized Qin Mubai's tactic.

However, in the end, I made a mistake.

The hard-hit Karqin Mausoleum, which was hit, looked like an angry beast on the surface. It was repeatedly provoked, and even recklessly braved the prestige of the Shenwu cannon, sent troops to attack Dafeichuan, and was repulsed without exception.

Such a crazy offensive seems to prove Qin Mubai's expectation that Golmud's surprise attack was successful, and the Tubo people had no food and grass. They must rush to attack and take Dafeichuan, otherwise they will really die in this severe winter. Unexpectedly, behind the crazy attack, there was a gloomy trick - the Karqinling gave up his 40,000 to 50,000 soldiers and horses like a broken arm to survive, and let them half guard the fortress and half continue to seek Dafeichuan to contain and paralyze the Tang army. In the dark, he personally led the elite Kunlun iron horse of the headquarters to bypass the southwest and climbed through the ice and snow. Jishi Mountain!

When Hou Junji found out that there was fraud, it was too late. Although he immediately led the army to take the initiative to attack, defeated the left-be soldiers and horses in just half a day with the support of the Shenwu cannon, and seized the original army of Qingluo in one fell swoop, the nearly 100,000 Kunlun iron riders under his command have disappeared.

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Hou Junji almost expected the consequences. He personally came to the vicinity of Jishi Mountain and found traces of a large number of cavalry activities here. Looking up, there is a boundless mountain of ice and snow and a dangerous peak towering into the clouds.

"What the hell! Do the Chalqinling and his Kunlun iron riders have wings on their bodies? Hou Junji scolded repeatedly in his heart, "Birds can't fly with such mountains and steep ice peaks. How can the cavalry pass?"

The deputy generals around them also realized the seriousness of the problem and whispered, "Jishi Mountain stretches for dozens of miles, which is a natural military barrier. In the past, it was the watershed between Tubo and Tuyuhun, and the soldiers and horses in the Central Plains could fight here, which was almost the end. Now that the Garqin Mausoleum has climbed from here like a ghost, and then crosses a plateau and plain to the southeast, hundreds of miles deep, then it will directly face the new state and county set up by the Tang Dynasty in the hometown of Tuyuhun!"

"Gerqinling will definitely invade Taozhou!" Hou Junji frowned and said, "Because in the area of Songzhou, there are tens of thousands of troops led by Yu Chi Jingde, the commander-in-chief of Jiannan Road. Previously, it was also a battlefield. However, between the Songzhou Military Region and Taozhou, there is a plateau gully area about dozens of miles. Because of the rough roads and bad weather, it is usually rare and almost an uninhabited area. Since the Chalqin Mausoleum can climb over the Jishi Mountain, it will definitely choose such a place to escape the eyeliner of Yuchi Jingde and go straight into Taozhou!"

"If you let him take down Taozhou, it will be a bad thing!" The left and right deputy generals were shocked and said, "Taozhou is one of the most convenient cities on the border defense line in the western part of the Tang Dynasty. After the Erqin Mausoleum is here, the southeast and northwest can march. I'm afraid that he will go deep into the customs and harm the Central Plains!"

"Now I hope that General Yu Chi can find and sniper at the garqin Mausoleum halfway!"

"What a fart to expect!" Hou Junji snorted angrily and said, "Who would send soldiers and horses to the peerless plateau dozens of miles away to guard the patrol when the mountains are frozen in this snow?" Yu Chi Jingde is just a fierce general who rushes into battle, and he can't do this kind of fine work. Besides, even if he finds it, he may not have time to save it! Since he dares to go to the Chalqin Mausoleum, he must be ready to fight halfway. In that place, he encountered Kunlun iron cavalry. It was strange that tens of thousands of Sichuan and Shu infantry under Yu Chi Jingde were not swallowed alive!"

"That doesn't mean that the garqinling must have been successful and captured Taozhou? Next, I don't know how much poison Xijiang and the Central Plains will suffer!" The left and right deputy generals all regretted and cried, "We waited for a major dereliction of duty, and we actually let Garqinling slip under our noses!"

"He will come back again." Hou Junji gritted his teeth and said word by word.

"Come back?" Everyone was surprised.

"Taozhou is connected in all directions. After a period of scourge in western Xinjiang, the garqin Mausoleum will never kill Guanzhong, which is undoubtedly looking for death. Hou Junji said, "His move is to create chaos to attract and contain the troops in the border of the Tang Dynasty, and to seek an opportunity for himself to escape."

"Then why didn't he simply retreat directly from Qingluoyuan to the plateau? Isn't it too much to attack Taozhou?

"He wants revenge." Hou Junji closed his eyes slightly and looked at the white snowy mountain in front of him. He said in a low voice, "The three consecutive defeats of Magic Moon Valley, Dafeichuan and Golmud made him lose his vitality. This is not only a military defeat, but also more likely to affect his status in Tubo and shake the Tubo country, which has always been advocated by the fanatical war faction. Policy. If you retreat like this, you may never see him on the battlefield again. Do you think he will be willing to be a hero like him? In addition, he may have other conspiracies and tricks after taking Taozhou, which should be more than just revenge.

After listening to Hou Junji's words, the hearts of the generals were pressed on a boulder.

"General Hou, what should we do now?" He asked left and right, "Qing Luoyuan has been killed, but we have almost nothing except for some prisoners of old, weak soldiers. How can we speak to Major General Qin for such a major dereliction of duty?

"This is no longer how to explain to 'Young Commander Qin'..." Hou Junji slowly spit out this sentence, making the word 'Young Commander Qin' more important.

The generals are blocked - he is implying that His Majesty will be guilty in the future?

At this moment, Hou Junji's face gradually became gloomy, and there was a faint layer of dead ashes. He thought in his heart that I, if someone was wandering and humiliating, I finally managed to take charge of the military power and do a big thing, but I made the most important military mistake in my life!

Hou, who was already an abandoned emperor and a victim of the party struggle in the imperial court, if it hadn't been for Qin Mubai's bold and exceptional use of me, Hou either died of namelessness in Lonely Laoliangzhou, or was found an excuse to cut the grass and eliminate the root of future troubles. Now everything is irreparable. Because of my mistake, Qin Mubai will also bear the charge of improper deployment and improper use of people, and Yu Chi Jingde will also be implicated by me. The military's power has finally recovered and raised its head in the court, and it will definitely be hit hard because of Hou's mistake this time!

Even if the emperor forgives me again, can Changsun Wuji let me go? What a good opportunity to put people to death! - If Taozhou is lost, Western Xinjiang and the mainland will certainly suffer great losses. How many heads will it take to calm public opinion and public anger? But Qin Mubai is a rare young general who has been cultivated by the emperor as a rare great meritorious minister, a big celebrity and the emperor. Although Yu Chi Jingde is implicated, he is not responsible for it. In addition, he is one of the four meritorious ministers of Kaiyuan and is deeply trusted by the emperor. Now it is the mainstay of the limelight... Even if these two people are punished, the emperor will never be cruel to them. Kill and injure, at most, it's a painless punishment!

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After thinking for a long time, Hou Jun couldn't help closing his eyes and sighing.

"This time, Hou will definitely die, and there will be no more day to turn over!"

"General Hou, what are you talking about?" He didn't hear it clearly and asked.

"Nothing." Hou Jun gathered his mind and regained his expression and said, "The Tubo soldiers who had just been captured in Qingluoyuan don't have to be brought back to Dafeichuan - on the spot, all of them are executed!"

"Ah? General Hou is going to kill the prisoner? The generals were surprised, "Or...all?"

Hou Junji narrowed his eyes, looked up at the sky, and said, "Select the Han slaves among them, wrap some food, and let them escape by themselves!"

At this moment, he said in his heart, "This is the last good thing I did in my life!"

"But General Hou, my military law in the Tang Dynasty is strict, and it is not allowed to kill prisoners indiscriminately! Before leaving, the young commander also solemnly told the general..."

"The great sin will be borne by Hou Yi!" Hou Jun gathered and shouted fiercely.

"Twenty or thirty thousand people!"

"If you dare to disobey this general's order, cut it now!" Hou Junji drew his knife.

The left and right deputy generals did not dare to say anything more, so he had to withdraw and execute the military order.

A cold wind swept by and blew the robe on Hou Jun's body to his chest and face. He stretched out his hand and suddenly shook his robe behind him. His eyes were full of anger, like a lone wolf who had been hungry for a long time, facing the sheep--

"Captive Tubo in Dafeichuan, escort them out in ten batches, and kill them all! Don't leave one!"

"Yes..." All the generals were chilled, but looking at the cold blade in his hand, he did not dare to say more.

"Go ahead and get busy!" Hou Junji put the knife into the sheath and waved his hand with his back to the generals. "At this time tomorrow, 50,000 to 60,000 prisoners will be killed!" Time is tight!"

There was a sudden jump in the hearts of the generals, and they looked at each other and said secretly: Time is tight? What is he in a hurry to do?

But no one dares to ask. Although Hou Junji is good at leading soldiers, he is especially good at training, and can share joys and sorrows with soldiers. He often kills the enemy in large and small battles. In addition, Fang's rewards and punishments are clear. He is already quite prestigious among the soldiers. However, Hou Junji is quite a lonely and arrogant person who is not easy to get along with. What he said must be ruthless. The generals were really afraid to ask a few more questions, and were cut off by him ruthlessly on the spot.

But at the thought that 56,000 Tubo prisoners would be executed soon, all the generals felt cold! - At the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, such a thing really never happened! Hou Junji, this is going to risk the world. Doesn't he want to live? Even if the Tubo people don't try their best to avenge him, the court of the Tang Dynasty may not let him go!

The generals have left, and Hou Junji is still standing alone at the foot of Jishi Mountain. Even the flagkeepers and guards who hold the flag dare not approach him ten steps away.

"If you die, you will die, but Hou has no scruples!" Hou Junji took a deep breath, smiled coldly at the corners of his mouth, and said to himself, "In the past, Hou always lived under the emperor's protection and kindness, taking care of reason and law everywhere. As a result, he hesitated and finally lost to Changsun Wuji. After that, Hou admired Qin Mubai's righteousness and generosity and listened to him. It's better than the emperor! - Today, Hou wants to be himself! Do something that you have always wanted to do before, but you can't do, dare not do, and can't bear to do!"

"I'm not afraid of death, what's the fear!"

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty! What I'm going to do next may make you regret that you didn't kill Hou Junji! - Just think of it as a wise man who has a lot of worries!"

"I'm sorry, Qin Mubai! Hou once planned to no longer trust anyone in his life, with the exception of you. But now, Hou is also going to do something wrong to you! But don't worry, no matter what, Hou won't kill you! In addition, maybe Hou's bad intentions to do good deeds can also pave some for you and create some convenience, which can also be regarded as a reward for your righteousness and generosity! If you can't figure it out and can't get angry, just think of it as a white-eyed wolf!"

"Wolf, after all, it's not a dog!" Hou Junji couldn't help grinning indifferently, "That's the nature. You should have thought of it, shouldn't you?"