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Chapter 18 The troubles of happiness

At this time, the entire Bogulu City was full of joy. For the Tang soldiers, the victory of this war came too easily. They had hardly done anything, and the Turks had herd sheep. However, although the victory came easily, the military achievements would not be discounted.

The busiest person in the Right Guard led the military officer Du Shanguo, who was considering how to report the victory of the battle to the court. Chen Ying led the Right Guard to lead the Xun Mansion, Xun Mansion, Yi Mansion, Yi Mansion and the Little Guard Regiment, a total of more than 2,800 soldiers, with less and more than 2,800 soldiers, and in just half an hour, he annihilated more than 20,000 Turks, beheaded more than 1,000 levels, and captured more than 13,000 alive. None of the Right Guard led the battle to be killed, and only dozens of them were slightly injured when they were struggling by the Turks while cleaning the battlefield.

Du Shanguo was silent for a long time and sighed: "How can I write a good news for this? Even if I write it truthfully, I am afraid the court would think we are falsely reporting our military achievements!"

The left deputy commander Gao Yunquan curled his lips and said, "Du Chanjun, just pretend."

He Yuejing sighed and said, "General Chen is such a genius. He actually came up with such a wonderful idea. Otherwise, would there be some battles?"

"Some fights? They can't fight well, right?" Gao Yunquan said: "I asked you to lead more than 2,000 infantry to attack nearly 20,000 Turks. Do you dare to imagine victory in advance?"

He Yuejing shook his head and said, "I definitely don't dare to think about it!"

At this moment, Du Shanguo began to splash ink: "My Right Guard led the Records to the Army Du Shanguo reported that the Turks and Liang gangs had a total of more than 50,000 troops surrounded Lingzhou. The general manager of Lingzhou Guo Zihe led his troops to fight bloody battles, but they were outnumbered and Lingzhou was in danger. The right Guard led the general Zhongwu and the general manager of the marching should not hesitate to lead his troops to support Lingzhou.

On December 27, Ying encountered the enemy more than 20 miles southeast of Bogulu City. The enemy Turks had more than 20,000 soldiers, and Ying Yi was not afraid. He shouted to the soldiers: "Eat the king's salary, be loyal to the king, kill the enemy and serve the country at this time." After speaking, Ying led the army, and ten thousand were the first. The soldiers were also determined to serve the country, bravely moving forward, and died suddenly. After a day and night, the blood was killed and blood flowed into a river, and the corpse was like a mountain. The Turks were defeated. They retreated. Ying led his troops to advance rapidly, killing into Bogulu City, and capturing more than 13,000 Turks..."

Now, Chen Ying occupied Bogulu City, robbed the old lair set up by Shi Liver, and changed the host and guest. Chen Ying's situation is much better than before.

"Now the Turks have suffered heavy losses and our army has won a new victory. If there are less than ten thousand cavalry around us, we might as well act together!" In the central army's tent, Wei Wenzhong said excitedly: "Crack the siege of Lingzhou!"

As the topic was opened, the generals were talking, some said they had to make a concerted effort, while others said they wanted to do it step by step. The generals quarreled for about a quarter of an hour.

Chen Ying, who really couldn't stand it, said: "We can discuss whether we can fight or not. If we can't win this future battle in one go, what should we do? What should we do if we defeat Shiliver? What is our purpose this time?"

As the leader of the entire army, Chen Ying focused on the overall situation, not the gains and losses of a single battle. Now that the Turks are newly defeated, they can make a concerted effort, but once they trigger a full-scale war between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty, even if Chen Ying set up a whole army to annihilate Shiliver, he would not only fail, but instead make a mistake.

If the entire strategy of the Turks and the Tang Dynasty was not destroyed, then he would be a temporary benefit, with no mistakes. This is the difference. Of course, there is a way to determine the head, and not to do the politics if he is not in his position.

Chen Ying did not make a specific order to fight or not, but instead ordered Lu Decao to issue the seized sheepskin to the meritorious soldiers according to the merit of beheading. Sima Lu Decao had no objection to this, but when he heard that Chen Ying actually rewarded the civilians, Lu Decao felt incredible.

The civil servants followed the army and only served in service. This is a kind of corvee service. Not only did they have no wages to get, they also had to bring their own dry food.

"Since our army went to war, we have worked very hard with the military and civilians. Now that our army has won a great victory, how can we erase their contributions?" In fact, Chen Ying knew very well that this great victory over the civilians should be the first contribution.

As a human being, there should be a bottom line and seize all the credits of the people. Chen Ying really can't do such a thing.

"But there is no such precedent!"

"No need to say much, just execute it!" Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "Every civilian rewarded three pieces of sheepskin, ten pounds of mutton and twenty pounds of horse meat."

Lu Decao had no choice but to promise.

When Chen Ying distributed the seized sheepskin to the civilians, he held the soft sheepskin that had been made by the Turks, and these civilians felt unrealistic.

The civil servants who participated in the corvee service were all poor people living at the bottom, and no one cared about their life or death. After they finished eating the dry food they carried with them, whether they could eat was entirely based on the feelings of the marching general manager. Chen Ying did not short of food for the civil servants along the way, but this sheepskin was not cheap!

A piece of sheepskin is almost equivalent to three hundred yuan. Now the price is higher in the cold winter. This quality sheepskin can be sold for five hundred yuan in Chang'an City, or even more. The value of three sheepskin plus mutton and horse meat is more than a thousand yuan. For ordinary farmers, they have worked hard for a year and cannot even save up the amount of money.

The people and men got the benefits of Chen Ying and bowed to Chen Ying one after another. In the eyes of these soldiers and civilians, Chen Ying had become a great man who had become a Buddha in thousands of families.

A Tang soldier led a yellow horse and personally delivered the reins to Lin Chuanfu. "This horse will be yours in the future!"

Lin Chuanfu was stunned: "My?"

Although the price of war horses in the Tang Dynasty was not as expensive as that of the Song Dynasty, war horses were not cheap. A strong cow could be sold in Chang'an for 8,000 to 10,000 yuan, while a war horse ranged from 9,000 to 30,000 yuan depending on the war horses. It was not affordable to ordinary people, and of course it could not be afforded to afford it.

"General Chen appointed a reward to Supervisor Lin for a good horse, and asked Supervisor Lin to sign and arrest him. He also had to go back and report his life!"

...

Just when Chen Ying was awarding the entire army in Bogulu City, Shi Livershi stood under Lingzhou City, staring at the southern city tower like an eagle, and covering the gate of the southern city tower with a high shield so that they could not see the movement in the southern city tower outside the city tower.

It was certain that Shilivershi knew that it was Guo Zihe's command sanctuary. After nearly an hour of fighting, Lingzhou City was at its last moment and was almost exhausted. At the last moment, even the weak women and boys took weapons to battle.

Even if he gave himself another hour, not even half an hour, he could take down Lingzhou City. However, at this time, Bogulu City was lost.

A large number of defeated soldiers rushed to Lingzhou city. When Turkic soldiers who had already climbed up to the city wall heard the news that Bogulu City had fallen, they immediately collapsed like an avalanche. Shiliffs killed dozens of Turkic soldiers, but still could not curb the defeat, so they could only withdraw the troops with hatred.

If Yu Gunnie is here, Shiliver would cut off his head without hesitation.

It’s just a pity that Yu Guni has surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

What to do now?

Shiliver Sighed, losing the Thin Bone City, he also lost all his supplies. The soldiers of the entire army were not even carrying tents, not to mention other supplies. In such cold weather, without tents camping in the wild, they would definitely freeze into popsicles.

In desperation, Shiliver had to order the retreat.

It was not that Shiliver had thought of regaining Bobble Ruin City in the past, but the Tang people were good at guarding it. Although Bobble Ruin City was broken, in such cold weather, he only needed hot water to build Bobble Ruin City into a wall of iron in just half an hour. Not to mention that he had only led less than ten thousand cavalry, even if the number of people was three times higher, he could not regain Bobble Ruin City.
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