Sixty-three: Witness to defeat Melki

The sound of horse hooves was getting closer and closer. Mirki's guard Gasu saw the crisis and ordered: "Let me go and shoot!"

This is not about scaring everyone away, but about killing everyone away!

Most of Hornard's men were still outside the city and shouted loudly on the spot: "Gasu wants to kill us, everyone rushed in and kill!"

Pushing the front behind, refugees pushing deserters, and deserters outside the city pushing deserters inside, all rushed in.

"Close the city gate for me!" Gasu roared, but how could he still be closed at this time?

Under the orders of the garrison, the defenders of Mörki wanted to drive the deserters out. Although the deserters were divided into the city outside, how could they tell the inside and outside at this time? People outside shouted to kill, and those who had already entered the city had to be forced to take action, and chaos was immediately found in the city.

Hornard rushed to the top of the city with dozens of personal soldiers and shouted: "Gasu, why are you commanding randomly? Ask your people to stop!"

"Stop?" Gasu sneered: "Does these untouchables really take the opportunity to flood in? Who knows if there are spies here? If there are spies in it and Melki makes a mistake, who will bear the blame?"

Hornard shouted, "I'll take it!"

"You are just afraid you can't afford it!"

The two of them faced each other, one of Hornard was a great official, and the other of Kasu was in charge. Hornard was determined to take over the city, but Gasu refused to be suppressed by him, the escapee. The upper level and the people below were already using the knife!

Melki's soldiers were not elite soldiers, and those deserters were not elite soldiers. They were forced by the situation and had to fight each other because the situation was too chaotic. Whether it was attacking and defending, or soldiers and refugees, they were still praying for self-protection in the collision with each other.

Among the deserters and refugees, hundreds of people were very good at fighting, not only good at fighting, but also very organized! These people generally had fifty people as a group, and about ten such people attacked important strongholds in the city with great purpose in the chaos! They used refugees and fleeing deserters as cover, and the archers did not focus on them for a while, but when these five hundred people attacked there, the Mirki defenders there were invincible! Although the deserters and refugees were unknown to the general trend, they saw that these people were powerful and surrounded them tightly or followed behind them, which unknowingly strengthened their momentum.

After Gasu reacted, more than 300 defenders in the city had been killed, and several important strongholds in the city were also seized. These people occupied the key points in the city and then set up their formations. Ten teams of men echoed each other, and commanded the deserters and refugees around them to continue fighting as their periphery. These people were too powerful in combat compared to Hornard and Gasu's men. If it weren't for the small number, they would have occupied the entire city.

Gasu was shocked when he saw this situation and shouted: "Okay, Hornard, you actually hid so many elite soldiers! You have been plotting against me from the beginning!"

Hornard was also a little confused, and suddenly heard someone shouting: "Tang Kou! Tang Kou!"

This time, hundreds of cavalrymen turned from behind the rocks. They were really strong and were completely different from the sluggishness of Hornard's deserter! When the cavalry approached, Hornard looked up and was so scared that he almost lost his soul. The young general in front of him met the extremely powerful young man when he was going to fetch water!

Gasu was also shocked: "Is it really Tang Kou?"

The young man who was chasing in front of him was Yang Yi. He rushed to the vicinity and saw Hornard on the top of the city. His eyes turned and laughed in Uighur words: "General Hornard, good! If you seize this city of Melki, you will be the first to win!"

Gasu turned his head, and looked "so that's it" in his eyes, and he roared wildly: "So you are a spy!"

Hornard complained, but how could he tell clearly? The five hundred warriors in the city who were mixed with deserters and refugees were originally Tang army, but the commander in the head was Murong Chunhua. At this time, he shouted: "General Hornard, hurry up and start!"

While Gasu was furious, he pointed at Hornard: "Kill!" The archer aimed at him.

Hornard was shocked and had no choice but to shout, "Kill!" Lead the soldiers to rush to the archers. Although the deserters he led were not very morale, the defenders of Melki were not much better in panic. They fought close together. The archers were slaughtered in front of the scimitar. They abandoned the bows and arrows and drew their swords to resist.

There was a sudden chaos on the city wall!

Yang Yi laughed loudly and drove the refugees to attack the south gate. There were no archers at the top of the city. The Tang army outside the city had no scruples. At this time, the Tang army in the city had occupied various key points, which could be attacked or defended, and the city gate could not be closed. The deserters and refugees were fighting each other in chaos. Those who followed the five hundred Tang army in the city were just wrong and continued to fight with the Tang army. Poor that there were only more than 1,500 people in the city, but there were only about 1,000 people left, and they were cut into several pieces. The biggest reliance - the city walls and bows and arrows were all lost. Gasu on the city was even fighting with Hornard!

When the situation has reached this point, even gods and immortals are unable to turn things around.

Yang Yi shouted: "General Hornard, after taking the head of Gasu, I will show you the merits in front of Special Envoy Zhang!"

Hornard had no choice but to fight, but when he fought here, he thought he would just make mistakes. He actually led more than 100 personal guards to cooperate with the Tang army in the city. The deserters he led were very confused and he did not hesitate anymore. Under the command of Murong Chunhua, they attacked the defenders in the city together. As for the refugees who had already entered the city, they were originally very afraid of the Tang gangs, but they had fought around Murong Chunhua and others since the siege. They hated the defenders of Melki refused to open the city gate to take them in, so they naturally went with the flow.

Seeing that Melki was no longer able to defend, Gasu gritted his teeth and fled out of the northwest small gate with dozens of people. Yang Yi did not chase after him. Murong Chunhua shouted in the city: "Gasu has escaped, you haven't surrendered yet, when will you wait?" The soldiers of the Tang army shouted again: "Gasu surrender! Surrender without killing! Surrender without killing! Surrender without surrender, surrender without killing!"

Seeing that the remaining soldiers in the city were no longer fortunate, they gradually abandoned their weapons and surrendered. Only a small group of them were still resisting. Yang Yi led the crowd into the city, met with Murong Chunhua, and solved the stubborn resistance one by one.

Hornard also came to pay a visit, kneeling at his feet, Yang Yi laughed and said, "It seems that you can't go back to Satuk in this way."

Hornard almost cried when he heard this. He was not a spy sent by Yang Yi, but after this battle, it became true. Now there is only one way to surrender. He crawled on the ground and cried: "General, please spare my life for my contribution to seizing the city."

If Gasuddin had been in this situation, even if he was defeated and surrendered, he would never call himself a small person, but Hornard used words to speak for fear that he would not be humble.

Yang Yi saw that he was so uncharacteristic and didn't like him very much. He was not so cunning. Whatever he thought was, something appeared on his face.

Murong Chunhua rushed to him, whispered a few times, Yang Yi nodded and said, "I just said that you have made merits, and you have made merits. What I said must count. Since I have made merits, how could I hurt your life? Not only will I not hurt your life, I also want to represent you as a general. Get up, except for the people I brought, all the other deserters and the people who had just surrendered by the Mirgi defenders are under your command."

Hornard was overjoyed and kowtowed to thank him. Yang Yi sent another fire chief as his deputy, and ten Tang soldiers as his personal guards. Hornard knew that this was the intention of surveillance, but he did not dare to resist--were unable to resist.

The first task Yang Yi gave him was to lead deserters to drive the prisoners out of the city.

"I'll guard this Melki, you go guard the Nanyuan Xiaoyi opposite."

The small town of Nanyuan is only a few layers of fences, so where can there be enough fortifications to defend? If it is under pressure from a large army, it will be like a car crushing a mantis, but at this time the situation is on the other side. Whatever Yang Yi said, Hornard had to do.

A person like him who has no character is annoying and annoying, but sometimes it is really good to use. Only then did he get Yang Yi to represent him as a general, but then he pretended to be a magnificent person to order the deserters, the captives lined up, and drove the people out of the city.

His efficiency was really good. Not long after, the peace was restored inside and outside the mountain city. In the third Zhechong Mansion, there were only more than 900 people left in the third Zhechong Mansion.

The Tang army quickly searched, cleared the houses and strongholds in the city, and firmly controlled the city gates. As for what happened in the Nanyuan Xiaoyi, such as the refugee group and the Uighur soldiers kept running away, Yang Yi ignored it and just sent a team of soldiers to search the refugee group to see if there was an old businessman named Nair Shahi.

"Brother Chunhua, our Yingyang Mansion is so proud!" Yang Yi said proudly: "All this is thanks to your plan!"

It turned out that Yang Yi took Zhang Mai's general order and headed towards Jade Baersi. On the way, Murong Chunhua said to Yang Yi: "Jiba Ersi is not worth mentioning. Special Envoy Zhang asked us to arrest Nael Shahi, mostly because of political planning. However, instead of going to Jade Baersi, it is better to go to Julan City. Why? If this person does not escape, we can occupy Julan City and send people to find him. If this person escapes, we must also go to Julan City. We occupy Julan City first, and we will cut off his way. We can catch this person without going to Jade Baersi."

Yang Yi was also not interested in a small place like Chiba Ersi, so he sent only two teams to Chiba Ersi, but the main force came to Julan City. When he arrived near Julan City, Murong Chunhua saw that he had encountered fugitives and deserters all the way, and the entire Talas area was panicked. He said to Yang Yi: "It seems that there is no suspense to conquer Talas. After Talas, Julan City will be destroyed without attacking. In this case, we don't have to rush to fight Julan City. I think if we take Talas and Julan City, the next step is to take over Melki, and use these two cities to defend the Eastern Front and resist Satuk. Since that's the case, we might as well try Melki first."

A captain in the army said, "Merki is east of Julan City. Before Julan City has been captured, I will go around and attack Maerki, and then we will be cut off from our way back."

Murong Chunhua said: "What you are talking about is what happened under normal circumstances. But the current situation is that the Uighurs are completely unstable in the area of ​​Talas. The soldiers have no fighting spirit and people cannot fight. Even if they block our way back, they may not be able to strangle us to death. Besides, with the style of Special Envoy Zhang, when the Talas has a result, they will immediately send a large army to advance east to support us. So even if we are attacked from front and back, we can only be saved if we can withstand it for a while. According to my speculation, it is dangerous.

It won't be very big, but the benefits are huge - I haven't been to Melki, but according to Liu An's description, the mountain city is small but easy to defend but difficult to attack. The terrain is rugged and narrow, and the attack surface is narrow. As long as there are thousands of people defending a city like this, even if there are tens of thousands of troops, it may not be possible to deal with it. It is best to fight this city to take advantage of the chaos. If we conquer Julan City first and then advance east, Melki would have received news long ago, and it would be difficult to take advantage of the troubled waters."

If Guo Luo was replaced, it might have to be considered, but Yang Yi decided to take risks at that time. Murong Chunhua led the five hundred Tang troops, disguised as deserters and refugees, but did not enter when they passed by Julan City. Like some escaped people in Chin, they rushed to Melki. The defenders in the city were just worried about whether the "Tang bandits" had come. When they came, they did not find this group of escaped people. The deserters were strange. This was also because the Tang army was born with mud legs, and dressed up as grassroots figures. It was not just "like" that was simply "yes".

After Yang Yi waited for Murong Chunhua to set off, he raised the banner and approached Julan City. Unexpectedly, Hornard had already escaped without attacking.

Yang Yi thought to himself at the time: "If I enter the city, it is necessary to have martial law. It will take at least one or two days to calm the people and search for the enemy. Chunhua's troops are less, and even if he launches a surprise attack, don't have any accidents because of too few troops." He didn't go in and sent only two teams into the city, "acting according to the opportunity." But he brought five hundred light cavalry and led to Talas with his tail.

Next, the scene mentioned above is where Murong Chunhua's surprise soldiers mingled into the refugee and deserter team and took advantage of the chaos to kill into the city. Yang Yi then arrived, and cooperated inside and outside, and took over Melki.

At this time, Murong Chunhua drove out everyone except the Tang army in the city. The city of Murki is small and strong, and does not require too many people to defend. On the contrary, the purer the army is, the more beneficial it is.

He went to explore everywhere and found food and water. He couldn't help but be overjoyed and said, "Now! Don't say that we were cut off our retreat, even if we were surrounded and we couldn't get through, we could still keep our food and arrows until the food was gone!"

Just as he was about to send someone to the west to report the victory, his subordinates outside the city came to report again: "We have found the Nair Shahi family."

Then they saw that their family was "invited" in. Nair Shahi sat in the sedan chair, and his son, daughter, son-in-law, and grandson followed behind. They were all worried, but Nair Shahi seemed very calm.

Yang Yi had seen this old man, and recognized him correctly. He laughed and said, "Old man, we Special Envoy Zhang are very concerned about you. If you don't have a chin, you can take care of yourself. What are you doing here?"

Nair Shahi smiled bitterly and said, "I'm waiting for the general here."

Yang Yi laughed: "The old man is really good at speaking!"

So he sent a team of people to escort Nair Shahi to meet Zhang Mai.

Nairshahi said: "General, don't you go back?"

"Go back? Where to go?" Yang Yi smiled and said, "I want to wait for Satuk here."

Nair Shahi's body shook slightly and said, "The general is going to fight Bograhan here?"

"Yes." Yang Yi smiled and said, "not only do I have to fight him, but I also want to defeat him here - I want him to have nightmares when I think of this place in the future. Haha, maybe he will not have a chance to dream from now on. Haha, haha..."

When it comes to this crazy aura, Yang Yi and Zhang Mai are not inferior, especially the laughter, and they don’t know who influenced who.

In the past few months, not only Zhang Mai has grown up, but Yang Yi has also changed a lot.

Nair Shahi was stunned when he heard this, as if he was shocked by Yang Yi's domineering aura.

"Fighting with Bograhan...they actually dare to drink Bograhan..."

If it were two months ago, he would probably think that this group of "Tang Kou" was too arrogant and ridiculous, but during this period, especially after seeing the Tang army's means of seizing Murki in the past two days, his evaluation of the Tang army's strength almost exceeded the Tang army's true strength, and he actually thought to himself: "Maybe, they can really defeat Bograhan!"

Thinking of this, he stopped the person who wanted to carry him away, got out of the sedan chair, walked back to Yang Yi, and said, "General Yang, can I ask you something?"

"Hmm? Please tell me." Although Yang Yi was not very clear about what Zhang Mai was going to see this old man, Zhang Mai used the word "please" when he gave him the task, so he was polite to Nair Shahi.

At this time, the old businessman said, "If such a big thing happened to Talas, it won't take long to Bograhan to lead the army. By then, this place will become a battlefield! When the war is in trouble, aren't the poor escapees? General Yang, can you ask you to send clear water to the refugees outside the city so that they can find their way to live after they get the water?"

Murong Chunhua said, "Isn't there water on the opposite side?" He came a day ago and knew about the situation in Xiaoyi, Nanyuan.

Nairshahi said: "On the other side is the small spring, which is slow to get water. Besides, it involves many interests. It depends on the people over there to deliver water. Not to mention that the poor cannot eat it, it also takes too much time. I am afraid that the water will be sent before it is finished. Bograhan has already arrived. At that time, alas——" He sighed at this point, "If General Yang is willing to send one or two hundred people to distribute water from the big spring here, he can distribute water in just one meal."

Although Yang Yi did not feel like he was a good person, he thought that the old man's request was a good deed, and the Tang army was not hurt. At this time, Satuk had not yet attacked the enemy, so he said, "Okay." He immediately sent six teams of 300 people to carry the clear water in the city with large buckets of water to the city and distribute it to the refugees. He did not charge any money. He also told Hornard: "The refugees should leave, please follow them, don't stop them."

The refugees outside the city were sent by the Tang army to send clear water, and they also allowed them to leave freely. They were all grateful. Many people took the clear water and kowtowed and prayed under the city, and then went to find their way to live.

Yang Yi smiled and said, "Old man, are you satisfied?"

"Great kindness, it's not that I'm satisfied with it, but that the general has accumulated a great kindness. The God of Light will definitely bless you and keep the Tang army." Nairshashi prayed to the sun. Yang Yi was about to persuade him to set off. Nairshashi said again: "General Yang, thank you for saving so many suffering people. I have also given you a plan, which may be useful. There is a lack of spring water around Melki. Although there is snow on the ice peak, it is steep and rare. Only two spring water inside and outside maintains the vitality within five days of walking and two days of horse walking. Now the spring water in the inner city has been occupied by the general. As long as the small spring in the fence circle of the Nanyuan Xiaoyi fence is sealed, then the enemy's army will have no water to take after reaching the city. That may be very beneficial to the general."

Yang Yi was surprised and happy when he heard this. Murong Chunhua said, "But how to seal the spring water? If we cover it with mud and sand, Satuk can also shovel it away again."

Nairshahi said, "The two generals don't know that there is a huge stone above the spring in the Nanyuan Xiaoyi. The stone is very strange. Half of it has been hanging in the air. However, there is a place that is several inches long at the root and is connected to the mountain wall. When people are fetching water in the small spring, they always look up and feel that the stone will fall down at any time. But the stone is like this, and it exists on it without moving, for thousands or tens of thousands of years. It is a wonder of the small spring in the Nanyuan Xiaoyi. If the general mobilizes people and shovels the root, the stone will probably collapse and will just press on the spring. The stone will probably have more than 100,000 kilograms, like a hill. After pressing onto the spring, even if Satuk has great skills, it will be difficult to lift him up."

Murong Chunhua was overjoyed and said, "I'll do it now!"

He led a team of people out of the city. At this time, the refugees outside the city had dispersed almost all, and only four or five hundred people were left under Hornard's command. Hornard did not escape because he could no longer return to Satuk.

Murong Chunhua took them to the opposite side to climb the mountain, and indeed found the huge rock. Fortunately, the place where the huge rock was not very steep, and there could be dozens of people around. Murong Chunhua immediately ordered the stone root to be cut off. How could the indigenous forces in the Nanyuan Xiaoyi stop them? Although the stone root was only a few inches, it took half a day to shovel them. Finally, before sunset, the stone root was completely cut off. The reason why the huge rock could not fall in the sky was to use this last little force to pull it off. When the stone root broke, it immediately collapsed and pressed on the spring. The earth was shaking loudly. It seemed that the entire Mörji City was shaking! Fortunately, this Mörji City was not a tofu project, and it collapsed without using this excuse. The Tang generals on the city had already heard of this matter, and they all cheered when they heard the sound: "Long live, long live!"

Yang Yi smiled and came to thank Nair Shahi, saying, "Old sir, although I don't know very well what our Special Envoy Zhang asked you to do, from now on, the old sir will be my Tang army's guest. Don't worry, you can travel west. There are only good things on the Special Envoy Zhang's side, no bad things."

Nairshahi said: "I also wish that this city of Malki is in the hands of the Tang army, and I wish General Yang great achievements."

Just as he was about to set off, a soldier in charge of listening to the ground shouted: "Cabinets on the east side! About two or three hundred cavalry!"
Chapter completed!