Chapter 9 Chapter Nine: Small to Conquer the Many

Feng Guoting said: "Eagle has found something!" The three of them looked towards the south, and against the backdrop of the continuous snow peaks rising from the horizon of the Tanggula Mountains, the small black spot of the Condor kept expanding and flew towards them. When it reached above them, the Condor first circled several times before swooping down and landed on Feng Guoting's curved elbow, looking majestic. Meixiu Nafu couldn't help asking: "Where did Mr. Feng get such a sensible giant eagle?" Feng Guoting avoided answering, with a sad look on his face, and said heavily: "Tell Meixiu Nafu again when I have a chance." Turning to Longying and Wan Renyu, he said: "The enemy's vanguard troops are here, the number of Not much, it should be the nature of exploring the path."

Wan Renyu said with a sigh of relief: "Just now I was worried that the enemy would not come, so don't worry now! Boy Long really predicts the enemy like a god." Feng Guoting said: "The enemy is very capable, they came so fast." Longying said: "If you can see the enemy's vanguard before sunrise, the victory will be decided. It depends on how many of them can leave alive." A gust of wind blew, and the chill increased sharply, reminding them that the plateau was in the extremes of heat and cold day and night.This moment is the dividing line between cold and heat.

Feng Guoting agreed, "That's right, if the enemy has been traveling day and night, and didn't set up camp until they reached the south bank of the Tuotuo River, they must be exhausted and unable to withstand our surprise attack." Wan Renyu said to Long Ying: "According to your estimation, when will the enemy's main force arrive?" Longying murmured: "Because the mules and yaks walk slowly, it is very efficient to reach the Tuotuo River before tomorrow evening. It can be imagined that because Doma was cut off by the prince, there is a lack of food and supplies, and he has to deal with people coming back from the south. Many soldiers, this time the enemy's surprise army will also be responsible for transporting supplies and food."

Feng Guoting said: "In this way, the enemy will set up camp on the south bank of the Tuotuo River, rest well, wait for the men and horses to recover their strength, and then cross the Tuotuo River." Wan Renyu said: "Should Tian Mu Jinfang and Lin Zhuang be notified immediately?" Long Ying turned his gaze to the Tuotuo River and said with a smile: "This place is clear at a glance. What we see, they can see too. Besides, we have drawn up the battle plan early, let them rest at ease, and sneak over tomorrow night under the cover of darkness. For proper." Wan Renyu said: "The enemy set up camp by the river, our troops have to cross the wide and swift Tuotuo River before we can launch an attack."

Longying said leisurely: "The enemy will build bridges and roads and let us go. Why worry about crossing the river? Before coming here, they have crossed the Nujiang River, which is twice as big as the Tuotuo River. They have rich experience!" Meixiu Nafu leaned into his ear and said: "Seeing you talking, laughing and fighting with soldiers, Meixiu Nafu is very emotional!" Long Ying was both sweet and afraid of being overheard by the two of them, so he hurriedly continued, "So we can have a good sleep tonight, and we will talk about it tomorrow. If there are enemies approaching, I will wake up naturally."

Feng Guoting said with a smile: "You can rest assured to flirt with Mei Xiunafu, and continue to talk endlessly. The task of monitoring the enemy is entrusted to my good eagle. If there is any abnormality, it will wake me up." Meixiunafu twisted her delicate body unyieldingly, and said angrily: "Young Master Feng overheard what he said." Wan Renyu burst out laughing, went to the wind and walked towards the distance, said: "Let's sleep on another mountain, so as not to overhear Meixiu Nafu's pillow talk to Long Boy." In the early morning of the next day, a vanguard of about 200 people arrived at the Tuotuo River, dispatched scouts to search along the bank, and others set up more than a dozen tents on the south bank to detect the depth of the river.

Longying and others are still hiding in the sparse forest in the hilly area on the other side, watching the enemy's activities on the other side. Wan Renyu asked, "Is it time?" Long Ying calmly said: "It's better to let them rest for two more nights than to stay here with us in the cold." Feng Guoting smiled and said: "Your words are not reasonable, so you know you have other ideas." Wan Renyu said: "Do you have to be obsessed with your mouth before you are willing to speak?" Longying looked out of the stone with his head, and said with a smile: "How dare I, I just want to wait for the enemy to build a pontoon bridge, some people have already crossed the river, and when the sky is half and the earth is half half, then I will sacrifice my unique skills. But they won an overall victory in reversing the situation on the plateau."

Meixiu Nafu said softly: "Master Husband! How could it not be damaged? The enemy's troops are far superior to ours!" Longying said relaxedly: "Didn't you hear me, beauty? I'm talking about not spending a single soldier, not fighting the enemy." Feng Guoting happily said: "I've seen through you for another trick." Long Ying said: "War has the means of war, and politics has the means of politics. What do you mean by politics? No matter what his grandma's fallacies are, he must speak them out in a righteous manner, as if it is right and proper. What's more, what I said is Righteousness, coupled with an overwhelming advantage, guarantees success. Ha! Is there anything better to resolve a war by political means?"

Wan Renyu and Feng Guoting finally understood. In the afternoon, the enemy's army arrived one after another, set up tents along the Tuotuo River, established simple but effective fortifications, and guarded high places, showing the majestic appearance of an elite army, and the military appearance was at its peak. At dusk, a large group of mules, yaks, and yaks came with their loads. The vast area on the south bank was filled with mules, cows, and horses neighing, and it was as lively as a market. Wan Renyu was speechless: "It's just yaks, there are more than three thousand."

Feng Guoting said: "The number of people is even higher than our estimate, close to 25,000 people, but this group of people has enough strength to attack Zhonglongyi." Longying said: "The more people there are, the better. Ha! It's easier to do things with more people!" Wan Renyu lost her interest in laughing, and said in a deep voice, "If your political means don't work, what should you do?" Long Ying's eyes were full of magic light, and he said: "It means that their time horoscope is not good, and they can't go home to reunite with their wives and children."

Then she told the plan, and Meixiunafu wrote a letter in Tubo, put it in the small bamboo tube she brought, tied it to the eagle's feet, and sent it back to the camp in Hoh Xil Mountain. In the next two days, the enemy built three pontoon bridges with the thick ropes, buoys and timber brought in day and night, and began to cross the river in the early morning of the third day. The cavalry were the first to cross the bridge, leading their horses across the bridge. By noon, more than ten thousand people had successfully crossed the river, and set up camp on the north bank, with soldiers guarding all directions.Every action, as well as the distribution of soldiers, is in line with the law of war, which shows that the person in charge is a person who is well versed in military affairs. It is not easy to defeat such an elite army, not to mention that the opponent's number is ten times that of one's own, and they will suffer backlash at any time. Two hours after dark, the entire enemy crossed the river, and immediately demolished the pontoon bridge, busy endlessly.The opponent is like a bowstring that is stretched tightly, unable to rest and take a good rest. Unloading cargo, setting up mules and horses, all kinds of sounds echoed in the space of the river bank area. A gust of wind suddenly blew up on the prairie, pulling up more than a dozen of the camp tents and supporting frames, and the camp was in chaos.Then the torrential rain came, and the sky and the earth were confused, causing most of the lights in the camp to go out, and the enemies all hid in their tents to avoid the rain, including the sentinels who were set up in the high places around the camp. Cold wind and cold rain are no joke, and typhoid fever can be fatal. At this time, Tian Mu Jinfang led thousands of people, all of them put on thick clothes and rain gear, and came to the hilly forest where they were five li away from the enemy, waiting for the opportunity. Tian Mujinfang came to the room of the four and said in a low voice: "Everything is done according to the orders of Lord Ying. Lin Zhuang's five hundred people have also entered their posts and are ready. Hey! What are we going to do?" Longying whispered the big plan, and finally said: "Let's sneak to the enemy's outpost camp first, subdue the enemy to the west, and then enter the enemy camp. The most important thing is to be invisible. Remember, don't hurt anyone .” Tian Mu Jinfang summoned 300 masters selected from his subordinates.Led by Long Ying, Wan Renyu and Feng Guoting each, they sneaked towards the sentry camp. There is still an hour before dawn, the heavy rain has stopped, but it is still drizzling, and the earth is full of cold and damp air. At this moment, from far away in the north, the sound of war drums could be heard, beating one after another, like a spell, it was transmitted directly into the enemy's heart, at a time when the enemy was exhausted.Especially feel the power of its soul-stirring. Frightened and dazed, enemies in disheveled armor swarmed out of the tents. The sound of horns resounded throughout the camp, making it a chaotic mess. Coupled with the lack of lights, the men and horses crashed into a ball, as if the end was coming at this moment. Approaching within half a mile, Longying and the others watched the enemy's chaos from the other side in the darkness of Gaoqiu. Longying laughed and said, "Now the other party is being beaten by us. How many people are there? It will only add to the confusion." Wan Renyu watched the other party gradually recover from chaos.Assemble into a team, leave the camp and set up formations on three sides, and said with a wry smile: "If your method doesn't work, now we have missed the golden opportunity to defeat the enemy." Long Ying said: "Opportunities always exist. It just depends on whether you have the ability to master it. Don't look at the other party's appearance. In fact, he is a strong outsider. Not to mention that after a long journey, he didn't have a good rest, and now he has to come out to suffer from the cold. Finally The key point is low morale and unclear combat objectives. Tell me, Tian Mujinfang, if you are them, why are you fighting?" Tian Mujinfang opened his mouth wide, but couldn't speak.Only the sound of war drums kept ringing, and the sound should be much closer, and there was the faint sound of horses neighing and people shouting. Longying's order was exactly what made Lin Zhuang create the illusion that a large number of soldiers were constantly approaching. Longying proudly said: "Look! They don't know why they are fighting, and what they have to deal with is the always respected general Hengkong Muye. It's time! Let me go out with my secret weapon to create the world on the plateau. A military miracle." He laughed again: "Where is the secret weapon, baby?" Meixiu Nafu "puchi" coquettishly smiled and said, "Baby is here!" Long Ying said solemnly: "Get on the horse!" Just as the enemy's attention was focused on the front of the north, the sudden sound of war drums came from the right, and everyone was shocked. At this time, Lin Zhuang and his five hundred people in the north appeared ghostly shadows in the darkness, because they were lined up, and with the fake men and real horses, they were indeed massive and full of deterrent force. The enemy didn't know which direction to pay attention to. Under the instruction of the sound of the horn, everyone stood firm and prepared to deal with the invasion. Long Ying and others appeared at this time. Wan Renyu and Feng Guoting each held up a blazing torch, and Long Ying carried an unworldly artifact on his shoulders to meet the blast, and led the blond beauty with shoulders, and under the light of the fire, they rode Xue'er, a steed, to the top of the mountain. On a raised mound closest to the enemy, about a thousand steps away from the outer formation, facing the enemy. However, the eyes of most of the enemies only know how to fall on Meixiu Nafu, they never expected to be on the battlefield. Under such circumstances, seeing the stunning beauty of Yangai Plateau, and also thinking of Hengkong Muye from her, the fighting spirit can't help but weaken a bit point. Tian Mu Jinfang led Qianwu Jingqi, and appeared in a row in the rear where the torches were shining, faintly visible, creating an unpredictable threat pressure, posing a posture of launching a strong attack at any time, making the enemy Fang did not dare to act rashly. Suddenly, Longying put Jietianbang on his lap, took out his foldable bow, opened it, drew an arrow with the other hand, put it on the string, the bow became a full moon, and the arrow left the string and shot straight into the enemy's formation.The series of movements, like flowing clouds and flowing water, are really beautiful, like a performance of a hundred operas. The enemies searched for the traces of the arrows one after another to see where they were going. After the strong arrow leaves the string, it seems to disappear. With a sound of "cracking", one of the banners in the enemy's formation, which was written with an unknown name, suddenly snapped off. It turned out that it was shot by a powerful arrow shot by Long Ying, breaking it like a broken one. No one would believe their eyes. If Longying hadn't given the order first, Meixiu Nafu would have cheered coquettishly and slapped her palms. Then Tianbang came to his hand again, waved it around his body, and finally spun on Longying's head like a windmill, making a whistling sound, reflecting the light of the torches on both sides, which was extremely frightening. Suddenly receiving Tianhong from behind, Long Ying shouted in Tubo language: "I am Long Ying, brother of Wei Qili and Xu Shangjian, who is in charge, please come and talk to me, otherwise don't blame me for killing." A Shen Xiong's voice responded: "Now the two armies are confronting each other, what nonsense is there to talk about? I, Shanli, don't pay attention to you, a foreigner from China, and I am brave enough to let the general come here. " Just listening to his response, one can tell that he is quite resourceful, he is not one of those who are easy to get along with, and he knows how to point out that Longying is an outsider, so as to arouse the subtle mentality of his subordinates to fight against each other. Meixiu Nafu said with a smile on her face: "The general's words are wrong. If you use outsiders, who can compare with your Lord Qin? Are the Tianzhu people and the Turkic people brothers of the traitor who killed the master? But Long Ying He is a friend of our Tubo people, the brother of the prince, how can he be considered an outsider?" Longying was afraid that he would utter foul words and insult Meixiu Nafu, so he looked up to the sky and smiled and said: "Dare to ask! If I shoot arrows here, how many people in the closest line of soldiers can go back alive to be with their wives and children?" Reunion. If the general has the guts, please come here to share life and death with his subordinates, or even take the lead in killing them. What does the general think?" The entire battlefield was so quiet that a needle could be heard, except for the whistling of cold wind and the sound of hunting torches. The sound of hoofbeats sounded, and more than twenty riders galloped towards this side from the middle of the vast enemy formation, slowly but not in a hurry. The few riders who opened the way held up their vine shields, fearing the cold arrow of Longying.Two of them held high torches to illuminate the front. Mei Xiunafu said in a low voice: "The two people in front of the flag bearers and behind the horn-bearers, the one on the right is Shanli, who is Zhi Qingli's younger brother, and his seniority in the army is very low, all thanks to Zhi Qingli's support, so But when he ascended to the position of coach, he was full of bad taste and had a bad reputation. The person on the left is a fierce general who is used to fighting, and his name is Dayin Fang. He has always been a general guarding Bowo, and the prince thinks highly of him." Long Ying muttered: "I hope he respects the prince too." The group headed by Shan Li moved to the rear of the triple battle formation, a distance of 1,500 steps away from Longying and others, which can be said to be far beyond the range of any sharpshooter with special physical strength.Generally speaking, it is difficult for an arrow to be accurate at a distance of hundreds of steps, let alone a thousand steps away? Shan Li sneered and said: "I'm coming! Longying, can you do anything to this general?" The soldiers who should have cheered and applauded him, but everyone kept their mouths shut, which shows how unpopular this person is. With one hand, Longying inserted Jietianbang into the ground beside the horse, and with the other hand, he lifted the folded bow hanging beside the saddle, pulled the string to the full, and shouted: "Look at the arrow!" The bowstring suddenly rang. The enemies in the front row raised their shields to block the arrows in shock, Shanli was also taken aback, knowing that Longying would definitely target himself, he hurriedly leaned back, but Dyne Fang beside him saw that Longying was pulling an empty string ,not moving at all. Long Ying said with a long smile: "It turns out that the general is so courageous, no wonder he has to hide behind a heavy wall of people. Ha! I have another new idea, let me and the general fight alone, if the general can block me three times Trick, I, Longying, turn around and leave, never returning to the plateau." Shan Li, who had just sat up straight, lost face and became angry from embarrassment, but he was suspicious by nature, seeing that Longying couldn't stop offending him, which was clearly a trick to lure him to take the initiative, he hesitated again. Dayin Fang beside him reminded: "You must not attack, and it is not appropriate to attack. Only after dawn can you see the situation clearly before you can formulate a strategy." At this moment, Shan Li was filled with shame and anger, how could he hear it, and said displeasedly: "This commander has his own sense of propriety, no need for others to point out." Dyne's expression changed slightly, and he kept his mouth shut. How could they hide their words and expressions from Longying, they were all in his eyes and ears.Chang Xiao said: "Is the general still in shock and forgot to answer whether he has the guts to fight for three rounds? Ha! It's only three rounds, not three hundred rounds." Shan Li was furious and sternly said: "Do you think I'm a three-year-old child? When I was fighting north and south on the battlefield, you were still breastfeeding in the arms of a woman!" Long Ying cut him off and said: "It's impossible. My little brother was adopted by a man since he was a child. How can a man have a tit? You have never been begged from south to north, but you are just a domineering and domineering master." Shan Li forgot everything, and was about to ask the trumpeter to blow the horn to advance, when Longying shouted again: "Look at the arrow!" Due to the incident of the empty string, everyone's eyes fell on his other hand pulling the string. Even though the distance was far away, the shadow of the long arrow could not be clearly seen. The sound of the bowstring is stronger and stronger than the last time when the bowstring was empty, and it radiates high into the sky. Even if the bowstring is not empty, it is aimless. Wan Renyu and Feng Guoting's torches moved down at the same time, and Longying raised the folding bow above his head again, submerging into the flickering shadows. Both the enemy and us stared blankly at Long Ying, wondering what the point of him pulling the empty string again.Even Meixiu Nafu beside him didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in his gourd.Only Wan Renyu and Feng Guoting were in harmony with his mind and understood what he was doing. Shan Li was about to tease him to repeat his old tricks, but suddenly felt something strange, there was a "bang", some hard object fell from the sky, hit his face heavily, before he could let out a scream before death, he fell backwards. The change was too sudden, everyone on the other side was stupefied, staring at Shanli's air cavalry in disbelief, although he knew it was Long Ying's trick, but the distance of a thousand and five steps, and surrounded by personal soldiers, how could it be possible? Dyne didn't look half-eyed at Shanli, who was dead, and shouted: "Everyone is not allowed to move!" Heavy breathing came and went. Now that Shanli is dead, the command power falls to Yinfang, not to mention that most of the people are from the old department of Taborwo, so naturally he will follow suit. Longying felt lucky. This is the first time he has no confidence to hit the target because the difficulty is too high. When he drew the bow, the "gan" in his right hand popped out from the sleeve and landed on the bowstring. At this time, he eliminated all worries, aimed purely with his mind, concentrated his magic power and energy, and shot the "gan" high into the sky.Following the graceful arc, he succeeded in one blow.The bow is in the light, and the "dry" is in the dark, creating another miracle on the battlefield.