Chapter 1317

Huchuquan's words caused a burst of laughter. One of the generals said with a smile: "don't worry, the general will send someone to keep an eye on their Ximen. If there is any abnormality, they will warn immediately. They will never let the Tang army run away."

"Shanyu, let me burn the floating bridge of the Tang army. The west gate of the white earth city is about 200 steps away from the floating bridge. It only takes a hundred warriors to carry a fire oil bag and throw it on the floating bridge. Then they can burn the floating bridge with a torch. Even if they can't burn all of it, they can't withdraw to the other side of the river smoothly."

Huchuquan thought that it was the same, so he nodded and agreed to his request.

On the tower of the White Earth City, Huangfu Chaobo, Guo Jia and Fazheng are observing the situation of the zahu allied forces. Seeing a group of Hu generals pointing at the wall, Huangfu Chaobo said with a smile: "it seems that they have already focused on the wall that has not been repaired."

There are indeed several big openings in the wall of the white earth city. These places are specially left by Huangfu Chaobo. Behind these openings are the traps for the zahu soldiers and horses. These gaps are about Zhang wide, but the height between the two sides of the gap and the city wall is not small. The shortest one is also about Zhang. And tonight, the city guards will build a chest wall several feet high on the two inner walls of the gap, so as to increase the difficulty for the zahu soldiers to climb.

At the back of the gap, it didn't lead directly to the city, but surrounded the back into a structure like an urn. At the back of the city wall, the Tang soldiers also dug a large pit about 5 feet deep down from the ground. The earth dug out from the pit was used as the wall material of the urn, and a breast wall about several feet high was built in the city. In this way, the pit was added These parapets will become an insurmountable natural moat for the zahus.

Several people were chatting when they suddenly found that hundreds of cavalry broke away from the brigade and ran toward the northwest.

Huangfu Chaobo wondered why the other side suddenly sent out hundreds of knights. What's the matter?

However, few people could figure out why the cavalry left. After hundreds of cavalry left, the cavalry left without looking back and went in the same direction.

Looking at the cavalry retreating, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly asked Guo Jia, "fengxiao, can we send troops to attack the cavalry tonight?"

Guo Jia pondered for a moment and then said, "the king can send someone to carefully observe the camp of the mixed Hu allied forces before making plans. However, in Jia's view, if our withdrawal today has any effect on their confusion, the night attack is not impossible. "

"Shi ah, immediately send someone to the camp of the Allied forces to observe and see how well their camp guard is doing," Huang Fu Chao Bo said, then looked up at the sky, and ordered: "order to go down, Yuanrong crossbow soldiers rest as soon as possible, if they can go out of the city to harass, the harassing this evening will be handed over to them."

"No!" Shi a immediately took orders and said, "what's the situation of material preparation in the city? What's more, are defense facilities and materials in place? " Huangfu Chaobo then turned to Fazheng and asked;

"King Hui, at present, the city has accumulated the food, grass and materials needed by 50000 troops for half a year, and the defense facilities and materials inside and outside the city have been in place according to the previous plan. Now we are just waiting for the zahu allied forces to attack the city. If we can annihilate most of the 50000 allied forces in Baitu City, it will be very important for us to fight in the future It will be a great help. " Fazheng bowed to reply;

Huangfu Chaobo nodded: "yes, if we can completely annihilate or even let them lose more than half of their troops, it will be a great help for the subsequent war."

Just here, the alarm bell suddenly sounded in the west of the city, and then they saw a big stream of smoke in the West. A few people were surprised when they saw a fast horse galloping from the west gate. In a short time, he came to the East Gate Tower. The knight quickly turned over and dismounted, ran straight up to the city tower, and cried: "tell the king, West Gate urgent report!"

Huangfu Chaobo motioned to Dianwei. Seeing this, Dianwei said in a loud voice under the tower: "here is the king!"

The knight rushed up to the city wall, quickly came to Huangfu Chaobo, knelt down and reported: "tell your majesty, the mixed Hu allied forces just sent cavalry to burn the floating bridge on the Western circular water."

"Oh, did they do anything other than burn down the pontoon?" Guo Jia asked immediately after hearing the words;

the knight shook his head: "about five hundred Hun cavalry suddenly came from the north of the city, along the west wall, towards the south. At the beginning, the city guards didn't know what they were going to do, so they sounded the alarm for the first time. Unexpectedly, the cavalry rushed all the way, and when they passed the pontoon, the three or four hundred cavalry in front of them suddenly came back A leather bag was drawn from the horse's belly, and then it was thrown onto the pontoon. Dozens of cavalry behind it immediately burned the flint, and then all the burning cloth and silk were thrown onto the pontoon. Then, the Hun cavalry went away. Now the section of the pontoon near the city gate has been completely burnt down. "

When Guo Jia heard the speech, he clapped his hands and laughed and said, "king, it's done!"Fazheng also nodded.

Huangfu Chaobo was also overjoyed. He looked at them and was about to ask. Guo Jia had already said, "do you know why the Huns burned the pontoon?"

Without waiting for Huangfu Chaobo to reply, Guo Jia said to himself, "one is to break the delay of our army, the other is to break our retreat. In this case, the king can rest assured that the night attack tonight will be successful, and it should be able to better arouse the anger of the Allied soldiers. I believe the war tomorrow will be very fierce. "

"All right, let's pass the order. The army will act according to the original plan. No, since we understand that the war will be fierce, the crossbow soldiers of Yuanrong must be an important force tomorrow. The night attack tonight will be in the charge of the Tujia soldiers, and Liu Bao's Hun cavalry will be ordered to prepare for the reception. These two cavalry should not have much to do in the daytime tomorrow. " Huangfu Chaobo happily ordered;

after thinking about it, Huangfu Chaobo ordered: "pass the military order of the orphan, order General Xu Huang to be the main general, and be responsible for all matters of the defense of baitucheng. Everyone below the orphan will listen to his dispatch, and no one can make mistakes."

With that, Huangfu Chaobo took off his sword and handed it to Xu Huang, saying, "General Xu, take your order!"

"Thank you for your trust. I can only repay you with my death!" Deeply moved, Xu Huang quickly knelt down, solemnly held out his hands to take the sword from Huangfu Chaobo, raised his head and cried,

"I believe in the general alone!" Huangfu Chaobo patted Xu Huang on the shoulder and said with a smile. After that, he led Guo Jia back to the county government in the city.