The sky was dark, and Tang Jun's guard still did not dare to relax in the slightest. In the past few days, the momentum of the rebels' siege of the city has been like the tide of high tide, wave after wave. In order to urge the soldiers to do their best, Ge Shuhan even ignored the opposition of his generals and insisted on moving to live in the Guancheng Arrow Tower.

Wang Sili, as Ge Shuhan's closest general, once cried bitterly, imploring Ge Shuhan to take care of his body, after all, he was an old man who had suffered a stroke, and he could endure some wind and cold in the arrow tower, and if he didn't rest well in a row, the impact would be great.

Ge Shuhan still had a hot temper, and scolded his generals one after another.

"The imperial court is in danger here, the old man doesn't dare to take the lead, how can he let the soldiers fight to the death? Don't make noise, if the old man relapses from the old disease, it will prove that the sky is going to kill my brother Shuhan!"

Ge Shuhan said that he was in tears when he was excited, but this sudden gaffe made all his subordinates stunned and didn't dare to make a sound.

"I am willing to guard the door for the old minister!"

“…… Willing to guard the door for the old minister......"

Under the leadership of the general Bun Tu Ren, a cadre of troops no longer stopped Geshuhan from going up to the city to keep vigil, but they all rushed to ask for Geshuhan to stand guard and guard the door.

Ge Shuhan was in tears for a while, but it was just a sudden explosion of fear that had accumulated in his chest for days. After a brief gaffe, he quickly calmed down as usual, and his gaze swept the face of the subordinate general one by one. More than eighty percent of these people were single-handedly picked up by him, and it was enough to take them to fight an unprecedented battle with An Lushan since the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, Emperor Jing took Zhou Yafu as his general, and after several vicious battles, he quelled the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms. Ge Shuhan asked himself that his talent and intelligence were not inferior to Zhou Yafu, so he must not soften his hands and feet in the hands of Zahu'er. Although it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and most of the soldiers under her command are raw melons and eggs who have never seen blood, which elite has not been transformed from a recruit?

Ge Shuhan believes that as long as time passes, he will definitely bring out an invincible elite of the Tang Dynasty. He glanced at the dark night sky, perhaps with dark clouds overhead, and the stars of the past had disappeared without a trace at this moment. Oh my God, my brother Shuhan only wants to have another five years of life, if he doesn't sweep away the thieves and restore his prestige, he will never say anything......

Perhaps the silent prayer was heard by the thief, who responded to the rumbling thunder.

Suddenly, a cool breeze blew, and the stuffiness swept away.

Some people couldn't help but laugh and cheer.

"It's going to rain, it's going to rain......"

There has not been a single rain in Guanzhong since the beginning of summer, and millions of people in Qinchuan are looking forward to it, looking forward to it, waiting for this moment.

Ge Shuhan was in a slightly better mood, and turned his head and pointed to the fire.

"The fire is pulled out and returned to the clouds, go to the city with the old man, and the rest will return to you, the rest that should be rested, tomorrow will be another fierce battle!"

Everyone dispersed in a hurry, only Huo Ba Guiyun happily followed behind Ge Shuhan and stepped on the road to the city.

is also a Turkic person, and Geshuhan always values this junior. Huoba Guiren's origin is not simple, his father is the Turkic Shifu Bi Khan, who descended to the Tang Dynasty in the second year of Kaiyuan and was named the king of Yanshan County. In the tenth year of Tianbao, Shi Shibi Khan died of illness, and Huoba Guiren, who had been serving under the tent of Geshuhan, attacked the king of the county. In the thirteenth year of Tianbao, he defeated Tubo with his brother Shuhan and was promoted to the general of the hussars.

Geshuhan was extremely optimistic about this Turkic descendant, so at the beginning of his appointment as the marshal of the soldiers and horses, Huoba Queron was among the first batch of generals to be recruited. said that he was guarding the door, so he wouldn't let Huo Ba Guiren really go to the door to stand guard.

Like most of the generals in the Tang army, Ge Shuhan was a man of love and hate, showing no mercy to his enemies. To his subordinates, he is like an eagle guarding his chicks.

"Let's go, go inside, and talk to the old man at night. ”

The facilities in the arrow tower are extremely arrow towers, except for a dilapidated military couch, there is nothing to do, just a dozen sticks of butter wax, which illuminates the inside as if it were day.

Ge Shuhan has always been about pomp, and his eyes are not good when he is old, so the family next to him naturally came up early and made a simple arrangement, and these butter waxes have just been lit.

"Xianggong, there will be something I don't understand in the end, the people outside the city will die if they die, so why waste manpower to bury it?"

In Huobaguiren's view, it was not worth it at all for Ge Shuhan to let Wang Sili risk going out of the city to bury people. At this time, Ge Shuhan was unusually outside, and his face showed a slightly tired look.

"There are too many people who have died, and now it is the height of summer, and in two or three days, the corpses will rot and stink, and if left unchecked, there is a high probability of a plague. ”

The word plague, for anyone, brings endless fear. Because no one, regardless of status, has no ability to resist in the face of this devil. Duduhuo Ba Guiren didn't think so, but there was a glint of excitement in his eyes.

"The plague doesn't have eyes, it can not only threaten the Tang army, but also deal with the rebels of Zahu'er, why not?"

The suggestion was to use the dead to create a plague, and then use it against the rebels east of Tongguan.

However, Ge Shuhan refused without thinking about it, in case there was really a plague, he didn't think that ** and the people of Guanzhong would be spared. This is not the victory he wants.

Seeing that his proposal was rejected mercilessly, Huo Ba Guiren did not give up, but continued to persuade with hope:

"Zahu'er is powerful, the battle is going to be fought for days, we have lost more troops and lost more and won less, if we don't deal with it with strange tricks, how many years and months will we spend with him......?

Geshuhan was on fire with his extraordinary bravery, but he was slightly dissatisfied with his recklessness. He was even thinking that if the advantages of Wang Sili and Huoba Guiren were kneaded together, he would be the most suitable candidate to take the helm of the Hexi Army. He was born in Hexi, and successively served as the envoy of the Longyou Festival in Hexi, so he always has an inseparable emotion for the Hexi Army.

However, after the An Lushan rebellion, the Hexi Army was gradually transferred out of Hexi six times, and more than half of them were consumed east of Tongguan last year. Now the real Hexi veteran army in Geshuhan's hands is less than 20,000 left. Today, the 200,000 troops in Tongguan are supported by 20,000 people.

Fortunately, Ge Shuhan had a discerning eye and insisted on taking the Xin'an Army from Qin Jin's hands, and in just half a year's effort, it had been expanded to an elite of 20,000 people. Although this elite army is still far behind the Hexi Army, which has experience in hundreds of battles, it is enough to cooperate with the Hexi Army to support the overall situation.

"When will you be able to change this reckless urgency? Can't you see that only persisting in delay is the best tactic for the imperial court?"

Ge Shuhan explained with a rhetorical question, and Huo Ba Guiren raised his hand and scratched the back of his head.

"What the old minister said is very true, and there will be no consideration in the end...... Don't dare to talk nonsense in the future......"

"When you came to Chang'an, you were still in infancy, it can be said that you grew up in the Tang Dynasty, why are you still like those savages in the forest in the north, and you are prone to killing at every turn?" At this time, a house slave brought hot tea soup, Ge Shuhan took a sip, moistened his throat, and continued: "It's not that people can't die, but they have to die as they deserve, if you use hundreds of thousands of dead **, countless people as the price, in exchange for unknown victories, do you calculate, is it worth it?"

Huo Ba Guiren didn't dare to speak anymore, only nodded frequently, saying that he had thought about the simplicity and recklessness before, and he would definitely think twice in the future.

Ge Shuhan was very satisfied with this attitude, as long as he knew that he was wrong and corrected it, he would not waste his hard work.

Of course, what worries Ge Shuhan the most is the big battle with the rebels outside the Guan.

"From tomorrow onwards, no one will be allowed to go out of the city to fight. After daybreak, you will take your men and kill the gates connecting the city and the gates outside the gate with sand and stones, and we will not go out, and we will not let the rebels storm in. ”

After carefully studying the battle for several days, Ge Shuhan found that the rebels did not seem to be doing their best to Tongguan, and it seemed that there was an accident somewhere in the rear, and they had to leave. At the same time, it also made him aware of a loophole.

"The court can't afford to delay and consume, and Zahu'er can't afford to consume, as long as it drags on for three years or two, Zahu'er will inevitably have internal changes, and then they will bring about their own destruction......"

Geshuhan's analysis surprised Hoba Quy Nhon greatly, for this was the first time that such a sensational statement had been heard, how could a powerful rebel army fall apart in just two or three years?

However, Ge Shuhan is a veteran after all, and Huo Ba Guiren believes that Ge Shuhan will not say big things easily, so he can only listen to him in vain.

In fact, in the Tongguan army, more than half of the generals supported Ge Shuhan's strategy, although due to some shady reasons, it could not be discussed publicly, but in private the big guys almost reached a consensus.

"This matter must not be publicly mentioned at the military meeting, otherwise, otherwise Bian Lingcheng's eunuch will listen to it and go to the Son of Heaven to talk nonsense, and we will not be able to explain it clearly. ”

Bian Lingcheng was the supervisor sent to the army by the Son of Heaven, and because of Ge Shuhan's extremely strong command skills, this person almost became the ears of a deaf man. I heard that this person is narrow-minded, and he must have remembered Ge Shuhan's hatred.

However, after Ge Shuhan heard Huo Ba Guiren's worries, he smiled disdainfully.

"Bian Lingcheng is not the old man's opponent yet, and he has been holding it tightly in the palm of the old man's hand for a long time. ”

Suddenly, there was a report from the guards.

"Old man, letter from Chang'an!"

When Ge Shuhan opened the cover of the letter, his heart beat violently a few times, making his chest more and more swollen.

The letter was from a Lang official in Menxia Province, and it was recorded that Yu Chaoen, the envoy of Guan Junrong, had sent an edict to the old army of Tongguan.

Huo Ba Guiren squinted his eyes and saw clearly the contents of the letter, so he patted a few cases and said angrily:

"Why use him to work as a teacher? It's clear that he wants to monitor and grab merit, and it's not annoying enough to have a eunuch Lingcheng?"