"This is a military report sent from the front of the army, please read it to Your Majesty!"

Qin Jin took out the military report written on parchment from his waist pocket, held it forward with both hands, and immediately a eunuch walked quickly, took it and handed it to Li Heng. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info When Li Heng took the military report, his hands were shaking almost uncontrollably. It wasn't until he finished reading the military newspaper in his hand that he felt that he had finally seen the light and hope from a batch of darkness.

Prior to this, although Li Heng had heard Qin Jin talk about the idea of closing the door and beating the dog, in that kind of crisis situation where the soldiers were approaching the city, he would rather believe that this was Qin Jin's rhetoric to comfort himself. Now it seems that Qin Jin is not talking nonsense, and for a while, he felt that his eyes were hot, and big tears burst out of his eyes.

On the Taiji Palace, the hundred officials nodded and stood, no one dared to look up at the Son of Heaven without an edict, and Li Heng's gaffe was not noticed by the important ministers.

"What other plans does Qin Qing have next?"

Qin Jin replied calmly:

"Your Majesty, cut off his food channel, close the door and beat the dog!"

Once again, he repeated the beating of the dog, and the kings and ministers of the palace completely recalled that Qin Jin's mind was to eat the 200,000 people under Sun Xiaozhe's department in one bite. If it really succeeds, the Anshi rebels will definitely suffer heavy losses, and the revival of the Tang dynasty is hopeful.

……

The south bank of the river is a long and narrow strip from Tongguan to Shaanzhou, to the north is the frozen Yellow River, and to the south is the rolling mountains of Kunshan. On the main road, a group of people and horses walked and stopped, seemingly aimless, and did not know where to go.

Tian Chengsi slammed his fist on the mulberry tree on the side of the road, the crown of the tree shook with force, and the snow fell one after another.

If someone had told him three days ago that this would be the tragic situation in front of him, he would not have believed it if he had been killed. When he escaped from Tongguan Pass that night, there were less than 3,000 men left, and even if he collected a lot of defeated troops, it was only 5,000.

Now, Tian Chenghe's first priority is to go east as soon as possible to find Li Baochen and the 20,000 horses he brought out to pick up the grain transportation team.

However, just after crossing the border of Shaanzhou, Tian Chengsi hesitated again. If he loses Tongguan, he will be punished for the crime of losing his teacher and land, and it is absolutely impossible to escape death, and it is still unknown whether Li Baochen will share the hardships with him at this moment. If he rushes to go, will Li Baochen turn against himself in order to clear up his own involvement?

As soon as he thought of this, Tian Chengsi was extremely depressed, and regretted again and again, regretting that he should not have let Li Baochen take away 20,000 horses. The matter has come to this point, and it is useless to regret it.

However, the 20,000 people that Li Baochen took away were all his subordinates, so how could he be willing to give up like this? Therefore, he decided to take a risk, taking advantage of the fact that the news of the loss of Tongguan had not yet spread, to regain military power with lightning speed, and even if Li Baochen was unwilling to share the joys and hardships with him, it would not matter at that time.

When he arrived at Xiashi, Tian Chengsi finally caught up with Li Baochen, but what surprised him was that with the speed of Li Baochen's march, at least he had arrived at Mianchi at this time, why did he come here?

Tian Chengsi concealed the fact that he was in the army, and when he was planning to deal with Li Baochen, Li Baochen went to the army alone to meet him.

"Why, alone?"

When he got the report from his entourage, Tian Chengsi was surprised and delighted, and was surprised that Li Baochen had already seen through the fact that he was in the army, that is, he knew the news of the fall of Tongguan. Happily, Li Baochen came alone, and it was precisely he who showed his heart.

"Dashuai! The last general heard the news of the fall of Tongguan when he walked to Xiashi, and he didn't expect to wait for Dashuai here!"

The two were suspicious, Tian Chengsi confessed to Li Baochen that he had lost his teacher and land, and he still lost Tongguan, not only An Qingxu could not tolerate him, but even Shi Siming would fall into the ground, Luoyang would never go back, and the hope of regaining Tongguan was extremely slim.

Li Baochen suddenly asked in surprise:

"Could it be that the marshal deliberately voted for the Tang Dynasty?"

Tian Chengsi gritted his teeth, and his face was full of helplessness.

"If it reaches the point of necessity, who will vote if you don't vote for the Tang Dynasty?"

Li Baochen immediately said that if he really had the intention of surrendering to the Tang Dynasty, he would also follow him to the Tang Dynasty.

In this regard, Tian Chenghei sighed, and was worried that Li Baochen had different intentions for him, but now it seems that he is too worried.

"However, even if we vote for the Tang Dynasty, we must come up with enough chips, otherwise how can we get attention?"

"Chips?"

Tian Chengsi looked at Li Baochen and did not rush to speak, but waited for him to continue.

"The grain transport team has already left Luoyang, we only need to ......"

Li Baochen's thoughts coincided with Tian Chenghe's, no matter who he wanted to defect to in the future, winning this batch of military rations was definitely the best policy.

"From now on, you and my brothers will be of the same heart and share weal and woe!"

Under the excitement, Tian Chengsi's voice trembled a little.

After collecting Li Baochen's 20,000 horses, Tian Chenghei mastered nearly 30,000 soldiers, which is definitely a force to be reckoned with.

"Previously, Tanma learned that the grain transport team has passed Xin'an, less than ten miles away from Mianchi, and now I am afraid that it has passed Mianchi, we should start immediately, we have to rush in front of the Tang army, otherwise we will be burned down, and we will not get anything. ”

Hearing Tang Jun from Li Baochen's mouth, Tian Chengsi frowned, he was not afraid of Tang Jun, but felt that Tang Jun was too troublesome, attacking the grain team, burning the grain team, and he didn't want to have another conflict with ** in Dugi Province, after all, preserving strength is the top priority. But since then, it has been a lot more troublesome to capture those military rations completely. What is even more troublesome is that even if he is allowed to seize the grain of the grain transport team before the Tang army, the Tang army's goal will definitely be changed to himself, and he will inevitably fight with him at that time.

After thinking about it, Tian Chengsi didn't think of a way to get the best of both worlds, but Li Baochen obviously had a different opinion. He saw Tian Chenghe's brows tightened, so he said:

"Why don't you negotiate with it while taking away the military rations?"

Tian Chengsi shook his head.

"Tang Jun is not a fool, such an obvious action will definitely be seen through at a glance, and it can only increase the misunderstanding between the two sides in vain!"

However, they waited for three days in Xiashi and did not see the shadow of the grain transport team, but the local county officials had the intention of evicting the customers because of the lack of food supply.

Tian Chengsi still stayed under the pretext of greeting the grain caravan, but the accident soon happened, and the ranger suddenly brought back the news at dawn that the grain caravan had been burned clean by a fire twenty miles north of Michi.

"It's far away from the main road, how can the grain transport team come here in a hurry?"

Tian Chengsi and Li Baochen took people to inspect it in person, but found that this was a slope facing the Yellow River, and it was no wonder that it was burned down for several days before it was discovered. As for how the grain transport team got here, and why it was not transported to Hedong, the two of them have no way of knowing.

The grain was burned, which made Tian Chengsi very angry, and gradually dispelled the idea of defecting to the Tang Dynasty immediately, but planned to return the color.

After staying here for nearly five days, the army finally marched westward.

Li Baochen thought that Tian Chengsi planned to go back to counterattack Tongguan, but Tian Chengsi said:

"Sun Xiaozhe must now know the news that Tongguan was broken, and he will definitely recapture it with heavy troops, let's help him not only will not get his gratitude, but still throw himself into the net, once Tongguan is restored in the future, the first person to be killed is you and my brother. ”

Li Baochen was silent, not knowing how to deal with it next, but Tian Chengsi said:

"Why be discouraged, don't go to Tongguan, let's go north to cross the Yellow River and fight Fengling Pass! The experience of the Tang army is all about protecting Tongguan, although Fengling Pass is in the important place, but the city is small and shallow, and you and my brothers can easily take it. At that time, where to stay, and then make a decision. ”

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It has been seven days since the capture of Tongguan, and in the daily anxiety and suffering, Pei Jing still failed to wait for Sun Xiaozhe's counterattack. Under the difficulty of sleeping and eating, he even hoped that this moment would come earlier, this kind of anxiety that could not go up or down was really the most torturous kind of torture. However, reason told him that the longer he waited, the better it would be for the Shenwu Army's plans.

Finally, early in the morning of the eighth day, the bad news reached Pei Jing's hands, and the rebels besieged Fengling Pass in a big way.

This news surprised Pei Jing, it stands to reason that the rebels should carry out a joint attack on Tongguan as soon as possible, how to waste their energy on a Fengling Pass that is about to become an abandoned land?

Thinking of Chen Qianli's resolute expression when he came, Pei Jing felt that his heart was blocked, maybe he would really die in this battle.

Pei Jing ruthlessly rejected all suggestions to go to help, with only one goal, that is, to keep Tongguan, as for places other than Tongguan, he really didn't have the extra energy to pay attention to.

"Brother, the rebels have not come to fight back, what do they want?"

Pei Yu was also very depressed and puzzled after learning the news of the attack on Fengling Pass, and his brother and Nai generally understood that even if he sympathized with Chen Qianli and the thousands of soldiers in Fengling Pass, he would not be able to divide his troops to save him intellectually, what if this was a trick by the rebels to attack the west?

Pei Jing took a deep breath and glanced at his clan brother.

"It's a good thing that the rebels don't come to fight back, let's prepare for one more day, they will consume one more day of food. ”

"Sun Xiaozhe has always been a soldier, it is impossible not to know the power of it, so abnormal, it is hard to guarantee that he is not brewing a conspiracy! Brother should be careful. ”

Pei Jing also agrees with the idea of his brother Pei Yun, Sun Xiaozhe can break through Tongguan, even with the help of the Tang Dynasty's monarchs and ministers, after all, he must be excellent, otherwise Gao Xianzhi will be restrained again, how can it be easy to be with him?

He had been cautious for days, and even the scouts had grown from twenty to forty miles, and yet after many days he had found nothing.

Did Sun Xiaozhe's rebels not get the news of the fall of Tongguan, or did they get the news and make another plot?

"Report, the rebel grain convoy was burned twenty miles north of Michi......

The Pei brothers were all in good spirits for a while, and they burned up two batches of grain transported to Guanzhong in a row, and Sun Xiaozhe is afraid that time is running out!