At Jishi Pass, another tragic battle finally ended, and the deputy general Zhou Shao stood on top of the city and watched the Ertu coalition army retreat like a tide. In the past few days, he has weakened a lot, but Junlang's eyebrows have a little more calm temperament that is different from before.

Zhou Shao is the youngest son of Zhou Faming, his father Zhou Faming was the county guard of Jiangxia during the great cause, Xiao Milling rebelled, after the Jiangdu Rebellion, sent three sons to sit in the three counties of Chuyang, Yong'an, and Qichun, and waited for help, and repeatedly went to the Southern Sui court of Yang Qi, and asked him to send troops to help take over, but Yang Qi himself was difficult to protect, and Wang Shichong's eyes were close to Li Mijun, so there was no soldier to send, Zhou's father and son worked hard for two years, and were in a desperate situation of no food and no reinforcements outside, so they had no choice but to surrender to Xiao Mi, and later followed together with the Great Sui.

The Zhou clan has studied water warfare since the Southern Liang, Zhou Faming and his brother Zhou Fashang are both famous generals of the Great Sui Water Division, in the battle of Yang Jian, Yang Guang father and son expedition to Goguryeo, both brothers were water generals, after Zhou Faming returned to Sui, he was first appointed by Yang Tong as Jiangxia Taishou, but after all, he is a sixty-three-year-old man, his body is not as good as before, since the fall of Lin Shihong's regime, Jingzhou Jiangxia has no war, so he has repeatedly resigned, Yang Tong agreed to his request, let him enter the Luoyang Academy, as a martial arts college scholar, Train naval generals for the Great Sui and continue to shine for the Great Sui. His eldest son Zhou Shaode and second son Zhou Xiaojie were both admiralty generals, and fought against Feng Ang in Jiaozhou with Zhang Zhenzhou and Qin Qiong, while Zhou Shao entered Beijing with his father and became an eagle in the Xuanjia Army, and was ordered to assist Li Shimo in Jishiguan.

Although he had fought with Xiao Mo and Lin Shihong before, most of them fought on the water? Playing more tactically? Not too intense, far less brutal and bloody than it is now? Under massive pressure? Zhou Shao has a little more of a fierce demeanor that he didn't have before.

But since the main force led by the Holy Lord left, the Ertu coalition army has gone crazy? Attacking Guancheng day and night, in a brutal battle? The Ertu coalition army is also fighting more and more in order? It became more and more stable, leaving the defenders of the Guannai with little time to rest, which filled him with worry.

And today, is it the second day that Li Shimo asked him to guard the customs alone? How to defend and fight him? I didn't ask anything, and the pressure in my heart was still great. At this time, seeing Li Shimo walking up to the city to inspect, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "The last general will see General Li." ”

Li Shimo gestured for exemption and asked with a smile: "How does it feel to be the main general?" ”

Zhou Shao saw that there was no one around, and pointed to the corpses everywhere outside the gate? and the black earth after the blood dried up, and said with a wry smile: "General Hui? Although the last general also led troops to fight in the south, it can be said that he has many years of combat experience? But I never imagined that war could be so tragic and cruel. I didn't expect the foreign race to be so strong? So resilient. Looking back at the battles fought in the South? The last general feels like a play family. ”

Li Shimo smiled and said, "This is good? At that time, the battle of Mayi led by Shengshang and Li Shangshu was tragic, and the army of more than 300,000 people was buried outside the Tiger Pass. Think about it, how spectacular must it be to have hundreds of thousands of corpses? ”

Zhou Shao asked, "Did the general also participate in that bloody battle?" ”

"Involved, I was a general."

"The Holy Lord has commanded countless glorious battles, but everyone says that the Battle of Mayi was a battle for the Great Sui Dynasty to rebuild the soul of the army and re-establish the foundation, which is of great significance and far-reaching influence. It is a pity that the last general, as a soldier, missed this bloody battle. Zhou Shao is only 27 years old this year, eager to make contributions with his own ability, and eager to participate in hearty battles.

"What's there to regret about this?" Li Shimo shook his head and smiled,

"The great war in Mayi is rare to see in a hundred years, the key is that our army won, and the last general can't be one of them, can you not regret it?" Zhou Shao said abruptly.

"This is not bad, if our army destroys the two countries in one war and settles the southwest in one war, won't it also be famous in history." Speaking of this, Li Shimo himself was excited.

Since ancient times, whether it is an upright gentleman or a traitorous villain, Gayin has always paid attention to a righteous name, even if he was devastated in his life, he must fight for a posthumous name.

If he wins this battle, as a key stone guard, can he not deeply engrave the three big characters of 'Li Shimo' on the history books?

It's just that Jishi Pass is also fighting quite hard now, Li Shimo pressed his hands on the cold railing of the city tower, looked at the enemy camp in the distance, a flash of melancholy flashed in his eyes, and said to Zhou Shaoze: "I don't know what conditions Langri Zampu promised Murong Xiaojun to let the Tuyuhun people use their lives so hard." In the past six days, the Tuyuhun people have lost 24,000 soldiers outside the pass. Langri Zampu can make the monarch of his country work so hard for him, but he has a lot of skill, no wonder the saint has to get rid of this person. ”

Zhou Shaoze's mind also recovered from the vision of the future to the war in front of him, he frowned and said: "General Li, although the casualties of our army are far inferior to those of the enemy, under the harassment of the enemy day and night, the officers and men of our army are extremely tired, and if it continues like this, it will be impossible to support it sooner or later." Why don't we go to the Holy Shrine and ask for help. ”

Wang Fubao had expected that Jishi Pass was the direction of the enemy's main attack, and before the big war came, let Li Shimo mobilize the surrounding herdsmen to build the gate quite strong, but the time was too hasty, and many auxiliary defense systems had not yet been built, and the defense force was not as good as a complete city after all, and it was also because the passage in front of the pass was narrow, and the enemy's strength advantage could not be reflected.

"Jishi Pass is the gateway to the interior of Heyuan, Xihai, Lintao, etc., and the importance of the strategic position can be called the four passes in Guanzhong and the eight passes in Luoyang. However, the strength of the Holy Lord is not superior to the enemy army, and the terrain of Doma where the Holy Lord is located is higher than here, the climate is harsher than here, and the impact on the army is also greater. If the troops are sent back to help and the main elite troops of Tubo cannot be annihilated, the entire plan will be seriously affected. ”

Li Shimo said solemnly: "Now that we finally have the current situation, we will lead the soldiers of Langri Zampu and Tubo to the battlefield, once the western battlefield cannot achieve the established results because of supporting us, the opportunity for the first battle will be ruined, and Langri Zampu and the Tubo soldiers will also leave the battlefield and return to Tibet." In the future, if our army wants to destroy the enemy, it can only go deep into the territory of Tibet to fight, even if it is not cut off by the enemy's grain route, but it will be difficult to settle Tibet in a war, so that our Great Sui will fall into the quagmire of a protracted war, which is not good for the country. For the sake of the future, no matter how hard we work, even if we fight the defenders to the ground, we can't give the Holy God the slightest trouble, and we must persevere to the end. Otherwise, you and I will be sinners of the Great Sui. ”

The confrontation between the two armies is always full of irresistible and unavoidable accidents, and therefore it is a special test of a general's ability to adapt and make decisions, in this regard, Li Shimo is obviously far beyond Zhou Shaoze, in the face of difficulties, he chooses to solve it himself, rather than adding trouble and variables to the long-term plan.

"The general is extremely considerate, and the last general is ashamed." Zhou Shao nodded, but having said that, if he continues to be harassed by the enemy like this, I am afraid that the officers and men of our army will not be able to support it for long.

At the beginning, Yang Tong left them 10,000 elite soldiers and 5,000 slave soldiers here, and there were also broken crossbows to defend the city, but after so many days of fighting, the crossbow arrows have also been exhausted, and the deterrence of this big killing weapon has been lost.

This caused great casualties to the defenders, and now there are less than 3,000 soldiers alive and capable of fighting.

This is not to say that they have killed more than 10,000 people, but human strength is limited after all, and there is always a recovery process after exhaustion, take an archer as an example, under normal circumstances, he can fire a bow forty or fifty times a day, but if there is not enough time to recover, the number of times he opens the bow will be sharply reduced by the next day, and if he continues to carry out high-intensity battles, he will even permanently damage his arms, and Lang Ri Zampu obviously has such an idea, not only harassing day and night, but also using the lives of a large number of Tuyuhun soldiers, to consume the arrows and strength of the Sui army.

"Don't worry." Li Shimo's gaze turned from the worried Zhou Shaoze's face to the outside of the city, and sneered: "Tubo and Tuyuhun are countries composed of various tribes, their soldiers come from tribes, and the main general is also the leader of each tribe. In the same way, once any tribe is weak, it will be swallowed up by the surrounding strong, so the chiefs of each tribe cherish their army very much, and are quite afraid of fighting a tough battle, and when the losses reach the point where they can hardly bear, even their Zamp and the Great Khan will force them to force and not move. This is true for one country, let alone two. So their desperate style of play can't last long at all. Otherwise, the ministries of both countries will stop fighting without fighting. ”

"It should be a big move on the Holy Side, which forced Langri Zampu to attack us frantically. And there must be good news coming from the Holy Side, the longer we support here, the less pressure there will be on the Holy Side, and the time is not far from the big break between the two countries. The difficulty at hand, you can call it the last madness. ”

Zhou Shao nodded, according to the information obtained by the detailed investigation, Tuyuhun was all dispatched this time, and all the young and strong people who could fight were staked, and the number of their troops was naturally much more than before, after this battle, no matter whether the result was won or lost, Tuyuhun was almost useless, Murong Xiaojun was so hardworking, I don't know what he thought.

Now I only hope to support until Ertu runs out of food and grass, as for Yang Tong's side, Zhou Shao didn't have much hope in his heart, not that Yang Dong can't fight, but this ghost weather is too bad, and when the troops are equal, the Sui army may not be able to kill the Tubo people who adapt to this climate as quickly as lightning as before.

Originally, he could have drawn troops from Lintao and Hanyang, but Li Shimin saw that the Ertu coalition army was fighting lively, and sent a large number of troops to the border, like a vicious wolf, waiting for the opportunity. Therefore, Lintao and Hanyang had no troops to help. Looking back at Jingzhou and Yangzhou, which have a serious surplus of troops, it is really depressing.

Of course, this is not to say that Yang Tong will not deploy troops, firstly, the Ertu coalition army came too suddenly and too violently, but at the same time, it also gave the Great Sui a chance to settle the battle, if the army from the far east came to support the Western Front, it is estimated that the people would have retracted a long time ago, which will miss this good opportunity, plus the army of the Great Sui has always been a blitzkrieg with less to win more, so the First Army and the Ninth Army are enough.

On the other hand, even if the troops in the Jingyang direction can arrive in time, these troops lack the necessary time to adapt to the plateau environment, and the physical exertion must be very large. Yang Tong remembered that the battle of Dafeichuan was defeated in this way.

Although on the whole, the defeat of Dafeichuan was due to Guo Beifeng, but the large-scale appearance of altitude sickness also frustrated Xue Rengui's plan to surprise attack the Tubo army, turning the surprise attack into a confrontation, which led to Guo Beifeng's disobedience to the order.

What Yang Tong wanted to do was actually exactly the same as Xue Rengui, that is, to fight an unexpected blitzkrieg with the First and Ninth Armies, which had adapted to altitude sickness, to annihilate the main force of Tubo, and then use a small force to directly attack the empty force of Luo, and easily slaughter the Tubo troops, and there was no time for him to wait for the army far away in Jingyang. However, this style of play, when there are many battlefields in the battle situation, it is inevitable that there is a distinction between primary and secondary, resulting in the dilemma of insufficient troops on the main and defensive battlefields.

"General Li, the Holy Lord has sent good news." At that moment, a soldier came galloping with a dusty messenger.

The messenger presented a letter to Li Shimo: "Three days ago, the Holy Lord adopted a strategy to lure the enemy into the depths, and brought the 50,000-strong army of Ronkorr into the town of Doma and annihilated it; Three days ago, a series of attacks, on the bank of the Yellow River to break the enemy's army, Lu Dongzan led 4,000 soldiers to flee in embarrassment, and after joining the 5,000 rear army, they were ambushed by General Wang Xiongdan, and only less than 5,000 people fled to Jishi Pass, I believe that it will not be long before the news will reach the Tibetan camp. ”

"I'll see." Li Shimo's eyes flashed with a thick look of surprise, and he snatched the letter and looked at it carefully, but found that it was not a translation of the eagle letter, but a handwritten book by Yang Tong, and it was also stamped with a jade seal, and he hurriedly asked in a deep voice: "Why is it the holy handwriting, not the eagle letter?" ”

"After the Holy Lord and the army annihilated the Ronkor, they broke through the Tibetan camp, but that night, they were hit by a man-made mud and rock torrent, and all the Xinying died." The Courier smiled wryly.

"Holy Ones, are they alright?" Li Shimo was shocked, and his voice trembled.

"The Holy Lord sensed the enemy's sinister intentions in advance, and took the lead in withdrawing from the barracks, the army did not suffer any losses, the mud and stone torrent only flooded the supplies in the camp, we withdrew in a hurry, and the letter eagle did not have time to rescue... The Holy Condor and the three Condors are fine, but except for the Holy Lord and the Queen, everyone can't command them... So you can only send someone to pass on the information. The Messenger said this, and again recounted in detail what had happened these days.

"Even the letter eagle can't be saved, it can be seen how dangerous it was at that time, fortunately, God bless the saint and God bless the Great Sui." After listening to the messenger's statement, Li Shimo and Zhou Shao broke out in a cold sweat.

After a long time, Li Shimo took a deep breath and asked, "What is the decision of the Holy Lord now?" ”

The messenger hurriedly said: "The Holy Lord appointed General Wang Fubao as the generalissimo of the march of the Luo Dao Army, and commanded 30,000 troops with the adjutant generals General Niu Jinda and General Su Wu, and set out early the morning before yesterday to point directly at the Luo Dao; At the same time, the Holy Lord personally led the army to set off and was rushing towards this side...... By the way, the saint also asked the humble post to bring a word to General Li. ”

"Please." Li Shimo hurriedly said.

The messenger said solemnly: "Holy Commandment: The general must be careful. ”

"The last will understand." Li Shimo nodded solemnly.

"Great." Zhou Shao on the side waved his arm heavily, and said excitedly: "As long as the Holy Army's army arrives, it will be able to form a corner with our army, so that the enemy army cannot take care of both the head and tail, and when the Holy Lord arrives, this battle will be won!" ”

Li Shimo asked Yang Dong to announce the news of Yang Tong in the army to boost morale, but he knew that the battle of Jishi Pass was about to enter the most tragic time of this battle. This sentence brought by Yang Tong through the messenger also refers to this meaning.

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At the same time, the coalition camp outside Jishi Pass presented a jubilant scene.

"Brother, judging from today's war, the Sui army in the city is at the end of its power. As long as our army attacks one or two more times, we can break through the Jishi Pass! In the camp, Murong Xiaojun excitedly said to Lang Ri Zampu: "Only as soon as the city pass is broken, our army can drive straight into the city and give Yang Tong a fatal blow from behind, and at the same time, we can also send a surprise army to attack Lintao and other Hexi lands, so that the Sui army can not care about each other." ”

"Yes, this battle is really not easy." Langri Zampu sighed and nodded, but his heart was very bitter, although there was hope of breaking the city, victory was far away, but the price paid by Tubo was too heavy.

Since the defensive power of Jishi Pass has been greatly reduced, Langri Zampu has keenly guessed that the main force of the Sui army is no longer here, but rushed to the battlefield of the Western Front - the gateway of Tubo Dom, so he attacked Jishi Pass day and night, but the pass has not been breached, but Lu Dongzan has come to the bad news that the entire army of Keer has been destroyed.

In the battle with the Great Sui, Tubo has lost more than 100,000 elite soldiers, and his reputation for winning is completely ruined, and then he faces not only the strong enemy of the Great Sui Dynasty, but also the opposition forces that are ready to move, I am afraid that Tubo will not be able to recover in the next 20 years. After the victory of this war, on the one hand, it is necessary to use force to clean up the opposition forces in the country, on the other hand, when we find a way to annex Tuyuhun, and supplement the losses of Tubo with nearly one million people in Tuyuhun, only relying on the strength of Tubo as a country, not to mention fighting against the powerful Sui Dynasty, I am afraid that it will be difficult to even protect itself, no matter what the result of this battle is, Tubo is completely the enemy of the Sui Dynasty, judging from Yang Tong's performance over the years, this is a person who will repay him, how can he sit back and watch Tubo recover? If you add forces such as Zhangxiong and the daughter country, it will be even more difficult for Tubo.

"Zampu, something is wrong!" At this moment, one of the guards rushed into the tent in panic and screamed in panic.

"What the hell is going on? What kind of system is panicking? Lang Ri Zamp snorted angrily.

"Yang Tong personally led the combined forces of the Sui Dynasty and Zhangxiong and defeated General Geer......"

"What? General Gehr was also defeated? ”

Without waiting for Langri Zampu to speak, Murong Xiaojun, who had a frozen smile on his face, had already anxiously interrupted the soldiers, since boarding the thief ship of Tubo, he had no way out, but he still had the illusion of defeating the Great Sui Dynasty, so he endured the displeasure in his heart again and again, and let the soldiers of Tuyuhun act as the dead soldiers who besieged the city, but so many sacrifices were exchanged for the successive fiascos of Tubo.

He didn't have to guess now, and he knew that the main force of the Sui army was coming.

"Exactly!" The soldier glanced at Lang Ri Zamp, whose eyes were breathing fire, and said in fear: "General Geer and the prince only have a few thousand soldiers left to flee here. ”

"Seventy thousand troops, only a few thousand left?" Lang Ri Zanpu's eyes widened in disbelief, he also knew that Ronkoer was completely annihilated by the Sui army, but he, like Lu Dongzan, thought that it was caused by the ambush of the Sui army, even if the Sui army won, at least it would pay the loss of tens of thousands of troops, so calculated, even if Lu Dongzan, who has 70,000 troops, can't win, how can he say that he can contain the main force of the Sui army in Doma.

However, he didn't expect that Lu Dongzan was also defeated so badly, and what made him even more frightened and anxious was that Zhangxiong's soldiers also came. Will the opposition in Tibet help him defend against the armies of other countries?

"Brother, ...... now" Murong Xiaojun came back to his senses and looked at Lang Ri Zampu with a bitter face, "What now?" ”

"Do your best to attack Jishi Pass, and then set troops in Heyuan and Lintao to force Yang Dong to negotiate."

Lang Ri Zampu stared at Murong Xiaojun, gritted his teeth and said: "You should know that everyone has no way out now, this battle must be won before Yang Tong returns, otherwise the day Yang Dong returns, we will all be consumed here." Even if you are lucky enough to pass this level, you will be wiped out. ”

"Okay." Murong Xiaojun resisted the urge to turn his face.

The feeling of regret for not being at the beginning arises spontaneously.

Even if he slaughtered Murong Fuyun, he could obviously surrender to the Sui Dynasty, why did he become obsessed and believe in this? Now it's okay, you can only die with this bastard.

Langri Zampu hurriedly said to the soldiers beside him: "Send someone to Chengdu, let Shang Nang immediately bring back our army and come to the aid of Jishi Pass." After thinking about it seriously, he then ordered: "At the same time, ask Li Tang to send troops to relieve our pressure, otherwise, all covenants will be null and void." ”

Tubo is already in a desperate situation of internal and external troubles, everything should be the priority of national affairs, and he only hopes that after Niang Shangsang hears the news, he will bring 40,000 elite soldiers to support as soon as possible. As for the previous promises of the Li Tang Dynasty, and whether he had been threatened in his heart, Lang Ri Zampu couldn't take it into account.

"Obedience!" The soldier did not hesitate to say yes and immediately turned to leave.