As a general of Longwu, Chen Xuanli naturally would not easily hand over his military power, besides, Li An was only a lieutenant of the Right Longwu Military Academy, and he was still a general under him.

"Captain Li has won a few battles in Ulzhou, and his performance is indeed good, but he can't get carried away, I have many famous generals in the Tang Dynasty, and you are not the only one who can win the battle."

Chen Xuanli's expression was a little unhappy, although he had never experienced a brutal border battle, but he had led the troops for more than 30 years and was quite familiar with the military, he never thought that he would lose to Wang Zhongsi and other famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, but as a general of the capital guard, he had almost no chance to participate in the border battle, and his military talent could not be displayed.

Li An grinned, Chen Xuanli's reaction had already been expected by him, but he was already ready to persuade Chen Xuanli, so he stepped forward and whispered a few words in Chen Xuanli's ear.

When Chen Xuanli heard this, he nodded with a smile: "Okay, in that case, the three thousand soldiers and horses under the command of this general will be handed over to you for the time being, and our Tang army must win this battle." ”

"Rest assured, the general will win."

"Okay, Captain Li, this is a military talisman, if anyone dares to disobey the order, it will be dealt with by military law."

Chen Xuanli handed the talisman to Li An, and looked at the generals below: "You all listen, from now on, you all obey the command of Captain Li, if there is any disobedience, the military law will deal with it." ”

"No."

Several generals of the Long Wu Army didn't know what was going on, but since Chen Xuanli had given such an order, they had no choice but to take the order.

Subsequently, Chen Xuanli took more than 100 guards, put on the clothes of the ordinary people of the Dongnu Kingdom, left the valley and ran to the queen city, while Li An chose to stay in the valley and was ready to lead the three thousand Tang army to the battlefield at any time.

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In the palace of the king of the East Woman, the prime minister Zhao Daiwen glanced at Zhao Wufu beside him, and then said: "Bin, recently the Tibetan thieves are ready to move, first harassing the northwest border of my Dongnu country, and now, there are more than 10,000 Tibetan soldiers and horses harassing the western border, and there are signs of attack. ”

Zhao Wufu beside him was greatly surprised, from Li An, he had already learned that the conspiracy of the great minister Zhao Daiwen was to cooperate with the Tubo army to seize power, so the prime minister should stay in the queen city honestly, how could he suddenly propose to lead troops to reinforce the west? This made him very confused.

"When does the prime minister plan to leave?"

Zhao Yufu didn't think much about it, and asked directly.

"Bin, the minister plans to leave in the afternoon."

"The situation on the border is tense! Be careful. ”

"Xie Bin, the minister will go back and prepare."

"Wait."

Zhao Wufu seemed to realize some problems, and said: "Bin, the Tubo soldiers and horses are strong, and the minister is willing to lead the three hundred personal soldiers of the department to follow the prime minister to the western border, so that they can take care of each other." ”

Zhao Daiwen's face sank, and he quickly said: "Bin, this is absolutely impossible, the second prime minister has already gone to the border, if the minister and the fifth minister have also left, there will be no one in the queen city to take care of it, the fifth minister should stay to protect the bin, reinforce the western border, it is enough to have a minister." ”

"What the prime minister said is, Wuxiang, you can stay in Queen City!"

Zhao Yufu also didn't want all the foreign ministers to leave the Queen City, after all, there were many things that had to be shared by the foreign ministers.

"Chen, go back and prepare."

Zhao Daiwen turned around lightly and glanced at Zhao Wufu's eyes, full of sneers and disdain.

Zhao Wufu felt a little in his heart, but he didn't know what the problem was, after all, in the plan he and Li An studied, there was no such thing as leading the troops to leave the Queen City.

Lieutenant Lee must be notified immediately. ’

Seeing that things had changed, Zhao Wufu was a little flustered, and immediately thought of Ang Li.

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"Where's Captain Li?"

Zhao Wufu personally rushed into the residence of the Tang delegation and directly looked for Li An.

Lifei Shouyu hurriedly greeted him: "Wuxiang, why did you come here in person." ”

Zhao Wufu took a breath: "Things have changed, I have something urgent to find Captain Li, where is he?" ”

"Things have changed?"

When Li Fei Shouyu heard this, he was also shocked in his heart, paused, shook his head and said: "Wuxiang, Captain Li is not in the city, he has already gone to the valley and is ready to personally command the battle to ambush the Tubo army. ”

"Hey, what should I do then, Captain Lifei, you better send someone to inform Captain Li immediately, I'll wait here."

Zhao Wufu paced impatiently.

Li Fei Shouyu nodded, and immediately sent his soldiers to the valley.

In the evening, the soldiers of the three thousand dragon martial arts army were all ready, and as long as Li An gave an order, they could be immediately deployed.

Li An is waiting, as long as it gets dark, he will lead the three thousand dragon warriors to go straight to the Zimu Road, and quickly make combat deployments, of course, the two thousand soldiers and horses of the Sanxiang Department will also be put into battle to annihilate as many Tubo soldiers and horses as possible.

"Captain Li, Captain Lifei sent an urgent letter."

Li An didn't dare to delay, immediately opened the letter, and frowned.

"Big brother, is there something going on in the city?"

Seeing Li An frowning, Li Kunxiong asked nervously.

Li An nodded lightly: "Things have changed, Zhao Daiwen, an old fox, suddenly led his six hundred soldiers and horses to the west, and all of them left the West Gate half an hour ago. ”

"What, Zhao Daiwen left, how could this be, then our deployment will not be in vain."

Li An sighed: "How could Zhao Daiwen suddenly lead the troops out of the Queen City, what is he going to do?" Do we first join up with the Tibetan army and then concentrate all our efforts on attacking the queen city, or do we find that the situation is wrong and want to escape, or we deliberately disrupt our line of sight, lead our troops westward first, and then suddenly kill the horse pistol. ”

"Big brother, you say three possibilities in one breath, so what should we do now? Whether the original plan needs to be adjusted. ”

Li Kunxiong was a little dizzy.

Li An pondered for a long time: "Our plan has been deployed for so long, it must not be easily abandoned, no matter what tricks Zhao Daiwen plays, as long as our army occupies the Zimu Road in time, it can block the advance path of the Tubo army, and in this way, we will be invincible." ”

"You immediately go back and inform the five phases that everything is going according to the original plan and there is no need to change in the slightest."

"No."

After the soldiers left, the sky was completely dark, and Li An immediately summoned the generals of the Longwu Army above the rank of lieutenant to assign the tasks of the night one by one, and then discussed with the three ministers to let the two thousand soldiers and horses under his command move with the Tang army.

In order to kill and injure as many Tibetan troops as possible, the Tang army and the soldiers and horses under the command of Zhao Jingnong all carried a large number of fire-starting things, including fire oil, cotton, sulfur and other materials.

Under the cover of night, the 5,000-strong army left the valley in five batches and quietly ran in the direction of Zimu Road.

"Captain Li, the front is the Zimu River, the black line is the Zimu Bridge, and after the Zimu Bridge is the Zimu Road and the Zimu Mountain."

The soldiers of the East Women's Country whispered.

"It's finally time to reach the Zimu River."

Li An sighed and asked softly, "Can you drink the water of the Zimu River?" ”

"The water is sweet, of course you can drink it, if Captain Li is thirsty, you can taste it."

Li An smiled at the corner of his mouth and shook his head, this legendary Zimu River, he didn't dare to drink indiscriminately, in case it was not good if he had fetal gas.

"Captain Li, the Zimu Mountain on the north side of Zimu Road is steep and difficult to walk, but there are several places to climb up."

"Well, I know that."

Li An nodded lightly and ordered, "The whole army immediately stops advancing. ”

On the south side of the Zimu Bridge, the soldiers of the Thousand Dragon Martial Army heard the order to stop.

"Captain Li, why don't you cross the bridge?"

Li An stared at the opposite bank, pondered for a long time, and said softly: "The most important thing in the ambush is to take it by surprise, once the enemy knows that we are ambushed in Zimu Mountain, the ambush will be a complete failure, so we must not let the enemy find out that we are ambushed in Zimu Mountain, it is night, as long as we control the north side of Zimu Bridge for three miles in front and back, we can avoid being discovered by the enemy's scouts." ”

"Captain Li is very thoughtful, give the order!"

Li An looked at several Longwu soldiers behind him, and ordered: "You lead more than ten people to cross the bridge immediately, and then travel three miles to the west, if there is an abnormal situation, report immediately, you lead more than ten people, after crossing the bridge, travel three miles to the east, and report immediately if you find the situation." ”

"No."

The two Longwu troops were shouting orders, and each led a dozen soldiers, rushed across the Zimu Bridge, and then ran in the direction of upstream and downstream.

Their task was to control the road to the left and right of the Zimu Bridge, and prevent a large number of Tang soldiers and horses crossing the bridge from being discovered by the enemy, thus making the whole plan fall short.

"Captain Li, since the ambush is extremely important, why didn't you send soldiers to monitor Zimu Road earlier, now that the army has arrived at the bridge, you only remembered to control the road?"

A dragon warrior general pointed out Ang Lee's unwisdom.

Li An smiled lightly: "There are more than 20 miles in the whole Zimu Road, and there are my people every other mile, they are hidden in the dark to observe, once they find an abnormality, they will raise the Kong Ming lantern, so that the people I sent out just now can see the Kong Ming lantern, if they don't find the Kong Ming lantern, it means that everything is normal, and we can cross the bridge with peace of mind." ”

The general of the Long Wu Army didn't expect Li An to be so thoughtful, and his cheeks were flushed, but Chen Xuanli had already given an order, and although his position was high, he had to obey Li An's orders.

Two moments passed, and the second group of Longwu troops also arrived on the south bank of Zimu Bridge.

Seeing that there was no abnormal situation on the other side, Li An waved his hand and led the soldiers of the Longwu Army to quickly cross the Zimu Bridge, and quickly rushed up Zimu Mountain along several places with gentle slopes.

Standing on the top of Zimu Mountain and looking at it, the Zimu River below is like a golden jade belt under the illumination of the moonlight, winding between the mountains, which is very beautiful, very spectacular, and very intoxicating.

However, this beautiful and intoxicating Zimu River will soon usher in a bloody battle, and the three thousand dragon martial army of the Tang Dynasty and the two thousand army of the Eastern Woman Kingdom are stepping up their ambushes, preparing to inflict heavy losses on the intruding Tubo army. (To be continued.) )