"See the general!"

Under the city of Lanzhou, Su Dingfang and other generals who were one step ahead were already waiting at the gate of the city, and when they saw Li Jing leading a large army coming, they hurriedly stepped forward to report.

"Excuse me!"

Li Jing saw the tall Lanzhou city wall, nodded with satisfaction, the Lanzhou city wall is high and thick, and the grain and grass are abundant, which is the bridgehead for the imperial army to attack Tuyuhun in the future, which can be described as the top priority.

In the city of Lanzhou, it has long become a military town, with huge granaries towering and military camps connected together.

"All the soldiers of the six guards entered the city to repair, and no one was allowed to disturb the people." Li Jing ordered.

"Yes!" Immediately a herald went down to give the order.

In addition to the 70,000 troops brought by Li Jing, plus the elite transferred from the local area by the imperial court, more than 100,000 people were concentrated in Lanzhou City, plus the aborigines in the city, all entered the city, and the entire Lanzhou City was immediately crowded.

Merton led the firearms supervisor into Lanzhou City at the end, and when he saw Su Dingfang waiting at the city gate, he couldn't help but clasp his fists gratefully and said: "Thank you Brother Su for your help, little brother is grateful." ”

If it weren't for Su Dingfang's unremitting support, Merton would have been three days behind and would have been unable to catch up with the army.

"Brother Mo is polite, the strategy of transporting grain is still Brother Mo's guidance, and now Brother Mo has borrowed it once, so why worry about such a trivial matter." Su Dingfang said heartily.

This time to transport military rations, Su Dingfang was a big face in front of the imperial court, and he was naturally grateful to Merton.

"Brother Mo, please! The imperial court has already issued a secret decree, and the firearms supervisor is a heavy weapon in the army, and he has already found a good place in the city for Brother Mo in the morning. Su Dingfang said kindly.

Merton nodded knowingly, and under the leadership of the soldiers arranged by Su Dingfang, he strode into Lanzhou City.

Walking on the brand-new brick road just laid in Lanzhou City, Merton couldn't help but look curiously at this famous western central city in the future, the importance of Lanzhou in the Tang Dynasty has begun to appear, the merchants of the Tang Dynasty and the transactions of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions are mostly concentrated in Lanzhou City, although the army is under martial law at the moment, there are no pedestrians on the streets, but from the shops on both sides of the street, you can see the prosperity of Lanzhou City.

But now that the war is about to start, almost all business activities have stopped.

The firearms supervisor and the others came to the residence arranged by Su Dingfang, and Su Dingfang was really bothered, what was allocated to the firearms supervisor was a large warehouse, and there were several houses next to it, which was just enough for the firearms supervisor to live.

"Now there's finally a place to store gunpowder." Merton looked at this warehouse with satisfaction, the firearms supervisor was not only this gunpowder, but also a steady stream of gunpowder sent in the future, and this warehouse was just enough.

Merton, who had been on the road for a day and a night, was already exhausted, and after simply arranging for the firearms supervisor to set up camp, he immediately fell asleep with his clothes down.

Merton slept until dawn, when he suddenly heard the thunder of the drums, and suddenly he was shocked.

"What is this?" Merton hesitated.

The door was pushed open suddenly, and Xue Rengui, who was dressed in armor, said loudly: "Lord Sacrificial Wine, this is a drum!" Please also ask the general to hurry up and go to the big tent of the Chinese army."

Lighting the drum is the most solemn thing in the army, there are three links, and if the three links are not reached, the main general will execute the late generals on the spot, and no one dares to say anything?

Of course, the drums are not inhumane, each drum will sound for enough time, and the main general has a war horse, if he can't catch up with it on horseback, it can only show how domineering the late general is, and he doesn't talk about the main general in his eyes at all.

Merton happened to have no armor, and without hesitation, he immediately followed Xue Rengui out of the barracks, stepped on a good horse and headed towards the Chinese army's big tent.

"Meet the General!" Merton opened the Chinese army's tent and saluted Li Jing.

"Excuse me!" Li Jing saw Merton open the military tent and enter, and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

"Thank you, General!" Merton swept his eyes, only to see that he was not the first to arrive, Hou Jun Jicheng Biting Jin and other sixteen guards generals had already arrived, but there were still many positions in the Chinese army's big tent, obviously there were still generals who had not arrived, so he immediately found a corner position and stood there waiting.

When the drum stopped at the second point, Su Dingfang hurried to it and also consciously stood in front of Merton.

Soon, the drum of the third pass point sounded, and two rough and tall generals hurried in.

"Gao Yongsheng see General Li!"

"Li Daoyan see General Li!"

When Merton heard the report of the two, he suddenly realized that Gao Yingsheng was an old minister of Li Shimin's Qin Palace, and he was deeply trusted by Li Shimin, and Li Daoyan was the son of Li Daoyan, the king of Huainan, and was a child of the clan.

The two waited until the three-way point was about to arrive, obviously a little arrogant.

Li Jing didn't answer, but looked at the two of them calmly, and the two of them suddenly felt a sudden burst in their hearts, and couldn't help but regret a little why they didn't come quickly, you must know that they are opposite the famous military gods of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, they can easily slack off.

Li Jing said slowly: "On the battlefield, the fighter plane is fleeting, if you neglect it a little, you will not talk about harming people for the time being, if you delay the army, how to explain to your soldiers, how to explain to Your Majesty, and how to explain to the people of the world." ”

When the two of them heard this, they immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and pleaded guilty again and again, but they became more and more dissatisfied in their hearts.

However, the two did not violate the military order, Li Jing did not care, but said lightly: "Get up!" Now that everyone has arrived, let's start this military conference!

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief and stood to the side stupidly.

Li Jing slowly glanced at the generals, and shouted: "This western expedition is of great importance, if the Tang Dynasty wins, it can continue to deter the northwest departments, the world knows that the northwest departments are very dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty to eliminate the Eastern Turks, thinking that the Tang Dynasty is taking advantage of the danger of people, taking the opportunity to sneak attack, this western expedition is a good opportunity to confirm the national strength of the Tang Dynasty, this battle only needs to win and not lose, otherwise not to mention that the general is ruthless, even when it comes to the imperial court, there is no place to turn over." ”

Everyone was in their hearts, they naturally knew that Li Jing was not exaggerating, this western expedition, the cause was Tuyuhun's repeated offenses, and the king directly asked for Princess Changle to marry, but it completely angered Li Shimin, and spent countless money to build a brick road that was 1,500 miles long, and it took so much effort, if it was defeated, then they would all have to bear Li Shimin's anger.

"The last general understands!" All the generals shouted in unison, even Gao Yongsheng and Li Daoyan couldn't help but feel a shock in their hearts, all their glory came from Li Shimin, they offended Li Jing and had a chance to turn around, if they angered Li Shimin, I am afraid that no one could save them.

Li Jing saw the performance of the generals and nodded with satisfaction, even if some generals were not convinced, then at least before winning Tuyuhun, no one would hold back.

Li Jing nodded slowly, pointed to a huge Tuyuhun map behind him, and said loudly: "The purpose of this battle is one, that is Murong Fuyun!" To live is to see people, and to die is to see corpses. ”