Zahehan is a war genius, and he has a quality that ordinary people do not have.

Ordinary people often do stupid things when they are angry, but he doesn't do that, he is not a slave to emotions, but a user of emotions. Although he was scolded by Chen Bao to the point of blood, he still did not move, and he sent scouts to observe the movements of the enemy army. The scouts above met, and a fight ensued. Of the hundred scouts sent out by Tang Yuan, less than fifty of them came back, and at this time, Tang Yuan knew that all the ambushes he had set up were basically in vain. At this time, he wanted to call back Li Xian and Liu Zhan, who were attacking from the Double Snake Formation, but it was too late.

Zahehan did not attack the city, but pounced on Tang Yuan. This was also what Tang Yuan expected at first, but he didn't expect Zahehan's counterattack to be so fierce, and he still only surrounded and didn't fight.

His soldiers were all archers, and the Donghu people could sit on horses and eat jerky, while the infantry of the Liang army couldn't stand the hedgehog formation all the time. Setting up a formation itself consumes physical strength, not to mention that there is no food to eat.

Zahehan trapped Li Xian and Liu Zhan, Tang Yuan shouted back to Tang Hu, not planning to ambush again, but lined up in formation to approach Zahehan, and when the two sides were already looking at each other, Tang Yuan sent a messenger to see Zahehan.

"Who are your generals and what rank?" Zahehan looked at Nalan Xin coldly.

Nalan said: "The foreign minister has seen the king earlier, and I haven't seen you for more than three years. Our generals are actually your old acquaintances, having met at the negotiating table three years ago. Tang Yuan is now a general of Liang Chaoyunlu and is currently the general of the Chang'an Garrison. ”

"Oh, Tang Yuan." Zahehan smiled: "Why didn't he come to see me?" ”

Nalan Xin smiled: "I don't know if the king is in a good mood today, so he doesn't dare to come." ”

"You go and tell him I'm in a good mood."

"I don't think he would have come, even if he had said that."

"Why?"

"What he is shouldering now is not his own interests, but the entire Liang Dynasty."

"That's what he told you to say?"

"No, with what I know about him, I think he would say that."

Zahehan smiled bitterly, "You go back and tell him, let your emperor send last year's tribute, and then I will withdraw the army, otherwise we will be consumed like this, I will block your business routes, trap your soldiers, I think you also feel very uncomfortable, tell Tang Yuan, don't expect to play tricks with me, my large army is behind, if the punishment is closer to this side, my large army will also come, and then we will be hurt by some small money." ”

After Nalan Xin came back, he conveyed Zahehan's words to Tang Yuan, Tang Yuan was silent for a while, and suddenly smiled: "I have already notified the pawn, and the pawn troops are moving closer to this side. But where is his army? This kid is playing with us, don't believe him. ”

"But don't be careless." Nalan said, "We still have two regiments trapped inside, and the soldiers only brought three days' worth of dry food. ”

"Then there is no way, I can only wait and see when the punishment comes. If Li Xian and Liu Zhan are too hungry, they will break through. When the time comes, we'll find a way to save them. Tang Yuan didn't seem to be in a hurry, it seemed that he was ready to fight with 17,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry from Donghu.

He would never let Chen Bao come out of the city, even if he was defeated.

When Zahehan got a report from the scouts that the punishment was really coming closer to this side, he had already begun to plan to withdraw his troops, but before withdrawing, he decided to leave some souvenirs for Tang Yuan.

His troops passed by Tang Yuan's camp, and a burst of rockets flew by, burning Tang Yuan's camp to pieces. The camp was full of fires.

"His grandmother's, he didn't leave a good impression on me before leaving."

Tang Yuan looked at Zahehan's back and cursed, and then asked the scout to tell the pawn that he didn't need to use it, the siege of Jiuquan had been lifted, and then he led the troops into Jiuquan and began a leisurely life like a local overlord without shame.

In fact, it feels good to be the boss in one place away from the boss, in this military management city, Tang Yuan is the biggest, and the county guard here usually has to look at his face and act. For example, the county guard wanted to hold a dragon boat race on the Daqing River in the north of Jiuquan City on February 2, so he came to Tang Yuan to ask if he could send a thousand soldiers to help him maintain order.

If Tang Yuan doesn't agree, he doesn't have a problem.

"Dragon boat racing? This is a typical Central Plains culture, and if you plan to promote the Central Plains culture here, of course I will support you. Liu Zhan, you take your group with you, accompany Zhang Xianling to do a good job of order, don't let people make trouble. Tang Yuan thought for a while and said, "Zhang County Order, are you worried that the people will not obey the rules?" Or are you worried that there are Hu people to rob you? ”

Zhang Xianling said distressedly: "No, I'm worried about the horse bandits here, these horse bandits are all Hu and Han, a group of rabble gather together, often harass, it's really a headache." ”

"Where are the bandits?"

"In Horsehair Mountain, not far from Jiuquan City."

"Why don't you go and suppress the bandits?"

"This ...... I can't say that. ”

Tang Yuan thought about it, the pawn led the troops to the northwest of the desert to fight, I just took over Jiuquan temporarily, it seems that there is no need to clean the portal for the pawn, right?

And it's too nosy, which makes people feel overstepping, and it's even more boring. Maybe they have other plans.

Li Xian said: "I guess General Dianxiao may think like this, he wants to fatten this group of horse bandits. ”

"Fattening? And then kill and eat meat? ”

Li Xian smiled and said: "There are a lot of caravans coming and going, and the general only charges a small amount of money for crossing the city at a time, and this fee is stipulated by His Majesty the Emperor, and he does not dare to increase miscellaneous taxes indiscriminately." You say, can he be happy to see so many money channels being blocked? Now that there are horse bandits, the horse bandits rob the caravan of goods, and the warden does not care, then sooner or later the horse bandits will eat very fat. When the horse bandits get fat, he goes to take back those supplies in the name of suppressing the bandits, then those things are his. At least you don't have to hand it all in, don't you say that's the truth? ”

Because of the big embezzler Dianhan in front of him, Tang Yuan seemed to understand the hobbies of the Dianhan family, and Li Xian's words may not be random conjectures.

"Li Xian, I'll give you a thousand cavalry to suppress the bandits."

"And what to do with the supplies?"

"Keep it for the warden."

"Keep it all for him?"

"You can do it yourself."

"Understood!" Li Xian led the troops to Horsehair Mountain.

Soon after they went, the scout came back and said, "No, a thousand people may not be enough, at least another thousand."

Tang Yuan was taken aback, could it be that the scale of the horse bandits had reached this level? ?

Not enough for a thousand regular troops?

"Tang Hu, Liu Zhan, you two lead two thousand cavalry, go over and take a look, I don't believe it, a group of horse bandits has become a climate."