"Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Seeing that Li Xian's face was not right, the two veterans felt a slight upset in their hearts, and after exchanging glances with each other, he Li took the lead in opening his mouth.

"Well, I'm afraid Hezhou is going to make a big mess!"

Li Xian took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and replied in a slightly heavy tone.

"Hiss......"

"Huh? What does Your Highness mean by this? ”

Hearing Li Xian's words, Gao Xian couldn't help but gasp, and Qi Qi He Li asked suspiciously.

"Gu just got the tip, a Tubo cavalry has quietly covered up less than twenty miles away from Hezhou, whether Hezhou can hold is still between the two, if not, the battle situation may be changeable!"

Faced with the doubts of the two veterans, Li Xian did not hide too much, and directly told the news he obtained.

"How so, how did this Tibetan army come about? From Shanzhou to Hezhou all the way for hundreds of miles, there are dozens of beacon towers along the way, how can you not notice anything, how is this possible? ”

Hezhou is the jurisdiction of Gao, and when he heard that the Tubo army had been killed in Hezhou, his eyes turned red, and he looked at Li Xian with disbelief on his face, and asked one after another.

How is that possible? Li Xian also hoped that this matter was impossible, but unfortunately the wish was a wish after all, but the fact was extremely cruel - the Salar Department of Hezhou secretly took refuge in Tubo, raised troops against the Tang Dynasty, pretended to be a caravan, and took all the beacon towers along the way in a deceptive way, and cooperated with the Tubo cavalry to raid Caohan County, the seat of Hezhou Governance.

"General Gao doesn't know, Gu has learned the exact news, the Salar Department has rebelled, and all the beacon towers along the way have been destroyed by it, and now the Yao Thorn History Office in Hezhou should also get the news, maybe it can hold the city."

The matter of "Ming Di" is highly confidential, Li Xian is not good at putting it on the table, so he can only vaguely bring it over, but he did not conceal the true situation at the moment, although he has not said it explicitly, but his words clearly show that Li Xian is not optimistic about the prospects of Hezhou - Yao Wangshu, the assassin of Hezhou, was one of the henchmen of the former prince Li Hong, and he was supervising the imperial history. Taking up the post of Hezhou Assassin History, although he is a little literate, but he is just an out-and-out civil official, Yu does not understand the way of conquest at all, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on him to hold Hezhou, at least Li Xian is not optimistic about his ability.

"Damn, alas......"

Not only Li Xian is not optimistic about Yao Wangshu's ability, but also Gao Xian, the chief official, is not optimistic, as soon as he heard Li Xian say this, he was so frustrated that he slapped his thigh, sighed, and his face was full of sadness - before Li Xian left Luoyang, he had sent an urgent letter to Gao Xian, telling him to pay attention to the city defense of Hezhou, but Gao Xian did not take it to heart, in his opinion, in the deep hinterland of Hezhou, there is Shanzhou in front of him, and there are Kuo and Fang Erzhou on both wings as cover, so there is no need to care too much about it, Since it has never paid attention to Hezhou, the huge Hezhou Communist Party has also sent more than 1,000 garrison battalions to Caohan County, the place of governance, and even the militia has not been mobilized, the force of defense is really weak and pitiful, plus a history of assassination that does not understand martial arts, if you want to keep Hezhou, it is really more difficult than ascending to the sky, if it is really like Li Xian's analysis, the four states are only afraid that they will be in danger, if the four states are lost, as the chief official, I am afraid that it will be difficult to escape accountability, and freedom must not be high and not angry.

"Your Highness, since Gar Qinling has hit his mind to Hezhou, I am afraid that he is really planning to take away the land of my four states, but what should I do now?"

Although the four states are not the place of the defense of Qi Qi He Li, but his lips are cold, he does not want to resist the army of Tubo alone, and besides, now that Hexi is one, if the battle is lost, he Qi He Li will not be able to end well, at this crisis juncture, he will not care about the slightest discord between him and Gao Wei in the past, and hurriedly ask for advice.

"Wait and see, Gar Qinling's ambition, I'm afraid that the four states alone will not be enough to feed his appetite, the two old generals please assemble the elites of each department and stand by, you have to see it clearly first!"

Hezhou can not afford to lose, this is not only a matter of defending the territory, but also related to the final showdown with Tubo in the future, Li Xian was eager to immediately raise troops to rush to Hezhou, but reason told him that if he acted like this, he would be led by the nose of Gar Qinling, in case there is a loss elsewhere, the consequences are not a joke, the result of a mistake is to lose all the games, after a little silence, Li Xian still resisted the urge to send troops immediately, just calmly ordered.

"No!"

Li Xian is now the governor of Hexi, and since he has given the order, the two veterans do not dare to slack off, they each bow down and promise, and ask for their resignation, and they are busy transferring troops and sending generals without mentioning it.

Hezhou, the key is still in Hezhou! After the two veterans went, Li Xian sat behind a few sons, thought about it carefully, and still didn't understand the strategic layout of Gar Qinling, but there was one thing Li Xian was clear, that is, Hezhou must not afford to lose, even if the existing forces in Hexi were exhausted, Hezhou must be taken back, but at the moment, the soldiers and horses could not be mobilized in time, and secondly, Li Xian still had deep doubts about the strategic intentions of Gar Qinling, and now in this situation, Li Xian in addition to waiting for news from Hezhou, But there's no other way to think about it.

Hezhou, located in the south of the Hexi Corridor, covers an area of very wide, but the population is pitifully small, speaking of a state, in fact, there are only two counties, and they are only a small county town of more than 10,000 people, even if it is the county of Caohan, it is not very grandiose at all, the scenery is beautiful, green mountains and green waters, there is not a kind of beauty like a peach blossom source, but it is not located on the Silk Road, there are few merchants, the county is depressed, the city is low and dilapidated, in terms of scale, even a small town in the Central Plains can not be compared, In such a horn pimple, it is obviously not a good errand, at least for Yao Wangshu, since he came to such a place, Yao Wangshu has never taken care of government affairs, and he is drunk like mud every day, even if the news of Shanzhou's emergency came, Yao Wangshu couldn't lift a trace of spirit, not to mention emergency preparations, even the curfew had never been issued, no, the sun had risen to three poles, and Yao Wangshu, who had not woken up from the hangover, still hugged his concubine and slept like thunder.

"My lord, Lord Yao, it's not good, it's not good......"

Just as Yao Wangshu was dreaming about it, a servant hurriedly broke into the inner room and woke Yao Wangshu up with wild screams.

"Bastard, what's the alarm? Death! ”

Yao Wangshu sat up dizzily, and when he saw that it was a servant who was asleep, he became angry, and he didn't ask why, he raised his hand, and a big slap swung over, causing the servant to fly sideways and roll to the ground.

"Oh, my lord, it's not good, the Tubo army is coming, the city can't be defended, my lord, let's go!"

Although the servant grinned in pain, he did not dare to miss a major event, and rolled over with a grunt, ignoring the pain on his face, and cried out.

"Ah, what? Where is General Zhang? ”

As soon as he heard that the servant didn't seem to be telling a lie, Yao Wangshu immediately became anxious, couldn't care about much, jumped up shirtless, and didn't care about etiquette or impropriety, so he asked anxiously.

"My lord, General Zhang has gone up to the city wall, saying that the enemy army is strong, and I want you to make a decision as soon as possible!"

As soon as he saw Yao Wangshu's panicked appearance, the servant who came to report the news was half cold, but he didn't dare to miss the business, and he was busy reporting.

"Decision? Resolve? Ah, this, this ......"

Yao Wangshu is a literati, although it is not to the point of being powerless, but the military strategy and martial arts are not at all talked about, in this hurry, Deng Shi was dumbfounded, shirtless in the room, his mouth insofar chattered, sweating like pulp, but he couldn't come up with a reason for a long time.

"My lord, if you can't hold it, it's better to withdraw quickly, if the thief army enters the city, then ......"

The servant was obviously not a brave man, and when he saw Yao Wangshu wandering around, he was in a hurry, and hurriedly approached and whispered a word of persuasion.

"Withdraw? Ah, no, you can't withdraw, quick, quickly send an order to close the city gates, and the official himself will go to the city to defend against the enemy! ”

Yao Wangshu wanted to evacuate the dangerous place, but when he thought that it was the British king Li Xian who was now in charge of the overall situation in Hexi, he shivered, gritted his teeth, mustered all his courage, roared, and was about to run out shirtless, but just ran to the door of the room, but he stood hesitantly, his face changed uncertainly, sometimes resolute, sometimes sad, and sometimes he gritted his teeth and snorted coldly......

"Report, the gate of Caohan City has been closed, and the chaos in the city is abnormal, please make it clear to the general!"

In a mountain forest less than five miles away from Caohan County, Hertzzan, who had hurried all the way, was accumulating horsepower to prepare for the final siege of the city, and a scout horse galloped from the direction of Caohan City, and when he saw Hertzzan standing on a big stone beside the road, he immediately rushed over, a skillful saddle throwing, the person had fallen off the horse, and a kneeled to the ground, and reported loudly.

"Hmm." Hertzzan did not rush to give the order, but waved his hand and retreated, and then turned his head to look at a burly man standing in the lower position with a cruel smile, pouted and said: "Ninggu Sidu, have all your people been arranged?" ”

"The general can rest assured, as soon as the army arrives, the people who have their own last generals will respond in the city, and the city of Caohan will be ready to go down every day!"

This burly strong man was none other than Ningustu, the head of the Salar tribe, and the cooperation of Hertszan's department to sneak here was due to the countless benefits that Gar Qinling promised him.

"That's good, come here, give an order, the whole army will take Caohan directly, and go into the city to drink!"

Hertzzan had already learned that the garrison of Fanghan City was empty, that is, there was no internal response, and he also had absolute confidence to take this city, and asked Ninggu Sidu, it was just a formality, this heard Ninggu Sidu make a guarantee, he no longer hesitated, roared, flew down the big stone, and with a force under his feet, he had already taken advantage of the momentum to turn on the horse's back, and with a wave of whip, he led a group of subordinates to rush towards Caohan City like a rainbow......