"But if I had not acted so rashly and probed the enemy's forces beforehand, I would not have lost so many brothers." Gao Jun was still crying.

"You're all heroes!" Xuan Shijing's tone was firm: "Now, the Tubo army is already planning to fight in Shicheng, so we can't go back to Shicheng for the time being, and the injured brothers need to cultivate well, so let's bypass the Tubo army and go to Yangguan, we can arrive in two days, everyone hold on a little longer, Zhao Ying." ”

"The subordinates are here." Zhao Ying stepped forward and responded with his fists clenched.

"Let the brothers take care of these injured brothers on the way, and the supplies we bring will be used by them." Xuan Shijing instructed, because they were in a hurry to leave the city, so they didn't bring out much, after all, they had to take care of more than 3,000 people in Shicheng, but it should still be possible to hold on to Yangguan, more than a dozen people under Gao Jun were more or less hung up, if their materials couldn't keep up, I'm afraid it would be troublesome.

"Yes!" Zhao Ying turned around and went down to make arrangements.

"All straightened out, rested in place for a quarter of an hour, and after a quarter, set off for Yangguan." Xuan Shijing replied: "Wang Jin will bring a hundred people to press back, Long'er, Gao Jun, you two and I are in front together." ”

A quarter of an hour later, the team set off towards Yangguan, and only Cheng Chumo was left in Shicheng, although it was a bit unauthentic to do so, but now he brought people back to Shicheng, undoubtedly killing himself.

At this time, in Shicheng, the Tubo people had already approached the city, and the wound on the shoulder of the enemy general had been wrapped in bandages, and the bandages were also stained with a little blood.

The enemy general held a steel knife, pointed at Cheng Chumo on the city wall, and shouted: "You cunning Tang people, no matter what today, this general will capture this stone city and kill you without leaving a single piece of armor." ”

Standing on the city wall, Cheng Chu frowned silently, his little thumb picked his nostrils, and looked disdainful: "That's what you said last time, what happened?" The tone was understated, as if he had never taken him to heart.

Cheng Chumo's expression and disdainful tone, the enemy general could naturally see it, and he was furious in his heart, but remembering the last time, he was burning under the forced pressure, and began to command the Tubo army to attack the city in an orderly manner.

Cheng Chumo's face gradually began to become serious, it seems that the enemy general has a long memory after suffering a loss last time.

The Tubo army was divided into three groups, one began to climb the city wall, this time the ladder was much longer than the last time, slowing down the slope, so that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty could no longer push the ladder down like last time; The other group of people carried huge trees and slammed into the city gates, while the remaining group of Tubo people, all of whom controlled the strings, shot bows and arrows at the Tang army on the city wall.

On the border of Hanzhou, in the tent, Li Jing sat firmly on the Taishi chair, his eyes closed slightly, and carefully pondered the current situation, the Tang army could not enter Tibet, once on the plateau, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers would be sharply reduced by half, coupled with the water and soil adaptation, I am afraid that there is no need to wait for the Tubo people to fight, the army will collapse by itself, but once the fight starts, the Tubo army will cower on the plateau and not come down, which is nerve-wracking.

"Report~~~" A soldier wearing a red feather helmet rushed into Li Jing's tent: "Chang'an is eight hundred miles away." ”

Li Jing quickly got up, stepped forward, took the letter from the soldier's hand, and opened it to read.

20,000 Tibetan soldiers ran to Longxi? Li Jing accepted the letter, glanced at the map, and snorted coldly in his heart, Lu Dongzan is really a good idea, do you really think that the Tang Dynasty's control over Longxi is so easy to shake, 20,000 people want to muddy the Western Regions.

What Lu Dongzan definitely didn't expect was that the 20,000 people sent over were dragged in Shicheng.

Who knows about the little things between the Tibetan nobles?

Li Jing sat back in front of the case, picked up the pen and began to write a recital to His Majesty Li Er, after writing, he dried the ink, handed it to the messenger, and said: "Send this recital back to Chang'an overnight." ”

"Yes!" The red feather envoy took the fold, saluted and then went out of the handsome tent, stepped on the horse and ran towards Chang'an.

"Someone!" Li Jingchao shouted outside the tent.

"What does the chief command?" The soldiers on duty outside the tent entered the tent and saluted.

"Pass the order down, raise the account!" Li Jing said loudly.

Since His Majesty has ordered that the battle will be decided, let's arrange it well, the army of the Tang Dynasty has been silent for too long

When Xuan Shijing led the team to the outside of Yangguan, it was already two days later, and the battle was hot on the Shicheng side, but everything was the same as before.

With the token, he led the army into Yangguan, and Zhao Ying had already gone to find the general stationed here, although the team of two hundred people was not much, but he had to follow the rules.

After a while, Zhao Ying came back, followed by a general.

"The last general, Ding Xiangming, see Hou Ye." After the general saw Xuan Shijing, he saluted respectfully.

"Shi Jing has no official position, and General Ding doesn't have to be so polite." Xuan Shijing said: "I also ask General Ding to settle these soldiers brought by Shijing." ”

"Master Hou, don't worry." Ding Xiangming said: "I don't know who these soldiers are."

"Haven't you heard from here? Shicheng has already fought with the Tibetans. Xuan Shijing said: "There are only more than 3,000 soldiers guarding Shicheng, and there are more than 20,000 people in Tubo. ”

"This sunny side has received some information, but there is no order from above, and we can't act rashly." Ding Xiangming said: "Yangguan is the first checkpoint from Longxi to Hanzhong, and there is no room for mistakes, so there is no way to send troops here, and the 20,000 soldiers from Tubo are too anxious, and we have not received orders from the military department." ”

Xuan Shijing nodded, I see, the root of the problem turned out to be in the Ministry of War, Li Jing is the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he is now in Hanzhou, so the problem is the officials of the Ministry of War in Chang'an City.

Xuan Shijing's face turned cold, did the people in the military department really take the lives of the soldiers seriously? 20,000 Tubo soldiers emerged from Longxi, but they didn't respond at all.

At this point, no matter how much Xuan Shijing had opinions on the military department, it was useless, and he immediately said: "Since this is the case, then ask General Ding to find a doctor to treat the injuries of the dozen or so soldiers brought to me first." ”

Ding Xiangming nodded, and went to arrange everything with Zhao Ying.

"Little Hou Ye, what should we do next?" Long'er looked at Gao Jun, and then fell on Xuan Shijing.

"There's nothing we have to do here." Xuan Shijing smiled predictably: "After everything is a foregone conclusion on Wei Guogong's side, let Wang Jin and Zhao Ying take people back to Shicheng to meet Brother Chu Mo." ”

"What does the little marquis mean, let's leave now?" Gao Jun looked at Xuan Shijing in disbelief, and ran away halfway?

"It's not about running, it's about finding another way." Xuan Shijing said with a smile.