Chiling Sun Moon Mountain, the passage on its mountain ridge, is the wind outlet of the north and south earth intertwined, once there is wind and snow will form a beast-like howl, the wind is so strong, the usual mules and horses can not stand on it at all, only spring and summer can come and go in just a few months every year, even the garrison here will be deeply affected by the wind disaster, so Xifan will be in the east of the tuyere, build a castle, this castle is the history of the very famous "stone castle city", the West Fan side also called it the Iron Blade Mountain, this fort is on three sides of the cliff, only one side has a narrow road leading to the mountain, Shang Qixin'er personally led 2,000 of the most relied on soldiers and horses, and retreated here before.

There are also five or six thousand men and horses, scattered and stationed in the fortresses of Da Momen, Shudun, Wanxiu and other forts further south of Chiling, which is the so-called land of the Yellow River's nine curves.

In Shanzhou, Shang Qixin'er still had 3,000 soldiers and horses, stationed in Tulou Mountain and Xingsu River in a hundred miles west of Shancheng.

As for Kuozhou, Shang Qixin'er did not arrange soldiers and horses, but only sheltered more than 1,000 Western Tibetan prisoners of war who had escaped from the "Huangshuitou Massacre" of the Xiongqi Army near the state city, all of whom were frightened birds.

Such a military arrangement is equivalent to saying that Shang Qixin'er has no intention of defending Hehuang at all, and his best plan now is to be able to hold the gateway of Sun Moon Mountain, and then control the Tuyuhun hometown in the area of Qinghai Lake, so that he can still have his place on the chessboard of Tang Fan in the future.

Even so, when he learned that the cavalry of the Tang Army had entered Huangshui in a big way, Shang Qi'er was angry and desperate, he found the previous secret envoy to hunt and expand the fan, and scolded him, saying Didn't you reach an agreement with that Gao Yue, then why didn't Gao Yue go to fight Shang Jiezan in Hexi first, but was the first to fight Hehuang?

The whole situation was out of control, and the Xifan people in the Shanzhou area, as well as the Han bureaucratic landlords who had originally naturalized Zampu, fled to Chiling uncontrollably, but Chiling Chiling was named because it was bare and lackluster-how could these thousands of people, and more livestock, survive here, so Shang Qixin'er instructed this group of people to settle along the pass of Sun Moon Mountain to the Jiuqu land.

But soon new news reached Shang Qi's ears: the thousands of cavalry who attacked Lintao on a large scale were actually not the Tang Army's clothes and armor, and they were holding frog flags and red lotus flags on a white background, "Is it Shang Jiezan and Ma Chongying's men and horses?" At this time, Shang Qi'er's heart was even more uncomfortable, he stomped his feet hatefully and said, "We have all been tricked by Gao Yue!" ”

The soldiers and horses on the side of Tulou Mountain, I have to pick them up - so Shang Qixin'er led five hundred elite cavalry, crossed Huangyuan, and went straight to Tulou Mountain.

At this moment, Shang Jiezan and Ma Chongying's cavalry had easily captured Lintao, and when Gao Yue and Mu Di led the successors of the brigade to this time, they said: "From Lintao west to Shancheng, it is only one hundred and fifty miles, and after the whole army has finished eating, continue to mount and attack Shancheng." ”

In Lintao City, surrounded by snow-capped mountains and Huangshui, the Tang army and the servant Fan army and the Xiongqi army were divided according to the battalions, and then dug the ridges, chopped wood, and cooked on a fire - the Tang army mainly ate corn and wheat rice, accompanied by salt, preserved meat soup, and pickles, steaming, everyone took off their armor and rolled it up, and put it behind them, holding pottery bowls and bamboo chopsticks in their hands, and the sound of tinkling and scraping resounded throughout Huangshui.

The surrounding Fan Han and the people of Wen, all vying to be the first to vote, there are also many people to eat and drink, kneeling on the ground to warmly welcome the arrival of the Tang army, the old people are crying, saying that they don't want to be able to see the heavenly soldiers come back in their lifetime, after the fall of us, Xifan does not allow us to wear Tang clothes, we hide in the cellar and the wall of the house, every festival will be secretly dressed, looking at the east while crying and sacrificing, tears are dry

Gao Yue was surrounded by his fathers and elders, and when he listened to their cries, he also burst into tears, and said loudly that it is not you who are responsible for the court, but the court who has been responsible for you for thirty years.

Gao Yue knows better than anyone that the people in the occupied areas are living too hard, without life support, and without dignity, the reason why they miss the Tang Dynasty and are willing to come to meet and cooperate with the Tang army is because they firmly believe that the Tang army can win the battle, and they will not evacuate at will when they come this time, and will protect them from being ruled by foreign races.

If the court is cowardly and peaceful, then in another 30 years, I am afraid that the scene of "a crow shrine drum under the Buddha Shrine" will have to be staged in the land of Helong in advance—in short, the people have been content with the rule of foreign races, and will no longer regard the Middle-earth regime as a liberator, how miserable and desperate will it be?

Under the banner of the hunting battle, Gao Yue waved his hand and made a wish to the people and Wen Mo who came to greet him:

"When the heavenly soldiers go to the states of Helong, it is forbidden to kill, and those who kill will pay for their lives; It is forbidden to kill livestock, and those who kill livestock negotiate compensation; Thieves are forbidden, and those who dare to commit crimes against the fields will be beheaded; It is forbidden to expropriate arbitrarily and extort money, and those who dare to levy an additional grain and one penny will be questioned. And according to the decree of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, exempt the people of Shan, Kuo, He, Stack, Tang, Tao, Min, Wei, Lan, Cheng, Qin, Gan, Su, and Gua Prefectures, regardless of the Han Dynasty, except for those who attach thieves, seven years of land and silver sheep taxes, and in addition, everything originally was mediocre and the end of the Wen Dynasty, and they will be free on the same day, and all will be granted idle land, cattle seeds, and poverty relief."

After speaking, thousands of people, Wen Mo and Yong Geng, all looked at the golden statues of Jigong Gaoyue and Manjushri Bodhisattva riding white horses, with tears in their eyes, bowed their heads and bowed, and each said: "The river is nine curves and long, and Jigong will not pay for food when he comes."

He also said: "Manjushri Bodhisattva descended from Mount Wutai to save the world, and took Ji Gong as the salvation Maitreya, and came here to purify us. ”

At this time, Gao Yue asked the judge Liu De and 500 soldiers to be in Lintao City, and immediately took charge of dividing the fields for all the local people, "No need to paint, hand over the farms, farms and pastures occupied by the Xifan and Han officials to the people for their own distribution, and encourage the people to bundle up and send the thieves who have not had time to escape from Shanzhou, and those who send them can share one-tenth of the property of the thieves, and never break their promises." ”

Then, the Wen Mo, who was long live in the mountains, took the initiative to tell Gao Yue that there were a large number of Xifan soldiers stationed in the Tulou Mountain in the west of the Shancheng Heyuan Military Office, and the warehouses there had a lot of grain and straw, and we were willing to lead the way for the army.

Gao Yue pointed out the battle on the horse:

Hao Jue's 3,000 Xiongqi soldiers, and Shatuo cavalry, attacked the Gate River until the border of Ganzhou;

The cavalry of the Baoyi Army and the Xuanwei Army crossed the Bayan Mountain to the south and swept into the border of Kuozhou;

All the other cavalry, with the Liangzhou Fan cavalry as the vanguard, reached Shancheng, and the primary goal was to capture the granary and seize the grain.

And Gao Yue immediately declared: Anyone in the East Province of Xifan, who dares to burn the warehouse, if he is caught by the Tang army, he will be crushed, and if he burns the warehouse and cannot find the main culprit, he will kill Shang Qixin'er to bear the responsibility.

On the contrary, if Shang Qi'er is willing to hand over the granaries of Shancheng and Tuloushan to Ben Dao intact, then Ben Dao is still willing to be friends with him again, and Tang Fan's negotiations on the firing line can also be restarted.