At the same time, in the night, Wei Gao in the small closed city alone recruited the current herd envoy Ma Dingde.

Ma Dingde was originally a cage official in Xifan, and he was well versed in the geographical key points of Nandao, but now after taking refuge in the Tang family, he is relatively low-key, and he never expresses his opinions rashly on weekdays.

But only Wei Gao knew that Ma Dingde was a sharp dagger against Xifan, and it was not until the critical moment of hand-to-hand combat, so it was the best choice to let him hide quietly in the sheath, and now it was time to pull it out.

To Ma Dingde, Wei Gao's attitude was straightforward: "Choufan has collapsed in Longyou, according to the text of Ximen Cang, the lieutenant of my Tang Shence Protector Army, there was a huge internal strife in Choufan, and the host's small argument on Xu Li led the troops to surrender, and dedicated the details of the virtual reality, maps, and military tuns in all parts of Longyou, and the Shence generals Xing Junya and Liu Haibin drove straight into Weizhou, and became swept away; And here, the scouts of Xichuan and Xingyuan, near the Pingrong City Road, found that a large number of soldiers were gathered outside the boundary, with a total of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, and they must have come to capture Weisong. ”

Ma Dingde's face was hesitant, and he said to Wei Gao very cautiously: "The strategists under the command of Lian Shuai and Ji Gong are like rain, and the fierce generals are like clouds......

"Ben Shuai only needs you to plan today, others are afraid that they will not be satisfied and unsatisfied!" Wei Gao didn't give Ma Dingde an excuse to shirk at all, he knew that the best way to deal with Xifan was to use a subjugator.

Then Wei Gao said, if this battle is won, Ben Shuai and Ji Gong will play you as the third product in front of the imperial court, seal the county duke, and give the first district of Chang'an City. But if you dare to push and deceive today, your family's life will be cut off under the Jinguan City in the Shu Capital City first.

The choice is yours!

Ma Dingde, who had no choice but to succumb to "coercion and temptation", said: The Checheng where the Dingwu and Yining armies of Jigong were stationed was too far away from here.

"Don't worry about this matter, Ben Shuai has sent all the Qiang and Barbarian Yi from 16,000 to reinforce Ji Gong. Ben Shuai only asked you how to defeat the Fan army, and you don't have to say much else. ”

At this time, Ma Dingde stepped forward, pointed to the map between Pingrong City and Pengpo Mountain, and focused on it, saying that the Tang family also had to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, and the critical joints were here......

Gongzhou, Jingzhou and Victoria, the belated snow finally came, among the peaks of Pengpo Mountain, first the snow-white mist gushing out vigorously, filled the mountains and valleys, and then the heaven and earth became dark, the wind blowing from the head of Qinghai to the southeast, quickly pushed the fog and clouds over, all the peaks and meadows were shrouded in lead gray, and then first fell a burst of freezing rain, one after another hit the car city where Gao Yue was, and froze in all kinds of vehicles, tents and deer barbs, and when Gao Yue walked out of the curtain, It was found that the whole of Phong Po Mountain was covered with a larger "curtain" on all sides—dense snowfall, large patches of snow were sprinkled down, and soldiers in cotton clothes and armor were in formations, holding various tools, axes, saws, and shovels, all struggling to dig out the sand under their feet, piled up on all sides of the deer and wheels, and after seeping into the rain and snow, the soil was frozen so strong that it could be used as a defensive wall for the time being.

"Concentrate all the artillery on the left flank of Checheng...... For the other teams, as long as they stay in the tiger's gun. When he saw that on the opposite side of the whole Checheng, on the right side was a rolling hill, which was connected to the Pengpo Mountain, which happened to block the firing range of the cannons, he asked for the heavy copper cannons to be laid to the left.

The car city of the Yining army is on the left, the car city of the Dingwu army is on the right, the trench ditch is dug out inside and outside the center, the width is one zhang, it is full of bamboo sticks, tribulus terrestris and crooked antlers, the excavated earth barrier is high, piled up into a "earth embankment" that connects the left and right car cities, the edge of the earth embankment is also inserted with the bamboo and wood transported from the west mountain side as a fence, and the wooden plank is paved as a passage, the earth embankment itself also forms a city wall, just with the left and right car cities to form a "urn city" type of firepower configuration.

At this time, the soldiers braved the snow, shouted and whipped to drive the livestock, all kinds of hooves on the planks of all kinds of gouging, making a clattering sound, their shoulders shrugged, pulled the ropes, pulled a large bronze cannon, from this side to that, and gathered, the soldiers of the Yining Army, on the basis of the original car city, dug out the earthen barrier in the snow, and then dragged the copper cannons up, the muzzle of the cannon facing the front of the desert.

A group of cavalrymen wrapped in cotton clothes and lined with light armor, with their whips crackling, galloped to the mountain of Pingrong Ancient City, three miles away, and brought Ji Gong's order to the Qiang girl and the white dog who were camped here: "Hold on here, and when the Western Fan reinforcements come, they will stop it regardless of everything, and light a beacon fire to inform the army." ”

After the cavalry left, Tang Lizhi and Deng Youxian were secretly happy, and met privately and said: "Now that it is snowing heavily, even if Gao Yue and Wei Gao have poured all of Xichuan, Dongchuan and Xingyuan Fengxiang, they can't climb the mountain peaks, cross the rope bridge, and transport grain here in this severe cold weather, so the Tang army is eager to fight, and we just take advantage of this to light a beacon fire to lure Gao Yue's army here, and then change hands and the Xifan army to attack and kill as much as possible." ”

"If Gao Yue does not dare to fight, we will pretend to be invincible, retreat to him from the ancient city of Pingrong, and lead the army of Xibo to besiege his Checheng."

At this time, opposite Pingrong City, under the twists and turns of the ravines, is a vast highland, and there are bursts of dense horses' hooves in the wind and snow, "Come, come, the Xifan army is coming!" The Qiang girl and the white dog in the ancient city of Pingrong were all excited.

I saw the Western Tibetan cavalry in rows, countless pine lights lit by fire, floating like a tide in the dim snow, sheepskin, cowhide drums, emitting a shocking knocking sound, mixed with galloping horse hooves: in front of the Western Tibetan cavalry are mostly supporters and archers, they wear high felt hats, from a distance look like two big ears, the horses' manes are full of snow, fluttering under the drive, the archers carry bows and hulu bags full of arrow feathers, and the guards hold spears in their arms, After that, there is the forbidden army Dongdai with strong armor all over the mountain, some with white background flower tongue flags, some lion flags, some red lotus flags, and some white dog flags, all fluttering in the wind.

From the city of Luo to here, it is about 3,000 li, and the cavalry of Xifan do not leave the saddle, and more Yong people also ride bad horses to drive the calves, mules and horses that carry heavy loads, and follow them.

Many of the weakest memorials, for various reasons, were exhausted or sick, and died while running, and their bodies were thrown into the grass to be pecked at by the vultures and crows of the plateau.

Fifteen days, the soldiers and horses from all walks of life gathered in front of the Pingrong City Road with great perseverance and perseverance!