In Qishan City, Jieshuai Hall.

Murong Luohu, Li Daoxuan, Liu Hongji, Li Xiuning, Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Gongjin, Pan Ren and others gathered together to discuss the matter of defense.

Although Murong Rahu is the commander, he is not the most powerful, because the deputy commander Li Daoxuan, who is Li Yuan's nephew, is the prince of the country, higher than Murong Rahu, and is a relative of the emperor. Li Xiuning can't even say that she is the princess of Pingyang of the royal family, and her identity is the most noble.

Therefore, Murong Luohu was very conscious and asked for their suggestions, especially Princess Pingyang, who seemed to be the decision-maker.

Murong Luohu reported: "The mountain city has been arranged by our army layer by layer of defense, there are many trenches outside, and there are many arrow towers, which can block the Dahua soldiers and horses from surpassing, and at the same time control the commanding heights, and outside the Qishan City, the urn city and the stone wall fortress have been built, and the Dahua army must occupy it layer by layer to conquer it, and every time it crosses a line of defense, the casualties will be huge." ”

Li Daoxuan analyzed: "Hou Junji's 50,000 vanguard army will definitely not be able to overcome the three lines of defense, when the time comes, Dahua will fill it with the lives of countless soldiers, as long as we can hold on, it will consume Dahua's strength and drag on for half a year, then into the cold winter, Dahua can only retreat." ”

"I hope so." Li Xiuning frowned, although the strategy sounded like nothing was missing, but when dealing with Dahua's army, it seemed that there would always be changes and accidents that were expected in advance, and I don't know what means Dahua would use to break Qishan City this time.

If it was really a strong attack, Li Xiuning was really not afraid, after all, the location was so precipitous, and the Dahua soldiers and horses were also flesh and blood, and it was impossible to fly over the mountain city with wings, and their casualties would inevitably be very large.

The purpose of the Tang army was to make Dahua retreat in the face of difficulties and hold them back from marching to Jingzhao County.

In fact, Li Xiuning was also worried that Dahua was not fooled, but continued to march into Jingzhao, and then came to an ambush on the way to surround Wei and save Zhao's plan.

She had already thought about it, if Dahua came to attack Qishan City, the strategic intention would come true, if Dahua ignored the existence of Qishan City, but deliberately turned a blind eye and attacked Jingzhao County, making this strategic mistake, there must have been some premeditation, to lure the snake out of the hole and carry out an ambush.

"This time, I will never be fooled, see who can stand it, when you really fight with the soldiers and horses of Jingzhao County for two months, I am sending troops to cut off your food and grass, whether it is true or not, at that time, I don't believe that your ambush soldiers can afford to wait, so desperate!" Li Xiuning thought so in his heart.

At this moment, a scout suddenly made a hurried announcement outside the door, and the scout team in front discovered the urgent military situation.

"Pass in." Murong Luohu shouted loudly.

"Whoa!" The guards outside the door took the military letter and handed it in, and the scouts stayed outside in case they were pretending to be assassinated.

After Murong Luohu took it, he was the nominal commander, you can look at it first, open it and browse it, frowned, and then handed it to Li Xiuning and said, "Your Royal Highness the princess, please take a look." ”

Li Xiuning took it and sighed: "The Dahua army is really here, Hou Junji is the vanguard, and he is rushing to Qishan City with 50,000 troops. General Chen Liang led his troops around Qishan and captured Renshou Palace. Lai Hu'er led the troops to attack Yicheng on the border of Fufeng, cut off our back road, blocked the reinforcements, Luo Cheng drove the expedition in person, and arrived outside the mountain city later, it seems that this time, they moved seriously, vowing to take Qishan City before attacking Jingzhao County. ”

Li Daoxuan said: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, Your Royal Highness the princess, please rest assured, now the defense of the mountain city is not leaky, and the three layers of checkpoints outside are enough to make Dahua's elite suffer heavy casualties." Dahua wants to conquer the mountain city in a month or two, which is completely impossible. ”

Liu Hongji looked a little worried at this time, and said: "Luo Cheng, as the Emperor of Dahua, actually drove here in person to recruit and mobilize the people, is it just to fight our army?" With Luo Cheng's treachery, he is good at using soldiers, there must be fraud in this, but he can't figure out for a while, what kind of city-breaking strategy he will have! ”

"yes, will there be a fraud?" Duan Zhixuan asked.

"In these few battles, the Dahua army has not sent troops according to common sense, they are mainly sneak attacks, using unsightly methods, and they are very insidious." Zhang Gongjin snorted.

Pan Ren said: "What kind of tiger and wolf division, it is simply a cunning division, you have to guard against it!" ”

Li Xiuning looked at the uneasiness on the expressions of these generals, his heart was complicated and indescribable, as soon as he mentioned Luo Cheng, he fell into a psychological shadow, suspicious and suspicious, and the grass and trees were all soldiers.

The shadow of the tree, the name of the man, this is a kind of deterrent, before the man arrives, the enemy general has already begun to be afraid.

Li Xiuning sighed lightly in his heart, if the Li family could have been able to get along with him when he was in Xijing, and even married, would the ending be different?

Suddenly, such an idea popped up in Li Xiuning's mind, and even she felt surprised and strange, who married him? It must be himself, but he was still young and hated political marriage, so Li Xiuning didn't agree, and he didn't expect that after many years, Luo Cheng would grow to such a point.

"Forget it, don't bother yourself." Li Xiuning shook his head, wanting to get rid of this unrealistic idea, because a person like Luo Cheng is like a dragon, and it is impossible to be bound by shackles, even if it is married, can it stop a person's imperial heart?

From the fact that after Luo established the country, he did not become the queen for a long time, and it can be seen that he no longer intends to make the princess of the descendants of the Yang family the queen, which will arouse the resentment of the people all over the world, and even worry about the future prince, and like Emperor Yang of Sui, he will toss and collapse a prosperous empire, trapping all the people in fire and water, and the bones are everywhere, and the worst is always the people.

Even if he marries him, when it is Li Tang's turn to become the emperor, it will be more difficult to be caught in the middle, it is still so good, each is his own master, although he appreciates the other's eloquence and strategy, but he still has to live and die against each other.

"Princess, princess?"

"Huh?" Li Xiuning came back to his senses and found that all the generals and strategists in the festival hall were staring at him and asking her, and couldn't help blushing a little: "What's the matter?" ”

Li Hongji said: "We discussed it at the right time, and felt that Luo Cheng was the best at several fighting methods, one was night attack, the second was rebellion, and the third was burning grain and grass. The third is to protect the granary, we must choose an absolutely loyal elite defense, without an order and password, and must not approach without authorization, otherwise, it is likely to be a spy to burn down the granary, and come up with a trick, so that we are trapped in the mountain city. ”

"Okay, let's arrange it like this!" Li Xiuning regained the look of a heroine, calm as usual, with a pair of phoenix eyes, with a bit of fierceness.