After nightfall, the torches held by the Xia people when they gathered their soldiers were like stars in the wasteland, accompanied by a terrible cry, mixed with the smell of corpses, and blew straight to Qiwu Mountain with the strong wind.

The Tang army, which returned from victory, also rushed to cut timber at the foot of the mountain, did not dare to slack off, and camped around the white Qiwu City where the Helian Temple was located.

Under the candlelight of the tent erected, Gao Yue was very satisfied with the result of the battle, and asked Zhou Ziping, who came with him, to count the soldiers' gains in detail.

"I won't behead you, but I hope that you and this Emperor Heavenly Monk named Shifting Rat will go to Baichengzi at the right time to persuade your father to surrender, and you have no chance of victory or escape from the Pingxia Division." Gao Yue's tone was gentle, and he said this to Tuoba Sheng.

At this time, Sheng saw the "Emperor Heavenly Monk" in the other party's mouth, that is, the man called the Shifting Mouse, his expression was very peaceful, and a pair of eyes looked at him very quietly.

At this time, several generals entered the account, and asked Gao Yue to take advantage of the victory to pursue and directly force the city of Tongwan.

"No, the previous battle was in a hurry, but now that our army has captured Qiwu Mountain and Heishui, there is no worry of defeat, and I urge Xu Baohui, Zhang Guangsheng, Du Huangsheng and Kang Rizhi's soldiers and horses to gather." After thinking about it, Gao Yue added, "Then send the light cavalry of the Qiang Yicong to take turns to plunder the surroundings of the Ten Thousand Cities, and force all the rebels back to the city as much as possible, or disperse them." ”

Then, the Tang army soon began to raid the city of Tongwan in the form of light cavalry, which was very useful for the Xia regime, which had just formed a "semi-nomadic and semi-settled" model: most of the camps were settled under the city, and many chieftains had begun to build pavilions to settle down - the Tang army, most of which were familiar with the Qiang and righteous followers, threw torches to burn down buildings, or shot and plundered Xia women and children and their livestock.

Knowing that the prince of Nixiang was killed in battle, and the fate of his two sons was uncertain, Yuanhui, the son of Qingtian, whose face was like ashes, almost lost all his fighting spirit, and at this moment he listened to the advice of his subordinates and moved all the men and women who were attacked and harassed by the Tang cavalry outside the city to the city.

At the same time, Gao Yue also took the opportunity to constantly shrink the encirclement network.

Soon, Xu Baohui and Kang Rizhi led 7,000 horsemen, and after capturing Yuduole City, which was 200 miles north of Tongwan City, they captured Shiziling, and got Gao Yue's order, so they went south to Heishui to join the attack on Tongwan City.

Along with the two marshals, there were also a member of the Hui "Meilu" (the meaning of the general) and 3,000 Hui iron cavalry, this Meilu was called Yao Luo Geling, the adopted son of the Wuyi Khan, who was very powerful in the Hui country and was very trusted by the Khan.

But in fact, Yao Luo Geling is a Han man, originally surnamed Lu, because he was good at planning, he got ahead in the desert, and because of this, Gao Yue and he became good friends. From Yao Luo Geling's mouth, Gao Yue understood his task, Mingli was the quasi-father-in-law who assisted Wuyi Khan, that is, the Tang family was in charge of Wancheng, but secretly he was also responsible for asking the Tang family for this year's "city horse money", in addition to welcoming Princess Deyang to marry.

Gao Yue said to him: "As long as you unify the ten thousand cities, the princess's wedding procession will immediately lead to the Tiande Military City along this place, and then the Khan of your family will be able to come to greet him, and my brother can also bring back 100,000 good cloth and silk to charge my Tang's city horse money." ”

Yao Luo Geling was overjoyed and said that we would do our best to help when we returned.

At this time, Gao Yue took the opportunity to win over Yao Luo Geling, "After my Tang and Hui Su intermarried, they will be a family, and if my brother has anything in the future, just tell the servant." ”

Although this medicine Luo Geling has become a Hui person, he is still a Han in his bones, and of course he can understand the communication between Han people and Han people, and he immediately expressed his sincere fear and expressed his willingness to make peace with Gao Yue.

Gao Yue promised him, and the servant immediately asked the court to give his brother the rank of school servant, and from then on you were unspeakably valuable in the Tang and Hui countries.

In return, Yao Luo Geling promised Gao Yue that once the wedding was completed, he would persuade Wuyi Khan to send 50,000 troops, cooperate with the Tang family from the north court, and strike hard at Xifan!

The two ministers hit it off.

Soon, Hun Yang led 4,000 cavalry, and also arrived at Woyebo and joined Gao Yue.

Then Zhang Guangsheng's 3,000 Zhenwu cavalry also came from the camel weir, not only Zhang himself was in place, but at the western boundary of Shengzhou, a Tugu Hun Helian Feng, who had originally moved inward, led 3,000 clansmen to defect to Zhang Guangsheng, saying that they wanted to attach themselves to the Tang family and break off friendship with the party of the Ping Xia Department.

After all the troops were gathered, Gao Yue ordered the whole army to move south in a big way, and camped in the north of the city of Tongwan.

On October 20, Gao Gu and Zhang Jing led 30,000 foot soldiers, carrying bronze cannons, vehicles, and baggage, to the east of Tongwan City, and built several pontoon bridges at the Wuding River to connect with Gao Yue's military camp.

The Xia people in the city once dispatched 2,000 light cavalry to fight for the burning pontoon bridge, but they were shot fiercely by the tiger cannon set up by the Dingwu army, and retreated in defeat.

Two days later, the banner of the Tang army supervised by Jia Tan appeared in Nanshan and Xiyuan: under Jia Tan's ingenious deployment, the Tang army on the west road was divided into two lines, sandwiched by the extravagant water array, Nanshan was Baoda, Jingsai, and Shence to win the decisive victory of each army, and Xiyuan was Zhu Xie Duzhong and Murong Junchao's two cavalry, also on the Shuichuan, Jia Tan ordered to build four pontoon bridges.

If so, the Tang army plus the dependent servant army, a total of 100,000 people, surrounded and unified ten thousand cities on all sides.

In the Daming Palace, the emperor's face was gloomy.

Sure enough, now all the towns in the Kanto region are pulling the back of the imperial court.

Xuanwu Liu Shining, who had just been recognized by the imperial court, couldn't wait to inspect the states and counties under his jurisdiction, and then suddenly drove away the Songzhou assassin appointed by the imperial court and replaced it with Liu Yizhun, and then Liu Shining played it in a fake way and asked for the approval of the imperial court.

The imperial court issued edicts many times, telling Tian Xu and Li Na to destroy the Sanchai City in Dezhou, so as not to become a place where Wei Bo and Ziqing colluded, but the two Jiedu envoys turned a deaf ear to the imperial court and began to strengthen and repair the fortresses of Sanchai City.

The most arrogant is Huaixi Wu Shaocheng, he actually took the initiative to open the Si River and the Wei River, irrigated the farmland in the town, and then the two rivers flowed into Huaixi with the water of the Cao Canal, and the Cao River actually dried up to the bottom, and the ships of the imperial court could not cross at all!

The emperor was furious and successively issued edicts to reprimand Wu Shaocheng, but Wu turned a deaf ear.

In the end, the emperor thought that the elite soldiers and strong generals of the whole country had been sent to conquer Tongwancheng, and the northwest and southwest were also fully supporting this war.

"The court treats me like a baby, and if I don't cry, I won't come to nurse me." Wu Shaocheng said this proudly to the strategist Li Yuanping afterwards.

"You wait for me, wait for the triumph of the third year of high school from the Wancheng, and settle accounts with you Huaixi!" The emperor gritted his teeth, and the hatred in his heart grew stronger.