Three days later, in the corridor of Penglai Academy, the emperor was in a surprisingly good mood, and said to Wei Cigong, a scholar who was accompanying him: "Wei Gao and Gao Yue's strategy, I have asked the little envoys of the military academy to reply, and they are all acceptable. I was immediately in the forbidden area, waiting for the good news of the frontier. ”

Wei Cigong followed behind, thinking in his heart, "Is the Holy Lord stimulated by something?" Even if it's happy, it's not so happy. ”

The next act of the emperor frightened him even more.

The emperor's hand silently stroked Wei Cigong's back, Wei Cigong only felt a cold and dead breath faintly coming from his spine, and he was trembling all over, of course he had heard this anecdote in Fengtian City: But anyone who touched the emperor's back and comforted him would die of the king's affairs.

Then the emperor's eager voice came: "From Zhou, you and Gao Yue were in the same shed, and they were also in the same year, right?" ”

Wei Cigong can only say yes if he is stubborn.

Then the emperor asked a lot of interesting stories about Gao Yue's past when he was in Taofen Shed, and the laughter kept echoing between the pavilion and the pond in front of Penglai Palace.

"From Zhou, you said, is this grandson good, or is it better to be a grandson?"

The question was even more clueless and terrifying, Wei Cigong's face was distorted, and his mouth was stubbornly closed.

"Your Majesty, how can your grandson be with your grandson?" After a long time, Wei Cigong opened his mouth to report this answer.

"Alas, Cong Zhou is a little pedantic, according to my opinion, if there are many children and grandchildren, there will be trouble, and the grandson can make him feel at ease to assist the good children and grandchildren, not to mention that the son-in-law is not a relative, but is it?"

Out of a strong desire to survive, Wei Cigong laughed at the emperor's nonsense and did not answer, but hehe.

Then the emperor said angrily: "I have a benevolent prince and a good emperor grandson, if there are a few good grandsons, plus the assistance of Zhou and other virtuous ministers, why worry that the Tang Dynasty cannot prosper." ”

After speaking, the emperor deeply stroked the back of the second duke of Wei......

At the end of spring, in the original place of Daechang in Gyeongju City, the stoves built on the mountain once again burst into flames, and when Gao Yue left, he still left thousands of Dongshan slaves, and now they began to forge weapons and armaments again, which seemed to indicate that a new large-scale offensive of the Tang family against the rebel party was coming.

Sure enough, in the next time, one after another changes were transmitted to Yuan Hui's Tongwan City through various channels:

The son of heaven of the Tang family reinstated Gao Yue, not only reinstated the official, but also gave him a belt to heaven;

It is said that the Inyeong army began to assemble in large numbers near Baekri Fortress, probably to Gyeongju and then to Yanju;

The Tang family spent nearly 2 million yuan of money and silk, bought rice and hoarded it in the northwest, and also recruited sailors from Zhouzi to start transporting materials to Lingwu City;

The traitors Ye Shiliangbi and Si Bo Ohno also began to frequently shoot arrows at the party camp in Xiaoli River and Dali River in Shannan, which were full of words of rebellion and discord.

These signs all indicate that Gao Yue is coming again, completely slaughtering and destroying us, and now he is in full swing to prepare.

"Don't panic, now that Gao Yue has been reused, it means that the Tang family has also reached the point of exhaustion, and even if it is Gao Yue, he may not be able to break through this rock-solid Tongwan City; Moreover, Xifan has begun to besiege Shazhou, and the Tang family's lonely Anbei court will not be protected, if I can hold on for a while, maybe I can let Mi Yao sit on the fifth position in the world after Tang, Xifan, Huifu, and Yunnan. Yuan Hui secretly continued to cheer himself up, and then strengthened the repair of the city defense of Tongwan City, striving to be foolproof; On the other hand, they will also transport military horses and weapons to the prince of Nixiang along the mountain roads of Baiyu Shandong, and the prince of Nixiang has begun to set up stoves in the valley he occupies to smelt all kinds of copper and iron weapons.

Yuan Hui guessed a little right, Xifan had gathered nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses at this time, with Guazhou and Ganzhou as the advance base, approaching Shazhou Dunhuang, and let the detachment army occupy Yumen Pass, cut off the relationship between Shazhou and Beiting Prefecture, and then the main force built seven camps along the north, south and east sides of Shazhou City, besieged Dunhuang City and began a suffocating attack.

In fact, thanks to the two little kings of Shatuo and Tuyuhun who had surrendered to the Tang Dynasty before, the military strength of Xifan declined greatly, especially Shang Qixin'er's east, which only sent 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the main force of the siege was 20,000 soldiers from Ma Chongying in the north and 5,000 soldiers and horses from Qinghai Road.

Even if these 30,000 people are gathered, the standard for this big material collection is to draw one out of three households.

If one of the three households draws one, almost all the people are soldiers, and a semi-agrarian and semi-nomadic slave regime like Xifan can barely support it.

In addition, in order to solve the logistical needs of attacking Dunhuang City, Zampu specially issued a resolution:

The land in the Ganzhou area is fertile, so please send a considerable number of Han slaves to this tuntian to produce grain and straw to solve military needs nearby.

In fact, at this time, the military and political system of Western Tibet was quite similar to that of the Tang Dynasty, except for the similar Jiedu envoys of the moral theory, the large agricultural officials (farmland envoys) under them were equivalent to the camp envoys of the Tang Dynasty, and their duty was to command the serfs, reclaim the fields in the occupied areas of the Western Tibet, and replace the "mu" of the Tang Dynasty with the unit of measurement of "Tu", and the fields were divided into two categories, one was the "Lutian" used as the Xifan officers and soldiers, and the other was the "Temple Field" used to support Buddhist temples.

Although the host province did not send many troops, it had the largest number of Tang people in its area, so Zampu asked Shang Qixin'er to send 5,000 people to Ganzhou Yingtian.

Shang Qixin'er naturally handed over the task to Xu Sheren, the great agricultural official.

Xu Sheren forced Duan Zuo to go to his manor and all of Shanzhou, and recruited 5,000 Tang people to go to Ganzhou to besiege the Tibetan army camp in Shazhou.

Duan Zuo was shocked and said to Xu Sheren: "Ganzhou is a long way away, if too many Han people are recruited to go there, how can the local harvest, especially the harvest of your family, be guaranteed?" ”

But Xu Sheren said, everything I have is given by the god Zampu, and if you provoke and offend Zampu, the end will be much more serious than what you said.

At this time, Zuo gritted his teeth and said to Xu Sheren: "Ganzhou is the jurisdiction of Ma Chongying, he has always been at odds with Shang Qi, I am waiting to go there, there are no seeds, cattle, farm tools, and Ma Chongying refuses to provide them, what should I do?" ”

In the end, Xu Sheren agreed to Duan Zuo's request, saying that he could let this group of Tang people carry farm tools, and bring some calves and calves on the road, in short, Duan Zuo, you are responsible for doing everything.

"Whoa!" Duan Zuo agreed, and while saluting, his eyes flashed with a fiery light, as if he was making up his mind to do a feat that he had to do.

At the same time, in the Wenshu Temple in Shanzhou, the walker Yuan Tong stood upright in the courtyard and paid homage to the mother who practiced here. Ding Ai Zeng and the little prince of Zampu Mu Di.

In order to settle the dispute, Trisong Detsen handed over the eldest son Muni to Padmasambhava, and the younger son Moudi to Mahayana and Niang. Set the Ai Zeng, and practice separately.

"There are big Buddha temples and countless Jialan in Dunhuang, I can't bear to be destroyed in the war, I implore the respectful teacher to be merciful, and rush to Shazhou to persuade - if the Dafan warriors break the city, don't protect the people and monks." Yuan Tongzhi put on his robes and pleaded with Mahayana.