The soldiers in the walled city of Jinchengguan can no longer be called elite, and the 61 Dongdai in the headquarters of the Western Tibetan military system, including the forbidden army, is the first echelon, and then there is the field team composed of the border armies, that is, the immigrants of the Western Tibet, and the walled soldiers belong to the nature of the "garrison", most of which are composed of some herdsmen and free people with little property in the Western Tibet, plus some patchwork recruited by the Wen Mo of other ethnic groups.

So Jincheng Guan looked at the 5,000 captives under it, and did not dare to be self-contained, let alone go out to meet the Tang army, so he could only light the beacon fire of urgency and report to the state city not far away.

An hour passed, and Ming Huaiyi, who was in the rear supervision, lost patience, "Daddy said that he would kill if he overtimed, and the military law is like a mountain, so he has to be killed!" ”

The sound of the horn sounded, and immediately hundreds of ironclad Tang horsemen came out of the formation, one of which ran directly from the prisoner of war team, cutting it apart, the captives of Xifan were twenty people were tied to a long horse rope, when even if there were forty or fifty teams, the Tang cavalry was brutally charged, a rope was tied up, one of them was knocked down, the rest of them also fell to the ground, the Tibetan people were persevering, even so few people cried and begged for mercy.

Then the cavalry of the Tang army raised their hooves and trampled on it, and there was the sound of flesh and bones cracking everywhere, and then they stabbed with horse lances, iron shovels or flail slashing, and suddenly blood mist splashed, which was separated more than 1,000 captives, in just a stick of incense, or trampled to death, or stabbed to death, or smashed alive by a blunt steel weapon to break the Tianling cover and died, their flesh and blood blurred corpses still maintained a string of postures, entangled and hugged each other, indescribably miserable and terrifying.

This picture made the guards of Jincheng Pass scatter on the spot, and the two trembled.

Many people gathered around the city defense envoy, begging him to make up his mind as soon as possible, whether to surrender or flee, and the city defense envoy was also dispossessed, saying that it was up to the host to decide.

"We are in the host, and we have long heard that Gao Moro kills people without blinking, not to mention that there are still elites who can withstand his soldiers! As early as in the battle of Huating, more than half of the dead and wounded, the others were nested in Shanzhou City, and even the elite of Zampu were defeated in the Pingrong City Road, in my opinion, it is better to open the walled city and surrender as soon as possible, maybe there is still life, otherwise the more than 1,000 captives killed in this instant are the end of Jincheng Pass. ”

"Don't shake the morale of the army!" The city defense envoy shouted loudly, and immediately drew his sword to execute the noiser.

And at this moment, in the earth-shattering drums: Gao Yue, Wei Gao led the strong lineup of Fengyi, Dingwu, and Yining, and the strong lineup of the three armies had swept from the direction of Di Dao.

Before sending troops on Baishi Mountain, Gao Yue held Jia Tan's map of military records, and pointed at Wei Gao on all sides of the heights: "Chengwu, the terrain of Lanzhou has three points, the south is Didao, the middle is Wuquan, and the north is Guangwu." Di Dao is the place that connects Weishui and Caohan (Hezhou), and is the southeast gateway of Hehuang; Wuquan is the place where Lanzhou is located, north by the big river, south of the mountains, when the Yellow River crosses Tianjin, for the key of Longyou and Hexi, can be described as a pass of Jincheng, across the big river, for the east gate of the river Huang; And the northern boundary of Guangwu Pipa Mountain and Wucheng guarded and captured, and along the Wushui and Liangzhou Guzang connected. This place is the place of contention as stated in the book of war, as long as Lanzhou is captured, you can enter the river and close the place where Xifan enters and exits; You can also enter the west of the river to be sweet and cool, and continue to recover the Tang soil. ”

So Gao Yue asked Liu Haibin's Shence Weirong Army, that is, the original Anbei Tingxing camp, to attack Hezhou, Taozhou, and Baosai Prefecture from the west of the Kanglang Mountain Road; Xing Junya's Shence Xuanwei Army, out of the northwest of Di Dao, into the Horseshoe Valley between Wuzhishui and Jincheng Pass, control the mouth of the Yellow River, and build a camp to prevent Shang Qixin'er reinforcements from Shanzhou; and ordered that the Baoyi army of Ye Shiliangbi and Si Bo Daye crossed the water to join their own divisions; As for the 10,000 horsemen and horses of Shatuo and Tuyuhun, they also marched from Huining in Huizhou along the south bank of the Yellow River to cover the east side of the five springs in Lanzhou.

There are also more than 10,000 people in the Xiongqi, Fan and Han rebels of Cheng, Qin, Die, Tang, and Wei, who are responsible for ensuring the grain route and assisting the formation.

In addition, Ximen Cang also asked the Shence Decisive Army stationed in Yanzhou to dispatch 10,000 people, as a follow-up, out of Muxia Pass, and also through the land of Huizhou, to Lanzhou.

And his own soldiers and horses with Wei Gao entered Jincheng Pass in the west of Lanzhou and prepared to attack the city.

Encountering Ming Huaiyi and Mi Yuan, who came to report, Gao Yue's order was very concise: "Since the other side still does not surrender after killing a thousand prisoners of war, then next, divide the other prisoners into four teams, and attack the mountains south of Lanzhou City in the front." ”

Soon, on the peaks in the south of Lanzhou, there were fireworks and fireworks, and the various Tibetan soldiers and walled cities were all anxious, they looked down from a height, but saw that the mountains were bound by ropes, holding their own prisoners of war surging forward, and the Tang soldiers were holding fire guns and boring rakes, and followed closely - when the guards everywhere raised their bows and arrows and threw stones, the first target to shoot was their own people.

In the wolf smoke and flames, Shang Qixin'er in Shancheng (where the Heyuan Army originally set up by the Tang Dynasty was located), where did he dare to send reinforcements to save Lanzhou?

He just paced back and forth with a pale face, you must know that there are only 3,000 defenders in Lanzhou, and if they fall there, they will go to the northwest to Shanzhou for 400 miles, and to the southwest to Hezhou is only 300 miles, and the cavalry can be said to be coming in a flash, how can the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in their hands be the opponents of the Tang Army who are like wolves and tigers from all walks of life?

What's more, Shang Jiezan and Ma Chongying in the Liangzhou region are afraid that they are also full of hatred and ready to fight, ready to send troops to fight with themselves!

"Tell the defenders of Lanzhou that if you can keep it, if you can't keep it, you will throw yourself into the river and die for the country...... Shang Qi'er didn't say it so absolutely, the implication is that you really can't do it, you can also surrender to the Tang Army, anyway, all of you are "martyred" in this regard.

"Hold the barn of Shancheng and the sub-city on Tulou Mountain, and all the soldiers and horses will abandon the palace fort and retreat with me to the stone fort city in the southwest of the state, which is a desperate place, and if you keep it, you can keep the gateway of Qinghai and the lifeblood plateau of Dafan, so you can repay Zampu's kindness!" Shang Qi'er heart is impassioned.

When the cage official under his command asked him, since he wanted to abandon Shancheng and go to Shibao City, why did he still live in the barn and sub-city for what?

Shang Qixin'er replied very strangely, only saying that after all, we Dafan came to cross the river, and we should not burn down the barn before leaving, leaving a way for the local Han people to live, and it is good to meet the Tang family in the future, right?

It turns out that this Shang Qixin has already considered all aspects.

In fact, secretly, Shang Qixin'er had instructed a confidant named Hunter Tuo Fan to rush to Lanzhou to meet Gao Yue and Wei Gao to discuss the ceasefire between the host and the Tang family alone.

As for the nearly 30,000 captives in the hands of the Tang Army, frankly speaking, Shang Qixin'er didn't care much about their fate, because most of these captives were from Gao Yuan's subordinates and had nothing to do with his power base.