Soon, Xue Rengui's 2,000 cavalry all walked through the short valley and dismounted outside the valley, waiting for the Qiang army that had been trapped in the valley to rush out.

In the valley, the Qiang people led by Yeli Haojie and Mi Bao Songlai were waiting for Li Chengqian's car with their necks stretched, but they didn't know that this valley had become their burial place.

Cheng Wuting on the other side of the valley hurriedly ordered his soldiers to swing their antlers to refuse the horse and stab the pocket at this end to death when Xue Rengui left.

Cheng Wuqi saw a large number of bonfires lit on Xue Rengui's side from a distance, knowing that Xue Rengui's side was also in formation, he looked at the valley where the wind and snow were tight with an expressionless face, and said secretly in his heart: ...... Dare to deceive His Royal Highness the Prince, don't even think of coming out alive today.

Lu Hong, who had already arrived on the hills on both sides with catapults and gunpowder, and another lieutenant saw a bonfire lit on Xue Rengui's side, and a wicked smile appeared on his pale face reflected in the snow, and then waved his hand to start throwing explosives bags.

The wild heroes in the valley finally discovered that the situation was wrong at this time, and they panicked when they saw the fire at the exit of the valley, and hurriedly stepped on the war horse and shouted and rushed out.

Mi Zhu Songlai, who was opposite him, saw that Yeli Haojie got on the horse, although he didn't know what was going on, he also hurriedly followed the horse.

When more than 10,000 people behind them saw the two of them getting on the horse, they thought it was Li Chengqian's car coming, and they were so excited that they jumped out of the pit and rushed to the entrance of the valley......

A large number of Qiang people were in chaos in the snow-filled valley, only to hear some strange noises mixed with the whining cold wind quickly come to them, and then they heard a rumbling......

Boom Boom Boom ......

The cold wind howled in the sky, the snowflakes flew, and the ground was full of firelight and black smoke.

More than 10,000 Qiang people and hundreds of war horses waiting to rob Li Chengqian's car were immediately in chaos when they encountered this explosion of gunpowder like heavenly might.

For a moment, the flesh and blood of the limbs that had been blown up suddenly danced with the snowflakes in the air; There are two ears that are shocked, and the expression is sluggish, and the wood carving clay sculpture generally does not know where to go; There are also those who are far away from the explosion point, seeing this mountain of gunpowder bombardment, the timid legs are soft, the feces and urine are flowing together, and the bold ones are running around with their weapons, and even their own people are chopping ......

Looking at the chaos in the valley through the heavy snow that was still swirling with the wind, even Yeli Haojie and Mi Bao Songlai could only ride frightened war horses and spin in place, Xue Rengui nodded with satisfaction, knowing that the Tang army once again relied on gunpowder to win a big victory.

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Ten miles away, 4,000 Tang troops wearing white cloaks took advantage of the wind and snow to quietly come to the two miles south of Dejing County, and stood silently in the wind and snow, looking at this earthen city of the Dangxiang Qiang people, waiting for the order to attack the city.

Li Chengqian, wearing a white fox fur, stood at the front of the car and looked at the earthen wall-like city wall in front of him silently, thinking about how to clean up these Qiang people in the city after entering the city.

Since he came to the north, he has sent nearly 30,000 logging coolies to Jiannan, and now Datang does not have a particularly large project, and I am afraid that there will not be so many people there for a while, and suddenly tens of thousands of people will not be able to use it for a while.

It stands to reason that he can find some ore veins here and let them mine the most suitable, but there is also a problem, now the Tang Dynasty has not built the Great Wall in the north, and the management of this place is also very loose, if a mine is built here to smelt gold, silver and copper, it is easy to say, if it is to train iron, whether it is cheap Turkic or party people, it is not a good thing for Datang.

Li Chengqian was thinking about this, when he heard a faint rumbling sound coming from in the distance, and his heart was shocked, and he saw Qiu Xinggong in front of him ordering loudly: "Siege!" ”

With the order of Yiqiu Xinggong, the horns and drums sounded in unison, and the wind and snow were fierce.

Two thousand soldiers braved the wind and snow, raised their spears and shields, shouted "one, two, three, four" in a very rhythmic manner, and walked towards Dejing County with neat steps like snow waves in a landslide.

Such a big movement naturally alarmed the Qiang people who guarded the city in the city, and the leader of the city guarding the city tonight was named Mi Bao Songzhi, who was the younger brother of Mi Bao Songlai.

Because their father, Mi Bao Duoge, wanted to capture Li Chengqian, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, alive, so they sent both of their brothers out.

As soon as Mi Bao Songzhi heard the movement outside the city, he hurriedly lay down at the head of the city and looked out, only to see that there seemed to be rolling snow waves rushing towards the city gate, and knew that it was the enemy attacking. I couldn't help but be frightened, and hurriedly ordered someone to knock on Bangzi, and recruited the Qiang people on the city wall to help defend the city at the south gate.

Seeing that the Qiang people on the city wall had come to the top of the south city gate, Mi Bao Songzhi felt a little relieved and remembered that he had not yet reported to the city, so he hurriedly sent someone to the county government to deliver the letter.

Outside the city, the Tang army was getting closer and closer, and their neat steps, accompanied by a loud trumpet, became clearer and clearer in the eyes of Mi Bao Songzhi and others, making Mi Bao Songzhi and others more and more nervous.

A pair of eyes stared at this mighty Tang army, but they didn't notice that on their side, two teams of Tang army soldiers were pushing tall catapults and approaching the city wall quickly.

The people in the small county town of Dejing soon knew that the Tang army was coming to attack the city.

Mi Bao Duoge and Liu Lan, who were waiting for the news in the Yali of Dejing County, were shocked at the same time when they heard the news, how could they have heard about Li Chengqian's Tang army, which totaled less than 20,000 people, break out of the ambush circle they set up silently?

The two hurriedly came to the south gate of the county seat to board the city tower, and saw the imposing Tang army slowly approaching, knowing that only this bit of people in the city tower could not hold the county seat of Dejing.

Liu Lan rolled her eyes and said to Mi Bao Duoge: "Leader Mi Bao, there are still some elite guards under this official, I will transfer to defend the city, and you will also send people to gather the young people in the city to defend the city." ”

At this time, Mi Bao Duoge was anxious about the young man of the Mi Bao clan who was ambushed in the valley, and when he heard this, he waved his hand without thinking: "Go quickly, go quickly!" Seeing Liu Lan turn around and walk down the city wall, he gritted his teeth and said to the old servant standing beside him: "You also go to the city to look for it, and bring all the young men who can be brought up." ”

When the old servant heard this, he hurriedly turned around and went down the tower.

Liu Lan also has 500 Han guards in the county office, which is personally led by his nephew Liu Biao, and is his last trump card to save his life.

Liu Lan returned to the county government with a panicked expression, and hurriedly ordered Liu Biao to put on the gold and silver belts that had already been packed, and rushed out of the county government gate with a group of henchmen on a war horse.

Rushing out of the county office, he first ran a few steps south and woke up suddenly, and then hurriedly turned his horse's head and went straight to the north gate of the county seat against the wind and snow.

When Liu Lan and his party ran to the north gate of the county seat, the entire Dejing County was already in chaos, and the house slaves of Mi Duoge slapped the door from house to house, and called people to get up and go up to the city wall to meet the enemy.

And most of the people in the city are women, children and old people, and they don't have the courage to go out on a snowy night, and for a while, the sound of crying fathers and mothers in the city is loud......

Liu Lan secretly said in her heart: Dejing County is absolutely unstoppable, you have to go out quickly.

But the more anxious they are, the more trouble they encounter, the people guarding the door in Dejing County are all domestic slaves of Mi Duoge, and when they saw that Liu Lan was about to run away, they immediately stepped forward to stop them.

When Liu Lan saw it, he said in a hurry: "Open the city gate quickly, this governor will take people out of the city to meet the enemy." ”

The little soldier guarding the city said without saying anything: "Shouldn't Liu Dudu go to the south city to meet the enemy?"

Why did you bring people to the North City?"

"Bastard! How can Ben Governor's men face the enemy head-on? Now I was going to take people around Beicheng and kill them from behind the Tang army......" Liu Lan bluffed.

However, the soldiers defending the city had obviously been instructed by Mi Duoge, and no matter how much Liu Lan coerced and lured, he prevented them from leaving the city.

The two sides were in a stalemate, only to hear the rumbling sound from the south side.

The city was quiet when it was neutral, and Liu Lan looked back only to see that the city was full of wind and snow, and the rumbling sound was endless.

A heart sank to the bottom completely, and he didn't care about anything else, so he rushed to the city gate with a horse.

(End of chapter)