The war of the Tang Dynasty against Goryeo is not said to start one day, maybe tomorrow. After Ashina Bobu and Li Mi appeared in the suspicious tavern www.biquge.info it can be suspected that there is a secret connection between Futu City and Qiuzi.

And Xizhou's military strength is only enough to defend against Qiuzi.

The total number of troops that Guo Dudu's men were able to deploy has now reached 5,000. At that time, when the Tang Dynasty took Xizhou, several important ministers opposed it, and Xizhou was far away from the mainland, remote and sparsely populated, and it was difficult to raise troops was one of their reasons.

Among these opposition ministers was the deceased Wei Zheng. At that time, Chang'an gave Guo Xiaoke only 3,000 standing troops, which was a number that all parties in Chang'an could bear.

With the rise of animal husbandry in Xizhou, Guo Xiaoke relied on his own strength and pieced together to expand the cavalry by 2,000 cavalry, of course, with the approval of Chang'an-as long as Chang'an did not need to pay money.

But the battle line was also lengthened -- there were garrisons in Baiyang River, Luntai County, and Jinghai County on the other side of the mountain pass -- and these forces were all within the total of 5,000.

This is not to blame Chang'an for slamming the door. If it weren't for the large-scale battles like the invasion of Goryeo, the conquest of Gaochang, and the fight against Tuguhun, it would not be a small burden to have so many troops stationed in Xizhou.

Gao Jun said, "Big brother, a thousand people can always be sent, right?" ”

Guo Zhizhao asked, "A thousand people, what can you do to the tens of thousands of people in Futu City?" ”

Gao Jun said: "It's enough to scare people, and the father and son in Futu City don't have to worry about Li Mi." If you don't think about Li Mi, when the time comes, you all go to the west to deal with Qiuzi, and I won't be able to live in peace in my ranch! ”

Guo Zhizhao's wife was accompanying Su Shi to talk in a low voice at this time, and when she saw Gao Jun and Beizhao muttering and discussing matters there, Mrs. Guo smiled and said to Mrs. Su, "This chief pastor Gao, I'm afraid I'm going to instigate my family's Zhao!" ”

Mrs. Su hurriedly asked what this meant. Mrs. Guo talked about Gao Jun's milk in Shanzhou, "First to be sealed, we were all eavesdropping behind the curtain, listening to my younger brother and sister screaming in agony inside, but it just didn't work." Wait until Chief Pastor Gao enters......"

Su asked, "What will happen to him when he goes in?" ”

Just listen to him say some unbounded angry words, it is a cow and a nephew, Gao Chang didn't move for a long time, and he didn't squeak when he accompanied him in. We're all guessing outside, and he's got out there! It was all at once! ”

Su Shi blushed and asked, "How can it be done all at once?" ”

Mrs. Zhao said, "The second time, everyone thought that Gao Jun would be rubbing like this, but who knew that he would go up and talk again...... It's done again! The two laughed in a low voice, and Su said, "It's not like this, it's called surprise, and Second Mrs. Guo will suffer less......"

Gao Jun heard her words and said continuously, "Yes, yes, that's what you said - surprising!" Big brother, you do it like this. This completely made Su Shi red-faced, and Guo Zhizhao and Gao Jun had already gotten up and gone out.

Turtle City.

Su Fa ushered in the guy who delivered the letter from the tavern in Jiaohe County, only to see the guy take off a shoe on his foot, reach in and uncover the insoles inside, and take out a carefully folded piece of paper from it and hand it over.

Su Va received the letter in his hand and asked, "There were no accidents on the road?" ”

The guy said, "It's been very closely guarded along the way, and it's hard to get here, but how can those people find it!" ”

Before Su Fa ordered someone to take him down, he asked again, "Have you read this letter?" ”

The guy said, "The villain shouldn't know, how dare the villain look around." He also showed off and said, "But I peeked at Xizhou's letter, Tianshan Mu wants to send 20,000 soldiers and horses from Xizhou to Ranch Village, and I don't know what to do." ”

Su Fa was suspicious, and after the guy went down, he looked at the secret letter and said, "Tianshan Mu has finally requisitioned military horses again, the same as last time, it is still three thousand!" So they want to fight Goryeo again. ”

Prime Minister Nali said, "Just reply to him and ask him to take him to Futu City, and then we will act at the same time, and it will definitely be enough for Xizhou to be busy." Maybe Yanqi can return to the king's banner. ”

"But where did the 20,000 horses come from in Xizhou? As far as I know, Xizhou is enough to choke five thousand people! It's scary enough. Even if there are 20,000 people, could it be that the people and horses in Xizhou are all prepared for him Tianshan Mu? Said to smoke and take away, what precautions do we have here? ”

"King, maybe there are really so many people in Xizhou?"

"Humph! How could a guy know about the letter of Xizhou's troop transfer! This kid is calculating...... It is true that Tianshan herded horses, and it was true that the Tang Dynasty wanted to start a war against Goryeo, and the others were not credible. ”

Su Fa has a lesson from the past, and he can't help but be careful. He lowered his head and thought for a long time before he raised his head and said to Prime Minister Na Lidao, "Reply, about the same time as Futu City." ”

Na Li said, "King, if this is Xizhou's plan to lure the enemy, you can also see that it is unlikely that Xizhou will transfer 20,000 troops......"

Su Fa snorted, "I'm asking Futu City to move first, and let's wait and see how Xizhou reacts." Xizhou doesn't move, I don't move. I don't believe that Xizhou dares to sit back and watch Futu City succeed behind it. As long as Xizhou returns to the army, I will only get back my Yanqi. ”

"What if Futu City doesn't move?" ”

Su Fa said, "Then Futu City was either destroyed by Xizhou in the blink of an eye, or they teamed up with Xizhou to calculate my turtles!" How many years have the father and son slept with 10,000 people in Futu City? Maybe we'll see it more clearly this time. ”

Nali said, "Maybe those soldiers and horses in Xizhou are ready, just wait for us to move first, you are really wise, king." He went down and wrote a letter, and sent it to be brought back.

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At the beginning, Guo Zhizhao was still worried about the direction of Qiuzi, but after listening to Gao Jun's analysis, he couldn't help but nod his head again. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that if Guo waits for the edict to deal with the matter of catching the messenger in the old village, according to his habits, of course, it will be both people and things, and handed over to the department for interrogation. Then find a way to take strict precautions in two places.

Gao Jun not only did not do this, but invited the messenger with good wine and food, and then asked him to bring a fake letter to Xizhou.

And the sender must peek at the letter as long as he has some mind, and he must tell it as a big deal when he arrives in Guizi. Guo Zhizhao thought, if he was Su Va, what would he think?

Gao Jun's fake letter, the wonderful thing is that it is only a little fake, and everything else is very trouble-20,000 people, where is there in Xizhou! Even the choice of the messenger was wonderful, he saved a deputy pastor under the Tianshan Pasture, and then personally sent the deputy pastor home home, and was offended by the people in the pasture in the middle of the night, and then the chief pastor toasted and accompanied the deputy pastor Wang......

Guo Zhizhao thought that if he was Su Va, after hearing such nondescript news from his buddy, most of them would not act rashly.

However, there are still many variables. Gao Jun's method is just to stabilize Qiuzi and ponder Futu City before starting a war against Goryeo in the east. In this way, it is very urgent to go to Xizhou to pull a thousand soldiers and horses for Gao Jun's call.

He got up and rushed to Xizhou, leaving his wife to accompany Su in the old village.

And Gao Jun waited for Guo to wait for the messenger of Guo Zhizhao and Qiuzi to come back. He just wanted to give Futu City a chance to make him move, and he couldn't clean him up at that time, and it was always right to scare them.

Chang'an has never had clear instructions for Futu City, and Gao Jun thinks that Chang'an has always been not very eye-catching to Futu City. It turns out that Futu City has nothing to do with the Silk Road, maybe the emperor is waiting for them to take refuge. But this requires the prosperity of Xizhou, the strength of the military, and the shrinkage of Futu City to make a note, which is a slow effort.

However, since the opening of the North Silk Road - Baiyang Road, Futu City and Xizhou are separated by a Jinsha Ridge, which just chokes the throat of Baiyang Road. The Southern, Central, and Northern Roads of the Silk Road, Xizhou controls the southern and central roads, and Futu City can control the Northern Road, and its status is no less than that of Xizhou.

Then his focus this time is to scare, scare Ashina thin cloth father and son, and let them be honest. And Li Mi will fall into Gao Jun's hands again, and Gao Jun doesn't plan to let him leave alive.