In the small seal, the camp and fortress of the Tang army were in the room, and Wei Gao, who received two documents at the same time. Without hesitation, he gathered all the chiefs of Qiang and Barbarian, asked the soldiers to temporarily build a high platform, and stood on it to announce that all the big chiefs would be awarded to the generals of Zhuse, all the small chieftains would be awarded to the captains and captains, and the young sons would be awarded the halberds, siges, important titles, and accompanying troops.

Then Wei Gao took out seventy percent of the money and silk in the camp's military treasury and distributed it to the soldiers and the Qiang servant army, and in this situation, almost everyone vaguely felt that the army of Xifan seemed to be approaching the border of Victoria, and the Tang army was preparing for a decisive battle.

And to give us officials and rewards is to make us the pioneers of the Tang army and fight against Xifan.

At this time, Dong Woting, the king of the neighboring country, felt that something was wrong, so he asked Wei Gao to say, dare to ask why there is no reward from Tang Lizhi of the Qiang Nu Country and Deng Youxian tribe of the White Dog Country? The 3,000 soldiers of these two countries happened to be three miles in front of the city of Gaoji, and if there was no reward, they would be resentful and ineffective in battle, and Gaojigong would be tantamount to losing the barrier and the sentry, which would be very dangerous.

Wei Gao said, what you said is very reasonable, Ben Shuai has asked people to bring 80,000 yuan of money and silk to reward.

Later, Wei Gao really let the three departments of Dongban Bedeng, Fengpa, and Lianglin have a total of 4,000 people, as well as 2,500 people under the command of Gao Wantang of the Hui Barbarian, 5,500 people under the Xishan Qiang Dong Woting, and 4,000 people under the newly formed "Zhenyuan Army" of Wudu Qiang, a total of 16,000 troops, each of whom was given five days of food, and let Wang Youdao lead 300 Fengyi cavalry to supervise the march and help the battle at Gaoyue in Pingrong Road.

And he stayed, and the Fengyi army, the Qingyuan army and the calm army, continued to besiege Sanssouci City.

In the worry-free city, the south of Xifan is reckless, the eyes are full of bloodshots, the face is full of restlessness, wrapped in felt clothes, the cold wind blowing between the mountains blows the corners of his clothes, looking down from the building, his entire city back is based on the Shiniu Mountain where Xia Dayu was born, and the other three sides are surrounded by Tuoshui, which can be described as steep and abnormal - farther away, across Tuoshui, the camp of the Tang army is full of smoke, and the people and horses and flags are also intensively moving back and forth, whether it is a small seal in the south of the city, or a Dinglian in the north of the city, it is all in such a situation.

"Could it be that the reinforcements of Dafan are about to come over on the Pengpo Mountain Road!" On Recklessness hoarsely voiced, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his tone.

A group of cage officials stepped forward and asked: At that time, will we also open the city gate, cooperate with the reinforcements, and cooperate with the outside to break down the two military cities of Xiaofeng and Dinglian of the Tang Army?

"Of course, you can't just sit in the city and wait for reinforcements to come to your rescue, the elite of the Tang Army is here, and you have to cooperate with the reinforcements to annihilate them all." He shrugged his shoulders a few times, shook his felt coat upwards to make his shoulders more comfortable, and then said to the cage officials: "Prepare the beacon tower for the haystack, and once you see the banner of the reinforcements, you will light a fire and go out of the city to attack the Tang army." This matter cannot be advanced due to anxiety, because from Pengpo Mountain, Pingrong Road to here, there are still 100 miles of road, and we must grasp the timing of the attack. ”

Just when the defenders of Sanssouci City were in full swing to prepare for battle, Wei Gao's reward of 80,000 guan passed through Gao Yue's car city, Gao Yue didn't say a word, and then withheld it, and then asked the two uncles to take the money and go to Tang Lizhi and Deng Youxian's camp to buy their cattle and sheep.

Tang and Deng didn't know the inside story at that time, and when they saw that Jigong's people came to buy cattle and sheep, they sent the goods out and left the money and silk.

So Gao Yue's two uncles, who were serving as grain and grass for the military department, drove a large number of cattle and sheep back to Checheng.

At dusk, Wei Gao's envoy came to their camp in embarrassment, and said: Wei Lianshuai gave the chiefs of the Great Yellow in the small closed city, and remembered that you and your subordinates were violent in the wilderness here, and they would bear the brunt of the war, so they asked the servants to bring 80,000 gifts to reward and inspire, but when they passed through Jigong's Checheng, they were stopped by the cavalry of the Yining Army, and all of them were intercepted by Gao Jigong.

"Then buy my cattle and sheep......"

"It's all Wei Shuai's gift to you!"

Tang and Deng really couldn't help it this time, and they were furious in front of Wei Gao's envoy, saying that Ji Gong was simply too deceitful, "How can it be so bad to meet me?" "I'm going to report to Wei Shuai! No, you have to declare to the emperor of the court!

The envoy said, I will immediately return to Xiaofeng, and I will let Wei Shuai know about this matter, and I will negotiate solemnly with Ji Gong, you are the Qiang of the Eight Kingdoms of Xishan, and Wei Shuai is also the "Envoy of the Eight Kingdoms of Xishan".

After the envoy left, Tang Lizhi asked Deng Youxian: "Do you want to wait for Wei Gao's disposal report?" ”

Deng sneered and said that Gao Yue has always colluded with Wei Gao, and he has no bad feelings, and it is ridiculous to expect him to administer justice to us, so we simply follow the plan in advance and defect to Xifan, not only to defect, but also to lead Xifan to kill Gao Yue to be willing.

Then Deng Youxian said, our place now is not somewhere else, but the ancient city of Pingrong, this place is under the snow mountain, guarding the road to Tongbo, to the Lingmo River, weak water (Jinchuan), Baiya is only a few dozen miles away, from the Xifan land to here, steeply rises a hundred zhang, the ravines are forested, so this city can not be captured by manpower. After the Tang family built this city, Xifan could not enter, so he bought Xishan Qiang to lead the way, and the surprise attack was successful; Later, the emperor of the Tang family (Emperor Xuanzong) and the prime minister (Li Linfu) conspired to buy the generals in the city to take the city back. What we do now is the former, as long as Xifan gets here, from here to Gaoyue Checheng three miles, but it is all plateau Pingchuan, Xifan has the advantage in numbers, and there are many cavalry, it is easy to cut off Gaoyue's Checheng and besiege him, defeat him, and then kill Gao Yue, and then go to fight Wei Gao under the worry-free city, tens of thousands of elites of the Tang army were covered in one day, and the Tang family is in a slump.

After the two made a good plan, they were afraid that Xifan would not believe it, so they simply secretly sent their respective sons to Baoning Village in Xifan to show their sincerity in taking refuge.

Sure enough, Wei Gao sent envoys to Dingwu and Yining's Checheng, but he didn't dare to blame Gao Yue at all, and just asked if there was such a thing.

Gao Yue in the tent widened his eyes and denied in surprise: "The Qiang Nu Country and the White Dog Country are both my Tang Dynasty's cities, even if they are Tang Army, how can there be any reason for the Tang Army to seize the Tang Army's military funds in this world?" There is no possibility, there must be a misunderstanding. ”

This is the standard pretending to be deaf and dumb.

After Wei Gao's envoy left, Gao Gu and Zhang Jing came over and said to him closely: "Isn't it not very benevolent to force the Qiang girl and the white dog to do this?" ”

Gao Yue's voice was very indifferent, "It's just a two-faced Qiang, let them go to Xifan is a royal foreign insult, forcing them to sell land and then justify the elimination of it is in addition to internal troubles, we will not suffer a loss in both things, as long as we can lead the main force of Xifan to fight, even if there is no Qiang girl and white dog, it is valuable, and immediately I Tang will support the position to come to Xishan Qiang as the king, and it is not the same restraint." Then he turned around and said very clearly to the two generals, Gao Gu and Zhang Jingze: "Remember, if everything is based on faith and righteousness, wouldn't it become Song Xianggong and others?" ”

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