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In Doma City, Dong Yanguang selected 50,000 elite soldiers to prepare for departure, and he took away ten days of grain and grass, which was almost all the grain and grass of the 110,000 army in Doma City, and put the remaining ** in hunger and cold.

But fortunately, Li Guangbi had already rushed back to Gravel Mountain with 10,000 soldiers and horses to run food, and the hope of the remaining 50,000 soldiers and horses in Doma City fell on Li Guangbi's shoulders. They can only eat one meal a day, hungry and cold waiting for the arrival of grain and grass.

Dong Yanguang led 50,000 soldiers and horses out of Doma City to advance in the direction of Shibao City, this was the first time he led an army of 50,000 as a main general, and the pride in his heart was indescribable. Dong Yanguang is still confident in taking Doma City, and he believes that it is not difficult for 100,000 troops to besiege Doma City. The key is that he is completely in a favorable position to attack the city this time, and there is Wang Zhongsi leading the army to attract firepower in the front, and the siege on his belly will definitely succeed.

And the wonderful thing is that when the Tubo soldiers and horses and Wang Zhongsi were inseparable, it was Wang Zhongsi who suffered heavy losses, not himself. He only needs to take advantage of the fisherman and take Shibao City in one fell swoop, and the credit for capturing Shibao City will be his own, but Wang Zhonghei will have to bear the shame of defeat, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. Dong Yanguang has already begun to make up for the situation when he took Shibao City, and when the time comes, he will go to Chang'an to accept His Majesty's summons and commendation, and his status in the army will also soar, and Li Xiangguo will also have a reason to transfer himself to a certain army under the jurisdiction of General An Lushan to be a deputy section or something. All in all, the future is bright.

However, only half a day later, Dong Yanguang understood why Wang Zhongsi insisted on not wanting to send troops at this time. On the vast Gobi Desert, heavy snow covers the wasteland. The plastic wind blows strongly, cold to the bone marrow, and there is no shelter from the wind and cold. The soldiers trudged through the snowy fields with difficulty, and it was difficult to walk empty, not to mention wearing heavy armor, holding shields and blades, and dragging food wagons and siege equipment. After a day's walk, the army had only walked fifteen miles, but one by one they were exhausted.

Dong Yanguang had no choice but to order to set up camp. That night, he convened a meeting of his subordinate generals and strictly ordered the rapid march, and even asked the generals to make a military order, requiring that they must march thirty miles on the second day, and strive to reach twenty miles north of Shibao City in the afternoon of the third day, and then turn west to detour to the belly of Shibao City. The generals were speechless, but they didn't dare to argue, Dong Yanguang's temperament changed greatly, and his words were full of threatening words with military law, and the generals didn't want to touch the head when this villain won his will.

The next day, when the army was marching out, bad news came from the camp, more than 30 soldiers who had been on vigil were missing, and their bodies were found lying in the snow at the edge of the camp at dawn. The weather was so cold that the 30 or so soldiers slipped and fell into a snow pit in the middle of the night, unable to climb up, and were frozen to death.

There was an ominous atmosphere in the army, but Dong Yanguang didn't care and urged the soldiers to move forward quickly. The soldiers were scolding and scaring the officers and running for their lives, sweating profusely. When the night came, the hot sweat on his body turned into deadly frost, and more than 300 people froze to death overnight. Thousands of soldiers were left in a state of hypothermia.

Dong Yanguang didn't understand the danger of marching in the extreme cold. In extremely cold weather, the most taboo thing is to sweat quickly. After sweating and cooling, the human body will fall into hypothermia, which is the number one killer in the cold army. Experienced generals chose to march slowly in such situations, allowing the soldiers to rest and drink more water to avoid physical exhaustion and hypothermia. But Dong Yanguang made the opposite decision, because he was too eager to make a splash this time.

Thousands of people fell ill in the army at once, hundreds died, and the morale of the army suddenly fell to the valley. The generals suggested that Dong Yanguang let the soldiers rest for half a day, so that the soldiers who suffered from hypothermia could recover, but Dong Yanguang sternly rejected them.

"The soldiers are fast, and they must be taken by surprise. If you delay at this time, you will not be able to go around the belly of Stone Castle City according to the predetermined plan. What are dead people afraid of? If you don't die in war, is it still called war? ”

The crowd was speechless when Dong Yanguang said something, and a general tried to refute, but was dragged out by Dong Yanguang and beaten with twenty military sticks, and all the generals were silent.

More than 1,000 soldiers who suffered from hypothermia could not stay to recover, because if they stayed, they would die, and Dong Yanguang would never leave their precious grain and grass, so they could only follow the army. Along the way, from time to time, soldiers fell headlong in the snow and could not get up again. From the early morning to the afternoon of the third day, five or six hundred soldiers died along the way, and even Dong Yanguang was shocked to see it, and he began to doubt whether his decision was correct.

But the matter has come to this point, Dong Yanguang can't turn back, so he has to order to move on. It would take at least four or five days to detour to the road behind Shibao City, and Dong Yanguang didn't dare to imagine what would happen on the road. But he had no choice but to urge his soldiers and horses to detour westward and plunge headlong into the vast snowfield.

Just when Dong Yanguang arrived twenty miles north of Shibao City, he turned his head and went west to circumnavigate the belly of the enemy city. In the city of Doma, Li Guangbi led 10,000 soldiers and horses to finally rush back from the camp of Gravel Mountain. When Ge Shuhan walked out of the city and saw Li Guangbi escorting hundreds of carts covered with felt, he laughed excitedly.

"Hahaha, you still have the ability to bring so much military rations. Now it's okay, there is food in the army, don't panic, now we don't have to go hungry, the marshal must be very happy to know. Geshuhan laughed loudly.

There was a subtle hint of weirdness in Li Guangbi's eyes, which Ge Shuhan didn't notice. All the grain trucks entered the city of Doma under the watchful eyes of the soldiers, and the soldiers were all smiling, and finally they were no longer hungry, and there was a sound of jubilation.

Li Guangbi did not have the slightest smile on his face, nor did he speak, and after letting the grain cart drive into the grain storage place, he took Ge Shuhan to Wang Zhonghe's big tent to meet the marshal without saying a word.

Wang Zhongsi sat quietly in the handsome tent, and the big tent was cold and cold. In order to save firewood, Wang Zhongsi had already ordered that charcoal fires should only be lit at night in the tent, and firewood should not be burned for heating the rest of the time.

Li Guangbi and Ge Shuhan entered the tent and bowed down to greet them, Wang Zhongsi nodded and asked, "The grain and grass have arrived?" How much grain and grass was brought back? ”

Ge Shuhan replied first: "It's a lot, Guangbi has brought back hundreds of carts of grain, which is estimated to be 30,000 stones, enough for the army to eat for a month." Well, we don't have to worry about food. It's still light, and it's been a hard journey. ”

Wang Zhongsi was stunned and frowned, "There are so many? How could there be so much food in the Gravel Mountain camp? As far as I know, the grain route to the camp in Gravel Mountain has also been blocked by heavy snow, if they have so much grain in stock, how can they not supply food and grass for my army? Guangbi, is what General Geshu said true? ”

Ge Shuhan smiled: "Dashuai, what's wrong with you?" Aren't you glad that the army has so much food and grass? It doesn't matter where he came from. ”

But seeing Li Guangbi arching his hand, he said: "The marshal is discerning, there is indeed no such grain, and the granary of the camp in Gravel Mountain is also empty." The grain road leading to the camp in the gravel mountain was covered with heavy snow, and the soldiers and horses transporting grain were still trying to open the road to rush to transport. But no one dares to say when the grain will be transported normally. Maybe ten days and half a month won't work. ”

Ge Shuhan was surprised: "Guangbi, you can't be joking, I obviously saw that you pulled hundreds of truckloads of grain into the city, what did you mean by what you said just now?" ”

Wang Zhongsi sighed: "Guangbi, you have also taken great pains, it is good to do this, at least you can stabilize the morale of the army." Guangbi, you are very good, at this time, the military must not be chaotic. ”

Ge Shuhan heard the clue, frowned, and said, "Could it be that there is not food in those cars?" ”

Li Guangbi sighed: "How can there be hundreds of truckloads of grain? I emptied all the granaries of the Gravel Mountain, and I only got 3,000 stone of grain, which was only enough for the army to eat for three days. In order not to disturb the army, I used a tarpaulin on the cover of an empty car to pretend to be military rations. I didn't tell you just now, because I was afraid that the soldiers would find out. Hey, it's a really critical situation. ”

Ge Shuhan was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Li Guangbi to fool people. However, this is also a good way to calm the morale of the army. It's just that this can only be deceived for a while, and three days will pass in a flash, and what will be done when the time comes.

"Marshal, it is recommended that while we still have three days of military rations, we should immediately send troops to Stone Fort City. Take Stone Castle City in three days, maybe things will turn around. can only hope to take Shibao City and seize the grain and grass of the Tubo people. Li Guangbi said.

Wang Zhonghe's face was as silent as water.

Ge Shuhan also understood, and now he had to make a desperate bet and cooperate with Dong Yanguang to capture Shibao City. Although the food and grass for these three days were not enough, they were enough to reach Shibao City to fight. It's just that this is a one-way journey, if you don't take the stone castle city, the soldiers and horses will run out of food, and there will be no return. But now there is no more choice, unless the army retreats against the decree to solve this crisis.

"Marshal, the lowly post has already arranged the departure of the soldiers and horses, as long as the marshal gives the order, he can immediately go to the battle. If the marshal doesn't want to go, he can go, and he can lead the army to go. Geshuhan said.

Wang Zhongsi sighed and said, "I have never fought such a passive battle in my life, and I have never fallen into such a crisis. There is no food in the army but they have to fight with the Tibetan soldiers and horses, what are the chances of winning this battle? Thirty percent, two percent, I'm afraid it's one percent. That's it, since Your Majesty wants to take the Stone Castle City in his heart, we can only do what he wishes as courtiers. Of course Ben Shuai is going, what is it to stay here? Ben Shuai was willing to die under the stone castle city, and his death proved that Ben Shuai's proposal to His Majesty was not a cowardice but a deliberate decision. Ge Shuhan, Li Guangbi, immediately reorganized the army and sent troops to Shibao City. ”

Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi agreed together, and the military order was immediately conveyed. All the soldiers and horses immediately set out in full gear, took the only three days' military rations, drove out of the city of Doma, and rushed to the vast unknown road ahead.