Seeing that the captain of the Sword Gate spoke so unrelentingly, even with Liu Ran's temperament, he couldn't help but look angry, and a section envoy Yamen brigade commander behind him saw that the other party actually threatened in front of His Royal Highness King Shou, so naturally he couldn't retreat half a point, and immediately ordered a few section degree envoy tooth soldiers to protect Liu Ran, and led the remaining dozen festival degree envoy tooth soldiers to immediately draw their swords, and there was a great momentum of doing it on the spot if they didn't agree with a word. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Seeing that Liu Ran and Mu Fan, who were the parties concerned, had not yet spoken, but the soldiers under the two had already met each other, Li Qing immediately frowned, and looked at the group of swords and soldiers in front of him, and shouted loudly: "Presumptuous, now that Tubo has not yet entered the nest, you have rebelled in the nest first, do you still have this king in your eyes, the Jiannan Dao Jiedu envoy!" ”

Seeing that Li Qing was finally angry, in the hall of the Luan Pavilion, both the Sword Gate Army and the Jiedu Envoy Tooth Soldier knelt down on one knee with a sword in their hands and then pleaded: "Please punish Your Highness!" ”

At this moment, time was pressing, Li Qing naturally had no leisure to punish them, ignored them, looked at Mu Fan, who was eager to try, and said: "Liu Ran is right, the situation in Maozhou is critical at this moment, the other party's 20,000 army will be under Maozhou City, it is difficult to say whether Maozhou City can be kept after one night, and it is difficult to set off a storm with a mere 1,000 Jianmen army!" ”

Although he was depressed, Mu Fan would never disobey Li Qing's orders, so he immediately nodded and retreated to the side.

After settling Mu Fan, Li Qing turned his head to look at the contemplative Liu Ran and said, "Liu Ran, what do you suggest?" ”

With Li Qing's words, everyone turned their eyes to Liu Ran, the first time he was watched by so many high-ranking officials and dignitaries of Jiannan Province, Liu Ran did not feel the slightest discomfort, in Liu Ran's heart, this is a challenge and an opportunity, if he can grasp the opportunity, take advantage of this war to show his due strategy, and attract everyone's admiration, it is conceivable that in the heart of His Royal Highness King Shou beside him, his status will undoubtedly be upgraded to a higher level, and he can really be on an equal footing with the young marshal of Jianmen!

He arched at Li Qing and said: "Your Highness, this time Tubo annoys me Songzhou, although it happened suddenly, but Songzhou is very important, we must not give up, because including the emperors of previous dynasties know that the importance of Songzhou is not only crucial to Jiannan Dao, but also the gains and losses of Songzhou are related to the stability of the entire northwest border of the Tang Dynasty!"

It is precisely because of the importance of understanding Songzhou, since ancient times, Songzhou has changed hands several times between the Tang Dynasty and the Tubo State, but since the 12th year of Zhenguan, Emperor Taizong ordered Hou Junji General to be the main general, the Battle of Songzhou, the first battle was decided, more than 200,000 Tubo elites were broken and sunk in the sand outside Songzhou City, Tubo no longer had the power to fight, and this battle also completely established the Tang Dynasty's ruling power over Songzhou, which has continued to this day.

Now after nearly a hundred years of recuperation, the heart of the Tibetan thief is not dead and the heart of the robbery of Songzhou has risen, the subordinates suggested, on the one hand, it has been transferred to the adjacent Yizhou, Maozhou, Longzhou three states of soldiers and horses to gallop to help, as for the 8,000 troops of Hanzhou as the last hole card, to deal with the follow-up soldiers and horses of Tubo, on the other hand, His Royal Highness integrated the soldiers and horses near Chengdu, now Chengdu City Defense Army of 5,000 people, plus 1,000 Jianmen Army, and hundreds of Jiedu Envoy soldiers, in addition to the soldiers and horses of the daily guard, His Royal Highness can send about 3,000 to 4,000 soldiers and horsesAfter all, if you send too many people, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be a fire in the backyard!

In this way, Songzhou already has more than 3,000 standing troops, and now there are 7,000 people in addition to the support of the three states, and more than 3,000 reinforcements in the hands of His Royal Highness, with 10,000 to defend against 20,000, it is not without a chance of winning!

Liu Ran finished speaking, and said on the side: "I'm afraid General Liu is too optimistic, whether it is the city defense army or the thousand sword gate army in the hands of Captain Mudu, it is not comparable to those border troops who have really seen life and death on the battlefield, even if the elite of Songzhou soldiers and horses faced the attack of Tubo and did not even form a decent resistance, they were penetrated deep into the hinterland by the other party, and the soldiers came to the city!" ”

Moreover, since Tubo dared to start from guarding the northwest frontier of Jiannan Province from guarding the Senzheng soldiers, it is enough to see that Tubo has already prepared, since we can think of sending soldiers and horses from Sanzhou to reinforce Songzhou, the other party can naturally think of it!

With all due respect, how can the three thousand ordinary soldiers who have never been on the battlefield and have not even joined the military compete with the fierce soldiers and horses of the tiger and wolf, and the soldiers and horses of the three states are already redundant, if it were not for His Royal Highness King Shou to go in person, it would be difficult for ordinary generals to move these border troops who are bowed and arrogant and unconvinced.

But His Royal Highness is noble, as a party needs to make overall arrangements to sit in Chengdu, naturally not in danger, so we have fallen into the embarrassing situation of having no generals to shoot, according to the views of his subordinates, Hanzhou guard Ma Hongyuan is both civil and military, brave and strategic, with 8,000 troops, all of them are elite divisions that can be attacked and retreated, and have always been loyal to the emperor.

After everyone finished talking about their suggestions, they all turned their eyes to Li Qing, after all, everyone knew that no matter what this matter was, the final decision-making power would be handed over to His Royal Highness King Shou in front of him to finalize.

Not in a hurry to give an answer, Li Qing once again turned his gaze to Liu Ran, who had retreated to the side, and said, "How many attacks like this happened before this king took over Jiannan Dao?" ”

Nodding, Liu Ran opened his mouth and said: "Jiannan Road and Tubo are next to each other, so it is natural to suffer from the robbery of Tubo, but in recent years, with the strengthening of the Tang Empire, the country is rich and the people are strong, even if Tubo has a covetous heart for my Jiannan Dao, but the military power of the Tang Army does not dare to be too presumptuous, every time at most a tentative robbery, listen to my father's words, in the past ten years, Tubo has not been able to attack my Jiannan Dao ten times, and the small ones have plundered several counties, fighting sieges and villages, and plundering a state. As for this attack, there were about three attacks with about 20,000 troops. “

Originally, the subordinates didn't understand that the soil was not chosen in the crisp autumn but chose now, but now it seems that the subordinates think of a connection.

And hearing that Liu Ran actually discovered the motive for this Tubo march, whether it was Li Qingyi or other high-level leaders of Jiannan Dao present, they were all surprised, after all, everyone didn't think about why Tubo was so popular this time? But after thinking to no avail, they could only let go of the doubts in their hearts, and now that they heard that Liu Ran actually thought of the connection, how could they not be surprised in their hearts?

Originally, I heard that His Royal Highness King Shou was assassinated, and some of the high-level officials in Chengdu had come here, and in addition to the later Songzhou war report, naturally more high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Chengdu arrived in Luan Pavilion.