"Adjutant General, they are asking us to surrender unconditionally......" the guard said with frustration.

"Ah, we can't surrender, we can rely on the walls of Ledu to defend ......" Murong Zhong immediately jumped up when he heard the unconditional surrender, joking, he, the king of Xihai County, the Khan of Tuyuhun, has not returned to Tuyuhun's hometown and become the real Tuyuhun Khan, how can he surrender.

Besides, he didn't want to be a slave to the country with his father, he looked at Ashina Daozhen, "Deputy Marshal, we can wait for help, waiting for His Majesty's reinforcements..... besides, if these two handsome flags are real, what else to say..... For the sake of his own future, he Murong Zhong resolutely opposed surrender.

Ashina Daozhen is actually unwilling to surrender, he is the son of Ashina Sheer and Princess Hengyang, and he can be regarded as a member of the Tang Dynasty, but he is from Li Zhi's faction, otherwise he is young, how could he be the deputy commander of the Western Expeditionary Army?

"Lieutenant Marshal, how should we respond??" The soldier looked at Ashina Daozhen and waited for the deputy marshal's answer.

Ashina Dao really didn't want to bow his head to his cousin-in-law, he thought for a while and said, "Pass, this commander's order, stick to it...... As for the response of the thief army? Hmph, we don't respond, that's the best answer......"

Murong Zhong saw that Ashina Daozhen was unwilling to surrender, and immediately relieved his heart, and he and Ashina Daozhen began to study the arming of amnesia.

Xue Qinling, who was outside the city, did not get a response from the Tang army, so he was naturally furious, "It's really a toast and don't eat and drink, pass on my order, and let the Tang army in the city know how powerful our British artillery is......"

Xue Qinling gave an order, the British artillery was mighty, and the sound of "booming" artillery directly frightened Murong Zhong and Ashina Daozhen, and after a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, Ashina Daozhen looked at Murong Zhong, who was also trembling on the side, and said in his heart, Brother Murong, I'm sorry, in order to survive, I have no choice but to use you as a vote.

He decisively pressed towards Murong Zhong, but he didn't expect that Murong Zhong also had this plan, the two of them fought, or Ashina's true skills were superior, and he killed the last Tuyuhun Khan Murong Zhong, he put all the blame on the dead Murong Zhong, and just went out of the city and surrendered.

In this way, Li Zhi's long-planned western expedition ended up with the destruction of the whole army, and the elite of the 100,000 Tang Army was wiped out in the Hehuang Valley, and after the war, Xue Qinling said with some meaning, "If it weren't for the fact that our strategic focus was not on the Central Plains, it wouldn't take long for Li Zhi's little chicken boy to escape from Chang'an, hey, it's a pity, it's a pity, it's ......a pity."

Xue Qinling sent a murderous war letter to Chang'an after the war in accordance with Li Lu's will, and when this war letter arrived in Chang'an together with the military report of the Western Political Army, the Tang Dynasty ministers, including Li Zhi, couldn't believe their eyes: The 100,000 army led by Xue Rengui was wiped out in Hehuang! For a time, the Tang Dynasty was shocked.

"My 100,000 army, I handed over 100,000 troops to Xue Li, and this is how Xue Li repaid my trust?" Li Zhi was extremely angry, and the green tendons on his neck were about to pop up, "Spread my will, Xue Rengui, Guo Beifeng, Ashina Daozhen, forget my kindness, lose my teacher and humiliate the country, the sin is unforgivable......."

Li Zhi's words are not light, he wants to kill these three families, although some people in the Tang Dynasty Wenwu present want to intercede for Xue Rengui and them, but Li Zhi is angry, no one dares to step forward to open this mouth, and finally Liu Renliang stood up and said to Li Zhi, Xue Rengui and Ashina Dao are really captured, if you kill their families, it is equivalent to pushing them into Li Lu's arms, which is very unwise.

Although Li Zhi explicitly dismissed Liu Renliang's admonition, after he returned to the palace, Wu Xu stepped forward again and said something roughly similar to Liu Renliang, which made Li Xiaojiu let go of his murderous intentions.

In the end, Li Zhi asked his mother-in-law, "Xu Niang, do you think I really can't beat Li Lu?" Could it be that he is my nemesis?? A big war turned Li Xiaojiu, who was previously ambitious and ready to go, into a hairless pheasant, and his mood was obviously much lower.

Wu Xu hurriedly comforted Li Xiaojiu, "Jiulang, you are the Son of Heaven of the Tang Dynasty, and God granted you this position to sit on, what is he Li Lu?" It's just a barbarian monarch, his throne is a usurpation of ..... Jiulang, this defeat of Hehuang is completely caused by the level of the British rebellion compared to us, but now we also know the secret of the earth-shaking thunder, plus we have the name of righteousness in hand, I believe that it will not be a problem to surpass the British rebellion in the future......"

Hearing Wu Xu's mention of the righteous name, Li Zhi's eyes glowed again, yes, he, Wu Xu and the elites of the Tang Dynasty all thought that the righteous name was on the side of Chang'an, which was their greatest reliance.

Righteous name? When Li Lu saw the four words mentioned most in the relevant intelligence on Chang'an's side, Li Lu smiled, in the competition between countries, the name of righteousness has a fart, and Li Zhi They actually agreed that the reason why they lost to themselves in Hehuang was because their weapons were not good enough, not anything else, which made Li Lu very speechless.

In Li Lu's view, the reason for the failure of the Tang Army, in addition to the generation gap between the strategy and tactics and the level of weapons and its own British army, there are several important factors that cannot be ignored:

First of all, since Li Zhi came to power, for more than ten years, the Tang army did not know how to stop the flag, just wanted to prove itself by military exploits and the command of Li Zhi, who was reckless, frequently fought battles, and rarely had the opportunity to recuperate and recuperate. And their own plateau clusters are waiting for work, and if they don't win, they will have ghosts.

Secondly, under the rule of Li Zhi, the Juntian system has been gradually destroyed and disintegrated, and the government military system that is dependent on the Juntian system has also collapsed, which directly led to a sharp decline in the treatment of government soldiers to join the army and the degree of combat rewards. As a result, the officers and men of the Tang Army, who were repeatedly injured and killed in frequent foreign wars, were forced by the rulers to run like grassless horses under the double blow of poor treatment for joining the army and meager combat rewards. If you want the horse to run well, you have to let the horse be full, and Li Lu is much better than Li Xiaojiu.

The third is also the most easily ignored point on the Chang'an side, they always think that the people of Tuyuhun's hometown still miss their Khan every day, as long as they support the Murong family to go back, they can re-establish the Tuyuhun Khanate that obeys Chang'an's orders, but what they don't know is that Xue Qinling was ordered by Li Lu to clean the local nobility and upper echelons of Tuyuhun, and vigorously implemented sinicization of the original Tuyuhun people, and now there are basically no people who are really willing to be slaves to the Murong family, which has no popular base. It's not going to be a good fight.

The fourth point, the Tang Dynasty, including Li Zhi, they all know it, but they just refuse to break it, this point is that the handsome fight is inside, and the strength must be weaker than the outside, the contradiction between Xue Rengui and Guo Beifeng is not a true portrayal of this.

Finally, the most important point is that the British army has achieved modernization from the outside to the inside from weapons and equipment to the composition of the army to the soul and military discipline, and the Tang army, which is completely represented by the feudal army, has no fight in front of the British army, even if the weapons of both sides are on the same level, the Tang army cannot defeat the British army at all, which is something that Chang'an cannot understand at all, even if Li Lu tells them, they will not believe it.

The fiasco in the Battle of Hehuang once again made Li Zhi understand that he was not the opponent of his bastard brother-in-law, and at the suggestion of his mother-in-law and civil and military ministers, Li Zhi decided to take a defensive position against Li Lu, and he deployed heavy troops on several strategic points on the border with Li Lu's Britain to guard against a possible surprise attack by the British army.

At the same time, Li Zhi was ready to bow to Li Lu temporarily, he sent his cronie Xue Yuan to make a broken leaf, trying to get back Xue Rengui, who he regarded as the Great Wall, from Li Lu's hands, and Li Lu really didn't care much about Chang'an's side, because his main energy was in the west.