"Yes." Long'er and Gao Jun nodded in response.

Xuan Shijing turned over his horse again and stood in front of the city gate, and after a while, He Zhengyang's 100 cavalry arrived at the city gate, and Xuan Shijing gave an order, and the team went out of the stone city and ran towards the place where Cheng Chumo's troops were located.

Halfway through, Xuan Shijing saw a puff of dust and smoke from a distance, and immediately waved his hand to signal the people behind him to stop, and looked carefully, the team was wearing Datang standard armor.

It's Cheng Chumo, since he met here, there is no need for Xuan Shijing to take someone to go forward, he turned around and shouted: "Turn around!" ”

A hundred cavalry turned their horses' heads one after another, and waited for Cheng Chumo to get closer, and then returned to the direction of Shicheng, Xuan Shijing rode at the end of the team, and after a while, Cheng Chumo's team caught up, and the two converged in one place and marched in the direction of Shicheng.

"Brother Chumo, what's the situation?" Xuan Shijing looked at Cheng Chumo beside him and asked.

Cheng Chu silently scolded: "It's really fucking evil, the Tubo gang of cubs, the more they fight, the more I fight, I didn't dare to fight again, so I led people to break out, and ran back desperately for a long time, looking back, where is the night attack, the army of Tubo is behind me, this wave I led people to encounter, just the vanguard of the path, fortunately Lao Tzu ran fast, otherwise, let alone fight, it is possible to be piled up and killed inside." ”

I really guessed by myself, it was the army of Tubo who came, but how could the army of Tubo run to Shicheng so well.

"And now? Is the army still going this way? Xuan Shijing asked, if it was really the Tubo army, without any support, Shicheng would probably be in danger too.

"Still walking, I roughly estimated that there are at least 20,000 people." Cheng Chumo said.

Where did so many people come from in Tubo to go this way, isn't the main force of the army confronting Li Jing's troops?

Without thinking about the details, Xuan Shijing and Cheng Chumo rushed into Shicheng with the team, and then, the gate of Shicheng was closed.

As soon as he entered the city, Cheng Chumo jumped off his horse and said to Xuan Shijing: "Shijing, you come with your brother." After saying that, he took the lead and ran towards the county guard's mansion.

Xuan Shijing hurriedly followed, and Zhao Ying also followed closely behind the two.

The so-called county guard mansion in Shicheng is just a larger mansion, and in this kind of place, if a luxurious mansion is built, it is completely uncomfortable for yourself. It was already late at night, and it was dark in the county guard's mansion, and both the master and the servant had already fallen asleep at this time.

"The county guard of a military town, there is not even a vigil, Zhao Ying, call the door of the mansion." Cheng Chu commanded silently.

Zhao Ying responded with a fist, and then stepped forward, and slammed two fists on the door of the mansion, and the movement was not small.

"Who, in the middle of the night." After a long time, a lazy voice came from inside the door.

Then, the door of the mansion was opened through a crack, and half of the porter's head was exposed: "If there is something to say tomorrow." ”

Zhao Ying was about to say something, but Cheng Chumo stepped forward and dragged Zhao Ying aside, kicked the door of the county guard mansion open, and the gatehouse standing behind the door also stumbled and fell to the ground, and immediately came to his senses: "Who! Then he raised his head and sent the three people in front of him, one was wearing black soft armor, and the other was wearing the standard captain uniform of the Tang Army, and the person at the head, looking at the armor style on his body, was obviously a general.

The porter rubbed his eyes and looked carefully at the face of the person in front of him, isn't this General Cheng stationed outside the city? After seeing Cheng Chumo's face clearly, the porter was frightened, and immediately got up to make amends: "The villain doesn't know that General Cheng has arrived, forgive the sin, forgive the sin." ”

"Lao Tzu doesn't have the time to talk to you here, hurry up and call your county guard out, the army of Tubo has come, and he is still sleeping peacefully." Cheng Chu said silently pulling the collar of the concierge, and then let go of him and let him go to report.

As soon as the porter heard that the Tibetan army was coming, he immediately climbed into the backyard.

After a while, the county guard came out, and it seemed that he had really just woken up, and his clothes appeared in front of the three of them, and he walked quickly to this side over and over again, sorting out his clothes.

"The next officer will see General Cheng." The county guard stepped forward and bowed silently to Cheng Chu.

"There's no need to be polite, and ask the county guard to take the general to the mansion study, and the general will have military affairs to discuss with the county guard." Cheng Chumo said, and then the brick instructed Zhao Ying: "Go and get our marching map." ”

Generally speaking, the army's marching map is not visible to outsiders, but now that the Tibetan army is approaching Shicheng, if Cheng Chumo wants to defend the city, he must be together with the county guard and the soldiers in Shicheng, otherwise with the less than 2,000 soldiers in Cheng Chumo's hands, how can he resist the 20,000 Tubo army.

Zhao Ying turned around and went back to get the map, while Xuan Shijing followed Cheng Chumo to the study with the county guard.

"General Cheng, I don't know who is next to you" The county guard looked at Xuan Shijing, if he was a person in the army, he should be wearing the standard armor in the army, but Xuan Shijing's black soft armor looked a little like the clothes of some nobles in the Western Regions.

"This one next to me is the Marquis of Xuanwei, my brother, who has just returned from West Kunlun." Cheng Chumo explained.

Hearing that the young man in front of him was a marquis, the county guard hurriedly saluted.

"Lord County Shou, don't be polite with Shijing, at the moment of the great enemy, let's discuss how to deal with it." Xuan Shijing said: "My lord, how many soldiers are there in this stone city? ”

"There are more than 2,300 permanent soldiers in Shicheng, and a few days ago, 1,000 soldiers left Shicheng to go to the Duhufu to listen to it, so now there are only 1,300 people left in Shicheng, including 200 auxiliaries, including the Huotou Army." The county guard replied.

"In other words, now the strength of Shicheng plus Brother Chu Mo's subordinates has a total of more than 3,000 people." Xuan Shijing frowned, the situation is not good, three thousand people

"I'm afraid that there are less than three thousand people who can really go into battle." Cheng Chumo's face was grim: "In the battle just now, we lost a lot of brothers, and we haven't had time to count how many people are left, and there are not a few injured. ”

"General, map." Zhao Ying ran into the study with the map.

Xuan Shijing hurriedly took the map and placed it on the table, carefully observing the map.

"Just now, Brother Chu Mo said that he would send troops to Tingzhou for help, but this matter may not work, not to mention that the road to Tingzhou has been blocked by the Tubo army, even if it is too late in time, Tingzhou is far away from Shicheng, and there is a rugged mountain road in the middle, if Tingzhou sends troops, it must pass through this mountain road, and the time will be delayed for most of the time, and it is easy to be Maitu of the Tubo army." Xuan Shijing pointed to the map and explained to Cheng Chumo.

Cheng Chumo looked at the map closely, the situation was indeed as Xuan Shijing said, his eyes stayed around the stone city for a while, and then he saw the direction of the east of the stone city: "Shijing, how is it here?" ”