"Order Li San'er to immediately shrink his forces and prepare for battle." When Zhao Si found Wang Houchun with the news that Cao Rengui had set off from Boxian Town, the latter immediately asked the pro-guards to send a message to Li San'er to prepare for the battle. According to the plan, when Cao Rengui and Shi Jianjiao's men besieged Shazhou, Wan Yi needed to send at least 100,000 people to secretly go south to carry out the siege plan, so it was very important to have unimpeded intelligence.

"How's your Xuanyingwei's plan going?" Wang Houchun asked Zhao Si while asking the guards to send out the notice. Xuan Yingwei's plan was not only to blockade Khotan and lure Cao Rengui into being fooled, but also to delay the Uighur coalition army to attack Gao Siji's department, so Wang Houchun asked this question.

"Don't worry, there are no accidents on the Khotan side at this time, and Cao Rengui's understanding of Khotan at this time is still in the illusion we created. I asked the secret guards to reverse the dark line they buried in Khotan, and what they sent was an illusion created by our side, so he is still waiting for Li Qiming to see the situation clearly and send troops to help him. Therefore, he will definitely spare no effort to attack the sandbank, hoping that his actions can attract Li Qiming to send troops. As for Shi Congxin's side, he originally planned to plot against Li Cunxuan, but now it seems that there is no hope, but Shi Congxin's side is already creating a disagreement between the two Uighur generals in Gaochang and Anxi, Gao Siji's side I have already informed it, and I will cooperate when the time comes, I guarantee that they will pull each other's back, plus Shi Congxin will disturb the public and the public at least I guarantee that his attack will not be very strong at that time, I think Gao Siji will definitely be able to withstand it. Zhao Si patted Wang Houchun's shoulder and said with a smile: "I'm worried about whether your thousands of people can stop Cao Rengui's three-plate axe now." ”

"That's my business, I said that you are a person who is engaged in intelligence, are you worrying a little too much? Can Zhang Sheng's side arrive in Khotan on time to replace Li Yang? Wang Houchun was a little amused at this guy's troubles: "Li Yang's side is another trick for us, don't make a mistake for me, in case something goes wrong with the senior brother's side, we still expect him to be able to show up." ”

"Zhang Sheng's news is still five days ago, they have gathered more than 50,000 people and have entered northern Khotan and other places in batches, waiting for the convergence of the Flying Eagle Brigade to block the border, they will immediately rush to Khotan City, and then take over Li Yang's task while rectifying training, and maintain the absolute suppression of all walks of life in Khotan." Zhao Si let go of all his thoughts at this time, and Cao Rengui's move meant that the entire plan formulated by Xuan Yingwei had begun to be implemented, so he nodded when he heard this: "Although their current weapons and equipment are very simple, the northwest has produced elite soldiers since ancient times, and the descendants of Zhaowu Jiu are ready to follow us to the black at this time, so once there is any situation, they will definitely fight to the death." If it weren't for the fact that time didn't allow it, I'd like to suggest that they go to war. ”

"After this battle, let them go back to Chang'an to receive training from the recruit department, and then join the camp of my Tiance Army." Wang Houchun nodded and said: "Although the solution to the northwest is mainly military, I think the next stage should be dominated by the deputy prime minister." With the assistance of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, the vast land in the northwest has a real foundation for our Datang. Wang Houchun nodded, obviously agreeing with Zhao Si's words, so he waved his hand and said: "During this time, the deputy prime minister has transferred more than 130 government personnel from Hexi and Guanzhong, plus hundreds of students selected from the School of Administration, I think it should be enough for us." ”

"Minister Qiyu, deputy commander, the Guiyi army has come to the territory of our sandbar before leaving Shicheng, and the army is huge, with more than 100,000 people, more than half of whom are cavalry." Zhao Si was just about to speak, when urgent information from Xuan Yingwei came from outside the door. Wang Houchun and Zhao Si glanced at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes, "This is strange, it stands to reason that Cao Rengui and the others should have just arrived in Stone City at this time, why have they already crossed Stone City?" Could it be that they didn't stop in Stone City? Do you know exactly when they arrived in Stone City? ”

"February 18, that is, yesterday." After the secret guard finished reporting, he left with his hands, but Wang Houchun didn't care about this, although it was strange that Cao Rengui didn't stay in Shicheng, it didn't have much impact on Wang Houchun, his side was ready, but Zhao Si was curious.

"If you don't understand, go and check, and I'll immediately notify the troops to conduct an early interception outside Shazhou City." Wang Houchun stood up and said: "However, once we make a posture of defeat and retreat, we are only afraid that there will be instability in Shazhou City, and you need to assist the deputy prime minister to calm the hearts of the people at that time, and let Yang Yi dispatch the National Guard to maintain order in the city as soon as possible, and at the same time order Sima Daoxin of Guazhou to block the news of the siege of Shazhou." "Although Cao Rengui is still a hundred miles away from Shazhou City at this time, but because the Shazhou side is occupied by the Tiance Army, the same policy as the mainland is implemented, so the people have returned to calm, although the caravan passage is closed by Cao Rengui on the border, but there are still a lot of smuggling teams coming and going to the border between the two sides, so the news of Cao Rengui's entry will soon be transmitted to Shazhou City. And the most important point is that in order to attract and mislead Cao Rengui's whole army to besiege Shazhou, Wang Houchun could not take the initiative to attack in the early stage of the battle, and he had to be caught off guard and besieged by the other party, so that the other party could let down his guard and attack the city with all his might, so as to win time and possibility for Wan Yi to lead the army to raid.

However, although he was caught off guard, Wang Houchun obviously did not intend to be beaten passively, so he arranged a large minefield outside the city, and ambushed countless traps, these things also deliberately released the news, but the news from Xuan Yingwei was specious, Cao Rengui himself had never seen the power of these mines and mechanisms, so although he knew, he was still passive, wishful thinking, thinking that these were all small skills of carving insects, not worth mentioning. And when Xuan Yingwei fed back the news, Wang Houchun simply let go of his hands and let Li San'er arrange it himself, so at this moment, all areas from Shazhou City to the border, except for the secret roads demarcated for caravans, were ambushed by traps. In fact, although Wang Houchun's move caused Cao Rengui great trouble, but after the war, it also caused great trouble to himself to clean up the battlefield, and Li San'er did not remember it when he arranged it, so there were sporadic traps and some people who were recruited after a hundred years.

"Minister, we have taken over the reconnaissance of Xuan Yingwei, and Cao Rengui's army will step into our ambush circle tomorrow morning at the latest. I've already set them up, and when the time comes, I'll pretend to see them on patrol and lead them in. The first is some traps, so it won't arouse their suspicions, and it will paralyze them, and it will definitely be wonderful to give them a minefield when the time comes. Li San'er saw Wang Houchun come to the city wall and smiled while comparing his plan.

"Okay, let's get ready, the current 3,000 garrison troops in the city are all National Guards, and it is estimated that they are not as good as the regular army in battle, so I don't plan to send them out, and it's not bad to keep them to defend the city." Wang Houchun pointed to the city tower and moved all the large number of bed crossbows left by the Guiyi Army back and forth, and said with a smile: "With these, I think Cao Rengui will definitely think that the defenders in our city are not the main force at all, so he will attack with confidence." ”

While talking, the two arranged people back and forth to make various preparations, and it took a whole day to complete the placement of all the materials and equipment to defend the city before, more than 100 artillery pieces were arranged on the tower of Shazhou City in all directions, and all the 3,000 National Guards were stationed with medium rifles, and behind them were densely lined up with 450 bed crossbows, this terrifying arrangement even some of the Tiance Army's own soldiers were chilled, Not to mention the fifty mechanical crossbows that Wang Houchun secretly arranged on the Yuliang Road in the urn city, which could move on the city wall at any time to support all aspects of the battle.

Early the next morning, Cao Rengui's army entered the sight of the Flying Eagle Brigade as scheduled, and a team of more than a dozen people retreated decisively after seeing Cao Rengui's army and began to report urgently to the city.

It's just that Shi Jianjiao soon found out that something was wrong, the troops behind him in front of him began to fall off his horse continuously, and the war horse under his seat suddenly fell into his head with weak legs. After being put off the horse, he found out that the abnormality was discovered, the ground under his feet was made by someone, an inconspicuous trap stuck one of the horse's hooves of the war horse, under the effect of the momentum, one of the hooves of his own Dawan BMW was directly broken by force, and fell to the ground neighing.

"Go and send someone to report to the envoys, ask the infantry to come forward and sweep the ground, and all the cavalry will dismount and stop advancing." After Shi Jianjiao understood what was going on, he immediately roared to stop his subordinates from continuing to charge. Although his order saved many people's lives in time, it was so easy for the 30,000 cavalry to stop once they rushed up, and the traps laid by the Flying Eagle Brigade were not only trapped in horse pits, but all kinds of them emerged in endlessly, so for a while, Shi Jianjiao's cavalry brigade was almost turned on its back, and it was in a mess, completely losing the momentum to advance.

At this time, there is no need for Shi Jianjiao to summon Cao Rengui has also discovered the abnormality, because the main force led by himself has also encountered the attack of the trap, and the trap set by the Flying Eagle Brigade is too weird, there are ropes and pits covered with floating soil to lure the soldiers to step on them and fall, and the sharp wood below is sharpened, which directly gives these soldiers a heart-to-heart. These traps have been laid out in the ice and snow for so long, and they can still be activated, which can be regarded as the ability of the Flying Eagle Brigade. Therefore, Cao Rengui hurriedly ordered the army to stop its advance, and sent an elite force to search the ground and open the way for the army.

However, after Cao Rengui let the elite soldiers open the way and sweep the ground, although the advance team sent out suffered a lot of casualties, it played a very good role for the main force of the army, and the ordinary trap mechanisms on the ground that were swept were all cracked one by one or trampled by the elite soldiers in front, so Cao Rengui was able to move steadily under this method, although he was moving slowly, after all, he was able to move forward steadily, so it took more than half an hour to finally meet Shi Jianjiao's forward, and the two of them combined the casualties, and their faces changed. There were thousands of soldiers who died under this inconspicuous trap, and countless people were injured, and Shi Jianjiao's cavalry troops lost a large number of war horses, and many soldiers themselves were fine, but the war horses under their crotches were killed on the spot.

"General Shi, presumably the Tiance Army has arranged a large number of organs on the road to the sandbank, otherwise they would not be able to transfer the main force of the army to the north to meet the battle so confidently. So let's let the infantry step forward, step by step, although the slow speed gives them time to react, but when we arrive at the sandbank, the hundreds of thousands of troops will join forces to besiege the city day and night, and we will definitely take the sandbar before their army returns. I think it's time to inform the Yizhou front line and let them drag down the main force of the Tiance Army. Cao Rengui looked at the way ahead, which was still more than ten miles away from the sandbank, and said with a solemn expression.

"Don't worry, I've already had someone fly to report the news. However, the festival makes the road below still have a lot of money for you to take. Shi Jianjiao waved his hand, although he was a little distressed that he had lost hundreds of Shatuo warriors before he had even encountered the enemy, but he was still very satisfied with Cao Rengui's reaction.

After the two discussed and decided, Cao Rengui continued to send infantry to start the plan to destroy the mechanism of the Tiance Army, and also came up with many practical methods on the spot, such as letting the two teams of soldiers carry the giant tree to push forward, and constantly throwing stones at the road ahead to trigger the mechanism set up by the other party to activate it in advance. Not to mention that these methods are really useful, many traps have been directly destroyed, only those hidden deep or triggered to set up hidden traps have not been destroyed, and this is how it continues to slow down the progress of Cao Rengui's army.

After receiving the red rockets from outside the city, Wang Houchun also immediately arranged for people to blow the horn to announce that the city's sandbanks had encountered an emergency enemy situation. The sound of the horn that continued to sound quickly reached Cao Rengui's side, which made him understand the emptiness on the sandbank. Therefore, we began to increase the number of people to speed up the ranks of path-finding.

"Order the first brigade to stay near the minefield with Li San'er and act at the right time." Wang Houchun stood on the towering city wall of the sandbank and kept giving the latest orders, and the four thousand soldiers of the Flying Eagle Brigade at this moment, except for all the soldiers who followed Li San'er to guard the minefield, all concentrated on the city tower to guard, the entire Shazhou City was also interrupted by an emergency order, and all the people were ordered not to go out at home, and all the guards on the side of the government affairs hall were on duty on the streets, and all the dark lines that wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rob or prepare to respond to the actions of Cao Rengui's army were taken down and put in prison.

A loud "boom" sound came from outside the city, which also announced that Cao Rengui's army had successfully broken through the first trap of the Flying Eagle Brigade and arrived at the minefield, and Shazhou City had reached the most severe moment, and Cao Rengui's thousands of troops surrounded Shazhou.