Less than two days after the last Youzhou military report, another 800-mile urgent military report came, and 80,000 people in Tuyuhun in the west had already captured Hezhou and surrounded Lanzhou.

Tuyuhun was originally a branch of the Xianbei Murong Department in eastern Liaodong, nomadic in present-day Yixian County, Liaoning. At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the leader Tuyuhun led his troops to move west to Baohan (present-day Linxia, Gansu), and later expanded his rule over the Qiang and Di tribes in present-day Qinghai, Gannan and northwest Sichuan, and established a state. As for his grandson Yeyan, he began to use his ancestral name as a family name and country name. The Southern Dynasty called it the Henan Kingdom; The neighboring tribes call it Achailu or wild captivity; The Sui and Tang dynasties called it "Tu Hun" and "Hui Hun", and later took Tu Gu Hun as the surname, using Chinese. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it was successively attached to the Song, Qi and Northern Wei dynasties.

In the five years of the great cause of the former Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty personally conquered and pacified Tuyuhun and set up four counties: Xihai, Heyuan, Shanshan, and Momo. Later, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and Tuyuhun Khan Fu Yun took advantage of the chaos to recover his hometown and attack Hexi.

In the power of the Tang Dynasty over the years, Tuyuhun has rarely come to Koubian, but this time Jieli sent people to unite, claiming that he was willing to form an alliance to advance and retreat together, and the lord of Tuyuhun felt that it was an opportunity, so he secretly agreed, saying that he would make a move at a critical moment.

In the council hall, Li Eryi slapped the cracks in the cases in front of him with his palm, and said angrily: "Siyi Xiaoxiao!" I'm mad at me! When I Datang is a piece of fat? Do you want the three to join forces to share Datang? ”

"Your Majesty, even if the three of them don't want to work together to eat us this time, it is also a horizontal strategy, my Tang Dynasty soldiers are becoming more and more powerful, the national strength is gradually increasing, and it is common sense for the four Yi to be afraid, and the top priority is how to deal with it." Fang Xuanling persuaded.

Li Er came back to his senses, took the map and pointed to it and said: "I have thought about this incident carefully, and unlike Goguryeo's troops to contain it, Tuyuhun is obviously much closer to my Tang Chang'an, why don't you go straight to Chang'an after taking Hezhou?"

Instead, go north to attack Lanzhou? Isn't Chang'an's shocking wealth worth their coveting? There must be something strange about this! ”

Everyone who had read the map also found out, and sure enough, there was a problem with the direction of Tuyuhun's troops this time, and everyone looked at Li Er's finger, it was ......

"Your Majesty is saying that they are going for our wool business in Shuofang?"

"Not bad! Tuyuhun is very smart, knowing that Chang'an is strong and guarded by a large army, it is definitely not something that can be broken in three or two days.

But it is different in the north to Shuofang, which is closer than Chang'an, and only the Lingzhou battalion is guarded, and there are 30,000 troops guarding it every day, and this time in order to go north to destroy the Turks, there are now only 10,000 defenders.

Once the other party wins Shuofang, then the wool business and textile technology will become Tuyuhun's bag, and they will definitely find ways to replace Datang and trade wool with the grassland! Li Er groaned.

"What Your Majesty said is reasonable, this Tuyuhun Lord is also a talent, and he knows how to make trade-offs so well?"

"Now it's all about how to stop him!

The army is in the northland grassland, Lingzhou's defense is empty, there are only Li Xiaogong's 20,000 Liangzhou troops next to it, and Duan Zhixuan's 10,000 people guarding Shuofang, I'm afraid it won't last long! Li Jiancheng worried.

"Why don't you divide the soldiers into three ways?" Wei Zheng suggested.

Everyone shook their heads in unison, the soldiers were divided into three routes, not to mention the superiority of the number of people and whether they could fight or not, it was too late to rush to attack, and the grassland Dingxiang wanted to return to help Shuofang, and the army could not arrive at all without twenty days.

"But we can't watch Shuofang fall, this wool business is related to the fortune of the country, once it is lost, I am afraid that even if we take the grassland, it will not be comparable!"

"Now is a good time for the north to close the net, if the army is withdrawn at this time, then this northern expedition to the Turks will not be in vain?" Wei Zheng asked rhetorically.

Everyone fell into hesitation for a while, damn alien races, fighting on three sides, this is where the weakness of Datang lies.

Li Er pinched his fingers and said angrily: "I am personally driving, Chang'an still has 40,000 standing forbidden troops, rescue Shuo Fang, as long as we can carry the other party, and wait until the pharmacist returns from sweeping the grassland, then we will win a big victory!" ”

"No, at this time, Your Majesty can handle all the logistics for the army in front of Chang'an, and you can't leave."

Everyone dissuaded one after another, but Du Ruhui looked at Bai Fan, who had been silent and did not speak, and after thinking for a while, he opened his mouth and said loudly: "Your Majesty can't personally recruit, the generals of the court and the central government have basically been sent out, and now there is no general in the court who can lead the troops as the commander, and the minister thinks that the marquis of Lantian Bai Fan can take command of the battle!" ”

When everyone heard Du Ruhui's words, they all looked at Bai Fan.

Bai Fanxin said, what are you afraid of, Lao Du is really not interesting, his daughter-in-law is about to give birth, how can he leave?

"I, I don't have any experience leading troops!"

"It's okay, if you go to Shuofang, Duan Zhixuan will be a good deputy. I will also pass on the filial piety of Liangzhou, once he leads the Liangzhou army to help, then this situation will be solved! Li Er stared at Bai Fan and said expectantly.

"I ......"

"I know that Ping'er is about to give birth, but when the country is in danger, I can only sacrifice one or two, you can rest assured, I will send your second aunt to live in your house, and I will definitely protect your children from being born smoothly!"

Well, Li Er played the emotional card, and at this time, he didn't say it was the queen, but the second aunt.

Bai Fan looked at Li Jiancheng again, and Li Jiancheng sighed, "Hey! Virtuous son-in-law, when the disaster is great, protecting the country is protecting the family, and the father will let your mother-in-law also live in the Bai family to take care of it.

Knowing that you have a promise with Ping'er, this old man will personally go and say the item! ”

…… Bai Fan is about to cry, he didn't mean this, he wanted you to persuade your brother, why did you push me?

Looking around, it seemed that only he could get on at this time, Bai Fan nodded heavily and said: "The 40,000 Chang'an forbidden army can't be moved lightly, and I can have 10,000 soldiers and horses, and then I have my own skills to retreat from the enemy, but, if there is anything here, this move can only retreat the enemy, and it may not be possible to guarantee that all the enemies will be left!" ”

"Hahahaha! Good! Jane's Pleasure!

10,000 soldiers and horses against 80,000 dare to say that they will win, such a young hero, even I am not as good as I have been in a hundred battles.

I don't want you to win a big victory, as long as we can hold out until the war in the north is calmed down and the Shuofang is not broken, then we can crush Tuyuhun's conspiracy when we turn around! ”

Chang'an Bai family, Bai Fan returned home in despair, the two wives came up worriedly and asked what was the matter, Xiaolan and Mei Xiang were also on the side, since the two of them were pregnant with a child, they were given the status of concubine by Bai Fan Yili, so at this time the four of them were accompanying Bai Fan.

"I ...... I might be out for a while! ”

"Husband, the child is about to be born, why ......" Dou Qiongying was puzzled.

When Li Wanping saw Bai Fan like this, he couldn't guess why, so he interrupted Dou Qiongying and said, "It's okay!" State affairs are important! The concubine went to prepare clothes for her husband! ”

"Madam, ......" Bai Fan looked at Li Wanping puzzled, why was she so enlightened this time?

Li Wanping sighed: "The husband is a gentleman who keeps his promises, but he has to go out at this time, it must be a difficult time for the country, the concubine knows that it can't be stopped, and the father also said that the boy is ambitious in all directions, and the concubine was ignorant before."

With everything in the family, my husband doesn't have to worry! I only hope that my husband will not be distracted by us, concentrate on dealing with all disasters, and come back safely as soon as possible. ”

Only then did Dou Qiongying understand and shouted: "I asked Wu Yingwei's entourage to protect you!" ”

"No, Wu Yingwei stayed at home to protect you, I am dressed in copper skin and iron bones, and I have nothing to do, but I may not be able to see a few children born with my own eyes!" Bai Fan said regretfully.

Li Wanping smiled and comforted: "It's okay, let's wait for you to come back and name them, the husband said that the four children, regardless of the male or female, are all close brothers, and the concubine is still looking forward to the husband giving them a pleasant name!" ”

Bai Fan said goodbye reluctantly at home, and in the Dingxiang camp in the north, Li Jing was also struggling to divide his troops.

"The military situation is like this, everyone, who is going to hunt down Jieli? Who is going to repel the Goguryeo barbarians? If it is not voluntary, the old man will start to order! ”

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