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"Humph! You know what! Ge Shuhan waved his hand: "You hurry down and supervise the armies." Although Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan were suppressed today, whether they did their best or not depends on you to keep an eye on the back. ”

"No!" Wang Sili hurriedly took the order and left.

Outside the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Sheng looked at the soldiers of Hedong, Hexi and Longyou who were waiting in the whole team, looked at the southeast and sighed in a low voice: "Big handsome, Ge Shuhan doesn't care about the lives of the soldiers in order to get the favor of the saints. A certain force is meager, and he can only fight for his own life and take the stone castle as soon as possible to reduce the casualties of the robe. ”

"Shiro, what did you say?" Seeing Li Sheng muttering to himself, Liu Poyu asked curiously.

"Nothing!" Li Sheng shook his head and said to Liu Poyu with a smile: "This battle is sinister, we all have to be careful!" ”

The mountains are rocky and the mountain wind is roaring. The narrow mountain road was once again crowded with dense Tang soldiers.

Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan, who were forced by Ge Shuhan, also personally put on heavy armor and went into battle. Wielding shields and horizontal swords, they stepped on dark red stones and rushed towards the stone fort at the top of the hill.

As soon as the Tang army climbed halfway up the mountain, the Tubo defenders in the stone fort began to throw rolling wooden stones. The Tang army hurriedly resisted with a giant shield, but the screams continued one after another and never stopped.

Li Sheng led 200 elite soldiers, followed by 300 party members, and climbed between the steep rocks with difficulty.

In order to lighten the load, Li Sheng and other Longyou soldiers only wore light leather armor, and the outside was covered with soft and cold fur.

In terms of weapons, in addition to horizontal knives, longbows, arrows piercing ears, two cowhide bags of fierce oil fire, ropes, flying claws and fire sickles, Li Sheng also deliberately selected a special rattan armor shield made by Jiannan Dao.

Under the leadership of the Party Headquarters, Li Sheng and Liu Poyu struggled forward on the nearly vertical slope like nimble snow leopards. Occasionally, a soldier who had lost his strength fell down, but hundreds of soldiers still climbed up with determination.

The Tubo defenders in the large and small square platforms of the stone fort were attracted by the Tang army attacking head-on, and did not find Li Sheng and others.

After touching the city wall of Xiaofangtai, Li Sheng and his entourage had only more than 400 people left.

The Tibetan mastiff in the small square platform began to bark at first, and Li Sheng urgently ordered more than 100 Longyou soldiers to throw the cowhide bag onto the city wall.

The barking of the mastiff and the sudden appearance of the cowhide bag startled the 200 Tibetan defenders defending the small square platform, and they hurriedly looked down and soon found Li Sheng and the others.

Under the blow of the feather arrows, the Tang soldiers immediately killed and wounded more than 100 people.

"Rocket!" Under the cover of the rattan card, Li Sheng pulled out a rocket from the quiver. After a difficult ignite, Li Sheng was the first to shoot a rocket onto the city wall.

After the sparse rockets fell intermittently, a few of them finally ignited the fierce oil fire in the cowhide bag.

The sudden flames burned the Tibetan defenders on the city wall in a hurry, and the rain of arrows shooting downward suddenly stagnated.

"Piercing arrows!" More than 200 special feathered arrows as slender as needles rose into the air and shot into the panicked defenders. Slender clusters of arrows pierced through the yak's fur fur and stabbed through the gaps in the chain mail.

Under the blows of piercing arrows and blazing fire, the 200 Tibetan defenders were in chaos, and soon more than half of them were killed and wounded.

"Kill!" Li Sheng threw the rope with flying claws, and was the first to climb the wall of the small square platform, and then drew his horizontal knife and struck into the Tibetan defenders like a whirlwind.

Liu Poyu jumped up the second, roaring like a drunken man, killing the enemy. Before leaving, Liu Poyu did secretly drink a few large bowls of wine under the pretext of keeping out the cold, and with Li Sheng's acquiescence......

When more than 200 party members and Longyou elite soldiers jumped onto the city wall, the Tubo defenders of Xiaofangtai were either killed or surrendered, and they were quickly swept away.

At this time, the iron-bladed Sinoro stationed in the big square platform had noticed the great changes in the small square platform. He really wanted to mobilize all his troops to recapture Xiaofangtai, but the large number of Tang soldiers on the mountain road forced him to only divide more than 100 people to counterattack.

After standing firm on the small square platform, Li Sheng and the others immediately fired ear-piercing arrows at the big square platform under the cover of the shield. Before the 100 men of the Iron Blade Sinoro could reach the bottom of the small square platform, more than half of them were shot dead.

After the loss of the small square platform, the morale of the Tibetan defenders was greatly depressed. Under the blows of Li Sheng and others, the speed at which the defenders of Dafangtai threw the rolling wood and stones also slowed down. On the mountain road, the Tang army hurriedly took the opportunity to raise his shield and ran violently, and finally killed under the stone castle for the first time.

At the time of the fierce battle of Shibao, hundreds of miles south of Chiling, in the middle of Dafei Sichuan, the cavalry of the Tongluo tribe, under the leadership of the leader Absi, ambushed the Tibetan reinforcements that had just arrived; On Qinghai Lake, the Shenwei Army stationed in Yinglong City, under the command of Huoba Guiren, manipulated warships to patrol the vast lake, beware of the Tubo army coming to the aid of Shibao.

Arrows flew like locusts, and blood splashed like rain.

Under the attack of the Tang army on both sides of Xiaofangtai and Shandao, the defenders of Dafang Taizhong were killed and wounded by piercing arrows, and they were even more powerless to suppress the Hedong elite soldiers who climbed up.

Iron Blade Xinoro glanced at the Tubo soldiers behind him, hesitated again and again, and said helplessly to Suo Chi, the commander of the ten guards: "Don't do anything, pass on my military order, and the whole army will surrender!" ”

"General, our army

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) There are more than 200 people, why surrender! Suo Chi yelled.

"The commander of the Tang Army doesn't care about the lives of his soldiers, and I don't want to be as hard-hearted as him. The Tang people easily do not kill prisoners, and after you surrender, the Tang army should not be embarrassed. Ironblade Sinoro sighed faintly.

"We surrender?" Suo Chi was stunned for a moment, only to see the iron blade Sinoro wielding a long knife in his right hand and smearing it towards his throat.

"General!" Suoch hurriedly pounced, trying to grab the iron blade Zenoro's arm, but he was in the air.

In his anxiety, he suddenly saw an arrow shoot from the direction of the small square platform, piercing the right arm of the iron blade Sinoro.

Iron Blade Snero's arm ached, and his movements slowed slightly, and the long knife was snatched away by Suo Chi.

On the small square platform, Liu Poyu asked puzzledly: "Shilang, why did you want to save that Tubo general." Was it to capture him alive? ”

Li Sheng replied thoughtlessly: "There is hope when you are alive, and there is really nothing left when you die......"

When the earth-shattering cheers came from the top of Chiling Mountain, the sun had already risen to the middle of the sky.

After learning that the stone castle had been taken, Ge Shuhan jumped up from his couch excitedly and gave Wang Sili, who had the good news, a huge bear hug.

In Shibao City, Zhang Shouyu and Gao Xiuyan couldn't wait to praise Li Sheng with all the praise they could think of, but Li Sheng's eyes were only staring at the winding and narrow mountain road like a sheep's intestine.

On the mountain road, the corpses of more than 30,000 Tang soldiers lay in pools of blood, which would soon turn into white bones, and then be forgotten under the erosion of wind and rain......

A few days later, the good news of the victory of Shibao reached Chang'an City, and the Tang Dynasty was boiling. Ge Shuhan's fame quickly overshadowed Gao Xianzhi and Wang Zhengjian, and became the most dazzling border general in the Tang Empire.

"What a brother!" Li Linfu flipped through the chapter of the report, stared at the sentence "Captured more than 300 soldiers of the Tubo general Iron Blade Xinuoluo and more than 300 soldiers, and our army died more than 32,000 people", and sighed with a dark smile: "Wang Zhonghei, what will you think after hearing the results of this battle?" ”

"Goshuhan!" When Li Heng learned of the results of the Battle of Shibao, the joy brought by the victory of the Western Expedition to Shiguo was gone. Although Ge Shuhan was once Wang Zhonghe's subordinate, he never showed any signs of moving closer to the East Palace.

"Geshuhan?" After Yang Zhao, who was talking to Mrs. Qiuguo**, learned of the victory in Shibao, his eyes suddenly lit up, as if he saw a more bewitching beauty than Yang Yuyao.

"The west is so lively, I also have to take some credit for the Khitan and Xi tribes!" The pot-bellied An Lushan pushed away the orchids who were around him, and began to think about how to take the opportunity to trap and kill several Khitan chieftains who did not obey his orders.

"Thirty-two thousand!" In the city of broken leaves, Wang Zhengjian, who was out of anger, roared in pain several times, and tears slowly flowed down. Wang Yong, who was beside him, also gritted his teeth with hatred.

"A crushing victory!" After Wang Fei learned the news of the change of hands of the stone fort, while lamenting the heavy casualties of the Tang army, he vaguely felt that the casualties of the Tang army seemed to be less than in his previous life.

"Unfortunately, the inertia of history is too heavy. There's so little I can do in the Battle of Stone Castle! The pride in Wang Fei's heart from the reversal of the Battle of Talas was also extinguished by the tragedy of the Battle of Stone Castle.

In the Daming Palace, Li Longji flipped through Ge Shuhan's report on the victory, looked up to the sky and laughed: "It's been eight years, and the stone castle has finally been recaptured!" Geshuhan has lived up to my trust! ”

"Congratulations, Your Majesty! The stone castle has been regained thanks to His Majesty's might! If it weren't for His Majesty's discernment and bold use of Geshuhan, Shibao City would not know what year and month it would be able to return to the hands of the Tang Dynasty. Li Linfu's flattering words concealed a sharp murderous aura.

Li Heng looked at Li Linfu with a dark face, but he didn't dare to refute it.

"Brother Nu's plan is not small!" Li Longji and Li Linfu of Longyan Dayue joked: "I have to think carefully about how to reward Brother Nu and Brother Shuhan." ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen has no merit and does not dare to receive the reward." Li Linfu smiled and bowed his head. He thought that the saint would continue to joke with him, but after waiting for a while, he did not hear the saint speak.

Li Linfu looked up, but saw that the sage's gaze stayed on the recital, and he was silent.

"Thirty-two thousand people...... Li Longji seemed to have forgotten the existence of Li Linfu, Li Heng and Gao Lishi in the main hall, and sighed in a low voice: "The loyal heir and my son did not lie to me, the casualties are really heavy......

As soon as these words came out, Li Linfu and Li Heng's faces changed drastically. Gao Lishi, who was standing beside Li Longji, noticed the mood fluctuations of the two. He thought for a moment and sighed softly, but didn't say anything.

Li Longji's loss of consciousness and sighing did not last long, and he regained his vigor. But Colliers was keenly aware that the joy of the saint was faked.

After serving the saint for decades, Colliers is confident that no one in the world can understand the mind of the saint better than himself, and this is the foundation of his power.

A few days later, in the Taishou Mansion of Handong County, Shannan East Province (now Suizhou, Hubei), Wang Zhonghe, who had been denounced as the Taishou here, suddenly died at the age of 45.

After Li Sheng learned the bad news, he took the initiative to resign and left the Longyou Army. He hadn't figured out what the future would be. However, he felt that he would think it through on the way to Handong County.

Liu Poyu wanted to go along, but was rejected by Li Sheng. Li Shengjue

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) yes, the simple-minded Liu Poyu should be more suitable than himself to serve as a military general.

Wang Zheng, who was on his way to the class, heard that his brother had died violently, wept loudly, spit out several mouthfuls of blood, and almost fell off his horse. After a few days of recuperation in the carriage, he recovered.

With the assistance of Ayi Tenggena, Wang Fei served his father for several days without undressing and fulfilling his filial piety as a son of man.

Wang Fei was surprised to find that as soon as Wang Zhengjian's body was well recovered, he began to urge him to practice archery diligently, and the requirements for him were more severe than before......

Wang Fei thought that Ayitengana would choose to follow Kudulu to leave, but unexpectedly, she was willing to return to Tingzhou.

Kudulu thought that his sister was persecuted by Wang Zhengjian or Wang Fei, and chatted with Ayi Tenggena alone for a long time, but he never persuaded his sister.

Seeing that Kudulu was depressed, Wang Fei promised that he would keep Kudulu and Ayi Tenggana in correspondence through the channels of Ruyiju and Suyeju.

On the way to the class, there were indeed a few fewer people in the Beiting Army. When Anicee learned that the Tang army had decided to return eastward, he wept profusely and decided to take the route of Tuozhi City and return to Damascus in the west.

After Wang Zhengjian's persuasion, Anicee agreed to stay in Tuozhi City for a while to see if Tang Ting was willing to continue the westward expedition.

Wang Zheng saw that he knew that he couldn't do anything, but he still rushed to Chang'an.

Due to the ruins of Takuzhi Castle, the army could not stay for long. Du Huan suggested that the Beiting Army could return to Shattered Leaf City first. He was willing to take a thousand light horsemen to stay in the city. Regardless of whether Anicee returns west or eastward in the future, Du Huan, Saiyifuddin and Hakim are responsible for protecting him.

Wang Zhengjian knew that Du Huan had the ambition to travel the world, and he wanted to take the opportunity to see the customs of the big food country, so he readily agreed.

When the Anxi army and the Beiting army were about to arrive at Broken Leaf City, the Morakoro trembled and trembled, bare-chested, carrying thorns on his back, and went out of the West Gate thirty miles to plead guilty.

Mou Ra Sihan thought that Wang Zheng would angrily behead Mou Ra Luo, but unexpectedly, Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing came forward as a guarantee, and only fined Mou Ra Luo Duo 30 military sticks.

After losing a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry, and several pieces of land in Broken Leaf City to Wang Fei and Ashina sisters, Wang Zhengjian and Ashina Yang also forgave Molarato.

After the departure of the Anxi Army and the Beiting Army, the Qarluq division immediately split into two factions. Both princes were supported by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but neither was able to swallow each other, nor could they legitimately inherit the throne of the Black Mountain.

A few months later, the edict of the Heavenly Khan arrived in the city of Broken Leaves, imitating the old practice of the Turkic Department, and enshrined the Emperor to protect the big leaves of the Qarlu Department and build the city of Broken Leaves; Mou Ra Sihan made outstanding achievements in the battle of the Western Expedition to Shiguo, and was specially named Xiaoye Hu and built the Yagong Moon City.

At this point, the Qarluq ministry was officially divided into two. Daye's Protector Rakoro's strength is slightly stronger than that of Murasihan.

However, the Ashi Burai City and Julan City promised by Gao Xianzhi before were not mentioned in the edict......

Although Mou Ra Sihan was a little disappointed, he also knew that Gao Xianzhi and Wang Zhengjian were more or less suspicious of him. He knew that the top priority was to consolidate his position as soon as possible, rather than attacking his brother rashly.

He is convinced that there will be many opportunities waiting for him in the future......

Before Mou Ra Sihan was named the Elder Lu Xiaoye Protector, Prince Ye Hu had been officially canonized as the crown prince of the Hui Khanate.

To the surprise of Prince Yidijian, before the canonization, his father Khan had consulted the civil and military ministers one by one, and his master Le Luo did not jump out to oppose it according to the agreement......

The ruined Stone Kingdom aroused the coveting of countless people, and Dou Zhongjie also had the ambition to annex the Stone Kingdom, but was stopped by the prince Dou Wumo. Because Dou Wumo expected that Datang had already made arrangements for Shi Guo.

A few months later, after the news of the new establishment of the Hezhong Festival in the Tang Dynasty and the establishment of the Ya Tuozhi City came, Dou Zhongjie felt that his son's knowledge had surpassed his own.

And the first envoy of the river festival was the former deputy capital of the North Court, Ashina Yang.

Before Ashinayang took office, Kudulu had firmly controlled the city of Talas, and had gathered tens of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command.

In November of the eighth year of Tianbao, the envoys of the white-clothed food and the black-clothed food arrived in Chang'an almost at the same time. The two sides of the civil war unanimously released goodwill to Datang, and the Datang Political Affairs Hall expressed the hope that the two sides would strike the army and truce.

After the defeat of Talas, the Black Clothes Food suffered a great loss of vitality and was temporarily unable to move west to Syria; The white-clothed food also urgently needs time to train soldiers and horses. On the contrary, the two sides put on a conciliatory posture and agreed to a temporary truce on the basis of the territory under their actual control.

At this time, Du Huan had already stepped into the land of the Great Food Country, looking at the strange world with interest......

The Han River flows eastward and into the river. The river is rolling, just like the endless blood of heroes.

In the eighth winter of Tianbao, Li Bai, a poet who lived in Jinling, learned the news of Ge Shuhan's victory in the stone castle and the violent death of Wang Zhonghei, spread out the rice paper, and wrote a famous poem that has been passed down through the ages, "Answering the King Twelve Cold Nights Drinking Alone", one of the most praised sentences in the world is "You can't learn from Ge Shu to run rampant in Qinghai at night with a knife, and take a purple robe from the West Tushi Fort." ”

The river is surging, and the deceased is like this. The ambition of the emperor, the conspiracy of the ministers, and the exploits of the border generals will all be blown away by the wind and rain. Only the pathos of the hero and the injustice of the poet, engraved on the stone wall of time and circulated in the rivers of time, have never been annihilated.

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