Before Pei Xingjian left, Li Hong called him, Heiya Changzhi and Xue Rengui to a chic courtyard in Qiuzi again.

gave a bag of things to each of the three people, and then said with a smile: "You are not allowed to drink alcohol in the army, this is an iron law, but if you take Shule City, I can allow you to drink once." Here, the pig's trotters and pig's ears are ready, and this is the best appetizer. ”

The three of them were already convinced of Li Hong's words at this time, and after Li Hong arrived on the first day, they were placed together, and on the second day, Xue Rengui caught a big boar alive early in the morning.

The wild boar's scream soared into the sky, and I am afraid that everyone in the entire Guizi City did not sleep well.

Li Hong was even more sullen and reprimanded General Xue with a black face, but after noon, the wild boar was still stewed.

So it has only been a few days, and in all corners of the barracks, you can hear the "angry scolding" of wild boars from time to time, and with the prevalence of killing wild boars in the army, the name of killing pigs was called by them.

The wild boars in the neighborhood seem to know that these people have recently fallen in love with their own flesh, so they also began to lie day and night, but even so, there are still many wild boars who cannot escape their fate.

Pei Xingjian took the pig's head meat and other cold dishes handed to him by Li Hong, together with Xue Rengui and Heizhi Changzhi, bowed deeply to Li Hong, and took the lead in saying: "Minister Pei Xingjian thanks His Royal Highness for the pig-killing dishes made by the soldiers of the whole army, with this simple and easy-to-make meal, not only can the soldiers eat a full meal in the ice and snow, but also can eat a hot meal. ”

"It's useless to say this, you still have to think about it, how to take back Shule in the shortest possible time, if you can't recover Shule before the first day, the three of you will get out of here and go back to Chang'an, and then I, Li Hong, will clean up the mess for you." Li Hong took the lead in sitting down in the small bare garden, and then motioned for the three of them to sit down at the same time.

"The last general and others will not disgrace their lives, and they will definitely recover Shule before the first day, if they can't recover it, the last general is willing to let the capital protect it at will." Pei Xingjian made a military order before sitting down opposite Li Hong.

Xue Rengui's 70,000 horses are still stationed on the outskirts of Shule City, and Qiuzi now only has Pei Xingjian and Hei Zhi Changzhi's troops.

Li Hong did not let them leave a single soldier, but forcefully let them take away all the troops, and the entire Qiuzi was naturally only the 21,000 people led by Li Hong when he came this time.

Pei Xingjian was very worried that this little force would not be able to resist at all, and the cavalry of the Ashina Duzhi who came and went without a trace, let alone whether they would be able to hold Qiuzi before the first day.

But no matter what the three of them said, Li Hong shook his head and disagreed with the three of them leaving a part of their troops to help him defend Qiuzi.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of the three of them, Li Hong looked at Hei Zhi Chang Zhi and said, "Hei Yan, do you remember the bow and crossbow I saw for you when you and I first met?" ”

"The last general will naturally remember." Tsuneyuki got up and replied.

"That's it, with him, Guizi won't be lost, and I promise that they won't come back." Seeing that Pei Xingjian was about to speak, Li Hong stopped him and continued: "I understand what you mean, don't worry, I will never covet the merits of the war, and lead the troops out of Qiuzi to take the initiative to attack them, my task is to guard Qiuzi for you before you come back on the first day." ”

Seeing that Pei Xingjian was still embarrassed, Li Hong sighed and continued: "Go, General Pei, don't worry, Qiuzi is with me Li Hong, and the people are in the city." ”

Looking at Li Hong's eyes that suddenly became resolute, Pei Xingjian, Xue Rengui and Hei Tooth Chang Zhi glanced at each other, and nodded silently.

I don't know why, looking at Li Hong's determined look, they believe from the bottom of their hearts that His Royal Highness the Prince, who has always played cards unreasonably in Chang'an, can really rely on 20,000 people to defend the turtles that are being watched by Ashinadu.

On the second day, Pei Xingjian led Xue Rengui and Heiya Changzhi and began to march towards Shule, and Li Hong hurriedly returned to Qiuzi after giving them a simple expedition ceremony outside the city.

Now it is a cold winter, and because of natural disasters in Yunzhong, all the food is scarce this year, but fortunately, Datang is now rich, and a large amount of grain has been transported from the south to Luoyang, and then transferred to other places in Yunzhong.

Therefore, the Eastern Turkic people in the clouds, after they had eaten and drunk enough, were in the cold steppe, and there was only one great thing left, hiding in their tents and making children.

And Ashina Duzhi was also affected by the natural disaster and the wolves, because the route of grain delivery was too long, and before the food could be delivered as soon as possible, they raised their hands and rebelled.

Therefore, Pei Xingjian had to let go of Shule at that time, and ran to Qiuzi Town overnight to guard.

Now that Pei Xingjian has left Qiuzi, he has made Ashina Duzhi, who was watching from the sidelines, feel that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it, if he can take the opportunity to take Qiuzi, not only can he give Ashina Duzhi a stronghold.

At the same time, it can continue to shake the influence of the Tang Dynasty in the Western Regions, and it can also make the Tang Dynasty become too busy and difficult to take care of themselves in the gap between their Ashina Duzhi and the southern Tubo.

"Has Ming Chongyan arrived with Du Yuanji?" After returning to his capital protection mansion, Li Hong immediately asked Fang Zhan and Heng Qiao, who rushed over this morning.

"I have arrived in Menyuan Town half a month ago." Fang Zhan replied respectfully.

"The result?"

"This is a letter from Ming Chongyan to you, and let the last general tell you that the stone of Qilian Mountain is completely suitable for making cement, even more suitable than some stones in the Central Plains." Heng Qiao handed the letter to Li Hong and said.

Li Hong nodded silently, joking, Qilian Mountain cement was famous in the previous life, and it would be strange if the minerals of Qilian Mountain were not suitable for making cement.

"Tell them to hurry up, Menyuan is in the Yumen Pass, bordering Tuyuhun occupied by Tubo, I have asked my father for an order, and will send heavy troops to guard this town, so that they can rest assured that they can hurry up." Li Hong put down the letter in his hand and said lightly.

Fang Zhan and Heng Qiao bowed down.

Li Hong's idea is very simple, this place in the Western Regions has stones and stones, and now that there is cement that can be delivered within ten days, then he can improve the defense of the Western Regions during the period of Pei Xingjian's conquest, and build the four towns of Anxi into four huge castles! The huge barracks should become an insurmountable obstacle like the Qilian Mountains and the Kunlun Mountains.

Li Hong thought for a while and continued: "Hengqiao sticks to the Tubo area, and any news must be sent to Qiuzi as soon as possible. Fang Zhan, you now need to infiltrate the Ashina Duzhi to find out where they often live on the grassland. 'Jingwei' is not manpowered, you can go directly to Bai Chun, and she will give you support." ”

"That'...... Beheading....... Fang Zhan thought for a moment and continued to ask.

"Beheadings still have to be done, and although this will not stop the Tibetans from continuing to invade our plans, it can delay them. Kill their general Zhang San, they will also find Li Si to lead the troops to fight, but as long as there are enough assassinations, their generals will become more and more stupid, after all, no one can be like herding sheep at home, and there are a lot of excellent generals who can fight well, right? Li Hong explained to them with a smile.

"Yes, the last general understands. It is to consume them, fundamentally weaken their combat strength, as long as we can succeed in assassinating outstanding generals, it means that their strength will be weakened by us. Heng Qiao looked at Li Hong, his eyes lit up.

Now that the 'Myth' and the 'Jingwei' have merged, the 'Myth' strength of the assassination is like a myth, and after being merged into the 'Jingwei', it has not done anything, and has not yet shown its terrifying strength.

Now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has finally relented, it is time for him to show his skills.

There are a lot of good weather in winter this year, Pei Xingjian and others have been off for three or four days, Li Hong really has nothing to do in Qiuci City, and he comes to Duhufu every day as if he is going to work, and then accompanied by Xia Zhi and others, he inspects the city defense of Qiuci City.

The people of Qiuzi were full of doubts about this new general, no one believed that he could defend Qiuzi with this little men, and some even began to secretly prepare to take refuge in Ashinaduzhi.

There are also many large families in Qiuzi City, who live here, although it can't help Li Hong's city defense, but if it can help him calm the people's hearts, it is also a good thing.

Li Hong took the list in his hand, this small city of about 40,000 or 50,000 people, there are as many as a dozen famous families or large households, and none of them did not start in business, and the guards of each family ranged from dozens to three or five hundred.

Thinking about this unstable force, should they be confiscated, in the direction of the north gate of Qiuzi City, the sound of an arrow piercing the sky suddenly sounded in the sky above Qiuzi City.

"Let's go, go over and have a look." Li Hong pulled the war horse in Mangzhong's hand, quickly turned the horse's head, jumped up, and galloped away like lightning in the direction of the North Gate Tower.

Behind him, Hua Meng, Mangzhong, Xiaoxue, Xia Zhi, Banmei and Xunlan also turned over and ran in the direction of the city tower.

The city tower built by the loess ramming is not very high, that is, it can resist the war horse of the Ashina Duzhi jumping in, and the moat outside the city has already frozen, and the horse does not have to worry about breaking it when he steps on it.

"What's going on?" Li Hongfei dismounted, looked at Quan Yi on the city tower, held a telescope, looked outside the city, and asked loudly.

"Dadu Hu, look." Quan Yi handed the telescope to Li Hong.

Li Hong didn't stretch out his hand to take it, and on the horizon of the barren grass in the distance, a cloud of smoke and dust like a huge dark cloud in the summer sky spread and flew up on the withered yellow grass.

"Ashina Duzhi is really good at picking the time, do you really think that I, the prince of the Tang Dynasty, am muddy and easier to bully than Pei Xingjian?" Li Hong narrowed his eyes, looking at the rolling yellow mist covering the sky and the sun, a trace of cunning flashed in his eyes, and he said: "Arm the sniper bow and crossbow." If you leave halfway through, press CTRL+D to save the current page to your favorites so you can watch it later!