Ten miles away from Panhe County from the city gate, the Tubo army is marching at a normal speed, the leading general is the son of Tubo Zampu Lang Zhidu, his people are more than 20 years old, handsome, slender, wearing a shiny armor, helmets and armor are inlaid with all kinds of jewels and jade, dazzling, shining, under the crotch is a tall horse's horse, saddle, stirrup made of gold, which is decorated with colorful gemstones.

Lang Zhidu is completely different from other Tibetan people, he was born handsome, likes luxury, loves to dress up, has a habit of cleanliness, as the son of Zampu, he is favored, born superior, this expedition is eager to make meritorious service.

Lang Zhidu, who was sitting on the BMW, asked the deputy general next to him, Tie Jian Xinoro: "How far is it from Panhe County?" ”

Iron Blade Xinuoluo replied: "Your Royal Highness the Second Prince, our army is less than fifteen miles away from the county seat of Panhe!" ”

"Good!" Lang Zhidu was overjoyed, brandished his horse whip and said loudly: "Immediately send an order, the whole army will speed up the march, and immediately start attacking the city after arriving in Panhe County, and enter the city before noon, I will wait in Panhe County to eat the wine and food of the Tang people!" ”

Iron Blade Xi Nuoluo's face changed drastically, and he immediately dissuaded: "The second prince can't, if you want to attack the city, you must first camp ten miles away from the city, and then attack the city after building siege equipment, otherwise I can't even climb the city wall, how can I attack the city?" ”

Iron Blade Sinoro turned his head and looked, and was about to agree, but found that this place was too empty, if the Tang army came to sneak attack, it could attack from all directions, this is a dangerous place, and it is absolutely impossible to camp, so he said: "The second prince can't!" ”

At this time, Lang Zhi was really unhappy, and said with an unkind face: "You can't do this, you can't do that, what do you want?" ”

Iron Blade Sinoro observed for a moment, pointed to a mountain in the distance and said, "Second prince, please look, there is a mountain in that place, and there is a river on the side, you can camp at the foot of the mountain and by the river!" ”

Lang Zhidu was in a very bad mood. Waving his horsewhip, he said impatiently: "Okay, okay, do as you want, and camp by the river at the foot of the mountain!" ”

"Yes!" Iron Blade Sinoro agreed, and immediately ordered the whole army to drive towards the foot of the nearby mountain.

Zhao Ziliang was taking Wang Yuan, Ma Lan, Gao Xiuyan, Zhang Shouyu, Dong Yanguang and others to look at the smoke and dust rising in the distance at the head of the South City Gate.

At this time, a few fast horses galloped from a distance, and when they got closer, everyone saw clearly that it was Ge Shuhan who was galloping with a few nights, and the armor on Ge Shuhan and the others was a little torn, and there were a lot of blood stains on their bodies, and it seemed that they had already fought a few battles with the scouts of the Tubo people.

Zhao Ziliang immediately asked, "Geshu, why are you so embarrassed?" ”

Ge Shuhan reined in his war horse, stopped, and said in a loud voice: "General Qiyu." The subordinates have already fought several battles with the Tubo spies, so they are a little embarrassed, and some brothers have been arranged by their subordinates to hide nearby! ”

Zhao Ziliang said again: "What is the situation of the Tubo army now? ”

"General, the Tubo army has set up camp at the foot of Erwolf Mountain and beside the Xiaofan River twelve miles away! The number of troops is just 40,000".

What is the specific situation of the Tubo army, just listening to what Ge Shuhan said, Zhao Ziliang does not have an intuitive concept, if he wants to understand the real and specific situation, it seems that he has to go to the vicinity of the Tubo camp to investigate in person, Zhao Ziliang thought about it and said to Dong Yanguang and Gao Xiuyan: "You two stay and defend the city." Wang Yuan, Ma Lan, Zhang Shouyu and others went with General Ben to explore the camp of the Tubo people! ”

All the generals and colonels said in unison: "No! ”

After the city gate was opened, Zhao Ziliang and others rode out on horseback and galloped towards the camp of the Tubo army.

Led by Geshuhan, the group came to a mound. The mound is not high or large, but you can see the general appearance of the Tibetan promise.

The Tibetan soldiers were setting up camp, and cowhide tents were propped up. The tents were not far apart from each other, and they were arranged neatly, and everything seemed to be in order.

Observed for a while. Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but say: "This person who leads the troops has some skills, and it can be seen from the construction of the camp that this person is proficient in marching and arranging, and he is cautious by nature!" Although the Tubo people are not a nomadic tribe in the north, but before Princess Wencheng brought the technology to build houses, they generally lived in tents, only attacking in their minds, and no sense of defense, although after all these years, but the habits of a nation are not so easy to change, you see that this leader not only arranged the tents neatly when setting up the camp, but also sent soldiers to cut down trees to build a wall, build a camp gate to surround the surroundings, only people who are familiar with military books will do this! ”

Everyone nodded when they heard this, but Wang frowned when he heard it: "No, as far as the last general knows, the leader of the Tubo army this time, Lang Zhidu, the second son of Tubo Xi Dezu Zanpu, is in his twenties, Xi Dezu Zanpu is the great-great-grandson of Songtsan Gampo, but he has some talents, but his second son seems to be leading the army for the first time, and he has never heard of him before, so it stands to reason that he should not have such experience in leading troops!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang felt a little strange when he heard Wang's rare words, he touched his chin, thought for a moment and said: "If this is the case, then his deputy general must be a person with rich experience in leading troops!" Okay, the situation of the Tibetan people is almost understood, let's go back and prepare for the battle."

Back in the city, Zhao Ziliang found that the atmosphere in the city was different than just now, the fact that the Tubo people were attacking had made all the people and officials in the city realize that this was not a joke, once the city walls and city gates were breached, the fate of everyone was death, and the possibility of the destruction of the city made everyone breathless.

A steady stream of materials for defending the city was carried up the city walls, and a large cauldron was added up, and a fire rose under the pot, and the cold water poured into the pot was already steaming, and some of the hot oil in the pot had begun to bubble.

Seeing Zhao Ziliang and the others coming back, the soldiers and civilians near the city gate automatically surrounded them, and some ordinary people couldn't help but ask loudly: "General, how are the Tubo people outside the city?" ”

Zhao Ziliang said in a deep voice: "There will be no less than 40,000 people, the leading general is very talented, all of us must be psychologically prepared, even if we raise the city to surrender, people may not agree, so either we die, or they die, I see that you are all scared, this is human nature, understandable, but please think about it, am we afraid, the Tubo people will not kill us?" The Tibetan people are ferocious, whether we are afraid or not, they will kill us, so instead of being killed by them in fear, we should be braver, pick up swords and guns and fight them to the death, even if we want to die, we must pull a cushion, otherwise it will be too much of a loss, you say right? ”

An old man with a bright face said loudly: "What the general said is very true, the old and young masters of Kujing Village, together with the old man, pick up swords and guns on the city wall to assist the officers and soldiers to defend the city, killing one is enough, killing two will be earned!" ”

Another old man shouted: "Liujia Village is a man, and all the men go to the city wall with Lao Tzu to defend the city!" ”

After these two old men, the village chiefs of many villages said on behalf of the strong men of the whole village that they would pick up swords and guns to help the officers and soldiers defend the city, of course Zhao Ziliang could not let everyone rush to the city wall at once, the city wall of the county town was not very tall, and could not accommodate many people, and in order to save manpower and leave enough reserves, so that everyone had enough time to rest, everyone must be divided into several shifts for rotation.

Zhao Ziliang saw that the morale of the people was stimulated, and immediately said: "Okay, don't fight, the space of the city wall is limited, and it can't accommodate too many people, so the general decided to divide the Dadou Army and all the young men into three shifts for rotation, each round is four hours, and when the time comes, it will be replaced by the next round. However, the enemy is menacing, the first wave of attacks must be fierce and abnormal, so this first wave of attacks must be resisted by the Great Dou Army, and after the first wave of attacks is over, General Wang will arrange different village strong men to go to the city wall to assist in defense according to the actual situation, and must not let the Tubo people break through the city wall one step! ”

Immediately, someone shouted: "Okay, I'll follow General Wang's arrangement!" ”

Zhao Ziliang was about to go up to the city wall, when he saw Gao Xiuyan on duty on the city wall hurriedly running over to report: "General, the day before yesterday, you sent Hu Cong to Wuwei City to ask for help from the Jiedu envoy Wang, and now that Hu Cong has returned, just under the city gate, it is estimated that he has been riding a horse for a long time, and the person has fallen into a coma, do you open the city gate and carry the person in?" ”

"Coming back? Open the gates and let them in! Zhao Ziliang immediately commanded.

"No!" Gao Xiuyan agreed and turned away.

Soon there was a creaking sound, and the gate slowly opened, and as soon as a gap was opened enough for one man and one horse to pass, several soldiers galloped out and carried one person in, and another war horse was brought in.

Zhao Ziliang and others walked over, and the returning Hu Cong was already unconscious, Zhao Ziliang immediately pinched a few times in his middle part, and Hu Cong woke up, and said in a weak voice: "General, when the subordinates rushed to Wuwei City, the Tubo army was storming Wuwei City, seeing that the number of troops was no less than 50,000, and the subordinates couldn't enter the city to see Lord Wang at all, and they wanted to return but were discovered by the Tubo scouts, so they had to flee back desperately, and finally the fortune teller came back to see the general!" ”

Everyone turned pale when they heard this, and even Wuwei City, the place of Hexi Zhishuo, was besieged by the Tubo army, which showed how bad the situation was, and the news brought back by Hu Cong completely shattered the hope of some people present that Lord Wang would lead troops to help.

"Quick, carry him down and let him rest well, and prepare some hot soup and food for him!" Zhao Ziliang commanded.

After being carried down, Zhao Ziliang took the generals and the county commander Du Shanming and other officials to the county government hall, Zhao Ziliang sat on the seat that originally belonged to the county order, and the others sat on both sides.

Zhao Ziliang looked at the generals and officials on the left and right and said: "You all heard it just now, we were all deceived by the Tubo people, and the Tubo people openly transferred the main force of the army to the right side of Longyou to deal with Lord Huangfu Weiming, but in fact, they only used a small number of troops to contain the soldiers and horses of the Longyou army, and secretly transferred a large number of troops north to attack our Hexi!" Originally, I was counting on Lord Wang to bring reinforcements, but now Lord Wang is no longer able to protect himself, so now we can only rely on ourselves! (To be continued.) )