"Governor, Gaochang is holding a state funeral for Ju Wentai in China, officials from all cities are gathered in the capital, let's raid Liugu now, and then let Xue Yantuo let tens of thousands of elite horsemen go straight to the past, we will definitely be able to wipe out all the high-level leaders in Gaochang, and Gaochang will be in the hands of my Datang."

A group of governors, generals all climbed the Black Cyanosis Ridge to look down at the willow valley not far away to investigate the enemy's situation, the deputy chief Jiang Xingben saw from the telescope that the willow valley guards were sluggish, the army was not in order, combined with the news sent back by the secret agent, I knew that it must be the sudden death of Ju Wentai, the king of Gaochang and the funeral, so that the willow valley guards were unstable, and the defenders had no fighting spirit, so they suggested.

"Chief, you don't need to let Xue Yantuo go, you transfer me 10,000 fine horses, I promise that I can wipe out the new king of Gaochang and the hundred officials, if I move quickly, I can make Ju Wentai unable to bury." Qiu Xinggong clenched his fists and shouted to fight.

"Boss, I'll go."

"Let me go."

For a while, the generals who asked for war jumped out one by one and almost quarreled with themselves.

Hou Junji shook his head solemnly: "No, Your Majesty thinks that Gao Chang is negligent and rude, so he sent us to crusade against them, and now if he raids them during their burial of Ju Wentai, he is not a righteous teacher who asks for guilt."

Seeing the lieutenant general's unwilling expression, Hou Junji suddenly smiled: "If you want to fight us, you will fight in a dignified manner, how can a sneak attack show the strength of Datang's soldiers. Besides, how can the work of destroying the country be handed over to the people of Xue Yantuo to do."

"But..."Jiang Xingben was still waiting to be persuaded, Hou Junji waved his hand at him, and said, "I know your proposal is good, but firstly, we are a righteous army that crusades against non-ministers, and secondly, if the raid destroys Gaochang in one fell swoop, how can we consume the strength of the Xue Yantuo people. Finally, Xue Yantuo people took the initiative to help the Tang Dynasty fight and be the vanguard, let's not make good use of it and consume their strength, then I'm too sorry for Xue Yantuo's initiative to ask for war."

Speaking of this, Hou Junji showed a deep smile to the generals, you should understand.

The generals were stunned for a moment, and then nodded in understanding.

"Haha, the chief manager, I might as well wait."

"Okay, since you understand, then follow the order, Liu Demin, the founding marquis of Shangzhu State, Heng Zhixi, the founding prince of Shangzhu State, Bo Qu Rifang, Zuo Wuhou Zhonglang General Li Haihai, and Shi Wang Jinwei, the governor of Zuo Jianmen, I order you to wait and lead his subordinates to march with drums. When he arrived at the bottom of the willow valley, he sent a message to the guards inside, asking him to abandon the city and surrender, and if he refused, let the Xue Yantuo people attack the city." Hou Junji coughed and ordered.

The first few sentences still made the generals wonder, didn't they say that they wanted to consume the strength of Xue Yantuo's people, why did we take the lead by our own people, and only after hearing it did I suddenly think in my heart, Hou Junji was too thief, it turned out that we went to the city with great fanfare just to inform the defenders of Liugu that we had arrived, and the book was just a try, and when it didn't work, we would send Xue Yantuo people to the city.

Hahaha, that's bad.

Liugu is located in the east of Gaochang, is a narrow and nearly 100 miles of difficult valley road, also known as Changgu, in this valley to build a strong pass, stationed a large number of elite soldiers.

Of course, this so-called solidity is compared to the national strength of the small Gaochang and the small Western Regions, and the same is true of a large number of elite soldiers.

But in fact, this Liugu Pass is at most a county-level city gate protection force when it gets Datang. The defenders were less than a thousand people, and the Don army was more than capable of taking it without much effort.

But Hou Junji did not order this, but let the Xue Yantuo people, who did not have any siege ability or experience, launch an attack.

This steppe nomad is no problem if you let them fight on the flat ground in the wilderness, and they are very powerful, but they are a little blind to the enemy who has built a wall and is high on the wall.

Although the city wall is not high, only two feet in appearance, it is not something that can be jumped on by galloping horses. The best cavalry is useless, and infantry is not the strong point of the Xue Yantuo people, and the so-called infantry is the cavalry when dismounted is infantry.

Looking at the enemy on the city wall that seemed to be able to reach out to him, Xue Yantuo's popular jumping foot was that the family had no effective way, except to draw a half-arc from the front of the city wall on a war horse, and shoot the arrows in his hand again and again to kill and injure the enemy.

Datang has enough to surplus siege equipment, not to mention providing them with them, they are also stupid, haw, I didn't think of looking for Datang's side to ask for.

More than 30,000 Xue Yantuo elites attacked the small pass guarded by less than 1,000 people, and it took two days to fight, and it took nearly 5,000 dead and wounded to take the Liugu Pass.

It's completely hard attrition, relying on the numerical advantage to consume the defenders of Willow Valley to death.

"The general manager strategized, followed by the iron cavalry of the Chinese army, the gold agitated the heaven and the earth, the sun and the moon were covered by the high, and the halberd stirred the clouds. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, it has not been as prosperous."

When you step through the willow valley and come to the extreme, you can see the wilderness in the distance, as if you can see the next target of attack, Chiting City.

Standing in the wilderness, Shi Wang Jinwei, the head of the Left Prison Gate, is worthy of being a civil official, and he will come when he opens his mouth if he is a sycophant, and he is directly compared to Qin and Han.

After Hou Junji heard this, he looked up to the sky and smiled, obviously this fart was itching.

At the place where Hou Junji's horse whip pointed, it was Chiting City.

Chiting City is said to be a city, but it is actually a town with a total population of less than 1,000 people and less than 300 defenders built on yellow sand walls.

The Tang army still marched with drums, and then passed the book, and then the Xue Yantuo people attacked, and it was not difficult to fight the Xue Yantuo people in this small city, and the one-person high earthen wall could be crossed by horseback.

Then after a day of marching, it was Baili City, and then Liuzhong County, more than forty miles away..... Datang marched all the way with drums, all the way to attack the city and destroy the land, almost the rhythm of one city a day.

Fight all the way to Tiandi City, which is a heavy city in Gaochang, Xue Yantuo people have been killed and injured all the way down to less than half of the original, and they also know that the Tang side is deliberately consuming their military strength, so after besieging Tiandi City for half a day and paying nearly 2,000 casualties again, Xue Yantuo people quit, and they didn't dare to face the hard top of the 200,000 army of Datang, but they began to work hard.

In the end, the Tang Dynasty was in a hurry, and they asked for siege equipment, if they didn't tell the people sent by Xue Yantuo, then they really couldn't conquer Tiandi City.

Hou Junji took a look, it is not okay to force Xue Yantuo to send them to death, but it doesn't matter, I will give you the siege equipment, as long as you give me the field city.

The Xue Yantuo people who wanted to get the siege equipment thought that they could easily lay down the field city in this way, but it backfired, and they were not very good at using the siege equipment, and the cooperation was not tacit.

Even if the wood is filled, the cart is pushed and the hole is filled, and the moat of the field city is filled, and the short wall of the city wall is broken by the cart.

Using a stone-throwing cart to throw stones into the city, those who blocked the stones in the city were all smashed, and some of the defenders of Gaochang actually opened their war quilts to block the stones, and they really stopped a lot, and the result was that many stones were blocked on the city wall, and the people guarding the city wall could not stand.

Even so, when the Xue Yantuo people took Tiandi City, it was already two days later, and they suffered nearly 3,000 casualties again.

The remaining Xueyantuo people are less than 10,000 people.

Hou Junji's purpose of consuming Xue Yantuo's people had been fully realized when he was only halfway to the capital of Gaochang.