A few days later, the joint name of the four leading troops to defeat the Tubo State was sent to the capital by fast horses. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info If you want to get a reply, it will be at least a month later, far away from thousands of rivers and mountains, even if it is fast and it will take a long time to go back and forth.

The Jiannan army also advanced to the foot of the city, and set up a stronger camp three miles away from the city, ready to hold on for a long time. In addition to asking Ge Luofeng to join the transportation of logistics materials with all his soldiers and horses, Wang Yuan also allocated another 2,000 soldiers and horses to participate in the transportation of logistics materials. As a result, the number of combat soldiers and horses in the Jiannan army was reduced by another six thousand. However, with the current situation, the most important thing is to ensure the timely and sufficient supply of grain, grass and materials, so that the Jiannan army can be stationed under the city of Pibo to harass and exert pressure, as for the thousands of soldiers and horses in the army, it does not matter.

The Tubo army in Pibo City also seemed to be wilted, completely ignoring the matter of going out of the city to fight, allowing the Jiannan army to shout and scold under the city every day, and approaching the city to provoke with their might, they also closed the city gate and ignored it, and made up their minds to make the turtle to the end. More than a dozen Shenwei cannons of the Jiannan Army were hundreds of steps away from the city, firing dozens of thunderbolts into the head of the city of Pibo City every day, and they were blown up every day. The Tubo people also swallowed their anger, silently extinguished the fire and carried away the corpses after being bombed, and then craned their necks and waited for the next bombardment, completely devoid of sharpness.

According to the predetermined plan, Gao Xianzhi decided to lead his troops eastward in mid-June to join Wang Yuan's Jiannan army. First, Gao Xianzhi's 35,000 soldiers and horses were still in the southwest of Luoqi City, facing the obstruction of nearly 70,000 Tibetan troops, he could not break through, and he could not break through, because there was a lesson from the Northern Route Army. But in this way, 35,000 soldiers and horses can only be trapped there and do nothing. Moreover, they were in a position nearly two hundred miles away from the Jiannan Army, and the two sides could not echo each other, advance and retreat, or even rescue and help each other. This is the reason why Wang Yuan proposed to join forces to attack and retreat together. In line with this principle, Gao Xianzhi also had to drive his troops and horses to the east to join the Jiannan army.

And there is a more important reason that Gao Xianzhi's soldiers and horses have been in the area of Nimu County in the southwest of Luoqi City for too long. Gao Xianzhi's supply relied on the principle of fighting to nourish war. Some time ago, he led his troops to sweep nearly a thousand miles, and the supplies along the way relied on capturing cities, plundering the cattle and sheep of the local herdsmen in Tibet, and even hunting wild animals on the plateau to replenish them.

But after staying in Nimu for nearly a month, the local Tibetan people have fled cleanly and have no food to sustain. Gao Xianzhi's soldiers and horses had no logistics supply routes, and it was nearly a thousand miles away from the Great and Small Bolu Kingdom to the cities of Luoqi, and the mountains and valleys along the way were wastelands and ice and snow, which was a path without logistical support. When the Northern Route Army was completely annihilated, the northern border of Tibet and the large and small cities in the northwest had all been reoccupied by the Tibetans, and there was no source of food and grass at all. Now among the soldiers and horses of the three routes, it is only Wang Yuan's Jiannan Army that has maintained the unimpeded logistics and material channels. Even if there is no plan to merge, at this time, the only possible way for Gao Xianzhi is to merge with the Jiannan Army and share this lifeline.

On June 16, Gao Xianzhi led his troops from Nimu, he did not go directly to the east, but to the southeast, intending to avoid the resistance of the Tubo people, cross the Grand Canyon of the Brahmaputra River, and go east from the mountains south of the canyon to the Daxue Mountain south of Pibo City, and then cross the river to the north to join the Jiannan army. This is tantamount to sparing a large circle in the shape of a bow. But as soon as his army moved, the 70,000 Tibetan soldiers and horses stationed in Qushui and Gongga Cities, which were stationed between him and the cities of Luoqi, immediately knew his intentions. They hurriedly raised troops in pursuit, intending to prevent Gao Xianzhi from crossing the Brahmaputra River.

Gao Xianzhi set up an ambush in the mountains on the north side of the Grand Canyon, and at the same time disguised the posture that the army was struggling to cross the river, attracting 20,000 cavalry from Xichuan to rush into his encirclement. The Anxi army cut off their rear road, came to close the door and beat the dogs, and kept the 20,000 cavalry alive in the valley. In the end, only more than 3,000 Tibetans survived the ambush.

When the news came, Wang Yuan, who was paying close attention to the movements of Gao Xianzhi's army, was greatly impressed. Wang Yuan knew very well in his heart that Gao Xianzhi was the real general of this era. A large part of the reason why I have where I am today is because of the accumulation of my wisdom for more than 1,000 years, and I have opened some plug-ins that do not belong to this era. But Gao Xianzhi is a general who really relies on his real skills to gallop on the battlefield. In this regard, he and he are not at all on the same order of magnitude. But Wang Yuan is also at ease, the black cat and the white cat are good cats when they catch mice. It is also a skill to be able to open plug-ins, which is an advantage given by God, but it is also at ease.

In order to prevent the soldiers and horses of Pibo City from sending troops to stop him, Wang Yuan ordered a feint attack on Pibo City. Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were arrayed under the city, and the siege equipment, ladders, and chariots were properly prepared. Shenwei cannons were also set up in a row under the city. Put on a posture that if you dare to send troops to rescue, I will dare to attack Pibo City immediately.

It worked. After the defeat in the last battle, the bloody Enagu who was reprimanded by Danzhu and Yixiang Yele did not dare to rashly send troops to help intercept the Tang army. Because Zampu Qi took Zhudan to give him a death order, Pibo City must not be lost, once Pibo City is lost, it is equivalent to the loss of the second largest city in Tubo State, a small half of the people will be lost to the enemy, and the city will be exposed to the enemy, naked and unprotected. Therefore, between intercepting the Anxi army or keeping the city of Pibo, Erna Gu chose the latter.

After nearly ten days of arduous marching, Gao Xianzhi's Anxi army almost crossed the depth of the entire Tubo Kingdom and came to the city of Pibo. On the night of July 26, south of the Jiannan military camp, Gao Xianzhi led more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of the tired but energetic Anxi Army to arrive. Wang Yuan, Ge Shuhan, and Li Guangbi brought hundreds of generals to greet each other outside the camp to welcome this legendary general and his legendary soldiers and horses into the camp.

Wang Yuan's eyes kept staring at Gao Xianzhi carefully, but he saw that Gao Xianzhi was sitting on a tall white horse and came slowly, wearing a dull and dull ordinary bright light armor that had been worn out on his body, looking slender and decent, and behind him was a long off-white cloak, although it was broken a few holes and dirty in many places, it was still flying in the wind. His face was dark and thin, and his beard was sloppy, but it was difficult to hide his handsome air. is worthy of being a handsome figure among the legendary Tang Dynasty generals, and the whole person exudes a sense of confidence and arrogance.

Wang Yuan secretly sighed in his heart. is really a handsome person, such a person can obviously rely on his face to eat, but he has to rely on talent. In the next generation, with this temperament and body appearance, how can he be an idol-level star. Even in Datang, this Gao Xianzhi is probably the dream lover of many official ladies and Qingguan celebrities.

Wang Yuan looked at Gao Xianzhi, and Gao Xianzhi also looked at Wang Yuan, the two of them didn't need to be introduced by others, they had already recognized each other, although they had never met.

"Tall and handsome, you have finally arrived. This is great, I have heard the prestige of the tall and handsome for a long time, and today I can finally see the real face, which really makes Wang feel at a loss, and I don't know how to be happy. Wang Yuan bowed his hand and laughed loudly.

Gao Xianzhi laughed out loud and bowed back: "Wang Dashuai is polite, it should be Gao who feels honored." Gao had long heard that the imperial court had produced a rising star in the past two years, who led the army to win the war by surprise, and was a rising general. I really wanted to meet Wang Dashuai, but unfortunately I was in Anxi, and it would take me a few months to return to the capital, so I had to give up. When I saw it today, it was really a beautiful young man, a very handsome character. I like it, hahaha. ”

The two hit it off at first sight and chatted with each other non-stop, as if they hadn't seen each other for many years. In addition, these two people are handsome and chic characters, and in contrast, the people around them all look like crooked melons and cracked dates, and they are ashamed of themselves.

It wasn't until Zhao Qing reminded Wang Yuan that Wang Yuan came to his senses and realized his gaffe. I didn't expect myself and Gao Xianzhi to fall in love so much, and if this is to be spread, people may suspect that I like beautiful men and have a problem with my sexual orientation. At that moment, he turned around and introduced the people around him to Gao Xianzhi, Ge Shuhan, Li Guangbi and others were all equal-level festival envoys. But Gao Xianzhi was not so enthusiastic about them. There was a hint of ridicule in his eyes, and needless to say, he was also dissatisfied with the fact that Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi were desperate to take credit for burying the Northern Route Army in the area of Namco Lake.

Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi didn't care about him, this Gao Xianzhi was notoriously arrogant. But there is no way, who calls people capable and handsome? And the two of them did bury the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Northern Route Army, and at this moment they were sheltered in Wang Yuan's Jiannan military camp, no wonder people looked down on them.

After the introduction of the generals on Wang Yuan's side, Gao Xianzhi only turned around and introduced the only general under him to Wang Yuan and the others, that is, Feng Changqing, the envoy of Anxi's soldiers and horses. It can be seen that Gao Xianzhi's eyes are almost ignorant of ordinary generals, and this Feng Changqing is obviously extremely important in his mind.

Of course, Wang Yuan knew the name of Changqing, this person was not good-looking and even a little ugly, but he was very capable. Not to mention the previous things, Feng Changqing's recent proud work was in the siege of the Qionglong Silver City, when Gao Xianzhi was at a loss, it was Feng Changqing who entered the city with a thousand soldiers and horses, and the city was broken by the inside and outside, giving the Anxi army the first place to rest after coming out of the plateau desert.

After everyone greeted each other politely, Wang Yuan set up a banquet in the big tent to catch the wind for the generals of the Anxi Army. The soldiers of Jiannan also killed pigs and sheep to reward the soldiers of the Anxi Army who came from afar. The Anxi army has not known the taste of meat for more than ten days, and they have been burping one by one that night, and they are addicted. After eating and drinking, they fell asleep one by one, snoring like thunder.

They were indeed so tired that they had not slept well or had not been able to sleep peacefully for nearly four months from mid-March to today. From the snow-capped mountains of the mountains and valleys to the desolate and indifferent plateau wilderness, they have experienced dozens of battles large and small, vigilant against the enemy all the time during the day, and endure the severe cold and the attacks of fierce beasts on the wasteland at night, they have closed their eyes and their hearts are hanging. Only tonight, in the camp of the mighty Jiannan Army, could they sleep so soundly.