The wine and food were full, and it was getting dark. Under the leadership of Li Mi, Wang Yuan and others climbed to the city wall of Nancheng. Li Mi built two enemy towers more than ten zhang high on the side of the Nancheng City Tower, which looked towering into the sky and was very majestic.

"Vice Marshal Wang, this is the old man who ordered the construction of the enemy tower ten years ago, and the top of the area can be seen in a radius of more than ten miles, how about the old man accompany you to the enemy tower to have a look?" Li Mi said with a smile.

Wang Yuan smacked his tongue and said, "It's such a tall enemy building." In the evening, when I went to the north of the city, I saw the two enemy towers standing tall, which were very powerful. If I'm not mistaken, standing on it, I must have seen the movement of the Tubo and Nanzhao coalition forces. ”

Li Mi nodded and said, "That's true." Let's go up and take a look. ”

Li Mi turned around and entered the enemy building, and Wang Yuan followed him in, but saw that the inside of the enemy building was very narrow, but the area of the square circle was only a few feet, and a wooden ladder in the middle swirled up and went straight to the top. Although Li Mi was old, his body was very athletic, and his steps were steady and he climbed to the top step by step, and Wang Yuan and the others followed him step by step.

Halfway through, I heard the wind whistling outside the building, the grit crackling on the outer wall, and the whole enemy building swayed and made a 'squeak' sound. Everyone changed color a little, but Li Mi didn't seem to realize it, and climbed up with all his might. Wang Yuangong, Sun Lan and others also had to keep up, and finally climbed to the top of the enemy tower with difficulty.

Standing on the platform of Xu Fangyuan at the top, I only felt that the entire enemy tower was shaking in the whirring night wind, and a dragon flag hunting above my head was fluttering in the wind, and there was a brilliant galaxy that seemed to be closer. Looking down by the railing, I saw that the surrounding scenery was in full view, and the entire city of Wangzhou was in view. Although there is a dark wilderness Gobi outside the city, you can see the sparkling fires in the distance, if it is daytime, you will be able to see far away, and the control and observation of a radius of more than ten miles cannot be solved.

A "click" sound came from the enemy tower on the east side, and everyone was busy looking over, but they saw that the flagpole of the Qinglong flag fluttering at the top of the enemy building on the opposite side was blown by the strong wind, and the flag fluttered and fell to the city.

"When the deputy marshal inspected, the military flag broke and fell, which is a bad omen. It seems that the battle of Wangzhou is in a catastrophe. Li Mi frowned.

Wang Yuan smiled: "Why did the old general say this? The building is high and windy, even if the big living person is not careful, it will be blown down, not to mention the thin flagpole. Don't mind. Winning or not depends on strength and strategy, not these illusory things. ”

Li Mi nodded and said, "It's good that the deputy marshal doesn't blame." ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "What's the blame for this? These two enemy towers have been built for a long time, and I am already surprised that they can still stand for ten years without collapsing under such harsh wind and sand. ”

Li Mi's eyes lit up and said, "Collapsed? It won't collapse in another ten years. It took me eight months to build these two enemy towers, and I spent a lot of materials and money on skilled craftsmen invited from Chengdu. Don't look at them shaky, but the inside is all good solid wood, which is tightened and tightened by mortise and tenon joints, and is unusually strong. Ten years ago, when it was first built, it was shaking like this, and I had doubts at the time, but after shaking for ten years, there was never a single sign of collapse. The sandstorm hit the year before last, and the old people thought that they would not be able to hold on, but they still stood after the sandstorm. It's just that because of ten years of wind and rain and gravel, some of the stones on the exterior walls have fallen off, and some of the wood has rotted, but the old people have no money to rebuild them. ”

Wang Yuan picked his fingers and praised: "It is really a skillful craftsman's craft, shaking but not falling, this is where the ingenuity lies." General Li, if Wangzhou can be preserved this time, I will ask the imperial court to allocate funds to repair these two enemy towers. ”

Li Mi stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Let's talk about it after this pass, Tubo's abandoned buildings are not vegetarian, once the city is attacked, these two buildings will be destroyed overnight." ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "That's not necessarily. ”

Li Mi didn't want to hit the young lieutenant's heart, so he smiled slightly, turned his head to the south, pointed to the scattered fires in the south and said, "Can the lieutenant marshal see those continuous lights?" ”

Wang Yuan had already seen the light just now, and nodded: "It's less than ten miles away, if I guess correctly, it should be the company camp of Tubo and Nanzhao." ”

Li Mi nodded and said, "Yes, but it's not a company battalion." ”

Wang Yuan carefully observed for a long time and said, "I know, that is the big camp of Tubo. Camp on the east side of the hill, shelter from the wind and sand in the west, and the terrain is well chosen. And the camp tent spreads for miles, who else can it be besides the Tibetan soldiers and horses? As far as I know, the Nanzhao barbarians did not sleep in tents, they slept directly on the ground, or built simple shelters with grass and trees, even on the Gobi, they should not change their habits. ”

Li Mi glanced at Wang Yuan and said approvingly: "The deputy marshal knows a lot, but the old man has saved a lot of tongues." Yes, the area you see is the Tibetan military camp, and 30,000 Tibetan soldiers and horses arrived three days ago and have been stationed there. The camp of the soldiers and horses of Nanzhao was on the Gobi Desert on the east side. They didn't light a fire or pitch a tent, so they couldn't be seen at the moment. They also arrived in Wangzhou three days ago. ”

Wang Yuan frowned and said, "Three days ago?" That was when Quzhou was attacked, and as I expected, Ge Luofeng contained the main force of our Jiannan Army in Quzhou, and the Tubo soldiers and horses and seven thousand Nanzhao soldiers and horses went straight to Wangzhou. ”

Li Mi frowned and said: "What the deputy marshal said is very reasonable, but in fact, they arrived outside the city of Wangzhou three days ago, and it stands to reason that they should have launched an attack after the battle of Quzhou began, but they did not attack the city, which is very strange." ”

Wang Yuan was silent.

Li Mi continued: "The old man has already made preparations, the battlements of the southern city wall have been raised by one foot, and thousands of people have been mobilized to help defend the city. But for three days they did not move, which made the old man suspect that they had some other conspiracy, which was very disturbing. ”

Wang Yuan held on to the railing and looked at the enemy camp in the distance and pondered for a long time, then smiled and said, "General Li, things may have become very interesting. ”

"Interesting? Where is the great enemy interesting at the moment? Li Mi said in surprise.

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Of course it's interesting, although the alliance seems to be strong, but after all, each is its own master, and no one wants to come up first and take the first knife, because they all know that the side that rushes up first will definitely suffer the most ferocious blow, so these two soldiers and horses with evil intentions are waiting for the other party to attack first, and they are waiting in the back to reap the benefits of the fisherman." Isn't it interesting that you squeeze me and I squeeze you, and no one wants to attack the city first, and they all want to follow behind to pick up the bargain? ”

Li Mi frowned and thought about it, stretched out his hand and patted the wooden fence, using too much force, the rotten wooden fence was smashed and shattered, crackling and breaking in several places, and was blown to the ground by the wind in several places. Li Mi's body shook, but fortunately, Wang Yuan reached out and grabbed his arm, so he didn't fall.

Everyone was taken aback, but Li Mi didn't care, and laughed excitedly: "I'm really old and confused, I didn't expect this festival." It is no wonder that the soldiers and horses of Nanzhao once made a feint attack three days ago, but when they reached a few miles away, they turned around and went back, originally because they were worried that the first attacker would suffer huge losses. This is a horse leg pinned to each other and refused to step forward to take the first knife. Hahaha, interesting, indeed interesting. ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "Let's go down and talk, the old general's strength, it will not be good to demolish this enemy building later." ”

Li Mi smiled: "Okay, let's go down and talk." ”

The group descended down the spiral ladder to the city wall, stepped on the solid ground, and a stone fell to the ground in everyone's hearts. Li Mi's joy also passed.

"But the danger is not over, sooner or later they will attack the city, and once the siege begins, they will not care about the gains and losses. The deputy marshal once said at the banquet that there was a plan to retreat from the enemy, can you talk to the old man now, so that the old man also has a bottom in his heart. ”

Wang Yuan said with a smile: "I don't dare to say the plan to retreat from the enemy, but I do think about it." I had a plan in mind before I arrived, and now it seems that the hope of success is even greater, as we find that the coalition forces on the other side are not seamless, but more likely to have their own agendas. ”

Li Mi said: "To put it bluntly, the old decay is a little confused. “

Wang Yuan smiled and said: "Old general, it's not difficult to hold Wangzhou, aren't you worried about the lack of troops?" I have decided to recruit troops in Wangzhou, and within a few days, Chengdu will ship 5,000 sets of armor and blades, and I will recruit 5,000 new soldiers in Wangzhou, what do you think? ”

Li Mi was surprised: "Recruitment? This needs to be approved by the imperial court, otherwise it is a big crime. ”

Wang Yuan smiled: "Don't worry, I will take care of this matter, you just don't know." General Li wanted to hold Wangzhou, and this was the quickest way. Although the recruits are not of much use, as long as they learn to shoot arrows and learn to cut people with swords, they are always ten times better than the unarmed people. What did General Lee think? ”

Li Mi looked at Wang Yuan blankly, the young deputy marshal in front of him was really daring, but at the moment, he really needed soldiers and horses to defend the city, and Tubo came to attack, which was also an excellent excuse.

"The deputy marshal is not afraid, what is the old man afraid of? In the future, the court will punish it, and the old decay will also be responsible. ”

Wang Yuan laughed and said: "The old general is really simple, but the court will not blame it, even if it is blamed, I will not implicate the old general." ”

Wang Yuan didn't tell Li Mi clearly, this was all an agreement reached with Yang Guozhong before Wang Yuan left Beijing. The imperial court could not increase the number of troops, but in order to reverse the situation, Wang Yuan could recruit troops from the local area to replenish the lost troops, as long as the situation of the war could be reversed, Yang Guozhong would fully support and maintain these things.

"In this way, 20,000 soldiers and horses will defend the city, and Netzhou should be safe. This time, the old man was relieved. Li Mi said happily, and began to slap the battlements in front of him again, but this time the battlements were all sandbags high, and the sand was flying, but there would never be danger again.

Wang Yuan shook his head slowly and said: "General Li, just holding Wangzhou is definitely not my purpose here, what I hope for is a better ending, and this is the point I want to discuss with General Li." Tomorrow I want to go out of town. ”

Li Mi didn't react, frowned and asked, "Where to go?" At the moment of the great enemy, the deputy marshal should concentrate on commanding and defending the city in the city. ”

Wang Yuan shook his head, pointed to the distance in the south and said, "I'm going to the enemy camp." ”