Every morning, Yanglin will habitually climb the ice peak to observe the movement of the Tubo camp, and constantly calculate their grain and grass consumption, the battle to this time, although the two sides only died a few people because of the disease, but the consumption of manpower and material resources is huge, the Tubo army is 700,000 plus, a month has already eaten up the food they brought, and now, they have to kill their survival yaks to supplement food, and their yak number is less than 100,000, If we do not take into account the food supply chain that will be difficult for the Tibetans to recover after the yaks are eaten, the Tibetans can hold out for about ten days at most.

There are 120,000 soldiers and horses in the four towns under Yanglin's command, of which 40,000 were organized into transport soldiers by him, who specially collected fire oil and wood to boil water and keep warm. "Report, Metropolitan Governor, there is a battle report from Qiuzi City." A panting Hu soldier held a message and roared up the ice peak to hand it to Yanglin Dao. "There's a battle report in Qiuzi City?" Yang Lin was shocked in his heart, and his face changed greatly in an instant, what he was most worried about was that the Tubo people forced the snow mountain to sneak attack his back road, this is a complete Yang conspiracy, even if he knew it, he did not have enough troops to resist, and now he only hoped that Wang Xiyue in Qiuzi City would not lose.

Hurriedly read the letter, Yang Lin breathed a long sigh of relief, Haocai Wan cavalry arrived in time, and launched a field battle with the Tubo army outside the city, with the help of the shotgun at the head of Qiuci City, 30,000 against 80,000, although the loss of thousands of people, but also temporarily repelled the Tubo people, now they have entered the Qiuci City, and the surrounding food and hay can be used as strategic materials are moved into the Qiuci City, in the short term, the defense of Qiuci City is quite worry-free. "Summoning the generals to the big tent."

Yanglin didn't care about the Tubo people on the other side of the ice wall, and hurriedly went down the ice peak, the Tubo cavalry who crossed the snow mountain was very strong, although it was 80,000 against 30,000, but in the frontal battle with the well-equipped 10,000 cavalry army fought for casualties, that is to say, they only need to pay the price of 30,000 people, they can completely annihilate the 10,000 cavalry, and the remaining 50,000 cavalry will capture the other cities of the four towns without any hindrance, this is not what Yanglin is most worried about, now the soldiers and horses of the four towns have been transferred to Guancheng by Yanglin, If the leading figures of Tubo were smart enough to give up attacking Qiuci City, then the remaining three towns would all fall, and the losses of the Tang Dynasty would be great.

The generals of the four towns were originally in the army, and soon gathered in the big tent of Yanglin, and after reporting the detour of the Tubo cavalry to attack Qiuci City, everyone fell into silence, these generals have been out of the western region of the town for some years, and most of the families are stationed, and now these people are exposed to the army of the Tubo people, it is obviously impossible not to worry, the Tubo people are a slave society, but they will not be as friendly as the Tang Dynasty official army. "Today's situation, the Tubo army on the other side of the ice wall can hold out for ten days at most, as long as our army here does not withdraw, the main force of the Tubo army will be defeated, but the Tubo people raided Qiuzi with 80,000 elites, ten days, enough time for them to sweep the remaining three towns without soldiers, when our city and homeland are destroyed, all the grain and grass military reserves belong to the Tubo people, and the morale of our army that has lost the supply of grain and grass will definitely collapse instantly, and it will be defeated by the Tubo people, so the most important thing at the moment is to block, or, eliminate the 80,000 Tubo cavalryIf you have any good ideas, you can express your opinions. "Yang Lin calmly told the generals about the situation, the current situation is not good, and for a while, he didn't come up with a good way." Most of the governors, the Tubo people, animals and horses are cold-resistant, the soldiers are all good at riding and fighting, even in winter, the ability to run is also very strong, our army only about 30,000 Hu army can barely compare with the Tubo people in horsemanship, but the combat power is much weaker than the Tubo people, even if it is plus more than 20,000 cavalry troops, and the combat power of the Tubo army also has a large gap, subordinates know that although the ten thousand cavalry army is well-equipped, but it is only a new recruit who has just come into contact with war horses for a year, and their riding skills are even inferior to our ordinary Hu people, and the Tubo people fight head-on, There is hardly any chance of winning. “

Jiao Siluo is the general of Shule Town, and he is the only Hu general in the four towns, this is because his combat experience and military exploits are the strongest among the generals in the Western Regions. Yang Lin listened to his analysis, nodded yes, and looked at the other generals. "General Kaslo is right, even if we want to fight them, we can't catch up with them, how can we fight? It is unrealistic to annihilate them, how to defend the city is the key, as long as they do not get the grain and grass reserves in our city, they can starve to death their main army, and then we will slowly deal with their elite cavalry, and there will be a chance to win. “

Brut has been appointed by Yanglin as the new general of Qiuzi Town, and after a few months of chaos in Yanglin, his intelligence has also increased. "Defensive?" Yanglin's eyes lit up, it seems that there is a set of strategic methods, and now it has reached the coldest time at the end of the year, although the Western Regions are not as cold as the plateau, but it is also cold and terrible, if you can mobilize the people, strengthen the city wall with ice walls, and the Tubo people who have no siege equipment want to break the city in a short time, I am afraid it is impossible. Thinking of this, Yang Lin's brain was opened, and he remembered the tactics of the first warmonger in later generations, Genghis Khan, a person who defeated the strong for most of his life with the weak, and finally became the strongest. Combined with the war ideas and guerrilla tactics of the later generations of Taizu, it is not impossible to drag the Tubo army to death!

So Yanglin immediately picked up a pen and paper, wrote and drew on the paper in front of the case for a while, and finally dried the ink with satisfaction, and ordered the heralds to quickly send the letter to Qiuzi City, and more messenger scouts were sent by Yanglin to more cities in the other three towns, and they wanted to remind the local city defenders to mobilize the people to water the city walls with ice water and even seal the city gates before the Tubo people reacted.

"Rise up, people who do not want to be slaves, use our snow and water to build our new fortified city, the people of the Western Regions have arrived, and when it is most dangerous, everyone is forced to let out a final roar・・・・・・"

The scout team quickly whipped up, day and night, two days to spread Yanglin's letter to Qiuci City, and a new ballad from Wang Xiyue's mouth began to sing in Qiuci City, she set an example, personally led the people to climb the city, with the melting snow water to water the sandy city wall to seven or eight zhang high, suddenly the people in the city of the confidence to defend the city doubled, the people of the Western Regions who were already fierce in the folk style picked up their own swords and guns, ready to fight at any time, just momentum, it scared off Lu Dongzan, who had tentatively attacked outside the city for two days, so far, The Tibetan army had to abandon the attack on Qiuci City and turn its direction.

"A good enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, the enemy retreats and I chase, the tactics of the metropolitan governor are really exquisite, now the Tubo people have retreated, Qiuzi City has been able to defend and supply the supply of Guancheng on its own, our 10,000 cavalry army can just pull out, use these sixteen-character tactics to drag the Tubo people, at least for the people of other towns to buy two or three days to strengthen the city."

Xue Rengui is a genius of war, almost instantly understood the essence of the sixteen-character guerrilla warfare written by Yang Lin, his first battle with the Tubo army was actually defeated, defeated in the new army without any combat experience, riding skills are not as good as others, the psychological quality of the battle is not as good as others, plus they are also in the adaptation period to the bad weather environment, so even if they are equipped with heavy cavalry and the same firearms as the guards of the Horse Mansion, they only killed a considerable number of Tubo people, which is a shame for the ten thousand cavalry army.

But now it's different, with Qiuzi City as the backing, he no longer needs to carry a lot of equipment for long-distance marches, as for grain and grass, every city in the Western Regions will be his supply station, and their speed can be improved a lot when they go into battle lightly, the soldiers have had a fighting experience, and their psychological quality is also much stronger, plus novel tactics, all of which make Xue Rengui see the hope of a shame.

At night, Xue Rengui rode a white horse, leading his subordinate 25,000 cavalry out of Qiuzi City, he wanted to buy time for the people of other towns, he needed to run non-stop to harass the Tubo army, night battle is a subject that the 10,000 cavalry army often trained in the Longshouyuan training base, but the Tubo people who have not broken out in the war for ten years do not often haunt at night, the plateau and the Western Regions are the world of wolves at night, the Tubo people are afraid of wolves, and Xue Rengui wants his army to become a wolf pack.

"A hundred miles of rapid march, no need to care about horsepower."

Xue Rengui's military order was issued, and he took the lead in the front of the team, wearing fine armor, his martial arts value on the horse was close to that of several great martial arts masters in the world, and he was already fearless in his heart. On the first night, he didn't plan to attack the Tubo people at all, he just needed to shorten the distance between the two sides, the cautious Lu Dongzan would not rashly attack out when the enemy situation was unknown, and on the first night Xue Rengui used the tactic of 'the enemy retreats and I chase', don't care if you fight or not, I will catch up with you, so that you can't rest in peace.

Sure enough, Xue Rengui's brigade was discovered by the Tubo outpost when he was close to the camp tent of the Tubo people for more than ten miles, and the nervous Tubo people picked up their knives and guns, led the war horses, and prepared to fight, but at this distance, Xue Rengui suddenly ordered the whole army to dismount and rest, set up a simple tent, feed the horses and eat, do not take off their clothes and armor, and sleep with knives, and only sent a few men and horses to patrol the night.

The result of this trick of 'the enemy retreats and I chase' is that the Tubo army and the 10,000 cavalry army have rushed to a place more than 100 miles outside the city of Qiuci, and the Tubo people only have a small rest in the first half of the night, while the 10,000 cavalry army slept for three or four hours in the second half of the night according to the normal schedule.

When the sun first rose and the silver light filled the earth, Lu Dongzan found that the Tang army ten miles away was only more than 20,000 people, and at this time the Tang army was already full of energy and ready to go, on the other hand, his own army, in the cold night was highly guarded for most of the night, but now they were all mentally tired, yawning, if he ordered a forced battle, the odds of victory would definitely fall from the original five to four or six, not very cost-effective, but he did not forget his strategic goal, seize the city, get grain and grass supplies, so he ordered to continue to move forward, Attack the other major city to which the town of Qiuzi belongs, Chiyeonseong.

However, before his soldiers and horses could reach the foot of Yancheng, they heard a trumpet like a tsunami.

"Rise up, people who do not want to be slaves, use our snow and water to build our new fortified city, the people of the Western Regions have arrived, and when it is most dangerous, everyone is forced to let out a final roar・・・・・・"

"This."

Lu Dongzan has passed by Yancheng more than once, its wealth is second only to Qiuci City, but the city defense can not be compared with Qiuci, but now, the ice wall more than ten zhang high almost rushed into the clouds for half a day, on the head of the city, the people of Yancheng each held different water scoops, buckets, and even wine jugs to pour cold water on the city wall, and even the city gate cave They did not let go, unless it was a large equivalent of huo medicine, otherwise, who could break the defense of this strong city.

"Wow, it's the ice wall again, the Heavenly Grant Horse is too hateful, turn around, let's annihilate the Tang Army that is following us first." Lu Dongzan almost vomited blood in anger, and the catchy ballad described them as looters, and the bosses of any place did not want their belongings to be plundered, so driven by this song, the hearts of the people of the Western Regions soon became a rope, not only in Yancheng, but even the cities under the farther Shule Town began to pour ice walls to resist the Tubo people.

"Hehe, the Tubo people are coming, we should run, this is called the enemy to advance and I retreat." Xue Rengui glanced at Yancheng, which was crystal clear in the sun, and said with a smile in his heart. (To be continued.) )