There are more than 10 small towns in Annan, the capital is Jiaozhou City, the military town of Taiyuan, and the important port cities of Weiliangshan and Thanh Hoa.

In Jiaozhou City, Li Shan, Yunfei and Yang Han were drinking tea in the teahouse.

Li Shandao: "Little Er, I see that Jiaozhou City has been very lively these days, I don't know if there are any happy events?" "The people in Annan mostly use Chinese, and the business of the Han people is endless, Xiao Er is completely unwary of the Han people, which is completely different from Dali.

Xiao Er said: "Guest officer, you are from other places, in two days it will be the 60th birthday of our lord, and it will be the day when the princess of the country chooses a son-in-law." The whole country rejoiced and exempted this year's taxes, and the whole country celebrated for three days. ”

Li Shan glanced at Yun Fei, nodded, and then said to Xiao Er: "Oh, this is really a great event, and many people must come here to celebrate their birthdays at that time." ”

Xiao Er was obviously very proud, and said with a thumbs up: "That's natural, all the famous people in the country have to come to celebrate their birthdays in person, and Wang Gong's children are even more likely to come to ask for relatives, and even the envoys of the Tang Dynasty have come to congratulate them." ”

Li Shandao: "On such a festive day, we also want to go and see the heroic appearance of the lord of Annan and the beauty of the princess." ”

Xiao Er shook his head and said, "How is that possible, the lord and the princess are in the palace, you can't see it." However, one of my cousins is really a guard in the palace, and he has seen the appearance of a princess, who is said to be as beautiful as a fairy, comparable to Diao Chan in the Three Kingdoms. ”

The legends among people are exaggerated, even the cousin of this little second has never seen what Diao Chan looks like. It's just a space for people to think. However, this little second gave Li Shan a very useful message.

Li Shan said: "Haha, that's." You can arrange a place for us to stay, and our brothers will play here for two days. ”

As he spoke, Li Shan took out a piece of silver from his arms and threw it to Xiao Er, who quickly led the three of them into a few upper rooms.

Li Shan stopped Xiao Er, took out a silver ingot from his arms and gave it to Xiao Er, and said with a smile: "This little brother, we are very interested in your cousin, the people in the palace must know a lot of things in the palace, our brother is curious, I want to meet your cousin, I don't know if the little brother can be introduced?" ”

With the silver, it is naturally easy to speak, Xiao Er is full of promises, saying that they will meet tomorrow, besides, Xiao Er's cousin is actually just a patrol in the palace, and no one thinks about anything.

In the evening, Ah San and Wu Tianzong suddenly entered the guest room, Wu Tianzong was sent by Qing'er to help Li Shan, and he also brought a lot of martial arts brothers.

Wu Tianzong said: "We have heard that this time, the 60th birthday of the lord of Annan, the long history of each town, and the generals will come to Jiaozhou City." At that time, Jiaozhou City gathered all the rulers of the entire Annan Kingdom. As long as Jiaozhou City is taken, it is equivalent to capturing Annan's brain. ”

Li Shandao: "Who is the general of Taiyuan City?" Will he come too? ”

Ah San took out a few portraits of the characters and said: "This is the Taiyuan City Guard, who will not come this time, this person is loyal, does not know how to be flexible, acts hotly, and is easy to be impulsive." This is the envoy sent by the Tang Dynasty this time, named Li Tuo, a member of the Ministry of Rites, who has been able to reach Jiaozhou City two days ago, and now the post house has collapsed......"

Yun Fei said: "Li Shan, this is a good opportunity, there are many people on his birthday, it is a good time for us to fish in troubled waters, tonight Brother Yang and I will go to explore the wind first." ”

Li Shan said: "Okay, this time only success is allowed and no failure is allowed, if you can not use the sword soldiers and those Annan, it is not only a great achievement, but also a good deed." Ah San, you hurry to the border to inform our troops, so that they can also hurry up and get ready, and act according to the battle plan I made before. ”

Ah San said: "Young Master, I'm not here, who will protect you?" ”

Li Shandao: "Don't worry, it's okay if no one protects me this time, and there are Wu Tianzong and them here." Take 10,000 steps back, and even if you are caught by them, as long as your plan is successful, they will not dare to kill me, so go quickly. ”

Ten days ago,

Li Shan returned to Dali and discussed with Qing'er about taking Annan.

Qing'er spread Annan's map on the table: "Annan is a country with a narrow land and few people, and the only heavily guarded country is Taiyuan next to the capital Jiaozhou City, which is also the only obstacle to our eastward advance. ”

Li Shandao: "This time we can't come out, I will lead an army of 40,000 at most, and leave 60,000 soldiers in case the Tang army reinforces to cut off our back road." It is all the more necessary to prevent civil strife in the country. Annan is not as good as Bi Guo and Lu Zhenla, although it is a delicacy, but there is a tiger watching, a little carelessness we may steal food, but by the tiger greedy. ”

Qing'er said: "I have found out that there are 10,000 defenders in Taiyuan City, and there are countless grains and grasses. We rushed to Taiyuan City from the border, and we could form a siege in half a day. It's just that the defense of Taiyuan City is solid, and from the border to Taiyuan City are rugged mountain roads, our siege equipment cannot be transported for a while, and the grain and grass are difficult to sustain. Once we get into a tug-of-war, we are very passive. The reinforcements of the Tang army will be very fast, according to my estimate, at least 5,000 reinforcements will reach Taiyuan City within three days, and the Tang army will be able to provide at least 10,000 reinforcements within ten days. Add in the thousands of troops in California City, and we're facing nearly 30,000 troops. Are you sure? ”

Li Shan said with a smile: "Actually, it is not difficult to capture Taiyuan City, as long as I want, I can take Taiyuan City within ten days." On the one hand, I led 20,000 soldiers to raid Taiyuan City with a thunderous force, causing a situation in Taiyuan City and forcing Jiaozhou City to increase its troops. Then we are taking advantage of the cavalry and raiding the city of Jiaozhou. Taiyuan City will be reinforced. I will lead two ambushers to ambush each other. You can take Jiaozhou and Taiyuan at the same time. ”

Qing'er clapped her hands and smiled: "This plan is good, in this case, you can take Taiyuan and Jiaozhou in one fell swoop, and Annan can be determined." ”

Li Shandao: "But this move seems to be quite risky, if Jiaozhou City does not reinforce in time, our strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements will be ineffective, once Taiyuan City holds on, our situation will be very embarrassing." So, I'd like to add one more insurance. ”

Qing'er still has some belief in Li Shan's military talent, and among these people, except for Li Shan, no one has really fought a war, so Li Shan's words naturally have absolute authority.

Qing'er said: "What kind of insurance, let's hear it." ”

Li Shandao: "Special operation, decapitation operation." I'm going to borrow one of your people. This time, I want to pacify Annan without blood, you will send an urgent letter to Chang'an, you must say that it is Ge Luofeng who was the mastermind of Annan, the more miserable it is, the better. In that way, Tang Xuanzong would not rush to send troops. (To be continued.) )