Early in the morning, when there was a fish white belly in the eastern sky, Li Hong woke up, he exercised in the yard, had breakfast, and went to the study to read. ∏∈ ∏∈ ∏∈ Xiao ∏∈ said that he should have gathered all the generals to discuss the military situation and discuss how to defend the city today, but yesterday he had already handed over all the tasks of defending the city to Guo Shifeng and Heizhi Changzhi, and today he didn't want to do this kind of behavior that disgusted Guo Shifeng and Heizhi Changzhi, and with Guo Shifeng's ability and Heizhi Changzhi's ability, 30,000 troops defending Hezhou City would not be broken by the Tubo people, which was completely possible, and he didn't need to dwell on this issue.

When he was reading a book in the study, Chen Gong strode into the study and replied to Li Hong, "Your Highness, General Guo, they are waiting in the front hall, saying that they want to discuss the military situation with you, and let me come and invite you." ”

This is Guo Shifeng's ability to be a man, Li Hong can let him be fully responsible for today's military affairs in Hezhou City, but Guo Shifeng can't ignore current affairs. That's why he took the initiative to invite Li Hong and let Li Hong attend today's meeting. This is a sign of respect for Li Hong and a sign of allegiance to Li Hong.

Li Hong put down the book, thought about it for a while, and decided to go to the meeting. Because his posture has been done enough, if he doesn't go, he will be a little suspicious of evasion. Besides, if he goes and doesn't speak, wouldn't it be the same if he gave up the leading power to Guo Shifeng? Why do you have to be so superficial and hypocritical?

"Let's go, let's go." Li Hong got up and said to Chen Gong, and strode out of the study.

Li Hong and Chen Gong came to the front hall and found that everyone was already seated and waiting for him.

"You're polite, no need to be polite, everyone sit down!" Li Hong said politely, and went straight to the front of the main seat, but he didn't sit down, but said to Guo Shifeng, "General Guo, I said yesterday that I would let you have full authority to handle today's military affairs, but I didn't expect you to invite Gu again today, and I didn't want to come to today's meeting, but I can't ignore it." In this way, Lone can participate in today's meeting, but Lone is not very proficient in defending the city, so you will preside over today's meeting, and Lone can be an observer. ”

After Li Hong finished speaking, he walked to Guo Shifeng and wanted to invite Guo Shifeng to the main seat.

Guo Shifeng didn't expect Li Hong to do this, he was moved for a while and didn't know how to do it, he was not a person who was easily moved, but yesterday's Li Hong's actions and today's attitude made him deeply feel Li Hong's respect for him. Li Hong is the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, and His Majesty, the future emperor of the Tang Dynasty, has such respect for a general like him who has not a high official position and few military achievements, which is not something anyone can do.

"Your Highness—" Guo Shifeng was about to refuse but was stopped by Li Hong, "General Guo, don't shirk anymore, don't you listen to Lone's will?" ”

"No!" Guo Shifeng hurriedly agreed, and sat down on the main seat at Li Hong's signal, Li Hong walked to Guo Shifeng's position and sat down.

Immediately, the meeting began.

Today's meeting is very simple, it is how to deal with the siege of the Tibetans in the next few days, and more importantly, how to weaken the strength of the Tibetans as much as possible by defending the city.

The tools used to defend the city were generally ten pieces, wood, boiling water, and fire oil, and the rest were bows and arrows.

Among these tools, the real lethality is the fire oil, but the fire oil is too precious, and there are not many reserves in the border gates, so it is generally not used as a last resort, so the only thing left is the bow and arrow, ten pieces and big wood, and the more powerful is the boiling water, but the boiling water is easy to burn their own people, and it also has its own drawbacks.

Everyone discussed this for a long time, but there was no result.

In the middle of the sound, Li Hong opened his mouth and said, "Just use fire oil!" ”

"Kerose?"

Black Tooth Changzhi is a little puzzled, is it too early to use the fire oil to defend the city, when Guo Shi sealed the city before, it has been used at a critical time, and now the fire oil in Hezhou City is only enough to be used twice, and if you use it once today, there is only one time left, and it can't be used easily!

However, Li Hong also has his reason in saying this, he only needs three days to stop Lu Dongzan from continuing to attack the city, so Guo Shifeng only needs to hold Hezhou City for three days. 30,000 people defend for three days, even if it is the Tubo army attacking the city outside the city, there is no big problem, and there is no bad use of fire oil at this time, if the strength of the Tubo people can be killed and injured to a greater extent in three days, why is he not happy?

"Yes, just use fire oil, when we are defending the city today, we will use fire oil when we first try our best to kill the Tubo soldiers, and let Lu Dongzan go crazy and send more people to attack the city." Li Hong explained.

"But Your Highness, there is not much more fire oil to win, and it can only be used for two more times." Guo Shifeng reminded cautiously. He was afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would not know the reserves of fire oil in Hezhou City.

"It's okay, I'll write a letter and send someone to Sun to make an appointment, so that he can immediately prepare a large amount of fire oil and send it to Hezhou City." Li Hong waved his hand and said, the prince's domineering spirit was completely manifested at this time.

"Really?" Guo Shifeng was overjoyed, but he forgot Li Hong's identity, and began to question that Li Hong was coming. It's not that he got carried away because of Li Hong's respect for him, it's really in Datang that the fire oil is too precious, as long as the fire oil burns, it is difficult for you to use water to extinguish him, and the fire after the fire oil burns is very large, and it is a sharp weapon for defending the city, so not every border town can distribute the fire oil, and the fire oil will be so precious. The oil in Hezhou City and Liangzhou City was still looted from various countries in the Western Regions when Su Dingfang was operating in the northwest, and the oil allocated by the Tang Dynasty Military Department to the two cities was really not much, because the Tang Dynasty was fighting with Goryeo, Silla, and Baekje in Liaodong, and there were not too many strategic materials for the Northwest Army.

"Ahem-" Hei Tooth Changzhi noticed Guo Shifeng's abnormal behavior and hurriedly coughed and reminded.

Guo Shifeng immediately came to his senses, his face was panicked, and he was about to ask Li Hong for his guilt, but Li Hong laughed and said, "General Guo, can Lone tell lies?" You don't have to worry about the problem of fire oil, you can use it boldly today. Of course, with the use of fire oil as a weapon to defend the city, if you don't clean up a few Tubo people for Lone, Lone will not spare you. ”

"No!" Guo Shifeng immediately received the order, and suddenly his whole person looked more energetic.

In fact, a military meeting like today's would not take long, because the issues discussed were very simple, and Li Hong did not say a word during the meeting, except for the suggestion of using oil and oil.

Therefore, under the auspices of Zhi Guo Shifeng, the generals' suggestions on how to defend and how to maximize the damage to the Tibetan siege soldiers were very simple.

In a few moments, the meeting ended.

At this time, Guo Shifeng got up and said to Li Hong, "After guarding the city, His Royal Highness will go with the last general to watch the battle!" ”

When Guo Shifeng said this, he actually regarded himself as Li Hong's courtier. Because Li Hong said that he was not good at defending the city and didn't know much about it, Guo Shifeng asked Li Hong to go with him to watch the battle, just to let Li Hong learn how to defend the city by watching him defend the city.

If the ordinary prince Guo Shifeng would not say this, now that he has become Li Hong's person, he naturally has to think about Li Hong.

At this moment, a guard hurriedly walked into the living room and said to Li Hong, "Your Highness, the Tibetan army is coming. ”

Everyone was surprised by the guard's words, after yesterday's fiasco, it would be strange if Lu Dongzan didn't come to attack the city today. However, the fact that Lu Dongzan's army had been killed under the city of Hezhou so early was enough to show how angry he was at yesterday's humiliation.

"How many of them came?" Li Hong asked.

"General Liu and General Yuwen said that there were about 60,000 horses." The guard said that the generals Liu and Yuwen in his mouth were Liu Wenjie and Yuwen Chongtian, and neither of them came to the meeting in the morning, and they had already been sent by Guo Shifeng to guard the city on the tower of Hezhou City.

"Sixty thousand iron horsemen?" Li Hong said with a serious face, "It seems that Lu Dongzan doesn't want to capture Hezhou City today, and he doesn't want to give up!" ”

"The first few times, he did all his best!" Guo Shifeng said lightly.

Li Hong said with a serious expression, but said in a light tone, "The first few times he personally led all the troops to the city of Hezhou, it was to put pressure on our soldiers, and today he brought 60,000 elite horsemen to the city, he really wanted to use 60,000 horses to attack the city." ”

"It seems that today is another tragic battle!" Hei Tooth Chang Zhi also sighed, his face was red, this thing was excited when it came to fighting, he was definitely a warmonger.

"Let's go, let's go and take a look, and then look at Lu Dongzan's army." Li Hong said with a smile, and walked towards the city tower of Hezhou City, and now he has nothing but contempt for Lu Dongzan. What kind of Tubo elite ride, what kind of Tubo hero, in his Li Hong's eyes, is nothing. If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have a strong enough cavalry, if he had sixty or seventy thousand such iron cavalry in his hands, he really wouldn't be willing to shrink in Hezhou City and let Lu Dongzan be arrogant.

Many people say that the grassland peoples are like sheep raised to the farming people, and the farming people only have the share of being slaughtered.

Slaughter the fart, slaughter your sister's head!

If you think about the previous Great Qin Empire, and then the Later Great Han Empire, to the Northern Tang Dynasty to drive the Turks, when did the farming people of the Central Plains ever be at a disadvantage in the struggle with the nomads? Doesn't this group of barbarians beat these barbarians all over the ground every time to find teeth, and run away with their grandson in a gray way?

Therefore, in Li Hong's view, this is not a question of which of the two cultural circles is superior or inferior, but the fundamental question is whether the king of this country has such ambition and courage, whether he has such blood, and whether he has the courage to fight with the sky.

To put it bluntly, if you are not afraid of god-like opponents, you are afraid of pig-like teammates.

It's the same with war, if you are not afraid of a god-like enemy, you are afraid of a pig-like commander. Chen Qingzhi's three thousand white robes of the Southern Dynasty can shock the world, is it true that every white-robed army is really powerful? Is it mainly because of Chen Qingzhi's bravery, daring to kill and fighting blood, that such an iron army was created?