"What's the emergency?" Li Hong asked loudly, "Say it quickly!" ”

This Qianniuwei handed a letter of express to Yan Zhuang, and Yan Zhuang presented the express to Li Hong. When Li Hong opened it, his face became very ugly.

"The Tubo people don't know what to do, Lu Dongzan has sent troops!" Li Hong said, and handed the express to Su Dingfang. Su Dingfang took the express report, slapped the table and shouted, "This puppet, when the veteran was in the northwest, he didn't move, this time the veteran just Chang'an, he led the army to commit the border, it's too hateful." ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, the veteran will return to Liangzhou and organize an army to meet Lu Dongzan." Su Dingfang said loudly, his body was full of murderous energy, and at this moment, his temperament as a military general was suddenly revealed.

At this point, since Su Dingfang returned to Chang'an City this time, he would not allow him to leave again. Su Dingfang, who is sitting in Chang'an City, even if he no longer leads the army, as long as he is there, he is still worth thousands of troops.

"If you look at the content of the battle report, it just says that the Tibetan army intends to move eastward again, and it has not yet confronted us, and it is not too late for us to discuss countermeasures slowly." Li Hong is ready to stabilize Su Dingfang, since he is ready to leave Su Dingfang behind, someone in the northwest must be in charge, Pei Xingjian's current qualifications alone may not be enough, not to mention that Wang Fangyi is not convinced, that is, Guo Shifeng and Heizhi Changzhi, who can really convince Pei Xingjian? After all, Pei Xingjian has no dazzling merits. Therefore, since Su Dingfang was left to guard in Chang'an, he was the only one who wanted to go to the northwest.

"What does Your Highness mean?" Su Dingfang asked, he felt that the prince had something to say.

"This is the end of tonight's banquet, Su Dingfang, please go to the East Palace with Gu, and we will talk in detail." Li Hong said.

Su Dingfang nodded slightly.

Li Hong announced the end of the banquet, although everyone didn't know the content of the Northwest Urgency, but when they saw the expressions of the prince and Su Xiang, they knew that the matter was very serious, so they inquired about each other's news, but no one around them knew the details, and everyone inquired for a long time and saw that they didn't get any useful news, so they left one after another.

Su Dingfang followed Li Hong back to the East Palace and was invited to the study by Li Hong.

In addition to him, there are two prime ministers in the study, Le Yanwei and Sun Chu, Zhang Wenjun, the middle scholar and the prince's left concubine, Xiao Dezhao, the prince's right concubine, and Li Jingxuan, the middle scholar, the bachelor of Hongwenguan, and Li Jingxuan, the right middle protector of the prince.

These people can be regarded as the team of Li Hongdong's palace, and they are Li Hong's absolute strength in Chang'an. As for the military, in addition to Su Dingfang, there is also the black tooth Changzhi.

Everyone sat in the study, and the atmosphere was very solemn.

Because in the main hall, Li Hong did not elaborate on the situation, now in the study, Li Hong will show the content of the battle report to everyone, and everyone knows the details, Tubo Ludong praised the army of 200,000, approaching the northwest border pass of the Tang Dynasty, and the first to bear the brunt is Liangzhou and Hezhou.

Liangzhou and Hezhou are the gateways of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest and the only way for the Tang Dynasty to reach the Western Regions.

As long as the Tibetan army occupies these two places, the Tang Dynasty will cut off the trade route with the Western Regions, and the Tang army in the Western Regions will be isolated, and it will be much easier for Lu Dongzan to clean up the Tang army in the northwest at that time.

In fact, Li Hong and everyone knew very well that the purpose of Lu Dongzan's army was not to occupy the land of the Tang Dynasty, but to the Western Regions. It's just that if he wants to completely eradicate the Tang Dynasty's army in the Western Regions, he must block the connection between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Regions, so Liangzhou and Hezhou have become the key.

"Lu Dongzan actually dispatched 200,000 troops this time, which is probably two-thirds of the Tubo army!" Li Jingxuan said with emotion, I think Lu Dongzan is serious this time, if it was placed in the past, Datang was really not scared, but now it is different, Datang's elite soldiers are all in the northeast battlefield, and the total strength in the northwest is less than 100,000, and most of them are foot soldiers, how can it be compared with the 200,000 army of Tubo?

"This matter must be ruled by Your Majesty as soon as possible." Xiao Dezhao said, "If you want to stop Lu Dongzan's army this time, you must mobilize the army fighting in the northeast." ”

"That's right!" Zhang Wenqian also suggested, "If you don't mobilize the army on the northeast battlefield, the defenders in the northwest, plus the 40,000 soldiers in Chang'an City, I am afraid it will be difficult to stop the attack of the Tubo army." ”

Whether it is Xiao Dezhao's words or Zhang Wenjun's meaning, they actually want to mobilize the army on the northeast battlefield, and they think that with the current military strength of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest, it is simply difficult to compete with Lu Dongzan's 200,000 army.

Li Hong was silent, he was thinking about countermeasures, he didn't think about not telling Gaozong about such a big thing, just mobilizing the army on the Northeast Battlefield would make the Tang Dynasty's advantage in the Northeast Battlefield disappear, and it would stimulate the counterattack of the Three Kingdoms on the Northeast Battlefield, which he did not allow, so he wanted a proper solution, not only to not mobilize the army on the Northeast Battlefield, but also to defeat Lu Dongzan's 200,000 iron cavalry.

When Li Hong was silent, Su Dingfang was also silent, but his brows were furrowed, and he seemed to be thinking about something.

After a long time, Li Hong opened his mouth and asked, "What does Su Xiang mean?" ”

"It is not difficult to combat Lu Dongzan's arrogance, it is enough to give His Highness 40,000 elite soldiers to the veteran. I just want to give Lu Dongzan a painful price, I'm afraid it won't work without 100,000 elite soldiers! Su Dingfang said.

This is the confidence of a famous general.

200,000 Tibetan iron cavalry invaded the Tang Dynasty, and Su Dingfang was not worried about the safety of Liangzhou and Hezhou in the Tang Dynasty, but was thinking about how to win a greater victory.

I have to say that Su Dingfang's words shocked everyone except Li Hong.

Zhang Wenqian and Xiao Dezhao couldn't believe that this was Su Dingfang talking, and thought that it was an arrogant person who was cheating. Li Jingxuan was much calmer than the two, but he was still puzzled in his eyes.

Only Li Hong is very calm.

Because he knew Li Hong's direction, he knew that in the past two years, the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty invaded Tibet, entered the Potala Palace, and occupied Tibet. Therefore, Li Hong absolutely believed that Su Dingfang could say such a thing, not because he was talking about it, but because he had already planned it.

"Yes, what Su Xiang said is right, in fact, just now Gu was also thinking, how can we keep Lu Dongzan's 200,000 elite horses." Li Hong's words were even more shocking, "Since Lu Dongzan dared to lead a large army to attack our Tang Dynasty this time, if we don't leave his gift, we will really be sorry for Lu Dongzan's kindness." ”

"Your Highness—"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince—"

Zhang Wenjun, Sun Chuyue, Xiao Dezhao and Le Yanwei, and Li Jingxuan were all shocked... Because Li Hong's words are too domineering, if they can still accept Su Dingfang's words just now, then now that Li Hong's words, they don't even have the mind to accept them, because this is simply a fool's dream, and Tubo Jingqi is not a tofu scum, is it so easy to defeat?