readx; At this time, Li Guangbi's voice came from the courtyard: "Is the general inside?" ”

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A pro-soldier reported: "General, Li Dudu asks to see!" ”

"Ask him to come in."

The door opened, Li Guangbi walked in quickly from the outside, he just knelt down, but Li Qingan supported him and said with a smile: "You don't need so many courtesies, it's all your own people, come!" Sit down and talk. ”

Li Qing'an invited him to sit down, and ordered his soldiers to serve a cup of tea, Li Guangbi came from Dafeichuan, and ran non-stop on the road for three days, and he was really tired, he picked up the teacup, drank the herbal tea, and then said: "This time the people from Tibet are not good!" ”

"Let's not talk about Tubo first, let's talk about the situation of Tocharo."

Li Qingan said with a smile: "Did the big cannibal take advantage of my absence and march to Tocharian to provoke?" ”

Li Guangbi shook his head and said: "Fortunately, I heard that the big cannibals are fighting fiercely with the former Korean army in distant Libya, and they can't take care of the east for the time being, Tocharian has been very calm this year, but on the Sindh side, I heard that General Feng suppressed the uprising in Punjab twice." ”

Li Qing'an knew a little about the uprising in Punjab, the cause was that the Tang army forcibly conscripted the locals to build a port, coupled with the heavy taxes, an uprising broke out in the city of Adian Po Yiluo to demand reading power, he believed that Feng Changqing could handle the matter, Li Qing'an was unwilling to talk more about faith with Li Qing'an, so he changed the topic and returned to Longyou.

"General Li, tell me about your deployment in Longyou."

Speaking of Longyou, Li Guangbi perked up and said with a smile: "Although I can defeat the Tocharian army, the Tocharian army is a weak brigade after all, and I always feel that it is not a force, but the Tubo army is a real strong army, and it is also my wish for many years to have a good competition with the Tubo army." ”

At this time, Li Guangbi suddenly saw the huge map, he was stunned, and then his eyes showed surprise, walked quickly to the map, looked at it carefully, and said happily to Li Qingan: "General, where did you get this treasure, what I lack most now is the plateau map, this map of the general is simply timely rain!" ”

Although Li Guangbi didn't say anything beyond his words, Li Qing'an knew what he meant, so he smiled and said: "This map was brought into Beijing by the Tibetan envoy, I think it's very good, so I got it, and if you need it, I'll give it to you." ”

Li Guangbi was overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed down to give a salute, "Thank you, General!" ”

He picked up the wooden stick, pointed to the four circles drawn by Li Qinggong and said with a smile: "It seems that the general knows Longyou very well, and the place painted is the key place of Longyou, the latest information I received, the 50,000 troops of the Tubo people have been divided into two roads, one way north to Dafeichuan, there are about 20,000 people, and the other 30,000 people have occupied Wuhai and are marching to Jiuqu of the Yellow River, but according to my inference, this is a mistake by the Tubo commander, he may be in poor military condition, and he does not know that the 60,000 Anxi army has arrived in Longyou, and he also thought that after Ge Shuhan left, Longyou was in a state of emptiness, so he divided his troops into two ways in an attempt to seize the strategic position as soon as possible, but he should soon change his strategy, because he would soon be intercepted by 20,000 Tang troops and 15,000 Tuyuhun troops at Jiuqu of the Yellow River. ”

"Wait!"

Li Qing'an seemed to react, and he asked urgently: "Are you saying that the Tubo army only has 50,000 people, and the intelligence can be accurate?" ”

"There should be no mistake, I got the same conclusion from the three scout teams, the Tubo army may be marching in sections, and these 50,000 people may only be their front army."

"It's possible, but there's another possibility."

Li Qing'an also walked to the map, took the wooden pole and pointed at Anxi and said: "I suspect that Tubo's attack on Longyou is just a feint, their real target is Anxi, Tubo still has more than 100,000 troops when it was weak in the past, after a few years of rest, the army in their hands is at least 200,000 or nearly 300,000, how can it be possible to only send 50,000 people to attack Longyou, if they really only have 50,000 troops to attack Longyou, then this must be a feint, their main force to attack Anxi." ”

Li Guangbi was shocked, he hurriedly said: "If that's the case, Tocharian will be in danger, now Tocharian only has 8,000 Han troops stationed in silver mines, plus the local Turkish army, there are only more than 40,000 people, if the Tubo people attack Tocharo, our silver mines will be seriously affected." ”

"Not only is the situation in Tocharo not good, but the situation in the four towns of Anxi is also not good, when I took 70,000 troops to Guanzhong, almost all the troops in the four towns of Anxi were exhausted, our Anxi army of 300,000 troops, you and I took nearly half, there are 50,000 Hu soldiers in Juyanhai in Hexi, and the 60,000 garrisons in Hezhong and Shiguo cannot move, and there are 15,000 troops in Xinde, in fact, the army we can mobilize, that is, 30,000 or 40,000 people, but I don't dare to let the broken leaves be too empty, at most I can only transfer 20,000 people to defend Anxi, With the 20,000 cavalry I am leading now, that is only 40,000, and if Tubo sends an army of 100,000 to attack Anxi, to be honest, my chances of winning are not high. ”

Li Qingxin was very anxious, his battle line was too long, so that there was no army available today, at this time, Li Guangbi suggested: "General, it is better to transfer the Hu soldiers of Juyanhai back to Beiting first, and then divide 10,000 troops here, and Hexi will also divide 10,000 troops, so that Anxi can gather 70,000 troops, plus the logistics support of the Anxi countries, and think that he can barely fight with the Tubo army." ”

Li Qingan pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "Your plan is very good, I adopted it."

．．．．．．．． The Jiuqu area of the Yellow River refers to a piece of land within the first big bend arc of the upper reaches of the Yellow River, that is, the area of Tongde County and Guide County in Qinghai Province today, where the terrain is high in the north and south, low in the middle, forming a river valley basin surrounded by all sides, the climate is warm, the land is extremely fertile, and the water source irrigation is sufficient, so this area is the most important grain production area in the plateau area, the Tang Army also established the Dushan Army and the Jiuqu Army here, and in the north of the Jiuqu area, there are Wuning Army, Weisheng Army, Jin Tianjun and other heavy troops stationed.

Since the 29th year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, after the Tubo army occupied the Jiuqu area, this land rich in grain became the logistics base for the Tubo to attack Longyou, and it was not until the summer of the 11th year of Tianbao that the Geshuhan army recaptured this strategic place.

At present, the Tang army stationed in the Jiuqu area has 15,000 Tuyuhun troops, as well as 20,000 Tang troops who have just arrived.

Li Sheng since in Guanzhong Yi County after taking refuge in Li Qing'an, then returned to Longyou, he ordered his subordinate general Yue Ning to lead a thousand troops to guard Shibao City, he himself led five thousand Han and Hu coalition troops to garrison in the area of Dafeichuan, Li Sheng is strong in martial arts, especially outstanding archery, his prestige in the Han and Hu army is very high, it is under his appeasement, because Ge Shuhan led the army to leave and once caused by the Hu soldiers quickly subsided, it can be said that Li Sheng has made great contributions to stabilizing the situation in Longyou.

This time, Li Guangbi led the army to the east, led the deputy envoy of Longyou Jiedu and the governor of Shanzhou, and he appointed Li Sheng as the envoy of the soldiers and horses of the five armies of Jiuqu, commanding 35,000 Hu and Han soldiers.

With many years of experience in dealing with the Tubo people, Li Sheng found that the Tubo spies began to increase the number of inspections since July, and he realized that the Tubo people were likely to attack Tang in the autumn, and it was with this awareness that he began to strengthen the defense of the Jiuqu area a month ago, building beacon towers along the inner road of the Yellow River, echoing each other, in order to concentrate his troops, he withdrew the 3,000 Tang-Hu coalition troops stationed in Wuhai and more than 40,000 herdsmen, relying on the Yellow River to defend against the attack of the Tubo army, it has been proved that His decision to withdraw from the Ukrainian Navy was very correct, and although Dazarugon occupied Wuhai, he was not able to massacre like Baihai, and he did not even get a single livestock.

Li Sheng has already received information that after occupying Wuhai, the 30,000 Tubo army will continue to advance eastward, and the opponent's tactical intention is already obvious, that is, to take the Jiuqu area of the Yellow River as soon as possible, the wheat has turned yellow, and in a few days, the wheat in the Jiuqu area will be ripe and harvested, and then the Tubo army will take the Jiuqu of the Yellow River, and it will just be replenished.

Generally speaking, the wheat in the Jiuqu area can be harvested in early August, but the cold climate in recent years has led to the extension of the wheat maturity period, and it can only be harvested after the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the temperature in several river valleys is slightly higher, and the wheat matures a few days earlier than in other places, and there are already places to start harvesting.

In the afternoon of that day, Li Sheng and his deputy Yang Jingyun inspected the grain harvest in the area of Mizha City, which was a large granary built by Wang Xiaojie, a famous general of the Tang Dynasty in the Jiuqu area, and there were three in total, one in the northern, central, and southern parts of the Jiuqu area, and Li Sheng inspected the Dushan Mizha City in the south.

In the huge square outside the city, thousands of soldiers and men were busy sprinkling the wheat so that it could be dried and packed into storage.

Li Sheng saw that it was difficult for grain to be stored without ten days of drying, and he was a little worried, if the Tubo army attacked, it would inevitably affect the wheat harvest, and a lot of wheat would rot in the ground.

He asked: "General Yang, do you think that after the Tubo people learned that there were heavy troops of the Tang army stationed in Jiuqu, they would continue to cross the river and march eastward, or should they stop on the west bank of the Yellow River and attack together after recalling the other 20,000 troops?" ”

Yang Jingyun is also a young general, less than thirty years old, his family is a big clan in Huangshui County, he joined the army at the age of seventeen, and he has made great contributions to Lang General, Ge Shuhan appointed him as the soldier and horse envoy of the Dushan Army, he has a very good relationship with Li Sheng, and when he heard Li Sheng ask himself, he smiled slightly: "Who does the general think the lord of Tubo will be?" ”

Li Sheng thought for a while and said: "With the familiarity with Longyou, Ma Chongying is the first of the Tubo generals, judging from the Tubo army's killing of Baihai herdsmen, this is very similar to Ma Chongying's style, I think this Tubo coach is also the only one." ”

Yang Jingyun smiled again: "If it's Ma Chongying, will he directly attack Jiuqu?" ”

Li Sheng also smiled, "Ma Chongying likes to seize the opportunity, and he is good at attacking the east and the west, if he comes to attack Jiuqu, I estimate that he will not wait for the army to gather before attacking, he will definitely attack immediately, and he will divide the troops into two ways." ”

As soon as the words fell, a soldier rushed to report: "Report to General Li, the beacon tower of the chaotic stone ridge has been lit, and it is three pillars of black smoke. ”

The three pillars of black smoke mean that a large army is coming, Li Sheng pondered for a moment, although this is likely to be the strategy of the Tubo army, but he still did not dare to be careless, so he immediately said to Yang Jingyun: "General Yang, you can lead five thousand Dushan troops to rush to the Ranshikan defense, use more bows and arrows, and shoot the Tubo army in the river." ”

Yang Jingyun clenched his fists and agreed, then turned around and left, Li Sheng didn't have the heart to inspect Mizha City anymore, he immediately ordered: "Order all armies to immediately enter emergency combat readiness, and order the Jiuqu Army and the Tuyuhun Ming Investigation Department to follow me to Feiyundu immediately." ”

The Yellow River in the upper reaches is not as wide and turbulent as the middle and lower reaches, the water potential of the Yellow River in the upper reaches is gentle, the river surface is not wide, there are often small islands with dense vegetation in the middle of the river, there are cliffs on both sides of the river, but there are also gentle slopes and flat roads, the Tubo army can easily use sheepskin rafts to cross the Yellow River, there are two places where it is easiest to cross the Yellow River, one is the south side of the rocky ridge, where the river is narrow, the water potential is not fast, and the other place is due west of the Feiyun crossing.

Feiyundu is not a ferry, but a gentle slope flat road about 20 miles long, both sides of the Yellow River are dense forests, one of them also has a narrow river island, called Cyclamen Island, about three miles long, 20 zhang wide, the forest on the island is luxuriant, it is the habitat of the crane, the crane flies high, as if there are immortals coming, so it is called the Cyclamen Island.

If the Tubo army is the east and west, then they may cross the river from the Xianke Island is the largest, Li Sheng's army is not too far from the Yellow River, 35,000 people are divided into three camps, he led 10,000 Jiuqu army and 5,000 Tuyuhun army, the Jiuqu army is actually the Anxi army that has just arrived, Li Guangbi handed over the command of 20,000 Anxi to Li Sheng, and he divided the 20,000 Anxi army into two, one is called the Dushan army, and the other is called the Jiuqu army.

In the darkness of the night, 15,000 troops marched rapidly through the valley, and about 80 miles from the camp to the banks of the Yellow River, they had to march all night, and then they could reach the Yellow River at dawn.

At this time, it was the fifth watch, the night was still deep, the night sky was full of stars, and a bright crescent moon hung alone in the eastern sky, but there was already a faint trace of cyan on the horizon, and the sky was about to dawn.

The valley where the Tang army is located at this time is ten miles away from the bank of the Yellow River, in the river valley, a clearing about three miles long, the black pressure is full of 15,000 Tang army soldiers, they have been resting for an hour, the soldiers of the Anxi army each have wool sleeping bags, although the night wind is cold, but they are still asleep, Tuyuhun soldiers also have their own way of heating, they use thick sheepskin to wrap their bodies, can also fall asleep sweetly.

Li Sheng couldn't sleep, this was the first time he read his strength to take charge of the army, and he was probably facing the famous Tubo general Ma Chongying, the first time he was the main general, he faced a fierce battle, and he really didn't have a little certainty in his heart.

He also knew that this was not that Li Guangbi valued him, he was not very familiar with Li Guangbi, and Li Guangbi did not know him well, he would never reuse himself like this, Li Sheng knew that this must be Li Qing'an's order, otherwise, Li Guangbi would never hand over the 20,000 Anxi Army to a young Longyou general to command.

Li Qing'an's trust made Li Sheng's heart full of gratitude, and let him bear a heavy responsibility, this time, whether he can defeat Ma Chongying and keep the Jiuqu region, this will be a turning point in his military career, and even his fate, 35,000 Tang Army against 50,000 Tubo Army, his strength is not weak, it depends on whether his judgment is correct, he is gambling, betting that Ma Chongying is using a strategy to attack the east and the west, called attacking Chaoshikan, and actually going Feiyundu.

When it was almost dawn, Li Sheng stood up and stretched his waist for a long time, it was time for the army to set off, and he was about to order the army to rise, when he suddenly saw three pillars of thick black smoke rising into the air not far from the west.

It's a beacon fire, and the beacon fire of Feiyundu is ignited!

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(To be continued)