Approaching the New Year, Chang'an is particularly lively, in the middle of December, Li Linfu announced to the Chang'an government and the opposition the Jianghuai Du Du Du Gu Hao's book, after the river thawed, will transport four million stone rice to Chang'an, Chang'an rice prices fell sharply, the major rice shops and wealthy families have sold their hands of Tun rice, the price of rice from the bucket rice 160 Wen straight down, down to the bucket rice 70 Wen, the people's will is stable, public security is better,

Li Longji was very happy, and ordered that from the 25th day of the lunar month until Chinese New Year's Eve, Chang'an would not be closed at night, and the Beijing master would celebrate the New Year, and on the 27th day of the lunar month, Li Longji would feast the courtiers at the Xingqing Palace to celebrate the New Year.

The palace of Xingqing Hall is towering, wide and far-reaching, can accommodate 5,000 people to dine at the same time, at this moment, the hall is steaming, the music is melodious, a team of dancing girls are in the hall with long sleeves in the air, a group of palace ladies and eunuchs are busy serving wine on the ground, the long skirt is like the wind, the steps are light, Li Longji has not yet arrived, the banquet has not officially started, the officials of the Tang Dynasty are sitting at the table whispering, exchanging the anecdotes and the latest wind and snow in various places, today's banquet is also an informal banquet, in addition to the officials, the princess of the Li clan, the county lord, The county lord and the big and small princes also participated, but the most eye-catching thing was the more than ten members of the Yang family who were sitting in the clan group, the three sisters of the Yang family, as well as Yang Quan, Yang Qi, Yang Zhu and the upstart Yang Zhao, who had just returned to Beijing to report on his work, and they were straighter than the ordinary ministers.

Mrs. Yang Huahua and the eldest sister and second sister sat in a group of county lords and county lords, Yang Huahua's power has skyrocketed in the past few months, not only can she enter and leave the forbidden school at will, but what she hands Li Longji will generally be approved immediately, 'Do it!' Yang Huahua has one of the biggest hobbies, which is to be a matchmaker, especially to be a matchmaker for princes and princesses, her hobby has gradually become a power of her after getting Li Longji's permission, who the prince wants to marry, who the princess wants to marry, must be approved by her, Yang Huahua is not an unreasonable person, the key depends on how much money the princes and princesses pay to buy her reason.

Today, Yang Huahua is dressed up very beautifully today, combing her cloud bun, wearing a bright yellow narrow-sleeved open-breasted shirt on her upper body, a green floor-length skirt, a light red embroidered belt hanging down her waist, no powder on her face, very gorgeous, she is squinting to listen to the flattery of the princess county lords, and at a glance, she saw the second sister Korean lady Yang Yuzhu with a sad face, so she smiled and said: "Second sister, are you worried about Ning Bi again?" ”

Yang Yuzhu's daughter is called Cui Ningbi, fifteen years old this year, with a mediocre appearance, Yang Yuzhu wants her to marry into the royal family, but the fourth sister Yang Yuhuan is resolutely opposed, this matter makes Yang Yuzhu very distressed, she sighed and said: "Is there any way?" The mother disagreed. ”

A trace of disdain flashed in Yang Huahua's eyes, and said, "It doesn't matter if she doesn't agree, who do you like among these princes, I'll call the shots for you." ”

Yang Yuzhu's eyes lit up, she already knew that her third sister had a good way, maybe she could really do it, she immediately smiled and said: "Okay!" Let me think about it and tell the third sister in a few days. ”

At this moment, a shout came from afar: "His Majesty the Emperor has arrived!" ”

The hall was suddenly silent, only to see Li Longji carrying Yang Yuhuan slowly walking in from the side door surrounded by a large group of guards, the two stopped in front of the main position, and the ministers stood up, bowed down together and saluted: "The ministers see His Majesty the Emperor!" See the mother! ”

"Everyone, love Qing Ping!"

Li Longji was a little absent-minded, he had just received an urgent report from Longyou, Ge Shuhan had launched the Battle of Shibao City as scheduled, and planned to take Shibao City before noon today, for this reason he also specially instructed Wang Xianzhong, the eunuch of the prison army stationed in Longyou, that the battle situation in Shibao City should come to the book at any time, but it was already night, and the book should be passed by the pigeon, Li Long basically came to wait in the imperial study, but because he wanted to attend the banquet, he had to hurry over.

The courtiers sat down, Li Longji picked up a glass of wine and said: "Today I have been paying attention to the battle of Shibao City, Shibao City should be fruitful in these two days, since the twenty-ninth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, after my Tang Dynasty lost Shibao City, these years in order to recapture Shibao City, the soldiers have repeatedly gone out to fight, but they have been defeated repeatedly, this time I mobilized 150,000 troops to attack Shibao City, I am determined to recapture it, at all costs, when the New Year is approaching, the family is reunited and harmonious, enjoy the peace of the prosperous world, but I am thinking of the soldiers who fought bloodily for my Tang Dynasty, This first cup of wine is a tribute to the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, and may their spirits under the spring be seen. ”

With that, he slowly spilled the wine under his feet.

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At the same time when the Xingqing Hall held a feast, the battle in Shibao City has entered the most critical moment, the heavy snow has become the best cover for the Tang army, there is no figure twenty steps away, the Tubo army has been in the Tang Army to kill the stone road of Shibao City only to find that the rolling wood and stones are overwhelming, more than two hundred Mo Dao soldiers on the mountain road have no time to dodge, and are smashed down the cliff by the boulder, and the screams are endless.

In the stone road, the four hundred pioneers of the Modao Army were blocked by large stones and huge trees, unable to climb up, and the stones on their heads fell like torrential rain, and more than 80 people were killed in a moment.

Li Siye's eyes were red, he roared loudly and waved his knife to split a huge tree, and the deputy general Tian Zhen carried it on his head and shoulders, pushing the boulder hard, and a gap finally appeared between several boulders.

Li Siye slashed down with two knives, and the strong knife momentum actually cut a big gap, he pushed it violently, and the big stone blocking the road was finally pushed away, and the Tang army rushed upward, and the iron blade of the stone castle city manager saw that the situation was extremely critical, and he roared, "Kill!" ”

With a wave of a spear, he led hundreds of Tubo troops to rush down the stone road, the Tang army and the Tubo army fought a bloody battle in the stone road, and the Tang army's Mo knife could not exert the power of large-scale chopping in the narrow stone road, and became a close hand-to-hand combat with the Tubo army, and the Tubo army was almost crazy, no longer throwing stones, they poured out of the nest and fought desperately with the Tang army.

The soldiers of the two armies bit with their teeth, slashed with knives, and stabbed with daggers, and the stone road became a slaughterhouse for murder, an entrance to hell, and countless people died in despair, their bodies were squeezed in the middle, cushioned under their feet, and the blood flowed like a river, staining the stone walls on both sides, and the Tang army advanced towards the mountain step by step with difficulty, and every step had to pay the price of countless soldiers' deaths.

Ironblade Sinoro was so anxious that he looked up to the sky and roared, "Our reinforcements! When will it come? ”

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The reinforcements of Tubo are less than five miles away from Shibao City, but it is less than five miles of mountain roads, which has become the road of death for the Tubo people, and the main army of 80,000 Tubo has encountered three thousand Tang troops to intercept it, and in a fierce battle of one day and one night, the Tubo people have accumulated more than 30,000 dead, including the great minister Shang Xixi and dozens of high-ranking officials were killed on the spot, Tubo Zanpu Chizu Dezan was seriously injured by the bombing, and even the main general Dazaru Gong was also injured in the internal organs, and the Tubo people paid an extremely tragic price.

The third line of defense of the Tang army is located on a huge cliff, winding up by a mountain road about seven feet wide, three hundred steps in a straight line, but the mountain road under the cliff is three miles long, the long and narrow road has brought disadvantages to the attack of the Tubo army, but in the same way, the place where the cliff can be accommodated is also extremely narrow, the Tang army can only put three hundred people at a time, and there is no cover to cover it, this kind of terrain that is not good for both sides, has brought huge casualties to both sides, the only thing that is beneficial to the Tang army is the weather, the strong mountain wind stopped, Heavy snow shrouded Chiling, and no one could be seen twenty paces away.

Zampu's serious injuries made Dazarugon hate the Tang army to the core, and he threw 30,000 troops into the attack, and issued a strict order: do not kill the Tang army, and never retreat.

The snow flew all over the sky, the sound of killing shook the sky, the gunpowder smoke after the explosion filled the mountain road, and the dense Tubo army charged upwards wave after wave, killing a group of people and going up again, there was no choice, no way to retreat, their destination was only one place, death.

The corpses of the Tibetan soldiers on the mountain road were piled up layer upon layer, so that they became a cover for the attack of the Tibetan army behind, and death took turns in wailing endlessly.

But in the middle of the mountain road, on a slightly gentle rock, hundreds of Tibetan soldiers opened a new road with hammers and chisels, and large areas of rock peeled off, and they stepped forward step by step, and a new road to the mountain col was gradually opened.

On the cliff, the Tang army suffered heavy casualties, the stones were smashed, and most of the arrows were shot, and the end of the annihilation of the whole army was approaching them step by step, and they only had 800 people left.

The overwhelming arrows pressed the Tang army to raise its head, and the mountain beams were full of corpses of the Tang army, most of whom were shot in the head by arrows, and more than 300 Tang troops lay on the ground, struggling to resist the new round of attack of the Tubo army with a side-firing posture.

Their arrows were like flying locusts, forming a network of arrows, and the powerful arrows shot into the gray snow mist, piercing the shields of the Tibetan people, and the screams in the mountain road came and went, but in the same way, dense arrows were also shot from the mountain road, whistling over the heads of the Tang army.

There was a scream, a young Tang soldier was shot through the eye by an arrow, the wolf's tooth arrow penetrated through the head, and he died tragically on the spot, and there was another muffled scream, a Tang soldier sat up with his throat covered, an arrow shot through his throat, his expression was extremely painful, and he gasped for breath, but as soon as he sat up, three arrows hit his chest at the same time, and he fell down on his back, his eyes were wide open, staring at the snowfall in the sky blankly.

Li Qing'an's bow was broken, he held a shield in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, half-squatting on the edge of a huge rock, his eyes were bloodshot, the wound on his back was cracked, a large blood clot solidified into ice, and his voice was hoarse and commanding the battle of the Tang army.

His eyesight was better than ordinary people, he could see the black shadow thirty steps away, the black shadow on the mountain road was thicker than just now, which showed that there was a large group of enemy troops rushing up, suddenly, his leg was in sharp pain, an arrow hit his left leg, the tip of the arrow penetrated the leg bone, the intense pain almost made him faint, he gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow, and the blood on his leg suddenly surged.

Li Qingan took a deep breath and hissed, "Throw the powder bag!" ”

The two Tang soldiers with long arms on the cliff immediately lit the gunpowder pack, and when the lead was about to burn out, they threw it down the cliff, and then covered their heads and lay on the rocks, and suddenly there were two earth-shattering explosions on the mountain road, dozens of people were blown to pieces, and the strong impact wave of air lifted hundreds of people off the cliff.

Two puffs of black smoke rose into the air, and the mountain road was silent for a moment, as silent as death.

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The atmosphere on the Xingqing Hall has also arrived**, one hundred and eighty dancing girls in white long skirts come like fairy Lingbo, accompanied by the melodious chime bell and the melodious sheng flute, the famous neon dress and feather clothes dance slowly in the hall, the body is wonderful, the dance is graceful, dozens of singers spit out their lips, and the beautiful tune echoes in the hall.

'Tinggao is looking at the extreme, and Jiang Lian has not returned, but he is sick but has no strength. The fan is gradually thinning, Luo Yi is at the beginning, and the streamer is passing through the gap. Sigh apricot beam, double swallow like a guest. Where are the people, a curtain of light moon, as if shining in color. ’

Beauty is like jade, mellow wine is sweet, music is like dancing beads and shaking jade, the tune is like the sound of heaven, thousands of people in the hall are drunk and obsessed, holding their long beards, shaking their heads gently, a large group of clan girls shaking light Luo small fans, eyebrows and affection, the whole hall is immersed in the ethereal fairyland.

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The silence of the moment was a violent accumulation, the mountain road suddenly burst out of a wild shout, thousands of Tubo troops rushed madly, the Tubo spear army replaced the sword and bow army, the death brought by the bow and arrow of the Tang army could not stop their rage, the arrow in front of the Tubo army fell, and the brigade behind rushed up, stepping on the corpse of their companions, rushing onto the cliff, three hundred Tang troops jumped up, roared and drew their swords to face the battle.

"Kill!"

The Tang army fearlessly pounced on the spears of thousands of Tibetans, and none of them retreated, and at this moment, cowardice and weakness could not be seen in them; At this moment, the courage of the Han nation burned in their hearts and their blood boiled.

The spear pierced through the chest, the head was cut off with a horizontal knife, and a Tang soldier was pierced through the lower abdomen by the spear, he screamed and hugged the other party, bit off the ears of the Tubo people, and rolled down the cliff together with each other.

A Tang soldier was hugged by the Tubo man in the waist, and a spear pierced his chest head-on, and at the moment of his death, he tried his best to stab the horizontal knife through his chest and abdomen with his backhand, and also pierced the chest of the Tubo army behind him.......

More and more Tibetan troops attacked the cliff, and the last 400 Tang troops in the col rushed out to support under the leadership of Li Fei Shouyu, at this time, more than 20 Tubo troops climbed the mountain rock and threw themselves at the two Tang soldiers who threw gunpowder, and the two Tang soldiers looked at each other, they smiled miserably, and ignited the last four packs of gunpowder.

"Die!"

They held the gunpowder bag and threw themselves down the cliff, the gunpowder bag exploded one after another in the dense Tubo army, nearly a thousand famous Tubo soldiers were killed, so that there was a large section of emptiness on the mountain road, a large pile of incomplete corpses blocked the mountain road, the lack of follow-up of the Tubo army made the Tang army get a glimmer of life, Li Qingqing killed four Tubo people in a row, and shouted: "Drive them down...."

The words behind him were not shouted, his voice was lost, but the huge explosion greatly boosted the morale of the Tang army, and more than 1,000 Tubo troops were killed off the cliff in a hurry, and the Tubo army turned around and fled timidly for the first time, and the Tang army cheered, but at this moment, there was a miserable scream from the side of the mountain pass, and the Tang army turned back suddenly, and they were stunned.

The Tibetans finally carved a new road under the mountain pass, and countless Tibetan troops had already killed them in the mountain pass.

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In the Xingqing Palace, Li Longji had no intention of drinking anymore, and hurriedly returned to the imperial study, and several Xiangguo also followed.

The lights in the imperial study were bright, and the first pigeon letter sent by relay finally arrived, Li Linfu and several Xiangguo held their breath, looking at Li Longji with trembling hands to open the pigeon letter, and there was only one sentence in the pigeon letter: "After noon, I haven't taken Shibao City yet." ’

Li Longji sat down weakly, there was silence in the imperial study, and after a while, Li Linfu said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, if Shibao City is not taken on time, it does not mean that it has failed, and the minister believes that Ge Shuhan will not let Your Majesty down." ”

Li Longji shook his head lightly, and said with a wry smile: "The plan to take it at noon was originally made because it was taken into account that the Tubo reinforcements would come, even if there was Dong Yanqing's containment, but once the Tubo people were trusted, they would definitely divide their troops to help, at least 20,000 people, and Li Qing'an, who was responsible for intercepting the Tubo army, only had 3,000 people, how could he be able to block the attack of the 20,000 Tubo army, this time, Shibao City was hopeless again." ”

Everyone stopped talking, Li Longji slowly walked to the window with his hands behind his back, he opened the curtains, stared at the dark red sky in the west, sighed lowly, and said to himself: "If Shibao City can't be taken for a day, my Longyou won't be peaceful for a day." ”

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In the stone castle city, Li Siye's Mo knife army has attacked ten steps away from the fort gate, and they have even seen the inscription on the stone wall above the fort gate, and the three words 'stone castle city' are faintly visible, which is inscribed by Emperor Yang of Sui, but the Tubo people also carved the 'Iron Blade City' in the Tubo language below.

There are many corpses in the stone road, the stone steps have been completely covered by corpses, and they can't see their true colors, and there are still ten steps, and the Tang army rushed to the castle, but it is these ten steps, they have been fighting for nearly an hour, both armies are exhausted, and they can't even lift their knives, they are crowded, people are pressing, they are smashed with fists, they are hit with helmets, and they rely on their will to support, just to see who can hold on to the end, at this time, Li Siye bit the tip of his tongue hard, and actually bit off a piece of the tip of his tongue, the pain made him gather the last potential, he roared, He stabbed the dagger in his hand into the chest of the Tibetan general Iron Blade Sinoluo.

Iron Blade Zenoro's eyes widened suddenly, his life was rapidly fading, he looked back at the beacon fire in despair, his eyes slowly closed, and Li Siye took another step up, nine steps, eight steps left.

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About 2,000 people of the Tubo army rushed into the mountain col, the mountain col was full of wounded soldiers of the Tang army, Li Fei Shouyu led 400 Tang troops to fight back to help, but still could not stop the Tubo army from entering, only to hear the screams continue to come from the col, Li Qing'an is like a knife, these brothers who have followed him for many years, the whole army was wiped out in Chiling, he looked back at the stone fort city, at this time the sky was numb and bright, the snow stopped, the stone fort city was clearly visible, and the flag of the Tubo army was still fluttering on the head of the city.

At this moment, the spearmen of the Tubo army on the mountain road fought back again, the sound of running footsteps and shouting to kill came from not far from the mountain road, and a large group of Tubo troops suddenly appeared, and their hideous faces were clearly visible.

Li Qingxin was unusually calm, and he said slowly to the only remaining more than 100 Tang troops around him in a hoarse voice: "We used 3,000 troops to resist the 80,000 troops of Tubo for a day and a night, although the whole army was wiped out in the end, but we did our best, if there is an afterlife, I am willing to work with my brothers again to capture Shibao City!" ”

He waved his sword and shouted with all his might: "I died for Datang, no regrets!" ”

"Brethren, the last battle!"

"The Last Battle!" The Tang army roared in unison.

Just when Li Qingan was about to pounce on the enemy, He Yanming, who was standing behind him, suddenly reversed the horizontal knife and smashed the back of Li Qing'an's head with the hilt, Li Qingan's eyes turned black and he fainted to the ground.

The sudden change stunned the Tang army, and they all looked at He Yanming angrily.

He Yanming burst into tears, helped Li Qingan up and handed it to a few soldiers, "Carry the general to the stone castle city, you have to die, and he will die last!" ”

Several soldiers were stunned and at a loss, He Yanming pushed them violently and shouted, "You guys go quickly!" Walk! ”

Several soldiers carried Li Qing'an on their backs and ran along the path towards Shibao City, watching them walk away, He Yanming bent down and picked up Li Qing'an's saber, he glanced at Tang Jun, and suddenly he yelled, "Now I am Li Qing'an, you fight with me!" ”

He raised his sword and pounced on the Tubo army, shouting loudly in Tubo: "I am Li Qing'an, the commander of the Tang army, come on!" Let's fight to the death! ”

"Fight to the death!"

More than 100 Tang soldiers burst out with an earth-shattering roar and slaughtered the Tubo army twenty paces away.

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The light in the col is dim, Li Fei Shouyu led 300 Tang troops and nearly 2,000 Tubo troops to fight together, fighting and retreating, there is a small road in the col, it is a shortcut to Shibao City, the Tang army carried dozens of wounded soldiers who were lucky enough to not die to climb up the cliff cave and retreated to Shibao City,

Li Fei Shouyu looked around anxiously, he was looking for his brother Li Fei Yuanli, and some soldiers said that Li Fei Yuanli got up and fought, and now his life and death are unknown.

The ground was full of corpses of wounded soldiers, and on the left side of the col, more than a dozen female guards were also unfortunately killed.

Li Fei Shouyu's heart was relieved, his brother was not dead, at this moment, thousands of Tubo troops rushed up from under the cliff, cutting off the road between the mountain col and the platform, Li Fei Shouyu saw that he could no longer go to the aid of Li Qing'an, so he had to grit his teeth and shout: "Brothers, retreat!" ”

He led the last more than 200 soldiers to quickly evacuate from the cliff cave to the stone castle city, Li Fei Shouyu left last, the moment he rushed up the cliff cave, he suddenly found that in a corner, there were two female guards carrying the wounded soldiers, before he could react, an arrow whistled and shot in his chest, Li Fei Shouyu screamed, fell to the ground, the two soldiers rushed back, and Li Fei Shouyu ran towards the stone castle city.

Two female guards, one is Miao Cui'er, the other is Zhao Lu, they refused to leave the wounded soldiers, countless Tibetan soldiers surrounded them, they were both wounded, their hair was scattered over their shoulders, showing their daughter's body, the Tubo army was obviously trying to capture this Tang female prisoner of war.

The two of them slowly retreated, and a large group of Tibetan troops surrounded them step by step, their eyes flashing with the fierce light of a beast, and behind them was the mountain wall, and there was no way to retreat.

Zhao Lu suddenly pulled out his bright horizontal knife and shouted in Tubo: "You insult the women of the Tang Dynasty, but you can no longer insult the female soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!" ”

She turned the knife and inserted the horizontal knife into her chest with all her strength, Miao Cuier also screamed, and the horizontal knife killed herself, and the two female guards fell in a pool of blood.

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The sky was already bright, a ray of sunlight shone on the snow-capped Chiling, a blood-colored light flashed in the morning glow of the Chiling, under the towering cliff of the mountain behind Shibao City, stood a group of small black dots, this is the last Tang army, a total of two hundred and eighty-four people, including four female guards, they have no bows and arrows, only one charge of the enemy army, they will be annihilated.

Li Qing'an stood silently on a boulder, staring at the Tubo army that was gathering three miles away, the sun shone on his blood-stained face, his gaze had a kind of perseverance that he had never seen before, and there was also an expectation that no one else had, if he died, could his soul return to his original world? He was looking forward to the moment.

But the Tubo army did not attack, Dazaru looked at the stone fort city blankly, the Tang army at the foot of the mountain could not see, but he saw it, the Tubo flag on the stone fort city was cut off, and a dragon flag of the Tang Dynasty was inserted, all the Tubo troops were dumbfounded and watched the advent of this scene, they attacked the bridgehead of the Tang Dynasty and lost it.

At this moment, a Tibetan officer rushed from the mountain, crying and prostrate at the feet of Dazarugong, crying silently, "General, Zampu, Zampu has gone." ”

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Dazarugong's mouth, he screamed, fell to the ground on his back, and the cries of the Tibetan soldiers shook the sky, at this time Dazarughan slowly opened his eyes, he sighed and waved his hand weakly, "Pass my order, the army retreats to Dafeichuan." ”

In the morning glow, the Tubo army slowly retreated, only to see dozens of Tang troops running down the mountain road from Shibao City, and the Tang troops at the foot of the mountain hugged each other tightly and cheered.

On December 28 of the seventh year of Tianbao, the Tang army captured Shibao City at the cost of 10,000 casualties, but the 80,000 troops of Tubo who came to support were intercepted by Li Qing'an's 3,000 Yinglong army of Anxi Zhonglang, and finally fell short, ending gloomily at the cost of nearly 40,000 casualties.

And this 3,000 Tang army that intercepted the Tubo army, only 284 survived in the end, and this is a battle that will go down in history.

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(To be continued)