(There will be a change in the evening!) ）

When he wanted to retreat to the Great Wall to regroup, he found that Guazhou was so big that there was no place for him to stay. The 500 men he sent to suppress Jinguan were half lost and met them on the road in disgrace. More than 1,000 people guarding more than 30 beacons in Yumen Pass only withdrew more than 800 people, and when they heard that there were only two or three thousand people who entered Yumen Pass, the guards regretted their bowels.

He sent people to Jinchang to contact the defenders, but found that the county seat of Jinchang had been occupied; He sent people to contact the soldiers and horses of other counties, but found that there were mobs everywhere under the banner of *—yesterday they were slaves, today they are warriors, yesterday they were docile as sheep, and today they are fierce as bullfighting mobs.

To the south is Guazhou and Shazhou, which have been occupied, and to the north is the territory controlled by the Uighurs, and the remnants of the more than 1,000 Tibetan troops are only afraid that there will not be enough to stuff their teeth, and to the west is Yizhou, where there is the army of the Tibetan general Shang Tazan who is about to come east, and to the east is Ganzhou, which is also the boundary controlled by the Tubo army.

Not only did the Tibetan army send people everywhere to report the news,* but it was also the case. After taking the Yumen Pass, Shi Jingfeng discussed with Zhang Qianyi and Old Man Shi to send a messenger to report to Li Guangyan.

The problem is that they don't know where Li Guangyan is progressing at the moment, and they don't ask anything from the prisoners of war at Yumen Pass, not to mention that there is Ganzhou here, and the road is full of Tubo troops for hundreds of miles. After discussion, Shi Jingfeng decided to send ten teams of people to report to Datang. The road is difficult and dangerous, these ten people naturally have their own specialties, from the composition, there are Zhenwu veterans, there are rangers, there are Shazhou merchants, there are hunters, and there are high monks and Taoists.

While sending people to report the news, and on the other hand, there were also Tibetan reinforcements from Anxi or Ganzhou, Shi Jingfeng did not dare to relax at any time. Recruiting soldiers and repairing the city defense is a major matter that Shi Jingfeng always cares about.

The city defense is mainly the city defense of Shazhou and the city defense of Yumen Pass, which are the two main roads of east-west traffic, especially the Yumen Pass is important, because if Shang Tazan wants to rush to Ganzhou as soon as possible, it is very likely to take the shortcut road of Yiwu Road, and it is possible to send a partial division to respond to the situation on the Shazhou side. Therefore, after capturing Yumen Pass, Shi Jingfeng stayed at Yumen Pass, supervised the defense of the pass, and trained the newly recruited soldiers.

The training of soldiers alone has tired Shi Jingfeng enough, and there were enough recruits in Shazhou, and thousands of people were recruited in Guazhou. Shi Jingfeng wandered among the recruits every day, and he found that he seemed to have never seen so many stupid recruits.

These recruits are physically strong enough, and many of them are proficient in martial arts, but what makes Shi Jingfeng a headache is that these soldiers always seem to be unable to combine their martial arts and formations and fight as a whole. At the thought of relying on these soldiers and Shang Tazan's elite soldiers in a hundred battles, Shi Jingfeng felt anxious.

Fortunately, Zhang Qianyi and Old Man Liang helped manage civil affairs and help repair the city defenses, otherwise Shi Jingfeng would really collapse. According to the actual situation in Guazhou and Shazhou, Zhang Qianyi readjusted the two prefectures according to the division of Tianbao years, and proposed to link military merits with the division of fields. Old man Liang participated in the defense of Shazhou, and he was very proficient in city defense, so Shi Jingfeng handed over the Yumen Pass to Old Man Liang.

In addition to the Tibetan prisoners of war, the old man Liang also helped Shi Jingfeng recruit thousands of people to repair the city defense of Yumen Pass. The existence of Zhang Qianyi and Liang Laozhi liberated Shi Jingfeng to a large extent, allowing Shi Jingfeng to concentrate on training soldiers.

Ten days after the Yumen Pass was obtained, Chen Guogong Li Guangyan, the head of the march of the Tanghe West Road, under the account of the former army soldiers and horses, Quansha, Gua Erzhou Assassin Shi, Doulu Military Governor, Jiuquan Military Governor, and guerrilla general Shi Jingfeng in Jinchang and Shijusha and Gua Erzhou tribal leaders will allied, Shi Jingfeng promised to still treat the people of all tribes as the people of the Tang Dynasty, and will not be held accountable for the behavior of the various departments that have been attached to Tubo, except for a very small number of extremely heinous crimes. The various ministries swore to obey the dispatch of the governor of Shi Dadu and never rebel against the Tang Dynasty, otherwise the tribe would be enslaved for generations.

Naturally, this oath was not made in the harmonious atmosphere of the song and swallow dance. After taking the Yumen Pass, Shi Jingfeng, under the guidance of the locals, led 500 elite cavalry to drive through the desert, slaughtering five tribes that were deeply attached to Tibet within three days, showing ruthless methods and forcing other tribes to lose their sincerity to him.

After the alliance, Shi Jingfeng ordered all departments to dispatch 1,500 strong men to bring their own armor, weapons, horses, grain and grass to the Yumen Pass within three days. Under Shi Jingfeng's account, there were 1,500 more cavalry out of thin air.

When 1,500 cavalry of various nationalities arrived at Yumen Pass, it was also when Li Jiyan came to Yumen Pass, after nearly a month of renovation, the defense system of Hanyumen Pass was finally completed, and Shi Jingfeng, who was anxious about military training, also ordered Li Jiyan to come to Yumen Pass to discuss military affairs.

As soon as he entered the Yumen Pass, Li Jiyan, who already knew that Shi Jingfeng was worried about military training, said to Shi Jingfeng with a smile:

"What's the matter, the wrong way to train soldiers, right?"

Unexpectedly, Shi Jingfeng was not as depressed as he thought, but said:

"It's the authorities who are obsessed, and I'm never the material of the general. I only want to train these newly recruited soldiers as soon as possible, but I forget that even trees have their own uses, and they cannot be mixed together, and I recruited these soldiers, many of whom are martial arts, and are accustomed to fighting alone, if they are used as ordinary soldiers, they have to be killed according to the formation, which will inevitably waste their martial arts, and there will be little effect, and they will not be able to form combat power in the short term, so it is better to select out the martial arts skillfully, and give full play to their original strengths, and use them as blades, so that they will fight immediately. Isn't it beautiful? ”

Li Jiyan said:

"If you know how to train soldiers, why did you come to me?"

Shi Jingfeng said:

"I came to you to sit in Yumen Pass."

Li Jiyan has been under Shi Jingfeng's account for ten years, so he naturally knows Shi Jingfeng's temperament very well, and when he heard Shi Jingfeng say this, he knew what Shi Jingfeng was going to do, and said in surprise:

"What, you're going to lead the troops on the march?"

Shi Jingfeng nodded and said:

"Exactly. As you said, elite soldiers are trained, so I plan to lead some recruits north out of Yumen Pass. ”

Li Jiyan said:

"Illustration?"

Shi Jingfeng said:

"Not bad. We can't wait for Shang Tazan to fight us, my Shi Jingfeng's strength has never been defense, but offense, and now let me run this Yumen Pass, I really pinched my shortcomings, and used the shortcomings of our army to touch the strengths of the enemy, which is self-defeating, so I decided, lead a thousand soldiers into the desert, to do my old job. And you have a calm personality and are stronger than attacking, so it is up to you to sit in the Yumen Pass, and only if you are in the Yumen Pass, I can rest assured. ”

Li Jiyan knew that it was difficult to change what Shi Jingfeng decided, so he had to accept Shi Jingfeng's arrangement, and said:

"You went away with a thousand soldiers, what about the new 1,500 people in the city? These people's hearts are not stable yet. ”

Shi Jingfeng said:

"Take them away together, let them kill the Tubo, and make a feud with the Tubo, otherwise I don't have to worry about using them. This is called the Natal Petition. Also, this time, I found a talent, and I want to hone him well and pass on what I have learned all my life to him. ”

Unlike the last time he sent troops in the middle of the night, Shi Jingfeng sent troops early in the morning this time, with 1,000 cavalry of various ethnic groups, 1,000 cavalry from the headquarters, including 300 veterans, and 700 soldiers from the blade battalion formed by Shi Jingfeng's elite recruits and martial arts masters. A total of 2,000 cavalry, waving the military flag of the Tang Dynasty and the banners of various departments, drove towards the outside of the Great Wall.

By the way, the captain of the blade battalion is Zhang Yichao, who is only sixteen years old after the New Year. Shi Jingfeng encouraged Zhang Yichao like this:

"Don't worry, I'm in the back. You must know that Li Yinggong (Xu Maogong) was only twelve or thirteen years old when he first went into battle, and Hun Linggong was only thirteen years old when he first made military merits, and you are sixteen years old, can't you even do this thing? ”

Three days later, Shi Jingfeng returned triumphantly with 2,000 heavily armed cavalry, 1,000 cavalrymen of all ethnic groups were beaming, with the face of an upstart, and the spirit of the 700 soldiers of the Blade Battalion was also very different from the past, still in high spirits, but there was more of a resolute and resolute temperament similar to that of a veteran between his eyebrows.

When Li Jiyan asked about the results of the battle, Shi Jingfeng said lightly:

"I led them around 300 miles away, disguised themselves as Uighurs, sacked two Tibetan camps, and disguised themselves as defeated Tibetan soldiers, and attacked a Uighur settlement. If the Uighurs knew that the Tibetans had become lost dogs, they would not mind taking a few more bites to make the blood of the Tibetans flow faster. And whether it is Yizhou Tubo or Ganzhou Tubo, they will not give up. ”

In addition to stirring up tensions between the Tibetans and the Uighurs, Shi Jingfeng also gained one thing from his trip, that is, he learned about Li Guangyan's progress.

"Half a month ago, the Uighurs of Liangzhou received news that Chen Guogong had taken Changsong County and opened up the Gulang Gorge. Now, Chen Guogong should enter the border of Ganzhou, right? ”

This news made the * soldiers feel very excited, and everyone's eyes flashed with a strange luster, as if Chen Guogong's 100,000 army would appear at the Yumen Pass tomorrow to comfort the soldiers and people of the two states on behalf of the imperial court. But Shi Jingfeng and others are very clear that in the severe cold season, even if Li Guangyan has entered the border of Ganzhou, the progress will not be too fast, coupled with the stubborn resistance of the Tubo people, and they will really hit the Yumen Pass, at least next summer, at that time, Shang Tazan's army is afraid that it has already come to the Yumen Pass, how many people in this pass city can see Li Guangyan's army alive?

"Unless Chen Guogong can know that our army has captured Yumen Pass, he will not speed up his march."

This conclusion has been made a long time ago, but I wonder what happened to the Ten Messengers.

Unbeknownst to them, the head of the first messenger was already hanging on the Great Wall.

The head of the second messenger hangs at the head of Zhangye City.

The third messenger is now lost in the Qilian Mountains.

After half of the Fourth Messenger was killed, the remaining half became slaves of the Uighurs.

•••••

These are things that they don't know, and what they do know is that their challenges are coming. The people of Ganzhou risked their lives to spread the news that Ganzhou Tubo had sent soldiers and horses to try to recover Yumen Pass.

Li Guangyan handsome.

"Marshal, Cui Chengdu sent someone to Pegasus to report that Yao Xiong, a general under the command of Deputy Marshal Hao Jue of the Longyou Right Route Army, led a partial division through the southern foot of Qilian Mountain, and the Tubo army stationed in Herong City retreated without a fight, he had already joined forces with General Yao Xiong in Herong City, but when the Tubo army was about to withdraw, he set fire to the city, and Rong City was seriously damaged."

Li Guangyan let out an "um" and signaled that he knew. The secretary began to read the next document again:

"The governor of the Yinshan Army, Sha Chali, reported that the heavy snow closed the road and it was impossible to advance, and asked the marshal to allow them to stop for the time being, and wait until the snow melts before marching the army."

Li Guangyan spoke this time:

"Exactly. Xiahou Chengbu also suspended the attack, and waited until the snow melted before attacking Shandan. ”

The secretary took down Li Guangyan's words, and then said the news that Li Guangyan didn't want to hear the most:

"Marshal, the return of all armies, whether it is inside the Qilian Mountain or outside the Great Wall, there is no news of General Shi Jingfeng."

Li Guangyan's face became solemn, he calmed down, and said:

"Report to Longyou Xingtai and the imperial court, Shi Jingfeng and his 2,000 people are still nowhere to be found, and it is estimated that the whole army has been lost in the desert."

After finishing speaking, Shi Jingfeng's thin and dark face appeared in front of Li Guangyan's eyes again:

Could it be that Shi Jingfeng, who is known as the most familiar border general in the desert, was really lost in the desert?

As the weather has become colder,* the military operations in Longyou have eased, and only Hao Wei and Li Wentong are still nervously pulling nails on the road to Shanzhou. To use a popular metaphor, it means that Shanzhou's clothes have been peeled off layer by layer, and they are about to be clean and naked for the New Year.

It's a pity that the crown prince Li Chun can't see the scene of Shanzhou's naked New Year, and soon after leading the Xingtai to move to Lanzhou, Li Yu issued an edict to praise the front-line soldiers, and at the same time summoned the prince Li Chun, the marshal of the line, to return to Chang'an to report on his work. For the time being, the affairs of Xingtai were handed over to Li Yu, Liu Shu and Lu Wen.

In the end, the land of Sizhou was recovered, and Li Chen's New Year's reward to the soldiers was also very rich. Li Yu added the inspection of the school Situ, Hao Wei added the inspection of the school military department Shangshu, the veteran Liu Shu was awarded the founding prince of Lintao County for his merits, Li Wentong, Li Dingjin, Ye Shi Liangfu, Wang Maoyuan, Bai Zuwang, Li You, Li Zhongyi, Qian Xiong, Qi Bi Tieli, Du Kang, Lu Wen, Zheng Lu, Li He and other civil and military officials were rewarded, and even the soldiers and horses on the Hexi Road who had no great military exploits were richly rewarded, and the cameras of the various armies were specially allowed to arrange for the soldiers to rest and recuperate for the New Year, and the military camps everywhere were full of jubilation.

Li Yu was reviewing the chapters, and the ruling Pei Yan quietly walked in and said:

"Your Majesty!"

Seeing that Pei Yan was coming, Li Yu put down the pen and said

"It turned out to be Pei Aiqing, did Aiqing bring me any good news again?"

Pei Yan said hesitantly:

"Your Majesty, today's news is not very good. Qinzhou is eight hundred miles in an emergency, and the prince and his entourage have arrived in Qinzhou. But ••••••"

Li Yu's heart sank and asked:

"But what?"

Pei Yan said:

"But the prince's car was attacked by the remnants of the Tibetan army on the outskirts of Qinzhou?"

Li Yu was taken aback and hurriedly asked:

"Is there anything about the prince?"

Pei Yan said:

"Fortunately, the escort general Gao Biao bravely defended the lord and killed the enemy army, the prince is fine, but he was frightened, and now Qinzhou is resting."

Knowing that the prince was safe, Li Yu's heart calmed down a little, and then he said angrily:

"What? Doesn't it mean that the Tibetans have been purged? Besides, how could the Tubo people go to Qinzhou to harass them? How did Li Yu do things? ”

It is really rare for Li Yu to send such a big fire. After Li Yan finished his anger, Pei Yan calmly analyzed:

"Please take care of the dragon's body, Your Majesty, this matter may not be related to the failure of the Duke of Liangguo to clear the remnants of the enemy."

After roaring loudly, Li Yu calmed down and said:

"You mean, this matter is not necessarily the work of the remnants of the Tibetan army?"

Pei Yan said:

"The minister dared to speculate."