Regarding Shi Jingfeng's idea of shrinking his forces to defend, Li Jiyan could only agree. It is absolutely impossible to defend without counterattacking alone, but there are no enough troops to counterattack at the Yumen Pass. Li Jiyan said:

"Leave two hundred veterans in reserve."

Shi Jingfeng nodded in agreement. After being silent for a while, Li Jiyan said:

"Da Lang, did you say that our messenger arrived at Chen Guogong?"

Shi Jingfeng said in a sullen voice:

"I don't know."

Guan Shan is heavy, even if the messenger arrives, it will take time for the army to kill. What's more, maybe someone can't see his military exploits and wish he died? In the border army before, wasn't this how I was suppressed? Paddling the water with both feet, Shi Jingfeng said:

"Let's not count on reinforcements yet, let's think about how to defend this Jade Gate Pass on our own. Following the words, to be honest, I'm really afraid that the Jade Gate will not be able to hold on, if I toss and don't get anything, I'm sorry for these thousands of old brothers, and I'm sorry for the fathers and elders of Guasha Erzhou. Now I can fall asleep every day when I'm tired. I didn't think about anything when I fell asleep, but when I woke up, I would see that the Jade Gate Pass had been breached, and I didn't dare to look at it! ”

Li Jiyan said:

"I don't dare to see why you stayed here in the first place?"

Shi Jingfeng said:

"At first, I stayed here because winter was approaching, and the remaining 2,000 brothers had to find a place to rest. Also, at the beginning, I just wanted to live in Shazhou for the time being, and wait until the army was about to arrive, and then I responded, and I didn't think about recovering Yumen. However, the change of events later was beyond my expectations, and the fathers and elders of Guazhou actually pleaded to the door, and the people here were too hard to be enslaved. Besides, it's not that you don't know that you can't fix the sand state if you don't take Guazhou, and you can't fix Guazhou if you don't take Yumen. ”

Li Jiyan said:

"I'm afraid that if you don't take the Jade Gate, you won't be able to make a meritorious name, right?"

Shi Jingfeng said with indignation:

"The eldest husband threw himself into the court, licked the blood on the knife, and what he did was fame. I have been revering all my life, and there may only be this opportunity to make immortal achievements, how can I not seize it? I really don't want to bury your brothers. It's just that if I had known that this work was so difficult to build and would have affected the fathers and elders of Erzhou so much, I might not have been so decisive at that time. These days, when I see so many hot-blooded men from Erzhou falling on the gate, I will think, if I don't come, I'm afraid they will still be with their families at the moment. ”

Shi Jingfeng has never commanded so many people to fight alone, and after months of bloody battles, thousands of sons and daughters have stained the wall with blood, so it is no wonder that Shi Jingfeng blames himself. Li Jiyan comforted:

"One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, as has been the case since ancient times. Moreover, the enemy's strength is large, and it is not the fault of our army. You've done a good job, and if someone else guards you, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep you. You don't have to be so guilty. Besides, didn't Zhang Erlang say it? I'd rather die with a knife and a gun than crawl at the feet of the Tibetans. Even if you don't come, they will choose this path one day. Now that we've got it, we just have to figure out how to protect the two states. For the soldiers who died in battle, the court will definitely have generous gifts. ”

Li Jiyan is right, in history, Zhang Yichao, the son of Zhangjiaerlang, led the people to rise up, and regained the eleven states of Hehuang with the strength of the people of Hehuang themselves. It's just that even if the death is extremely glorious, the dead can no longer enjoy it, and the living will not help. Shi Jingfeng let out a long breath and said:

"Following the words, I have already decided, after this battle, if I Shi Jingfeng is lucky to be alive, if the imperial court can afford my Shi Jingfeng's military exploits, I Shi Jingfeng will definitely go to the table to ask Yongzhen Erzhou or one of them, with my life, to ensure the peace of the father and elders of Erzhou!"

That night, Shi Jingfeng and Li Jiyan convened a meeting of Liang Laozhi and others and decided to further strengthen the defense. Considering that his own combat strength had been greatly damaged, Shi Jingfeng decided to listen to the advice of the old man Liang and adopt the method of defending Shazhou back then, and block the wall with fences and sandbags, so that even if the Tubo army attacked a section of the wall, it would not be able to pose a threat to the other sections of the wall. After deciding, Old Man Liang took Minfu to prepare.

It's dawn again. Standing on the edge of the newly heaped partition, the sentry of * watched warily into the distance. Below the pass is an open hillside, and beyond the hillside is a large gray poplar forest. Turning along the poplar forest, there is the gourd river that opens up sharply, in the end spring is coming, although the snow on the distant mountains does not seem to have subsided much, but the sparkling spring water can already be seen on the gourd river.

"Fifteen, do you say that the Tibetans will attack today?"

Fifteen, still looking into the distance with a blank face, replied:

"I don't know."

Ten miles away, in the camp of the Tibetan army, groups of soldiers also began to prepare for departure, and Shang Tazang stood outside the tent with a gloomy face, looking at his soldiers. Two days earlier, his offensive had fallen short, and he had also lost his general, which greatly damaged his morale and forced him to rest. You know, the exhaustion of Shang Tazang's army is not lost to Guanshang*. They were ordered to move eastward after the wars with Sogdia and the Uighurs. The victories against Sogdia and Hui were shuang, which kept the morale of the Tibetan army high. However, long-term combat is inevitably exhausting, in order to motivate the soldiers to fight eastward, Shang Tazang relaxed the military discipline that was not very strict a little, and as a result, he encountered a large-scale rebellion before he left Yizhou, coupled with the attack of the Hui people, which seriously delayed the speed of the march, and when he stepped on the fifth road to reach Yumen Pass, Yumen Pass had fallen into the hands of *.

While he was thinking back to the battles of the past few days, a bearded general came over and said angrily:

"General, our department has been assembled, please show it to the general!"

The general is called Tsering Jie, who has the courage of ten thousand people, and is Shang Tazang's favorite general, although his face looks old-fashioned, but because of long-term sun exposure and long beard, he is actually only in his early twenties. Looking at the love general, Shang Tazang's cloudy face finally showed a smile, and ordered:

"Let's go!"

Tsering Jie turned around with the order, and with a wave of his hand, a large number of cavalry left the camp and went straight to Yumen Pass. This was followed by another large group of infantry. All of them are recovering from a serious illness. One of the generals beside Shang Tazang reminded with a worried face:

"General, our son-in-law hasn't rested enough, besides, the people sent out haven't come back yet······"

Shang Tazang interrupted him and said:

"I know, but the Ganzhou side on the other side of the Hulu River sent someone to report that Li Guangyan's army has already attacked Ganzhou, and we can only collect their corpses if we can't go there. Besides, I'd rather defeat the enemy in an upright way than any other way. ”

"In that case, then why are we still stuck under this difficult jade gate, and don't cross the river to rescue them while the gourd river has not yet risen?"

Shang Tazang glanced at the general angrily, and pointed to the towering Jade Gate Pass:

"Do you want to keep the Jade Gate Pass to block our back road? If we don't take the Yumen Pass, we won't even have a way out! ”

After that, he got on his horse and galloped straight to Yumen Pass. Behind him is a 1 in a hundred elite soldiers.

The precautions for closing the door have already been prepared. Like the Tubo army, the two-day rest did not allow * to recover completely, but * was victorious, and the Tubo army was defeated, * was defending their homeland, and the Tubo army was to save their own people who had failed, and the spirit of the two armies was obviously different. So as soon as they saw the Tibetan army, the soldiers laughed. Those who could speak Tibetan scolded him:

"Shang Tazang, you're here to die again!"

"Poor worm, you will never go back to the snowy mountains!"

There are other miscellaneous ways of scolding. Gradually, "Shang Tazang, are you here to send you to death" became the mainstream of the shutdown, and many soldiers who did not understand the Tibetan dialect began to imitate the pronunciation of their comrades after knowing the meaning. Insulting the opposing commander's general made the soldiers feel greatly satisfied. And the Tubo army was not willing to be humiliated, and opened his mouth to scold back, scolding naturally because he was showing off his might on the Han slaves. However, the effect is not obvious, because there are not many people who know the Tibetan dialect in *.

*Some of the voices are still angry and high-pitched. Li Jiyan glanced at the place where the voice came from, it was a soldier who had surrendered to the army in a town on the border of Guazhou, and he was deeply poisoned by the Tubo people. The soldiers cursed angrily:

"Come on, dogs, General Shi will cut off your heads!"

"Woo", the trombone sounded and remembered, and the offensive of the Tubo army was about to begin. Fifteen hid behind the battlement, clutching the weapon in his hand, his teeth clenching his lip.