Li Guangyan's strategic goal is Hexi, to obtain Hexi, and to fight with Hao Wei and Li Yu. If he had been out of the army ten years ago, Li Guangyan would have just gone west after leaving the army, but a few years ago, the Uighurs attacked Liangzhou, which happened to be stuck in the throat of the Hexi Corridor. Therefore, the order given by the military headquarters this time was not to clash with the Uighurs, to attack around Liangzhou, and to supply grain from Longyou. This made Li Guangyan's officers very dissatisfied, but they had to comply.

Therefore, Li Yu captured Lintao after leaving the division, and made a posture of attacking Hehuang in a big way, and Hao Yu went straight to Lanzhou after sending troops, and at the same time sent Qian Xiong to attack the stone castle, controlled the vast area between the two towns of Jingyuan and Xiasui, and connected the two towns as a whole. Later, Hao Wei sent Zhang Pingzi to lead an army to cross the Yellow River in Lanzhou, seize Gaolan, establish a grain route, and protect Li Guangyan's flank. After Hao Yu left the 70th Army to sit in Lanzhou, he led the main force of 50,000 troops to attack the garrison of the former Longyou Jiedu envoy - Shanzhou.

The war has been going on for more than a month, and in more than a month, except for the 2,000 people of Shi Jingfeng's department who entered the desert, there was no news of them, everything else was going well, and hundreds of miles of land were recovered in a month. However, the psychological pressure at the top has not decreased much because of the brilliant results, but has become more worried.

In the early morning of Chang'an, when the morning court time was about to arrive, a team of Jinwuwei soldiers carrying fireballs escorted a carriage and left Yasukuni Fang with a full set of honor guards. Passers-by who got up early knew that this was Prime Minister Pei Yan's car, and stood on the side of the road and applauded loudly. There are also careful people who found that there were two sets of prime minister's honor guards in the convoy, and there was a carriage behind them, and they guessed which prime minister was riding with Pei Xianggong.

"This is applauding Longyou's victory."

In the dim carriage, Pei Yan said quietly. Pei Du, who was sitting on the other side of him, also nodded yes. During the reign of Daizong, Tubo captured Chang'an, and in the disaster, the people hated the Tubo people to the core; The loss of Anxi, Beiting, Hexi, Longyou and other places was not only the biggest defeat of Datang's foreign war, but also caused Datang to lose its strategic depth and trade routes. This time, Datang used troops to Longyou, and everyone naturally supported it, and won consecutive battles, which was naturally exciting. However, this excitement did not affect the two prime ministers in the car.

Since the start of the war, Pei Yan, who is in his thirties, has lost a few points, and Pei Du, who is in his forties, has also lost half of his beard. Pei Yan asked:

"Brother, has the latest intelligence and battle report of the Grain Statistics Department in Longyou arrived?"

Pei Du Dao:

"Not yet. I have ordered the front line to send more scouts to find out the movements of the Tibetan army. ”

Pei Yan said:

"Although the army has been like a bamboo, the main force of Tubo has not suffered losses so far, and our army is advancing too fast, and the recovered place has not had time to recover, I am afraid that it will affect our army's main force to assemble the main force and fight a decisive battle with the enemy."

Pei Du Dao:

"I'm worried about that, too. Now the main force of the Tibetan army seems to have disappeared from the world, and I don't know where to wait for our army. Now Hao Yu and Li Guangyan have marched to Shanzhou, and Li Yu is still confronting the Tibetan Department in Lintao and Tubo. I don't know what Li Yu thinks, if he can't quickly defeat Lun Short Lizang and cross the Taoshui to capture Hezhou, then Hao Xuan's flank, and even Lanzhou will be exposed to the Tubo people's troops. Why don't I instruct the military department to send a document to urge it today? ”

Pei Yan said:

"The general is outside, the king's order is not affected, Li Fuzhi is a famous general in the army, he wants to have his own plans, and it is not good to urge him too much. We just need to do what we have to do. Is Zhang Maozhao in place? ”

Pei Du nodded and said:

Zhang Maozhao has already led his troops into Xiazhou. In addition, Linghu Chu also arrived in Fengxiang. ”

Pei Yan said:

"Linghu Chu is still a little tender in the end, and it is safer to let Liu Yong be the master of military affairs."

Pei Du Dao:

"Exactly."

The carriage galloped along Chunming Avenue all the way, and when it reached a street corner, Pei Yan ordered the carriage to stop and said to Pei Du:

"Brother, let's take your own car. The two of us are in the same clan, which sounds infinitely beautiful, but we want to be the country and the family, trembling, walking on thin ice, a little careless, the Pei family has not been able to turn over for many years, and everything must be careful. ”

Pei Du knew the pressure in Pei Yan's heart as the leader of the Pei family's generation, so he gently pressed his shoulder and got out of the carriage.

The weather is getting colder,* and the bridge over the Tao River has been stopped, because the river is already passable. However, Li Yu did not cross the river, because he had no intention of crossing the river. The Tibetans on the other side of the river couldn't bear it anymore. For such a long time, the Tibetan army in Longyou was attracted here by Li Yu, causing an emptiness in the direction of Shanzhou. The latest military information sent by Shanzhou said that one road* had already driven to Shanzhou.

When, this morning, the former battalion came to report that Li Yu's army had retreated cleanly overnight and had withdrawn to the city of Didao, he was furious:

"Han people are all liars, they are all liars, and those surnamed Li are all liars, they are all liars! Their emperor is a liar, this Li Yu is a liar, and this Li Yu's brother is also a liar! ”

It's no wonder that the short standing is so thunderous. He led an army of 50,000 to come here to prevent the attack of *, if * attacked, he would insert * from the flank, but he was trapped here by Li Yu in a false way, until yesterday several Qiang leaders came to cry, saying that their nest was kicked by * cavalry, and only then did Li Li know that he had fallen into Li Yu's delaying strategy. And the spies who crossed the river in the morning reported that after counting* the stove pits, there were only 20,000 people at most.

Only then did he know that the so-called Li Yu's army left and came back, and the so-called night attack was just to deceive him and make him feel that he was strong. Feeling that he had fallen for Li Yu's big mistake, he decided to attack. outcome