The seven children who are not very old discussed very late, and Bai Xing next to them was almost all listening, without interjecting, for them, most of the things that these Lang Jun considered, they could take into account, but there were also a small number of things that they could not consider, I have to say that the children born in these excellent families have received different education since childhood.

Of course, as the prince's staff, Bai Xing and the others have long been surprised, although the ancients were precocious, they were still children when they were more than ten years old, but the prince was different. Just like Li Chengqian's consideration of problems, when he is considering many of his current problems, he is already thinking about the people.

And the way of thinking about the problem is more like the way of thinking about a superior person, and this is the difference.

By the time they knew about these problems, Gongsun Lin and Ma Yuan had already led a total of 20,000 troops directly into the territory of Gaochang Kingdom, and although Gongsun Lin was fast enough, Gaochang's reaction was not slow.

After all, the Great Han did not attack directly, but only started after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued an announcement, so when the White Tiger Army and Suzaku Jing rushed to the outermost cities of Gaochang, the city gates of these cities were already closed.

For such a situation, Gongsun Lin and others are naturally not surprised at all.

"Did the villages along the way send troops?" Gongsun Lin asked directly, they are not in a hurry, because the siege of the city, this time it is not their job, and the main thing they appear here is to deter Gaochang's army, Gaochang is the most populous country in the entire Western Regions, with a total of nearly 20,000 soldiers, of course, these soldiers are actually somewhat similar to the military system of the Tang Dynasty.

They have to work most of the time, they say they are soldiers, but in fact they can't even match armor, most of them only have weapons. There are only 10,000 people who really have armor, and even so, these countries in the Western Regions are already considered strong.

The 10,000 most elite troops were concentrated near Gaochang City, while the remaining 10,000 were distributed in a total of 4 counties and 18 counties around Gaochang.

Of course, the 18 county towns of Gaochang Kingdom cannot be compared with Datang, the area is very small, and there is no administrative structure of townships under their counties, only villages. In fact, to put it bluntly, these counties are just equivalent to the townships of Datang.

The city walls of these county towns are only three or four meters high, many of them are earthen city walls, and most of them are less than two meters thick, that is, about one meter and a half thickness.

So when Gongsun Lin and his army entered, almost most of the soldiers in these cities were transferred, and a small part of them were left behind and their families lived in these cities, and they didn't dare to leave.

But when they saw the army outside the city with a well-groomed appearance and a bright light armor all over their bodies, there was not even armor on these walls, and the two or three hundred soldiers wearing coarse cloth clothes were trembling with their legs.

Gongsun Lin was not ready to attack the city, because the combat meeting of their military headquarters had actually been discussed, and most of the people in Gaochang were very familiar with the legend of Huo Gang, and even many people had already enshrined Huo Gang's tablet in their homes, which was said to pray that Huo Gang would make them have a good day.

They are all Han people and not Turkic people, and they don't know what immortality is, but they all worship Huo Gang as a dragon lord according to their own understanding, Gongsun Lin doesn't care, anyway, Hu Lu told him that it is propaganda to the outside world, no matter what the other party believes, just say that the leader is the incarnation of the god they believe in.

All in all, all gods are just the incarnation of Huo Gang.

"It has been dispatched, and all the villages we pass through have sent a team of soldiers through them." The adjutant general next to him immediately reported, "According to your order, the general, although we passed through the villages, we only sent an order to these villages, telling them that this is the order of Huo Gang, the leader of the Han Dynasty, to rescue them from the evil Turks, and we are here to liberate them." ”

"And let them stay at home with peace of mind, and tell them that if someone pretends to be us and asks them for anything, they will come to us and report to us immediately, and our Han army will not ask for anything from any people, nor will they bully any people."

"Well, are these nearby villages ready?" Gongsun Lin asked again.

"Yes, General, we have selected the nearest villages to the counties in front of us, and there are about five battalions of soldiers resting in each of these villages tonight." The lieutenant general immediately spoke.

"Good." Gongsun Lin nodded, and then waved his big hand and said, "Set up camp and continue to move forward tomorrow." ”

"Yes!"

At this moment, there are not many troops located outside the county seat, only about 3,000 people, but even if it is 3,000 people, the army in this county town is not an opponent at all. All the rest of the people scattered to the nearby villages and began to set up camp.

As for why this is so...... Of course, some small means were used, and when these soldiers set up camp in these villages, they would show the discipline of the Han army to the people "not to commit any offense in autumn", and even if they slept under the walls of the people's courtyards at night, they would definitely not disturb the slightest!

There are some reputations that need to be publicized in this way, of course, this is not completely done, whether it is the White Tiger Army or the Vermilion Bird Army, or the Tiger Ben Army is currently so educated, all soldiers must deeply remember this in their minds.

An army like this, which puts the people in their hearts, will be extremely rare in later generations, let alone in this era.

When the army entered the village and spent the night in anxiety, the people who got up early the next day were stunned when they opened the door.

The village roadside was full of heavily armed soldiers, who slept by the village wall, and their horses were also tied to their side, and even then, they did not hear any sound one night.

The early risers quickly woke up the soldiers, who apologized to the surrounding villagers before quickly gathering and starting to cook directly in the village.

After breakfast, the battalion commander of these soldiers took the initiative to find the village, leaving some of the food he was carrying to disturb the village, and then quickly left.

Until these soldiers completely disappeared from the sight of these villagers, looking at the food left by each other, these villagers all had a feeling of sudden dream.

This...... Is this the army of the Great Han? This...... It really made them hard to believe that they, the ordinary people of Gaochang, had seen countless Gaochang soldiers for so many years, how could they not know what these soldiers were like? They usually have to be detained a little bit when they enter the city.

Not to mention those nobles or big families, they don't usually treat these people as human beings at all, let alone those murderous Turks.

And now, not only did these soldiers not violate anything on them, but they even preferred to sleep in the field themselves rather than disturb them, and finally gave them food supplies when they left.

When will they, the grass people, be treated like this?

"Village...... Village Chief, is this the army of the Great Han? A man next to the village chief said in disbelief.

"Yes, village chief...... I have long heard that the people of Dahan live extremely happily, and now ...... We've seen it with our own eyes. ”

"This, no wonder Ju Wentai is reluctant to surrender, because if the Han treats us people so well, it will obviously not be very good to their nobles!" Another villager immediately spoke.

"Yes, that is, it is obvious that these nobles are not willing to lose their status as superiors, so they do not surrender."

"Good...... Don't talk about it, we don't know anything, everyone does their own thing, and if someone comes to ask about the movements of the Han army, they will say they don't know. The village chief thought for a moment before gritting his teeth and speaking.

"Understood, village chief."

……

This is not such a sensational thing, but it has left a deep impression in the hearts of hundreds of people, and it may not be long before such information will fly all over Gaochang Kingdom in an instant.

Gongsun Lin's progress was not fast, after besieging several county seats, Gongsun Lin showed their troops, and in the worried eyes of those soldiers above the county town, they finally led the army to leave.

Gongsun Lin They did not hide their itinerary, looking at the army that was obviously heading for Gaochang City, the county commanders of these counties hesitated, and finally gritted their teeth and did not let people open the door, nor did they report any information, anyway, there were only two or three hundred soldiers in these counties, so could they expect these soldiers to succeed in defending the city?

It's obviously impossible, so they naturally have to "stick to it"!

In such a situation, it is normal to go out and report information without opening the city gate, because of reporting information, who knows if it will be directly killed by the enemy outside?

Regarding the choice of these officials, it can be said that in these counties, people with a little head and face know what it means, so naturally no one will expose it, because if it is exposed, it means that all of them are in danger of life.

What is the situation that the other party did not attack the city, they all roughly guessed, obviously the other party wanted to take Gaochang City directly, once Gaochang City was taken, would it be difficult for them to be "loyal" to Gaochang in addition to surrendering?

The army of the Han Dynasty is advancing steadily, but at this moment, Ju Wentai in Gaochang City is furious!

"What about the others?! Why didn't all the soldiers from the other cities come? What's the use of those soldiers left? Can the walls of those county towns be stopped? ~！ Ju Wentai shouted loudly.

All the ministers below were as quiet as cicadas, no one spoke, although they all knew at this time, Ju Wentai at this moment was not because of anger, but because of fear, but because of fear!

He didn't expect that Dahan would really move troops, to be precise, Dahan's previous attitude towards Loulan and Yanqi made Ju Wentai have an error, which is also the reason why he was so tough before, but what he never expected was that this time Dahan did not play cards according to common sense, but directly sent troops to do it.

Although the walls of Gaochang City are very high, it is completely different from those surrounding counties, but what if the other party's army besieges the city? Now the food in their city can only eat for more than a month, if the other party besieges the city and does not attack the city, after more than a month, even if the other party does not attack the city, they can only surrender.

Therefore, Ju Wentai was very frightened at this moment, because he suddenly remembered the reputation that Huo Gang had spread back then, for those who took the initiative to surrender, although Huo Gang was very kind and generous, and did not embarrass them, such as Shi Wannian, Bosa, and Longtu Cavalry, these people are all city lords of the Han Dynasty, and even maintain a certain amount of power.

But for his enemies...... Huo Gangke once slaughtered many Turkic tribes, even the babies were not spared, and Jieli's 40,000 cavalry were chased by the other party's cavalry, all of them were slaughtered, and they didn't even accept surrender.

So what if the other side attacks the city now? I've become his enemy! This is also the reason why Ju Wentai is so afraid, because once he fails, he will definitely die! So at this moment, Ju Wentai wants to vent his inner fear through such anger.

It's just that his anger can't do anything other than silence these ministers even more.

No matter how slow the march was, Gaochangguo was not big, so Gaochangcheng soon appeared in front of Gongsun Lin and them.

"General Qiyu, there is a person who asks to see you." Gongsun Lin and the others had just set up camp around Gaochang City when the guards outside came in to report.

"Oh? Who? Gongsun Lin was a little surprised.

"The other party said that it brought the latest news in the city." The guard spoke.

"Bring him in." Gongsun Lin and Ma Yuan glanced at each other and said very simply.

Soon, a man in his forties was taken directly into the tent.

"I've seen two generals, and I call Baixiang contemptible people." The man saluted the two directly.

"You said you brought news from the city, what is it?" Gongsun Lin asked directly.

"Back to the words of the two generals, I brought a message from General Hu in the city, General Hu is willing to surrender to the Han Dynasty, and sacrifice all his family property, and do not ask the Han to treat him well, there is only one request, General Hu is willing to open the city gate and surrender directly." Hu Baixiang said seriously.

"Tell me about it." Gongsun Lin and Ma Yuan had some surprises, they never expected that as soon as their army arrived here, someone was already coming over to surrender.

"Please ask the two generals to tell the leader of Huo Gang, hoping that the leader of Huo Gang can exempt the lives of all the soldiers in Gaochang, they are also forced to do so, so they can only resist." Hu Baixiang immediately respectfully said this request.

Gongsun Lin glanced at Ma Yuan, and then Ma Yuan said without moving: "That's it?" ”

"That's it, General Hu is willing to surrender, because Ju Wentai is already crazy, and he wants to drag all the people of Gaochang City to die together." Hu Baixiang took a deep breath.