"Report, meet Lu Guogong! At the time of the departure of the British duke, the army under the command of the British duke was still about 300 miles away from Xinghai City, and the speed of the army was 60 miles a day, and now two days have passed, and the army should be 180 miles away from Xinghai City! ”

Cheng Yanjin couldn't help grinning when he heard this.

"Okay, General Ben's army is about two hundred miles away from Xinghai City at this time, and they are all marching according to the established plan, just waiting to be surrounded together."

The cavalry who reported the message replied.

"Humble office, go back to report to the country!"

Cheng Yanjin laughed.

"You have been galloping all the way to very hard, so you don't have to run back, in fact, my father has already sent people to the British Duke and the Duke of Eguo, it turns out that our three armies have been marching according to the established plan, and in two days they will be able to surround the Tubo people and launch a general attack, now, I just don't know what happened to Xinghai City!"

The cavalry who reported the news hurriedly said.

"I don't know about this humble position, and our prince didn't send scouts to check because he was afraid of startling the snake."

Cheng Biting Jin waved his hand.

"The speed of our return to the division is very fast, according to estimates, Xinghai City should be able to hold on, and besides, we will launch a siege in two days, and it will not be worse than these two days, okay, you go down and rest!"

The cavalry who reported the news was led down to rest, and the atmosphere in the big tent suddenly became eager, and now the other two armies have been in place according to the plan, and in two days it is time to encircle and launch a general attack, and the big battle is coming, how not to make people excited? At the same time, Xu Shiji and Wei Chigong also received the news, determined that the three armies have been in place according to the plan, only two days to launch a siege, a day of fierce fighting ended again, although there are still many warriors climbed the ladder, but in the end still did not attack the city, the means of attacking Xinghai City is very single, you can only carry the ladder, set up the ladder to launch a fierce attack on the city wall, because other means can not be used, the range of the trebuchet is far less than artillery, Before entering the range of the trebuchet, it was smashed by the artillery, and the archers were not good, because the range of the musket was far farther than the bow and arrow, and the musket was still condescending, in the face of artillery and muskets, the Tubo people could only carry the ladder to charge, and could only choose to fill it with human lives, so this siege battle was very tragic, and it was never tragic, and the faces of the generals were a little calm, and they were not surprised that they still did not capture Xinghai City today.

"Marshal, our offensive today is fiercer than yesterday, but the muskets of the defenders in the city are fired more intensively than yesterday, so we didn't capture Xinghai City!"

Saamu summed it up succinctly.

"Doesn't that mean that as long as the guns and ammunition in Xinghai City are not exhausted, it will be difficult for us to capture Xinghai City?"

"Why did Xinghai City suddenly dare to consume guns and ammunition like this?"

"Nonsense, if they didn't consume guns and bullets like this, we would have captured Xinghai City today, as long as they didn't want to lose Xinghai City, they could only consume it like this!"

"That makes sense, but how many bullets are there in Xinghai City to consume?"

This question is the most critical, all the generals were asked at once, although they were all conceited and brave, but after personally understanding the power of firearms, they also had to admit that if the guns and ammunition in Xinghai City were still sufficient, then they did not have the confidence to capture Xinghai City, Songtsen Gampo had been listening carefully to the generals' discussions, and muttered.

"Xinghai City's reserves of guns and ammunition should not be much, first, Li Yong is guarding grain and grass in the rear, he has a large amount of grain and grass, how can he carry a lot of guns and ammunition? And he wouldn't have thought that we would surprise Xinghai City! Second, if Xinghai City's guns and ammunition were very sufficient, how could Xinghai City refrain from using musket bullets when the city was attacked a few days ago? What he should want is to knock us back as quickly as possible. ”

Saamu nodded.

"Zan Pu Yingming, Xinghai City's musket shooting today is indeed intensive, in fact, it is just forced by the situation, the last general feels that this is the last struggle of Xinghai City, they are almost at the end of their rope!"

Songtsen Gampo bowed his head slightly and said with a smile.

"What you said makes sense, if there are no guns and bullets, the Shenji Battalion will be completely abandoned, and the city will be destroyed in an instant!"

At this moment, a guard walked in and said respectfully.

"Qi Zampu, the scout sent out is back."

Songtsen Gampo perked up when he heard this, and commanded.

"Let him in!"

The leader of the scouts walked into the tent and said respectfully.

"To meet Zampu, I was ordered to explore the northwest for seventy miles, and I didn't find any trace of the Tang Dynasty's soldiers and horses."

Songtsan Gampo is most afraid of the 50,000 army led by Xu Shiji, if Xu Shiji's army returns to the division, it should be from the northwest, since there are no traces of the Tang army found in the northwest fifty miles away, it means that Xu Shiji's army did not return to the division, which is actually within Songtsen Gampo's expectations, because the possibility of Xu Shiji's army returning to the division is very low, if it is Cheng Biting Jin or Wei Chigong's army returning to the division, then he will eat them directly, Songtsan Gampo breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

"Okay, go down and have a good rest, and continue to investigate tomorrow, be sure to investigate carefully!"

The scout agreed respectfully and slowly retreated, and the generals listened quietly, but they were all thinking in their hearts, Zampu must have been too careful, right? The army has only besieged Xinghai City for a few days! How could the Tang Army return to the division? Unless the Tang army can pinch and calculate directly that their army is attacking Xinghai City, how can they suddenly return to the division for no reason? Not to mention, it is impossible for the Tang army to find that the army that has been pursuing only 10,000 horses, even if they really find any clues, it is impossible for the Tang army to return to Xinghai City, they will only speed up and go straight to Tuyuhun King City, so now the Tang army may be almost to Tuyuhun King City! After the scout leader left the tent, Saamu laughed.

"Zan Pu is worried, Tang Jun is still being led around by the nose, even if Tang Jun finds something abnormal, he will go straight to Tuyuhun King City, the last general is looking forward to Xu Shiji What clues they can find, and then go straight to Tuyuhun King City, and then they will find that Tuyuhun King City has become an empty city, but unfortunately they can't witness the expression of the Tang army generals when they find out that Tuyuhun King City has become an empty city, it must be very exciting!"

The generals in the big tent couldn't help but laugh when they heard this, as if they had thought of the shocked and dumbfounded appearance of the generals of the Tang Army. The tragic siege battle continued, but a battle also broke out in another place, it was a battle between scouts, the scouts of Tubo and the scouts of the Tang Dynasty finally met together, the scouts of Tubo were stunned when they saw the scouts of the Tang Dynasty, although they were sent out to investigate the situation of the Tang army, they never thought that they really encountered the Tang army, because the Tang army could not appear here at all! However, they met the scouts of the Tang Dynasty, and after being stunned, they immediately turned their horses back, and they really met the scouts of the Tang Dynasty, which means that the Tang army has returned to Xinghai City, and they must hurry up and bring back the news, the scouts of Tubo were shocked when they met, but the scouts of Datang were not shocked at all, they had expected this, so when they saw the Tubo scouts, they not only hesitated, but urged the horses to gallop, because they had to leave the Tubo scouts behind, The Tibetan scouts must not be allowed to go back to report the news, so after seeing and discovering the Tibetan scouts, they immediately rushed up, they must kill all these Tibetan scouts, no one is left, this time the scouts are carefully selected, they have extraordinary martial arts elite soldiers, there are archery marksmen with extraordinary skills, they even brought crossbow arrows, this is not only a scout team, but also a fierce hunting team, the Tibetan scouts keep urging the horses to run wildly, there is no intention to turn back to the battle, Although they are conceited and brave, but they will not be conceited enough to defeat the Tang army ten times their own, what makes them feel desperate is that their war horse horsepower is obviously inferior to the other party, they have explored sixty or seventy miles, and the Tang army scouts are one person and two horses, and the horsepower can be compared to the other party, swishing, hearing this sound, the Tubo scout couldn't help but change his face greatly, and before he had time to dodge, he felt a sharp pain in his body as if it was torn, and then he fell off the horse, and before he died, they only had one thought, The Tang people actually used crossbow arrows, they didn't talk about martial arts, they had no intentions, and a five-person Tubo scout team was easily wiped out.

"Wang Erxiao, you go back quickly to report to the commander, and find that the Tubo scout team was all annihilated, and not a single one was let go."

The scout commander commanded, Wang Erxiao agreed to immediately turn the horse back, and a few horsemen stepped forward to clean up the battlefield, gathered the frightened war horses, and harvested five war horses, five heads, and a number of knives and arrows, in general, the harvest was slow, and the most important thing was that this battle was really easy to win.

"Found the scouts of the Tubo people, that means that the main army of the Tubo is really in Xinghai City, and the Tubo people have not captured Xinghai City, the Tubo people are quite careful, now it is quite far from Xinghai City, there are already Tubo scouts haunting, carefully explore, when encountering the Tubo scouts, they must all be killed, and they must not let go of one, rest assured, captain, even if they chase them to the Tubo camp, they will be killed!"

They cautiously and carefully probed again, and their hearts were full of expectations, but they did not find the Tibetan scout team again, which made them a little disappointed, after all, the scout who killed the other party got a lot of credit and loot, and they also had some doubts in their hearts, how could there be only this Tibetan scout team? What they didn't know was that Songtsen Gampo did only send this scout team, because he didn't think that the Tang army would come so quickly, just in case, even so, there were generals who felt that this was too cautious, Xu Shiji couldn't help laughing after receiving the news from the scouts, his face was full of relieved expressions, and when he met the scout team of the Tubo people, it meant that the Tubo people were indeed attacking Xinghai City, and they did not capture Xinghai City.

"The Tibetan people are still very careful! They even sent scouts to investigate so far away! ”

Xu Shiji said with a smile, and Niu Jinda groaned.

"Although all of the scout team was killed, the scout team in Tibet did not go back, which will also arouse the vigilance of the other party."

Xu Shiji said with a smile.

"The Tibetan scouts left the army to explore so far away, at least the Tibetan people can be sure that their scouts are dead at least until night, and it is impossible for them to withdraw their troops at night, so there is enough time."

Niu Jinda listened to it and thought for a while, and couldn't help nodding, now that the three armies are only a hundred miles away from the Tubo army, can they still let the Tubo army run away? Niu Jinda grinned a little excitedly.

"What the marshal said is that they are all here, can they still let them run? Now it's time to get ready to fight! ”

The surrounding soldiers couldn't help but perk up when they heard this, they have been marching since they set out on the expedition, and it was finally time to fight? They have long wanted to try the quality of the Tubo people, to see if the Tubo people have the strength to match their arrogance, the army is in a silent hurry, the sun is slanting westward, the remnant sun is like blood, the sound of gold echoes on the battlefield, as the Tubo people retreat like a tide, the seemingly fierce siege battle is over again, Li Yong stretched his waist, looked at the bloody remnant sun and the burning clouds in the sky, and smiled.

"The sunset is infinitely beautiful, it's a good sign!"

Li Yuntian and the others also turned their heads to look at the burning clouds in the sky, as if they saw blood surging, whose dusk was that? Whose blood is that? What a good sign! Today's siege is a fierce and fruitless day, the atmosphere in the big tent is inevitably a little calm, from the first day of the siege to the present, there has not been a single attack on the city, which inevitably makes people feel a little weird, but most of the generals are silent, although they are summing up the gains and losses, but it is just a cliché, now they are more concerned about when the guns and bullets on the city wall can be exhausted, otherwise it is really difficult to attack the city wall! Saamu reported today's losses in a deep voice, and the generals were even more silent, the offensive in the past few days has become more fierce, and this means that the casualties are even more heavy, it is completely the guns and bullets on the city wall that consume human lives, at this moment, their feelings about Li Yong are a little complicated, it is true that Li Yong is indeed very capable, but Li Yong also let them Tubo suffer so many casualties! Night had fallen, and although the brazier was lit in the camp, it still felt dark, and Songtsen Gampo suddenly frowned and asked.

"Haven't the scouts sent out have returned?"

The generals couldn't help but be slightly stunned when they heard this, if it weren't for Zampu suddenly getting up, they would have forgotten about scouting.