In the silence of everyone, Xiang suddenly turned to Longpu and said, "Pu'er, you give me a detailed situation." ”

"Yes, Your Highness." Long Puqiang cheered up and began to tell the details of the siege of Cheshiyan by the Beifu Western Expeditionary Army.

"On the same day, when the Beifu Western Expeditionary Army besieged the Cheshi Jiaocheng, my father, in order to prevent accidents, ordered the people of the cities and towns of Yanqi to carry all the food and property into Wuyi City, and negotiated with His Royal Highness Baitou, the King of Yuli, to abandon Yuli City and retreat to our Wuyi City, and the military and civilians of the two countries were combined."

Hearing this, everyone was nodding. Yuli and Yanqi, who have a stake in the lips and teeth, wear a pair of pants, and Yuli is also a subject country of Yanqi, so it is not surprising that Baitou does this. On the other hand, it has not been many years since the Zhang family last operated the Western Regions, and the locations where the Zhang family operated the Western Regions are in Yanqi and Yuli, so the military and civilians of these two countries have long been frightened, and it is normal to make such a reaction.

"Originally, my father also hoped that the Western Expeditionary Army of Beifu would move north and fight directly with Wusun after the Cheshi handed over the city for a long time." Long Pu continued.

It seems that there are many people who have the idea of having a wronged master and a debtor, since the prime minister of Qiuci Natuo can say it without shame, there is nothing that Longpu can't say, after all, compared with Qiuzi, Yanqi is closer to the blade of the Beifu Western Expeditionary Army.

"But we didn't expect that Jiaocheng would fall in half a day. When our spies desperately ran back to Wuyi City, they were followed by 5,000 Beifu cavalry. As soon as we received this shocking information, we immediately prepared for battle. However, the 5,000 cavalry plundered the city of Wuyi and took the iron gate. Blocked the main road. When Long Pu said this, he couldn't help but take a deep look at his uncle Xiangze.

Xiang Ze couldn't help but feel a burst of heat, this iron gate pass is the main road from Yanqi Country to Qiuzi Country, it was originally supposed to be a heavily guarded place, but for various reasons it was empty.

In fact, the reason for this is very simple. For Yanqi State, no matter how dangerous the Tiemen Pass is, it is of little significance, because it is behind Wuyi City and Yuli Kingdom, at most it is just a way out. Therefore, Long An and Baitou will not bother too much to send troops to guard there. They believe that the Guizi Congress values it more. Because the meaning here is different for the country of Qiuzi. It is the real Dongdaemun.

But there was a tragedy at Tiemen Pass here, and this tragedy was an excuse for the Beifu Western Expeditionary Army to send troops. For the people of Qiuzi Country, this is an ominous place, and under the arrogant flames of the Beifu Western Expeditionary Army, many people don't want to have anything to do with it. Therefore, the monarchs and ministers of Qiuzi collectively lost their memories and closed the iron gate of the natural danger there, anyway, there were Yanqi, Yuli and other countries in front of them. I really can't talk about it.

However, listening to Longpudi's narration, after the Beifu Western Expeditionary Army captured the Cheshi Guojiaocheng, they immediately sent troops to take the Tiemen Pass, and cut Yanqi and Qiuzi apart with one sword. It is no wonder that the information about the fallen territory of Cheshi Country did not reach Qiuzi Country, that is, even Longpu and his party worked hard to cross the Tianshan Mountains and bypass it far away.

In fact, it is not that Xiang Ze and others are deliberately careless, but that they are indeed not ready for war, and they have not made any preparations in their hearts.

"Pu'er, don't go back. Just stay in the city of Kütz. He was speechless for a long time. Xiang Ze finally spoke.

Hearing this, Long Pu's tears poured out at once.

The Iron Gate Pass has been lost, which means that the gate from Qiuzi Country to Yanqi Country has been closed. If the country of Qiuzi insists on sending reinforcements to Yanqi. Then you can only bypass it from the good and the sea. But it has long been the territory of Beifu, not to mention how it has already reacted to the Beifu Dishan Congress, as long as it is there, no one dares to guarantee when a group of "notorious" Qiang cavalry will emerge from somewhere. Xiang said this, that is, in disguise, that is, the siege of the Yanqi Kingdom was powerless.

And Long Pu also understood what his father Long An meant at this moment because of his uncle's words. Ever since my father knew that the Tiemen Pass had fallen and the Beifu Western Expeditionary Army was marching westward, he had already known very well that Yan Guo had no chance, and its fate was not much better than that of Cheshi Country. My father must have guessed that Xiang Ze and Guizi Guo would not send troops to rescue each other after knowing that the Iron Gate Pass had fallen. Then it doesn't make much sense to send someone for help, so the only use of going to Qiuzi Country is to stay away from the place where the war is about to rag.

After understanding his father's hard work, Longpu felt that his heart was like a knife. He fell to the ground, facing the Yanqi Kingdom to the east, and wailed and wept, and his sorrow made everyone who heard it feel sad. In the cry of Longpudi, the Qiuci Palace fell into a strange silence, and the whining sad cry spread farther and farther, all the way out of the palace gate, making many Qiuci soldiers and civilians who were paying attention and speculating in silence feel even more worried.

"General, standing here, Wuyi City is really in your eyes." Cao Yan pointed to the Wuyi City Road under the mountain in front of him.

Zeng Hua was riding on the Hot Wheels, staring intently at Wuyi City in the distance, his solemn eyes penetrating the distant space.

Seeing that Zeng Hua was there without saying a word, the people behind couldn't help but be silent, and secretly glanced at the solemn look on Zeng Hua's face, not daring to say anything more.

After a long while, Le Changshan, who couldn't hold back his breath, spoke: "General, isn't it a small country in the Western Regions?" Back then, the Zhang family in Liangzhou was able to subdue him, not to mention our Beifu? When the time comes, our army will be wiped out. ”

"The ashes are gone, I think the jade is burned." Wei Xingguo was kinder than Le Changshan, and his face was now full of worry.

"General, in addition to the soldiers and civilians in Wuyi City, there are more than 3,000 Buddhist monks and dozens of temples. Why didn't these people and monks go out of the city to surrender as the general said? Although our Beifu Army can be regarded as brutal in the eyes of people who don't know the truth, it is also a well-known Cigna division, and it does what it says. Why don't they believe in our Beifu Army? Then it was Deng Yao who said, and his face was full of compassion and helplessness in addition to worry.

"Ying Yuan, what do you mean by conquest?" Zeng Hua suddenly asked.

"Conquest?" Deng Yao was stunned by this inexplicable question, and finally replied after meditating for a while. "General, I don't know." In the pre-Chinese history, it seems that the word conquest has not really been understood.

"You said that the former Qin soldiers went out of the Han Valley and swept the six countries, is this considered a conquest?" Zeng Hua continued to ask

Deng Yao and the others didn't know how to answer, so they were all stunned and silent.

"The Xiongnu crisscrossed the desert in the south and the desert in the north, invading the Central Plains, is this considered a conquest?" Zeng Hua sentence after sentence. The question made everyone look at each other. I don't know how to answer even more.

Seeing that everyone stopped talking. Zeng Hua was also silent, leaving his doubts to the subordinates who were suspicious and speculating. He then looked up at Wuyi City in the distance, as if the words that had made everyone dazed had nothing to do with him.

"Horses need the vastness of the earth to run,

The eagle flies and looks forward to the leisurely blue sky,

Proud of the Great Moon Man,

How can you bow your noble head in front of the enemy? ”

In the sunset that is getting lower and lower, the golden land of Wuyi City is like a Buddha city covered with gold leaf. Radiates a dazzling light. A low song passed through the somewhat dim yellow sky, faintly floating between heaven and earth, as if far and near, as if it had been transmitted from ancient times.

"Who's singing here?" Long An raised his head and asked.

"Back to my father, this is being sung in the Great Moon language." Long Kang, who was next to Long An, listened sideways for a while, and then said.

"Otsuki?" Long An felt sorry in his heart. This Dayue clan was driven from the Qilian Mountains to Yilieshui, and then to the Hejian region further west, and after a period of glory, it finally disappeared into the vast history. Many Otsuki people can only be used as traveling merchants. Or as a monk, occasionally sing in the big moon language to recall the glory and misfortune of the ancestors. Yes, there are many Dayue people among the three thousand monks in this Wuyi City.

As soon as Long An turned his head, he saw Long Kang. Seeing his delicate face, Long An couldn't help but think of Longpu, who should be far away in Qiuzi at this time, and a feeling of guilt suddenly arose in his heart, guilt for his second son Long Kang.

"Kang'er, you won't resent me, will you?" Long An couldn't help but ask.

"Father, how can I resent you? I'm glad to be by your side. There was a kind of fortitude on Long Kangdi's face, which was very different from his eighteen-year-old age.

Long An nodded, the guilt on his face was a little more relieved, "Kang'er, there are some things that someone must do." ”

"Father, the child understands."

Long An didn't say anything anymore, put down the pen in his hand, turned his ear and began to listen to the song floating in the wind again, and after a long time, he said quietly: "I wonder if someone will use singing to remember our Yanqi in the future?" ”

As he spoke, several whistling sounds pierced the sky and flew towards Wuyi City, and finally fell silent again in the dull thud.

"What's wrong?" Long An asked. After the Beifu West Expeditionary Army surrounded Yanqi Wuyi City, it was still the set of Cheshi Guojiaocheng, and it was also a siege of the city and a document to surrender. And it has been very quiet for five days when the siege has been announced, and there has been no movement. But today is the fifth day, the last day of the Beifu ultimatum.

"Back to His Highness, it was fired by the stone cannons of the Beifu Army, and five stone bullets fell on various parts of the city, but fortunately, the damage was not great." The guards outside the door quickly reported after receiving the summary report.

"The general of Beifu has made it very clear that if we don't descend before sunset today, we will meet each other in arms, and it will be difficult to guarantee life and death." Long An said with a wry smile, "It's already dusk, and this Beifu army really does what it says and demonstrates to us, this is an ultimatum." ”

"Father!" Long Kang's face was full of grief and indignation.

"Kang'er, you'd better go meet your mother and younger siblings first, and then go to Beicheng and take care of the defense there." Long An's expression was very calm, as if he was explaining a very ordinary thing to his son.

Long Kang didn't say anything, just knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Long An three times with tears in his eyes, and then left the room absolutely, disappearing from Long An's sight, disappearing into the darker and darker sky.

"The stone artillery unit tested a very good shot, and it hit five areas: east, west, south, south, and center. Yu Zi's family is really amazing! Le Changshan shouted. The five stone cannons just now made Zeng Hua and the others on the mountain bag suddenly come alive.

"Zijia is the first batch of artillery officers who graduated from the Bacheng Military Academy, and they are the outstanding among them, how can you compare with a dirt bun like you." Wei Xingguo scoffed.

Le Changshan had long been accustomed to his old partner's ridicule, and he didn't react at all, but was even more happy, turned around and slapped him the shoulder.

"That's, or else the stone artillery commander is him, not a crash course graduate of our two. Ha ha! Le Changshan didn't care about Wei Xingguo's ridicule at all, they were half a catty, and they had been arguing like this for more than ten years, and they had a very tacit understanding with each other. Hearing that these two people were arguing, everyone couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Zeng Hua finally woke up from the petrification amid the laughter of everyone.

"Tang Ziming led the two-compartment infantry army to be responsible for the north, Chen Ziyu led the two-compartment infantry army to be responsible for the south, Wang Yiwu led the two-compartment infantry army to be responsible for the east, Wei Boyu led the two-compartment infantry army to be responsible for the west, Mao Dake and Qi Zicheng each led the two-compartment infantry army as the first and second reserves, Cao Shuyi was the commander of the former enemy, and Xiahou led the two-compartment cavalry to guerrilla response." Zeng Hua quickly issued an order, while the military secretary next to him was busy taking notes.

After saying this, Zeng Hua turned to Yu Guidao: "You continue to stay here and command the stone artillery troops. "This mountain bag is not far or close to Wuyi City, although it cannot threaten Wuyi City, but it is very suitable as an observation position, and you can see the entire Wuyi City at a glance.

"The rest of the armies were on guard and resting in the camp. Ying Yuan, let's go back, you accompany me for two games tonight. Zeng Hua finally turned the horse's head and said to Deng Yao next to him.

When Zeng Hua rode back to Zhongying, it was already completely dark, but the surroundings of Wuyi City were not as quiet as the previous nights, there were heavy and busy footsteps everywhere, as well as torches passing around, and the sound of squeaky shafts, gears and other mechanical rotations came from a distance.

Just as Zeng Hua turned over and dismounted, about to walk into the big tent, Zhang behind him suddenly pointed to the sky and said, "General, it's started!" ”

Zeng Hua followed Zhang's finger and looked over, only to see that the dark night sky was cut open by more than a dozen orange-red firelights, which were like meteors, with long tails, flying towards Wuyi City.

Zeng Hua stood there and waited for a while, and when he saw hundreds of traces of fire reflecting the night sky red, he turned his head and said to Deng Yao and Zhang, "We can go in and eat." ”