Li Xuan stood on top of the watchtower, his eyes falling on the raft on the river.

On the south bank of the Yellow River, the rafts are connected horizontally, but the further you go, the fewer the rafts become, and even form a cone-shaped pointed shape.

In the dark night, faintly, countless Tibetan soldiers stepped on the makeshift raft bridge, and rushed towards the north bank, regardless of the ferocity of life and death.

Overhead, huge rolling stones fell, and with a "boom", the raft bridge was smashed out of a hole.

The soldier above, "Puff Tong" fell into the water at once.

At this time, the Tubo soldiers in the back immediately threw down the raft on their shoulders, and then quickly hooked up with the ropes around them, and the soldiers behind quickly replenished them.

Even if the rolling stones were spinning overhead, these Tubo soldiers were still cold and orderly manipulating, indifferent.

……

Li Xuan glanced to the side and asked in a low voice, "Do you see what's coming?" ”

He Zhizhang stood up slightly, stood beside Li Xuan, and said in a low voice: "Back to the prince, the Tubo people plan to cover the entire river with rafts, and then use the rafts to rush directly to the north bank. ”

Li Xuan frowned slightly, and said unceremoniously: "Think again!" ”

He Zhizhang's eyelids jumped, and then he said: "These connected rafts, under the traction of the soldiers, are easy to avoid the wooden stakes that roll down upstream, and at the same time, because of the large number of people on the raft, the raft sinks into the water, and the fire attack is difficult to work......

Li Xuan sighed, shook his head a little helplessly, and said: "This raft bridge is indeed convenient, but don't forget, they can use the raft bridge to kill, in the same way, we can also release the boat from the upstream, directly from the upstream directly downstream, and then reach the middle of the raft bridge, or even on the south bank, so that we can easily cut off the connection on these ropes, and at that time, the Tubo people of these raft bridges are all just lambs to be slaughtered." ”

He Zhizhang was slightly stunned, and then nodded heavily.

The Hangzhou soldiers brought by Li Xuan can be said to be all his fellow countrymen, and these people are quite water-based.

Even if you don't have a boat, you can rush directly from the bottom to the south shore.

It's just that at that time, they will also be exhausted and unable to support it.

But now it is different, with these raft bridges, they can rush to the raft bridge in the middle and cut it off directly, then the Tubo people above will all die under their arrows under the turbulent river.

Thinking of this, He Zhizhang raised his eyes and asked in a low voice, "Then why didn't the prince do this?" ”

"Because they didn't cross the river with all their might!" Li Xuan took the lead and looked at the south bank of the Yellow River.

Although the Tubo on the opposite side seems to be turbulent and going forward one after another, it is just a bluff, and there is no real river crossing at all.

"They're consuming us, they're waiting!" He Zhizhang finally understood it thoroughly.

Li Xuan nodded and said softly: "Yes, now the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo is the most critical time, the greater the damage of the plateau miasma to us, then the closer they are to cross the river with all their might, and the less the harm of the plateau miasma to us, they will deliberately avoid it, and the same is true of Guide City, bluffing, avoiding without fighting." ”

As soon as Li Xuan said this, He Zhizhang finally understood completely.

Half a month ago, Li Jinxing, the general of the right leading army, had already led his army to the city of Guide.

With his strength, he could have entered Guide City on the first day, but he didn't do that.

It was because he found that the Tubo people in the city, even the Tuyuhun people under the Tubo people, were seriously insufficient.

The total is only a thousand, and there are more people in the city who are ordinary Tuyuhun people, and their food is seriously insufficient.

If you change to a kind civil official, you will not be able to directly occupy the city, and then in the case of a serious shortage of food in the city, in order to buy people's hearts, part of the food of the generals and sergeants will be allocated, or all of them will be given to the people of Tuyuhun in the city.

In the end, when they ran out of food and grass, the Tibetans killed them with a rifle.

The Tuyuhun people in the city also immediately counterattacked, and finally the entire army was completely annihilated.

Fortunately, Li Jinxing was not a good person.

He waited until the Tuyuhun people in the city had run out of food and finally had to leave Guide City, and then he suddenly attacked and attacked the city.

Kill all these Tuyuhun people who went out of the city at once.

Of course, these Tuyuhun people are all Tuyuhun nobles.

After the Tang army besieged the city for half a month, the only ones who could withdraw in an orderly manner were the Tuyuhun nobles.

Let them carry out the plan of the Tubo people and deceive the Tang people, this is no problem, but let others starve to death for the plan of the Tubo people, these Tuyuhun people are not so stupid.

As for those ordinary Tuyuhun people who can't walk in the city, when they are starving to death, the Tang army gives them a little life ration, and their gratitude is always more, but not too much.

Since the first battle of Tuyuhun and Guo Zhifeng was slaughtered by the Tuyuhun people led by the Qin Ling, the attitude towards the Tuyuhun people in the Tang army has completely changed.

Li Xuan originally told Liu Renliang that he should no longer seek the reconstruction of Tuyuhun, but break up the Tuyuhun people into the system of the Tang Army.

Although Li Xuan said the words, many Tang Army generals and sergeants secretly agreed with this.

They would rather be tired themselves than entrust their backs to the Tuyuhun people.

In the first battle of Guide, Li Jinxing's proper handling also completely exposed the calculations of the Tubo people.

After a long time, with heavy casualties, the offensive of the Tibetans on the Yellow River finally stopped completely.

It was not until midnight later that the Tibetans launched another tentative attack, but finally stopped again under the bombardment of the Tang army's catapults, which were on full alert.

At this time, Li Xuan, as well as He Zhizhang and others, had disappeared from the shore.

Only Li Duozuo was still on the watchtower, staring closely at the movements of the Tubo people on the other side.

All night long.

……

Qin Shi opened his tent, the early morning sun was in, and there was a little blood in the warmth.

Qin Shi's gaze crossed the tent in front of him and landed on the surface of the Yellow River.

Countless raft fragments floated on the river like ruins, but they were quickly washed away by the river.

Only two hundred meters ahead of the south bank, there are still large rafts floating on the surface of the Yellow River.

Even the rushing water could not carry the rafts away, and the thick ropes behind them restrained them.

Qin Shi walked towards the big tent of the Chinese army, and at this time, two sergeants stuck behind him.

Qin Shi nodded to the two of them, this kind of protection started the day before yesterday, which made it difficult for Qin Shi to do other things, and even the contact with the Tubo Secret Guard was completely stopped, but even so, Qin Shi still had to find a way to complete his task and explore the details of the progress of the grain road.

Back in Daying, before the king of Nanchang arrived, there was only a literati named He Zhizhang, with a few classmates who were packing up the official documents.

Qin Shi once tried to spy on the official document when the king of Nanchang was away, but this guy named He Zhizhang stared very closely and didn't give him a chance at all.

But whenever Qin Shi walked through the invisible line in the center, He Zhizhang's cold gaze immediately stared at him.

This made Qin Shi like a thorn in the back, not to mention, in this case, he went through countless official documents to find the news of the grain road.

Retracting his gaze, Qin Shi looked at his colleagues, one surnamed Wang and the other surnamed Li.

Old man Wang and the famous Taiyuan Wang family naturally have no relationship, at least there is no half-cent relationship in the genealogy.

It's Old Man Li, but he is a real member of the Lintao Li clan, and he even has a name on the genealogy, but he is only marginal and can no longer be marginal.

Seeing Qin Shi coming over, Old Man Li arched his hand slightly, then looked at Qin Shi with a worried face, leaned closer and whispered: "Brother Qin, brother, I have always felt depressed recently, and I can't breathe, do you see if I am ......?"

Qin Shi patted Old Man Li's shoulder, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Li, to put it mildly, we are all serving your Li family, brother, I am a few years older than you, my body is not as good as Ling, I am not here to die, even if I die here in the end, it can be regarded as sacrificing my life for the country, Brother Li, you can't retreat from the battle, and you won't save yourself when you die!" ”

"Brother, you're talking nonsense." Old Man Li's face was very ugly, and in just one sentence, Qin Shi said several dead words.

Qin Shi had no choice but to shut up and smile, but his eyes caught Old Man Li's determined face.

It didn't take long for the king of Nanchang to arrive, and as soon as he arrived, he immediately went to check the official documents.

At this time, Old Man Li went to find Li Xuan, and he didn't know what to say, and the two of them laughed, and then Old Man Li left happily.

Before leaving, he was still standing at the door and wincing at Qin Shi.

Two hours later, Qin Shi walked towards Li Xuan with a helpless expression, and arched his hand: "Lord Wang, I don't know if I can transfer Brother Li back, we don't have enough manpower here, if not, it is okay to transfer people from other places." ”

Li Xuan raised his head, glanced at Qin Shi coldly, and then waved his hand directly: "He will not come back, this time the meritorious deeds will be completely eliminated, after returning to Lintao, all special treatment will be canceled, this is the fate of deserters." ”

Qin Shi's eyes instantly widened, if he remembered correctly, what Old Man Li said was to go down the mountain to correct it for a few days and then come up, why did he suddenly not use it completely, this king of Nanchang is too demanding.

"But my lord, then the progress of our wait will inevitably slow down." Qin Shi's face was suddenly full of anxiety.

Li Xuan suddenly looked at him indifferently: "Slow down, slow down, and don't be in a hurry." ”

Qin Shi was stunned for a moment, and he sighed in his heart, could it be that he ......

……

At lunchtime, Li Xuan took the lead in leaving the Chinese army's tent, and everyone else was kicked out.

After lunch, all the people in the camp were forced to take a nap to keep their bodies stable.

Qin Shi was a little suspicious, the king of Nanchang This was one of the means used to deal with the plateau miasma, after all, I heard that the king of Nanchang was a famous doctor of medicine.

However, he didn't know that at this time, Li Xuan had quietly led people to leave Longwu Village, and then headed north, and finally arrived at the foot of the northeast mountain in Jianzha County.

There is a small stream flowing down the mountain and finally joining the Yellow River.

There is a compound by the stream.

Inside and outside the compound, all of them were closely guarded by soldiers armed with knives and guns.

Ordinary people simply don't allow to get close to half a step,

Li Xuan turned over and dismounted, handed the horse rope in his hand to the soldier at the door, and then took Su Baotong and Li Zhu, as well as other black-clothed Qianniuwei, into the courtyard.

Li Xuan's eyes swept over, he only knew half of these plants, Song grass, round spike knotweed, fragrant green, Weiling vegetables, yellow total flowers and plants, black and brown moss grass, donkey hoof grass, weeping chrysanthemum, etc., in midsummer, blooming pink, yellow, blue and purple and other colorful flowers, colorful, extraordinarily gorgeous, densely covered with the entire courtyard.

In the middle of these flowers and plants, a small stream flows through the courtyard.

In the stream, there were forty or fifty middle-aged men with pale faces.

Most people's faces have begun to regain a trace of blood.

Li Xuan walked from the front yard to the backyard, the yard was full of flowers and plants, and the air was clear and terrifying.

Surrounded by a stream, from the front yard to the back yard, there are more than 200 people in total, staying in this courtyard stream.

Eyes raised, looking from above.

At least five such courtyards are located at the foot of the mountain.

(End of chapter)