Cui Pu frowned when he heard this. "You are obedient, now is not the time to play tricks. ”

"To live together, to die together. Don't expect to leave me alone and wait outside, I've waited long enough in Chang'an all these years!" Mu Jiaojiao insisted. At times, she's just a bit of a playmaker.

Isn't he the same?

Cui Pu looked at her disapprovingly.

However, no matter how he looked at it, Mu Jiaojiao's mind had already been decided, and he knew that he couldn't move her at all.

Seeing this, Mrs. Cui could only shake her head: "Whoever leaves and who stays, you can think about it yourself! Anyway, the most elite bloodline of our Boling Cui clan must be preserved, and it must not be wiped out." That's what your daddy meant. ”

"I understand. Cui Pu nodded hurriedly.

After sending Mrs. Cui away, he called the Da Langjun brothers over and told them to take their wives and children out of the city to hide. Da Lang Jun and Er Lang Jun naturally don't do it.

"Daddy, I have been with you in all these battles, and I have never left you. Now that there is another war, it is natural that my son will stay by your side, share the same hatred with you, and protect Chang'an!" Da Langjun said in a loud voice.

Erlangjun didn't speak, but he was obviously very normal now, and he didn't have the sleepy and absent-minded appearance of the past, which seemed to indicate that he was serious.

"I said let you go out, and you will go! It's just a Chang'an City, are you still afraid that I won't be able to defend it?" Cui Pu drank coldly.

"Daddy......"

"Don't talk nonsense, if I let you go, you can quickly pack up your things and leave. If you dare to disobey, I will have people tie you up, throw you directly on the horse and drag you out!

It's also a person who has been a general for so many years. Once the fire starts, he is full of momentum, so that the Dalang brothers can't bear it.

Helpless, the two brothers could only obediently bow their heads.

Soon, they and the little lady's family of three packed up their baggage and came to say goodbye to Mu Jiaojiao.

"Ah Niang, are you really not going to go with us?" When it was time to leave, Da Langjun still refused to give up.

The little lady and Xiao Langjun also took Mu Jiaojiao's hand one by one, and whispered to her to go out with them to take refuge, but Mu Jiaojiao refused: "Because as soon as the saint left, ten rooms and nine empty rooms in Chang'an City, and the people's hearts were already scattered." Since your father chooses to stay, I will naturally stay with him and help him stabilize the rear. Only if we set an example first, can the other people who remain, as well as the soldiers who are determined with him to stay and resist the Tibetan and Hui armies, also be able to settle down and fight against them with the greatest morale. ”

"However, stabilizing the rear is not the only one you can do!" the little lady said.

"But behind your father, there is no one but me who can hold it steady. Mu Jiaojiao said.

The children naturally know how deep the relationship between her and Cui Pu is. Since Cui Pu didn't express his opinion again, and he insisted on doing so, the children had no choice but to give up, bid farewell with tears, and went out of Chang'an City to the mountains together.

Soon, the Tibetan soldiers were killed under the city of Chang'an.

At this time, the city gates had already been heavily defended by Cui Pubu. The Tibetan soldiers came over violently, but they encountered strong resistance at the gate of the city and suffered heavy losses.

The first siege failed.

However, the Tang army was no better on its side.

Because of the saint's distrust of the generals, after returning to the dynasty to report on his work, the saint has tried his best to transfer all the soldiers on hand far away. Now that the Tibetan and Uighur armies are brazenly attacking, they have no time to send people back. And when the saint rushed to Xiazhou, he took most of the Yu Linwei with him. Most of the young generals who remain in Chang'an City now are some young generals who have not experienced actual combat, and their combat effectiveness is sadly low.

Thanks to Cui Pu's side, there are veterans with rich combat experience, Hu San, who refuse to avoid it, and insist on following Cui Pu's side.

He said this: "I, Hu San, have never expected to be able to soar in my life, but because of your relationship with the prince of the county, now I am also a marquis, and I have enough glory in this life! Moreover, I am old, and I can't live for many years, but I have a son! Even if I really die under the sword of the Tubo people, I will not worry that no one will inherit my title, and the glory of my Hu family can still be continued, and this is enough! Now, let me continue to fulfill the promise I made to you back then, and stay by your side and never abandon it! Perhaps, after this battle, I can make another great contribution to make the glory of my Hu family go further!"

Others also chimed in, refusing to leave.

Looking at the brothers who followed him from Yangzhou to Guangzhou, and then from Guangzhou to Liangzhou, and finally rode horses together in the vast world of the New Tang Dynasty for seven years, Cui Pu's eyes were sour, and he finally decided to make his head: "Okay! Since this is your wish, then I will fulfill you! Big deal, everyone will die in one place!"

"That's right, it's a great honor for us to be able to die with you, the king of the county!"

Cui Pu also smiled. Just while laughing, there was a flash of water in his eyes that sparkled in the sunlight.

In addition, knowing that Cui Pu was going to lead people to defend the city, the families who were still staying in Chang'an City also divided half of the guards from the guards to support them.

Counting these people, plus the manpower under his own hands, there are actually a thousand people who are smaller. Cui Pu handed over the people to Hu San and asked him to divide these people into eight teams, each of which guarded a city gate, working in two shifts a day, and staring at the Tubo soldiers who were eyeing them outside.

After the failure of the first siege, the Tibetan soldiers soon carried out a second siege on a large scale.

But this time, they suffered even more casualties.

"It's poison gas! They put poison!"

Seeing that the people on the castle tower threw down a bucket, a slightly yellowish gas diffused, and the person who had just come into contact with the gas in front immediately bled and fell to the ground and died.

When the people behind saw it, they immediately shouted and stepped back.

The second siege failed again.

Three days later, when the spies of Tubo returned and let the Tubo leaders know that the city of Chang'an had long been empty, and the soldiers defending the city were now less than 1,000, they made a comeback again, this time concentrating all their forces in the direction of a city gate. And every member of the vanguard covered their mouths and noses with a green cloth soaked in medicinal herbs.

This time, the lethality of the poison gas was significantly reduced.

Under the command of Cui Pu, the soldiers on the city gate threw stones and archery, resisting for a full day and a night, before they could barely suppress this large wave of offensive.

When the Tibetan army faded again, Cui Pu ordered people to count the number of people and found that nearly 200 people had been lost.

Originally, every time they attacked the city, they would lose some of their men. At the time of the third siege, he had only a little more than 800 people at hand. This time, they actually lost two hundred at one time, which means that they only have six hundred people left. And the Tibetan army on the opposite side has tens of thousands!

The most important thing is that there are still spies in the city in Tibet!

Now this situation will surely reach the ears of the Tibetan chieftains as quickly as possible, and they will surely launch another more and more fierce attack at that time. If they lose another two or three hundred people, they won't have to defend this city anymore!

Realizing the seriousness of the matter, Cui Pu closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Lang Jun, you've been guarding with someone for a day, let's eat something!" Xiao Si'er has been following Cui Pu these days. Now that he can breathe a sigh of relief, he hurriedly sent the hot steamed buns and warm water to Cui Pu.

Cui Pu picked up the steamed buns, ate one in two bites, drank half a bowl of water, and waved his hand: "Okay, you go down, let me rest for a while." ”

Xiao Si'er hurriedly retreated.

Cui Pu was so tired that he couldn't even lift his fingers, so he leaned against the wall and closed his eyes in this position.

Although he was extremely tired, the moment he closed his eyes, a bloody scene still appeared in front of his eyes.

The ferocious Tubo soldiers and the weak Tang army soldiers fought on both sides, and the Tang army leaned on a city wall to protect their homeland desperately. However, the Tibetan soldiers mastered their methods little by little, and when they came to attack the city next time, they would come up with a way to deal with it.

Relying on such a few people, the art of war is useless, and now they have no other way than to carry it hard.

It's hard to carry, and I don't know how long I can carry it.

The corners of his lips lifted slightly, and Cui Pu didn't know why, he suddenly smiled. The smile was very shallow and faint, but it clearly fell into a pair of eyes.

Mu Jiaojiao saw him when he came in.

The man was covered in dirt, so tired that he didn't even bother to climb the couch next to him, so he sat on the ground and took a nap. I don't know what I dreamed about, but he actually smiled.

It's a good thing to be able to laugh at this time.

Slowly crouching down beside him, she pulled out a handkerchief and wiped the stains off his face.

Sensing the movement on his face, Cui Pu opened his eyes vigilantly. When he saw that the person who came was Mu Jiaojiao, he took away the coldness in his eyes and let out a long sigh of relaxation: "Why did you come here at this time?

"There are too many people, and I can't keep them busy for a while, so I've already taken care of the most injured ones, and I'll just leave the rest to them. Mu Jiaojiao said, the movements in his hands did not stop for a moment.

Cui Pu tugged at the corners of his mouth again when he heard this. "I really shouldn't have let you stay. ”

"Stay all of it, is it interesting to talk about it now?" Mu Jiaojiao said lightly.

"Yes. Cui Pu nodded, and then took off his helmet with her help, and leaned his head on her shoulder weakly, "But to be honest, I am still very relieved to have you by my side now." I'm such a selfish person!"

"Me too!" Mu Jiaojiao smiled.

The two of them didn't say a word, and suddenly Hu San ran in.

"King of the county, the people from Tubo have come to call for battle, saying that their general wants to talk to you face to face!"