After the siege of Wu'an City by the Tubo army, a large-scale siege was launched immediately on the same day, which lasted for a long time, fighting from daytime until dusk, which was the end, the preliminary estimate was that the Tubo siege soldiers died at least 10,000 people, and the Jin army defending the city was killed and wounded nearly 3,000 people, and the casualty ratio was three to one.

But the strange thing is that in the next six or seven days, although Tubo will still gather troops to attack the city every day, but the number and intensity are getting weaker and weaker, and on the eighth day, Tubo has no action, just besieging the city, not besieging the city.

Obviously, Gewa has realized that with the strength of Wu'an City's city defense and tens of thousands of Jin army defenders, it is too difficult to forcibly take down this city with only the strength in his own hands.

The quietness in Tibet made many people in the city feel relieved, but Li Xun did not, not only did not relax, but became more nervous.

Look at the overall situation, now Li Zhong led 150,000 troops into Huizhou, and the state side of the Tubo army to form a confrontation, in terms of local forces, the Jin Dynasty's army has gained the upper hand, at this time, Gewa attacked Wu'an City, on two choices, one is a quick battle, with the fastest speed to take the entire territory of the seven states in the west of Longyou, the other is to divide the troops, with a certain number of troops stationed in Xiazhou or Shazhou, in the west of Longyou and Li Xun and others to form a stalemate, and then lead the main force back to the military state, and Li Xun duel.

But the current situation is very strange, Gewa is not nervous about the situation on the state side at all, that is, he will not withdraw his troops, nor will he attack the city, he will be consumed under the city of Wu'an, there must be a demon if something is abnormal, and if someone is abnormal, there must be a knife, and the reason why Gewa did this must have his own plans.

Wuzhou Jiedu envoy marshal's house.

Li Xun and Fan Zhongyun were discussing things in the study, while Sima Tu and his generals went to Wang Renzi's place to discuss matters.

In recent days, Tubo stopped attacking the city, and everyone had nothing to do, except for strengthening vigilance, most of the other time, Wang Renzizi repeatedly summoned everyone to him to discuss matters, but after discussing and discussing, he also discussed a result, closely monitoring every move of the Tubo army outside the city, strengthening the city defense, as for the others, they couldn't discuss a new idea, went twice, Li Xun didn't go anymore, let Sima Tu and his generals go over, and he stayed at home and talked to Fan Zhongyun, There may be some unexpected gains.

In the study, Li Xun and Fan Zhongyun stood in front of the table, a map was spread out on the table, and the two pointed at the map, each telling the doubts in their hearts.

Fan Zhongyun pointed to a direction on the map, which was the location of the Tubo army outside the city of Wu'an.

"Tens of thousands of troops in Tubo are hoarding outside the city, the food supply line is nearly a thousand miles long, and now the follow-up army of the imperial court has all been in place, Li Zhong led 150,000 troops to garrison Huizhou, and the Tubo army in the direction of the state has formed great pressure, previously, Tubo did not take advantage of our retreat to carry out field annihilation, the time has passed, now, we safely retreat to Wu'an City, nearly 50,000 defenders, sufficient food, high and thick walls, the 150,000 army in the hands of Gewa, it is difficult to make a difference, his best choice now, It is to leave an army equal to us, garrison Xiazhou and Shazhou, and then lead the main force back to Shizhou, so that they have an absolute advantage in terms of strength, and they can also fight with Li Zhong, and now they will not retreat or attack the city, then it can only show that Gewa already has a plan to take Wu'an City, at least this is possible. ”

Li Xun nodded and agreed: "You are right, the war situation has developed so far, Tubo has actually gained enough benefits in this war, it can be said that it is a complete victory, Gewa himself has also gained great prestige, as far as he is concerned, there is no need to take any more risks, leading the army to withdraw to Tubo, relying on the results of Longyou, he can completely consolidate his rights in Tubo, for him personally, this is the best choice, but in the current situation, Gewa has no intention of retreating, then what you said is very right, Maybe he already has a plan to capture Wu'an City, once he captures Wu'an City, the entire seven states in the west of Longyou will all fall into his hands, and at that time, Gewa will definitely immediately give an order to let all the Tubo troops in Longyou North Province retreat to the line of Langzhou and Broken Dragon Fort, and concentrate the troops, so that the overall situation is basically decided, even if it is Li Zhong, I am afraid it will be difficult to make a difference. ”

Fan Zhongyun was silent, and he didn't know if he heard what Li Xun said, so he kept staring at the map and looking there, sliding his fingers on it, and finally stopped in Xicheng.

Wu'an City has three city walls in the east, south and north, and the west is a waterway, from where the Mulang River flows directly.

Fan Zhongyun pointed his finger to this point: "The number of troops here is a little less. ”

Li Xun was stunned, looked there, shook his head and smiled: "The Tubo soldiers live in the plateau, there is no naval army, and Zhao Feidu's three thousand soldiers are deployed there, no matter how many people in Tubo are, they can't get by." ”

Fan Zhongyun pursed his lips and said, "Let's send our people, it's better to send a more stable general to garrison." ”

Li Xun glanced at Fan Zhongyun and felt that he was making a big fuss, in the Tubo Plateau, the soldiers were all landlubbers, and there was no navy in the army, Zhao Feidu sent 3,000 people to guard there, and Li Xun was too much.

Fan Zhongyun looked at Li Xun with persistence in his eyes.

Li Xun asked softly, "Old Fan, what did you think of?" ”

Fan Zhongyun pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head: "That's not true, I just think it's more secure." ”

Li Xun pondered for a moment, and finally nodded: "I asked Li Cunxiao and Li Zhaodi to lead three thousand soldiers and horses to replace Zhao Feidu's soldiers." ”

Wu'an City is calm for the time being.

Huizhou.

Here in Huizhou, a full 180,000 troops have now been assembled, of which 150,000 were sent by the imperial court in the future, and the other 30,000 soldiers were the original soldiers and horses defending the city, and now all of them are under the command of Li Zhong.

In the study, Li Zhong was discussing with his two most trusted confidants.

One of the two staff members is in his sixties, and the other is much younger, in his early forties.

The older one is called Gao Di, and the younger one is called Liang An, both of them have followed Li Zhong for many years, and they are Li Zhong's most relied on and trusted staff confidants, don't look at them as just staff, but their official positions are not low, and they are all high-ranking officials.

After Li Zhong was transferred back to Fengjing, he began to keep and distance himself from his old subordinates, and acted more low-key, except for Gao Di and Liang An, Li Zhong used the power in his hands to give them the back door, one was appointed as Shaoyi of Jingzhao Mansion, and the other was appointed as Shaoqing of Dali Temple, all of whom were senior officials of Zhengsipin, which was regarded as a reward for their efforts to serve Li Zhong for more than 20 years.

This time, the Longyou beacon fire rose again, the situation was critical, Li Zhong was entrusted with an important task by the imperial court, and came to preside over the overall situation.