The rebellion in the Western Regions, with the efforts of Yang Ji and Huang Yang, stabilized the situation, and Li Longji, who was thousands of miles away, also gave instructions on the turmoil in the Western Regions, and both Yang Ji and Li Longji were very worried about Zheng Peng's safety.

In fact, Zheng Peng's situation is very dangerous.

In five days, the soldiers under the mountain launched hundreds of attacks, Zheng Peng and others who were besieged on the mountain had no choice but to defend, in order to hold on and wait for reinforcements, everyone worked hard, fortunately, after hundreds of attacks, although the Tang army on the mountain was scarred, there were still seventy-eight people, only fourteen people less than when they first went up the mountain.

Three of them were seriously injured and did not die.

Being besieged by thousands of people for five days and surviving so many people is not because of how brave the Tang soldiers were, or how poor the Tubo soldiers were, but mainly because the Tubo obviously wanted to catch the mouth alive, and the attacks were all to consume the arrows and physical strength of the Tang army, and they often retreated without rushing halfway up the mountain, wanting to consume the Tang army.

But what made Zheng Peng helpless was that after waiting for five days, Datang's reinforcements had not yet arrived.

Finally defeated the enemy's attack, Zheng Peng was so tired that he leaned on a big rock and gasped, finally stabilized his breath, felt his lips a little dry, and shouted: "Ah Jun, get me a water bag." ”

After intense exercise, you need to rehydrate.

Ah Jun pinched his water bag, it was empty, and said helplessly: "Young master, water.... Nope. “

Zheng Peng realized that the water had been cut off the day before yesterday, and said embarrassedly: "Forget it, I'm not very thirsty." ”

There is no water on this nameless mountain, the Tang army has a water bag per person, and the water bag is not much, and when many people flee here, the water bag is less than half of the water, and many people have lost their water bags or are shot through by arrows, so that there is less water, and some horses have to be taken into account.

Even if you rush out, no horse is a dead end.

However, according to the Tang army guarding the mountain, there was a water crisis the next day, in order to survive, Li Xiancheng has ordered to kill the horse, the horse meat is unpalatable, but it can replenish physical strength, and the horse's blood can also replenish a little water.

Although horse blood is hot, people who drink horse blood feel more thirsty.

Thanks to Cao Feng's experience, everyone barely survived, there were many trees and stones on the mountain, and every morning they collected the dew from the leaves, licked the warm places on the stones in the morning with their dry tongues, and found damp soil, wrapped it in a cloth, and then squeezed it desperately, with a little more effort, and always got a little water, or some bark and chewed it in.

At this point, taste doesn't matter.

Even so, there are many monks and little porridge, and many soldiers' lips are dry and about to crack, even if they withdraw their urine, they are reluctant to waste it, and they urinate in their own water bags.

Lu Jin patted his water bag and said a little mischievously: "Boss, I have water here, do you want to have some?" ”

"Oh, dew or mud?" Zheng Peng asked.

"Water in the ancestral hall."

Zheng Peng kicked over: "Get out!" ”

For men's lower body, there are different sayings in different places, popular sayings include "life root", "lower body", "little finch", etc., where do people in Lu Jin call the lower body "ancestral hall", because the ancestral hall represents inheritance, and the ancestral hall water that Lu Jin said is actually the urine he withdrew.

Zheng Peng is thirsty to death and does not drink other people's urine.

Xu Shan stood up when he heard this: "Boss, you sit down first, and the small one will look for it, see if there is any wet mud, and squeeze some water for you." ”

"Go ahead, get more." Zheng Peng said unceremoniously.

Zhou Quan staggered over, sat next to Zheng Peng, and said weakly: "I'm tired, I'm thirsty, boss, can you drink some wine." ”

At the mention of wine, the eyes of everyone present lit up.

The soldiers of the Tang Army, in addition to carrying a water bag, also had a wine bag, which was filled with high-purity liquor, which was used to prevent injury, and whoever was injured first cleaned the wound with liquor and then bandaged it, so that it was not easy to be infected.

Zheng Peng spread his hands: "It's gone, it's all requisitioned by Li Qianqi." ”

After being besieged on the mountain, Li Xiancheng quickly collected everyone's wine and managed it in a unified manner, in his words, for fear that some soldiers would drink and make mistakes, and if necessary, they could also use the wine as fire oil to resist the enemy.

The fact that liquor can be burned is clear to all the Tang Dynasty soldiers.

Zhou Quan threw the knife in his hand on the ground and said depressedly: "It seems that I can't wait for the decisive battle, and I am going to die of thirst here." ”

"Even if you die, you will earn it, so many brothers will compensate you." Lu Jin patted Zhou Quan on the shoulder and said.

"Value!" Zhou Quan said categorically.

Zheng Peng closed his eyes and said weakly: "Forget it, save all your efforts, and when the Tubo people rush up, kill a few more." ”

A group of people sat again in the shadow of the stones, resting.

When Zheng Peng was resting, Guo Ziyi and Li Xiancheng did not rest.

"Guo Baiqi, have you seen it, it is estimated that there will be a big movement soon." Guo Ziyi pointed to the camp in Tubo below and said with a heavy face.

After working together for so long, Li Xiancheng also saw that the Tiger Battalion was nominally the largest in Zheng Peng, but in fact it was controlled by Guo Ziyi, Guo Ziyi was both civil and military, and had a strong fighting spirit, while Zheng Peng could be said to be messing around in the barracks.

In Chang'an, anyone with a discerning eye knows that many officials in the imperial court were involved in the struggle for the crown prince, and Li Longji made an exception to transfer Zheng Peng to the Yulin Army, which was to keep him out of the matter.

Guo Ziyi raised the binoculars, observed for a while, and said while watching: "Most of the troops of Tubo are stranded in Khotan Town, there is no sign of a major offense, and the Western Regions have not seen any wolf smoke, it seems that the evil battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo cannot be fought, after the rectification of the past few days, presumably it is time for Yang Yushi and General Manager Huang to draw their hands to deal with these Tibetan soldiers, and the camp of the Tibetan soldiers below has signs of packing up their things and preparing to retreat, needless to say, before retreating, we must be cleaned up first, Li Qiancai is right, the big movement is coming." ”

"Fierce and auspicious, does Guo Baiqi have any ideas?" Li Xiancheng suddenly spoke.

"Die on the battlefield and sacrifice your life for the country."

Li Xiancheng nodded and said: "Guo Baiqi is really a man who stands up to the sky, and he rarely admires others, you are one." ”

"Passing the award" Guo Ziyi frowned lightly and said: "Li Qianqi called a certain here, not just to discuss this matter, right?" ”

Ordinary discussion, just discuss it simply, when Li Xiancheng was discussing with Guo Ziyi, he asked the guards to drive the people next to him far away, obviously with other plans.

"They are all people who understand, so they don't go around and around" Li Xiancheng said straightly: "Guo Baiqi, I believe that our situation doesn't need to be said much, do you know that you will never surrender at the beginning, and those who surrender will be killed?" ”

"For the reputation of Datang, for the integrity of the soldiers."

"That's just the reason, but it's not the whole reason."

Guo Ziyi said with some confusion: "What does Li Qianqi mean?" ”

"Some people must not fall into the hands of Tibet."

Guo Ziyi took two steps back when she heard this, looked back with some vigilance, and then said with a resolute face: "Li Qianqi, what do you mean by this, although your official position is larger, but I put my words here first, Zheng Peng is my brother, whoever dares to deal with him, I will never agree." ”