Chen Ying originally wanted to introduce the Turks into the salt lake area and use the hollow thin ice formed by the salt lake to kill and injure the Turks. When Chen Ying proposed his idea to the right guard leading the mansion, the right deputy He Yuejing frowned, shook his head and said, "Chief Manager Chen, I'm afraid the Turks won't be so easily fooled?" ”

Chen Yingdao: "What's the matter? ”

He Yuejing said: "Last year, on the afternoon of March (the first day of the first month of March), at the end of July (the fourth day of the first month of July), Liang Shi invaded Lingzhou, and since September there have been three soldiers in Lingzhou, especially Lingzhou Haoqiang Liu Tong and Zhang Ju have taken refuge in Liang Shidu, as the indigenous Haoqiang of Lingzhou, Zhang Ju and Liu Jing have no reason not to know the strangeness of the salt lake, so the Turks will not be easily fooled, and they are likely to calculate and calculate us! ”

In the city, the space is limited, in fact, many people and gentry do not live in the city, but build forts to defend themselves. Especially in the remote states and counties, there are many large and small dock forts. Dock Fort, also known as Dock Wall, is a kind of civil defensive building, which was formed during the reign of Wang Mang Tianfeng, when there was a great hunger in the north and social turmoil. In order to protect themselves, the families of the rich built the walls of the dock forts.

The dock fort outside Lingzhou City, with as few as tens or hundreds of people, and as many as hundreds of people, was not at all enough to defend in the face of a large number of "Liang" Turkic coalition troops. In July, Liang Shidu attacked Lingzhou unsuccessfully, but took the opportunity to capture Jiangjiawu Fort. The owner of Jiangjiawu Fort is Jiang Baoyi, the general of the right military force of the Tang Dynasty, and according to legend, the ancestor is Jiang Wei, the general of the Shu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms.

Jiang Baoyi and his son Jiang Xie were both stationed in Taiyuan and fought against Liu Wuzhou. At this time, there were only some old, weak, sick and disabled people left in Jiangjiawu Fort. After the Liang division captured Jiangjiabao, he slaughtered all 273 people in the fort, leaving only Jiang Baoyi's concubine Jiang Pan hiding under the corpse in the dry well and escaping.

In September, Liang Shidu led the army to attack Lingzhou again, Zhang was worried that Zhangjiabao would suffer a catastrophe, so he surrendered to Kaicheng, led more than 400 Zhang clans to surrender to Liang Shidu, and was appointed by Liang Shidu as the right commander of Liang State. Of course, to say that Zhang Ju surrendered to Liang Shi because he was afraid that the Zhang clan would encounter a military disaster, in fact, it is better to say that Zhang Ju's heart was unbalanced.

Regardless of strength or population, the Lingzhou Zhang clan is far stronger than the Lingzhou branch of the Tianshui Jiang clan. However, Jiang Baoyi traveled to Chang'an, the city of Daxing, in his early years, and knew Gaozu well. When Li Yuan raised his army, Jiang Baoyi had already commanded the army on the left, and later moved to the general of the right Wuwei and was knighted as the Duke of Yong'an County.

But Zhang Ju is not even a nine-rank official. With the surrender of Zhang Ju, Liang Shi was named the Right Commander Army, and Liu Tong also surrendered Liang Shidu.

Lu Decao said: "What Deputy He said is too dangerous and sensational, maybe the Turks can't imagine that even if Liu Tong and Zhang Yi are so strong, the Turks may not treat them as a person!" ”

"In everything, we must think about invincibility before we can be invincible, and we cannot expect the enemy to be unexpected." Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "For the time being, I can't think of a better way, to fight with the Turks, and to be safe first." At the moment, the most advantageous thing for us is that the Turks can't guess our reality at all! In addition, we have advantages that the Turks do not have, we don't have to think about frostbite, and guarding the hot springs does not consume much fuel. If the weather is colder, the Turks in Thin Bone Law City will definitely not be able to support it first......"

Wei Wenzhong touched his beard on his forehead and said, "But Lingzhou City has been surrounded for three months, although they don't have to worry about food and grass, but this fuel is also insufficient, I don't know if they can hold on!" ”

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Chen Ying naturally didn't know that the fuel in Lingzhou City was about to run out, and the people in the city had already begun to burn their bodies in order to keep warm. When the corpse is highly decomposed, it will become a grease state, and it cannot be burned directly, but it can be burned if it is accompanied by dry wood or other fire-starting materials.

Due to the cold weather, there is no way to burn the corpses of the soldiers and civilians who have recently died in Lingzhou. However, there are corpses that were collected after the death of July, and at this time, the people in the city invariably dug up the corpses that had long been corpsed and burned them for warmth.

But the number of these corpses is not very large, and in fact, it will not last long.

On the city wall of Lingzhou, the cold wind is cold, like a knife cutting. However, Guo Zihe, the governor of Lingzhou, did not dare to hide in the yamen of the governor's mansion to prevent the cold, although he had to endure the biting cold while standing on the city wall, but Guo Zihe's appearance on the city wall could boost the originally low morale.

Although Guo Zihe is in the prime of life, people's energy is always limited. He thought secretly according to the hilt of his sword, and the soldiers and civilians on the left and right were all dead and had no morale at all. If it weren't for Guo Zihe and taking the lead, I'm afraid Lingzhou would have collapsed long ago.

Although he can lead by example to boost morale, but when the corpses in the city are also burned, I am afraid that he will not be able to return to heaven.

"Now it seems that we can only go one way!" Guo Zihe looked at Yang Ze with a solemn expression.

"Does Manager Guo want to break through?" Yang Ze muttered: "At this time, if you want to break through, it is embarrassing to climb to the sky, and there is almost no hope of success!" ”

"Of course I know this question!" Guo Zihe said: "I just want to confirm one thing now!" ”

"Are there any reinforcements?" Yang Ze sighed and said: "This year's snow fell earlier than in previous years, and when the news reached Chang'an, the heavy snow had already closed the road, even if His Majesty sent reinforcements, they would not be able to reach Lingzhou for a while!" ”

That's a problem. Heavy snow blocked the road, and the army's march was much more difficult than usual, and if the news arrived in Chang'an, it would take at least seven or eight days for reinforcements to prepare, even if it was eighty miles a day, it would take nearly a month. But in such weather conditions, if it is necessary to maintain the speed of marching at eighty miles a day, almost no army can do it!

"Our fuel can last for half a month at most!" Guo Zihe said: "Xing sent a dead soldier to take the opportunity to break through, along the official road to Chang'an to find, if you can't meet reinforcements within seven days, return immediately, while we still have the strength to fight, fight with the Turks, kill one is enough, kill two to earn one!" ”

"Xia Guan has no other skills, it's still okay to run errands and be a microphone!" Yang pretended to smile lightly.

Guo Zihe naturally knew that this breakthrough was definitely not as easy as Yang Ze said. Running errands is just the most ideal state and almost impossible to happen. Most likely, after a series of bloody battles, all the death squads were killed.

"There's no rush either!" Guo Zihe said: "Rest for one night first, and then break through tomorrow morning!" ”

For more than two months, Guo Zihe basically never went down the city wall, he ate and lived in the city gate tower, and the command headquarters was also pressed in the city gate tower, and fortunately Liang Shidu and the Turks did not have heavy trebuchets in their hands at all, otherwise a stone cannon could solve the command center of Lingzhou.

Entering the headquarters of the city gate tower, although there was a brazier raised, it was still shivering with cold. Yang Ze looked at the wounded soldiers who were groaning in pain all over the room, and Yang Ze's heart became even heavier: "Manager Guo, I'm afraid that the lower officials will be entrusted with it!" ”

"Now I can only do my best and obey the fate of heaven!"