Liancheng, located in the northwest of Pakhanna, is a city built on a cliff.

Wangtian Peak, is the highest peak of the Khan, from a distance, like a sharp sword pointing to the sky, built on the Wangshan Peak, the city is surrounded by cliffs on three sides, there is only a steep road into the city, the position is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Many people don't know that Liancheng is actually composed of three cities, namely Wangcheng built at the foot of Wangtianfeng, Tiancheng built in the middle of the mountain and Fengcheng built at the highest place.

The remnants of Alida, Tubo and Da Shi, after being defeated by the Tang Dynasty coalition army, were entrenched in Liancheng in the final struggle.

The armies of the north and south of the Tang Dynasty surrounded Wangtian Peak, and Zheng Peng and Zhang Xiaosong also met under Wangtian Peak.

"Zhang Jianjun, don't come to harm." Seeing Zhang Xiaosong, Zheng Peng smiled and went up to say hello.

It is not to blame that many people are polite, Zhang Xiaosong is the top boss, and Zheng Peng also corrects his attitude.

"There is Lao Zheng Jianjun worried, a certain is very good, but Zheng Jianjun has lost weight." Speaking of this, Zhang Xiaosong turned his head and smiled at Ashina on the side: "Chief Administrator, this is your poor care, which made Zheng Jianjun suffer, and the prison army will punish you three cups when you turn around." ”

Ashina immediately saluted: "What Zhang Jianjun taught is that the last general will be guilty and will take good care of Zheng Jianjun in the future." ”

Zheng Peng smiled on the surface, but in his heart he hated Zhang Xiaosong so much that he gritted his teeth: I came here to participate in the war and participated in the battle, but didn't I come here to eat enough and gain weight, what does it mean to lose weight, these two words are to describe women, and now they are put on themselves, isn't it irony in disguise?

If other generals say it, forget it, most of them are vulgar, and they may say the wrong thing, but they don't know, Zhang Xiaosong is a Jinshi and will not make such a mistake.

People don't say a lot of ideas directly, but they "manifest" them inadvertently.

The bones are full of contempt and disdain for Zheng Peng.

Zhang Xiaosong, who was born in Jinshi, did not have much affection for Zheng Peng, who was born in Yeluzi, every time he stood in front of Zheng Peng, he had a sense of superiority from the heart, which Zheng Peng had long known, but neither side had made it clear.

Taking students with simple thinking as an example, students in key schools look down on students in ordinary schools, students in top classes look down on students in ordinary classes, students who study well look down on students who study poorly, and so on.

Just when Zheng Peng didn't know what to say, An Lu Khan walked over, patted Zheng Peng's shoulder with his hand, and said with satisfaction: "Yes, Zheng Jianjun, although you have gone from Chang'an to the Western Regions, although you are dark and thin, you are stronger than before, and you look like a man." ”

Zheng Pengyou said with a wry smile: "The Khan praised it falsely, and he didn't dare to be ashamed." ”

I couldn't tell whether An Lu Khan's words were true or false, but his action of patting his shoulder, coupled with the way he looked at people, as if he was picking an animal, made Zheng Peng feel depressed.

At this time, Ashina Xian also came to meet, Zhang Xiaosong saw Ashina Xian, he looked very enthusiastic, hugged like a brother, and then held hands and spoke, as for the interaction between An Lu Khan and Ashina Shi, there was very little interaction, not even a hug, just a few simple cold words.

The two are both rivals and competitors, after years of entanglement and Datang's "provocation", they have long been in flames, if Datang lets it go, the two forces will definitely go to war.

Everyone greeted each other a few words, and Zhang Xiaosong patted Zheng Peng's shoulder and said: "Deputy Eunuch Zheng, you have nothing to say about contributing money and rewarding the enemy chieftain, not only the soldiers express their sincere admiration for you, but also the imperial court and Deputy Eunuch Zheng." ”

Hearing that Zheng Peng paid money and offered a reward, Zhang Xiaosong was very surprised when he heard the news for the first time, he guessed that Zheng Peng relied on His Majesty's favor to come here to make fame and make money, you must know that fighting a war is an easy thing for generals to make money, but I didn't expect that Zheng Peng not only did not get any benefits in various forces or soldiers, but also paid out of his own pocket to treat his subordinates, and made great contributions to Khotan, and then offered a huge reward.

Although the reward is nothing, it greatly dampens the morale of the enemy, and the most important thing is that it is not a reward from the government, but Zheng Peng's personal donation and resignation fundraising, which is extremely rare.

"That is, to do some small things within your ability, compared with those soldiers who fought bloodily, you have done very little." Zheng Peng said modestly.

"Deputy Supervisor Zheng, has the reward order stopped?"

"It's been about half a month since I stopped, and the main thing is to concentrate on fighting."

The Western Regions are in a mess, there are dozens of large and small forces, and it is a headache to read the war report every day, Zheng Peng really has no time to take care of the reward, and it is also found that some soldiers collude with the local natives to deceive, and secretly take the head of the army ambush to get the reward, and when he sees that the goal is achieved, Zheng Peng also stops.

You can't hold accountable those soldiers who are fighting for their lives because of a little money, right?

Zhang Xiaosong whispered: "Oh, how much reward money did you send out?" ”

"Not much, just more than 70,000." Zheng Peng said lightly.

Zhang Xiaosong nodded and gently patted Zheng Peng's shoulder to express his appreciation.

After gossiping, everyone began to set their eyes on this city built on Wangtian Peak: Liancheng.

There are no less than 100 large and small forces in the Western Regions, and there are often disputes for various reasons, and the forces that can gain a foothold in this land all have outstanding characteristics, either powerful, fickle, or good at running away, and they can exist for a long time, and Liancheng plays a very important role.

As soon as there is a crisis, the important people and troops of Pakhana will withdraw to Liancheng to defend it, the enemy can't attack it, and Datang will not sit idly by, and finally can only withdraw, Liancheng at least helped Pakhana to avoid three catastrophes, this time it is not a Borneo rebellion, and the royal family of Pakhana is caught off guard, and it will definitely not succeed so easily.

Today's weather is average, the mountains are cloudy and foggy, looking up from the bottom of the mountain, there is half of the mountain hidden in the clouds and mist, it looks like a fairyland on earth.

Seeing the towering Wangtian Peak, Zhang Xiaosong couldn't help but sigh: "It's really like a fairyland on earth, but unfortunately, under this fairyland, I don't know how many crises are hidden." ”

Ashina Xian looked at it for a while, and also sighed and said: "Liancheng is already steep and dangerous, solid and solid, it seems that it has been strengthened again in the past few months, and I don't know how many soldiers will lose their lives if they capture this city." ”

Liancheng has been operated by many generations of monarchs, and it has long been stable, and after Ah Lida sought the position of Khanna, he immediately sent people to strengthen it, which is to prevent the defeat of the battle one day, and there is a place to compete with the Tang Dynasty.

Wangtianfeng is rich in stones, many ancient city walls are built with rammed earth, and the bricks and stones are considered to be very luxurious, and the city walls of Liancheng are all built by a piece of hundreds of pounds of boulders, stable as gold, there are also a lot of arrow buttresses, bows and crossbows and other city defense equipment, from a distance, Liancheng is like an ancient giant beast hidden in the clouds and mist.

A city like this, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, can only be filled with human lives, and if it really has to be captured, I don't know how many soldiers' lives will be lost.

Adida found a good place.

"Hey, look, white vultures, white vultures that flew out of Liancheng." In the crowd, I don't know who shouted.

Zheng Peng looked up, yes, he saw a big bird flying from the sky above Liancheng, only to see it fly higher and higher, farther and farther, until it flew in the direction of the west.

Sulu Khan said a little depressed: "There are talents who are good at raising birds under the command of Ajada, and there are many strange people in this area, even if we surround the city, we are afraid that they will not be able to prevent them from communicating with the outside world." ”

"Can't stop it" Zhang Xiaosong said with a headache: "These white vultures fly very high, beyond the range of bows and arrows, and even if they shoot down, they will definitely leave people around, they can contact the outside world by playing flags or setting off beacon smoke, if I remember correctly, there are at least five beacon towers in the city." ”

Seeing that everyone was expressing their opinions, Zheng Peng hesitated and said in a low voice: "Liancheng is too difficult to gnaw, can we fence it up, and wait until his food and grass are in an emergency, and naturally we can win without a fight." ”

"This is a solution," Sulu Khan nodded, but he quickly added: "What we can think of, they can definitely think of it, but I'm afraid it won't be easy." ”

"What are you afraid of, we are outnumbered, even if we pay a little price, why is it difficult to capture Liancheng." Xuanwei General Zhang Rui said with some pride.

Duzhong of the Hui tribe took the initiative to ask Ying: "Zhang Jianjun, I am willing to lead the Hui to fight the vanguard and teach the rebellious ministers and thieves a lesson." ”

Seeing that someone asked to fight the vanguard, the various forces present also rushed to express their position.

Sooner or later, it is better to leave a good impression, now many "guilty" forces need to sway left and right to atone for their sins.

Where is the appeal, influence and combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention anything else, just the Tang Dynasty has worked hard to cultivate the two forces of Ashina Xian and Sulu Khan, and it is enough to level the entire Western Regions without the Tang Dynasty transferring troops from the Guannei.

Zhang Xiaosong said on the side: "Don't worry, let's ask General Hua Limu, who is familiar here, to talk about the situation in Liancheng first, and then make a decision." ”

As soon as the voice fell, a man with five big and three thick, a lot of white cloth wrapped around his body to stop bleeding, and one hand hanging on his chest with a splint came over with a limp, although he was covered in injuries, although his legs and feet were inconvenient, although his face was pale, but his eyes were very firm and he walked very steadily.

Every step he took, it was as if he had stepped through every danger;

Every scar on his body represents every honor he has;

The blazing gaze reveals the perseverance and pride of the soldiers.

When Zheng Peng saw this person, he couldn't help but be in awe, this person only brought more than 300 people, and insisted on fighting under the joint efforts of many forces such as Dashi, Alida and Tubo, and announced the fact that Pakhana was not dead to the subjects of Pakhana and many forces in the Western Regions, and he was the palace general of Pakhana: Hua Limu.