Dou Jiande was reading a book in his hand, and he didn't raise his head when he listened.

"This is normal, and it also shows that Luo Cheng is good at using troops, and he has already seen through your intentions, so he is not in a hurry to chase after him."

"Then why did you persuade me to withdraw my troops before?"

"That's just an opportunity, but it's a pity that the opponent you meet is not an ordinary person." Dou Jiande replied.

Cao Bao gritted his teeth, "What now?" ”

Dou Jiande glanced up at Cao Bao and found that his brother-in-law was already out of order, his eyes were red, and his face was even haggard.

"It's not easy to be a leader." He sighed, "You only have two choices left now, either surrender to Luo Cheng and surrender, it's not too late." Or, there is only to step up the withdrawal into Yecheng of Wei County, if you can keep Wu'an and Jijun and Qinghe, there may be a chance, but this opportunity can only rely on the will of heaven, maybe Luo Cheng suddenly died, or the Qin army was in civil strife, or Li Yuan and others suddenly defeated the Qin army, so that Luo Cheng had no time to use troops in Hebei, otherwise, even if he withdrew to Yecheng, within a year, he would still be defeated, and he might not even insist on three months. ”

Cao Baohong's eyes were red, "Everything is still possible!" With that, he turned and walked away.

Autumn, September.

Guan Long.

Xiao Guan.

Li Daozong, the king of Jiangxia, stood on top of the Guancheng, looking at the company camp outside the Guan, worried.

Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan in Guanzhong, there is a danger of four stops, but there are not only four stops in Guanzhong, there are countless large and small passes, but if you want to talk about the direction of the most threatening Chang'an area in the heart of Guanzhong?

That is definitely not Tongguan, but should be this Xiaoguan.

In fact, from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Qin and Han dynasties, to the Three Kingdoms and now to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the main threats to Guanzhong are still from those nomadic tribes in the western region of Longyou River.

The Xiongnu in the Qin and Han dynasties, the Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the Qiang people in the Longyou area.

Historically, Xiaoguan has always been the first Guancheng to defend against the enemy in the northwest, but in different dynasties, the location of Xiaoguan is also different, in total, there are no less than ten ancient Guancheng sites in each dynasty before and after Xiaoguan.

However, no matter where Xiao Guan was in each dynasty, he couldn't jump between the two major passages.

These ancient Xiaoguan sites are basically distributed in four regions, Huanxian, Pingliang, Guxian, Tongxin, in fact, these four places are in the valley of the northern Shaanxi Plateau, Guyuan, Tongxin is located in the Qingshui River Valley, Pingliang is located in the Jingshui River Valley.

Hanxiao Pass and Sui Xiao Pass are both located on the line from Qingshui to Jingshui River Valley.

Qingshui River, Jingshui River valley all the way to the most important geographically, west of Longshan, has always been the gathering place of the Huyi tribe, these tribes want to invade Guanzhong, must pass through the Qingshui River and Jingshui connection, originally or along the Jingshui directly to Guanzhong, or go straight down to Longxian to reach the Qizhou area of Chang'an West.

If the Hu people in the north of Tongxinhuan County in the northeast want to invade Guanzhong, they will often pass through the Qingshui River Valley, and they value the abundant water and grass in the Qingshui River Valley, and the open terrain is conducive to cavalry galloping.

Cheng, the water and grass are abundant, the terrain is open, which is conducive to the rest and gallop of the nomadic cavalry, and of course, it is also conducive to the Han people who are good at agriculture and city building to set up fortresses here.

Originally, after Li Shimin's battle in the shallow water plain and laid the foundation for breaking the Western Qin, the Tang army then went deep into Longyou to destroy the Western Qin, seized the land of Longyou, and went north to collect the Hetao.

In the entire Guanlong region, there is only one Shuofang Liang Shidu left, who is stubbornly resisting in the barren northland.

Xiao Guan, because of this, his status declined.

But who would have thought that all of a sudden, the situation would change dramatically.

The threat in Datang Pass is not only from Tongguan, Pujin, and Wuguan, but also from Sanguan and Xiaoguan.

"The king of the county, Luo Siye sent someone to deliver the book again."

A Tang soldier came to report.

Li Daozong did not answer the letter, and he knew what Luo Siye said in the letter, and he must have asked Tang Jun to hand over his wife and children.

Li Daozong is the great-grandfather of Li Yuan, he is Li Shimin's cousin, although he is not very old, but in the Li Tang clan, he is already relatively able to fight, when Li Shimin's militia was defeated and captured, and Li Xiaogong and Li Shentong were going to sit in Tongguan and Lantian again, Li Daozong could only be ordered to come to Xiaoguan to guard it.

But in the face of Luo Siye outside Xiao Guan, Li Daozong also sighed again and again.

Although it temporarily blocked Luo Siye's southward momentum, now the Tang army was also forced to stay on the front line of Xiaoguan, and it was unable to go west at all.

can only watch Luo Siye and Li Rail sweep through the state and county in Longyou, and now Hexi is attached to the Qin State, and the land of Longyou has been captured by Luo Cheng and Li Rail together.

If he can't meet his requirements anymore, I'm afraid he will really have to go all out.

"Hasn't Chang'an replied yet?" Li Daozong was not in a hurry to read Luo Siye's letter, but asked about Chang'an first.

In fact, since receiving Luo Siye's letter, Li Daozong has played the emperor several times, hoping to negotiate with Luo Siye, and even release his wife and children as a condition to reach an armistice agreement.

"The king hasn't replied to his last recital."

"Then let's wait."

Outside the city of Xiaoguan.

Luo Siye waited and waited, and finally waited for a reply from Guannai.

But the Tang people's reply was sent by a caravan, which in itself is very unreasonable.

The caravan arrived with a chest escort.

"Open!"

The box was opened, and Luo Siye fell to his knees all of a sudden.

The generals on one side were all stunned.

Inside the box, there was actually the corpse of King Jin's child, and Li Yuan, a child who was only a few years old, did not let go.

"King Jin, there's another letter here."

Si Ye pulled the letter with red eyes, opened it and read it, his eyes were red.

"Li Yuan, I swear to kill you!"

Li Yuan's letter to Si Ye was simple, if Si Ye dared to attack Xiao Guan, he would kill Si Ye's other children and wife in Chang'an.

"Heartbreaking!" The generals were all furious.

Si Ye picked up the young child, and the body was frozen all the way, and it was still well preserved, and he felt as if he were asleep, but he would never wake up again.

Siye held him for a long time and put him back in the box.

"Get more ice and get him down. When I break through Chang'an and behead Li Yuan to sacrifice him, I will bury him in Li Yuan's ancestral grave. ”

Si Ye said word by word, and his tone was extremely cold.

"Herald!"

"Go to Wuwei City in Hexi immediately, and ask Li Liang, the head of the Hexi Xing Battalion, to gather all the soldiers and horses in Hexi!"

"Go to Longyou immediately, send an order to all the counties and cities of Longyou, and order the county and the lieutenant to gather soldiers and horses, and come to assemble immediately."

"Immediately send an order to the counties of Hetao and mobilize all the troops to come."

"Immediately sent an order, Hexi, Hetao, and Longyou three roads, and recruited local Tutuan township soldiers to transport grain and grass to Xiaoguan to assemble!"

"Order the leaders and chiefs of the Longyou Zhuqiang and Di tribes, I Luo Siye summoned them to come, let them lead the people of their own tribes, and come to Xiaoguan to listen to the order!"

"Immediate Order········

Luo Siye gritted his teeth and kept issuing orders to the heralds.

"Your Highness, conscription of the three realms, mobilization of all, such a big transfer, do you want to ask His Majesty the Emperor first?"

"This is thousands of miles away from the emperor, I can't wait, here, I have the final say, if it is held responsible, I will carry it alone, the herald, go!"

"Yes!"

One by one, the heralds received the order, turned around and rode on their horses, and galloped away.

At this moment, His Royal Highness the King of Jin of Great Qin was already furious, and the anger in his heart was about to burn the entire Guanzhong, and no one could stop his revenge!