In the evening of the same day, Gao Jun led his men and horses back to Qiuzi City. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But only one day later, Shaya City has fallen into the hands of Xizhou. Su Fa stood at the head of Qiuzi City, looking at the Xizhou people gathered under the city, and felt very uncomfortable, there was a reason why Ashina Pubu in Futu City had been honest for so many years.

Thinking of the fallen Kangli City and Shaya City, and then thinking of the pheasant who had long since escaped without a trace, and of course, Nubia, she was also gone. Su Fa could only strictly order to defend the city, gather heavy troops at the head of the city, and make every effort to resist the enemy's possible siege of the city in the future.

But Gao Jun didn't seem to have such a plan, and after stationing the battalions five miles apart, Xizhou Beijia only brought a hundred-man guard and went down to the city with torches. Is it to talk about conditions?

Su Fa held the battlement at the head of the city, and asked loudly at the city, "Don't drive, don't come to harm?" ”

Gao Jun hugged his fists under the city and said, "Su Fa, I have won a complete victory in this army, and I have taken the two cities of Kangli and Shaya, and from now on the safety of the Silk Road will no longer have to look at people's faces, I want to withdraw from the army, and I am here to bid you off!" ”

Su Fa listened to it in his heart, but it was not easy to turn his face, and he still had the necessary demeanor, but when he said that he was going to withdraw from the army, Su Va's heart was a little calm. But he also wanted to stimulate the arrogant Xizhou Don't drive again, so he said loudly, "According to the king, Gao Beijia is still a little lacking in soldiers." ”

Gao Jun smiled and asked, "Then please give me advice." ”

Su Fa said, "Don't drive the coalition army, the strength of the army is beyond the expectations of this king, I can't imagine that a Shaya city was actually taken by you overnight." But the siege under the city is not perfect—if you ambush another army of men on my way back, will you not wipe us all out in the wilderness?" ”

Gao Jun said, "That's right, it's just that I don't have any soldiers and horses in my hands anymore." Besides, these people are all friendly help, how can I bear to let them fight too hard? Don't you know the truth of the trapped beast fighting, if you don't leave a way out, if you start to be ruthless, we will have to spend some more twists and turns! ”

Su Fa was stunned for a moment, saw Gao Beijia below, waved his hand, went back with the guards, and said before leaving, "Don't worry about those two cities, if you provoke Xizhou and interfere with the Silk Road, I will attack your Qiuci City next time." Su Fa was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, but he was silent in front of his subordinates.

Someone came up to the city to report to him that in the direction of the White City was the 2,000 men of Futu City, and they did not attack the White City. When the fifteen hundred men who had returned to the White City arrived, they retreated, and now they are nowhere to be found. Su Fa waved his hand to go down to the city, his palace is now a mess, even the courtyard is full of ashes, and he is asking someone to clean it.

On the way back to the camp, many people who came with Gao Beijia asked in succession, "Lord Gao, why don't you ask about Pheasant, we just threw him in Qiuzi City?" How do you go back and talk to Ashina Pubu? ”

Gao Jun said, "The young city lord is no longer in the city, and it is not beautiful to ask." He explained, "I have been talking to Su Fa for so long, and he has not said a word about the pheasant, do you think this is common sense?" ”

Under normal circumstances, Gao Jun said here that he wanted to withdraw from the army, and if Su Fa had the bargaining chip of Pheasant Lin in his hand, he would definitely make some requests, such as taking Pheasant Lin to change cities and the like. Su Va didn't mention it, it was because he had lost this chip.

I thought about it a lot, this is an extremely simple judgment, why didn't I think of it? At that time, many people still wanted to ask Su Va's first, but if that was the case, I don't know what the effect was.

Gao Jun said, "I also know that Fan Ying and Siqing are fine. Pheasant Lin was able to get out, it was by no means that Su Fa was kind enough to let him go, but it was not easy for him to get away without help, probably most of it was my wife's doing. ”

When they returned to the camp, the shepherd team had just returned, and sure enough, Fan Ying and Siqing were among them. The herding team was specially sent by Gao Jun to find Fan Ying and Siqing, and they searched for a day, and Fang met them in the south of Qiuzi City, only to learn that Pheasant Lin had been rescued. When they returned to the camp, they could not find the shadow of the pheasant, and the people in the camp said that they did not see him.

Someone came to report to Gao Bei: A group of men and horses appeared fifty miles behind the Xizhou coalition army camp. Gao Jun asked who it was, and Tanma replied, "Lord Gao, it's the three thousand heavily armed camel soldiers of Tubo." ”

Gao Jun was immediately silent, his brows were twisted together, what did the Tubo comer mean? They were not invited to help here, and I don't know what Songtsam had planned. Such an uninvited guest cannot be taken lightly, and it is not known who led the troops.

He commanded, "The battalions stood still and took strict precautions." The 1,000 heavy crossbowmen in the Heda battalion were placed in front of them to strengthen their vigilance and stand by at any time. Many of them led the herding team with Lu Xiaoyu, and when they went to the back of the Tubo army for ten miles, they had to adapt to the situation, and if they were enemies, they would burn his grain and grass. ”

Gao Jun sent another person to Shaya City to give an order, so that the defenders could seize the time to strengthen the city. Go to Kangli City alone, and let the general to be more vigilant and guard Kangli City.

The order was quickly conveyed, and next, Gao Jun wanted to meet him in person to see the reality and reality.

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Kangli City had already seen these Tibetans, three thousand heavily equipped camel soldiers. The rider and the camel were all covered with iron armor, and the iron helmet they wore protected their heads, except for the two eyes that were exposed.

Guo Beifeng received the military information, and hurriedly went to the south gate of Kangli City to inspect, 3,000 Tubo cavalry had already camped three miles away, tents were next to each other, and behind the camp were a large number of grain and grass vehicles.

When Lirong and Su heard the news, they also ran to the city to see, and asked Guo to be sealed the countermeasures, and said to be sealed, "Seeing that they are camped so close, it doesn't seem like there is any hostility, let's calm the brake, and see what they mean." ”

He ordered the twenty-five ballistae in the north of the city to be transferred to the south of the city to strengthen the defense of the southern gate.

Thus there were fifty ballistae on the southern side of the city, and although these crossbows could no longer rely on oxen on the head of the city, three or five sergeants could also press the winch to wind.

Soon, someone from the Tubo camp sent a letter, and the words in the letter were very simple, "The Tubo army has arrived, quickly switch and surrender the city, otherwise the city will be attacked by force, and there will be no chickens and dogs left when the city is broken." "The arrogance is extremely arrogant.

At this time, a thousand camel soldiers rushed out of the Tibetan camp outside the city, each with a spear, and fought under the city of Kangli. The first member of the Tibetan generals drove tall camels to gallop back and forth, showing off their might. There is a long rod melon hammer in his hand, and it seems that his strength is not small.

When he was furious, he wanted to go out of the city to fight. An adjutant general reminded, "General Guo, the other party's intentions are unknown, so it's not good to go out of the city rashly, because we don't have many troops, and the opponent's combat strength doesn't look weak." ”

"Just let them show off there?" ”

It happened that Lirong and the Su clan were at the head of the city, and Lirong came up with an idea, "Why don't you use our ballista to give them a dismount?" Su said, "It is this idea, we will give him a salute before the soldiers." Hou Feng nodded.

A thousand people from Tubo under the city lined up to challenge, but they didn't see anyone in the city come out, but a nine-foot long javelin flew out from the top of the city.

The javelin flew over their heads, and the people turned to follow them, and saw it fly over the chief's tent and fall behind the camp. They ran back and saw the javelin stuck deep in a grain cart at the back of the camp.