Han Wei was defeated, the deputy general Yu Mohan was killed, the number of losses in the battle was as high as 2,000, Gansongling was lost, and 50,000 Tubo army commanders drove straight into Songzhou.

When Li Chengqian received Cui Yu's news, he was sluggish, didn't he say that the original Songzhou victory of the Tang Dynasty had been defeated? Why is this happening?

"Old Cui, is this news reliable?" After pondering for a long time, Li Chengqian asked in a tangled manner.

On the one hand, he knew that Lao Cui could not lie about such a thing, and on the other hand, the battle of Songzhou recorded by the history was won by the Tang Dynasty, which made it difficult for him to choose which one he should believe, and the two most critical situations required different ways to deal with them, which was the biggest difficulty faced by Li Chengqian.

"Of course it's reliable, this news is what Yu Mohan said himself." In the face of Li Chengqian's question, what can Cui Yu say, as a 'carrier pigeon' who can communicate yin and yang, he can only report everything as it is.

Thinking of the poor guy dragging his intestines and covered in blood, Lao Cui sighed.

Three thousand against fifty thousand, what can you do if you are undefeated? If it was in an open field, it might be possible to turn around and run, but in the canyon basin, it is estimated that even the 1,000 people who fled back to Songzhou City would have to be thrown on the battlefield.

"Do you know where Hou Junji and them were?" After confirming the accuracy of the news, Li Chengqian simply did not dwell on the matter of Gansongling, since the Songtsam cadres dared to lead people into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, then they could not let him go back under any circumstances without paying a great price.

"General Hou doesn't know the specific letter of the minister, I have to ask the Intelligence Department about this." Cui Yu's news originally came from those who died, and if no one died, he would naturally not receive the news.

Li Chengqian also nodded very understandingly, he couldn't let Lao Hou kill someone every day to report to the underworld in order to get the daily whereabouts of the army, so I am afraid that it will not be long before the Tang army will be killed by his own prince.

"Inform Xue Rengui at night, let him lead the troops into Jishi Mountain, seal the back road of the Tubo people, and kill anyone who is blocked!" After pondering for a long time, Li Chengqian believed that blocking the back road of the Tubo army and putting psychological pressure on them so that they could not fight with all their might in the face of Hou Junji and Niu Jinda should be the best way to solve the problem.

Anyway, the purpose of arranging Xue Rengui in Dafeichuan was to block the back road of Tubo, and now he has not deviated from the plan.

"What about the Western Regions? If General Xue withdraws, there will undoubtedly be a lack of a powerful deterrent for the Western Regions, and if anything changes, the Western Regions Legion will immediately fall into a situation from which it will never recover. Cui Yu said hesitantly, due to more contact with the Western Regions Legion, Lao Cui habitually gave priority to the problem of the Western Regions Legion.

Faced with Cui Yu's question, Li Chengqian thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Don't worry about the Western Regions for the time being, Rengui just has another task, but although he can kill his head and kill him back from time to time, if the countries of the Western Regions don't know how to write death, the palace will not mind killing him another 100,000 people in the future." ”

The Western Regions Legion has not lost much of its combat power now, as long as it is not trapped in the ground, generally speaking, if you want to really annihilate them in the desert, you don't have fifteen to twenty times the military strength and don't even think about it.

Will the Western Turks send 200,000 men to deal with the Western Regions legions, which have only more than 10,000 men? There may be such a possibility, but Li Chengqian estimates that it is unlikely, after all, there are Sassanid Persia and Great Qin to the west of the Western Turks, and these countries are what they really need to guard against.

As long as the 10,000 Western Regions Army does not touch the sensitive nerves of the Western Turks and only moves around the Western Regions, if the Western Turks can dispatch 50,000 people, they will pay more attention.

Of course, Li Yuanchang's guy has not been caught, which is a pity, but Li Chengqian believes that as long as he exterminates the 50,000 troops invaded by Tubo, it will not be long before His Royal Highness the King of Han will be sent back to Chang'an 'respectfully'.

The next day, Tugu Hun ambushed the city, and a 'dong dong' gathering of generals and drums resounded throughout the city, making countless Zuo Wuwei generals, Lang generals, and tooth generals have a short period of sluggishness. For months, except for the daily routine of pointing, training, training, and training, no one reacted to what was happening when they suddenly heard the drums of the gathering generals.

But soon, these old soldiers came back to their senses from their sluggishness, swept away the malaise of the past, put on their clothes and armor with the help of their own soldiers, and hurried towards the big tent of the Chinese army.

After the three-way drum was over, everyone was in the end, and Xue Rengui looked serious after sitting on the table: "But someone hasn't arrived yet?" ”

"General Huidai, nothing!" The guards around him had already been counting the number of people for Lao Xue on the side, and when they saw him asking, they immediately bowed down and said.

"Okay, the generals will obey the order!"

"The Last General ......"

"Today's whole army, tomorrow's fourth watch cooks, five watches set off, the whole army is pulled, and the goal is Jishi Mountain!" Xue Rengui's voice trembled a little, and he had been waiting for him for several months, in order to be able to enter the plateau today, how could this not make him excited.

"Whoa!" More than 20 generals replied in unison, and the same excited voice, the Chinese military tent was faintly trembling.

Waiting for the generals to leave, Bai Wenmo slowly spoke: "Rengui, but there is news from His Highness?" ”

"Yes, there was news delivered last night, saying that the Tubo people had moved, and the 50,000 army crossed the Gansong Ridge and approached Songzhou." Xue Rengui nodded, and did not hide the news that Bai Wenmo sent by Cui Yu last night.

"So our mission is to cut off the back road of Tibet?" Bai Wenmo muttered.

"Then it depends on the situation." Xue Rengui actually didn't know what to do after blocking Tubo, should he continue to kill on the plateau? Or directly annihilate the enemy of the Tibetan invasion under the city of Songzhou.

"Mr. Wenmo, the terrain of the plateau is special, if you don't go, I will leave you with 3,000 people, how about guarding this Fuqi city?" After chatting about the battle plan for a while, Xue Rengui suddenly said.

Lao Bai is already in his forties and almost fifty, and if he goes to the plateau, it is estimated that he will not have to fight, and the mere illness of qi alone can kill him.

"Is the old man stationed?" Bai Wenmo knew that Xue Rengui had good intentions, so he hesitated for a moment and said, "It's okay, the old man will stay here, so that the army will be less dragged down." ”

In this way, Xue Rengui and others made a plan to march to the army, and they would only wait for the next day to go out at dawn, and at the same time, as the vanguard of supporting Songzhou, Niu Jinda also saw the messenger sent by Songzhou.

"Sit down, and you'll take it all slowly." After Lao Niu saw the messenger with crooked armor and slanted armor, his heart tightened, and after arranging for him to sit down, he asked the guards to hand him water, so that the messenger calmed down his breath, and then asked: "Say, but Songzhou City is lost?"

"Songzhou City is fine for the time being, but when Governor Han led his troops to explore the strength of the Tubo army, he lost about 2,000 men and horses, and Vice General Yu died on the battlefield!" The messenger finally breathed his breath, and then he gave a general explanation of the situation in Songzhou.

(End of chapter)