At the beginning of August, the autumn breeze in Shuzhong was already cooling. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tubo also kept his promises, and sent grain to Liu Bai in early August according to the agreement, and after Liu Bai got the grain, he also had the capital to attack Jianmen Pass.

However, before attacking the Sword Gate Pass, he needed to make some arrangements with Yuan Fu.

"Mr. Yuan, our army must win this battle, so this king is ready to lead the troops himself, what do you think?"

Hearing Liu Bai's words, Yuan Fu's expression tightened slightly, and said: "If the prince is willing to lead the troops in person, our army will definitely be able to win a complete victory, but the prince is in such a body, I'm afraid it is not appropriate to go out to see the wind." ”

Liu Bai also knew his physical condition, if he stayed in Yizhou City and did not move, it would naturally be good, but he was worried that if he didn't go, his people would not be able to win, so he still persevered for a while, and said: "It's okay, this king is just sitting in the carriage and directing the war, but he is not particularly tired, if something goes wrong, he will make another plan." ”

Seeing Liu Bai say this, Yuan Fu couldn't persuade him anymore, so he could only make more arrangements for Liu Bai's war.

After talking about this topic, Liu Bai said again: "Although it is an attack on Jianmen Pass, the three cities of Yizhou, Pengzhou and Jianzhou still have to send people to take over, and divide 10,000 people in case of emergency." ”

Liu Bai knew that although they had the confidence to win this time, in the face of Tang Zhou, who could say that they would be able to win, so leaving some soldiers and horses in Yizhou, Pengzhou and Jianzhou as a backup was also to have a place to settle down after defeat.

Moreover, the people in these places have a lot of complaints about them, the rebels in Shuzhong, if they pour out, these people will rarely have some riots in the city, if they occupy the city, then Liu Bai and these rebels will have no place to go.

At that time, it could only be chased and beaten by the Tang army, so the city should stay or stay, and after returning to the city, restore the original state, and then wait for the opportunity.

Liu Bai didn't explain after speaking, but Yuan Fu understood that the back road should not have been left, and it was a bit embarrassing to say it, so there was no need for Liu Bai to say it, he just arranged it directly.

Yizhou is in a dangerous terrain, so naturally it is necessary to leave some more people, they left 6,000, Pengzhou and Jianzhou each left 2,000, and these people are loyal to Liu Bai, after all, these cities are very important, he doesn't dare to let those who are easy to rebel to defend it.

With this arrangement, the next step is how to attack the Sword Gate.

In Liu Bai's opinion, the Sword Gate Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but if you want to capture it, there is no other way, the only thing you can do is to attack hard.

The wheel tactics proposed by Chen Buzhou before can be used again in Liu Bai's opinion, they have 40,000 soldiers and horses, and the Tang army only has 10,000 soldiers and horses, if they can exhaust the Tang army, it is not difficult to attack the Jianmen Pass.

Of course, in addition to this, Liu Bai and Yuan Fu also discussed a lot, and after discussing it like this, they led the troops to set off.

And just when Liu Bai got the Tubo grain and grass, Tang Zhou was also discussing how to fight the enemy here.

The terrain of Jianmen Pass is dangerous, it is an absolute advantage for them, and if they want to resist the rebels, they must make good use of this advantage.

In addition to these, in terms of defensive tools, Tang Zhou felt that they should also change, they used to use stones and wooden sticks, these are not impossible, but these things are not very lethal, they are okay to use at the beginning, but what if they are not there in the back?

So Tang Zhou thought it would be better to invent some defensive tools.

And it is some tools that must be suitable for the guards of the Sword Gate.

So early this morning, Tang Zhou led people to cut down a few big trees that were hugged by one person.

The tree is very thick, after cutting it down, Tang Zhou ordered someone to cut off the branches, leaving only the thickest part, and then, he ordered someone to create a lot of sharp knives, sharp knives, touching the skin can cut the blood.

He ordered people to fix all the sharp knives to the sticks, tie them with iron chains, and then made a bracket before the sword gate closed the gate, similar to the lever kind, and there was a chassis on the tower, and a few soldiers could shake the tree without special force.

After this is done, as long as the enemy attacks, they can push the tree down, not to mention that the tree is very heavy, and if you smash it down, you can kill people, even those sharp knives on the tree can also kill those rebels, which is much more lethal than those wooden sticks and stones.

Inspired by this invention, they also got some sharp things on some broken wooden sticks, so that when they smashed down, the lethality would definitely be much greater, and when the sticks rolled down, they would definitely encounter a lot of rebels, and as long as these rebels touched, they would never be able to please them.

In addition to these, Tang Zhou also ordered people to collect a lot of disgusting insects, such as scorpions, centipedes, and of course, many snakes.

Some of these snakes are poisonous, some are not, but Tang Zhou has people collect some of them, and when the rebels come, although they are not particularly effective, they should have a certain effect.

By the time I was done, it was already the tenth day of August.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is very close, and in the middle of the night, Tang Zhou can't help but look up at the moon in the sky.

For so many years, in the Mid-Autumn Festival, he didn't have many days to reunite with his family, and he was better when he didn't have contact with court affairs at the beginning, he was more leisurely, and he had nothing else to do except make money.

It's just that there were not many people in Tanghou Mansion during the Mid-Autumn Festival at that time, Lin Qingsu had just married herself, the two had not yet had a round house, and Princess Danyang had not yet reconciled.

Later, everyone was together, but he began to run around, first Luoyang, then Liuzhou, and now Shuzhong, and there were really not a few times he spent with his family during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The full moon people were reunited, and Tang Zhou sighed softly.

Now that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, many soldiers are homesick, right?

Tang Zhou looked up at the moon, and at this time, Ma Qing hurriedly ran over: "Master Hou, there is news." ”

The artistic conception was broken by Ma Qing's words, Tang Zhou came back to his senses and asked, "What news?" ”

"The rebels in Shuzhong have already left the city, and I am afraid that they will come to the Jianmen Pass tomorrow night."

Tang Zhou's brows condensed slightly: "Came so early." ”

In Tang Zhou's opinion, he felt that these Shuzhong rebels should have come after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he never thought that they would come after the tenth day of the first lunar month, but this was not a bad thing for Tang Zhou.

This shows that although the rebels in Shuzhong received funding from Tubo, the funding given by Tubo was not very much, and the time that Liu Bai could support was not very long, so he came in a hurry to shorten the time consumed.

Otherwise, with Liu Bai's calm personality, he would definitely have to train the recruited soldiers before he dared to send troops, and now the recruits he recruited have not received any training at all, but he still brought them out, which is enough to prove this.

He couldn't wait.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of Tang Zhou's mouth, he couldn't wait, Liu Bai couldn't wait, so he just went down with Liu Bai to see who could consume whom.