Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 297 The Covenant
"My lord, what do you say? We all listen to you."

Li Shimin frowned and thought carefully, and said after a while: "Keep waiting, I will wait for him for another two days, if he doesn't come after two days, I will take you to attack the city, and I will definitely capture Qingzhou."

This kind of result is not what Li Shimin wants to see. After all, if they really want to attack hard, they can attack the city before, and they don't have to wait until the food is exhausted.

The reason why he didn't attack the city was because he felt that they could think of a better way, or that Tuyuhun couldn't resist going out of the city to fight them.

But during this time, they tried all kinds of methods, but they failed to achieve their goal.

Everyone looked at each other.

"My lord, but our food won't last until tomorrow."

"Kill a few old horses and reduce the supply of food. We must survive tomorrow."

"Here!"

The soldiers retreated after taking orders, leaving only Li Shimin and Li Ji in the entire camp.

"Military Master, do we really want to trust Qin Tian?"

Now that there are no other people, Li Shimin can naturally speak out what is in his mind. If he really believes that Qin Tian can send the food and grass, it is really a bit embarrassing for him, after all, he has always liked it. Control your destiny, not leave your destiny to others to decide.

Li Ji looked calm and said: "My lord, don't worry, Qin Tian will definitely be able to send the food and grass, and after he comes, we may be able to defeat the enemy successfully."

Seeing that Li Ji believed in Qin Tian so much, Li Shimin had some meaning. After all, in the past two years, he had the most contact with Qin Tian. Li Ji was outside, but he had never met Qin Tian.

But seeing that Li Ji just chose to trust Qin Tian instead of having any calculations, he had no choice but to nod and continue to wait.

In the Datang barracks, more than a dozen old horses were slaughtered, and the smell of blood soon attracted a group of flies. However, the soldiers who hadn't seen meat for a long time didn't care about it, and their eyes were full of excitement.

While the soldiers in the Datang barracks were waiting to eat horse meat and drink broth, spies in Gyeongju city had already found Tuyuhun's barracks in a hurry.

Under the big tent of Tuyuhun, the leader of the army is the Xijue King Ha Siqi of Tuyuhun. wait for the time.

"My lord, the Tang military camp has started to kill horses."

"Started to kill the horse?" Hasky touched his fat cheek, and then showed a sneer: "Okay, Datang's food and grass are finally finished."

Having said that, Hasky asked again: "Did the Tang's grain and grass not be replenished? Does the grain guard have any clues?"

"My lord, we've been watching, but it looks like they won't be able to deliver it for a while."

"Okay, okay, as long as the supply of food and grass in the Tang Dynasty is not enough, they will definitely panic. It is the best time for us to send troops at that time." Ha Siqi also had no choice but to defend Qingzhou City, if he had the chance to repel Li Shimin's troops , he will not give up.

Li Shimin led all the famous generals of the Tang Dynasty. If he could defeat Li Shimin, it would definitely increase their prestige in Tuyuhun. Moreover, after returning, it would be easier for him to fight for the throne.

"Send someone to send a letter to Mo Li, the leader of the party, asking him to join forces with me, Tuyuhun, to attack Tang Jun."

The spies were ordered to retreat, and in the evening, Haski's letter had already been delivered to the party leader Mo Li.

Mo Li was thin and had big eyes. After reading Haschi's letter, Mo Li walked back and forth in the big tent.

"General, what's the matter?" a soldier asked.

"The King Xijue of Tuyuhun wants us to join forces with them to attack the Tang army. This general is considering whether to do it or not."

"General, we sent troops to defeat the Tang army."

Mo Li snorted and said: "Wrong, we are not trying to defeat Tang Jun, we are trying to gain more benefits for our party, if Tang Jun is willing to give us party benefits, we can retreat immediately, but they don't I just want to."

There are many tribes in Dangxiang, and their relative power is also very weak. They are sandwiched between Tubo, Tuyuhun and Datang. For them, survival has always been a very serious problem.

They really want to obtain the most favorable conditions from all the enemies, and attacking Datang is no exception, because they know very well that Datang is too powerful, even if they repel Li Shimin, they still cannot shake Datang .

In this way, it is reasonable to find ways to get more benefits.

After hearing Li Li's words, a general of Dangxiang said, "General, if Datang is not defeated or severely damaged, they will not negotiate terms with us. Let me tell you, while Tuyuhun is going out of the city to fight, we Just attack Datang, and after Datang escapes, we will negotiate terms with them, and at that time, they will definitely agree."

Li Li pondered for a while, and then nodded: "For now, this is the only way to go. Send someone to deliver a letter to Haschi, saying that I will do what he said in the letter."

The party soldiers retreated.

The night got darker.

More than ten miles away from Qingzhou City, Qin Tian walked starry night with food and grass. Before tomorrow evening, they will almost be able to arrive at Li Shimin's military camp.

But at this time, Qin Tian ordered people to hide the food.

Seeing this moment, everyone was very puzzled.

"My lord, we're here to deliver food and grass, what's the matter with you hiding the food here?"

Qin Tian glanced at the hundreds of soldiers, and said, "Everyone should bring half a bag of food, and move forward quickly."

Half a bag of food is not much, and these soldiers are not very conspicuous, they just wonder why Qin Tian did this.

But Qin Tian didn't seem to have any intention of explaining, he just asked them to bring half a bag of food and set off with him.

Seeing this, everyone had no choice but to take half a bag of grain and rush towards Gyeongju quickly.

As for the remaining food, they hid it in a very hidden cave, which was absolutely safe.

A group of people followed Qin Tian and rushed to the barracks. From the outside, they looked like a team, not like escorting grain and grass at all, because half a bag of grain was hidden behind the body, which was not very conspicuous.

The team just walked like this without stopping.

"You said Mr. Qin asked us to do this. What exactly do you want to do? We are indeed much faster this way, but how can we do it if the food is not delivered?"

On the way, some people were curious and started talking to each other.

"Master Qin is a smart person. We will do what he tells us to do. Why do you ask so many questions? Master Qin must have his reasons for doing so."

"That's right, let's just do what Master Qin said, stop talking nonsense, and let's go."

It was dawn, and they were getting closer and closer to Gyeongju.

(End of this chapter)