The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 114
"But if I hadn't acted so rashly and scouted out the enemy's strength in advance, I wouldn't have lost so many brothers." Gao Jun was still crying.

"You are all heroes!" Xuan Shijing said firmly: "Now, the Tubo army is planning to fight against Shicheng, so we can't go back to Shicheng for the time being. The injured brother needs to cultivate well, so let's bypass The Tubo army will go to Yangguan, and it will arrive in two days, so please persevere, Zhao Ying."

"The subordinate is here." Zhao Ying stepped forward and clasped his fists in response.

"Let the brothers take care of these injured brothers on the way. The supplies we brought should be used by them." Xuan Shijing ordered, because they left the city in a hurry, so they didn't bring much. There are more than 3000 people in Shicheng, but it should be possible to persist until Yangguan. More or less a dozen of Gao Jun's subordinates have failed. If their supplies can't keep up, I'm afraid it will be troublesome.

"Yes!" Zhao Ying turned around and went down to make arrangements.

"Reorganize everything, rest at the same place for a quarter of an hour, and set off for Yangguan after a quarter of an hour." Xuan Shijing replied: "Wang Jin led 100 people to press down, Long'er, Gao Jun, you two will be in front with me."

A quarter of an hour later, the team set off towards Yangguan, and only Cheng Chumo was left in Shicheng. Although it was a bit unreasonable to do so, bringing people back to Shicheng now would undoubtedly lead to death.

At this time in Shicheng, the Tubo soldiers had already approached the city, and the wound on the enemy general's shoulder had been wrapped up with bandages, and the bandages were also stained with blood.

The enemy general held a steel knife, pointed at Cheng Chumo on the city wall, and shouted: "You cunning Tang people, no matter what, I will respectfully capture this stone city and kill you without leaving any behind."

Standing on the city wall, Cheng Chumo frowned, with his little finger picking his nostrils, with a look of disdain: "That's what you said last time, what's the result?" His tone was understated, as if he had never taken him to heart.

The enemy general could see Cheng Chumo's expression and disdainful tone, and he was furious in his heart, but remembering the last time, he suppressed the burning anger and began to order the Tubo army to attack the city in an orderly manner.

Cheng Chumo's expression gradually became serious. It seemed that the enemy general had a memory after suffering a loss last time.

The Tubo army was divided into three groups, and one group began to climb the city wall. This time the ladder was much longer than last time, and the slope was slowed down, so that the soldiers of Datang could no longer push down the ladder like last time; It was carrying a huge log and hitting the city gate, while the remaining group of Tubo people were all string control men, shooting bows and arrows at the Tang army on the city wall.

On the border of Hanzhou, in the commander's tent, Li Jing sat firmly on the grand teacher's chair, eyes slightly closed, thinking about the current situation carefully, the Tang army cannot enter Tubo, and once they go to the plateau, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers will be reduced by half. The climate is not acclimatized, I am afraid that the army will disintegrate without waiting for the Tubo people to fight, but once the fight starts, the Tubo army will shrink back on the plateau and will not come down, which is really troublesome.

"Report~~~" A soldier wearing a red plume helmet rushed into Li Jing's commander's tent: "Chang'an eight hundred miles, hurry up."

Li Jing got up quickly, stepped forward, took the letter from the soldier, and opened it to read.

Twenty thousand Tubo soldiers went to Longxi?Li Jing received the letter, glanced at the map, and snorted coldly in his heart, Lu Dongzan is really a good idea, really think that Tang's control over Longxi is so easy to shake, 2 people just want to mess up the Western Regions.

What Lu Dongzan certainly did not expect was that the 2 people sent over were dragged in Shicheng.

Who knows what happened between the Tubo nobles?
Before Li Jing sat back to the case, he picked up a pen and began to write a memorial to His Majesty Li Er. After finishing writing, he dried the ink and handed it to the envoy, saying: "Send this memorial back to Chang'an overnight."

"Yes!" Emissary Hongling took the memorial, saluted and left the tent, got on his horse and ran towards Chang'an.

"Come on!" Li Jingchao shouted outside the tent.

"What is the order of the chief executive?" The soldiers on duty outside the tent entered the tent and saluted.

"Pass the order down and raise the account!" Li Jing said loudly.

Since His Majesty has ordered a battle to settle it, let's arrange it properly, the army of Datang has been silent for too long
When Xuan Shijing led the team to the outside of Yangguan, it was already two days later. The fight in Shicheng was fierce, but everything in Yangguan was as usual.

With the token, he led the army into Yangguan. Zhao Ying had already gone to find the general stationed here. Although the team of 200 people was not many, he had to follow the rules.

After a while, Zhao Ying came back, followed by a general.

"The last general Ding Xiangming, see Lord Hou." After the general saw Xuan Shijing, he saluted respectfully.

"Shijing has no official position, so General Ding doesn't need to be so polite." Xuan Shijing said: "I would like to ask General Ding to settle the soldiers brought by Shijing properly."

"Don't worry, Lord Hou." Ding Xiangming said, "I don't know who these soldiers are?"

"Have you not received the news yet? Shicheng has already fought with the Tubo people." Xuan Shijing said: "There are only more than 3000 soldiers guarding Shicheng, and there are more than 2 people from Tubo."

"Sunshine has received some information more or less, but there is no order from above, so we can't act rashly." Ding Xiangming said: "Yangguan is the first pass from Longxi to Hanzhong, and there is no room for loss. Therefore, this There is no way to send troops there, the [-] soldiers from Tubo came too quickly, and we have not received orders from the Ministry of War."

Xuan Shijing nodded, so it turns out that the root of the problem lies in the Ministry of War, Li Jing is the Minister of the Ministry of War, and he is now in Hanzhou, so the problem lies in the officials of the Ministry of War in Chang'an City.

Xuan Shijing's face turned cold, do the people in the Ministry of War really take the lives of soldiers seriously?[-] Tubo soldiers appeared in Longxi, but they didn't respond at all.

Now that the matter has come to this point, it is useless for Xuan Shijing to have any opinion on the Ministry of War, and immediately said: "In this case, then please General Ding to find a doctor to treat the injuries of the dozens of soldiers I brought."

Ding Xiangming nodded, and followed Zhao Ying to arrange everything.

"Young Lord, what shall we do next?" Long'er looked at Gao Jun, then set her eyes on Xuan Shijing.

"We don't have anything to do here." Xuan Shijing smiled speculatively: "After everything is settled with Wei Guogong, let Wang Jin and Zhao Ying take people back to Shicheng to talk to Brother Chumo. Confluence is."

"Young Lord, what do you mean, let's leave now?" Gao Jun looked at Xuan Shijing in disbelief, and ran away halfway?
"It's not running, but finding another way." Xuan Shijing laughed.

(End of this chapter)