Piaotianwen    The third day after Li Ke returned from the camp on Liangfengpo, Lu Dongzan summoned the generals in the coach's account and issued a task to prepare to attack Liangzhou City._

As the first siege, Lu Dongzan wanted to conduct a tentative siege, wanting to see the combat effectiveness and preparation of the soldiers guarding the city of the Tang army. Therefore, his order was to let 10,000 elite cavalry of Tuyuhun act as infantrymen to attack the city. Although the order issued only made 10,000 elite cavalry of Tuyuhun siege that made Tuba dissatisfied, Lu Dongzan was the commander of the coalition army. Tuba naturally did not dare to express any opinions before the first siege began, so he could only bow to accept the order.

When the order was issued, the chief general was about to leave the tent and prepare, and saw a Tubo guard strode into the tent.

"Return to the Great Prime Minister, did the envoys of the Tang Dynasty seek to see you outside the camp?"

"Yeah - the envoy of the Tang Dynasty?" Lu Dongzan asked in confusion. He was about to be prepared to attack the city. At this time, Li Ke sent an envoy. What exactly did he want to do?

"Let him come in!" Lu Dongzan ordered lightly, and asked the generals to sit back and took back the order. He wanted to see what Li Ke's envoy wanted to say before making a decision.

Shortly after the guards left, they led a small school in the Tang Dynasty to Lu Dongzan Shuaiju.

"The lieutenant in front of His Highness, Northern King of the Great Tang Dynasty, meets the great prime minister!" The lieutenant of the Tang army bowed and said respectfully and politely, but his tone was very arrogant, which made the generals in the tent feel very unhappy. Didn't the Tang army win a battle? Why is a small lieutenant so arrogant!

"His Royal Highness Bei asked you to come to my army camp. What does he want?" Lu Dongzan sneered faintly.

"Your Highness has a challenge letter, please take a look!" After saying that, the Tang Army Captain handed a roll of paper to the Tubo guard next to him, and the guard handed it to Lu Dongzan again.

As soon as the captain finished speaking, the generals in the tent began to talk loudly. Some said that Li Ke was extremely arrogant and did not take Tubo seriously. Some said that Li Ke sent a challenge letter to despise Tubo's elite cavalry and asked Lu Dongzan to issue an order to attack Liangzhou City immediately.

Lu Dongzan ignored the generals, but took the challenge book. After reading it carefully, he frowned and handed the challenge book to Sang Xiong on the next head. He didn't say anything. Sang Xiong took the challenge book and angrily put the challenge book on the ground after reading it. "Li Ke bullied me too much? When did I fear him the Iron Cavalry of the Tang Army? Just compare, what's so great about it!"

"General Sangxiong don't need to be impatient!" Lu Dongzan immediately said when he saw Sangxiong's angry expression. Then, he said to the Tang Army Captain, "You go back and report to Li Ke. In three days, we will meet his black armored cavalry after 10,000 Tubo in Tubo!"

"That young general has said goodbye!" The Tang Army Captain said goodbye and left after hearing Lu Dongzan's answer.

As soon as the Tang army captain left, Lu Dongzan discussed with Sang Xiong and others, trying to find out whether Li Ke’s challenge letter was conspiracy. After a long discussion, the generals felt that Li Ke did not need to make a conspiracy in this regard. Everyone agreed that Li Ke saw his 300,000 army and was grand. He wanted to duel with 10,000 Tubo elite cavalry. He must have wanted to boost the morale of his army by defeating 10,000 Tubo elite cavalry. With this discussion result, Lu Dongzan asked Sang Xiong to go down to select Tubo elite cavalry and prepare to fight with Li Ke for 10,000 black armored cavalry in the city of Liangzhou in three days.

Sang Xiong was very worried about this decisive battle. He had heard Lu Dongzan's statement. In the Royal Forest Garden in Chang'an City, Li Ke's five hundred black armored cavalry cut vegetables and melons, which canceled his 1,000 Tubo elite cavalry. Therefore, this time, Li Ke issued a challenge book. Sang Xiong thought that the best time for the Tubo elite cavalry to prove his strength this time. He spent his time selecting 10,000 Tubo elite cavalry. In order to defeat 10,000 Tang army black armored cavalry, he selected most of the centurions and thousands of commanders into this 10,000 Tubo army.

Three days passed quickly!

On the day of the battle, Lu Dongzan personally led a 50,000 army to push the siege tools and carried the siege ladder to the city of Liangzhou.

Twenty thousand Tubo elite cavalry on the right, 20 thousand Tuyuhun elite cavalry on the left, Lu Dongzan, Sangxiong and Tuba were in the central army, and the central army was the 10,000 Tubo elite cavalry selected by Sangxiong.

After the army set up its formation, Sangxiong's brave general Chi Muhe personally led 10,000 elite cavalry to Liangzhou City to challenge the battle, and waited for Li Ke to wait for 10,000 elite armored elite cavalry to leave the city to fight.

However, time passed by minute by minute. There was no movement in Liangzhou City.

Chi Muhe led 10,000 Tubo cavalry to wait in Liangzhou City for nearly two hours, but he did not see any of the Tang cavalry. He saw banners waving on the tower of Liangzhou City, and spears and spears. The Tang army guarding the city bent his bow and arrows, quietly waiting for the Tubo army to attack the city.

Lu Dongzan did not expect that Li Ke was so untrustworthy. His army waited under Liangzhou City for two hours but could not see the shadow of the Tang army cavalry. He knew that he was deceived by Li Ke. He began to make an order to let Tuyuhun cavalry dismount and attack the city. When he saw the gate of Chang'an open, a war horse carried a military captain out of Liangzhou City in shame.

The captain was the messenger of the Northern King. Chi Muhe did not stop him, so the captain came directly to Lu Dongzan.

"See the great minister!" the captain said in a humble and arrogant manner.

"Does the King of Northern do not keep his word?" Lu Dong praised, "I still dare not fight the decisive battle with my Tubo cavalry!"

"Master, Your Highness Beiwang said that the black armored cavalry is not prepared enough and it is difficult to fight today. Please wait for three days and fight to the death three days later!" said the captain.

"Hmph—" Lu Dongzan became angry after hearing this and shouted loudly, "Prepare to attack the city!"

However, as soon as he finished speaking, the captain went to laugh and said, "His Highness Beiwang also told Daxiang that if Daxiang was afraid of losing and did not want his ten thousand elite cavalry to die like he did in Chang'an City, he could order a siege and no duel was required to follow the challenge book!"

"Bastard, pull him down and chop him down!" Sang Xiong was immediately angry. It was obviously Li Ke's fault, but now it was his own fault when the Tang Army Captain said it.

"Let's go—" Lu Dongzan stopped him, "Tell His Highness the Northern King that I will wait for him for three days, and we will decide to fight to the death in three days!"

"I will tell Your Highness! Goodbye!" The captain bowed and left on a horse.

Lu Dongzan also ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and return to the camp!

On the Liangzhou city tower, when seeing Lu Dongzan withdraw his troops back to the camp, Sun Erlang beside Li Ke was surprised and said, "Your Highness, how do you know that Lu Dongzan will agree to this request?"

Li Ke smiled faintly and said, "Because, he wants to prove himself!"

"Prove yourself?" Sun Erlang was a little confused when he heard this.

"A duel in Chang'an left a deep shadow in Lu Dongzan's heart. The empty city plan and the 150,000 troops in Phoenix Ridge were all lost. This is all the shame of Lu Dongzan. Lu Dongzan is a strong man, and his survival in his heart is better than anyone else!" Li Ke said lightly, "So, he was eager to prove his ability through a battle. I just wanted to give his preferences and invite the Tubo Jingqi to fight to the death with the King's Black Armor Jingqi. This suggestion just satisfies Lu Dongzan's first victory, and wants to prove that the failure of the decisive battle between the Tubo Jingqi and the Black Armor Cavalry in Chang'an was accidental, and he wanted to prove the strength of the Tubo Jingqi again through this first battle, so that he would agree to my request."

"Third brother, how did you know that Lu Dongzan is a very strong person?" Li Yan asked.

"Lu Dongzan's plan to lure the enemy made Li Ji defeated, and his wise and 120,000 elite Tang dynasties died in Zalan. At that time, he won this victory. Lu Dongzan was very glorious in Tubo!" Li Ke smiled faintly, "But, when he went on a mission to the Tang Dynasty, the first battle was to be defeated by the Eagle Guard in Chang'an; the second battle was to be defeated by Fenghuangling; the third battle was to lose 150,000 elite cavalry in Tubo! These three defeats had a great blow to him, and he suddenly fell from the honor of His Highness to the abyss of sin. Therefore, he wanted to defeat this king and rush to prove his ability, so he became white-haired now in several months, describing the old woman. Just imagine, wouldn't such a person be a very strong person?"

"San brother, then are you going to really send the Wolf Cavalry camp to fight against the Tubo elite cavalry in three days?" Li Yan asked.

"It's definitely not!" Li Ke said with a smile.

"Will Lu Dongzan go crazy?" Li Yan said with a smile.

"I am the one who plays with him. If he is not crazy, the 300,000 troops will take turns to attack Liangzhou City. Our only tens of thousands of people may not be able to defend the city!" Li Ke said with a calm smile.

After saying that, he stalked and disappeared on the city tower, leaving behind a stunned general.

The generals never thought that the great prime minister of Tubo would be played like a monkey by His Highness the Northern King!
Chapter completed!