Half a month passed without realizing it. After a war, both the Tang and Tuyuhun remained silent in a tacit understanding. Both sides never sent troops to conquer anyone, and they both started to stop their troops and rest. "" () However, everyone knew very well in their hearts that this did not mean that neither side wanted to start a war, but the darkness before dawn. Both sides were accumulating strength and wanted to use this buffer time to adjust the army and attack each other again.

Because the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun has escalated to the hatred of the two tribes.

This is Li Ke's strategy. If he wants to destroy a country, he will destroy it thoroughly and cleanly without leaving any threat, even a potential threat.

On this day, Li Ke issued a pre-war mobilization order to the generals. As soon as the generals left, Wang Zhongchang quickly walked to Li Ke's study.

"Your Highness, the Tubo kinship mission has reached the territory of Liangzhou, and you can reach Liangzhou City at night!" Wang Zhongchang reported to Li Kehui.

"Haha--" Li Ke smiled coldly, "Is Lu Dongzan really fast?"

Immediately, he said to Wang Zhongchang, "Let the Yan clan come to the study."

"No" Wang Zhongchang left.

Xu Jingzong was handling military affairs and allocating food and grass, and saw the Black Eagle Guard coming to convey the news and asked him to go to the Beiwang study in the general's mansion and said that the Beiwang was going to summon him.

Xu Jingzong put down his military affairs and hurried to the general's mansion, and saw Wang Zhongchang staying in the hall.

Xu Jingzong greeted Wang Zhongchang, stepped into Li Ke's study, and saw Li Ke reading a book.

"Your Highness--" Xu Jingzong bowed to Li Ke.

"Yan tribe, Lu Dongzan is the Tubo tribe's relative delegation that is about to arrive in Liangzhou City. What should you do?" Li Ke asked lightly, "Would you send someone out of the city to greet him? Or should you ignore him?"

"So fast?" Xu Jingzong was also slightly surprised. He did not expect the Tubo marriage delegation to be so fast.

"Yes--" Li Ke sighed, "I have written a letter to the Yangzhou army to come to Shuofang. The memorial has not been replied to. Now Lu Dongzan and his party have arrived in Liangzhou. I don't know whether it is good or bad!"

Li Ke and Xu Jingzong were both very clear that asking the court to dispatch the Yangzhou army to Shuofang was a strategy for Lu Dongzan's marriage.

Lu Dongzan wanted to seek peace with the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to give himself a few years of buffering time and accumulate strength to fight against the Tang Dynasty. Many people in the Tang Dynasty opposed the Tang Dynasty fighting against the Tubo. In addition to the poor territory of the Tubo, they also had considerations on the treasury and financial affairs. There were also many people in order not to allow Li Ke's side to grow stronger.

Li Ke and Xu Jingzong's strategy was to mobilize 50,000 troops from Yangzhou to Shuofang. Li Tai, the commander of Yangzhou, belonged to the commander of the army, and the real commander was Cheng Mingzhen. Li Ke and Xu Jingzong asked Yangzhou to be in the battle of Shuofang to give Li Tai a benefit, so that Cheng Mingzhen could make the military achievements in Shuofang. In this way, it would be related to the war in Tuyuhun and the battle with Tubo, and Li Tai's Dongwang Party would definitely not oppose the marriage with Tubo.

Because, with Cheng Mingzhen's words, Li Tai also has Pang Xiaotai in Shuofang.

Although they are only two generals, there are still many generals around them. If these generals are promoted after two battles with Tuyuhun and Tubo, then Li Tai's power in the military will develop, and Li Tai is very clear about this.

Therefore, Li Ke and Xu Jingzong came up with such a plan and wrote a letter to Li Ke to ask him to mobilize the army in Yangzhou.

"Your Highness, it may be that there is a problem with time, or the messenger has been delayed on the road! In fact, the court has always been very cautious in mobilizing troops and generals in Shuofang!" Xu Jingzong said.

"Yeah——" Li Ke nodded, he knew what Xu Jingzong meant.

Indeed, there were great differences in the Tang Dynasty when discussing the deployment of troops and generals in Shuofang. The biggest problem was that they did not want to mobilize people with good relationships with Li Ke to Shuofang. This prevented the relationship with Li Ke from becoming stronger and making Li Ke's power larger. If they wanted to dispatch generals who had bad relationships with Li Ke or had hatred, they were afraid that the two armies would become discord in Shuofang, which would affect unity and cause unnecessary trouble to the army.

Therefore, with this factor, the Tang Dynasty was very cautious when discussing the dispatch of troops to Shuofang.

Another point is that Li Ke has always won and never defeated in war. Because of this reason, many people want to transfer their confidants to Shuofang and follow Li Ke to participate in the war and make a fortune.

Therefore, when people recommend generals, they often recommend their own series of generals, and there are also great differences in their opinions.

Because of this kind of disharmony, the memorial to dispatch troops and generals in Shuofang has been delayed in implementing it.

"The Nanyan clan thought, what should we do?" Li Ke asked Xu Jingzong.

Li Ke was very arrogant when he marched and fought, but he still admired Xu Jingzong, who was able to punish Changsun Wuji in history.

"Your Highness, since Lu Dongzan and his group are here too quickly, let us let him go back to Chang'an slowly!" Xu Jingzong said lightly. However, when he said this, a cunning look flashed in Xu Jingzong's eyes.

"What does Yan clan mean?" Li Ke smiled faintly.

"Didn't your highness already know?" Xu Jingzong also smiled.

After the two of them finished speaking, they laughed loudly at the same time, and cunning eyes appeared in their eyes.

"Yan clan, let me leave this matter to you!" Li Ke ordered.

"I accept the order!" Xu Jingzong took the order and left.

Sure enough, just as Wang Zhongchang reported, at night, Lu Dongzan and his team of five thousand people had already arrived at the city of Liangzhou.

However, when Lu Dongzan and his group arrived at the city of Liangzhou, they saw that the gate of Liangzhou City was closed, and there were only soldiers guarding the city outside the big banner with the word "Li" floating above the city.

"Master, what does the Tang army mean? We are a gang delegation, not from attacking Liangzhou City. They may not send people to greet us, but why don't we let us enter the city?" Sang Xiong said angrily.

"General Sangxiong, this is Li Ke deliberately making things difficult for us!" Lu Dongzan said lightly, "He just wants to give us a warning."

"How could Li Ke do such a despicable thing?" Sang Xiong was surprised. He didn't know much about Central Plains culture, but his understanding of people in the Central Plains is that he values ​​etiquette, and Li Ke's actions today made it difficult for him to understand.

"Do you think Li Ke is such a person?" Lu Dongzan sneered, "General Sangxiong is a man of a family, like a tiger, and is terrifying in all directions; but in his heart, he is a wolf, traveling thousands of miles and killing all the way. And Li Ke is exactly this kind of person. He is the Northern King of the Tang Dynasty, a noble royal family, and his style of conduct has no royal demeanor at all. In his eyes, he can use any means to win."

"There are people who are like tigers, which are powerful in all directions; but in their hearts, they are a wolf, traveling thousands of miles and killing all the way." Sang Xiong said lightly. After a while, he said quietly, "Great Present, after you say this, I feel very strange to Li Ke now."

"General Sangxiong, if you want to know Li Ke, you can only hear all the rumors about Li Ke in the neighborhoods of Chang'an City. This is also the reason why I ask the king to let you be a bride and guard to go to Chang'an. Because the Tang Dynasty and Tubo must fight, and on the battlefield, the more you understand the opponent, the more you can understand his marching formation."

"I understand!" Sang Xiong replied lightly.

Speaking of the war between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, Sang Xiong became very heavy.

Since he arrived in Tuyuhun, he also heard about the battle between the Tang Dynasty and Tuyuhun. At first, when he heard that Tuyuhun had wiped out more than 40,000 troops in the Tang Dynasty, he was very happy. He felt that even the Tang Dynasty's battle with Tuyuhun was so difficult, so that fighting with Tubo would definitely not be a rival to Tubo in the future. However, when he heard that the Tang Dynasty did not use heavy cavalry and wolf cavalry camps in the battle against Tubo, he was shocked. Because Lu Dongzan told him that Tubo would be free when the Tang Dynasty was tired.

Send troops to attack the Tang Dynasty, but now Li Ke asked the Chongqi Camp and the Wolf Cavalry Camp to rest and restore. Isn’t it just to prevent his Tubo army from attacking the Tang Dynasty when the Tang Dynasty was tired? It is clear that Li Ke did not use the Chongqi Camp and the Wolf Cavalry, how could Sang Xiong not feel heavy? Another point is that Tuyuhun used 200,000 troops, while the Tang Dynasty only used more than 100,000, and some infantrymen were able to annihilate more than 70,000 cavalry in Tuyuhun. This number of words definitely made Sang Xiong feel invincible to the Tang Dynasty’s army.

Just as Sang Xiong was thinking about it, Lu Dongzan had sent someone to negotiate with the city guards on the top of Liangzhou City.

"Please speak the general in the city!" shouted the Tubo negotiation personnel.

"There are no generals here, so why don't you say that when the general patrols the city tomorrow!" A soldier shouted on the top of the city.

"Please inform your general to defend the city, saying that the Tubo delegation is going to Chang'an, please make peace and let us enter the city!" The Tubo negotiators were also a member of the Central Plains, and said modestly.

"What a silly thing, the general is not here, let's talk about it tomorrow!" the city guards shouted.

"Then please report to His Highness the Northern King!"

"Your Highness the Northern King is busy with all kinds of things every day. Can you meet me just by meeting me? Let's go quickly. If you want to enter the city, I will talk about it tomorrow!" The soldiers guarding the city said impatiently.

"This military master—"

"My sister, you sister - get out, the city gate is closed, come again tomorrow!" the city guards cursed impatiently.

"you--"

"Damn-Don't you understand? The city gate is closed, come again tomorrow." The soldiers guarding the city cursed again.

Fortunately, most of the Tubo cavalry and Sang Xiong didn't understand the Central Plains language very much, so they didn't get angry when they heard such insulting words. However, Lu Dongzan heard it very clearly, and his face became very gloomy.

The people who negotiated Tubo returned to Lu Dongzan in disappointment.

"I have heard it clearly!" Lu Dongzan said before the negotiators could speak, "Order the army to camp outside the city!"

"Yes" Tubo negotiators received the order.

When Sang Xiong saw that Lu Dongzan had already spoken, he didn't say anything. He just glared at Liangzhou City and rode his horse to slowly leave with the brigade.


Chapter completed!