Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Hou Junji, and Xiao Yu, who are rarely agreed with each other, have worked together to hold the emperor down today.

No one thinks it is suitable to launch the battle to destroy Tuyuhun at the moment.

Similarly, no one thinks that the outcome of this battle in Longyou will be good, but no matter how bad it is, they can only endure it first. This time, the prime ministers reached an agreement to block the joint invasion of Tuyuhun and Dangxiang, and recover the lost prefectures and counties, and then it is enough.

There is no need to cross-border counterattack, and there is no plan to destroy Dangxiang in one battle, break Tuyuhun or something, there is no plan, nor preparation.

You must be ready before you can launch a thunderous attack.

After leaving the palace, Changsun Wuji asked Hou Junji, the Minister of War, "Do you think that Tuyuhun and Dangxiang can be defeated before the New Year?"

Hou Junji was wearing a purple robe and his beard was carefully trimmed. He put his hand in a jade belt around his waist. "Taozhou was lost, and there were no soldiers on the Taoshui line. Although there was a Xi Jun buying it in Minzhou, this person was just a commander of Guoyi. I am afraid that it would be difficult to stop the great responsibility. With the thousands of soldiers and horses transferred from Duidang, he may not be able to stop the fierce offensives of Tuyuhun and Dangxiang."

"What I worry most is Qin Lang. He is too arrogant. He led 500 people to guard a border fortress, hanging alone outside. The soldiers of Diezhou were sent to Minzhou by him. I don't know where Qin Sanlang got the confidence and courage. He dared to be so arrogant, but he would always be taught a lesson."

Speaking of this, he even felt a little gloating and felt inexplicably comfortable.

Changsun Wuji frowned, "Do you think Qin Lang will lose?"

"It is normal to lose. The Ministry of War has a sand table in Diezhou. The small fortress is located in the west. It is chosen in a flat valley without any danger. It only took two months to build it. What defense can such a fortress have?"

Tuoba Chici is also an old fox, and Qin Lang is still a little tender after all, he thought to himself.

Changsun Wuji sighed in his heart, and felt that Qin Lang was a little arrogant after all, "Maybe Qin Sanlang is waiting for Qin Qiong's reinforcements."

Hou Junji smiled slightly, "When it comes to this, we have to say that the Qin family is very fond of danger. Qin Qiong has already left Songzhou. He can arrive in at most ten days, but why hasn't it been there? It's obvious that Qin Qiong did not go directly to rescue Qin Lang."

"Then where did Qin Qiong go?"

Hou Junji said proudly, "It must have been to take advantage of the fact that Dangxiang Qi went out to the border, and Qin Qiong went deep into the hinterland of Dangxiang and learn from Qin Lang's last time."

"If Qin Sanlang could hold on for two or three months, then Qin Qiong's move would be a master of skills and bravery, avoiding the real and taking the opportunity to sweep the Qiang people's backyard. But the question is, Qin Lang has 500 people guarding a small fortress. How long can he last under Tuoba Chici? Ten days and half a month, and there is still one month? I think one month is the most, but Qin Qiong will definitely not be able to come back in one month."

"Qin Sanlang sent the Diezhou troops to Minzhou, and he guarded the Iron City alone, thinking that Qin Qiong could come to rescue him immediately. Qin Qiong must have thought that there were a large number of Western troops in Diezhou Town, and Diezhou City was in a dangerous situation. As long as Qin Lang retreated into Diezhou City, he would be as strong as the last time, and he would not be afraid of the Qiang people."

"As a result, both of you are thinking about it, so now Qin Qiong may sweep across the hinterland of Dangxiang and start a massacre, but Qin Sanlang is in danger. Maybe at this moment, the small fortress has been flattened by the Tuoba Qiang people, and Qin Sanlang is defeated like Li Daoyan, and he can't even escape. He surrendered like Jiu Qie Luosheng."

"It shouldn't be done!" Changsun Wuji felt that although Hou Junji's words were reasonable, Qin Sanlang's long-standing performance made him still have great confidence in him. If this kid is not sure, how dare he play like this?

"Don't believe it, Mr. Changsun, what I analyzed makes sense. If you don't believe it, just look at it."

"The Ministry of War is just sitting there?" Changsun was a little dissatisfied with Hou Junji's attitude.

"Of course we won't sit idly by. The Ministry of War has already thought of several rescue strategies, but it is difficult to quench the thirst in the distance. I'm afraid that Qin Lang will no longer be able to hold on until our reinforcements arrive." After saying that, Hou Junji crossed his hands to make a salute, and then turned and left.

Changsun stood there and was stunned for a long time, sighing.

Could it be that Qin Sanlang is going to underestimate the enemy and make a mistake this time like the warrior?

I hope Qin Qiong can rush back to save Qin Lang as soon as possible. The Changsun family and the Qin family are all the core of the prince's party. Changsun still does not want Qin Sanlang to be defeated.

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Diezhou, five-star fortress.

The two armies met, and the joy was thunderous.

Tuoba Chici was missing an ear and returned to the fortress with a lonely expression. He entered the fortress for the first time, crossing the trenches and the embankments and entering the city, and finally discovered the mystery of the castle, which was even more difficult than he had expected before.

It is really hard to imagine how such a fortress came into being.

A flat and open land without any danger or strength can create such a small and extremely powerful castle fortress. Although this fortress is only used for military garrisons and cannot inhabit the people, it has markets, etc., it is indeed very useful for military affairs.

Especially the watchtowers that were six or seven feet tall, but small but high, became a difficult line of defense for the Qiang cavalry who was flying like a breeze.

Entering Yacheng, kill cattle and sheep in the fort, and there is no waste of wounded horses and horses on the battlefield. After peeling, large pieces of meat were divided and stewed in large pots.

The soldiers were extremely busy, counting the results of the battle and registering for seizure.

The light cavalry were still searching for Qiang deserters everywhere.

There were many Qiang people who surrendered, and many died in battle.

Tuoba Chici surrounded the Five-Star Fortress for more than a month, and mobilized nearly 30,000 troops, of which 8,000 were troops deep into Diezhou to sweep the robbery, leaving more than 20,000 people besieged the city.

As a result, Tuoba Chici suffered more than 7,000 casualties, and there were only about 15,000 left. As a result, he wanted to escape secretly last night, even throwing cattle and sheep tents in Tucheng, but he still didn't run away.

Tuoba Sitou, Tuoba Xigan led the Thousand Cavalry to rebel on the battlefield, and then persuaded the Tang army to surrender about 5,000 people, and the Tang army also captured more than 3,000 prisoners.

The rest were basically killed.

Some were killed directly on the battlefield, and some were killed by the Tang army after being injured. Although there was an order not to kill prisoners, many of the soldiers were originally Minzhou soldiers. After the defeat of Hequ, they were insulted, beaten and scolded when they were hungry, and even killed people at all times, and were taken to fill the trenches to attack the city. Fortunately, they were saved.

Now, I will naturally not be polite when facing the wounded soldiers of the Qiang people. When I see the key points of the injury, I will just make up for it and send him to the west.

The officers turn a blind eye to this kind of thing. Anyway, the wounded soldiers are burdensome. Keeping them will waste medicine and food, but there will be many wounded soldiers who will die.

Tuoba Chici was invited to sit by Qin Qiong, but he was not in a good mood at this time.

When he entered the city, he saw that the Tang Dynasty Jingguan in Tucheng had been demolished, and replaced by the Qiang People Jingguan built on the original site.

The bodies of more than 7,000 Qiang soldiers who died in battle were cremated, and the Tang army directly piled up Jingguan for them more than 7,000 Qiang soldiers who died this time.

After the heads of the Qiang people's big and small leaders were cut off, the Tang army directly took off the skull to make a wine vessel.

One by one, one hideous and terrifying wine vessel was hung on the waist by Tang soldiers. It seemed that it had become a popular wine vessel for Qiang people's skulls.

As a result, there are basically one soldiers in the town West Army now.

If the leaders are not enough, then the ordinary people are.

The army in the west of the town even specifically found out the identity of these skull owners, and then asked the army or craftsmen to help them carve the original owner's name, identity, etc. on the skull wine vessel.

Make it a unique wine utensil.

More than 7,000 Qiang people died in battle. The dead people's heads were cut off, their left ears were cut off to record military merits, and the skulls were taken off to make wine vessels. The remaining incomplete heads were covered with human urine and horse feces and mud, and they were sealed together to build Jingguan.

Their bodies were stripped naked and threw them into mass graves.

Tuoba Sitou and Tuoba Xigan walked in and found Tuoba Chici at first sight. Both of them felt a little embarrassed and dared not look at each other.

But after hearing that Tuoba Chici had already knelt down to Zhenxijun and Qin Lang for surrender, he relaxed again. Since everyone had surrendered to Tang, there was nothing to be embarrassed to face.

"Come and raise your glasses to celebrate the victory!" Qin Lang said.

So Liang Jianfang and other officers took off their Qiang skull wine vessels from their waists and placed them on the table, moving the wine glasses away.

These wine vessels are actually quite rough, and even have dark red marks. Qin Lang frowned when he looked at them, but Liang Jianfang and others were posing on them, and began to introduce the name and identity of the original owner of their wine vessel. The higher the identity, the more high-end the wine vessel.

"When I have time, I will find a wise craftsman to polish the wine vessel for me, then put some gold-edged and silver rings, and put a few gems on it. In the future, it will be used as a family heirloom and passed on from generation to generation."

Liang Jianfang's words made the officials laugh together.

The Songzhou officers brought by Qin Qiong did not have a drink, so they had to laugh dryly. The leaders of the Qiang people such as Xifeng Cunyi were even more embarrassed at this time.

Tuoba Chici's eyes widened and gritted his teeth.

Tuoba Sitou and Tuoba Xigan also took out a skull wine vessel as everyone laughed.

The two introduced their own wine vessels to everyone, which came from the leader of the Qiang people of the same clan, but they personally killed the head neighbor who refused to surrender to the Tang Dynasty last night.

"The surrendered people presented this wine vessel to Duke Wei. The owner of this wine vessel, Tuoba Ningli, was originally an elder of my Tuoba tribe. He owned a Thousand Tent tribe. Because of his stubbornness, I personally cut off my head and peeled off my head cover to make this wine vessel. I also asked the army of the Zhenxi Army to engrave the name of Tuoba Ningli for me, etc.."

Qin Lang frowned slightly, feeling very ashamed of Tuoba Sitou's behavior.

Tuoba Xigan also quickly picked up his wine vessel, but wanted to offer it to Qin Qiong, who defeated him in Songzhou last time.

Chi Ci suddenly roared and jumped towards the two of them.

Liang Jianfang and several other generals waved their fists, smashing Chi Ci's face and swollen nose, and the bandaged left ear wound also burst out and bleeding.

"Tuoba Chici, this is the military conference hall of the Yacheng, my five-star fortress of Qin Lang. It's not the tent of your Tuoba tribe. Don't be arrogant!" Qin Lang scolded.

Tuoba Chici, who was held tightly, stared at his nephew Sitou and his former confidant with red eyes, cursing the two of them in Qiang language. They avoided them far away but did not respond.

Tuoba Chici cursed and Liang Jianfang said, "This old thief is so ignorant. Why don't he twist his head off and lift his head cover to make a wine vessel, and present it to His Majesty the Emperor in the future."
Chapter completed!