Fu Tang

When Li Congjia was standing outside Ziting County, looking at the city wall, he felt that victory was beckoning to him. If he had a ladder and a siege engine, it would be easier, but these things are not easy to make, and they don’t have suitable ones. The craftsmen could only forcefully break open the city gate with lumber.

Li Congjia sat in the tent and looked at the map. They were not only marching, but also surveying the terrain. Li Congjia also stipulated the drawing method of the map. This time the drawing was more detailed than all the maps in their hands.

Li Congjia looked at the map and said with a smile: "The surrounding area of ​​Ziting is not bad, at least there are places for farming, and the wheat production should look pretty good."

Yes, although it is said to be attacking Ziting, there are also many small towns on the way to Ziting. These small towns are also going to be pushed away, and soldiers are stationed along the way, which can just form a channel for passing news with Anning City. And these small towns are his by default.

Li Congjia was smiling, Chunsheng ran in pale and knelt down and said, "City Lord, a letter from Anning City."

Li Congjia saw that Chunsheng's expression was not good, and thought that the messenger had said something to him, so he took the letter and opened it.

As a result, Li Congjia almost cursed after only one glance. Fortunately, after so many years of training, he was not too impulsive anymore, and just gasped there with anger.

Li Ping and Zhu Yuan were chatting and laughing with Li Congjia. The two of them hadn't fought for a long time since they left customs, and their hands were always itchy. Their eyes turned red with anger, and they were taken aback at the time. The two were at a loss and wanted to ask, but they didn't dare to ask, so they had to turn their heads to look at Shi Xueting.

That means, you are familiar with the city lord, hurry up and ask.

Needless to say, Shi Xueting has to ask, he said softly: "If you have something to say, we will solve it, don't get angry because of a little thing."

Li Congjia patted the letter on the case table and said, "A trivial matter? This is not a trivial matter. Take a look."

Neither Li Ping nor Zhu Yuan moved. They knew in their hearts that although Shi Xueting had no official position, he was actually leading the Tiance Army. After all, he was second only to the chief assistant in Anning City. On the surface, in terms of Li Congjia's status, Zhou Zong might not be as good as him, so they all planned to wait for Shi Xueting to finish watching.

Shi Xueting was also polite, picked up the letter and glanced at it, it was very simple, just one sentence: Anning City was attacked.

Even though he was as calm as he was, Shi Xueting couldn't help but change his color: "How could it be..."

While frowning and thinking, he handed the letter to Li Ping. After Li Ping took it and read it, he looked at Zhu Yuan with surprise.

Zhu Ping said quickly, "This...isn't this the Long family's plan to divert the tiger away from the mountain? First transfer some of our soldiers away, and then go to attack Anning City?"

Li Congjia forcibly suppressed the urge to rush back to Anning City, and said with a cold face: "It should not be the Long family, unless Long Lei doesn't want to die."

Long Lei may not be able to change the Dragon King's decision, but he can report the news in advance. After all, the Dragon King did not force Li Congjia to go out. He just didn't want to worry about disharmony in the country when he was fighting the Guiyi Army to the death.

If Li Congjia didn't want to go out, he could think of other ways to avoid it. For example, if Anning City didn't go out, Li Congjia would follow Long Lei to make suggestions. Of course, this is the worst way.

Li Ping and Zhu Yuan knew something about the situation, but they didn't know it very clearly, so they had to look at Shi Xueting.

Shi Xueting pondered for a while and said: "If it's not the Long family, is it the Guiyi Army?"

"It may also be Ganzhou Uighurs." Li Congjia clenched his fists tightly and said, "Xue Ting, now you bring back 1000 troops..."

"No!" Shi Xueting resolutely rejected Li Congjia's request.

Li Congjia looked at him anxiously, and was about to say something, but Shi Xueting put a finger on his mouth, and he couldn't say anything.

Shi Xueting withdrew his hand and said: "If the soldiers and horses who attacked Anning City were really the Guiyi Army, then their real purpose was to encircle Wei and save Zhao. If we go back, it will be exactly what we want. This is the last choice."

Li Congjia said anxiously: "But there are a group of old and weak women and children in Anning City, what if we don't go back?"

Shi Xueting was almost laughed angrily by him: "If you let the two thousand soldiers who stayed behind know that you said they are old and weak, I'm afraid they will be disappointed."

Only then did Li Congjia remember that he still had 2000 people left, so he was really confused. After he calmed down a little, he said again: "But although there are soldiers in the city, there are no good generals."

Once again, Li Congjia felt that his men were really short of men. This time, he brought out almost all those who could go to the battlefield. Of course, this was also because he had not fought for a long time, and the generals and soldiers needed to be tempered. kind of thing?

As a civil servant, Zhou Zong fought...it was too difficult for him, and the rest...can only rely on those camp owners.

Shi Xueting was not as panicked as Li Congjia, but said: "You don't need any good generals to defend the city, not to mention that Anning City itself is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is only one gate, and it is not easy for them to attack it."

After the panic, Li Congjia gradually calmed down, and said: "No matter who is going to attack Anning City, we must use the fastest speed to take down the Ziting, and then return to help, don't wait, attack the city at midnight tonight !"

Siege at night is actually not a good choice. After all, they have traveled a long distance here, and there are often small-scale battles along the way. Now many soldiers need to rest.

But they don't have time to rest, so they can only do this in a hurry.

Li Congjia slightly regretted it. He made some lightning boxes and brought them out when he knew about them. Except that he had used them against Zhao Kuangyin before, these lightning boxes were covered up in dust. Come out, this thing is better than gold, silver and jewelry. Once it is taken out before they have the ability to protect it, it may be taken by force.

But if there were explosives, it might be much easier to attack the city. This is why Li Congjia regretted it.

However, no matter how regretful he is, it's useless, and it's not easy to get those raw materials here, so he can only attack!

Li Ping was very calm: "We attacked the city in a hurry, and Ziting also defended the city in a hurry. We have a great chance of winning."

Li Congjia took a deep breath and said, "Go according to the previous arrangement. I'll wait for your good news here."

Li Ping breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that Li Congjia would lead the troops to attack the city himself in a hurry. He didn't look down on Li Congjia, but he couldn't afford a little loss. Once Li Congjia was injured or even killed, the city of Anning would be in chaos. up.

Actually this time Li Congjia shouldn't come out, but if he didn't come out, Shi Xueting didn't have an aboveboard status to lead Tiance Mansion, so he had to.

Li Ping and Zhu Yuan went to prepare. Li Congjia looked deeply at Shi Xueting and said, "Be careful with everything. If something goes wrong, come back."

Shi Xueting didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Where is anyone coming back before going out? The battlefield is changing rapidly, who can guarantee to come back intact?"

"I don't care." Li Congjia was unreasonable: "Anyway, you just need to come back, otherwise I will kill the Dragon King!"

Shi Xueting was taken aback by him. Seeing Li Congjia's serious appearance, he knew that he was really angry this time. At this time, he had already transferred his anger to the Dragon King. After all, if the Dragon King was not suspicious and wanted to test him, he would run away. What purple pavilion is playing here?

I had no choice but to comfort him and said: "Don't worry, I will also put on my armor and go there. Don't worry about me. The weapons of the Ziting defenders are not very good. Don't worry and wait for us to triumph."

Li Congjia took a deep breath: "Remember my words, go."

Shi Xueting clasped his hands together and saluted, then turned and left the handsome tent.

After everyone left, Li Congjia picked up the cup on the table and threw it out. He was really pissed off this time. Long You Nilin, Li Congjia's current Nilin is Shi Xueting and the other is Anning City.

Anning City is his heart and soul, and he will not let anyone who dares to make an idea of ​​Anning City!

Li Congjia looked at the map on the case table, and was not sure whether it was the Guiyi Army or the Ganzhou Uighurs. The information in the letter was too vague, but now there is no way to ask more. Anning City has only one gate, which is good There are also downsides.

The advantage is that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If you want to attack from other places, you have to go over the mountain. However, Li Congjia and the others have already thought about this possibility. There are various traps on the mountains around Anning City, so those people can only attack the city by force Door.

The disadvantage is naturally that after the city gate is blocked, it will be very inconvenient to transmit information, unless the scouts also climb over the mountain, but people can relax at the foot of the mountain and wait for work.

It seems that Anning City must have an acropolis. After the Purple Pavilion is taken down, there will be one, and the other will have to be built on site.

Li Congjia circled a place on the map, ready to go back and start building a new city, and then began to think about how to give the Dragon King a "big gift" when he went back!

After thinking about it, Li Congjia wrote a letter directly to Long Lei, and sent someone to send it to Long Lei quickly.

When Long Lei got the letter, he opened it and almost died of fright. He looked around several times, and found that he was surrounded by his confidantes, so he patted his chest.

It was Li Congjia's letter, which was too shocking - Li Congjia suggested that Long Lei should not be in a hurry to grab military merits, and find a way to kill his brothers during this expedition!

I have to say that this idea is too crazy, Long Lei's father has more than 20 sons, fifteen of them went out with the army this time, and the remaining five were forced to stay in Jiuquan because they were too young.

If fifteen of them were killed directly—a fool would be able to detect that there was a problem, not to mention that the Dragon King was not a fool.

The most important thing is that Long Lei is not sure that he can kill his brothers. After all, their battle has reached a fever pitch, and the Dragon King turned a blind eye again. Now the person these people are most wary of is his own brother!

Under such circumstances, how could Long Lei kill them all? Those who followed the princes were more devoted to protecting those princes than their own parents!

But what Li Congjia said was indeed a solution, Long Lei decided to see if there was a chance to kill a certain brother!

After Li Congjia sent the letter, he sat on a chair and began to think. If it goes well, Long Lei can kill his brother, so that Li Congjia can speed up the capture of Suzhou. If only Long Lei is left as the heir, then if Long Lei dies , Suzhou fell into a scene of leaderless dragons, and it was likely to fall apart, and those "loyal ministers" of the Long family would inevitably stand up as puppets.

But the distribution of benefits is always unfair, and there will always be people who will suffer. Once a family is unwilling, it will inevitably rebel. As long as Suzhou is in chaos, then he will have a chance to appease a few relatively large families and work together. Carve up the small families, and then unite with the Ganzhou Uighurs to destroy these big families.

The only thing to worry about is how to deal with the Ganzhou Uighurs then?

Let him admit that the Ganzhou Uighur Khan is the Heavenly Khan?Does he deserve it?

However, you have to endure whether you are worthy or not. The Ganzhou Uighurs are not the Suzhou Long family, nor are they the Guiyi Army. It is not easy to make up your mind.

Li Congjia had many thoughts in his mind, and even began to think about how to disintegrate the Uighurs in Ganzhou.

It's really too long-term to think about it now, but he can't do it if he doesn't want to, he is afraid that if he doesn't want to, he will go crazy!Anning City doesn't know what's going on now, Shi Xueting is also leading the army outside to attack Ziting, he can sit in the big tent already has extraordinary concentration!

Fortunately, Li Ping, Zhu Yuan and Shi Xueting didn't disappoint him after all, Ziting was beaten down when the sky broke.

However, they also lost many soldiers. Li Congjia looked at the battle report and found that more than 300 people were injured and more than 100 people were killed in battle, and more than half of these 100 people were soldiers from the Tiance Mansion. No matter how lofty it is, it is not the team that Li Shimin has in his hands, it is just recruits.

I hope that after this time, these recruits can let go of those unwarranted airs and practice martial arts honestly.

There were many casualties on Li Congjia's side, and there were even more heavy casualties at Ziting's side. Not only soldiers, but even ordinary people were killed and injured. They can climb the city wall with bows and arrows and fight the enemy to the death.

So after this battle, the rest of Ziting City are almost old and weak women and children. Li Congjia looked at the ruins and ruins. These scenes kept overlapping with Anning City, which made him feel that Anning City would also become In this way, fortunately Shi Xueting was by his side, and the familiar sandalwood scent calmed him down.

Li Congjia recruited Li Ping and said: "I will leave you 1000 people to defend the city. Now that the Long family's attack has reached Guazhou, the Cao family must not have the energy to take care of it at this time. You can stay here to caress the people. I will take it with you." Zhu Yuan and Master Xue Ting return to help Anning City!"

Li Ping said hastily: "I will do my best, but... it will be fine in a short period of time. When Anning City stabilizes, the city lord will still send a safe person to rebuild the Ziting."

Li Congjia nodded: "I know this, don't worry."

Li Congjia came in a hurry and left in a hurry. He was so eager to return home this way. If it wasn't for the fact that the large army could not move quickly with their luggage and wounded soldiers, maybe he would have to travel day and night.

But the distance was not far after all. On the evening of the fourth day, Li Congjia returned to Anning City.

When Li Congjia looked at the broken weapons and some corpses outside the city, his heart was in his throat, but he didn't see any enemies outside. Could it be that those people have already invaded Anning City?

Li Congjia was almost scared to death by his own thought, and hurriedly led people all the way there. When he found that the city gate was closed and the soldiers patrolling the city wall were his own soldiers, he was relieved, and his heart fell back into his stomach.

As soon as the soldiers guarding the city saw Li Ziqi, they couldn't help but quickly opened the city gate and sent someone to report to Shoufu.

When Li Congjia entered the city, Zhou Zong led people to greet him on horseback.

Seeing Li Congjia, Zhou Zong saluted and said, "I have seen the city lord, why did the city lord return in such a hurry?"

Li Congjia was a little surprised: "Didn't you send me a message saying that Anning City was attacked?"

Zhou Zong couldn't help but glared at Zhou Ye after hearing this, and then said: "This matter is not a big deal, the city lord has been busy all the way, why not take a bath and change clothes first, and then listen to the minister's detailed explanation."

I'm running all the way back, why are you still playing tricks on me?

However, there was nothing wrong with Anning City right now, and Li Congjia was indeed in a state of embarrassment. It was really rude to meet the ministers like this, so he could only endure his curiosity and return to the City Lord's Mansion to take a bath and change clothes.

At this time, Zhou Ehuang was also waiting in the city lord's mansion. She would not see her normally, but now that her husband came back from the battle, she would bring her son to welcome her no matter what.

Li Congjia was exhausted, and he had to be polite when he saw Zhou Ehuang. After seeing Li Zhongyu who was staring at him eagerly, after thinking about it, he hugged this cheap son, kissed his little cheek and said, "Dalang, is he good?" ? Did you listen to what Auntie said at home?"

Li Zhongyu straightened his chest and said, "Da Lan has always been very obedient!"

Li Congjia smiled and said, "Really? You will be rewarded for being obedient." After speaking, he took out a jade pendant and handed it to Li Zhongyu, saying, "Take it and play."

Zhou Ehuang saw at a glance that it was a high-quality sheep fat jade, and couldn't help but whispered: "Mr. Lang, this thing is precious, and Da Lang is still young..."

"It's okay, just don't let him put it in his mouth. What's the matter with my son playing with a jade pendant? It's not that I can't afford it, right Dalang?"

Li Zhongyu had some doubts in his eyes, but he still nodded vigorously in cooperation.

Li Congjia pinched his steamed bun face again, then handed Li Zhongyu to Zhou Ehuang, and went to take a bath and change clothes.

After everything was sorted out, Li Congjia sat on the seat of the master of the Hanyuan Palace, and said without any concealment of fatigue on his face, "Shoufu, what's going on?"

Zhou Zong originally wanted to persuade Li Congjia to rest, but after looking at his situation, he knew that if he didn't explain clearly, Li Congjia might not be able to rest well, so he simply said: "The ones who came here to sneak attack are nothing to get on the table. It’s just a tribe expelled by the Uyghurs in Ganzhou, they have been wandering in the Western Regions, passing by us, they took a fancy to Anning City, and wanted to snatch it away.”

What else could it be?How can a group of stragglers be an opponent of well-trained soldiers?As a result, none of the tribe that was killed or captured escaped.

Li Congjia: ...

Li Congjia is trying to restrain his anger, don't overturn the table in front of his old father-in-law, you can die if you write more detailed news?Let a group of people follow in fear, if they knew they would not have come back so early, they might still be able to beat Xuanquan and Yongyan, anyway, the ones they beat were all his!

Zhou Zong probably saw that Li Congjia's anger was soaring, so he turned his face and said, "Nizi, why don't you come and kneel down and admit your mistake!"

Zhou Ye came over and knelt on the ground with a cowardly look on his face, and said, "Thousands of mistakes are all the fault of the minister, and I ask the city lord to punish you."

Li Congjia immediately understood the reason: "You sent someone to deliver the news?"

Zhou Ye nodded, and Li Congjia asked again: "Didn't you know that you will meet the Chief Assistant?"

Zhou Ye continued to nod.

Li Congjia: This brat who deserves a beating!Is there anything you don't know to discuss with your father?Why are you sending me a letter directly?

How did he know that Zhou Ye was afraid at that time, because Zhou Zong had already said that the city was alive and people were dying in the city, how could he not be afraid?But he didn't think about running away by himself at the time, he just hoped that Li Congjia could send someone to pick up Zhou Ehuang and Li Zhongyu, after all, Li Congjia was only a single seedling until now!

Although Zhou Ye did something wrong, but this matter was so right that it could not be undone. In addition, this actually reflected that there was still a problem with their management system. Li Congjia had no choice but to let Zhou Ye be banned for a month.

Zhou Zong punished Zhou Ye for copying "Book of Rites" a hundred times before giving up.

Zhou Zong was really worried, especially when he heard that Li Congjia didn't come back until Ziting was brought down, he was even more desperate for his son. How could he stay with the city lord for so long without being affected by his calmness?

How did he know that Li Congjia was persuaded by Shi Xueting to stay there?

Now that the goal has been achieved, Li Congjia hesitated for a moment, and then told about his letter to Long Lei.

Shi Xueting was very surprised when he heard this, but he immediately realized that Li Congjia was probably mad at the time, that's why he did this, and the Long family was obviously angered by him.

After hearing this, Zhou Zong felt that there seemed to be a few more white hairs on his head.

Zhou Zong said earnestly: "Those who do great things don't stick to small details, but they must also distinguish what can and cannot be done!"

Li Congjia struggled: "You mean... this matter is not okay?"

Zhou Zong said angrily: "It's not impossible! You can't do it! You are an example for the people of the world, how can you act with conspiracy?"

Li Congjia got what Zhou Zong meant in an instant, which means that this matter is actually right, but Li Congjia should not have written the letter, or even proposed it. Shi Xueting will definitely not speak out, and Li Congjia is not worried that Long Lei will be able to speak out. At worst, he will let Long Lei have no chance to speak out.

Zhou Zong didn't stop preaching when he saw Li Congjia's confession. What he was most afraid of was that Li Congjia would completely sink into conspiracy and evil because of various things. Bai Tian, ​​after all, you have subordinates, why do you need to do it yourself?

Fortunately, Li Congjia had a good attitude in admitting his mistakes. After the education was enough, Zhou Zong said again: "This matter is not easy, I am afraid that Long Lei is not capable."

After he said this, he felt that he was talking nonsense. When did Li Congjia do things without caring about the end?He must have thought of a countermeasure before doing this!Even if he was in a rage at the beginning!

Sure enough, the next moment, Zhou Zong heard Li Congjia say: "That... I have a solution."