Tang Dynasty Never Night

The three tribes of Jintou, Heman, and Wang are located in the southwest corner of the Tang Dynasty, bordering the Tang Dynasty and also bordering Tubo. Of course, there are not only these three tribes on that piece of land, but also the Puzi tribe and the Mang tribe. It can be said that there are many tribes gathered in a small piece of land, but most of these tribes are weak, and the Tang Dynasty has always ignored them, and they are also very honest.

This time, I don't know what's going on. The Tang Dynasty beat up their powerful neighbor, Tubo, and they dared to attack at this time.

Of course, these three tribes are not stupid. This year, there is a severe drought, drought inside the pass, and even more drought outside the pass. At least there are places in the pass that are not dry, but outside the pass... Once there is a severe drought and the vegetation is not abundant, the herdsmen on the grassland will basically survive. I can't go down.Strictly speaking, these three tribes are not nomads. After all, they are located in the south, and the climate is better than that of the grassland.

Compared with the nomads, these tribes have more fixed settlements, but this does not mean that they are not aggressive. In the past, they did not dare to move because the countries on both sides were too powerful. Now... the two sides are increasingly fighting , they also had the idea of ​​taking advantage of the fire.

I just didn't expect that because of Li Xian's participation, this time Tubo was destined to be unable to occupy the entire Western Regions like it did in history, forcing Tang Gaozong to give up the four towns of Anxi. until when?

When he heard that the soldiers were about to approach the city, Li Xian was completely dumbfounded. He was used to the peaceful era, and even if he crossed over, he would still be nesting in Chang'an City. In front of him, there were only a few military newspapers, and his impression of the war had always been superficial.

Show suddenly told him: Dear, you have come to the front line.

This... Isn't this cheating?Li Xian panicked for a moment. Although he couldn't see it on the surface, he actually didn't know what to do. Should he call back?How should I fight?

But before he could figure it out, the soldiers from the royal palace of Zhou who accompanied Cao Canjun, Wei Cheng, and Qianniuwei Zhonglang General Sima Tu came to see him together. After Li Xian let them in, he realized that the purpose of these two people was only one: Your Highness, to change places Well, it's not safe here anymore.

Li Xian was a little hesitant. Is it not good for him to leave now?But Captain Zhechong quickly dispelled his worries. To be honest, they could let go without Li Xian being here, but Li Xian is here... If this god-man bumps into them, they can't afford it!

Li Xian also knew that he was probably making trouble here, so he asked people to pack up and prepare to leave without saying a word.When he was leaving, Li Xian looked out through the car window. When he came a few days ago, the town was peaceful and prosperous, but now the streets have become extremely desolate. He looked nervous.

Li Xian looked at Wei Cheng who was at least following his carriage and suddenly asked, "Have the people started to evacuate now?"

Wei Cheng froze for a moment and shook his head hesitantly: "I don't know about this yet."

Li Xian frowned. To be honest, he really wanted to know what was going on now, for example, where were the three tribes, and whether the frontline soldiers could hold on.It's just that he left in a hurry and didn't have time to understand many things clearly. Of course, even if he understood clearly, he might not be able to help.

The only thing he can do is stay away from here.Both Wei Cheng and Sima Tu's nerves were tense. Li Xian saw their nervousness, so he shut up and said nothing.

Their destination was Liuzhou. In fact, if possible, Wei Cheng and Sima Tu wanted to escort Li Xian back to Tiantai Mountain directly. No matter what, let's leave this place of right and wrong first.

But Li Xian felt that he should not leave too hastily. His team was too conspicuous, and the specifications had not been reduced. Anyone with common sense would know that his owner's status was not low, even if they couldn't guess it was him.In this case, even the nobles are running for their lives in a panic, which can easily arouse panic.

Li Xian sat in the carriage with agitated emotions, and the convoy arrived in Liuzhou five days later.After arriving in Liuzhou, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. They thought it was not far from Kunming and it was safe, but they didn't expect that just after they arrived in Liuzhou, the governor of Liuzhou received a military report: Kunlun Town and Yongchang fell to the enemy!

Most of the frontier guards were killed in battle, the three were devoid of humanity, and all the villagers of eighteen nearby villages were slaughtered!

"What?" Li Xian turned pale after hearing this.

This kind of thing cannot be concealed. It is true that the frontier soldiers who came to pass the news were too tragic and covered with scars. When they ran to the gate of the city, they were only breathless. With just one sentence, he died in anger, his eyes widened and he was unwilling to do so.

The blood book army report was written by Captain Zhechong with his own blood. It contained some information, and it could be seen that it was in a hurry. After all, the other party came too suddenly. Nearly a thousand soldiers, large and small... none of them survived.

"This is wrong!" Li Xian looked at the battle report with a very ugly face.

The reason why he read the battle report is mainly... Liuzhou governor had asked for leave before to go back to his hometown to visit his relatives, but he is not here now, and Liuzhou has not set up a governor's mansion. If Li Xian is not there, the highest ranking in the whole prefecture is probably Zhechong prefect.Now that Li Xian is here, Zhechong Governor Shi knew that he couldn't hide it and didn't want to hide it, so he sent the battle report directly.

Holding the battle report, Li Xian was both angry and flustered, angry that the three tribes were devoid of humanity, and flustered... There is no one here who can help him make up his mind except him.

Gathering his mind, Li Xian first personally wrote a memorial, together with the blood letter, and sent people eight hundred miles to Tiantai Mountain, and then began to ask how many people Zhechong Mansion in Liuzhou could send.Captain Zhechong did not take all the soldiers of Zhechong Mansion away when he took people to fight the enemy. After counting, there are still more than 2000 soldiers left.

2000 people, Li Xian thought about it for a while. After the three parts in the previous battle report are combined, there will be about 500 people. This is because the number of people is not very large, so Captain Zhechong only brought 1000 people. Those [-] soldiers, plus the local frontier army, were enough to keep these people out of Kunlun Town.

In the end, no one expected...to get the result like today.

"Your Highness, please return to Beijing as soon as possible." Sima Tu suddenly knelt down and said.

Li Xian was thinking about what happened to make the guards so vulnerable. He was slightly taken aback when he heard Sima Tu's words, and looked down at Sima Tu with some hesitation.

He was in Kunlun Town before. If he hadn't left, he would have at least 500 palace guards with him, and the Qianniu Guards led by Sima Tu would have [-] people. Maybe the battle would be reversed... Of course not necessarily, Qianniu Niu Wei and the palace guards have been in Chang'an for a long time, and have never experienced bloody battles. They may not be as good as the frontier army on the battlefield, but...

Seeing Li Xian's hesitation, Wei Cheng clasped his fists and said, "My lord, since the military report has been submitted, the imperial court will send reinforcements in a few days. Don't worry too much, your lord. Now that your lord is in danger, ninety percent of the saints and ladies in the palace must be very worried." , it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, please leave early, Your Majesty."

Li Xian really wanted to leave, but he felt that it would be too useless to just leave like this. The next three films were plundering the Tang Dynasty, and he, the Prince of the Tang Dynasty, ran away after hearing the news. This... this is really too much Shame on me!

Wei Cheng and Sima Tu saw Li Xian's hesitation, and they tried their best to lobby Li Xian. It's not that they don't know the military situation is urgent, but let alone Li Xian, even Sima Tu, who is against Qianniuwei Zhonglang, It's useless to stay here. They are not ignorant of military affairs, but they may not be able to make good decisions.

What's more, the first task of the two of them is to protect the safety of His Royal Highness King Zhou. If something happens to King Zhou, even if the two of them really lead the troops to fight back the three parts, they will not have any good fruit.

Li Xian himself was a little hesitant. The most important thing was that Sima Tu and Wei Cheng implicitly expressed the meaning that it was useless for you to stay here. Li Xian had no choice but to make people prepare to continue his journey. This time, he simply didn't stop along the road and hurried back to Tiantai Mountain. Maybe he could report the battle report in person.

Wei Cheng and Sima Tu breathed a sigh of relief, turned their heads and began to urge them to pack up and leave quickly. Although they said they were packing up, they had only been here for two days, so there was no need for too much trouble, and they could leave the next day.

It's just that Li Xian huddled in the carriage when he was leaving, and he was very lethargic. He was clearly here, but he couldn't bring his future enemies to fight back.

He also has passion, and he also wants to defend his family and country, but he doesn't have that ability. Ordinary people who don't have this ability may harm himself, but he is a prince and prince. If he doesn't have this ability, he may kill many people.

He felt that Wei Cheng and Sima Tu probably meant the same thing: Your Highness, let's go, you are already helping if you don't make trouble here.

What else can Li Xian do?let's go.

It's just that no one expected that the enemy of the three divisions would come so quickly. As soon as Li Xian was about to leave the city, there was already news that the enemy was less than fifty miles away from Liuzhou.

The people in the city panicked instantly, and even Li Xian could feel the tension of the enemy while sitting in the carriage.It's just that Li Xian failed to leave after all. It's not that he couldn't leave, but that he...suddenly didn't want to leave.

Because when the carriage was driving, Li Xian suddenly heard a young child's voice from outside the carriage: "Aniang, is His Royal Highness King Zhou ignoring us?"

Li Xian didn't know why at the time, his heart was sore, his head became hot, and he directly ordered the accompanying guards to stay with him.

Wei Cheng and Sima Tu were about to vomit blood. They could persuade Li Xian to leave, but they couldn't kidnap him!

Li Xian stayed, Zhechong's governor Shi was both happy and worried, because if it was only him, if he wanted to dispatch so many soldiers, he might be dissatisfied. The captain... has already died in battle, and the military situation is urgent and waiting for the imperial edict...

In fact, Li Xian didn't leave suddenly because of this. He didn't think it was appropriate before, but because of Wei Cheng and Sima Tu, even if he knew about it, he couldn't say anything more. Now that he was going to stay, he just followed The two of them made it clear.

By the way, Li Xian added another sentence: "I won't force those who don't want to stay, you can leave first."

leave?Mother, who would dare.Their duty is to protect His Royal Highness King Zhou, oh, because there is an enemy attack, they are greedy for life and fear of death and leave His Royal Highness King Zhou here, and they will go back first... Isn't this courting death?

Even though Wei Cheng and Sima Tu were full of resentment, they didn't dare to say anything, but they were worried about their own safety in private.

Li Xian was calmer now, he had already stayed anyway, and the enemy had nothing to say at the moment, the most important thing was to get the latest information first.

At the moment, I sent scouts out of the city first, and then looked at the map. I have to say that the geographical location of Liuzhou is actually pretty good. A Liujiang River surrounds the entire Liuzhou to form a natural moat. It’s just that the three departments have been in the southwest for a long time. Since they dare to go all the way east, maybe it’s right here The location is very familiar.

From Li Xian's point of view, if he was the main general, he would definitely not attack Liuzhou easily, but now that they really seemed to be rushing to Liuzhou, then the other party probably had a certain chance of winning here.

Li Xian knew that the other party's target was probably the granary set up here in Liuzhou. It usually seemed that this kind of minority tribe suddenly launched an attack. A large part of the reason was that they had no food and were about to survive. Otherwise, it was only a few thousand troops... ...Although it sounds like a lot, it is not enough to deal with Datang.

Didn't you see that Tubo went west to fight north, and the countries in India did not dare to fight Datang?Hasn't it developed to the point where they feel that the time is ripe and the country is strong, so they dare to challenge?

These small tribes are probably really desperate, but...even if they are desperate, Li Xian doesn't intend to sympathize with them.People who are not of our race must have a different heart, sympathize with them, how can the captain Zhechong who died in the battle and a thousand soldiers feel so sorry?Where are the villagers who were massacred?

Li Xian directly asked Chang Shi to count the supplies and bows and arrows. He wanted to see if he could last for a few days, and then he began to write an apology. After all, he had crossed the line.

And then...he ordered the city to start collecting sulfur, saltpeter, and saponins.When Li Xian issued this order, Wei Cheng and Sima Tu were both stunned for a moment, and then they all beamed with joy—they all forgot before that the gunpowder was proposed by His Royal Highness King Zhou, and they developed it together with the people from the Ministry of Industry Yes, others say it's not good, but His Royal Highness King Zhou must know the formula!

Because they were invincible against Tubo before, the generals basically knew that gunpowder is a good thing, but unfortunately the formula of this thing is a first-class secret and must be kept secret, and the production of the Ministry of Industry must be strictly recorded. Those generals, others only know that this thing is very powerful, but no one knows how powerful it is.

But this does not hinder the stability of the army now. With such a big weapon in hand, Tubo is no problem, let alone the three departments?

Li Xian watched Wei Cheng and Sima Tu sweep away their frowning faces before, and happily ran to issue orders, while Li Xian, who was sitting on top and pretending to be extremely calm, smiled wryly in his heart.

This order is really... for the sake of stabilizing the army. In fact, even if there is gunpowder, how to use it is still a problem. The stability of such crudely made gunpowder is definitely not good, and the production of lead wires is not so easy, let alone how to use it. Use is also a problem.

Li Xian sighed slightly. This time he was in serious trouble. He knew it was dangerous but he stayed on. He was good at making gunpowder. If he could return to Chang'an safely, I don't know if he would take the initiative to shut the door and ponder over his mistakes. cool down?

Thinking of Chang'an, he thought of Zheng Qi, and thought of Zheng Qi's spirit of defending his home and country through life and death, he thought that he might not be able to compare with Zheng Qi in this life, but he always has his own strengths if he can't march in the formation. method.

Li Xian studied Liuzhou for a while, and soon the second batch of scouts came back, but the news they brought back made Li Xian instantly feel that God was just playing with him.

What do you mean there are thousands of enemies?Those three are not big tribes, and it is impossible for the three to have so many people!

Then...he knew why, the scouts got the news, although it was said that they were bandits from the three tribes, but in fact...many of the warriors from the three tribes were Tibetans, and even Tang people!

After Li Xian heard this, he immediately understood: Damn, my heart in Tang Dynasty will never die if Tubo dies!

Needless to say, the Tubo people, those Tang people may be the spies that Tubo placed in Datang, or they took the initiative to join Tubo, commonly known as... the leading party.

He said how Kunlun Town was defeated so quickly, but... what happened to the soldier who desperately came to report before?It was just said that there were more than 1000 people?Could it be that the rest of the people were hidden and added later?

Li Xian couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it anymore. It would be useful to step up his defense anyway. He looked at the map and then walked around the city wall, looked at the surrounding terrain, and turned his head to let Chang Shi went to recruit civilian husbands, and sent guards from the palace to carefully investigate to see if there were any suspicious people in the city. He was worried that there was also a leading party in Liuzhou.

When Sima Tu came back to report, he happened to hear a few words and couldn't help asking. Li Xian said calmly: "The number of enemies is unknown, so we can only prepare for the worst and recruit civilians to dig a hole in the ground."

dig a hole?Sima Tu was completely dumbfounded. He grew up reading military books and knew all kinds of preparations before the war. He prepared almost everything that Li Xian ordered and did not order before, but... what does it mean to dig a hole?Do you hide in when you feel that you can't hold on?

In this regard, Li Xian said that he should not talk about it for the time being. If Liuzhou can be defended in an upright manner, then these caves will be useless. power.

That's right, thinking about how difficult it was in the past, the rabbit still invented tunnel warfare. Although tunnel warfare is more suitable for the plains, now Li Xian can only adapt.

Strictly speaking, Liuzhou is a karst landform, which is more suitable for guerrilla warfare, but Li Xian is not someone who can lead troops into battle, even if he wanted to estimate Wei Cheng and Sima Tu, he would not.

From the very beginning, Li Xian had the idea of ​​defending Liuzhou and waiting for reinforcements. He never thought of fighting back. That's really unscientific.So let's forget about guerrilla warfare or something, and I can talk to Zheng Qi in detail in the future, but maybe Zheng Qi doesn't need it anymore?

Sima Tu looked at the change in Li Xian's expression. If Zheng Qi saw it, he would definitely find out where Li Xian had gone. It's just that Li Xian, who has been put on a deified shell, would be so in Sima Tu's eyes. It's really mysterious.

Li Xian didn't just ask people to dig tunnels. The karst landform is generally rocky and little soil, and it's all limestone. There are not many places suitable for digging tunnels. What's more, the time is too short. It is not easy to dig into a maze. It's very possible, the only thing that can be done is to dig as many roads as possible to the outside of the city, as far as possible, and then let some soldiers lie in ambush there, wait for the enemy soldiers to approach the city, and then kill him from behind to catch him off guard!

Of course, that is an ideal situation. The opponent will definitely set up camp far away from the city. It would be great if the tunnel can be dug there by then.

Li Xian's idea obviously made Wei Cheng and Sima Tu feel that it was rather novel. The most important thing is that it is not low in feasibility. The only thing to worry about is...

"My lord, what if the soldiers who go out fail? And let the Sanbu and Tubo Fans know where the tunnel is? We can go out through the tunnel, and they can also come in through the tunnel." At that time...the other party must drive straight in, And both of their defenses were gone.

Li Xian was actually thinking about this question, and finally he decided to go to the powder keg!The gunpowder barrel is naturally to put gunpowder in a wooden barrel. This is the most convenient way Li Xian came up with. Of course, there are limited wooden barrels in the city, and Li Xian has already sent someone to buy them. If the enemy finds the tunnel, then let them Withdraw your own people, ignite the gunpowder barrel when you withdraw, and blow up all the enemies who enter the tunnel to death!

Sima Tu fell silent, gunpowder...it really is a big killer, and it can be used in this way!

In this regard, Li Xian said that if there were landmines, he would plant [-] mines outside the city to form a minefield, so that the beasts would never come back!

Li Xian, who was busy digging tunnels to make explosives in Liuzhou, didn't know at all, because he and Zheng Qi were going crazy. The court had already received news from the three bandits, and began to discuss who would lead the troops to counter the rebellion.Zheng Qi didn't really want to fight for it at first. After all, he has been in the limelight recently. He was promoted from an ordinary official to a viscount, and then from a viscount to an earl in a short period of time. It is too eye-catching. He is still too young to rush Credit, to be honest, he is already very satisfied with his current achievements, and the next step is a little bit of steady work, military merit... almost enough.

But after hearing that there was a blood book in His Highness King Zhou's memorial, Zheng Qi smashed his favorite blue and white teacup to pieces.

Then... Zheng Qi turned around and typed an application: I want to lead troops to reinforce Liuzhou!