Tang Dynasty Never Night

Li Xian was really caught off guard by the other party. He had already made up his mind to stay here and fight the other party to the death, but when he turned around, he stopped playing with him and took the team to play with the governor of Lizhou. Li Xian was almost worried died.

"Is there any news from the imperial court? When will the reinforcements arrive and who will lead them?" Li Xian was anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

I don't know what the court is talking about. There has been no movement until now. Li Xian didn't have much confidence in defending Liuzhou. Now they have opened up a second battlefield... This dungeon is too difficult. I just want to split it. Refund in minutes.

Sima Tu just said: "There is no news from the imperial court yet, and then they came eight hundred miles away in a hurry."

After Li Xian knew that Li Zhi had appointed Zheng Qi as the head of the Jiannan Road march, Li Xian felt at ease for a moment, but it was also a bit complicated-the two people who had been going around were going to meet again.

But... Zheng Qi is coming, so he has to work harder to hold the line of defense, at least he can't let the other party see him running around being chased by those barbarians, right?How embarrassing!

Li Xian calmed down for a moment before asking: "Since the opponent is going to focus on Lizhou, do you think we should send some troops to support Lizhou?"

Wei Cheng and Sima Tu looked at each other and shook their heads, Li Xian was a little surprised: "Aren't you going to help them?"

Sima Tu had no choice but to say: "Your Highness, although the opponent has divided their troops, there are still some soldiers on the opposite side of the Liujiang River. There are not many soldiers in Liuzhou City, and it is estimated that they are barely on par with the opponent. I'm afraid it will fall into the enemy's hands."

Wei Cheng nodded. Although the other party was beaten back by the storm twice before crossing the river, this matter...is too mysterious. No one can guarantee that it will rain next time. What if the other party crosses the river when the sky is clear Woolen cloth?Liuzhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack. There is no big mistake in being careful.

Li Xian also felt that it made sense, but he was still worried about Lizhou. Wei Cheng had been with him for a long time. Zhu Zhu said: "Your Majesty, there is a governor in Lizhou who is in charge. He must know all kinds of situations in Lizhou very well. He also said in the previous letter that he must be on strict guard. If he can't resist and wants to come to Lizhou, the governor will definitely come for help. .We rashly led our troops there, maybe...it might arouse the other party's vigilance...now it's better to be quiet than to move."

Arouse the other party's alert?Li Xian was stunned for a moment and then realized, oh my god, I almost forgot, the situation here is different from that in the Central Plains.

What Wei Cheng said had aroused the other party’s alert is still related to Datang’s policies. Although there is no such thing as minority autonomous regions in Datang, they have already done so. The policies of minority regions are the same as other places, but different. It is the official appointment.The right to appoint officials in the Central Plains is controlled by the Ministry of Officials, while the minority areas are generally controlled by the Duhufu. The Duhufu weighs the pros and cons and selects the leaders of those ethnic minorities to appoint officials.

The governor of Lizhou is a native of Lizhou and the leader of the Puzi tribe next to Lizhou. For him, although Lizhou is Lizhou of the Tang Dynasty, it is more like Lizhou of his family, so no matter how you look at it, he will Those who guarded Lizhou, and if they led troops there, the governor of Lizhou might worry that the imperial court would take the opportunity to take back this land.

When Li Xian thought of this, he didn't say anything at all, but sent someone to send a message to Lizhou governor, telling him to be careful.As for the bomb... Even if he wanted to, he couldn't give it. If he really gave it to Lizhou Governor, he would really die.

Even now, Li Xian is worried about what will happen to those ordinary people whom he temporarily pulls to prepare gunpowder. If the rebellious tribes know about it, what will happen then may happen.

So those people have been strictly guarded by him and their families.

Li Xian's mind was a little confused, Wei Cheng and Sima Tu didn't speak, to be honest... don't say that Li Xian didn't know what to do, they didn't know what to do, even though Sima Tu still had the title of Qianniuwei Zhonglang , but they have never been on the battlefield. After all, the family conditions are good, and the family does not need them to work hard.

Li Xian thought for a while and suddenly said: "It doesn't matter if the other party really wants to attack Lizhou or is just trying to attack the west, it's not a problem for us to hide like this."

Sima Tu immediately asked: "What does Your Highness mean?" Take it easy, fighting a war is not a trifling matter.

Li Xian pursed his lips and said, "The gunpowder that is prepared now is not stable, not as good as explosives, and it is not safe to always bury it outside the city. Let them cross the river. Now the opponent's combat power is comparable to ours. Instead Worrying day and night is worse than breaking it with one blow!"

As the saying goes, there are thousands of days to be thieves, but there are no thousand days to guard against thieves. Even if those people are stationed on the other side of the Liujiang River, they are enough to make the soldiers in the city unable to eat or sleep. When the spirit is gone, it is even more impossible to win.

Of course, before that, they have to do one more thing - the evacuation of the common people. In fact, this has been done before, but there are not many residents in Liuzhou, but there are quite a few. Let them relocate, and you have to Find them a place to go. Before, Li Xian wrote to the governor of Yaozhou asking him to take in the people of Liuzhou. Since he didn't receive a reply from the other party, he didn't dare to move. He just asked his subordinates to inform the people to prepare to leave Liuzhou.

Now the governor of Yaozhou has replied, saying that he is ready to receive the people of Liuzhou, so Li Xian told everyone to move quickly.

What he didn't expect was that although some people were willing to leave, more people were unwilling to leave.Those who are willing to leave are country gentry with some family property, and those who are unwilling to leave are mostly poor people, and a large part of them are old people. In their words, it is hard to leave their homeland first, after all, they were born here and grew up here. , and no matter where they go, they will be like this. Even if they go to Yaozhou, they may not be able to survive. If they stay in Liuzhou, if Liuzhou is saved, at least they still have land. Now that they leave, they really have nothing.

After hearing this, Li Xian let out a long sigh and could only ignore it. He is now closely observing the situation on the other side.

And the three leaders are also discussing whether to cross the river. To be honest, they are about to be frightened by the strange celestial phenomenon before. If there are not some Tubo people staying here to watch, they might go back without saying a word Yes, it's really... too weird.

But those Tubo people have been urging their warriors to cross the river and attack the city. The three leaders gritted their teeth with hatred but dared not resist. They knew that they were being used as a shield, but so what?They were not brave and resourceful people in the first place, if that was the case, they would not have made the decision to attack Datang under the impulse of Lun Qinling's few words.

Now it's hard to get off the tiger, and for their own safety, they have to lead troops to cross the river, so... let's fight again, if God doesn't let them cross the river this time, even if they die this time, they can't risk getting angry again The danger of heaven obeyed the Tibetans.

The decision of the three chiefs was naturally resisted by the tribal warriors, but after Lun Qinling's confidant Ai Zhe suppressed it with a few bloody heads, no one dared to say anything.

Everyone was trembling when they crossed the river for the third time, especially when they got to the middle of the river. However, the weather was fine and the river crossing was smooth from the beginning to the end. The combination of them coming together actually destroyed all the ships!

The chiefs of the three ministries glared at him, but He Zhe smiled without hesitation: "The chiefs don't need to be angry. After Liuzhou is occupied, will the few return to the place where the conditions are difficult? There are wine and women in that city." I even heard that the prince of the Tang Dynasty is also there, if he can be caught, are you afraid that the Tang Dynasty will not give money to redeem their prince?"

The leaders of the three ministries dared not speak out against He Zhe, but of course what He Zhe said was listened to. Didn't they come to attack Datang because of the resources here?Food, wine, beauties, gold, silver and treasure, as well as rich land, are what they yearn for.

Now that they have crossed the river, the leaders of the three tribes looked at each other. Many warriors in their tribes can make boats. It is no problem if the big boats are not small boats, as long as they can attack Liuzhou...

Perhaps because the successful crossing of the river boosted morale, the three warriors did not look so depressed, and their obedience to the leader also increased.

At the same time, Li Xian stood on the city wall and clenched his fists nervously: "Are they going ashore? Are the catapults ready?"

Wei Cheng replied: "General Sima Lang has already gone to make arrangements, Your Majesty, the city wall is dangerous, please go to the back to take shelter temporarily."

Li Xian raised his eyebrows: "When the soldiers approached the city, what difference would it make if I hid behind the city and fled when I abandoned the city? The soldiers were fighting desperately in front. I don't have the skills to go to the battlefield, but I can't make such a cowardly move."

Of course, the real situation is that Li Xian has to look at the results of tunnel warfare and mine warfare before adjusting their military plan.It has to be said that if Zheng Qi doesn't come again, Li Xian will really be overwhelmed. There are no generals who are good at using troops in Liuzhou City, and all the arrangements are made by Li Xian, Wei Cheng and Sima Tu.

No matter what Li Xian thinks, he thinks it is a bit of a joke, but there is no way, their experience is limited, although Li Xian was forced by Zheng Qi to read military books for a long time, but he can't even do it well on paper, but Li Xian dare not pray for rain anymore .

He told Wei Cheng and Sima Tu that he wanted to destroy these barbarian bureaucrats, which seemed to be just a sign of great success, but in fact, what he didn't dare to say was... if it rains again, the Liujiang River will be flooded!

When the flood comes, Liuzhou City may be in disaster without the other party's hands. He has no choice but to bite the bullet and fight. Fortunately, Tubo took most of the people to attack Lizhou, otherwise he would think about Don't surrender for the sake of the people in the city, and then commit suicide and die for the country.

Fortunately, things didn't go bad to that point, and when the three warriors and Hezhe led the soldiers all the way, they saw the dilapidated catapult. The most important thing is that there is only one car, and he folded it for a moment and said with a mocking smile: "Everyone has also seen that the Tang people are short of troops, and they can't stop our pace! Warriors, for a better life, go forward Go!"

Although it was far away, Li Xian vaguely heard He Zhe's words. His hands were sweating profusely, his underwear was soaked in cold sweat, and his throat was a little thirsty. Seeing those barbarians rushing towards him, Li Xian Calculating their distance little by little.

The people in the three departments thought that Datang didn't have many troops and dared not go out of the city to meet the enemy, but only dared to stay in the city to guard against death. None of them thought that when they were about to get under the city wall, the dilapidated catapult suddenly moved , and then threw a fireball, just when they felt that Tang Jun's actions were inexplicable, the fireball fell to the ground, and then... the three parts suddenly exploded, and before the fight started, the three parts had already damaged countless warriors, A quarter of the more than [-] people went at once.

These landmines are actually...not real mines, they are powder kegs. Li Xian asked people to bury them in the ground, but how they were detonated almost made him worry to death. In the end, he could only choose a seemingly unreliable method, which was to directly Make a fireball with oil and a lot of dry grass and throw it over, because Li Xian carefully calculated when he buried the gunpowder barrel, so as long as one detonates, the others will also detonate, even if two of them don't explode, it doesn't matter. As long as you can give the other party a slap in the face.

Although he was far away, standing on the city wall, Li Xian still felt the ground tremble, and the place where the three barbarians were located was already full of yellow sand, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

The power of gunpowder made Wei Cheng and Sima Tu look straight ahead, not to mention them, even the soldiers defending the city of Liuzhou opened their mouths and didn't react for a while.

It was still Li Xian who came back to his senses quickly, but...it was useless. He planned to use the buried gunpowder barrel to blow up a wave first, and then let the soldiers ambushing in the tunnel kill them from behind. The soldiers had already ambushed below, waiting for the signal from above - the signal Li Xian chose was the war drum, and of course the way to beat the war drum was different from usual, but now... Li Xian no longer knew how to proceed up.

He completely forgot that the land used to bury the gunpowder barrels had been loosened. Although the tunnel was not affected due to the depth of the excavation, but now...the air is cloudy and the sight is blocked, even if the soldiers are allowed to go out, it will only take a while. You can't find the enemy, and maybe you will hurt your own people.

Li Xian hesitated for a moment. He knew that the battlefield was changing rapidly, so it was best to make a quick decision, but he really couldn't make this decision.

Sima Tu and Wei Cheng glanced at each other. They were both inexperienced, and they never thought that the gunpowder keg would cause such consequences.

Li Xian struggled for a while before saying: "Send someone over there and tell the soldiers in the tunnel to stand still and wait for the signal, and let the archers prepare!"

With such low visibility, let's start with a wave of long-range strikes. He has three hundred archers in his hand. Even with their eyes closed, these archers can shoot a few barbarians, right?Killing one is one, anyway, there is no battle damage on their side now.

So He Zhe, who was dizzy by the bomb, and the three leaders hadn't figured out how many people they had lost on their side, a wave of arrows came over there.

The most deceitful thing is that this wave of arrow rain is also carrying fire. He Zhe is the first to react. He directly gathers his soldiers. These soldiers follow him through life and death. After hearing the general's order, they quickly gathered the team and counted the number of people.

Compared with the well-trained Tubo soldiers, the Sanbu side is already in chaos and there is no way to watch it. The most deceitful thing is that the leader of the Wangbu was poked in the forehead by the arrow rain just now, and he died before he left the army. So now there are only two leaders left, and the soldiers of Wangbu are at a loss.

He Zhe saw that the situation was chaotic and the forced siege of the city was far from what he expected, so he made a decisive decision: "Gather the team together and retreat to the riverside to set up camp first!"

In such a chaotic situation, if someone had an idea, everyone would subconsciously follow the order regardless of who he was, not to mention the decision to make a compromise seemed to relieve the three warriors at the time.

Li Xian stood on the city wall and watched them retreat, not only did not heave a sigh of relief, but his expression was a bit dignified.

Wei Cheng looked at Li Xian and asked cautiously, "Your Majesty?"

Li Xian sighed: "The next step is the tough battle."

He had been lucky enough to hope that the other party would come to attack the city. After being bombarded with explosives, the morale of the army there was absolutely disorganized. If those people came to attack the city, Li Xian could still grit his teeth and let the soldiers go out to meet the enemy, but he didn't Thinking that the opponent is so cautious, it also shows that there should be a general with a much higher rank than him leading the army.

Li Xian had also learned about the situation of the three tribes before. The leaders of these three tribes were not talented people who could make the right decision to withdraw troops in an instant... I'm afraid they were from the Tubo side.

Li Xian's preoccupation only lasted for a moment. Anyway, now that they have won once, in order to boost the morale of the army, he has to be happy. However, after returning to the Governor's Mansion, the worry on his face cannot be dispelled.

When Li Xian returned to the Governor's Mansion, he received a letter from Zheng Qi. When he heard that the letter was written by Zheng Qi, Li Xian seemed a little nervous. After calming down, he opened the letter with a bamboo knife.Wei Cheng and Sima Tu next to him were puzzled, and they didn't understand why His Royal Highness King Zhou was so solemn.

After Li Xian opened the letter, he felt that his whole body had been poured with cold water. Zheng Qi wrote a sentence on the letter: Reinforcements will arrive in three days. Your Majesty, please take care.

If you say a few more words, you will die!Li Xian told everyone the good news with some resentment. When they heard that Zheng Qi would arrive with reinforcements in three days, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Before that, everyone was hanging in the air, although defending the city today looks very difficult. It's easy, but that's because they caught the opponent by surprise. They have to be careful tonight. Such a tug-of-war is undoubtedly exhausting, especially a tug-of-war with no hope in sight.

Now... three days, as long as they can last for three days and wait for the reinforcements to arrive.To be honest, although the king of Zhou can somewhat stabilize the morale of the army here, the influence of a prince without any achievements is limited, but Zheng Qi is different. He went to Tubo twice and was named uncle with military merits. He has never had a defeat , These items are enough for everyone to sleep well tonight.

Li Xian saw that the atmosphere in the city was different, and he felt all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred. He had always known that Zheng Qi was strong, but he did not expect that he was already so strong in the hearts of the people.

It's just that Li Xian didn't dare to relax a bit, the guards were still very tight at night, and he called everyone for a meeting, and then roughly estimated whether all the powder kegs buried outside the city had exploded.

Because I was taken aback by the earth-shaking scene at that time, everyone didn't count, but judging from the vague figures provided by several people, there were probably two or three barrels that did not explode. Li Xian thought about it and directly With a wave, let people prepare the rocket overnight, well, the arrow with fire may be able to detonate the remaining gunpowder barrels by then.

Li Xian didn't say much that night. He just waited for the whole night, and then found...the opposite side was very quiet, and there was no sneak attack at all, which made Li Xian a little strange.

He never imagined that the other party was already frightened by him. He failed to cross the river twice before, and now he suddenly encountered a minefield. They kept saying that Datang was blessed by the heavens, and the gods were punishing them.

That is to say, people like Li Xian who know gunpowder very well don't take gunpowder seriously. Let alone the three warriors, the common people in the Celestial Dynasty are wondering whether the landmines were caused by some kind of sacrifice made by King Zhou again. In the era of underdeveloped science and technology, all unexplainable things can naturally be pushed to miracles.

Hezhe was pissed off by those two tribes. He had fought against Tang Jun, so he knew the power of explosives, but he didn't see many explosives in Tang Jun's formation at that time. He guessed that Tang Jun didn't have many of them. Who would have thought that such a small city of Liuzhou would store so much?Could it be... is this a bait set by Tang Jun?

He Zhe gathered his subordinates, and by the way, also incorporated the warriors of Wangbu into the army, and then asked them to be the vanguard to attack the city before dawn the next day. He wanted to see how much gunpowder the opponent still had to squander.

Li Xian greeted the combined attack with trepidation, and at the same time Zheng Qi was leading his troops on a frantic journey. Li Xian had sent him a copy of the military report before, knowing that the other party ignored it, but at the same time stepped up Speeding up the marching speed, nothing doesn't mean nothing has happened all the time. As a result, he never expected that when he hurried to get there, he still received the news that Li Xian was injured.