A rocket drew a beautiful golden arc and shot the grass roof of a stable on the north wall of the Central Suspension City.

The raging fire suddenly rose. Several thin horses in the stable neighed for a long time and broke the reins and rushed out of the stable, knocking down several horse breeders who tried to stop them. A small riot caused in the camp in the North City. Just as the soldiers were struggling to put out the fire, a flag-mounted messenger from the Hedong Army drove his horse to the bridgehead of the North City Suspension Bridge and shot an arrow without arrows on the top of the city. The letter soon came to the hands of Wang Ben, the commander of the Tiande Army.

In the letter, Liu Desan told Wang Ben that ordinary soldiers could only shoot rockets onto the stables under the city wall, but his longbow army could directly shoot rockets into Yacheng. Liu Desan didn't say anything else, but his meaning was clear. If he didn't surrender, he would just wait to be buried in the fire.

Wang Ben had seen the power of the Hedong Longbow Army rocket formation. It was ten years ago when he accompanied Wang Qian to send troops to encircle and suppress a group of bandits occupying Shengzhou. At that time, the Jiedu governor of Zhenwu Army died in civil strife. Shengzhou was occupied by a group of Shatuo bandits. Tiande Army and Hedong Army were ordered to send troops to conquer the enemy. Tiande Army used the navy to arrive at the city of Shengzhou first. Three thousand people attacked the city for three days but failed to break the city. Wang Qian was also hit by an arrow on his arm while commanding the battle.

Later, the two battalions of Hedong Army rushed to the city. One of them had two teams of Changgong Army, with only 300 people. The Shatu people refused to surrender with their high walls and deep moats. The Changgong Army was ordered to attack the two camps outside the city with rockets, and instantly turned the two camps into seas of fire. The Shatu people saw that the two most elite battalions of defenders turned into a pile of charred bones in just half an hour, and then opened the door to surrender, and were incorporated by the Hedong Army, becoming one of the top elite horse soldiers in the Hedong Army.

Wang Ben visited the two burned camps afterwards. The tragic scene still seems to be still scared. Later, due to the impeachment of the ministers, the emperor issued an order in the second year of Yamato to ask the Hedong Army to attack the city with rockets carefully. If it is indeed necessary, it must be reported to the Ministry of War for approval.

The former Hedong Jiedushi Yu Liangqiong was impeached and lost his official position by the Censor for using rockets without asking for instructions when he pacified the rebellion of the Daizhou Army. The successor Liu Qingling was very strict in using rockets. Therefore, the Hedong Army general understood the new tactics used by the Longbow Army and the Iron Shield Armor, suppressing the enemy with the Longbow Arrow, and then using the Iron Shield Armor to conquer the city and the village.

Wang Ben passed the letter to the army and asked, "Do you think you should surrender or fight?" Everyone shouted in unison, "Fight!" Wang Ben said, "Okay, then we will have a good battle with Grand Marshal Liu." He immediately replied to Liu Desan, and the letter only said one sentence: "Ben is loess, and the soil is not afraid of fire."

In order to guard against the rocket formation of the Longbow Army, Wang Ben ordered the demolition of all houses within a hundred feet of the city wall. Dozens of fire protection passages were dismantled from the middle of the inner city neighborhood, and the houses in the yard were divided into isolated small pieces to avoid the damage to the whole city due to a fire. In addition, Wang Ben ordered the cutting of all flowers and trees in the city, burying flammable objects into the ground, and at the same time, all households and new mud were required to apply the roof.

Most of the houses in Zhongshoujiang City were flat-topped earth-walled mud-roofed houses, and the people had the tradition of digging out cellars to store items. These two things were not difficult to do. The difficulty was that when demolishing houses and building fire protection passages, there were great households inciting the people to refuse to demolish the house. Wang Ben walked around with a sledgehammer in his hand. When he met those big households who refused to demolish the house, he first drew a circle with white powder on his wall. He swung the hammer and smashed several holes, and then asked the soldiers to push them down immediately. In this way, who dared not to obey?

The city prepares for war day and night, and the Hedong Army outside the city is also practicing day and night, and is being killed by the underworld of the surrendered city.

Liu Desan, commander of the Hedong Army, felt a little numb and indifferent to the current situation. A few days ago, he received a handwritten letter from the Hedong Jiedushi Liu Qingling to return to the army to rescue Shuozhou. Previously, the headquarters of Hedong Town had written to him back to the army to rescue Shuozhou twice, but he suppressed them. This is not to say that Liu Desan was born to disobey, but the situation in the Tiande Army had entered a stalemate and was unable to get out of his way. But this time it was different. Liu Qingling sent his own housekeeper to send him a handwritten letter. In this letter, Liu Qingling only talked about personal friendship and never talked about official affairs, but Liu Desan understood the implicit intention between the lines.

This time, he could not push it away. The Xi people went south to attack Hedong in large numbers, which was different from the "grass-killing valley" of Baishui Fox. At first, the Baishui Fox was harassing the border for money. As for his ambitions and intentions to occupy the land of Tiande Army, it was completely the result of the intrigue of the Hedong advisers such as Qu Chuji. The intention was nothing more than to muddle the water of Tiande Army and take the action of taking Li in the fire.

The Xi people's trip south this time had a more complicated background. Although Liu Desan could not determine which forces were involved. One thing is certain that the Xi people and Hedong were just tools for some people to fight.

The white water fox is a disease of tinea scabies, but the worries are a concern.

He could disobey the official documents of the headquarters of Hedong Town, but he had to follow Liu Qingling's handwritten letter. The former was an official article made by the military bureaucratic system of the Tang Dynasty, and the latter was Liu Qingling's true attitude. Liu Desan was a border general of the Tang Dynasty, but he was also Liu Qingling's family general. The family general could only be responsible to the head of the family. This is the foundation of all family generals' life and must not be violated.

If there is no internal worry, you can calm the external troubles. If the internal worry arises, you can only let it go temporarily.

Liu Desan has tried his best to hide the news that the Xi people besieged Shuozhou. Of course, he also knew that there was no airtight wall in the world. Unless everyone was deaf, blind, mute, and dementia at the same time, no matter how strict the prevention measures were taken, they would eventually fail. In fact, with the unremitting efforts of the Xining Military Intelligence Office, the news that Shuozhou was besieged is now basically an open secret. It was just that in the face of pressure, no one dared to speak.

The head of the family was caught in internal disputes, and the soldiers must retreat. The Tiande Army could not be rejected, but Shuozhou could not be abandoned. Liu Qingling had already expressed this very clearly in the letter. Although the overly cautious general of the border town did not mention the word "retreat" in the letter, the anxiety that spread between the lines had already made Liu Desan, who claimed that he was still unmoved.

But how easy is it to retreat? Those great victories that seemed to be happy to outsiders did not make much sense to Liu Desan's opinion. He did seize many passes and defeated the Xining Army, the most powerful of the three alliances, and even once even their head coach Yang Hao was his own prisoner.

But what does this mean? Yang Hao is still alive, and his Xining army is still in the Tiande army. At best, he is just knocked down. Being beaten down and being defeated are two completely different concepts.

This is like two boxers who are right. Even if you hit your opponent seventy or eighty punches, as long as he is still standing and can still clench his fists, you cannot determine that you will win, because he may give you a fatal blow at any time.

Liu Desan felt more and more like an energetic lion, but suddenly entered a valley, but his strength was nowhere to be used. As his patience and strength were exhausted, the danger became greater and greater.

"Master, Changbow Camp arrived at the order." The Chief Staff's words interrupted Liu Desan's thoughts.

"Let them in."

Six capable young generals walked in side by side, their voices loud and neat: "I am not good at the commander."

Liu Desan smiled and waved his hand: "No more call him the Grand Marshal in the future. There is only one Grand Marshal in Hedong, and that is the Grand Marshal." After saying this, Liu Desan signaled everyone to sit down. What a glory it is to be able to sit with his beloved head coach and discuss matters. The six generals sat upright.

"Do you know the purpose of asking you to come?" Liu Desan asked kindly.

"Using the name of siege, we gathered our troops to return to the army to rescue Shuozhou." Xiong Wuguo, the six men, stood up and replied.

Liu Desan nodded with satisfaction, and he signaled Xiong Wuguo to sit down: "Someone took advantage of my main force's opportunity to go out and stab us in the back. The general asked me to return to help. After thinking about it, you can only go there with grievances." Liu Desan kept his eyebrows down and seemed a little helpless when he said these words.

"Master, please rest assured. After the siege of Shuozhou, the people of Xiong Wuguo immediately returned to the headquarters." Xiong Wuguo said loudly. The six generals stood up to show their loyalty: "If there is no cultivation of the general, there will be no humble position today. Today, Huye swears to follow the general to the death."

After hearing this, Liu Desan's eyes were a little wet. He looked at the young generals he had cultivated through hardships. He bowed and said, "I'll give it to everyone."

After seeing off the six people, Liu Desan suddenly felt a little lost. He ran to the camp gate, climbed up the tower, and looked at the backs of the six people who were away without moving for a long time. The guard Lao Mo held a basin of hot water downstairs and shouted: "Hey, I'll go away, I can't see it."

Liu Desan smiled, his legs weakly went downstairs to look at the old army who had been with him for 38 years, and laughed, unable to hide his loss.

"I can't bear to leave, so I'll leave them to stay for a few more days." Old Mo grinned.

Liu Desan smiled and said, "Hey, do you think you are spending your life at home? 100,000 soldiers and civilians over there are waiting for them to help their lives."

"If you really go to help your life, you should send the horse army. They will not be able to arrive until the year of the Monkey and Horse Month?"

Lao Mo's seemingly unintentional words made Liu Desan a little embarrassed. Yes, why should I send the Changbow Army to rescue the siege? They can easily destroy a city, but when facing the enemy's cavalry alone, they even have difficulty protecting themselves. The Xi people who besieged the city were famous for their powerful iron cavalry. Of course, Liu Desan had his own considerations to do this, and he was not convenient to tell Lao Mo about these. This was a secret hidden in his heart.

Lao Mo put down the copper basin and took out a small cowhide bag, which contained several simple dough-crushing knives. For more than 30 years, he used these knives to repair dough for Liu Desan. Because he grinded too many times, the razor was deformed.

Liu Desan lay on the soft chair and closed his eyes comfortably. His beard grew very fast, so he had to ask Lao Mo to repair the second face every few days. The beautiful bearded man looked at Haomai, but it was troublesome to take care of his beard. Liu Desan was unwilling to spend that effort.

Lao Mo covered him with dirty cloth and twisted a hot towel to apply it to his face.

"I'm still thinking about your sons?" Looking at Liu Desan's unconscious appearance, Lao Mo thought he was still thinking about the six people who had just left. These six people were all orphans adopted by Liu Desan, and they were not much worse than their own sons.

Liu Desan snorted coldly and asked with a smile: "Your son is outside, don't you want to?"

Lao Mo laughed and didn't answer. He had been following Liu Desan for most of his life and had not married.

"Report——" The sound of scouts came from outside the tent, and somehow the sound sounded very harsh.

Liu Desan suddenly sat up. Lao Mo was not careful and the face-crushing knife in his hand cut a bloody hole in Liu Desan's face.

Unaware of this, Liu Desan lifted off the dirty cloth and asked the scout hurriedly: "How is it?"

"Yang Hao joined forces with Wutu tribes and the five barbarians and black tribes, led 15,000 troops and went south in three directions, breaking our thirteen camps in succession. The vanguard had arrived at Duliang Village."

"Duliangzhai..." Lao Mo took a breath. When he was facing Liu Desanxiu three days ago, he heard that Yang Hao, who had been defeated, ran to the barbarians in the north to borrow troops, but he didn't expect to come back so quickly.
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