Chapter 139 Jueling Eagle Slaughter (III)

As the New Year approaches, Chang'an is particularly lively. In mid-December, Li Linfu announced the letter from Dugu Hao, the transferee of Jianghuai Capital, to the Chang'an court and country. After the river water thawed, four million stones of rice were transported to Chang'an. The rice prices in Chang'an fell sharply. The grain shops and wealthy families of major rice garrisons sold their rice garrisons. The rice prices fell straight from 160 cigarettes to 70 cigarettes of rice. The people's hearts were stable and the public security improved.

Li Longjilong was very happy and issued an order to start from the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month until New Year's Eve. The temple will not be closed on the night of Chang'an, and the capital will celebrate the New Year. On the night of the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, Li Longji feasted his ministers at Xingqing Palace to celebrate the New Year.

The hall of Xingqing Hall is towering, wide and deep, and can accommodate 5,000 people to eat at the same time. At this moment, the hall is steaming and the music is melodious. Teams of dancers are in the hall, and the eunuchs are busy serving vegetables and wine. The long skirts are like the wind and their steps are light. Li Longji has not arrived yet, and the banquet has not officially begun. The officials of the Tang Dynasty sit at the table and whisper, communicating strange stories and the latest romances in various places. Today's banquet is also an informal banquet. In addition to officials, the princesses, princesses, county lords and princes of the Li clan also attended, but the most eye-catching ones are more than ten members of the Yang family sitting in the royal family, the three sisters of the Yang family, as well as Yang Li, Yang Qi, Yang Zhu and Yang Zhao, who have just returned to Beijing to report their duties, have their waists straighter than ordinary ministers.

Lady Yang Huahua, the eldest and second sisters, sat among a group of princesses and county lords. In recent months, Yang Huahua's power has soared. Not only can she enter and exit the ban at will, but she usually immediately criticizes what letter she gives to Li Longji, "Should you do it!" Yang Huahua has one of her biggest hobbies, which is to be a matchmaker, especially likes to be a matchmaker for princes and princesses. After obtaining Li Longji's permission, her hobbies gradually became her power. Whoever the princess wants to marry and who the princesses wants to marry must be approved by her. Yang Huahua is not an unreasonable person. The key is how much money the princes and princesses spend to bribe her reason.

Today, Yang Huahua dressed up particularly beautifully today, wearing a cloud bun, wearing a bright yellow narrow-sleeved short shirt with a bright yellow and a green long skirt with a green embroidered belt on her waist, and her face was not covered with pink. She was very gorgeous. She was squinting and listening to the flattery of the princesses. When she glanced at the second sister, the Korean lady Yang Yuzhu, with a sad face, she smiled and said, "Second sister, are you worried about Ningbi's affairs again?"

Yang Yuzhu's daughter is Cui Ningbi. She is fifteen years old this year and has an ordinary appearance. Yang Yuzhu is determined to let her marry into the royal family, but her fourth sister Yang Yuhuan firmly objected. This incident made Yang Yuzhu very distressed. She sighed and said, "What's the solution? The Empress does not agree."

A trace of disdain flashed in Yang Huahua's eyes and said, "It doesn't matter if she doesn't agree. Who do you like among these princes? I'll make the decision for you."

Yang Yuzhu's eyes lit up. She had known that her third sister was very good, and maybe she could really succeed. She immediately smiled and said, "Okay! Let me think about it and tell the third sister in a few days."

At this moment, a loud shout came from afar: "His Majesty the Emperor is here!"

The hall was silent suddenly. Li Longji and Yang Yuhuan slowly walked into the side door surrounded by a large group of guards. The two stopped in front of the main position. The ministers stood up and bowed together and said, "I will meet with His Majesty the Emperor! Meet the Empress!"

"Dear everyone!"

Li Longji was a little absent-minded. He had just received an urgent report from Longyou that Geshuhan had launched the Shibao City Battle as scheduled and planned to take down Shibao City before noon today. For this reason, he specially ordered the eunuch Wang Xianzhong, the military supervisor stationed in Longyou, to send a letter to Feige to write at any time in the battle situation in Shibao City, but now it is already evening, and Feige's letters should be delivered. Li Long basically came to wait in the imperial study room, but because he was going to attend the banquet, he had to come in a hurry.

The court officials sat down, and Li Longji picked up a glass of wine and said, "Today I have been paying attention to the battle of Shibao City. Shibao City should have achieved success in the past two days. Since the Tang Dynasty lost Shibao City in the 29th year of Kaiyuan, in order to regain Shibao City, the soldiers have repeatedly set out to fight, but have been defeated repeatedly. This time, I mobilized 150,000 troops to attack Shibao City, and made up my mind to regain it. At all costs, it is the New Year that is approaching, and every family is reunited and harmonious, and enjoy the peace of the prosperous times. But I miss the soldiers who fought bloody battles for my Tang Dynasty. For this first glass of wine, I will honor the soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country, and hope that their spirits under the spring can rest in peace."

After saying that, he slowly sprinkled the wine under his feet.

At the same time as the grand banquet was held in Xingqing Hall, the battle in Shibao City had entered the most critical moment. Heavy snow became the best cover for the Tang army. No one was seen twenty steps away. The Tubo army had been rushing into the stone road of Shibao City before they found that the rolling wood and stones were smashed over the sky. More than 200 mountain roads had no time to dodge and were smashed down from the cliff by huge rocks, screaming endlessly.

In the stone path, four hundred vanguards of the Modao Army were blocked by large stones and huge trees and could not climb up. The stones on their heads were smashed like heavy rain, and more than 80 people were killed in a moment.

Li Siye's eyes were red with anger. He shouted loudly and waved his knife to split a giant tree. Deputy General Tian Zhen carried it with his head and shoulders, and pushed the big stone hard. A gap finally appeared between the several huge rocks.

Li Siye slashed down with two swords, and the powerful knife force cut a big crack. He pushed hard, and the big stone that blocked the road was finally pushed away. Tang Jun rushed upwards. Seeing that the situation was extremely critical, Shibao City general manager Tieben Sinoro yelled, "Kill!"

With a wave of the spear, he led hundreds of Tubo troops to attack the stone road. The Tang army and the Tubo army fought bloody battles in the stone road. The Tang army's sword could not exert the power of large-scale chopping in the narrow stone road, and became a close fight with the Tubo army. The Tubo army was almost crazy and no longer threw stones. They came out all their lives and fought to the death with the Tang army.

The soldiers of the two armies bit with their teeth, slashed with knives, and stabbed with daggers. The stone path became a slaughterhouse and the entrance to hell. Countless people died in despair. Their bodies were squeezed in the middle, placed under their feet, and blood flowed into a river, dyeing the stone walls on both sides red. The Tang army advanced step by step towards the mountain step by step. Every step they took had to pay the price of the death of countless soldiers.

Tieben Sinuoluo was so anxious that he yelled at the sky, "Our reinforcements! When will it be until we arrive?"

The reinforcements of Tubo were less than five miles away from Shibao City, but the mountain road was less than five miles, which became the road to death for the Tubo people. The main army of 80,000 Tubos was intercepted by 3,000 Tang troops. After a day and one night of fierce battle, the Tubo people had already killed more than 30,000 people, including Da Xiang Shang Jiexi and dozens of senior officials, were killed on the spot. The Tubo Zamp Chizu Dezan was seriously injured. Even the main general Dazalu Gong was injured. The Tubo people paid an extremely tragic price.

The third line of defense of the Tang army was located on a huge cliff, winding up from a mountain road about seven feet wide, with a straight line of 300 steps away. However, the mountain road under the cliff was three miles long. The long and narrow road brought disadvantages to the Tubo army's attack. But at the same time, the place where it can accommodate was extremely narrow. The Tang army could only invest 300 people at one time, and there was no cover for cover. This terrain that was not good for both sides brought huge casualties to both sides. The only thing that was beneficial to the Tang army was the weather. The strong mountain wind stopped, and heavy snow covered Chiling. There was no sign of people twenty steps away.

Zanpu's serious injury made Dazalugong hate the Tang army to the core. He invested 30,000 troops to attack and issued a strict order: He would never retreat until all the Tang army was killed.

Snow is flying everywhere, killing sounds shake the sky, and the smoke from gunpowder explosion fills the mountain road. The dense Tubo army charges upward wave after wave, killing one group of people again and again. There is no choice or retreat, and there is only one destination, death.

The Tubo soldiers were corpsed on the mountain road, and they were piled up layer by layer, so they became bunkers for the attack of the Tubo army behind them. The deaths were rotated in the wailing, endlessly.

But on a slightly gentle mountain rock in the middle of the mountain road, hundreds of Tubo troops opened new roads with hammers and chisels. Large scattered rocks peeled off. They stepped forward step by step, and a new road leading to the valley was gradually opened up.

On the cliff, the Tang army suffered heavy casualties. The stones were smashed and most of the arrows were shot. The ending of the annihilation of the entire army approached them step by step, leaving only eight hundred people left.

The overwhelming arrows made the Tang army unable to raise their heads. The ridges were covered with Tang army corpses, mostly shot by arrows. More than 300 Tang army lie on the ground, using side shooting posture to resist the Tubo army's new round of attack.

Their arrows were like locusts, forming a net of arrows. The powerful arrows shot into the gray snow fog, piercing the Tubo people's shields. Screams in the mountain road came one after another, but in the same way, dense arrows were shot out from the mountain road, whizzing past the Tang army.

With a scream, a young Tang army was shot through the eyes by an arrow, and the wolf teeth were penetrated into the head. He died tragically on the spot. Another muffled scream was that a Tang army sat up with his throat, and an arrow shot through his throat. He looked extremely painful and gasped. But as soon as he sat up, three arrows shot into his chest at the same time, fell to the sky, his eyes wide open, staring at the flying snow in the sky without any sense.

Li Qing'an's bow was broken. He held the shield in his left hand and the knife in his right hand, and half-squatted on the edge of a huge rock. His eyes were bloodshot, his back wounds cracked, and a large patch of blood clots solidified into ice. His voice was hoarsely directing the battle of the Tang army.

His eyesight was better than ordinary people. He could see the black shadows thirty steps away. The black shadows on the mountain road were thicker than before. This showed that a large group of enemy troops rushed up. Suddenly, his leg hurt a sharp pain, and an arrow shot into his left leg. The tip of the arrow penetrated the leg bone. The strong pain almost made him faint. He gritted his teeth and pulled the arrow out, and blood suddenly surged from his legs.

Li Qingan took a deep breath and hissed: "Throw the gunpowder bag!"

Two Tang Jun with tall arms on the cliff immediately ignited the gunpowder bag. When the lead was about to burn out, they suddenly threw it down the cliff, then covered their heads and lay on the rocks. Two earth-shaking explosions came from the mountain road. Dozens of people were blown to pieces, and the powerful impact waves pushed hundreds of people off the cliff.

Two streams of black smoke soared into the sky, and the mountain road was silent for a moment, and it was as quiet as death.

The atmosphere in Xingqing Hall also reached its climax. One hundred and eighty dancers in white long skirts came like fairies, accompanied by the melodious chime bells and melodious sheng and flutes, the famous colorful dress and feathered robe danced slowly in the hall, with a graceful body and a graceful dance. Dozens of singers spitted red lips lightly, and the graceful tune echoed in the hall.

‘Tinggao is looking at the extreme, the lotus in the river has not yet been recovered, but it is sick but has no strength. Besides, the silk fan is gradually sparse, the silk clothes are just a rope, and the light passes through the gap. I sigh at the apricot beam, and the swallows are like guests. Where is the person? The light moon in the curtain is as if it is shining on the color.’

The beauty is like jade, the wine is sweet, the music is like jumping pearls and shaking jade, and the tune is like the sound of nature. Thousands of people in the hall are drunk and obsessed with seeing each other, stroking their long beards, shaking their heads and shaking their heads. A large group of royal girls shaking the light Luo fan, and their eyebrows and eyes conveying emotions. The entire hall is immersed in the illusory fairyland.

The silence was violent growth, and a sudden shout broke out from the mountain road. Thousands of Tubo troops rushed in rushing wildly. The Tubo spear army replaced the sword bow army. The death brought by the Tang army's bow and arrow could no longer stop their violent riots. The Tubo army at present fell from arrows, and the brigade behind rushed up, stepped on the corpse of his companion and rushed up the cliff. The three hundred Tang troops jumped up and roared and drew their swords to fight.

"kill!"

The Tang army rushed forward fearlessly against the spears of thousands of Tubo people, and none of them retreated. At this moment, they could not see cowardice and weakness; at this moment, the courage of the Han people was burning in their hearts and their blood was boiling.

The spear penetrated the chest and cut off the head with a horizontal knife. A Tang army was pierced by the spear. He screamed and hugged the other party, bit the ears of the Tubo people, and hugged each other and rolled down the cliff together.

A Tang army was hugged by a Tubo people and a spear pierced his chest head-on. At the moment of his death, he tried his best to stab the horizontal knife through his chest and abdomen, and also pierced the chest of the Tubo army behind him.

More and more Tubo troops attacked the cliffs, and the last four hundred Tang troops in the valley were led by Li Fei Shouyu to support him. At this time, more than twenty Tubo troops climbed up the mountain rock and rushed towards the two Tang troops who threw gunpowder. The two Tang troops looked at each other, and they smiled miserably and lit the last four packs of gunpowder.

"You guys go and die!"

They held gunpowder bags and rushed down the cliff. The gunpowder bags exploded one after another in the dense Tubo army. Nearly a thousand famous Tubo troops were killed, so that a large section of empty space appeared on the mountain road, and a large pile of incomplete corpses were blocked. The Tubo army's successors were weak to give the Tang army a glimmer of hope. Li Qingqing killed four Tubo people in a row and shouted: "Take them off."

The words behind him were not shouted, and his voice was lost, but the huge explosion greatly boosted the morale of the Tang army. He even killed more than a thousand Tubo troops down the cliff with anger. The Tubo troops turned around and fled for the first time. The Tang army cheered, but at this moment, a scream came from the entrance of the valley. The Tang army suddenly turned around and they were stunned.

The Tubo people finally dug a new road under the valley entrance, and countless Tubo troops had already entered the valley.

In Xingqing Hall, Li Longji had no intention of drinking anymore and hurried back to the imperial study room. Several prime ministers followed him.

The lights in the imperial study were brightly lit, and the first pigeon letter sent by relay finally arrived. Li Linfu and several prime ministers held their breath and looked at Li Longji and opened the pigeon letter with trembling hands. There was only one sentence in the pigeon letter: 'After noon, the Shibao City has not been taken down yet.'

Li Longji sat down powerlessly, and there was silence in the imperial study. After a while, Li Linfu whispered: "Your Majesty, the failure to take down the Stone Castle City on time does not mean that it is a failure. I believe that Ge Shuhan will not disappoint His Majesty."

Li Longji shook his head gently and smiled bitterly: "The plan he made at noon was to consider that the Tubo reinforcements would come. Even if Dong Yanqing was restrained, once the Tubo people got the trust, they would definitely divide their troops to help, at least 20,000. There were only 3,000 people responsible for intercepting the Tubo army, Li Qing'an's troops. How could he be able to stop the attack of the 20,000 Tubo army? This time, Shibao City is hopeless again."

Everyone stopped talking, Li Longji walked slowly to the window with his hands behind his back. He opened the curtains, stared at the dark red sky in the west, sighed softly, and said to himself: "I can't take Shibao City for a day, but my Longyou will be peaceful all day long."

In the Shibao City, Li Siye's Modao Army had already attacked ten steps from Libao Gate. They had even seen the engravings on the stone wall above the Fort Gate. The three words "Stone Castle City" can be seen faintly. This was written by Emperor Yang of Sui, but the Tubo people also carved the "Iron Blade City" in Tubo language below.

There were corpses hidden in the stone path, and the stone steps were completely covered by corpses, and the true nature was invisible. There were still ten steps, and the Tang army rushed to the castle, but for these ten steps, they had been fighting for nearly an hour. Both armies were exhausted and could not even raise a knife. They were crowded, and they were crushed, smashed with fists, hit them with helmets, and supported them with their will. It depends on who could hold on until the end. At this time, Li Siye bit the tip of his tongue hard and bit off a piece of the tip of his tongue. The pain gathered his last potential. He roared and stabbed the dagger in his hand into the chest of the Tubo general Tie Ren Sinuoluo.

Tieben Sinoro's eyes suddenly widened, his life was quickly disappearing. He turned around and looked at Fenghuo in despair, his eyes slowly closed, and Li Siye took another step upward, with nine steps and eight steps.

About 2,000 Tubo troops rushed into the valley, and the valley was covered with wounded soldiers of the Tang army. Li Fei Shouyu led 400 Tang troops to return to the rescue, but he still could not stop the Tubo army from entering. He could only hear screams coming from the valley. Li Qing felt as if he was worried. These brothers who had been with him for many years were wiped out in Chiling. He looked back at Shibao City. At this time, the sky was already bright and the snow had stopped. Shibao City was clearly visible, and the Tubo Army's flag was still floating on the top of the city.

At this moment, the Tubo army spear soldiers on the mountain road returned to their deaths. The sound of running footsteps and shouts of killing came from not far from the mountain road. A large group of Tubo army suddenly appeared, and their hideous faces were clearly visible.

Li Qing'an was extremely calm in his heart. He whispered hoarsely to the more than 100 remaining Tang troops around him: "We will resist the 80,000 Tubo troops with three thousand troops for a day and a night. Although the entire army was wiped out in the end, we have tried our best. If there is still a next life, I would like to seize the Shibao City with my brothers again!"

He waved his sword and shouted with all his strength: "I died for the Tang Dynasty without any regrets!"

"Brothers, the last battle!"

"The last battle!" Tang army roared in unison.

Just as Li Qing'an was about to pounce on the enemy, He Yanming, who was standing behind him, suddenly turned his sword and smashed it hard on the back of Li Qing'an's head with the hilt. Li Qing'an's eyes turned black and he fainted to the ground.

The sudden change shocked the Tang army and looked at He Yanming angrily.

He Yanming burst into tears and helped Li Qing'an up and handed it to several soldiers, "Bring the general to the stone castle city, even if he wants to die, he will die in the end!"

Several soldiers were at a loss, and He Yanming pushed them violently and shouted: "You guys go! Let's go!"

Several soldiers ran along the small road along the small road towards Shibao City, watching them walk far away. He Yanming bent down and picked up Li Qing'an's sword. He glanced at Tang Jun, and suddenly he yelled, "Now I am Li Qing'an, you fight with me!"

He raised his sword and rushed towards the Tubo army, shouting loudly in Tubo language: "I am Li Qing'an, the chief general of the Tang army, come on! Let's fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

More than a hundred Tang troops burst into a shocking roar and rushed to the Tubo army twenty steps away.

The light in the valley was dim. Li Fei Shouyu led 300 Tang troops and nearly 2,000 Tubo troops to fight together, fighting and retreating. There was a small path in the valley, which was a shortcut to Shibao City. The Tang soldiers climbed up the cliff cave with dozens of undying soldiers on their backs and retreated to Shibao City.

Li Fei Shouyu looked around anxiously. He was looking for his brother Li Fei Yuanli. Some soldiers said that Li Fei Yuanli stood up and fought hard, and his life and death are unknown now.

The ground was full of the bodies of wounded soldiers. On the left side of the valley, more than a dozen female guards were unfortunately killed in battle. Suddenly, Li Fei Shouyu saw a petite figure carrying Li Fei Yuanli covered in blood on his back and walked towards the cliff cave with difficulty.

Li Fei Shouyu suddenly relaxed his heart. His brother was not dead yet. At this moment, thousands of Tubo troops rushed up from the cliff and cut off the road between the valley and the platform. Seeing that Li Fei Shouyu could no longer help Li Qing'an, he had to grit his teeth and shout: "Brothers, retreat!"

He led the last more than 200 soldiers to quickly evacuate from the Yadong Cave to Shibao City. Li Fei Shouyu finally left. The moment he rushed to the Yadong, he suddenly found that there were two female guards carrying the wounded soldiers on their backs. Before he could react, an arrow roared and shot into his chest. Li Fei Shouyu screamed and fell to the ground. The two soldiers rushed back and carried Li Fei Shouyu to run towards Shibao City.

Two female guards, one is Miao Cui'er and the other is Zhao Lu. They refused to leave the wounded soldiers. Countless Tubo soldiers surrounded them. They were both injured, their hair was scattered on their shoulders, showing their daughter's body. The Tubo army obviously wanted to capture this female Tang prisoner.

They slowly retreated, and a large group of Tubo troops surrounded them step by step, with a fierce light of wild beasts flashing in their eyes. Behind them was a mountain wall, and they had no choice but to retreat.

Zhao Lu suddenly pulled out the shiny horizontal sword and shouted in Tubo's voice: "You insult the women of the Tang Dynasty, but you can no longer insult the female soldiers of the Tang Dynasty!"

She adjusted the knife and used all her strength to insert the horizontal knife into her chest. Miao Cui'er also screamed, and the horizontal knife committed suicide. The two female guards fell in a pool of blood.

It was already bright, and a ray of sunshine shone on the snow-capped Chiling. A bloody light flashed in the morning glow of Chiling. Under the towering cliff behind the mountain in Shibao City, a group of small black dots stood. This was the last Tang army, with a total of 284 people, including four female guards. They had no bows and arrows, and only needed an enemy charge once, and they would wipe out the entire army.

Li Qingan stood silently on a big rock, staring at the Tubo army gathering three miles away. The sun shone on his blood-filled face. His eyes had a kind of perseverance that had never been seen before, and an expectation that no one else had. If he died, could his soul return to his original world? He was looking forward to the arrival of this moment.

But the Tubo army did not attack. Dazhalugong stared at Shibao City blankly. The Tang army could not see it at the foot of the mountain, but he saw that the Tubo flag on Shibao City was cut off, and a dragon flag of the Tang Dynasty was planted. All the Tubo army stared at the arrival of this scene. They attacked the bridgehead of the Tang Dynasty and lost.

At this moment, a Tubo officer rushed from the mountain, cried and cried at the feet of Dazhalugong, crying and crying, "General, Zanpu, Zanpu Immortal is gone."

A mouthful of blood spurted out of Dazhalugong's mouth. He screamed and fell to the ground on his back. The cry of the Tubo soldiers shook the sky. At this time, Dazhalugong slowly opened his eyes. He sighed and waved his hand weakly, "Tell me my order, the army will withdraw to Dafeichuan."

In the morning glow, the Tubo army slowly retreated, and dozens of Tang troops ran down the stone castle city along the mountain road. The Tang troops at the foot of the mountain hugged each other tightly, cheering.

On December 28, the seventh year of Tianbao, the Tang army captured Shibao City at the cost of 10,000 deaths. The 80,000 Tubo army that came to support was intercepted by the three thousand Yinglong army of Li Qing'an, the general of Anxi. In the end, the result was in vain and ended in disgrace at the cost of nearly 40,000 casualties. Tubo Zamp Chizudezan was seriously injured and died at the cost of Chiling.
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