At this moment, a group of people climbed over the hills and rushed towards this side quickly. Wang Dashan was shocked and hurriedly asked everyone to prepare for the war. After a closer look, he breathed a sigh of relief. It was not the enemy, but the Tang army.

Xue Yinglong was actually attracted by the fire here and rushed toward him. He brought two thousand cavalry to the front and saw countless ox carts catching fire, like a long dragon of flames. He couldn't help but frowned and shouted loudly: "What's going on?"

Wang Dashan didn't know who the person was, so he stepped forward and said, "I am Wang Dashan, the governor who was sent by Anxi Protectorate to escort the food and grass. I wonder who this general is?"

Xue Yinglong replied loudly: "I am the chief marching officer of Sanmi Mountain Road, Fan Lihua, under the account of Xue Yinglong! You are responsible for escorting grain and grass, why did all the grain and grass trucks catch fire?"

Wang Dashan looked dim when he heard this, and he lowered his head and said, "It was Wang who was incompetent and failed to protect the food and grass. He was raided by 3,000 Western Turkic cavalry and burned more than 90% of the food and grass."

Xue Yinglong frowned and quickly turned over and dismounted, and ran forward to observe. He saw that there were corpses of Western Turkic soldiers everywhere. More than a thousand grain and grass trucks were burned to only one hundred. Xue Yinglong immediately clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "It's a good trick to remove firewood from the cauldron. General Manager Fan said before that he could not underestimate the enemy. Yang Fan is not simple. Now it seems that this is true. Since we besieged Wang Ting, Wang Ting has not left the city with one horse. These three thousand cavalrymen who attacked the grain and grass... I'm afraid they have been ordered by Yang Fan to wait here."

Wang Dashan and Ma Chen followed Xue Yinglong. Xue Yinglong was extremely angry at this moment and turned his head to stare at Wang Dashan, with fierce eyes as if he wanted to choose someone to eat. He wanted to slap Wang Dashan, but he never had the heart to do it. After all, he remembered that he was a soldier and could not break the rules of the army. Wang Dashan was not under his command, so he could not hit people. He angrily pointed to the food and grass cart burned by the fire and almost roared: "What are you doing? It's not good to escort a grain and grass! Now that the food and grass are all lost, how can you let the tens of thousands of troops of General Fan satisfy their hunger in Sanmi Mountain and how to attack the city?"

"It's Wang who is incompetent!" Wang Dashan lowered his head and admitted his mistake. What else he had to say at this moment? There was nothing else he could do except admit his mistake.

"You are indeed incompetent! You are extremely incompetent! You are simply a waste of the Tang Dynasty's food and wages when you are alive!"

Xue Yinglong became more and more angry. Just as he was about to continue criticizing him, a soldier from a food and grass team behind suddenly shouted: "It's not that General Wang, the group of Western Turkic cavalry came to die. They rushed towards the food and grass cart without fear of death, and they couldn't stop it. General Xue, you are also a warrior. You should know that soldiers are not afraid of death, and it is difficult for gods and ghosts to stop..."

"Stop!" Wang Dashan suddenly stared at the soldier and shouted loudly, "What are you old people! You dare to talk to General Xue like this! You are rude to Shangguan! Go and get thirty military sticks by yourself!"

"Yes!" The soldier responded with a nearly roar, handed over the weapons to his comrades beside him, and ran to the rear.

Wang Dashan clasped his fists at Xue Yinglong and said, "General Xue, I'm sorry, Wang's army is not strict, and his subordinates are so rude to General Xue. It's really... Please let General Xue Haihua."

"Forget it." Xue Yinglong suddenly took a long breath and did not blame Wang Dashan anymore. He waved his hand, "It can be seen from the moment that you are not strict in the military, but that you are very strict in the military. The soldiers are not afraid of death, and it is difficult for ghosts and gods to stop it. Such a thing... Alas... the enemy is too cunning. Forget it, it is useless to blame anyone now. Now the military situation is urgent. Let's talk about punishment later, and solve the crisis first."

"What General Xue said is very true." Wang Dashan nodded vigorously when he heard this, and thought for a while, "General Xue, why not send someone back to Xizhou immediately and urge the grain and grass, so that the Protector can quickly raise thousands of stones of grain to General Fan for emergency response."

Xue Yinglong asked, "What about you?"

Wang Dashan said: "Of course, Wang and General Xue sent the remaining 700 stone grains to General Fan. Although it was too little, it was better than not."

"No!" Xue Yinglong suddenly raised his hand to stop him and said slowly, "Before the military formation, morale is high. Your food and grass team only brings 100 trucks of food. If you are seen by the army, it will inevitably cause panic and shake the morale of the army. This move must not be done."

Wang Dashan was stunned when he heard this. After thinking about it carefully, he found that this is indeed the case. He hurriedly said, "It's Wang who has no consideration. Then General Xue, what should I do?"

Xue Yinglong pondered for a moment and said, "I don't want these hundred trucks of food and grass. It's a burden to carry them with you. You can hurry back to Xizhou and see what your escorts say. I will go back to Sanmi Mountain to report to General Fan to see how General Fan decides."

"It seems... that's all." Wang Dashan nodded helplessly. After saying that, he walked towards his own food and grass team.

Due to the urgent time, Xue Yinglong and Wang Dashan dared not delay, so they immediately led the army to set off overnight, one to the west and the other to the east.

The place where the food and grass were burned was not far from Mount Sanmi. Xue Yinglong led his army to travel day and night. He returned to the Tang army camp of Mount Sanmi in just two days and one night. After Xue Yinglong entered the camp, he rushed straight to the tent and asked to see Fan Lihua.

"What!" In the den, Fan Lihua was shocked when she heard this and slapped the table. After a long time, Fan Lihua frowned and murmured softly, "This Yang Fan...is indeed amazing. He has set up this move from the beginning. Now that the Wang Ting is surrounded by us, no one has left the city. The death cavalry team must have been dormant there for a long time. Just to cut off our food and grass, it is a good way to remove the firewood from the cauldron. No wonder Uncle Yang told me that he must be careful of Yang Fan. This person... is really terrible."

"I think so too." Xue Yinglong asked with a sad face, "Master General, the food and grass are gone. Even if the Anxi Protectorate Office sends people to deliver it, it will have to wait at least twenty days, or even longer. What should we do? Should we withdraw our troops?"

"Retreat?" Fan Lihua frowned and snorted coldly: "It's all over the royal court, how can you return without success? Do you want me to imitate the stupid Geely?"

In the ninth year of Wude, the Geely Khan of the East Turkish Rebellion led a large army to the city of Chang'an. At that time, the troops in Chang'an were empty. If the Geely Khan insisted on attacking Chang'an, he would probably be able to seize the Tang Dynasty. However, for various reasons, he finally agreed to peace with Li Shimin and then retreated. Four years later, Li Shimin sent Li Ji to attack the East Turkish Rebellion and captured the Geely Khan to Chang'an. Soon, the Geely Khan died of depression.

Fan Lihua is now in the royal court, but Xue Yinglong said she retreated, so she thought that such behavior was as stupid as Geely Khan back then.

Xue Yinglong frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked, "Master General, now our company only needs four days of food and grass, four days..."

"Four Days..." Fan Lihua narrowed her eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and said slowly: "Then we will conquer the royal court within four days!"

"Ah?" Xue Yinglong was shocked when he heard this, and was stunned. After a long time, Xue Yinglong glared and shouted, "Master General, don't take risks!"

"Don't you believe in this general?" Fan Lihua looked at Xue Yinglong proudly and asked coldly, "You have been with General Li Jing for many years and raised by him. You must have heard of the Battle of the Desperate Battle."

Xue Yinglong was stunned and nodded, "Of course I know that Emperor Gaozu of Han Liu Bang and King Xiang Yu of Western Chu competed for the world. Han Xin, a general under Emperor Gaozu of Han, ordered to burn his boats, line up with the water, and cut off all his retreat. Such behaviors are contrary to military principles, but in the end, Han Xin defeated the Chu army and won a complete victory."

"That's right." Fan Lihua slowly walked out after joining the military case, and asked with her hands behind her back, "Since it violates military principles, why can she still win a great victory?"

"Because..." Xue Yinglong immediately remembered the burned food and grass of Wang Dashan when he heard this. If the three thousand Western Turkic cavalry attacked the food and grass with common sense, they would definitely not succeed. However, they were not afraid of death and used their lives to complete the task. The task could naturally be completed. So he said casually, "Because the soldiers are not afraid of death, it is hard to stop ghosts and gods!"

"What a soldier is not afraid of death, it is hard to stop ghosts and gods!" Fan Lihua turned around suddenly, staring at Xue Yinglong with bright eyes, and shouted, "This manager will follow Han Xin this time, fight a battle of backwaters and not breaking the royal court, all of us... will die in Sanmi Mountain..."

Xue Yinglong trembled all over when he heard this. He was not afraid or fear, but because of excitement and excitement, Fan Lihua actually wanted to lead them to copy the battle of backwater in history, cut off all his retreat, and fight to the death with the enemy. How could he not be excited, suddenly bowed to the ground and shouted excitedly: "I am willing to take the lead for the general manager!"

"Okay!" Fan Lihua said happily, "This manager does have the plan to let you be a pioneer. You should retreat first. Keep the food and grass burned for the time being. Before siege, this manager will announce the news personally to avoid panic before this."

"Yes! I will leave at the end!" Xue Yinglong took the order loudly and withdrew from the tooth account.

Fan Lihua whispered loudly again: "Come here, tell me that Lu Qing is here!"

"Yes!" The personal guard outside the account received the order to pass the message.

Soon, Lu Qing came to the tent and saw Fan Lihua. After saluting, Fan Lihua spread her hands and said, "Mr. Lu, please sit down."

Lu Qing said in a respectable manner: "The chief executive is too polite. Just stand and speak."

Fan Lihua nodded and asked, "Mr. Lu, starting today, we will speed up the work within three days and make another thousand Kongming lanterns. I wonder if there is any difficulty?"

Lu Qing said: "There is no problem when you return to the chief executive."

"Okay." Fan Lihua smiled with satisfaction and asked again, "How many hot air balloons will take? How many days will it take?"

Lu Qing said: "Today, more than 240 have been completed. As expected, fifteen days are enough to complete 300 hot air balloons."

"Very good." Fan Lihua suddenly stood up and said, "This supervisor will send you another task. Today, Dongfeng, you will take people to put five hundred Kongming lanterns in the military camp. Remember to calculate the wind speed and direction, and make sure that the Kongming lanterns can float over the royal court."

Lu Qing bowed and said, "Don't worry, the chief executive, you have a small matter."

He paused, his heart was full of curiosity, and he raised his courage to ask, "Master General, please forgive me for your courage, why should I put the Kongming Lantern?"
Chapter completed!