After the Tubo army besieged Wu'an City, they immediately launched a large-scale siege that day, which lasted for a long time. The fighting lasted from day to dusk, and then ended. Preliminary estimates indicate that at least 10,000 Tibetan siege soldiers died in the battle.

The Jin army defending the city also suffered nearly 3,000 casualties, with a casualty ratio of three to one. This figure was considered normal in terms of the city's offense and defense.

But the strange thing is that for the next six or seven days, although Tubo still gathered troops to attack the city every day, their numbers and intensity became weaker and weaker. By the eighth day, Tubo made no move and just surrounded the city.

City, not siege.

Gewa obviously realized that with the strength of Wu'an City's defense and the tens of thousands of Jin army defenders, it would be too difficult to forcibly capture the city with only the troops in his own hands.

Many people in the city felt relieved that Tubo was quiet, but Li Xun did not. Instead of relaxing, he became even more nervous.

To look at things, we need to look at the overall situation. Now Li Zhong has led an army of 150,000 to Huizhou and is in a confrontation with the Tibetan army in the state. In terms of local strength, the Jin Dynasty's army has the upper hand. At this time, Gewa attacks Wu'an City.

There are two options: one is to fight quickly and capture the entire seven states in the west of Longyou as quickly as possible; the other is to divide the troops and station a certain number of troops in Xiazhou or Shazhou to fight with Li Xun and others in the west of Longyou.

They formed a stalemate, and then led the main force back to Junzhou to compete with Li Xun.

But the current situation is very strange. Gewa is not nervous about the situation in the state at all. He does not withdraw his troops or attack the city. He just wastes his time under the city of Wu'an. If something goes wrong, there will be monsters. If people go wrong, there will be monsters.

Dao, the reason why Ge Wa did this must have his own plan.

Wuzhou Jiedushi Commandery Mansion.

Li Xun and Fan Zhongyun were discussing matters in the study, while Sima Tu and one of his generals went to Wang Renzhi's place to discuss matters.

In the past few days, Tubo has stopped attacking the city, and everyone has nothing to do. Apart from strengthening their vigilance, most of the time, Wang Renzhi repeatedly summoned everyone to come to his place to discuss matters, but after many discussions, only one result was reached.

, closely monitored every move of the Tubo army outside the city, and strengthened the city defense. As for other things, they could not come up with any new ideas. After going there twice, Li Xun stopped going and asked Sima Tu and his generals to go there, while he went there.

If you stay at home and talk to Fan Zhongyun, you may gain some unexpected benefits.

In the study room, Li Xun and Fan Zhongyun stood in front of the table. A map was spread out on the table. They pointed at the map and expressed their doubts.

Fan Zhongyun pointed to a direction on the map, which was the location of the Tubo army outside Wu'an City.

"Tens of thousands of Tibetan troops are hoarding outside the city, and the food supply line is nearly a thousand miles long. Now all the follow-up troops of the imperial court are in place. Li Zhong leads an army of 150,000 to garrison in Huizhou, which puts great pressure on the Tibetan army in the direction of the state.

Last time, Tubo did not take advantage of our retreat to carry out annihilation in the wild. The time has passed. Now, we have safely retreated to Wu'an City with nearly 50,000 defenders, sufficient food, high and thick city walls, and the 150,000 troops in Gewa's hands.

It is already difficult to do anything. His best choice now is to leave an army equal to ours to garrison Xiazhou and Shazhou, and then lead the main force back to Shizhou. In this way, they have an absolute advantage in terms of military strength.

, we can still have a fight with Li Zhong, and now we are not retreating or attacking the city, which only shows that Gewa has already made a plan to capture Wu'an City, at least this is possible."

Li Xun nodded and agreed: "You are right. The war situation has developed so far. Tubo has actually obtained enough benefits in this war. It can be said to be a complete victory. Gewa himself has also gained great reputation.

, as far as he is concerned, there is no need to take risks and lead the army to withdraw to Tubo. Relying on the results of Longyou's battle, he can completely consolidate his rights in Tubo. For him personally, this is the best choice, but now

Under such circumstances, Ge Wa has no intention of retreating, so you are right. Maybe he already has a plan to capture Wu'an City. Once Wu'an City is captured, the entire seven states in the west of Longyou will fall to him.

In his hands, when that time comes, Ge Wa will definitely order immediately to have all the Tibetan troops in Longyou North Road retreat to the line between Langzhou and Duanlongbao, and concentrate their forces. In this way, the overall situation will be basically settled, and even Li Zhong will probably be the same.

It’s hard to make a difference.”

Fan Zhongyun remained silent, not sure whether he heard what Li Xun said. He kept staring at the map, sliding his fingers on it, and finally stopped at Xicheng.

Wu'an City has three city walls in the east, south and north, and a waterway in the west, with the Mulang River running through it.

Fan Zhongyun tapped this place with his finger: "The troops here are a little short."

Li Xun was stunned, looked there, shook his head and said with a smile: "The Tubo soldiers live in the plateau area, there is no naval force, Zhao Feidu's three thousand soldiers are deployed there, no matter how many Tubo people there are, they can't get through."

Fan Zhongyun pursed his lips and said: "It's better to send our people there. It's better to send a more stable general to garrison."

Li Xun glanced at Fan Zhongyun and felt that he was making a fuss. In the Tubo Plateau, the soldiers were all landlubbers and there were no navy troops in the army. Zhao Feidu sent 3,000 men to guard there, which Li Xun thought was too much.

Fan Zhongyun looked at Li Xun, with persistence in his eyes.

Li Xun asked softly: "Old Fan, what did you think of?"

Fan Zhongyun thought for a moment, and finally shook his head: "That's not true, I just think it's safer."

Li Xun pondered for a moment and finally nodded: "I asked Li Cunxiao and Li Zhaodi to lead 3,000 troops to replace Zhao Feidu's soldiers."

Wu'an City is calm for the time being.

Regarding Huizhou.

Here in Huizhou, a total of 180,000 troops have been assembled, of which 150,000 were sent by the imperial court, and the other 30,000 soldiers were the original city defenders, all of whom are now under the command of Li Zhong.

In the study, Li Zhong was discussing matters with two of his most trusted confidants.

Of these two staff members, one is nearly sixty years old, and the other is much younger, in his early forties.

The older one is called Gao Di, and the younger one is called Liang An. Both of them have followed Li Zhong for many years and are Li Zhong’s most trusted and trusted staff confidants. Although they are just staff members, their official positions are not low.

He is a senior official of the fourth rank.

After Li Zhong was transferred back to Fengjing, he began to distance himself from his former subordinates and acted more low-key. Only for Gao Di and Liang An, Li Zhong used his power to give them a back door. Ren Jingzhao Mansion

Yi and the other one were appointed as Shaoqing of Dali Temple, all of whom were senior officials of the fourth rank, as a reward for serving Li Zhong for more than 20 years.
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