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The fifteenth year of Xiantong is also the first year of Qianfu. On the winter solstice on November 5, the ministers praised Emperor Xizong as "The Emperor of Shengshen Cong Ruiren and Zhefei", and changed the first year of Qianfu. Last year was the fifteenth year of Xiantong, and it was also the first year of Qianfu. As New Year's Day passed, it was the second year of Qianfu.

Li Yan felt that time was fast, but Li Keyong from Shuozhou felt that this period of time was like the years.

This battle had completely deviated from the control of their father and son. At this time, they were like sitting in a carriage that was constantly sliding into the abyss. They knew they were about to fall into the abyss, but they were powerless to stop it. After experiencing these continuous battles, Li Keyong had become more calm and no longer so rebellious. At the beginning, he looked down on Li Tang, thinking that this was just a sick person. But now he finally understood that maybe Li Tang was not good enough, and Xie Town did not really loyal to the court. However, the Shatuo people were not able to challenge him, and the Xie Towns were still willing to send troops to Li Tang.

He regretted it a little, and it would have been great if he could have followed his wife.

The wind and snow became heavier, but Li Keyong stood at Yanmen Pass like a statue.

This year's snow is particularly big, and he is now worried. He originally agreed with his wife that he would cross the river to pick up his father, and his wife was preparing to pack up his troops and go out of the Great Wall. Unfortunately, the Zhenwu Army's rebellion made him angry and lose his mind. He then wiped out the Zhenwu Army, which made him feel lucky. He thought that he could win a few more battles with the courage of the Shatuo Cavalry, which would change the current situation. He did win consecutive battles.

In the battle of Luotuoyan, annihilated 6,000 troops of Zhenwu Army. In the battle of Honggu, another 4,000 Tang troops. In the battle of Tanglin, another 8,000 troops of Zhaoyi Army were annihilated and killed Li Jun, the governor of Zhaoyi. Three battles and three victories, and the battles of thousands of miles were fought. Even at this time, the Shatuo people could still be called the strongest cavalry in the world.

But why did the situation become worse when winning consecutive battles?

He sent Gao Wenshun to Yunzhou to reinforce, Gao Wenji brothers. He originally arranged to help defend Yunzhou and keep his retreat to the outer passage. He defended Yunzhou, and then he could attack and retreat. However, as soon as Gao Wenshun brothers surrendered to Li Guan. Even the two divisions of Sage and Anqing who followed them for generations turned against each other. His commander Fu Wenda and his brother Fu Wentong led the army to surrender, and several troops in Yunzhou were in the end. Only his uncle, Shatuo Governor Li Youjin, escaped.

This blow was extremely huge, and even Li Guochang fell ill after hearing the news.

Yunzhou was lost, and their retreat to the grassland was also broken.

Li Guan's army of 10,000 guarded Yunzhou, and another five thousand guarded Weizhou. There were three roads leading out of the frontier, crossing Yinshan from Yunzhou across Baidao. Or traveling to Weizhou to enter Junduxing, or going to Zhenwu or out of the frontier from the Shanyu Protectorate, but now all three roads are blocked.

He destroyed Zhaoyi's army, but the court gathered the troops and horses of the eight towns. Even the five troops, including the Helian tribe, Tuoba tribe, Qibi tribe, Sage tribe, and Anqing tribe, who had never looked down upon by the Shatuo people in the past, dared to follow the soldiers of the court to attack them.

The tiger falls into the sun and is bullied by a dog!

This winter was so cold that Li Keyong felt cold all over. He took off the sheepskin wine bag around his waist and drank a large mouthful of horse milk wine. A fire rose from his belly, and his whole body was much better.

As soon as he returned to the warm town's mansion, Liu immediately took off his cloak and held his cold hands in his hands.

"We can't continue to stay in Shuozhou. Da Yanfei. Although our food and grass can last for a while, our winter clothes are not enough." Liu advised Li Keyong to take the opportunity to go out of the frontier immediately. "It's snowing heavily, and the court's troops may not be able to send troops at this time. We just took the opportunity to open a channel to go out of the frontier. If we continue like this, the people of Shuozhou will almost freeze to death until the beginning of spring. And by then, all the soldiers and horses of the court attacked us, and we could not defeat them."

Li Keyong was silent.

It took him a long time to say: "Aye is seriously ill now, so how can he take the blame at this time?"

He was really unwilling to give up and fled without fighting. He also had 10,000 elite cavalry under his command, and 20,000 soldiers and horses of all races recruited. With 30,000 troops in his hand, Li Keyong wanted to fight in his heart. Shuozhou was the base camp of Shatuo people. Although he lost other states, Loufan and two great passes into Shuo in Yanmen were still in his hands. Moreover, there were three gates and four towns outside Jincheng, the base camp of Shatuo people in Shuozhou, which had solid fortresses and fortresses and heavy troops. When necessary, he could even arm all the Shatuo people.

"The strongest warriors of Shatuo are the cavalry!" Liu pointed out the unrealistic aspects of Li Keyong's idea incisively. "We are good at cavalry maneuvers, fighting defensive battles and defending the city. This is not our strength. No matter how strong the fortress is, it will be broken."

Now it is time for Shatuo people to survive and die, and it is not even the same as when Zhu Xie, Jinzhong was bullied by Tubo and resolutely decided to return to the Tang Dynasty sixty years ago.

"Retreat, when I, Shatuo people, retreated from Hexi to the Tang Dynasty, fought for three thousand miles, and were surrounded and blocked by the Tubo people, losing two-thirds of their tribe, but in the end they escaped. The situation is like in the past, if you stay, so what if you can win a few more battles, we can't fight against the Tang people in the end. The green mountains left are there, and we are not afraid of no firewood." Liu's family had already seen it very clearly. One or two victories were no longer able to change the situation. The Tang Dynasty now has such an advantage, and there will be no chance of easing.

"Let me think about it again!" Li Keyong felt a little confused.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the second year of Qianfu, Zheng Cong-yi personally led 40,000 troops in seven towns to reach 30 miles below Loufan Pass, but Loufan's defenders were still trapped in Guanzhong surrounded by wind and snow, without knowing it at all. Loufan Pass and Yanmen Pass are both gateways to the south of Shuozhou. Yanmen is in the northwest of Daizhou and Loufan is in the northeast of Lanzhou, but the distance is not too far. Li Keyong personally led 5,000 cavalry to garrison Yanmen Pass, and Yanmen Pass and Loufan Pass each stationed 5,000 infantry.

After arriving at the gate of the gate, Zheng Cong-qi did not immediately issue an order to attack. In order to achieve better results, he had already agreed with Li Guan before departure that the three troops would launch an attack on the same day on the tenth day of the first lunar month to fully utilize their military strength advantages.

In fact, according to Zheng Congxian's meaning, he wanted to join forces with Li Guan and attack Lou Fanguan together. Unfortunately, Li Guan did not want to be with them. Zheng Congxian guessed that perhaps Li Guan wanted to send troops alone to make more contributions. After all, the final contribution of the eight towns was definitely his, and the troops were divided into two groups, but Li Guan's contribution could not be taken away. However, Zheng Congxian had always been a little worried. What if they attacked Lou Fan as scheduled, Li Guan did not send troops to attack Yanmen?

It was soon the tenth day of the first lunar month. Because of the heavy snow, Zheng Congyi sent Tuoba Sigong's Dangxiang cavalry and cavalry to sweep the horses that occasionally came out of the jurisdiction were also captured. He did not know that Zheng Congyi had led his army to the gate.

"Master, I am willing to lead our party's warrior Xiang as the vanguard of the army and take down the Lou Fan Pass!" Since he joined Zheng Congxian's command, Tuoba Sigong was actually a little worried that Li Guan would cause trouble for him. After all, he first obtained Li Guan's gold and the troops he sent out should be the ones who belonged to Li Guan. Now he chose to recruit Zheng Congxian. Zheng Congxian was not bad to him and strongly recommended him to make him suddenly go from being the self-proclaimed governor of Youzhou to become the governor of Xia Suijie. At this point, the people of their party members had to follow Zheng Congxian and hold this backer tightly.

"What good strategies do General Tuoba have to destroy the city?" Zheng Congzi was very satisfied with Tuoba Sigong's initiative to ask for battle.

Tuoba Sigong smiled, with a bit of humility in his voice, "One attack is enough. After dark, someone will directly lead his elite troops to sneak into Guancheng and open the door." Some things seem difficult, but sometimes they are very simple. If you attack Lou for a long time, you will have to pay a lot of money, but if you use a sneak attack strategy, in the current situation, it is very likely that you will take Guancheng without much effort.

Zheng Cong-sei did not refuse Tuoba Sigong's request to fight. It would be fine to give it a try, even if it failed, it didn't matter. That night, Tuoba Sigong selected 500 elite party soldiers. After a full meal, he changed into a white cloak and quietly approached Loufan Pass.

Then, they successfully relied on the city wall to nail the iron rod and nailed a passage, allowing several powerful Dangxiang soldiers to successfully climb to the city where no one was defending the snowy night. Then they put down the ladder and supported the five Tuoba Sigong brothers and five hundred elite soldiers to the city. When the five hundred Dangxiang people descended from the sky, the defenders on the city were still hiding in the city tower and corner tower to burn fire to avoid the cold. They never expected that at this time when the New Year was over, the Tang soldiers suddenly appeared.

Zheng Congyi was wearing a cloak and stood by the horse waiting.

All the generals and soldiers thought that Dangxiang people were seeking death and could not get the city gate with 500 people. However, the general asked them to wait here, so they were all ready to go here. When everyone was about to be blown into popsicles by the cold wind at night, three torches suddenly appeared at Lou Fanguan, waving around in circles. Then Lou Fan closed the door like a huge monster in the night slowly opened its mouth.

Zheng Congxian was overjoyed and took the city gate.

"Go into the city! Go!" Zheng Congyi's excited voice trembled a little.

The soldiers and horses of the seven towns rushed into Loufan Pass. When the battle was dawn, the five thousand infantry defenders in Loufan Pass were almost wiped out, more than 1,000 people were killed in battle and more than 3,000 were captured. When the red sun in winter rose, Loufan Pass had already replaced the imperial flag.
Chapter completed!