Tibet

Chapter 243 Broken Leaf Comes
Time flies to February of the tenth year of Tianbao, spring has come quietly, the ice and snow have melted, and there is an endless green grassland outside the city, and the figure of Qianquan Snow Mountain can be seen faintly at the very far end.

Flocks of birds are flying in the sky, the grassland is full of colorful wild flowers, the gentle breeze blows, the air is warm and full of vitality.

The heightening and repairing of the city has been completed. At present, the city wall has been increased to two feet, barely able to defend and fight. For the height of the city wall, the soldiers and civilians in the city have made great sacrifices. They were also dismantled, the army switched to tents, and all the uninhabited houses in the city were also dismantled, and finally the required stones were collected.

The two city gates were replaced and turned into thick wooden gates wrapped in iron sheets, with huge cast iron gate bolts, which could withstand the impact of tens of thousands of catties of large battering rams.

A new suspension bridge has also been built outside the city gate. Tens of thousands of Bahana people are digging the moat, which is almost completed. Once it is connected with the Bahana River several miles away, the moat will be completed.

In the words of King Murdo, it is not only a moat, but also a canal for Rahana. You can go directly to Samarkand and Suiye by boat.

In Bahana Hanoi outside the city, Li Ye stood on the bank, watching the waves rolling in the river. Three thousand Bahana's new army was training their sword speed in the water.

This is also Li Ye's original training method, inspired by his own Suzaku mentality, but this is not to practice the Suzaku mentality, but to practice the speed of the knife.

Practicing knife in the water is like running with sandbags on your feet. Once you remove the sandbag, your feet will become very brisk, and the same is true for practicing knife in water.

The water is not deep, just below the top of the head, and you can go up to take a breath with a light kick. If you feel in danger, you can raise the knife in your hand high above the water, and someone will rescue you immediately.

Of course, it is training in batches, not 3000 people going into the water together.

Soldiers have been training underwater for more than a month, and the effect is very remarkable.

On the shore in the distance, two thousand soldiers are lining up to practice sword skills, and all three thousand soldiers are all equipped with long swords, which are specially designed to deal with the battle of defending the city. important.

It's a pity that the quality of the long knife is too poor, and a few slashes will cause gaps. This makes Li Ye really troubled, but he has no choice.

At this time, a cavalryman rushed over from a distance, rushed to Li Ye, clasped his fists and reported: "General Li, the king has something urgent to ask you to return to the city!"

Li Ye nodded and said to Xu Jian and Yu Changyang: "You guys continue to train, and you can withdraw your troops after another hour of training!"

"Follow the order!" The two bowed and saluted together.

Li Ye got on his horse and ran towards Kesai City.
Li Ye came to Kesai City, just at the gate of the city, he met Prince A Luolie who was patrolling the city wall. Li Ye reined in his horse and asked, "Your Highness, what is the king's urgent need for me?"

A Luolie smiled on the top of the city: "There are people coming from Suiye City!"

A month ago, the king sent someone to Suiye City to deliver a letter from Li Ye, but unexpectedly someone finally came.

Li Ye was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "Where is the visitor? Is he in the palace?"

"In the palace!"

Li Ye clamped the horse between his legs, "Drive!"

The war horse spread its four hooves and galloped towards the palace.

The person who came from Suiye was Zhang Xian, the master of Suiye City. Dozens of soldiers escorted him and a dozen carts from Suiye.

What Li Ye is most concerned about now is what happened to Feng Changqing's army?When will Gao Xianzhi send troops westward?On Suiye's side, Yingxin contacted Anxi, and he should be able to get the news.

Zhang Xiannian is about 30 years old. His ancestral home is from Fengxiang. He migrated to Luntai County, Tingzhou with his parents. Ten years ago, he joined the Anxi Army and became a civilian officer.

Zhang Xian and Li Ye met Li Ye, and handed a letter to Li Ye, "This is the eagle letter from Gao Shuai. We copied it. It is Gao Shuai's letter to Li Jianjun."

Li Ye took the letter and read it hastily. The letter said that Feng Changqing's army had returned to Shule and was resting. It will leave for Suiye City in a few days. I hope that Li Ye will fully assist Bahana in resisting the attack of Shi Kingdom .

Feng Changqing went back, which made Li Ye heave a long sigh of relief, and he asked again: "Excuse me, Master Zhang, how long does it take to go from Suiye City to Kesai City?"

"About ten days, we spent a full ten days."

"What about from Shule to Suiye?" Li Ye asked again.

Zhang Xian laughed, "From Anxi to Suiye, we don't go to Congling, but to Bodaling in Gumo Country. After crossing Lingshan Mountain, we will reach Suiye in five days."

Li Ye nodded, but it would take at least five or six days to travel from Shule to Gumo Kingdom. It took a few days to arrive at Bahana, and it was too late to expect the Tang army to rescue the country of Bahana.

No wonder Gao Xianzhi implicitly said in the letter that they can only rely on themselves.

"How many troops does Suiye City have?" Li Ye asked again.

"There are [-] Tang troops in Suiye City. In addition, there are [-] garrisons each in Yezhi City, He Lie City, and Dongcheng City. With the addition of some garrison troops, there are about [-] troops in Suiye City. The supervising army has the emperor's gold medal. Mobilize Suiye's army, but you can't send troops until you get the military talisman order from the commander-in-chief."

In fact, Li Ye also knows that although he has the emperor's gold medal that can mobilize a thousand troops, the emperor's gold medal is only useful to Gao Xianzhi, not to the guard general of the Suiye army. Gao Xianzhi had half of the Tiger Talisman, and Chen Fengzhong had half in his hands. The combination of the two could mobilize troops, so even if they contacted Gao Xianzhi through Yingxin, without the Tiger Talisman, they couldn't mobilize Suiye's army to help Tuhana.

Li Ye immediately wrote a letter and handed it to Zhang Xian, "This letter is very important, please ask Master Zhang to send someone to give it to Gao Shijun."

Zhang Xian took the letter and nodded and said: "I will send someone to send it to Commander Gao when I go back. In addition, I brought a batch of weapons from Suiye to support Li Jianjun. , should be the weapon that Supervisor Li needs most."

"What is it?"

Zhang Xian waved his hand with a smile, "It's outside!"

Li Ye followed Zhang Xian to the outside of the palace. There were more than a dozen carriages parked on the grass outside, which were full of supplies, which should be weapons. The outside was straw bags, and everything inside was wrapped in oiled paper, which seemed to be oiled and well maintained. good.

The soldiers unwrapped a bundle of weapons, and Li Ye's eyes lit up. It turned out to be a long knife. Li Ye lifted the knife, which weighed about twenty catties and was eight feet long. In front of it was a three-foot thick-backed goose feather knife, which was extremely sharp.

Zhang Xian introduced with a smile: "This is the saber knife used by the Anxi Army before the Mo Dao was equipped with it. It was aimed at the legs of the horse. Later, it was gradually used and stored in the warehouse of the Suiye Army. The king's envoy told us last time, Li Jianjun trained [-] long swordsmen, we asked Gao Shuai for instructions, and Gao Shuai agreed to hand over these weapons to Bahana."

"There are three thousand long knives?" Li Ye asked.

Zhang Xian nodded, "It's all here!"

Li Ye was so excited that he rubbed his hands together, this batch of long knives came too timely and solved his biggest difficulty.

(End of this chapter)