In Qishan City, Jieshuai Hall.

Murong Luohu, Li Daoxuan, Liu Hongji, Li Xiuning, Duan Zhixuan, Zhang Gongjin, Pan Ren and others gathered to discuss defense matters.

Although Murong Luohu is the commander, he is not the most powerful person, because the deputy commander Li Daoxuan is Li Yuan's nephew, and his title is Duke, higher than Murong Luohu, and he is a relative of the imperial country. Li Xiuning cannot be said to be Princess Pingyang of the royal family, with the most noble status.

So Murong Luohu was very consciously asking about their suggestions, especially Princess Pingyang, who seemed to be the decision-maker.

Murong Luohuhui reported: "The mountain city has been deployed by our army to defend itself. There are many trenches outside and many arrow towers, which can prevent Dahua's troops from crossing and control the commanding heights. In addition, outside Qishan City, a urn city and a stone wall fortress have been built. If Dahua's army wants to conquer it, it must occupy it at all levels. Every time a line of defense is passed, there will be huge casualties."

Li Daoxuan analyzed: "Hou Junji's 50,000 vanguard army will definitely not be able to conquer three lines of defense. At that time, Dahua will use the lives of countless soldiers to fill it. As long as we can hold on, it will consume Dahua's strength. If we drag on for the first half of a year, then in the cold winter, Dahua will have to retreat."

"I hope this is the case." Li Xiuning frowned. Although the strategy sounded completely unexplained, when he dealt with the Dahua army, it seemed that there would always be changes in advance. There was an accident. I don't know what methods Dahua would use to break Qishan City this time.

If it was really a strong attack, Li Xiuning would not be afraid. After all, the geographical location is so steep, and Dahua's soldiers and horses are also flesh and blood. It is impossible for them to fly over the mountain city with wings. Their casualties will inevitably be huge.

The purpose of the Tang army was to make Dahua retreat in the face of difficulties and to hold them back from advancing to Jingzhao County.

In fact, Li Xiuning was also worried that Dahua would not be deceived, but continued to advance to Jingzhao, and then ambushed the plan on surrounding Wei and saving Zhao.

She had already thought that if Dahua came to attack Qishan City, then the strategic intention would become true. If Dahua ignored the existence of Qishan City and deliberately turned a blind eye to attack Jingzhao County, and made this strategic mistake, there would definitely be some premeditation to lure the snake out of the hole and ambush it.

"This time, I will never be fooled. It depends on who can hold on. When you really fight with the troops of Jingzhao County for two months, I am sending troops to cut off your food and grass. Regardless of whether it is true or false, at that time, I don't believe that your ambush can afford to wait and take such a risk!" Li Xiuning thought so in her heart.

At this moment, a scout suddenly reported urgently outside the door, and the scout team in front discovered the urgent military situation.

"Come in." Murong Luohu shouted loudly.

"Here!" The guards outside the door took the military letter and handed it in. The scout stayed outside in case they pretended to assassinate.

After Murong Luohu took it, he was the nominal commander. You can first read it, open it and browse it, frowned, and then handed it to Li Xiuning and said, "Your Highness, please check it out."

After taking it, Li Xiuning took it and sighed, "The Dahua Army has indeed come. Hou Junji is the vanguard and is leading 50,000 troops to Qishan City. General Chen Xi led his troops around Qishan and captured Renshou Palace. Lai Hu'er led his troops to attack Qicheng on the border of Fufeng, cut off our retreat and blocked reinforcements. Luo Chengyu led his troops to the expedition and arrived outside the mountain city later. It seems that this time, they were serious and vowed to take Qishan City before attacking Jingzhao County."

Li Daoxuan said: "The general comes to block the water and cover the soil. Please rest assured that the Princess is now doing the defense of the mountain city. The three levels outside are enough to make Dahua's elite soldiers suffer heavy casualties. It is completely impossible for Dahua to conquer the mountain city in one or two months."

Liu Hongji looked a little worried at this time and said, "As the Emperor of Dahua, Luo Cheng actually came here in person and mobilized troops. Is it just to fight against our army? With Luo Cheng's treacherous and good at using troops, there must be fraud here, but he still can't figure out what kind of strategy he will have to break the city!"

"Yes, will there be a fraud?" Duan Zhixuan asked.

"The Dahua army has never sent troops according to common sense in these wars. They are mainly sneak attacks, using shameless means, which is very insidious." Zhang Gongjin snorted.

Pan Ren said: "What kind of tiger and wolf army is simply a cunning army, you have to be careful!"

Li Xiuning looked at the uneasy expressions of these generals, and felt complicated and unnamed. Whenever Luo Cheng was mentioned, she fell into a psychological shadow, and she was suspicious and was full of soldiers.

The shadow of a tree and the name of a person are a kind of deterrence. Before the person arrives, the enemy will start to be scared.

Li Xiuning sighed in her heart, if the Li family could have been able to get along with him or even marry him, would the ending be different?

Suddenly, this idea came to Li Xiuning's mind, and even she felt surprised and strange. Who married him in marriage? It must be herself, but she was still young and hated political marriages. So Li Xiuning did not agree. Unexpectedly, Luo Cheng would grow to this point in many years.

"Forget it, don't bother mediocre people." Li Xiuning shook his head, trying to throw away this unrealistic idea, because a person like Luo Cheng is like a dragon and cannot be bound by shackles. So what if he is married, can he stop a person's emperor's heart?

From the fact that Luo had not been appointed as the queen after he founded the country, it can be seen that he no longer planned to make the princess of the descendants of the Yang family, which would arouse resentment from the people of the world, and even worry that the future prince would be like Emperor Yang of Sui to collapse a prosperous empire, trapping the people in the fire and corpses everywhere, and the worst of them would always be the people.

Even if you marry him, it will be even more difficult to get caught in the middle when Li Tang and Luo become the emperor's turn to confront each other. It is better to be like this, and each one is his own master. Although he appreciates the other's talent and strategy, he still has to face each other's life and death without ending.

"Princess, princess?"

"Huh?" Li Xiuning came to her senses and found that all the generals and advisers in the hall were staring at him and asking her, and couldn't help but blush: "What's the matter?"

Li Hongji said: "We discussed it just now and felt that Luo Cheng was best at several fighting styles, one was night attack, two was instigation, and three was burning food and grass. In response to these three points, we must strengthen night defense and patrol, and the second was to check military officers above the captain in the army to ensure that everyone is loyal to the Tang Dynasty and has not been instigated by spies. Third, we must protect the granary. We must choose absolutely loyal elite defense. Without transfer orders and passwords, we must not approach without authorization. Otherwise, it is likely that a spy will burn the granary and use a trick to kill us in the mountain city."
Chapter completed!