"Aren't you all very good at talking before? Why are you all mute now? Are you looking at my big rapport and ready to find another way out?"

At the pseudo-liang Palace, looking at the ministers standing in the hall like mute, Zhu Wen stood up from the dragon throne, pointed at everyone and cursed.

Liu Han glanced at Jing Xiang and found that the other party had no movement, so he decided not to hurry and look steadily.

At this moment, a minister couldn't help but cough. Zhu Wen, who was worried that he could not find an excuse, pointed at the minister, "Come on, drag him out and kill him!"

"Your Majesty...Your Majesty, please spare me!"

Seeing the expressionless soldier coming over, the minister hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. The soldier who had not received the order from Zhu Wen naturally carried the minister and dragged it out.

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty spares your life!"

"His Majesty...."

"Zhu Wen, you tyrant, you must die a good death. I will wait for you underground! Hahaha!"

Soon, screams came from outside, and then the sound became weaker and weaker until it finally disappeared completely.

During the whole process, Zhu Wen's face was ashen. As for the ministers below, they were all frightened, fearing that they would be implicated.

Just when the hall was quiet and panicking, Zhu Wen spoke, "Where is King Bo?"

Liu Han immediately stood up and said, "Go back to Your Majesty, King Bo has been thinking about his mistakes in the royal palace."

"Think about his mistakes...think about his mistakes...think about his mistakes? From today on, the confinement order for him will be lifted. As my Daliang royal family, we should set an example at this time. Isn't it just to be surrounded?

When we were fighting with Qin Zongquan many years ago, didn’t the other side’s hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded Bianzhou like this? In the end, we still won and defeated Qin Zongquan’s troops." Zhu Wen said disdainfully.

"Your Majesty's words are just a temporary dilemma. Under Your Majesty's wise and magical leadership, Daliang will definitely survive this difficulty." Liu Han quickly complimented.

"That's right, you all want to build confidence!"

"Abide by Your Majesty's will!"

Although Zhu Wen was encouraging his fighting spirit, the ministers below were not confident. Although many people spoke, it was more like whining without any illness.

Seeing this situation, Jing Xiang couldn't help but sigh. Who would have thought that Daliang, who was extremely strong a few months ago, has now reached this point.

Although the current situation seems to be very similar to when he fought with Qin Zongquan, it is actually very different.

Qin Zongquan's hundreds of thousands of troops were all mobs, and the Tang army outside the city was all elite troops who fought over many battles.

Can this be the same?

......

The Anxi Protectorate’s Office is under the jurisdiction of the Liangzhou Governor’s Office and Tumen Town.

"General, does the imperial court really ignore us?"

A soldier with blood scabs on his face came to the town general's mansion and saw the town general sitting in front of the town general who was being bandaged, with a dim expression.

"Who said? Didn't the court send reinforcements? As long as the reinforcements defeat the army of the Liugu tribe, they will come to rescue us." The town general said excitedly.

As a result, the wound on the abdomen was bleeding again, and the white cloth that bandaged the wound also stained some of the blood red.

"Minister, don't be excited!" the military doctor quickly reminded.

Thinking of the wound on his body, he had to remind him of the battle that had just ended.

Although the scale was not large, the Liugu tribe outside the city only dispatched a thousand people to attack, but once attacked the earth wall of Tumen Town.

In this case, only when the entire army was on the way, his injuries were cut by a Liutani soldier during the battle.

Fortunately, it is not in danger of life, but the wound is not small and you cannot move around, otherwise the wound will crack like before.

Moreover, there are only less than 300 left in the 800 border troops in Tumen Town. As for the people and the people who are hiding from war in Tumen Town, they have long been armed.

It can be said that now everyone is soldiers, regardless of gender, age or age, otherwise they would not be able to persist.

Originally, in the expectation of the generals, the people of the Liugu tribe would not attack Tumen Town in large numbers. But who would have thought that after the court sent reinforcements, the Liugu tribe would hoard troops near Lanzhou to fight against the reinforcements of the imperial court.

Of course, the Liugu tribe still allowed the army to surround Liangzhou, so Tumen Town became a nail between the Liugu tribe army in Liangzhou and the Liugu tribe army in Lanzhou, which was very annoying.

Originally, there were only two thousand enemy troops outside Tumen Town, but later it increased to five thousand.

So Tumen Town ushered in a difficult period of several months, with only such great casualties.

"Damn it, I didn't expect that the ship capsized in the gutter and was attacked by a small bastard." When talking about the wound on his body, the town general was angry, "Captain Chang, how long can our food last?"

Chang Hu bowed, "I can hold on for half a month when I return to the town general."

"Half a month? It seems that this reinforcement may not be able to come for half a month. Let's continue to give the order, starting today, reduce the food and pack horses in the city. Anyway, keeping them will waste food and grass to replenish the brothers, and find a way to hold on for another month." The town general thought for a while and said.

"The last general obeys the order!" Chang Hu replied, but thinking of the current situation, he couldn't help asking, "The general, didn't he say there were reinforcements? Why haven't he arrived yet?"

The general shook his head, "I don't know this, but the imperial court drew troops from all over the place to reinforce the Anxi Protectorate's Office not long after the rebellion of the Liugu tribe.

Now that I haven't arrived in Tumen Town, I'm very likely blocked by the Liugu tribe."

Seeing the reinforcements delayed coming, the morale of Tumen Town was also a little depressed, but when they saw the flying Tang army flag, they were all gritting their teeth and persevering.

But they don't know how long they can last.

The court did send reinforcements very early, and Xue Atan came with 28,000 reinforcements. In addition to the soldiers of various Tubo tribes drawn from Lanzhou and Hezhou and other places, Xue Atan had almost 50,000 troops.

However, Xue Atan led his troops to advance and was ambushed by Liugu tribe in Shangchuan Town, northwest of Lanzhou, losing more than 10,000 troops.

The battle of Shangchuan Town can be said to be the most lost battle since the war in Hexi.

After the crushing defeat in Shangchuan Town, Xue Atan once again led an army of 30,000 to attack and fought fiercely with tens of thousands of Liugu tribes near Zhongchuan Town. After paying the price of tens of thousands of casualties, he failed to defeat the Liugu tribe's army and had to retreat to Lanzhou.

Two consecutive battles failed to achieve success, and Xue Atan was unable to attack and could only defend Lanzhou City to prevent Liugu's troops from capturing Lanzhou.

It is precisely for this reason that although reinforcements came very early, they were blocked by the Liugu army. Even if they knew that the situation in Liangzhou and Ganzhou and other places was critical, there was no good solution.

The two defeats had a great impact on Xue Atan, and also exposed the problem of his bravery in combat but insufficient strategy.

At this moment, Liu Kui arrived near Lanzhou with 40,000 cavalry.

However, Liu Kui did not allow 40,000 cavalry to enter Lanzhou City, but set up camp thirty miles away from Lanzhou.
Chapter completed!