Will Ming

At the end of August, Turkic wolf cavalry who came out of nowhere suddenly killed Shanggu County, and what was surprising was that Shanggu County was under the rule of Luo Yi in Youzhou, and there were no soldiers and horses stationed in Shanggu County. Fighting alone, the city gates were closed and the walls were heavily guarded, but they all watched the wolf riders leave without any intention of fighting. The defenders in the city even left food outside the city, while the Turks took the food and left The tacit understanding makes people feel incredible

What was just surprising was that tens of thousands of wolf riders turned a blind eye to the castles in Shanggu County and ignored the strong army winds from Shanggu County. It only took five days to pass through Gu County and head straight for Boling. This is frightening The Cui clan of Boling, a famous family, quickly sent people to the state to ask Daxia for help.

Boling County can be regarded as Dou Jiande's territory, but its location is somewhat special. Boling County is the domain of Luo Yi from the north to the northeast, and belongs to Daxia to the south. Because of the Cui family of Boling, Boling is almost an autonomous place. The Cui family gave Luo Yi a lot of benefits, and also gave Dou Jiande a lot of benefits, so the garrison in Boling is Cui's private soldiers, neither Luo Yi's men nor Dou Jiande's men.

Tens of thousands of wolf riders came aggressively, and the whole Cui family panicked.

The Cui family's private soldiers are only more than [-] people. Although most of them are stationed in Xianyu City, Boling County, the approximately [-] private soldiers seem to be well-equipped and well-trained, but they have never fought a war to make them peaceful. It's okay to maintain law and order in the city, but it's obviously not so easy to let them fight the enemy bloody

What's more, what we have to face is the cruel and violent Turkic wolf cavalry.

When a wolf rides into the pass, which time is it not a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood?Wasn't that time burning the city?

What worries the remaining members of the Cui family the most is that the soldiers of Daxia went south to rescue Wang Shichong. Now the strength of Daxia's domestic troops is stretched. Ling County is thousands of miles away from the state, so what if it is close at hand?Empress Cao and Nayan Peiju are currently sitting in the state. I am afraid that neither of these two people has the courage to mobilize the few Xia troops to go north as soon as possible.

If you wait until you send people to the south of the Yellow River to ask Dou Jiande for instructions before making a decision, a delay of two months will be minimal. By then, Boling County will have already become a piece of scorched earth, and the Cui family will probably suffer the disaster of being wiped out.

Cui Qian, the Patriarch of the Cui Clan, looked at the patriarchs of the various houses in the clan sitting below, and couldn't help shaking his head slightly. He is only 40 years old this year, and he is the eldest son of the previous Patriarch. He used to work in Zhuo County during the Daye period. Guoguan, who also went to Goguryeo with Emperor Daye himself, and later became the governor of Zhuojun under Luo Yi, but his father died of illness, he resigned and went home to keep his filial piety. It was the first time that Cui Qian, who inherited the position of the head of the family, faced such a situation. Dangerous situation, so I feel extra uneasy

No matter how many officials in the Cui family they are in the court, as long as they don't leave, they still have to respect the Cui family as the head of the family. The Cui family is huge and famous. Son, casually refers to a person who has a title. Although most of the titles were given by the Sui Dynasty, there is no doubt that the identities of these people are equally honorable in the dynasty.

"Do you want……"

Cui Pinggu, Cui Qian's sixth uncle, has the title of Marquis of the Township and the vacant position of Doctor Yinqing Guanglu. The former was granted by Daye Emperor Yang Guang, and the latter was granted by Daxia Emperor Dou Jiande. Each house pools a sum of money to see if they can buy a safe one?"

As soon as this was said, Cui Pingshan, Cui Qian's fourth uncle, shook his head and said, "The people who came were not from Luo Yi, nor from Dou Jiande, even if it was from the Li family of the Tang Dynasty, it would not be difficult to buy peace with silver. Turkic Turks If they see that our Cui family can scrape together a large sum of money, I’m afraid it will arouse their great greed, don’t say that they can’t buy peace, I’m afraid it will buy a catastrophe.”

"Dezheng"

Cui Pinggu glanced at Cui Qian and asked, "You are the head of the family, so it's up to you to decide on this matter."

Cui Qian was a little distracted, and heard Cui Pinggu ask him to gather his thoughts and said, "I was just thinking, why did the Turkic people suddenly come to our Boling County?"

"Then there's no need to think about it?"

Cui Qian's fifth uncle, Cui Pingshi, said angrily, "If Luo Manzi hadn't nodded, how could the Turkic people enter the customs easily no matter how good at fighting? Is the five thousand tiger and ben heavy armor in Youzhou just a display? For so many years, the Turkic People's legs tremble when they hear the name "Hu Ben Heavy Armor", without Luo Manzi's permission, they would never dare to go deep alone."

"Where is the great general who has a gap in the Great Wall?"

Cui Qian sighed, couldn't help but shook his head and smiled wryly: "Just do what Uncle Six said. Each house will collect a little money first. It doesn't need too much, so let's send one hundred thousand coins to the house first. Let's try the attitude of the Turks first. Going deep, they didn't come to attack the city, this point couldn't be more clear, guessing that Luo Yi let them in just to make things difficult for Dou Jiande... The helpless thing is, who told us Bo Ling to stop here?"

"It's time for us to make a choice"

Cui Qian stood up, thought for a while and said: "Dou Jiande was defeated in the south, Luo Yi surrendered Li Tang...Now that Li Tang is in full swing, we have to find a reason to rely on it. This time the Turkic people going south may not be a good thing." Uncle, I will pay [-] guan from the Changfang side, and add another [-] guan to each house. Before the Turkic people have besieged the city, you can go to Chang’an by water.”

He said word by word: "I heard that the Turkic saint has some connections with His Royal Highness King Yan..."

When he said this, a team of one hundred and ten people entered the customs from Mayi, all of them were dressed as Han people, and they had the badges of the Tang army. There were a hundred and ten cavalrymen, and the most eye-catching ones were twelve The female soldiers in red armor, although they are beautiful in appearance, but their murderous aura makes people dare not look at them. This group of people guards a carriage, and in the carriage sits a woman in a long lavender dress. , sitting next to her was a ten-year-old boy, who was looking at the scenery outside the window curiously.

"Sister, what is the name of the place we are going to?"

"Chang'an"

"What are we going to do?"

"Go and ask for a title for you. Ashina divination took tens of thousands of wolf riders to join the Tiele people. My sister has to find a backer for you. The grassland must be stable for a while. If you want to be stable, you have to Kill people first... I will send you to Chang'an, and I will take you back to the royal court after my sister kills Ashina Divination and Tiele people."

"Sister won't stay?"

"I can't stay"

The woman in the lavender dress smiled, and said sadly: "I am the saint of the grasslands, the saint of the Turkic people. There are some things that my sister must carry now."

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"The situation is a bit out of control now, but Gu can't leave Chang'an easily"

Li Xian frowned slightly, looked at the map in front of him, and sighed, "If Li Shimin doesn't bring his troops back to Chang'an, Li Daozong and Li Xiaogong will all be variables. Now that Dou Jiande's strength has been greatly weakened, it is the best time to use troops against Hebei. After a while, Dou Jiande regained his strength, and it will be much more difficult to mobilize troops."

"But Chang'an City is not stable yet. As long as I leave Chang'an City, there will be no guarantee that someone will do something to force the army to leave the city. Those people in the dark will immediately jump out and invite Li Yuan back to sit on the dragon chair."

"But now there is a shortage of troops. The original Tang army is not easy to mobilize. Even if I can transfer the Tang army from Taiyuan, I dare not use it."

He rubbed his sore brows and said, "Difficult."

"It's the first time I see you so sad"

Ye Huaixiu walked up to him, lightly tapped his shoulder and said, "Since you started your army, you have always looked calm and breezy."

"It's different now than it used to be..."

Li Xian held Ye Huaixiu's hand and said: "In the past, I just wanted to fight, no matter what it was like, it didn't matter even if I smashed the world to pieces, I just slaughtered anyone who stood in my way, but now half the country is here In my hand, I have to go out to fight, and I have to come back to defend... The burden that I just took over, the situation is already difficult. The predecessors said that it is easier to fight the country than to defend the country. This is the truth. It is necessary to defend the land and open the border... It’s really difficult when the situation is still unstable.”

Ye Huaixiu's heart moved, but he didn't show it: "Actually, the most difficult thing for you now is to care about it. If you are still on Yanshan Mountain, even in Juye Lake, killing people would be difficult. Why is it so sad? But now there are some people who must be killed but cannot be killed, because you cannot lose your benevolence and righteousness."

"Is it hypocritical?"

Li Xian asked with a wry smile

"Sitting in this seat is not a matter of hypocrisy or hypocrisy"

Ye Huaishu said: "It's not something you don't want to do, but something you must do and can't do. Li Tang's old officials are watching you, and there are many people waiting to see if you make mistakes."

"I should lead the troops to the south in person. Xu Shiji led the troops to attack Hebei. I can rest assured that he and Yuwen Shiji are rare handsome talents. Now that Hebei is exhausted and has lost consecutive battles, there is nothing to worry about. Moreover, Qingqing is still leading troops. After entering the customs, Liu Hongji has overturned three counties in a row. Even if Dou Jiande withdraws his troops and defends with all his strength, it will be too late, but the south can't do it... Li Shimin, he is not afraid of anything now, and he dares to do anything."

"What would he do if it was changed?"

Ye Huaixiu asked suddenly

"he?"

Li Xian shook his head and said: "He is the son of Li Yuan, so there is no such trouble."

"Then cut the trouble away"

Ye Huaixiu said lightly, with firm eyes

Li Xian didn't hear the difference in her tone, so he just sighed and said, "It's not that easy, it's because I was too contemptuous after a series of victories, and the Yan Yun army has always been too smooth, I have always warned the people below not to be frivolous Now it seems that I am the most frivolous one. I broke the old nun's layout and Li Yuan's layout. I felt that I was invincible in the world, so I let Li Shimin out easily and hastily."

In fact, there is another reason that he also knows, that is, the current situation is not as good as his own.