Xiao Pass was very close to Lingwu, and the main general who stayed behind was also Li Fuguo's cronies, and Miao Jinqing felt the need to inform Li Fuguo in detail about his situation in the past two days.

A large number of remnants of the Tibetan army secretly assembled near Lingwu, obviously there was a plan, he and Qin Ji could not be the real target, maybe Chang'an, who was about to return to Beijing, was. If it is really as expected, the plan of the Son of Heaven to return to Chang'an in the south must be delayed, after all, there are quite a few remnants of the Tibetan army, as many as 20,000 or 30,000 people, even if Li Fuguo comes out, he may not be their opponent. Moreover, the Son of Heaven is weak, and it is unknown whether he can withstand the toss of the battlefield.

Before completely annihilating or expelling the remnants of the Tibetan army that stood in the way of the Lingwu official, it was not suitable for the Son of Heaven to leave Lingwu and return to Chang'an.

Miao Jinqing wrote a long letter of thousands of words about his analysis, hoping to attract Li Fuguo's enough attention and not to put the Son of Heaven in danger easily. The Son of Heaven is the only bargaining chip that Li Fuguo can rely on, and he believes that Li Fuguo is absolutely capable of prioritizing the priorities.

After the long letter was written, Miao Jinqing handed it over to Xiao Guan's guard, and asked him to discuss how it must be delivered to Li Fuguo as quickly as possible.

The two were simply greeting, but a military official came in a panic.

"General, there are a large number of unidentified Hu soldiers approaching Xiao Guan......"

The guard general Xiao Guan was also surprised, and hurriedly asked about the scale of Hu Bing, but the military officer couldn't answer.

"The combat effectiveness of the Hu soldiers is very terrifying, all the scouts sent out are dead, and the only one who came back alive has just ......died of his injuries."

From the conversation between the two, Miao Jinqing realized the seriousness of the problem, if nothing else, the so-called Hu soldiers are the remnants of Tubo, if the target of the remnants of Tubo is Xiaoguan, I am afraid that this small city will be lost!

Miao Jinqing was about to follow and make a plan, but a Shenwu army soldier rushed over.

"Zhonglang will invite Miao Shilang to discuss the matter!"

He hesitated for a moment, and felt that it was necessary to go to Qin Ji and discuss with him how to repel the Hu soldiers and hold Xiao Pass.

However, when Miao Jinqing saw Qin Ji, he was urged to get on the horse and leave.

"Hu's army is strong, is Zhonglang going to die and not be saved?"

Miao Jinqing asked excitedly, but Qin Ji was expressionless, and replied lightly:

"The Xiao Pass garrison is not the opponent of the remnants of the Tubo army, and the centaur team in my hand cannot confront it head-on, so it is best to evacuate as soon as possible!"

After saying that, he couldn't help but say, and ordered someone to force Miao Jinqing to the war horse.

"For the sake of the generals, they need to know the priorities, make trade-offs, and blindly do it, that's what stupid people do!"

Miao Jinqing was still angry and wanted to scold, but after listening to Qin Ji's words, his arrogance became shorter.

……

Lingwu rode into the city at a gallop.

"Urgent report, submit it to General Li!"

Everyone dodged a way for the knight and presented General Li's urgent report, who dared to stop it, it was a crime to kill the head. Moreover, judging by the fact that the messenger was covered in blood, this urgent news must not be good news.

Sure enough, after Li Fuguo saw it, he angrily tore the emergency report to shreds.

"Miao Jinqing, this idiot, what kind of ecstasy soup was poured into by the slave surnamed Qin, and he actually helped Qin Jin speak!"

He originally didn't plan to pay attention to this long letter sent back by Miao Jinqing, but then, the urgent news was continuously sent to Lingwu, and a large number of Hu soldiers attacked Xiao Pass, Xiao Pass was in danger!

Where did this group of Hu soldiers come from, and why did they attack the small Xiao Pass with great fanfare? Li Fuguo couldn't figure it out for a while, so he asked Shangshu Zuo Cheng and Cui Yuan to discuss the matter.

After Cui Yuan learned the ins and outs of the Xiao Guan war, he felt that Miao Jinqing's long letter was still credible, with his understanding of Miao Jinqing, it was impossible for this person to be bought by anyone, and his loyalty to the Son of Heaven was even far greater than cherishing his own life!

However, Li Fuguo didn't believe that there were still people in this world who didn't care about their lives, and still stubbornly believed that Miao Jinqing must have been bribed or threatened, so he wrote this inexplicable long letter.

He looked at Cui Yuan and made an assumption.

"Xiao Guan's crisis, could it be concocted by Qin Jin?"

Cui Yuan felt that it was impossible, and the successive emergency military reports all mentioned that tens of thousands of Hu soldiers of unknown origin besieging Xiao Pass were mentioned, which also coincided with Miao Jinqing's long letter. But Li Fuguo felt that this was Cui Yuan's partiality, in the final analysis, he didn't believe that Qin Jin would obediently obey, so now that there was a battle of Hu soldiers attacking Xiao Pass, he naturally thought of Qin Jin's body.

"Don't forget, the most elite cavalry around Qin Jin is the Hu people, and the cavalry of the Tongluo Department is even terrified of the Khitans, so why is it difficult to pretend to be the remnants of Tubo?"

Cui Yuan was silent, he felt that Li Fuguo's guess was also reasonable, but anything could be done in this world. Even if Li Fuguo's speculation is true, then what can he do? Is it really necessary to forcibly return to Chang'an at the risk of shocking the Son of Heaven?

The risk of doing so is too great, in case there is an accident one day, they are the sinners of Datang!

Li Fuguo is actually more worried than Cui Yuan, but he can't afford to wait, if Qin Jin is allowed to drag it on, they will only become more and more passive, once the Shenwu Army completely controls the court, and everyone in the world acquiesces to this fact, it will be meaningless for them to go back. Therefore, it is necessary to return to Chang'an when the Shenwu Army has not yet gained a firm foothold, and then use the civil and military officials who oppose Qin and Jin in the court to clamp the arms of the Shenwu Army, but in this way, there is still a possibility of victory.

It's a pity that Cui Yuansui cooperated with him, but he was not his cronies, and some things couldn't be said clearly, so he could only be secretly anxious in his heart.

Li believed that the storming of Xiaoguan was just a bluff by Qin Jin, and perhaps even Miao Shilang was deceived by him, and his purpose was to delay the return of the Son of Heaven to Chang'an. If we're scared, we're right in the middle of it!"

While speaking, Li Fuguo secretly made a decision, Lingwu can't continue to stay in this place no matter what, he must leave this place, only leaving this place is the way to live, otherwise there will only be a dead end left if he stays.

Cui Yuan is also a smart person, and he saw that Li Fuguo was determined to leave Lingwu to protect the Son of Heaven and return to Chang'an, so he no longer insisted.

"If the general is determined to return to Chang'an, Cui suggested that he first send troops to expel the Hu soldiers besieging Xiao Pass, and then escort the Son of Heaven to set off on the road!"

Li Fuguo, the great general, is absolutely in vain, in addition to conspiracy and plotting, fighting for power and profit, he can be said to know nothing about the way of using troops, Cui Yuan's suggestion is very pertinent, and he feels that if the division of troops will weaken his own strength, so he advocates concentrating all forces, rushing to Xiao Pass, and giving those Hu soldiers a thunderous surprise attack.

However, if you want to do this, you must take the Son of Heaven with you, and the Son of Heaven must face the great risks of uncertainty in battle.

Li Fuguo groaned for a while and said:

"Li is going to meet the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven will judge it!"

Cui Yuan wanted to speak and stopped, feeling that he couldn't convince Li Fuguo, so he had to let it go. The so-called letting the Son of Heaven make a holy judgment is just a pretense, all the decisions of the Son of Heaven are in the hands of Li Fuguo, isn't it what he wants to do, how will the Son of Heaven "say"?

Sure enough, the Son of Heaven issued an edict and ordered the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs to pack his bags and return to Chang'an with the army south three days later.

On the day the edict was issued, most of the civil and military officials stranded in Lingwu burst into tears with excitement, and after months of displacement, they were finally going home!

In order to reduce the resistance to return to Chang'an, the battle of Xiao Pass was deliberately concealed by Li Fuguo, he believed that it should not be a problem for Xiao Pass to hold on for another three or two days, as long as they arrived at Xiao Pass as quickly as possible, they could form a two-sided flank attack on the Hu soldiers besieging Xiao Pass, and victory was in the blink of an eye.

Therefore, Li Fuguo's judgment of the situation is still very optimistic, no matter whether those "Hu soldiers" are pretending to be Shenwu Army or not, he will attack them hard, and he will never tolerate mercy!

There were about 30,000 forbidden troops stationed in Lingwu, of which nearly 20,000 were recruited in the local area of Lingwu. Therefore, after the news of the start of the army was announced, at least half of the men and horses were reluctant to leave their homes, in stark contrast to the civil and military ministers, their families and slaves who were stranded in Lingwu, and there were nearly 10,000 people in this part.

Due to the lack of coordination of command and the inconsistency of their actions, the team that left Lingwu dragged from early morning to noon, and most of them were the families and convoys of the ministers of civil and military affairs who were stranded in the city. Cui Yuan shook his head when he saw it, if such a group of people really encountered the remnants of the Tubo army, it was hard to imagine what would happen to them.

Perhaps out of pessimism about the future, Cui Yuan took the initiative to ask to stay and break off. Li Fuguo's expression was complicated, with both contempt and anger, but he still agreed.

Don't look at this Cui Yuan, he keeps saying that he is loyal to the Son of Heaven, and when it comes to the critical moment, doesn't he only care about his own life? What kind of loyalty, integrity, are all lies! And Miao Jinqing, who is the same as him, spoke more beautifully than he sang when he was in Lingwu, what was the result? Before he could reach Chang'an, he defected!

Li Fuguo despised these sanctimonious hypocrites in his heart, and secretly swore in his heart that once he escorted the Son of Heaven back to Chang'an safely, there would be a day when he would rise again in the future, and he would teach these villains to repent of their mistakes!

30,000 forbidden troops left Lingwu, and Li Fuguo couldn't take care of those civil and military officials who brought their families and mouths, and wrapped up a lot of money.

Before sunset, the 30,000 forbidden troops had only walked less than twenty miles, and Li Fuguo was in a hurry. At night, a military official suddenly reported that a mysterious man was holding the gold medal of the Son of Heaven and asked to see him. This made Li Fuguo feel very surprised, who was visiting at night?

If in the past, he would definitely drive that person away without hesitation, but now he suddenly felt that maybe it was God's intentional arrangement.

A moment later, the mysterious man stood in front of Li Fuguo, and he was stunned.