In the first year of Tianci, August 15, Dongting Mountain in the south of Jiuquan City.

This Mid-Autumn Festival is really shabby.

Now the most important thing for the Liang army is food, the grain that Chen Mu transported was given to 2,000 people to eat for half a year, and now there are less than 1,000 people left, so this food is enough for everyone to eat for a year.

Although he was well fed, life was boring, and Chen Mu's thoughts had already drifted into Luoyang.

In that bustling and noisy giant city, there are three red lanterns in Luoyang, such as Pingkangfang, Wanhualou, Meixian Courtyard, Caiyun Pavilion, and Luoyang.

Chen Mu likes to go to Wanhualou, but he doesn't go there to be "obscene", he just likes the joyful atmosphere there.

In that kind of high-end clubhouse, it will not be as disgusting as a small brothel in the alley, and almost every lady in Wanhualou is talented and good-looking. Being in that kind of environment makes people feel inexplicably relaxed and happy.

Even if you don't do anything, like some people, it's a pleasure to order a plate of raisins, a pot of warm rice wine, and sit there watching singing and dancing and listening to piano music.

Talking about Wanhualou, the lame man pillowed his hands behind his head, looked up at the starry sky, and recited a poem by Wang Changling, a poet of the Tang Dynasty:

"The white horse and the golden saddle are from the martial emperor, and the banner is 100,000 long Yang.

The little woman at the head of the building sat on the zither and saw the flying dust entering the building chapter from afar.

The galloping road is full of poplar flowers, and the red makeup is on the green building.

More than 1,000 gold medals and purple ribbons rode up, and the husband paid homage to the first court. ”

In the end, the cripple said lightly: "If I had money, I would rather die in the Wanhualou." ”

Chen Mu smiled bitterly and said, "Your daughter-in-law Yu Linglong, isn't she a senior Qingqi on the eighth floor?" What else are you not satisfied with. Wouldn't it be nice to redeem her and return home with her wife? ”

"Mu, when this battle is over, I will go back to Luoyang. This time, I plan to meet Tang Qiong. ”

"You have been dormant for twenty years and refuse to show your head, why did you take the initiative to see him this time?"

"I have a big gift for him. I'm sure he'll love it. From now on, I can return to Luoyang and live my stable life. ”

"You old boy, didn't you say that you want to accompany me to be the emperor?"

"Yes, I want you to be the emperor, but you kid is not interesting enough."

"What's wrong?"

"You want to make me a eunuch, do you think I can agree?"

"Huh."

When you are fine, you can fight tooth sacrifices with the lame, and these words should not be taken too seriously.

However, there are often hidden mysteries in jokes, and sometimes half of the jokes are true.

"Hey, Chen Mu, I don't know if we can catch up with this year's Luoyang Poetry Club. If you can, I've got two poems for you to taste and see how many floors I can climb. ”

"What do you mean by how many floors do you mean?"

"Wanhualou, Meixian Temple, Caiyun Pavilion, the annual poetry competition of the three major pavilions is also very fierce. They are all nine-story buildings, and if your poems are well written, they will rise one by one, and at the end, you will be able to climb to the top floor, and the three major brothels, the town of Oiran, will personally receive you. What a glory. ”

"These three Oiran are the big stars of the Liang Dynasty."

"Big star? Your analogy is interesting. ”

"Huh." Chen Mu shook his head: "There is nothing to be honored, I used to have a friend who slept with them." ”

"What friend?"

"Well...... I don't know if I told you, so don't ask."

The lame man blinked, and no longer asked, but took out a piece of torn paper from his bosom and shook it, on which were written in small letters.

"Some can't see clearly, I'll read it to you, you can taste it."

"Okay, let's listen to it." Chen Mu was interested.

The lame man brewed his emotions for a while, and recited in a low voice: "The silver knife Haoyue black horse, the fierce general Yunzhou rolls the soldiers, the exile slave suffers thousands of degrees, and returns to Kyoto at night in his dreams." ”

After reciting, the lame man had an expectant expression, waiting for Chen Mu's evaluation.

Chen Mu pinched his ears, rubbed his hands, and rubbed his face.

"You're talking." The cripple got a little impatient.

"You wait for me to slow down for a moment."

"Slow for what?"

"It's sour, my teeth are sore."

"Go and go, don't listen and pull down." The lame man was not happy, and put another poem in his pocket and did not show it to anyone.

Chen Mu scolded with a smile: "Look at you old chicken lamp, you still compose poems if you have nothing to do?" Just you, it's good to be able to enter the gate of Wanhualou, and you have to climb the tall building. ”

The lame man glared: "I'm not convinced, then you have a song." I'll give you a rating. ”

Chen Mu sat up: "Cripple, don't beat me." I'll do a song casually, I can't guarantee that I will go up to the ninth floor, the seventh or eighth floor will definitely be fine. ”

"You're that good?" The lame man didn't believe it, and laughed.

Chen Mu thought for a while: "It's not that I'm amazing, it's ......, how can I tell you, anyway, those poems are very good, I didn't write them, but no one else knows." ”

"What a mess."

"Forget it, I don't blame you if you don't understand."

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Through the capture of the enemy, it was learned that the Sogdian commander who later led the army to attack Jiuquan was named Alidayi, who was the brother of the Sogdian king Alimandan, and enjoyed the reputation of the god of war in Sogdia.

Originally, Ali Dayi did not support the Sogdian king's attack on Daliang, but later Ali Mandan insisted on going his own way and sent the general Uyanda to lead 170,000 troops to set off. Leaving 20,000 soldiers in Dunhuang, Jiuquan and Zhangye areas, the remaining 15 men and horses rushed to Longyou around the horsehair mountain, and the Hungarian Dadan was united with the Alanda soldiers, and went south to Wuwei to confront Tang Zhen's 120,000 Shence army and Zhang Yunlong's 30,000 Xuanjia army.

The decisive battle has not yet begun, and the skirmishes in the surrounding areas continue to start, at this time Ali Dayi couldn't sit still, so he simply led his headquarters to rush out of Jiaohe City, take Dunhuang in half a month, and fight Jiuquan non-stop. As a result, the money for wine hit a nail.

This nail was a little wronged.

Had it not been for the sudden appearance of the King of Sangla, Ali Dayi would have taken Jiuquan City, and although it cost close to 4,000 men, it would still be an important victory.

But now, Ali Dayi is sitting at the head of Jiayuguan City, his eyes gloomy.

He had already heard the news of the destruction of Jiuquan City, and the Liang army had withdrawn into the mountains, and he didn't like to fight that kind of battle, so he had been stationed at Jiayuguan and did not move.

He had a hunch that the battle on Wuwei's side would not be easy to fight.

The Liang Dynasty army was different from other armies, their soldiers were not very burly, and they were usually intrigued, but what made people feel strange was that once the fight began, they were able to burst out with an astonishing will to fight and an incomparable spirit of unity.

But when they finished the battle, they began to intrigue again, fighting to the death.

The cycle repeats itself, "never tired of it".

From the perspective of the Liang Dynasty system, the top level is this virtue. When there is no war, the gate valve fights, palace fights, and imperial power fights are hot. But as soon as they fought with the foreigners, they stopped, and they united as one, and the whole country was unanimous.

Ali Dayi felt that Liang Chaoqi was still there, and the Central Plains could not be offended.

He suddenly felt that he should talk to the Jiuquan master of the Liang Dynasty, not about the present, but about the future.

As a result, a Sogdian envoy came to the Liang army's village, but was arrested by the Liang army sentry as a fine work and escorted into the account.