In front of the generals around King Sangla, Chen Mu told what had happened in the past two days, but changed the order of events. He said that he found the princess first, and then the second prince of Sogdida. Seeing that the second prince of Sogdia was plotting against him, he killed him in the mountains. Then protect the princess and come to Qilianshu. Unexpectedly, he met the Sogdian cavalry again in Qilianshu, so he took the princess and hid in the mountains.

The above words were all hastily bred, but when they arrived at the Dongting Mountain garrison, they talked at length about how they were good to the princess, how they didn't allow the people below to bully the princess, and said that they killed the horse for the princess to eat, and finally sent someone to send it home. Talking about himself as if he was his own uncle.

Suddenly, the conversation changed, and he emphasized that the princess had been robbed by the most barbaric Huns in the world. The thought of the princess falling into the hands of those savages broke me. Thinking of the princess's fierce temper, she must refuse to give in, and she must not commit suicide. These words were quite harsh, and the faces of King Sangla and the generals were very unsightly.

In the end, he talked about how to risk his life to get the princess back. In order to regain the princess, Liang Jun paid hundreds of lives. Kong Xiaoxian, the lieutenant general of my third division, took the lead in the soldiers, and was injured in many places to save the princess. Later, the princess was fished out of the tiger's mouth and brought into Jiuquan City, treated like a sister, and served with delicious food and drink in a separate courtyard.

As a result, the hero saved the beauty and became a good story in Jiuquan City.

And the hero and the beauty got along for a long time and had feelings for each other, so they tied the knot in the blessings of everyone and made a lifelong alliance.

This kind of thing is afraid that the raw rice will be cooked and cooked, listening to Chen Mu's nonsense, King Sangla also felt a burst of confusion. But after thinking about it, he seemed to have figured it out a little, and there were many people around him who opposed the princess marrying Donghu at the beginning, so he could be regarded as finding an opportunity to persuade King Sangla with all his might. The result, they said, was acceptable.

King Sangla sighed and said, "In that case, let me see my daughter first." I'd like to see if she really wants to. ”

Chen Mu quickly whipped back and asked Kong Xiao to open the city gate first.

Kong Xiaoxian hesitated.

Chen Mu shouted: "If people attack the city now, can you defend it!" ”

Kong Xiao had no choice but to open the city gate.

Chen Mu hurriedly said to Kong Xiaoxian: "When I see King Sangla in a while, I will call my father directly." ”

"What?"

"Oh, it's okay to call your father-in-law."

"What kind of mess?"

"I have already told King Sangla that you and the princess are married."

"......" Kong Xiaoxian was speechless.

Kong Xiao pondered for a moment, he didn't go out to pick up King Sangla, but ran back to talk to the princess.

What the two of them said, Chen Mu didn't know very well, anyway, not long after, the "groom" Kong Xiao took the hand of the "bride" and walked out of the north gate together, welcoming the "father-in-law".

King Sangla was very satisfied when he saw that his son-in-law looked talented, and then inquired, and heard that his uncle was the son of Kong Quan, the nine-rank general of the Liang Dynasty, and the old prince gave a thumbs up, saying that he had heard of Kong Quan's prestige.

Later, the old prince took a turn in Jiuquan City, and when he saw that the Liang army was fighting so hard, he praised Kong Xiaoxian and said: The tiger father has no dogs.

It seems that this old prince's Chinese level is very limited, and Chen Mu almost laughed out loud.

But the old prince thought about it, and in the end he still had to take the princess away, he said, I feel a loss to marry my daughter to you casually, and when you finish the war, let your royal family send a messenger to come to me to propose again, and I will definitely agree when the time comes.

Then the king of Sangla took his daughter and left, not to mention lending a few soldiers to his future uncle.

Chen Mu's initial plan was half ruined.

Again, the old saying goes, plans are good, but the results are often not good.

However, this result is also reasonable, this Jiuquan City is in danger, who can want to throw their daughter directly into the abyss.

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The Sogdians had been beaten away, the Huns were gone, and King Sangla returned to the plateau with his daughter satisfied.

According to statistics after the war, the Liang army lost 1,200 people, and some prisoners were also killed, and now there are more than 900 people left in the 3rd Division, including 2,300 wounded.

In this case, what if the enemy forces come back again?

Kong Xiaoxian stood at the head of the city with his hands behind his back, his eyes were full of desolation, and suddenly grass grew in his heart, and he decided to go to the prison army Wu Dong to discuss.

Chen Mu followed behind Kong Xiaoxian and came to see Wu Dong together.

Wu Dong was injured, his head was bandaged, and he looked like he was going to die, and he collapsed in the free chair with his eyes closed.

Seeing that Kong Xiao came first, he reluctantly opened his eyes, sat up, and said politely and politely.

Kong Xiaoxian, Chen Mu and others sat down one after another.

"Wu Jianjun, we have tried our best, but there are too many enemy troops, we can't hold it." Kong Xiaoxian said in a consultative tone: "Or, let's go out of the city and go to Horsehair Mountain or Dongting Mountain to establish a big village." There, we can attack, retreat and defend, and if we can't do it, we will flee to the mountains. ”

Wu Dong nodded with a heavy heart and said, "Giving up Jiuquan is a very difficult decision for me to make. However, General Kong's words are not unreasonable. Our third division has already experienced a great battle of nine deaths and a lifetime, and it is worthy of our emperor and the people of the Liang Dynasty. It is only an expedient measure for us to abandon the city now and go to the mountains, we have not surrendered, nor have we become deserters. We will continue to fight the Hu people to the end. ”

Kong Xiaoxian smiled and praised: "Lord Wu is right, that's what I mean." ”

Wu Dong nodded with satisfaction: "Okay then, let's go out." ”

Chen Mu was overjoyed.

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The Liang army burned down the facilities in Jiuquan City, demolished the four city gates in a mess, and buried the gate stones into the ground, and then escaped from Jiuquan and hid into the mountains.

If the Sogdians had gone and returned at this time, the ruined city would not have made much sense to them, and they would not have garrisoned the city and made any effort to repair it.

Then Kong Xiao first divided the team into two teams, one team defended in the Dongting Mountain camp, and the other team ran to Dongting Mountain to hide. The hidden soldiers were mostly wounded, and they could get a good rest.

It is very close to the Beida River here, so it is not very troublesome to dig a well in Dazhai, dig less than three zhang, then dig out the water, the well water is full, enough for thousands of people to drink.

Kong Xiaoxian was ready to be stationed for a long time, and divided the grain into several places and hid it, waiting for the Sogdians to return.

But after waiting for a month, the enemy army did not come back, and Kong Xiaoxian regretted it a little.

Jiuquan City was destroyed by itself, and if you want to rebuild it, you don't know how much manpower and material resources it will take. Because of this incident, Tang Xiong, the general of the 15th Division, will not come again, and it will be a troublesome matter at that time.