The urgent report from Xihai County was jointly sent by Duya and Beigong Yue.

Seven or eight days ago, several small forces of Rouran went south and raided the Hu tribe living near Xihai (Juyanze), robbing thousands of sheep and horses. Beigong Yue personally led more than 100 horsemen, followed the trail and pursued, and destroyed two of them.

Beigong Yue is stationed in northern Xinjiang, formerly in Dunhuang, now in the West Sea, either to defend against Rouran's southern invasion, or to take the initiative to attack, almost every year to fight with Rouran several times, very familiar with and understanding of Rouran people.

Based on the confessions of the captives and the information discovered by the sentinels in Rouran's territory, he judged that although these Rouran troops were small in number, they were likely to be the prelude to a new round of raids and plunders in Rouran.

Rouran is an emerging force, most of its upper nobles are subordinates of the Xianbei people, even slaves, the development of the whole society is very backward, political, economic, cultural, military and other aspects are still in an uncivilized period, not to mention compared with the Tang people, even the Xianbei people look down on them, "with their ignorance, like insects", contemptuously call them "worms".

Therefore, in terms of military equipment alone, Rouran's troops do not have many armor, stone arrows, bone arrows, and even all of them, and the combat effectiveness of a single cavalry is far from being comparable with the soldiers of Dingxi Kingdom, but they are superior to the number of people.

And Beigong Yue's troops only have 3,000 cavalry, which is more than enough to defend Xihai County, but it is not enough to protect the Hu people on the side of the Xihai ring. Therefore, after Beigong Yue and Du Ya reported in the military report that Rouran might invade the south on a larger scale, they asked Xin Er to increase the troops in Xihai County.

In the summer, Xin Er inspected Xihai County once.

At that time, he had dealt with all the important tasks such as collecting Hu and cracking down on Haoqiang, and when he had free time, he took half a month to Xihai County, which was under his supervision, to inspect the military affairs.

Beigong Yue, as the military chief of Xihai County, accompanied him throughout the process.

This is also the first time Xin Er has seen him.

Although it was the first time they met, the name of this person had been heard for a long time.

Beigong is the surname of Tang, but Beigong is more Rong people, his family background is Longdi Ronghao, at the end of the Qin Dynasty has been attached to the imperial court, from then to now, their family has been the imperial court for generations, or the commander of the righteous from Hu, or simply in the border army as a general, known for its fierce and good war.

Beigong Yue is the most outstanding talent of this generation in their family, good at riding and archery, brave and resourceful, and good at soothing the Hu, before in Dunhuang, is already famous, although it has not been stationed in Xihai County for a long time, but it is very popular with the Hu tribes around the West Sea.

It can be said that among the many generals in the Dingxi National Army, Beigong Yue is the more outstanding one.

Xin Er attaches great importance to his judgment.

On the day he received the military report, Xin Er invited Song Pian and Fu Qiao to come to the mansion, and summoned all the lieutenant generals and colonels such as Yang Fu, Yan Xi, Lan Baozhang, Shi Liang, and Lu Jing, Huang Rong, Xiang Kui, Gao Chong and other county government officials, and asked Zhang Gui to attend to discuss the matter together.

——In order to alleviate the contradiction between the indigenous scholars and the scholars in the county government, not long ago, Xin Er made a personnel adjustment, promoted the koji to serve as the county gongcao, and appointed Shi Liang as an advisor to join the army; Therefore, now Shi Liang is not from the county government, but a subordinate of the general's mansion.

So far, Xin Er has awarded a total of two official positions, one is Zhang Jingwei, and the other is the current Shi Liang.

He found that the "board teaching" thing is really useful.

There is no need to go through the approval of the imperial court, and you can teach whoever you want, and there is no limit to the number of places.

Although the board conferred officials do not have seals and ribbons, and their political treatment cannot be compared with that of the officials, but at least they are also an official with authority or name, and if this thing is used well, it can be used as a big killer to recruit talents and expand strength. It is no wonder that in modern times, the atmosphere of "board award" has become more and more serious, such as the land of Jiangzuo, and even the county order and Taishou can be awarded by the superior governor.

Fu Qiao and others arrived one after another.

Song Pian is the same, and the last one came.

When Song Pian came into the hall, Xin Er beckoned him to sit down.

Song Pian was still angry, didn't want to pay attention to him, and sat down by herself.

After beating the Zhang family that day, Song Pian rushed back to the county mansion, and wrote a letter to Song Hong at that time, detailing how he was "deceived" and was coaxed to the scene, and asked Song Hong if he needed to explain to the Zhang family? If needed, he could write another letter to Zhang Hun. After writing it, he sent someone to send it to the royal capital immediately.

After four or five days, I received a reply from Song Hong.

Song Hong didn't say anything in his reply, only lightly said that he knew. As for whether he wanted to give an explanation to the Zhang family, Song Hongti didn't mention it. Song Pian didn't understand what Song Hong meant, and was uneasy for more than half a month, and then heard a piece of news.

However, when he was coracting with other brothers in the clan, he learned that when Song Fang and Lu Shuang "Song Hong summoned all the officials of the ministry to discuss how to deal with Zhang Jin and his son", contrary to Song Hong's opinion, he strongly advocated the severe punishment of Zhang Jin and his son, as well as the incident of sitting on Zhang Hun.

After knowing this, Song Pian understood why Song Hong "didn't mention the explanation" attitude.

It's not that he doesn't mention it, it's not that Song Hong doesn't want to explain, it's that it's useless to explain.

Because of the case of Song Hong protecting Zhang's family in the past, Song Pian "followed" Xin Er to attack Zhangjiawu Fort, Zhang Hun probably wouldn't think that he was instructed by Song Hong, but nine times out of ten, he would think that it was related to Song Fang.

This is really unreasonable, which adds another gap to the relationship between the Song family and the Zhang family.

Thinking of this, Song Pian was so angry that her teeth itched, how could she have a good face to show Xin Er?

Xin Er didn't mind, greeted him with a smile, and when he saw that everyone had arrived, he motioned to Huang Rong and said, "I'm tired of the main book, read the military reports of General Beigong and Du Taishou to everyone." ”

Huang Rong promised, got up close to the case, took the military newspaper, and read it to everyone in the hall.

Xin Er looked around the hall and said: "Everyone knows, there is only one county in Xihai, I went to Xihai County this summer to inspect the military, and after arriving in the county, I carefully inspected the city defense, the city is tall and strong, and Rouran will invade the south in a big way, and Xihai County is not expected to be lost."

"Only what General Beigong said in the military newspaper is that the West Sea in the north of the county is really vast, more than 300 miles from east to west, and 1200 miles wide from north to south. General Beigong only had 3,000 cavalry, and no more than 1,000 cavalry, which was indeed difficult to protect the many Hu tribes living around the West Sea.

"If you have any opinions, please speak freely."

Song Pian snorted.

Xin Yi smiled and asked, "Does Song Gong have something to say?" Dare to hear it. ”

"Rouran is Hulu, and the people who live in Xihai Zhou are also Hulu. They are fighting back and forth, what does it matter to me Dingxi? I think General Beigong's 'request for help' is too much! ”

"What does Song Gong mean?"

Song Pian said: "I don't have any high opinions, only a foolish opinion. That is, as long as Xihai County is not lost, nothing else matters. ”

Xin Er nodded and said, "Song Gong's proposal can't be said to be foolish. ”

Song Pian thought that Xin Er was going to praise him, and snorted again, just thinking that when Xin Er finished praising him, he replied with a cold "don't dare to be", so as to lose his face and get a little angry, but he didn't expect to hear Xin Er continue: "However, it is indeed not clever." ”