Suo Gong greeted Xin Er and his subordinates, led the way, and traveled about 100 miles to the west of the Lanhai Sea to the station of the Changshi Mansion in the Western Regions.

On the way, I came across two settlements, both on a small oasis by the spring.

The inhabitants of the settlement were all Tang soldiers under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, and they were ordered to graze horses here. The house is quite local, and it is made of soil mixed with poplar branches and rammed. In the vicinity of these two settlements, there is a poplar forest in each of them.

The soldiers of the herding horses greeted Xin Er and his party on the side of the road.

Everyone was in tattered clothes, with dark complexions and dirty hair.

Some of them are probably for convenience, so they don't even tie their hair in a bun, and they learn to tie it with ropes.

Xin Er sighed in his heart and thought: "The border is already bitter, Tuntian, herding horses in the Western Regions, in the desert sea, hot in summer and cold in winter, especially bitter!" ”

The station of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion was in Liuzhong earlier, and it was moved to the sea head in the southwest of Loulan in ancient times.

Haitou City is not big, and its circumference is only one or two miles.

The city wall is not low, and various defensive buildings such as battlements and horse faces are complete, and it is a military-oriented fortress at first glance.

There are almost no tall houses in the city, and they are all small, except for the Changshi Mansion, which is slightly more spacious.

When he entered the city, Xin Er ordered the troops to camp outside, and Yan Xun and other officers were left in the army, and only Yang Chao, Zhang Gui, Beigong Yue, and Bald Boye were brought in.

Suo Gong went out to welcome Baili and showed enough respect for Xin Er.

Since respect, it is inseparable from the banquet to wash the dust. It's okay to have dishes, where this bird doesn't, don't say that the food is precious, even the daily catering of the Yin valve clan of Wangdu Valley is not as good, but the grape wine of the Western Regions is well-known in the world, and there are many hidden goods in the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, Suo Gong selected the best of them, took them out, and put two bottles on each case. Xin Er did not prohibit them from drinking, and he did not drink himself.

Suo Gong asked, "Why doesn't the general drink it?" Is it bad for alcohol? Or do you not drink alcohol? ”

Xin Er arched his hand in the direction of Gu Yin and said, "I have received the favor of the previous king, but I have no talent and no virtue, and I can't repay it." A few days ago, I dreamed of the former king, smiling kindly, just like the old days, waking up with tears and wipes. The first king has not been around for a long time, and the grief in my heart cannot be expressed. I am afraid that I will be drunk, or I will lose my temper before the thrones. ”

Suo Gong was in awe and said admiringly: "The general is loyal, and he can learn from it every day!" Then he ordered the soldiers who were waiting to take away the wine.

Xin Er stopped him and said, "I don't drink it, how can I frustrate the prosperity of the kings?" Picked up the water bowl, got up and looked forward to the banquet, and said, "Suo Chang Shijiu Zhenhaitou, controlling the Western Regions, fighting for the country, and working hard; Qing and others went on an expedition from me, crossed the quicksand, crossed the white dragon pile, there was no road, and the bones were used as the mark, and the trek was difficult and dangerous, and it was also hard for many days! I replace wine with water to comfort your hard work! ”

He drank it all.

Suo Gong, Beigong Yue and others also got up and drank wine.

Suo Gong raised a group of female playwrights, who were tall and white-skinned, or blue-eyed, all of whom were from the Western Regions.

At this time, the female musicians are four or five, holding all kinds of musical instruments, plucking, pulling, and playing; The singer is alone, singing with a man's voice; Three or four dancers, dressed in colorful dresses, danced. Music, song, and dance are the wind of the Western Regions.

Xin Er didn't know much about the rhythm, but he could also hear that the syllables and melodies of the music were very different from those he heard in Dingxi; He couldn't understand the singing at all, and he sang in the Western Regions.

As for the dance, Xin Er had watched the dance of the maid of the Western Regions that Linghu gave him, at this time, he looked at the hall a few times, and found that their dancing posture was similar to that of the maid of the Western Regions, and he often saw some movements, which were very similar to the posture of the dancers on the song and dance paintings in the Dunhuang caves that he had seen in later generations, pushing his crotch out to the side, twisting his waist, and bending the arm on the other side, in short, in the words of later generations, it was to form an "S" shape. With their tight-fitting dresses, the shape is bold and beautiful, full of exotic style.

Wine, singing and dancing, the atmosphere in the hall slowly warmed up.

A scribe left the bed, swirled the dance, danced to the sheep, and invited him to dance. Yang Chao is an old friend with this person, taking over the dance. After the dance, he invited Suo Gong to dance. Suo Gong danced and invited Xin Er. Xin Er is already very familiar with this set of dances, and happily follows it.

The female concubine of the Western Regions under the hall rotated, and the scholars of the Tang people in the hall danced.

Two different styles, but they do not seem abrupt, but converge into a strange harmony.

A banquet, drink until the second watch.

Suo Gong seems to be a scholar, he drinks a lot, and he gets Beigong Yue drunk, and he is still nothing.

Soon after the soldiers carried Beigong Yue away, everyone dispersed.

Suo Gong arranged the largest house in the Changshi Mansion to Xin Er to stay.

The war was approaching, Xin Er was in high spirits, couldn't sleep, lay down for a while, got up and went out of the room, and paced in the courtyard outside. Compared with Dingxi, the temperature difference between day and night here is greater, the sun is scorching during the day, and the wind is cool at night. Xin Er walked to the big tree in the courtyard, stroked the bark with his hand, and looked up, and saw that the tree was lush and green, with a vast canopy, and the moonlight sprinkled on his body through the leaves.

"General, can't you sleep?"

Xin Er heard the sound and saw that it was Suo Gong and a scribe.

This scribe was the man who invited the sheep to dance during the feast, and his name was Yin Luo.

"Tomorrow I will go north and join Captain Wuji. The strength of the country is not weak, and it is considered a first-class power among the countries of the East China Sea. Suo Jun, Yin Jun, since the first king, I was appointed to assist, I have been lamenting all night, worrying about the ineffectiveness of the entrustment every day, so as to hurt the wisdom of the first king. Whether this battle of Qiuzi can be resolved quickly and whether it can be successful in one battle is not a secret, although I am sure, I still can't sleep peacefully. ”

Xin Er's sincerity was beyond Suo Gong and Yin Luo's expectations.

The two of them glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but think: "The two of us and General Wuwei didn't know each other before, he was in power at the age of a weak crown, and he commanded my generation, I thought that he might pretend to be reserved for the two of us, with a high price, but he didn't want to drink and feast during the banquet, it was already easy, and his words were so frank." ”

Xin Er is honest, and Suo Gong will not beat around the corner.

He said: "General, the last general and the Yin Jun are here for the military. After a pause, he said, "The last general originally planned to give advice to the general tomorrow, but when I heard the report that the general was alone under the moon, the last general and Yin Jun took the liberty to come, and I still dare to ask the general not to blame!" ”

Xin Er made a look of great joy and said: "The long history and the Yin Monarch are also handsome and talented, and they must be first-class if they have strategies. I don't know what Jiace is? Dare to be taught. ”

When Sogong came, he had already ordered the guards to go out. There are no outsiders in the courtyard.

Right now, under the tree in the courtyard, Suo Gong offered advice.

He said: "I received a letter from the general a while ago. Looking at the meaning of the general's text, it seems that he wants to first merge the last general's department and the Wuji school captain's department to attack Qiuzi; Take the turtle and turn to Shanshan? ”

Qiuzi is to the west of the Wuji Captain's Department, and is a large country in the Northern Province of the Western Regions; Shanshan is located in the west of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion and is a large country in the southern Western Regions. Each of these two countries now controls several small surrounding states and is the king and hegemon.

Xin Er bowed his head and said: "Among the countries of Haidong, Qiuzi is the strongest. I want to take the turtle first, and if I think the rest will not be difficult to convince me. ”

Suo Gong said: "The general sees it! It's just that the last general thinks that Shanshan is easy to take. Why don't you first conquer Shanshan, coerce Shengwei, and then attack Qiuzi? ”

"Oh? Easy trade? ”

"The younger brother of the lord of Shanshan, he tasted Guyin, the capital of the king of Dingxi, admired Wang Hua, and wrote frequently with the last general. As long as the general allows him to take the position of the lord of the country, he will be willing to do it. With his internal response, it is easy to take Shanshan! ”

"And this story?"

"Exactly."

Xin Er groaned and said: "Although Shanshan is not as good as Qiuzi, it is also a big country in the Western Regions, even if there is an internal response, it will not be too easy to take it, right?" ”

Suo Gong pointed at Yin Luo and said with a smile: "According to common sense, it is indeed not too easy to take it, but now that Yin Jun has a plan, it will not be difficult to take it!" ”

Xin Er asked, "What's the plan?" ”

Yin Luo replied: "The lord of Shanshan is gentle, and the general is now facing the sea with a large army, and when he hears it, he will be shocked. The general can send one person to lead his troops to the sea to help the general attack Qiuzi. ”

Xin Er smiled: "I'm afraid he won't come." ”

"I don't need him. All it is necessary for the general's messenger to bring the news of his summoning. At the same time, the general can send a general, lead the troops to attack the capital! Thinking about it at that time, the lord of Shanshan was ordered by the general, thinking that the general had no intention of attacking his country for the time being, and the defense was bound to be lax, and my king's division was like a divine soldier descending from the sky and had arrived in his country. He is relaxed, I have an internal response, how difficult is it to take! ”

After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't say anything for the time being, and said in his heart: "Although Yin Luo only said 'you can send a general', this general can obviously only be Suo Gong." Asked Suo Gong and said, "If you are a Yin Jun Gao Ce, this important task is none other than Jun." What is the chance of winning in the long history, and how many soldiers and horses are needed? ”

Suo Gong replied: "Only 3,000 soldiers from the headquarters of the last general are enough!" ”

He looks like a gentleman, a simple sentence, but he is arrogant and exposed.

Xin Er didn't answer him immediately, while thinking quickly in his heart, he touched the trunk of the tree, raised his face again to look at the canopy under the cold moon, and sighed: "I don't know who planted this tree and when it was planted!" If you are like a cover, it should have been many years! Suo Jun, in this long history mansion, the successive long histories who come and go are mostly heroes of Middle Earth. Compared with the predecessors, you are among them, and your courage can be called dominant! ”

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