As soon as Gongsun Du arrived at the Liao army, news of the withdrawal of Buyeo and Goguryeo arrived almost at the same time. There is no need to think about it, and they also know that Buyeo and Goguryeo must have received the news of Xianbei's withdrawal, and understand that Gongsun Du Tie will definitely lead the army back to help, so they didn't want to be Xianbei's pawns, so they also quickly withdrew.

However, what Gongsun Du didn't know was that this Xianbei evacuation, Geridoro did not inform Buyeo and Goguryeo, which made their dissatisfaction worse, maybe next time, they would grit their teeth and hold on, not accepting Xianbei's threat. Besides, whoever let Tanshi Huai personally take action will also end up defeated! In this way, the freshness of sandalwood is not invincible.

However, Gongsun Du did not slow down the speed of returning to Xiangping, on the contrary, he increased it a little, because his purpose was not to return to Xiangping, nor to repel the Goguryeo army in Xiangping.

After returning to Xiangping and dealing with the official business accumulated in recent times, Gongsun Du explained to Wei You again and set off again, heading east.

However, after walking less than 300 miles, he was overtaken by the messengers sent by Wei You. Gongsun Du thought that Goguryeo had killed a horse pistol, and he was worried that he would not be able to hold it and needed to come back for help.

"Lord, Wei Juncheng asks the lord to return to Xiangping as soon as possible, saying that Commander Cheng is back!" The messenger said respectfully.

Gongsun Du was stunned for a moment, and his mind quickly thought about who this "Cheng Commander" was, but after thinking about it for a while, there didn't seem to be such a person.

Cheng ...... Hey? Could it be ......?"

Gongsun Du's eyes suddenly widened, and a hint of surprise flashed. Then, without hesitation, he ordered the army to be stationed on the spot and returned to Xiangping with a pro-army re-replenished to 1,000 people.

Two or three hours later, Gongsun Du returned to Xiangping, and when he saw Wei You greeting him at the city gate, his face was happy, so he couldn't wait to ask, "But Cheng Pu is back?" ”

Wei You nodded and said quickly: "Just this morning, not long after the lord left, a soldier from Yujin came to report, saying that Commander Cheng Pu had returned, and brought back the things that the lord said. But—"

Wei You's face suddenly became solemn.

Gongsun Du was a little overjoyed and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"It seems that some people have been brought back, and the loss is not small."

"Huh?" Gongsun Du frowned, brought back some people? Who? Could it be that or something? What are you bringing back for?

Gongsun Du was full of question marks, and he couldn't understand why Cheng Pu wanted to bring back that person. But he didn't say anything, just said: "Qingping, do you want to go over and have a look?" ”

Wei You thought about it when he heard this, shook his head and said: "Lord, Goguryeo has just retreated, there are a lot of things at the moment, and the lord is not here, if his subordinates leave again, I am afraid that there will be chaos, so I won't go." ”

Gongsun Du nodded and said, "Since this is the case, then it will be hard to clear up." I won't stay long, I'll rush over now. ”

After saying that, Gongsun Du turned over and got on his horse and left.

Wei You didn't expect Gongsun Du to be so crisp, and he couldn't help but be stunned. Immediately came back to his senses, and when he saw that it was still early, he said respectfully: "My subordinates send off the lord!" ”

As soon as Gongsun Du returned to Xiangping, he left in a hurry and marched towards Jinjin, but at the same time did not forget to pass the order so that the army did not have to wait for him and continued to Xi'anping.

In the blink of an eye, two days passed.

In a hurry, Gongsun Du finally arrived in Jinjin and met Tuoba Yi and Cheng Pu, who came to greet him after hearing the news.

"Demou, you ......"

Gongsun Du looked at the scar on Cheng Pu's right face, which almost ran from the right ear to the corner of his mouth, and felt that it was not a taste. Although the original Cheng Pu is not a beautiful man, he has been practicing martial arts all the year round, with sharp edges and corners, and he looks like he is resolute and brave. Now this scar is very fierce, even fierce.

"Thank you for your hard work, Demou!"

Gongsun Du sighed in his heart, with tears in the corners of his eyes, gave Cheng Pu a hug, and whispered in his ear.

The scar on his face has been around for two or three years, and Cheng Pu has already seen it, but Gongsun Du's actions have also moved him.

Half a day.

Gongsun Du let go of his hands, Cheng Pu immediately took a half step back, nodded to the ground on one knee, and said: "Lord, my subordinates did not return on time, please punish the lord!" ”

"Reprimand?"

Gongsun Du was stunned for a moment, then helped Cheng Pu up, shook his head violently and said: "Demou's expedition overseas is full of dangers, anything can happen, and even lose his life, so how can he be punished!" ”

"Besides, this time you came back at the right time, and according to a certain order, you brought back enough seeds to save tens of thousands, when you have a great merit, how can you be punished!"

"Lord, subordinates~" Cheng Pu choked up and couldn't speak.

Death for a confidant! That's it! That's it!

"Let's go, let's go, let's go to the city." Gongsun Du saw that at the city gate because of them, many people wanted to enter and leave the city but were stopped, and hurriedly urged.

"Yes, my lord." Cheng Pu found Gongsun Du's gaze, and admired Gongsun Du more and more in his heart.

Tuoba Yi didn't have a chance to interject, nor did he have the idea of interjecting, just followed and walked towards the city.

Soon, Gongsun Du and others entered the Jinjin military camp. Tuoba Yi knew that Cheng Pu had not returned for a few years, and there would be something important to report, so he confessed to Gongsun Du, and then arranged a room for Huang Xu and other soldiers.

"Demou, tell me about the specific situation of this expedition overseas!" Gongsun Du didn't mean to beat around the bush at all, he said straightforwardly, and then quipped, "You know, you haven't returned for almost four years this time, and your wife has asked me I don't know how many times, for this reason, Qingping has complained to a certain person many times that you shouldn't have been allowed to go out for so long." And that kid of yours, hehe, but he's very strong! ”

In just a few words, Cheng Pu couldn't help but shed tears. In addition to the scars on his face that made him sad on this expedition overseas, only his wife and children at home made him miss him very much.

Seeing this, Gongsun Du didn't speak again, just drank tea quietly.

After a long time, Cheng Pu wiped the tears on his face and said suddenly: "Let the lord see and laugh." ”

"Missing your family, this is human nature, how can you laugh at it." Gongsun Du waved his hand and said, "Besides, if it weren't for someone who asked you to go overseas, it wouldn't have caused you to not be able to see your wife and children for three or four years, and you wouldn't even be able to get any news." Speaking of which, I'm deeply ashamed! ”

"This is what subordinates should do, the lord has the people of the world in his heart, and it is righteousness! Although I haven't seen my family for several years, haven't I come back now, and I'm going to meet soon. It's just a small righteousness! Cheng Pu said hurriedly.

"Hahaha! Virtue is false! Gongsun Du was very pleased. Although Cheng Pu's words are suspected of being sycophants, if you look at it in a few years, you will understand that this is not a sycophant at all, and it can even be said that this alone is enough to make Gongsun Duqing famous in history.

Subsequently, Cheng Pu talked about the details of the expedition overseas.

"Lord, my subordinates are deeply ashamed of this trip!"

"Although I have walked many times from Donglai to Liaodong, and there is a map given by the lord, this eastward march still took a lot of detours, and even took the wrong road and recognized the wrong place. When we walked here, we thought we had arrived at our destination, but after walking for almost half a month, we realized that we were actually circling around an island, wasting half a month. ”

"After discovering that we were taking the wrong path, we continued to move eastward, stumbling for about two months, we encountered a storm, but fortunately the lord let us walk close to the coastline, so that we could take shelter before the storm came, otherwise we would have suffered heavy losses, and we also had ...... of ship damage."

"It took about eight or nine months for us to finally reach the continent that the lord said, but we stayed on the shore and traveled on land for more than ten days, and we didn't encounter half a figure, so we had to continue to go south along the coastline."

"After that, every 10 days and half a month, we would dock to replenish fresh water and go deep inland. In this way, it took half a year for us to meet people for the first time. But because we couldn't understand what they were saying, and they couldn't understand what we were saying, there was a great battle between the two sides, and after repulsing them, we retreated to the ship......"