Others can not speak, but Li Zongxiong, who is the right minister, can't pretend to be dumb, although the imperial court handed over the position of the secretary of the military department to Gai Yanshou, but the division of labor between him and Yang Yan has not changed, and the military department is still in charge of him, to put it bluntly, whether to compete in martial arts and how to compete in the end he and Gai Yanshou have to make up their minds, and how things are done basically has little to do with Yang Yan, even if the court finally smashes the punishment of the imperial court, it will only be himself and Gai Yanshou, whether Yang Yan is on the top or down, as long as he says lightly"This thing is the right minister in charge. Then there is no way for others to find anything wrong with him.

"Yang Xiang, what Lao Gai said just now is right, I feel that this competition still has to be undertaken, if you don't agree to their requirements for the competition, not only will you lose face immediately, but also in this negotiation is directly down, we can agree to compete with them, but the time of the competition can not be directly put after the parade by their ideas, we completely postpone the competition on the grounds of time rush, so as to leave enough time to prepare."

"Well, it seems that this is the only way to do it now, first delay it, and see if we can come up with a better way, I suggest that the Ministry of War solicit opinions from many parties in the past few days, find a way to come up with a plan to deal with the Khitan mission competition and submit it to the court for court discussion, and immediately issue a notice to find people with strong horsemanship, archery or martial arts from all the forbidden armies and guards in Beijing, so as to be able to form a competition team in time to deal with the challenge of the Khitan mission. Also, if there is any need from the military department, please give full cooperation from all departments and generals, and everyone will work together to deal with this challenge from the Khitans. ”

After listening to Yang Yan's arrangement, everyone immediately got up and replied, "Obey Yang Xiangjun's order!" ”

The parade of the northwest camp arrived at the Gyeonggi camp outside the city at about the beginning of the day, and Liu Fan and Li Min led a small team to arrange various matters for the army early in the morning, such as food and lodging, and in this way, it took nearly two hours until all the nearly 4,000 sergeants and 1,000 prisoners were settled.

Li Shouyi had just pulled up a pair of his precious children from his wife's side, and a horse was galloping from the official road in the direction of the capital like a whirlwind, Li Shouyi raised his eyebrows and glanced at it, and he estimated that there might be something urgent, so he had to smile apologetically at his wife.

Sure enough, the news sent by Kuaima from the capital was that Li Shouyi led the three Sima Duwei to rush to the military headquarters immediately, Liu Fan smiled and said, "Chief Manager, you left your sister-in-law here on a cold bench for two hours, and at this time you were in a hurry to leave, you have to be careful when you go home tonight, it's best to wear thicker, and your sister-in-law is not allowed to serve the family." ”

After listening to Liu Fan's words, the county lord of Jingning immediately laughed and scolded, "The stinky boy is getting bolder and bolder, and he actually made a joke about me, to see how I clean you up, and immediately rushed over to pull Liu Fan's ears, and the frightened Liu Fan quickly fled." ”

Wang Kai's loud voice came from the side, "Liu Fan, you must have miscalculated, as the saying goes, 'If you don't see each other for a day, you don't see it every three autumns, but you haven't seen it for three months, how many autumns will it take, and your sister-in-law will be willing to use the family method!" ’”

"You two don't hurry up and shut up and go into town with me!" Li Shouyi scolded with a smile.

Li Shouyi and the others did not expect that there were not only the three Shangshu of the Ministry of War and the left and right attendants waiting for the four people in the Yamen of the Ministry of War, but also Li Shouyi and Li Min and his father Li Zongxiong were actually there, so it seemed that the matter was really a bit urgent.

Because it is the yamen of the Ministry of War, at this time, it can't be a casual military salute as usual, Li Shouyi and others gave Li Zongxiong, Gai Yanshou and others a big salute in the army, and waited for the group to sit down, Gai Yanshou said with a smile, "Li Xiang, yes, a pair of sons and daughters are all senior generals in the army, I heard that they are currently the best of the young generals in the northwest camp, and there are successors to heroes, unlike my two sons who have to follow the text, so I am angry when I think about it now." ”

"Lao Gai, you are confused, do you think I don't know, one of your two sons is the general judge of Qingzhou, and the other is the prefect of Yangzhou, maybe he will be the master of the prime minister's mansion in three or five years, what are you dissatisfied with the old man?"

"Don't think about it, as long as I don't make any mistakes in my career safely, I will be satisfied, but I don't look at Shouyi and Min'er well, if it weren't for the fact that my two sons are much older and more Min'er, I cried and shouted that I would let him marry Min'er as a daughter-in-law."

"Hehe, this relationship is good, it's not too late now, what does it matter how old a man is, as long as your family Minghao is willing to ......"

The two of them said it funny, and they didn't care about the reactions of the people below at all, but Li Min had already stood up with a flushed face and said, "Dad, you and Uncle Gai hurriedly found us, we thought there was something urgent, but I didn't expect you two to be in a hurry at all, just talk about some gossip that can't be beaten, and if you don't talk about business, I'm going home for dinner." ”

"Look, look, Li Xiang, you don't choose what to say, you make Min'er unhappy, okay, Min'er sit down, I'll get down to business, well, that's the case, when Wen Min received the Khitan mission to Beijing today, the other party asked his personal guards to compete with our soldiers after the military parade the day after tomorrow, you may not know that the Khitan mission that came to our country this time was led by Yeluzhe, the most favored prince of the Khitan country, and it was the elite of the Khitan big tent soldiers who guarded Yeluzhe's safety - the royal family guards, It is said that it was carefully selected from the 40,000 Great Horde soldiers, who were originally the strongest fighting force in the Khitan Kingdom, and the strength of these royal guards selected from them can be imagined to be extraordinary. ”

Gai Yanshou said this, stopped and picked up the teacup and took a sip, seeing that Li Shouyi and the others were only thinking about it a little, he immediately raised his head to look at himself, and continued, "You must have also understood, this is a very difficult matter, if you don't agree to their requirements for martial arts, then the Khitan mission will definitely show off everywhere that Daqi will not dare to compete with them." If we agree to their requirements for martial arts, the impact of losing will be even greater, and the odds of winning the competition are not high. I have summoned you today to hear your views on this matter, and if there are better candidates for the competition, I also hope that you can recommend them to the imperial court in time. ”

"First of all, we must agree to their requirements for the competition, if you don't dare to fight, it is no different from directly announcing that we have lost, as for whether we can win in the specific competition, the key is to see what and how to compare!" After Gai Yanshou finished speaking, Li Shouyi immediately replied.

"Before you came, the military department had already communicated with several supervisors of the Hedong camp, the Yanshan camp and the Gyeonggi camp, which were nothing more than three things: horsemanship, archery and fighting, but no matter how we compared, we didn't have much advantage in these three things, especially riding and archery."

"General Gai, I'm a country boy who has never seen the world, and I want to ask weakly, the military department will find a few top martial arts masters from the people to participate in the competition, at least it can ensure that the fighting can be invincible, right?"

"Liu Fan, do you really think that there are those heroes who fly on the wall in this world! You ask Uncle Gai and Uncle Yuwen, who in this world has ever seen the top martial arts master who comes and goes without a trace and can defeat hundreds of people with his bare hands? Li Min said this because he read Liu Fan's "Smiling Proud Jianghu" serialized in the legendary tabloid.

Lang Yuwenshu, the left attendant of the military department, said with a smile, "There are many rumors among the people about the martial arts masters, but I have never seen anyone who flies the eaves and walks the wall and can defeat a hundred people with the strength of one person. ”

When Yu Wenshu accused him of his idea as nonsense, Liu Fandeng was so ashamed that his face was hot for a while, but fortunately he still had a little ability to change rapidly, and immediately said, "Isn't Chun Tao who assassinated the second prince in the Liangzhou Flower List Contest a master, neither I nor Brother Wang can catch her." ”

I saw Li Zongxiong slowly shook his head and said, "I thought about this matter carefully, Chun Tao is definitely not a master, you and Wang Kai failed to take her down for a while, mainly due to these reasons, 'First, she came prepared, and the two of you rushed to fight, so that she took the lead; second, as for the part where he assassinated the second prince, he and Narcissus must have rehearsed it many times in advance, so they were very familiar with her; Third, you two don't have the right weapons; Fourth, she has the will to die, and she doesn't care about her own safety at all, and she fights with no regard for her life. I don't think she's going to be a match for you either of you if you were to compete with her in a decent way. ”