The loss and congestion of the people in the city yesterday seem to have all been transferred to Fang Xuanling's heart. For his painstaking calculations, who expected that Li Mu's higher reputation would be fulfilled, Fang Xuanling was a heart jam.

Sitting in the spacious and transparent four-wheeled carriage, Fang Xuanling felt a little difficult to breathe, he knew that this was not only because of the cheeks, but also from Li Mu's boundless pressure. Fang Xuanling has never been afraid of the enemy in his life, no matter how powerful the enemy is, as long as he plans properly, he can defeat it. But in the face of Li Mu, he really had nothing to do. This is not a crime of war, who can fix this thing of luck?

Fang Xuanling spared no effort to suppress Li Mu, but it was really not because he had any prejudice against Li Mu personally. He would do this entirely because of Li Mu's background.

He is a hardcore Qin Wang party, and the princelings of Li Jiancheng's lineage have an enmity with each other. If Li Mu is really what he guessed, he tried in vain to get into the big position. really made him successful, and now this court is bound to be purged!

At that point, it's not a question of how many people die. Between the government and the opposition, there will be a sea of blood!

So after knowing Li Mu's identity, Fang Xuanling had a thought in his heart.

If Li Mu is honest, he is willing to be a Taiping marquis, or even a grandfather or a prince. But if he has even the slightest disobedience, even if it is a little sprout, he will not hesitate to kill this sprout completely.

Li Shimin did not stop him in his reply, in Fang Xuanling's view, it was a kind of acquiescence.

When he came to the Lizheng Palace, Li Taizheng and the eldest grandson queen were talking about something, and when they saw that Fang Xuanling was coming, they greeted him with a smile: "Fang Xiang, you can be regarded as coming, if you don't come, this king will go to you!" Have you read the military newspaper? Well, what else do you have to say? ”

Fang Xuanling ignored Li Tai's yin and yang weirdness, just looked at the eldest grandson queen, and said: "Queen, the old minister doesn't have to say anything, there are two big victories in a row, and Li Mu's reputation is already in the sky!" If he ...... at this time The consequences are unimaginable! ”

Empress Changsun frowned tightly and sighed: "You can't do the same thing a second time, otherwise it will be self-defeating, and the court will lose the hearts of the people even more." ”

"The queen has a point!" Fang Xuanling replied with a grim face: "The top priority is to find someone to replace Li Mu immediately!" And Li Xiaogong, they must immediately take over their military power! ”

Empress Eldest Sun's eyes lit up, she looked at Fang Xuanling, and said, "The idea is good, but now there are no unscrupulous generals in the court!" Who can replace the two of them? "Since I am worried that Li Mu's military achievements are too great, and if she wins, she will be powerful, but after thinking about it, after all, Li Shimin is not here, she is a queen, and the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, if she makes a mistake, how will Li Shimin explain when he comes back, and how will he explain to the people all over the world?

"It doesn't matter who leads the army, loyalty is the most important!" Fang Xuanling had already figured out the ins and outs, and replied in a deep voice: "The Turks have suffered such a heavy setback, and they can't afford to set off the storm. Now only one person is needed to stabilize the army and wait for His Majesty to come back, whether there is talent or not is secondary! ”

"But...... How do you say that! Empress Changsun said worriedly, what is Li Mu's temper, she knows it in her heart, if he is wrong and wrong, he can admit the punishment and accept the punishment, but if he does not do anything wrong and wrongs him, this kid will not back down. When Li Shimin is here, she can still suppress him, but she really can't say how much weight she has in his heart as a queen.

"Queen! Can't hesitate any longer! Seeing that Empress Changsun was still hesitating, Fang Xuanling stomped her feet and said: "The 150,000 Western Turkic troops and horses came to attack and were wiped out by Li Mu with a snap of his fingers. And Goguryeo Manchu may not have 100,000 soldiers, but His Majesty will not be able to attack it for a long time. Compare the two, Your Majesty will be compared! ”

"Okay!" When Empress Changsun heard this, she made up her mind and said, "It's just this candidate, who will go?" ”

"I have to find someone who has nothing to do with Li Mu!" Fang Xuanling added a sentence in his heart and said, "It has to be the Qin Wang Party." ”

"So ask the Lord Regent to use the seal." Fang Xuanling looked at Li Tai, before Li Shimin left, he sealed the 'heirloom jade seal', took away the "Destiny Treasure" engraved by himself, and left the "Destiny Treasure" to Li Chengqian, and when Li Chengqian was leaving, he handed over the "Destiny Treasure" to Li Tai. The edict issued with the Destiny Treasure is theoretically the same as the edict issued by Li Shimin.

Li Tai flatly refused and said, "The room is overstepping, right?" Do you still want to make a false proclamation? ”

No matter how bold Fang Xuanling was, he didn't dare to take on such a reputation, so he had to look at Empress Changsun, who pulled Li Tai's sleeve and said, "Don't be rash, be obedient!" ”

Li Tai still had to argue, but the eldest grandson queen raised her hand to support her forehead, and Li Tai panicked: "What's wrong with you, queen mother?" Headache again? ”

"Obedient...... The phases are all for the community, and they are selfless. If you have any opinions, write a recital for your father, and he will decide...... Now, it's still a matter of listening to the room! ”

Li Tainai is the most filial person, and seeing that Empress Changsun has made up his mind, he has no choice. I had to take out the destiny treasure and let Fang Xuanling draft the will.

……

Desert.

It has been 200 miles out of the Camel Valley, and there are deserts on the left and right, and if there is no compass and the Big Dipper, there is no direction at all.

After the Turks were burned down that night, only more than 10,000 remnants of the Turks escaped. Li Mu asked the army to rest for a day in the Camel Valley and clean up the battlefield. Then let 10,000 people return to Dingxiang with the captured supplies, and continue the pursuit with the remaining 20,000 people.

After chasing out 200 miles, he entered the junction of the grassland and the Gobi, and the people were sleepy and the horses were tired, so Li Mu had to let people correct it behind the sand dunes.

Looking at the horseshoe prints, the Turks are in front, but even if they are close, they can't chase them.

The Turks must be the same, they also need to rest, so Li Mu is not worried.

This is a battle to boil the eagle, and whoever can resist to the end will win. The Tang army brought enough dry food, and Li Mu was not afraid of fighting a war of attrition at all.

Fifty miles ahead, the Turks also ran out of strength. They were able to outperform the Tang army by fifty miles, thanks to their riding skills when they grew up on horses since childhood. Similarly, riding a horse, people can save a little more effort than your Han people, and it will not be possible if you are not convinced.

"Great Khan, we really can't run......" The first man fell on the sand dune, and then there was a crowd, and everyone hurriedly pleaded with Tong'e: "Even if the man can hold on, the horse can't." ”

"Well......" Tong'e calculated in his heart, although the Tang army would pursue, but his army was indeed extremely tired, and if he didn't rest, he didn't need the Tang army to attack, and he would completely collapse. After weighing it, Tong'e ordered the scouts to strengthen their vigilance, and the army rested in place until dawn before continuing to set off.

As if they had been pardoned, the remnants of the Turks immediately dismounted, fell to the ground and fell asleep. In the blink of an eye, the sound was like thunder, and the sound spread for miles away. Tong'e didn't want to close his eyes just in case, but the sound of snoring can be infectious, so he held on for half an hour, then his eyelids fought, and he fell asleep in a daze.

In her sleep, Tong'e suddenly felt the ground shake, and she woke up all of a sudden, and as soon as she heard the movement, she immediately roared and said, "Tang Jun is catching up, run!" Before the words fell, Tong'e grabbed his little son, immediately turned over and got on the horse, raised the horsewhip, and galloped away!

The other Turks were also frightened birds, and they all woke up when they heard the shouting, and hurriedly mounted their horses and chased after Tong'e.

After a few moments, the Turks had fled......

And at this time, a group of forwards of the Tang Army really appeared.

"Report to the General!" The scout quickly probed around, returned to the forward general Su Lie, and said, "The Turks have fled!" ”

Su Dingfang turned over and dismounted with a black face, and searched in the Turkic camp, only to see fresh horse manure all over the ground, apparently a moment ago, they were still camping here.

"How can you run faster than a rabbit?" Su Lie was depressed, he thought that he could kill at least a few Turks, but he didn't expect that this group of people was really fast, and no one was caught.

"Chase!" Su Lie spat hard, turned on his horse, and chased after his subordinates in the direction where the Turks had fled.

There are not many flashes in the pursuit battle, it is just a hot pursuit, either catching up with the other party or forcing the other party to collapse. Su Lie's group, who originally followed Li Mu to set fire to the flying ball, relatively speaking, they had more rest and were not so tired, so Li Mu asked them to chase and scare the Turks, so that most of them could have a good rest.

You can rest, but the other party can't, and the odds of winning will be more under the elimination of the other's strengths.

At dawn, Li Mu asked people to wake up the sleeping soldiers, pack up and prepare to continue their journey.

At this time, Su Lie had already sent someone to report to him about the situation two hours ago, and Li Mu led people to the Turkic camp, looking at the mess, feeling a little incredible.

Li Mu couldn't help but be a little incredible: "Without warning, you can escape so cleanly, you are worthy of growing up in the grassland, and you are naturally alert." ”

Lingji, who was tied to the horse and marched with the army, hurriedly said: "Master Hou, ordinary Turks don't have this ability, but Tong'e has it, this is his unique skill, according to his own words, he put his ears on the ground, and he can hear the sound of horses' hooves ten miles away!" ”

"Oh?" Li Mu was slightly surprised, although there was no basis for this, he had a gut feeling that it should be the truth. "In that case, it's a bit tricky."

There is a desert ahead, there is no reference, the flying ball is too dangerous to chase in the sky, if it falls, there is not even a place to supply, lose its direction in the desert, without supplies, it is a death.

"Anyway, just chase it." Li Mu couldn't talk about how frustrated he was, he had already prepared for a hard pursuit. Eating a trench and growing wisdom, a big victory like Camel Valley cannot be repeated again and again. To take the enemy for a fool is to take oneself for a fool. He will not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy.

"No matter how cunning the fox is, it can't escape the good hunters, keep chasing them, and you will definitely be able to catch them!"

In the next few days, the Turks ran wildly, and the Tang army pursued them relentlessly, but they just couldn't seize the opportunity to annihilate them at one time.

Determined to escape, the Turks had so many tricks that they were able to hide the trails of their armies and lure the scouts astray with their decoy troops. He can also take advantage of the change of route to take the pursuers in circles, draining the physical strength of the pursuers and draining their spirits.

But Li Mu is not a vegetarian, he played a few times, and gradually found his way, and they ordered Su Dingfang to spare no effort to entangle with the Turks......

In this long process of escape and pursuit, it is a matter of science to allocate the physical strength of men and horses. Regardless of which side you are, you must arrange your daily marching and rest time reasonably to ensure that you can continue to march at high intensity in the coming day. Whoever dares to spare his physical strength to be happy for a while will be punished tenfold.

Li Mu did the opposite, leaving Su Dingfang's vanguard army desperate to pursue, forcing the Turks to be exhausted. Tong'e had to break his wrist and set aside a small group of cavalry as bait, trying to lure the forward to a fork in the road.

Su Dingfang really 'hit the plan', was led by the nose, and became farther and farther away from most of the Turks.

Tong'e saw that the Tang army was deceived, and he could finally make the tired army stop and breathe a sigh of relief, but who knew that in the middle of the night, most of the main force of the Tang army suddenly killed in front of him! Tong'e suddenly realized that Li Mu deliberately let himself and his vanguard army be entangled, but in fact, most of him had been resting and following slowly. When he was resting on his side, the main force that had been recuperating for several days suddenly arrived and was caught off guard.

Although Tong'e once again relied on his superpowers to take away most of the army, two or three thousand people were still left behind by the Tang army forever......

Although this battle did not achieve much brilliant results, it was the first time that the Turks caught up with the Turks on the ground and in a real pursuit. Let the officers and men of the Tang Army, who have been full of fire for more than ten days, breathe a sigh of relief. I finally have confidence in whether I can catch up and whether I can achieve the final victory.

Just as Li Mu was about to order the soldiers to continue the pursuit, an uninvited guest caught up.

"Master Hou, there is a will." A scout officer galloped in.

Li Mu frowned slightly, feeling very surprised. The army is now deep in the desert, almost cut off from the interior, but this messenger can find them, and he has no small ability.

"It's not good." Li Mu roughly analyzed it and muttered to himself. But there was nothing he didn't dare to see, and he waved his hand to bring the messenger over.

After a while, a dusty eunuch was helped to Li Mu. This guy has obviously suffered a lot along the way, and his face is even more weathered, and he can't see his original appearance clearly. What's even worse is that his two legs, because of riding a horse for days, the inner skin and flesh are worn out, and they can't recuperate, and they have already turned purulent and flowed yellow water......

The eunuch endured the pain and saluted Li Mu.

Listening to the other party's self-report, Li Mu learned that this person was also a godson of Gao Gonggong, he was not interested in these, and asked bluntly: "Polite words are exempt, I have worked hard all the way, I don't know whose will it is?" ”

The eunuch laboriously took out a bamboo tube from his back, tore off the fire paint on the seal, poured out a roll of yellow silk and put it in his hand, and said to Li Mu and others: "Please take the decree of the Hou Ye!" ”