Empress Tang secretly ordered Tang Yuan to return to Luoyang with the original Mozhou Fifth Division.

Tang Yuan had already expanded the Fifth Division of Mozhou into the Second Army of Anxi, and now he was only asked to bring one division back, what did this mean?

Soon after, the holy decree came down, ordering Tang Yuan to return to Luoyang, and at the same time ordering Min Zhenxi, the Marquis of Jiaohe, to expand by 10,000 people, and always maintain the size of the 60,000-strong army of the Protectorate of the Rest of the Prefecture. For this decision, Tang Yuan didn't have anything.

It has been more than a year since he temporarily became the general of the Anxi Protectorate, and he has tossed a whole circle in the vast Western Regions, during which he has met with Anda Cao Invincible a few times, in the Western Regions, although the time is not long, but he is also considered to have a deep foundation, the reason why he was suddenly transferred back may have two levels of considerations, first, the imperial court did not trust Tang Yuan, worried that he would do too much and lose control; Second, Tang Qi had a deeper level of consideration, and suddenly reducing his official position was actually a kind of protection.

Since it was the queen's decree that was received first, and the holy decree that was received later, it was more certain that there was Tang Qi's consideration in this.

But the problem is that the letter from the great Sima Tang Zhen was not sent, if he suddenly led the troops back now, wouldn't it be equivalent to tearing his face with the Tang family?

Is this a contest between the royal family and the Tang family?

Tang Yuan suddenly began to transfer officers, and transferred Tang Xi, Tang Ling, Zhen Li, Lin Xiang, Shi Sheng, and Wang Dong, the sons of the gate lords, to the second and third divisions of the Jiaohe Second Army, while he led the first division to Hexi.

Tang Qi's cousin Tang Cheng was promoted to be the secretary of the first division, Ni Zan and Wu Kuang were all promoted, and these people were all Tang Qi's people.

The prison soldier Ma Butong pursed his lips, thinking about something, but swallowed it back again.

The current Tang Yuan is no longer the hairy man who broke into Hebei at the beginning, after the tempering of the Hebei battlefield, the Hexi battlefield, and the Western Regions battlefield, the current Tang General is already a majestic and unsmiling person.

In addition to being with Chen Bao and Tang Hu, he also looked a little smiling, usually his face sank, and Ma Butong didn't dare to contradict it.

Perhaps the sudden transfer of Tang Yuan back to Beijing this time also has something to do with Ma Butong, because his contact with the imperial court has never been broken.

Assemble the team, point out, and get ready to go.

Everything was ready, but Tang Hu was gone.

"Where is Tang Hu?" Tang Yuan asked.

"Report to the general, the third general drank last night and has not returned yet."

"Did you go to him?"

"I looked for it, but I couldn't find it everywhere."

"This..."Tang Yuan frowned, the troops were assembled, and it was a big crime to be two quarters of an hour late, usually Tang Yuan could give Tang Hu a net no matter what, but if he dared not come when the troops were assembled, Tang Yuan would have to clean him up.

Of course, it will not be beheaded, but it is inevitable to beat him with twenty sticks.

At this time, Tang Hu's guard Feng Zhi ran over, this person was also the younger brother of Feng Feima, one of Tang Qi's thirteen scouts, and with his elder brother walking around the army, he gave him an errand for a certain general's servant.

"Report to the general, General Tang Hu went to the wine hall last night, drunk until he was drunk, he wanted to rest there, so he went to the backyard with two women from the Western Regions, at that time we took turns to keep vigil, and we didn't find any movement, and when we got up the next morning, the doors and windows were all good, but when we went to call the door, we found that the general was gone."

"Gone?" Tang Yuan frowned, could it be that Tang Hu was greedy for a rich life, and this son broke away from the army and ran away by himself?

Probably not.

"Did you send more people later?"

"At this time, everyone is back."

"Let the Third Brigade all go out to find Tang Hu."

"Yes!"

"Chen Bao, the troops will be handed over to you, I will take someone to look for it, Nalan Xin, come with me."

"It's coming, it's coming." Nalan Xin ran over.

Under the leadership of Feng Zhu, a group of more than a dozen people came to the wine hall.

Tang Yuan first looked at the layout of the tavern, it was no different from the taverns opened by ordinary people from the Western Regions, you must know that there are many ethnic groups in the Western Regions, some ethnic groups do not drink, and other ethnic groups have alcoholic habits. The owner of this tavern was in his fifties, and he looked a little indifferent, and his etiquette when he saw Tang Yuan was quite stiff and perfunctory.

Tang Yuan looked at this Rao eye carefully, and felt that his eyes seemed to be a little different from ordinary people, but he didn't think too much about it, and asked directly: "Tang Hu drank with you yesterday, and now that the people are gone, do you know where he went?" ”

"I don't know who Tang Hu is."

Feng scolded loudly: "Yesterday's black-faced bearded man, have you forgotten? ”

"I've seen the black-faced man, but if his name is Tang Hu or not, how would I know?" The shopkeeper's gaze swept the floor and did not look at anyone.

"Are you stupid!" Feng raised his whip to beat.

Feng is right, this person is pretending to be stupid, Tang Hu swaggered to drink, and there were a lot of servants, everyone called him General Tang, as the shopkeeper, can you not know who Tang Yuan is?

This kind of indifferent and uncooperative attitude is simply scolding in front of the soldiers.

Tang Yuan stopped Feng and said, "Where is he now?" ”

was whipped by someone, and the shopkeeper began to speak in a normal tone: "He had to let the two wine delivery women in the store sleep with him in the middle of the night last night, maybe he angered God and was taken away by God." ”

"Why, the two women didn't do it voluntarily?"

"It's not."

Tang Yuan narrowed his eyes, his heart itching with hatred, and turned his head to look at Feng Yuan.

Feng Zhi hurriedly said: "He Hu, those two women from the Western Regions were originally pavilion girls, and the general didn't miss their money, how could it not be voluntary." ”

Tang Yuan turned his head and no longer spoke to the shopkeeper, but ordered: "Find it for me, find all the corners of this store for me, and pay special attention to whether there is a secret channel." I don't believe that Tang Hu has wings and can fly out! ”

At the sound of an order, these soldiers didn't care about any law, they broke in and began to rummage around, and the soldiers turned over things, not politely at all, and the pots and pans were thrown to the ground, and they clanged and clanged.

The shopkeeper was so angry that he scolded something in Turkic, and everyone couldn't understand it, but Nalan Xin was still not polite, so he let the shopkeeper be arrested, and he was beaten with a big mouth until he didn't speak.

Tang Yuan's intuition had always been quite accurate, and he felt that Tang Hu's disappearance might not be so simple.

First of all, he believes that Tang Hu will not delay the point because of drinking and sleeping with a woman, you must know the status of the point in the army, every general will not be vague about the point, unless there is a leave in advance.

After looking for half of it, the soldiers didn't find Tang Hu, and the soldiers looked very carefully, so they almost dug three feet into the ground.

Tang Yuan asked the shopkeeper again: "Where did Tang Hu go hidden by you?" ”

The shopkeeper didn't say anything.

"Hit, hit until he ends."

"Yes!"