Qu Ping took 300 soldiers and escorted more than 100 prisoners, Gao Liangcheng enjoyed the prisoner cart alone, and the rest were tied hand and foot strung into a column to walk. Duan Zhengyan and his entourage were sent to the city gate, and when the people in the city saw the prisoners passing by, they selflessly offered eggs and cabbage, and threw them into embarrassment.

"Sending you a thousand miles must be goodbye in the end, please go back, prince." Qu Ping said.

"Guogong has a smooth journey, he has time in the future, he can bring his wife to Yunnan, and this king will take you around to play." Duan Zheng said strictly.

"Well said! Then we'll leave it at that! ”

Zhao Pinger also said goodbye to Zhao Xiaolan, Zhao Xiaolan cried into tears, and I don't know when we will see each other again today.

The winter in the southwest is getting colder and colder, and the cold wind is blowing on the prisoners. In ancient times, the emphasis was on cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, so no matter what trouble you have for your family, who can guarantee that today's seemingly gentle little sheep will not become a big bad wolf one day.

After more than ten days of slow migration, the vast Dadu River is finally close at hand. The river seems to have frozen, too, and the summer waves have long since died down.

Wu Luan's 20,000 soldiers and horses had already crossed the river and camped, and now it was Wu Gong who led the troops, and Wu Lan had returned to Chengdu to preside over the political situation. The spies in front reported that Wu Gong and His Royal Highness the Duke of Yongguo and the county lord were about to arrive with more than 100 prisoners. Wu Gong put on his horse and led people to hurry to greet him.

"His Royal Highness the Duke of the Kingdom and the County Lord, the last general Wu Gong, come to greet you!" Wu Gong dismounted and then Qu Ping everyone.

Qu Ping dismounted and said, "It turned out to be General Xiao Wu, thank you for your hard work!" Qu Ping pointed to the prisoners behind him and said, "The one who is given special treatment in the prisoner car is the repeat criminal Gao Liangcheng, and the rest are his family and cronies, and they will be escorted back to Beijing according to the usual practice." ”

Wu Gong raised his head and glanced at the many prisoners, and secretly smacked his tongue, these people will go to call Hades in a short time, but now they have to waste some food. Wu Gong sent people to escort the prisoners back to the camp, and Qu Ping let the three hundred Dali soldiers eat and reward them with some money, so that they could happily go back to Dali.

Wu Gong said: "Lord Guogong, there is still an hour before the sky will be completely dark, should we immediately set up camp and cross the river, or wait until tomorrow?" ”

Qu Ping looked at Zhao Ping'er, she wanted to go back immediately, this place was too depressing. Qu Ping said: "If you can, arrange to take the prisoners across the river first, if the other soldiers don't have time to cross the river today, it's not too late to return tomorrow." ”

"Yes!" Wu Gong obeyed, "the generals will listen to the order......"

"Report!" Suddenly, a spy came to report quickly, "There are two messengers from Dali." ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the Dali messenger chased after him at this time, so something unexpected happened.

"Get them in!" Qu Ping said.

The messenger hurried in and presented a letter with the words "Yongguo Gong Gong Qi Qi" on the cover. Qu Ping solemnly opened it, and it wrote: "Lord Yongguo: 100,000 urgent! Jiaozhi army secretly Chen Cang, broke into Yunnan hundreds of miles, less than 100 miles away from Dali, my father angrily personally led the army to march, there was no news on the 8th, I am afraid that the murderer is more auspicious and less, and I hope that the Lord Guogong will not remember the past suspicions, and come to Dali to preside over the overall situation of military and politics. The criminal minister Duan Zhengxing presented. Qu Ping watched a cold war.

Zhao Ping'er and Wu Gong didn't know why Qu Ping sneered, Qu Ping handed the letter to Wu Gong: "The situation is not optimistic!" ”

Wu Gong was shocked after reading it: "How can this be? ”

Zhao Ping'er knew that something was wrong when she saw the expressions of the two, and she snatched the letter and looked at it.

"It seems that Yunnan is really not fragrant, but a hot potato!" Qu Ping sighed, and some people's worries before were not unreasonable, "For today's plan, I can't see death without help, only hard work General Wu." ”

Where can a soldier be promoted if he doesn't fight? Wu Gong was slightly excited, and said, "I am willing to be sent by Lord Guogong." ”

"Are your 20,000 horses enough?" Zhao Ping'er said.

Qu Ping said: "There are not many soldiers but fine, and the divine soldiers still need divine generals, and the strength of the army is not a problem!" ”

Wu Gong thought for a while and said, "The last general will immediately send someone back to Chengdu to ask my uncle for troops, and our army can rush to help first." It is said that General Zhao Li exterminated bandits on Guangnan West Road, and he could be asked to come to his aid if necessary. ”

"Zhao Li is suppressing bandits on Guangnan West Road?" Qu Ping was surprised and said that in the past two years, the people have been thriving, and there are still bandits in some places.

Zhao Ping'er also said: "There are still bandits? ”

Wu Gong said: "Although the court is clear, but the government is down, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes in the middle, resulting in public resentment. ”

"That's still a matter for the officials. The people can make it, let it be, not make it, know it. This is still the fact that the policy has not been put in place, which has led to the people committing crimes, and the fundamental problem is not the people. It is the corrupt elements among the officials who should be eliminated, not the ordinary people who have been forced to go to Liangshan. Qu Ping said.

"Lord Guogong's eyes are sharp-eyed, in a word."

Qu Ping said: "The internal problems will be solved later." I ordered Zhao Li to collect the troops with the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, gather the soldiers and horses of the Guangnan West Road, and kill Jiaozhi directly from the Guangnan West Road, cut off the waist, so that he could not care about each other, and then join forces with us all the way to annihilate the enemy army! ”

Wu Gong thought about the map of the enemy's border in his mind, and felt that this plan was feasible, but Zhao Li came to help from Guangnan, and the road was relatively far away. "Marshal, this trip to Zhao Libu is far away, General Zhao received the order to raise troops to conquer Jiaozhi again, will it be time-consuming and laborious?"

"What I want is not to rescue Yunnan, but to knock Jiaozhi down once and for all! Let Zhao Li kill Ben Jiaozhi as quickly as possible, and cooperate with our army to attack before and after. ”

Wu Gong nodded: "The last general immediately sent a message to his uncle and General Zhao." What to do with these prisoners, more than 100 people were escorted to Chengdu, not only did they consume a lot of food, but they also had to be divided into at least 50 soldiers to escort them. ”

"Hey, this is a tricky and chicken problem, it is tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to abandon it! You can do it. Qu Ping turned to Zhao Ping'er and said, "County Lord, you will return to Beijing tomorrow and tell the emperor about this matter for me." ”

Zhao Ping'er said: "No, I want to be with you!" ”

Wu Gong looked at the two of them left and right, and said in his heart that I might be superfluous, and it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time, so he retreated: "The last general will go down to arrange first." ”

Qu Ping knew that Zhao Ping'er had just eliminated the estrangement from him, and he was inseparable for a while, so he persuaded: "The affairs of the soldiers are cruel and ruthless, it is enough for us men to fight and kill." You go back, Xiaolan's matter is better for you to go back in person and explain it to the emperor as soon as possible, and ...... You can also help Xiao Lu take care of the children when you go back to Beijing, after all...... In the future, they may have to be under the same roof. ”

When Zhao Ping'er heard Qu Ping say this, she was happy in her heart, knowing that Qu Ping had accepted herself in her heart. Zhao Ping'er nodded reluctantly and said, "Then you have to take care!" ”

At night, Qu Ping turned off the lights and was about to go to bed, when suddenly a gust of wind rose, the door curtain shook, and a figure entered the room. Qu Ping slammed his fist over and shouted, "What person! ”

"It's me!"

It turned out to be Zhao Ping'er, Qu Ping quickly withdrew his fist. Qu Ping said: "Is there something wrong with not resting so late?" ”

Zhao Ping'er came over, pressed against Qu Ping's thick chest, and said, "Tomorrow we will be separated by two places again, I think...... Something for you. ”

The light fragrance on Zhao Ping'er's body penetrated into Qu Ping's nostrils, causing Qu Ping's hormones to swell for a while. Zhao Ping'er saw that Qu Ping didn't speak, her body felt Qu Ping's heart beating violently, and she gently pulled down her clothes, revealing the fragrant shoulder on her right.

Qu Ping took a breath, took half a step back, pulled Zhao Ping'er's clothes back up, and said softly: "These, wait for me to come back, and then come and get them after the name is justified." ”

Zhao Ping'er felt a little lost in her heart, but she was also strongly happy. Zhao Ping'er stood on tiptoe with a smile, her red lips lightly brushed over her cheeks, and said, "Be sure to pay attention to safety, I'll wait for you!" With that, he ran out briskly.

Qu Ping smiled and touched the place on his face that had just been imprinted by red lips, and his heart was satisfied.

In the middle of the night, Qu Ping had a nightmare in which he saw a group of lonely ghosts crying out against him. Qu Ping woke up, got up and got dressed, and went outside to breathe. But I saw people in the distance, busy with something.

Qu Ping walked over and saw Wu Gong directing left and right there. Qu Ping patted him on the shoulder from behind: "What are you doing?" ”

Wu Gong was taken aback, and said: "According to the marshal's intentions, the last general has already dealt with these burdens. ”

Qu Ping said: "What do you mean?" ”

"Didn't the marshal say that these are chicken ribs and should be dealt with by the last general? So, I beheaded them all, anyway, sooner or later they will be a capital crime, so why waste manpower and material resources......"

Qu Ping looked up to the sky and sighed: "Sin, sin! ”

Wu Gong said suspiciously: "Could it be ...... Will the end be wrong? Wu Gong was startled, knelt down and said, "The last general is the master of his own hands, he really deserves to be damned, please punish the marshal!" ”

Qu Ping said: "The matter has come to this, only when their lives should be like this." Get up. The highlighted adult head was retracted, and someone was sent to the capital together with the song. ”

"Yes, the last general obeys!" Wu Gong broke out in a cold sweat on his forehead, and said in his heart, he must ask clearly about ambiguous things in the future, otherwise it is very likely that he will lose his head, and if he is not employing people today, he will have to be punished.

The next day, Zhao Ping'er took ten entourages and carried Gao Liangcheng's head to Chengdu first, and then returned to Beijing to resume his life.

Go to Guangnan West Road to find Zhao Li's men and horses go separately, and be sure to pass the order to Zhao Li as quickly as possible.

Qu Ping led Wu Gong and 20,000 soldiers and horses to send troops first, hoping that the food and grass of Wu Lu's men and horses would not be too slow.

Qu Ping mobilized: "Soldiers, the New Year is coming!" However, some foreign enemies do not want us to celebrate the New Year, they do not want our fathers and fellow villagers to live, they want to occupy our land, they want to kill our compatriots, they want to ride on our necks and! You say, "What shall I do?" ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The soldiers shouted.

"Good! The blood and sweat of a good man should be sprinkled on the battlefield, and the sissy will cry on the hotbed! Those who invade our China will be punished even if they are far away! ”