Autumn to the corner of the border city mourns, the beacon fire shines on the high platform.

On the city of Xizhou, thousands of ges compete, and a hundred bows are ready to go.

Under the city of Xizhou, the rangers looked around, and the swords were like forests.

With a long whimpering horn in the enemy's formation, the three thousand enemy troops slowly advanced forward in unison.

Dozens of horsemen raised strange knives with crooked knives, shouting and howling in front of the battle, showing off their might.

When he got closer, Li Su stared at it, only to find that the faces of the enemy soldiers were roughly the same as those of the Han people in the Central Plains, but they were dressed in a very messy manner, red, gray and even bright yellow, and their clothes were quite ragged.

On the city tower, Li Su's brows furrowed tightly.

Jiang Quan attached to his ear and said softly: "At present, the enemy army has not yet attacked the city, and the dozens of horsemen showing off their might just now are just a provocation, I hope our Tang army can go out of the city to fight them......

Li Su sneered: "Out of the city? Although the city wall of my Xizhou is fragile, it is also a line of defense, five will attack it, ten will besiege it, they will pay a greater price for attacking the city, how stupid will I be to send troops out of the city to fight with this group of barbarians? ”

Jiang Quan smiled, agreeing with Li Su's statement.

Li Su pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "Go and send someone to call Na Yan here." ”

After a while, Na Yan, who was pale, was pulled to the city tower by the sergeant, and after seeing Li Su standing quietly between the arrow stacks of the city tower, Na Yan's face became more and more pale, and his eyes showed a look of horror.

Li Su saw that his face was not good-looking, and couldn't help laughing: "That brother, don't be surprised, I have no intention of beheading you to sacrifice the flag, now the world is sinister, the people's hearts are not ancient, there are too few wronged people who are willing to give me a house for free, and if you die, there will be one less, how can I be willing to take your sacrifice flag?" ”

That Yan Yanyan's face looked better when he heard this. The rough, old cheeks regained a little blood.

Pointing to the enemy troops outside the city who were still showing off their might, Li Su said: "That brother help me see, which country is this group of people from in the Western Regions?" ”

Na Yan stared at it for a long time before he said: "They are from Gaochang country, since the Han Dynasty Banchao Dingding Western Regions, the people living in Gaochang country are all Han people. Later, the Central Plains was in turmoil, Gaochang gradually lost his courtesy, did not respect the suzerainty of the Central Plains for a long time, and became a country of its own, and gradually became a climate for hundreds of years, and the Chinese people frequently intermarried with the Turkic turtles and even Dashi, and the bloodline was no longer pure Han people, and they never admitted that they had Han blood......"

Li Su nodded, no wonder he looked like a Han Chinese. But the feeling given to him is so strange, it turns out to be a native of Gaochang, which makes sense.

"There's no turtles in there?" Li Suruo looked at him meaningfully and smiled.

Na Yan smiled bitterly: "Maybe there are, there are a lot of 3,000 people, anyone can have them, the prime minister of Qiuci has always had a plot against Xizhou, and it is not surprising that there are Qiuci people......"

Li Su snorted: "The Qiuci people attacked my city, but I called a certain Qiuci people brothers. The more I talk about it, the more angry I become, and now I should really think about whether or not to behead you for the sacrificial flag......"

Na Yan was stunned for a moment: "Didn't you say that Guan Bao was a friend?" ”

Li Su sighed: "I extorted so much money from you to build a house for myself. I also escorted you to the city tower and planned to behead you, you say, does a friend like me have anything to do with 'Guan Bao's friend'? 'Fox Friends and Dog Friends' is my true face, okay? ”

Nayan's face turned white again.

Li Su seemed to have a bad taste to scare him, patted him on the shoulder again, and said with a smile: "Fox friends and dog friends at least have a benefit." When you have enough money to build him a house for free, fox friends must be reluctant to kill you, at least you have to squeeze out the last trace of use value before you ruthlessly round and flatten, so. Anything you've done wrong, my fox friend can forgive you......"

Na Yan's face softened again, and Li Su could clearly see that he was relieved.

Li Su smiled, looked at the enemy battle formation in the distance, and said lightly: "Rich is really an uncle, you see, I even forgive you for such an unrighteous thing as sending someone out of the city to report the news, and suddenly I feel that a friend like me is too smearing myself if it is a fox friend and a dog friend......

Nayan's face turned white again.

In the distance, the enemy's Chinese army suddenly blew a long bull's horn, followed by the rumbling drums, and the rhythm became faster and faster.

The faces of Li Su and Jiang Quan on the city tower changed at the same time, and they said in unison: "The enemy is attacking the city!" ”

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Xu Mingzhu rode on a camel, wearing a black gauze hat on his head, covering his beautiful face tightly, and his weak body swayed as the camel walked.

The camel is very tired, and Xu Mingzhu is also tired.

Before and after her, there were nearly 100 cavalry soldiers who also rode camels, and the group crossed the desert, from Xizhou to Shazhou, this way walked for nearly three months, and what was in front of them was still a white desert with no end and no hope.

There was a black cowhide bladder hanging obliquely on the camel's hump, Xu Mingzhu was a little thirsty, took off the bladder, pulled out the plug, and planned to drink a sip of water to moisten her throat that was about to smoke, but after the mouth of the bladder approached her chapped cherry lips, Xu Mingzhu didn't know what to think, after all, she only gently moistened her lips with water, and then hung the bladder back on the hump with extreme stinginess.

She and the cavalry soldiers did not have a smooth road, although fortunately did not encounter a large group of bandits, only encountered two small bandits of dozens of people, the cavalry soldiers showed their weapons, a round of charge to scatter the bandits and defeat them, but the road was not smooth is not man-made disasters, but natural disasters.

Like when he went to Xizhou, Xu Mingzhu's team also encountered two sandstorms, the first time because of the restless neighing of the camels and prepared in advance, which was barely survived, and the second time was not so lucky, the sandstorm suddenly came, the team was defenseless, and suddenly it was all chaotic, the camels were scared to run everywhere, and the soldiers of the cavalry gave up their lives, and they were afraid to build a human wall with difficulty to protect the weak and helpless Xu Mingzhu's thoughtfulness, until the sandstorm finally passed, the number of people and baggage were counted, and half of the grain, grass and drinking water were lost, and the cavalry soldiers who escorted Xu Mingzhu also died six.

Xu Mingzhu cried for a long time, for a woman from a merchant family who had never even walked out of Jingyang County before, she had lived a comfortable and peaceful life for more than ten years, her father and mother had only taught her the virtues of women, but she had never taught her what it meant to be "responsible" and what it meant to be "responsible". However, after only three months of leaving Xizhou and going straight to Chang'an, she gradually learned a lot.

Solemnly buried the six soldiers, Xu Mingzhu reverently and blamed himself in front of the grave to kneel to the six soldiers, and then got up and continued to move forward, since then, Xu Mingzhu has never cried, nor laughed.

The death of the six soldiers brought her endless guilt, but also taught her to take responsibility, a woman's responsibility to her husband, she suddenly found how heavy her mission was, the letter in her arms, may be the only hope for the husband to get out of the quagmire, although the husband just asked her to go back to Chang'an to send a letter to Uncle Cheng of Lu Guogong, although the husband only wanted to seconded a few literati from the Lu Guogong Mansion to Xizhou to help him support the situation, although Xu Mingzhu still does not understand, thousands of miles from Xizhou back to Chang'an, In order to invite a few literati, when did literati have such an important role......

Xu Mingzhu and Li Su have been living ignorant these days, because she doesn't understand her husband's world at all, although she desperately wants to fit in, but her husband is still so unfathomable in her eyes, she has to admit the gap between men and women, perhaps, men are born to do great things, otherwise why is every decision of her husband so profound in her eyes?

Although there are too many things that she doesn't understand, Xu Mingzhu only admits death, and the matter that her husband explained to her must be an extremely important matter, and this matter must be related to her husband's future, so Xu Mingzhu desperately wanted to send the letter to the Luguo Mansion in Chang'an, and personally handed it over to Uncle Cheng, who had a long beard and smiled with a somewhat gloomy murderous aura. (To be continued......)