Along with Wei Chigong's report to Beijing, there was also a secret guard's Sun Xiangfu living record, and Li Shimin was even more attentive when he read this living record than Sun Xiangfu's report on his merits.

On the desk of the imperial study, on a piece of yellow paper, the three big characters of 'Sun Xiangfu' are written at the beginning, and the body of the book is Li Shimin's flying white, that is to say, this article is Li Shimin's own book.

I saw that under that name, the first thing written was the four words 'mercenary', which was the first conclusion Li Shimin got after sending secret guards to investigate Sun Xiangfu.

After the four words of mercenary, four more words were written, 'poor mouth and lustful', Li Shimin took Sun Xiangfu to participate in outdoor activities for the first time, and he hooked up with the beautiful woman Yu Xiuer with his clever tongue, what is this not poor and lustful?

After the four words of poor and lustful, four more words were written, 'Eyes must be repaid', look at Wu Yuanqing's loveless appearance, Sun Xiangfu can't think of these four words It is difficult to comment.

There are four words after the four words of Jianwei Bibao, 'timid as a mouse', which Li Shimin analyzed from Sun Xiangfu's words and deeds during this period recorded by the secret guards.

The armor has to wear two sets, and he refuses to show his face even a little, and he tells the guards dozens of times a day not to leave him half a step, how afraid of death is this! To say that he is as timid as a mouse is really to exalt him.

Looking at the sixteen-character comment he had written, Li Shimin shook his head helplessly and said, "This kid is a little anxious, and he can't be used!" Forget about the official matter, and honestly manage the royal property for me! ”

Li Shimin naturally has his own set of standards for employing people, as far as the old department of the Qin Wangfu in this period is concerned, which one can give up his life for him, Sun Xiangfu's loyalty and integrity are too far behind those people, so even if Li Shimin is now in a desperate shortage of talents, Sun Xiangfu is excluded from the core.

The next day, in the Taiji Palace, the military department played and Li Shimin approved, and rewarded the front-line meritorious soldiers, and even Xi Junmai, the white-bodied guard, won the rank of Captain of the Ninth Rank of Martial Arts, but Sun Xiangfu was not mentioned in the list.

For such a reward, Qin Qiong raised an objection to Li Shimin alone in the imperial study afterwards, and after Qin Qiong saw the sixteen-character comment written by Li Shimin, he was immediately silent.

"Uncle Bao and relieved, maybe this kid is young, and he grew up in the countryside, and his temperament has not yet been settled, this time I will not reward him in the open, but I will compensate him in private, perhaps, what I gave him is what he wants most, when he returns to Chang'an, you will give him this thing!"

Li Shimin took out a stack of documents from the back of the imperial case, and there was a house deed in the paperwork, Qin Qiong opened it and looked at it, but he was a little shocked.

In the document, Sun Xiangfu was allowed to open a restaurant covering an area of 100 acres in the Furong Garden on the bank of the Qujiang Pond, and gave Sun Xiangfu a three-entry royal mansion in the Furong Garden as a mansion.

"Your Majesty's reward, isn't it too much?" Qin Qiong took the somewhat hot paperwork and the deed and returned to the road.

"Jingde Xuanwu Gate made great contributions when he strangled the prince and the king of Qi and other rebellions, and I was willing to give it to him even in the palace, not to mention a three-entry house by the city wall, and the merit of this kid deserves this house, Shubao don't forget the Quyuan plow. As for approving 100 acres of land to build a restaurant for him, it should be regarded as a part of the prince's East Palace! I have confidence in the food he makes, and I can't do it for nothing with 30% of the income of your family. Li Shimin pushed back the paperwork deed that Qin Qiong pushed back.

"In this way, Joan thanked His Majesty Long on behalf of that boy." Qin Qiong respectfully gave Li Shimin a salute on behalf of Sun Xiangfu.

"It's just you and me here, Uncle Bao doesn't need to be so polite, by the way, Concubine Wei mentioned to me at lunch today that she summoned the Yu family, there is no problem on the Yu family's side, I see that the kid's good things are approaching, why don't Uncle Bao be adults, help the kid clean up the house, and on the day he returns to the army, I will just give him a marriage." Li Shimin helped Qin Qiong up with his own hands and smiled again.

"Your Majesty has even thought about that kid's marriage for him, that kid dares to repay His Majesty, and Weichen's pair of iron shovels will never bypass him."

When Li Shimin and Qin Qiong were talking in the imperial study, Yu Xiu'er was also talking to her mother in Yu's mansion.

"Ah Niang, Concubine Wei Niangniang summoned me, but what needs to be used in our family?"

"There's nothing to use in our house, it's just something that needs to be used by you." Mother Yu looked at her eldest daughter with a little deep meaning in her eyes.

"Use me? But the palace needs musicians to play and sing poetry? Yu Xiu'er guessed.

Mother Yu shook her head with a smile and said, "No, Concubine Wei just mentioned that there is a young man who has made military exploits on the front line recently, and His Majesty doesn't want to promote him, so I want to marry you." ”

"Children don't get married."

Hearing that the emperor was going to give her to a man in the army, Yu Xiu'er instantly exploded, stood up from the stool and said.

"Wei Niang hasn't said the name of the young man yet! Why did you refuse, could it be that you already have someone you like? Mother Yu still looked at Yu Xiu'er with a smile and said.

In other families, the fourteen-year-old girl has already been married, and if she is not married, at least she is married, only this girl of her own, looking at Wenwen quietly like a porcelain doll, in fact, her heart is very strong, and she must marry someone she likes.

"No matter who that person is, Xiu'er won't marry, Your Majesty, how can Your Majesty be like this, I gave Mandarin Duck Pei before, and now I ······ again"

Yu Xiu'er was about to cry when she saw it, but Yu's mother nodded with a smile, it seems that what Concubine Wei said was right, her own Xiu'er had fallen in love with the young man at first sight, so she said, "It seems that the boy surnamed Sun is blessed, and he is not favored by my daughter. ”

"Surname Sun? His surname is Sun? Does A-Niang know his full name? Yu Xiu'er heard a stirring spirit, and calmed down from anxiety.

"It seems to be called Sun Xiangfu! It's almost seventeen, and I haven't taken a word. ”

"Sun Xiangfu? It turned out to be Brother Sun, mother, daughter married, daughter married, I knew that Brother Sun would not break his word and get fat, he didn't come to see me these days, it turned out that he led the troops to the front line, oh yes, mother, you don't have to enter the palace to say goodbye to Concubine Wei. When Yu Xiu'er heard this, she almost jumped up with joy, grabbed her mother's arm and shook it.

"What about the reserve of the daughter's family! You look like this, people still think that no one wants the daughter of my Yu family! Mother Yu scolded with a smile, which made Yu Xiu'er's face blush.

Speaking of the front-line battlefield, Wei Chigong, who had thoroughly understood the sixteen-character formula of guerrilla warfare proposed by Sun Xiangfu, was like a divine help, and with only 20,000 soldiers and horses, he made the Turkic army, which was ten times his number, repeatedly suffer defeats.

In the morning, he killed 300 Turks, killed 500 Turks in another battle in the afternoon, attacked and killed 800 Turks in the evening, burned a tent of the Turks, and stole hundreds of cattle and sheep from them.

Now let alone break through the city of Chang'an, which is tall, even if it arrives in Chang'an, it has become a problem, and the second largest force on the grassland, Tuli Khan, at this time exposed his wolf ambitions, and began to blatantly move to Jieli's base area, with the intention of attacking his back road, Jieli has become a dilemma.

"Khan, retreat! The first snow in the Tang Kingdom is about to fall, and when the cattle and sheep have no place to hide from the heavy snow, many of them will freeze to death, and it is difficult to return to the grassland safely with only the pasture we brought over. ”

After being dragged on by the guerrilla offensive and defensive war for a few more days, seeing that the frost was even greater in the morning and evening, the leaders of Jieli's subordinate departments were anxious and spoke one after another.

Jieli knows this truth, but if he retreats like this, then his expedition to the Tang Dynasty will end in failure, so his control over the various departments will inevitably be weaker, and Tuli can poach more supporters from him, which he does not want to see.

"Those who dare to say that they will retreat again, from tomorrow, don't care about the attack of the Tang army, the whole army will be pulled out and attack Chang'an directly."

At this moment, Jieli is like a gambler who has lost a bet, and wants to use his last chips to turn the book, usually gamblers at this time will lose very badly.

On September 20, Jie Li personally led a large army to march quickly, and Wei Chigong pursued him on the rear road, beheading more than 10,000 enemies, and his own losses were not more than 1,000.

That night, Jieli did not expect that the Tang army, which had fought a big battle during the day, would launch another night attack on him, the Turkic camp was breached, as many as 1,000 tents were burned, and the cavalry lost more than 30,000, while the losses of the Tang army were still not more than 1,000.

On September 21, Jieli led the army again, at this time his men and horses were less than 150,000, since entering the pass, the battle damage has exceeded 30%, but today Wei Chigong did not beat him, but Zhang Gongjin brought the water army from the Jing River and Sun Xiangfu after the convergence, and gave him a guy overnight, although he did not kill more than 10,000 enemies, but also killed him again 3,000 young, so that the morale of the Turkic army fell to the bottom.

On September 22, the Turkic army finally broke through to the bank of the Wei River, forty miles from Chang'an.

On the Weishui River, thousands of sails and boats, 30,000 sailors are waiting with their bows, and the bridge connecting the two sides of the river has been destroyed, on the other side of the river, there are 50,000 troops led by Li Shimin to wait for the battle, seeing this scene, Jieli spewed a mouthful of blood wildly, and fell off the horse on the spot.

He lost very completely, Li Shimin didn't even give him a chance to negotiate, so he ordered the navy to release arrows, and on the back road of the Turkic army, Wei Chigong attacked at the same time, burned for a while, and then withdrew again.