A month later, Jincheng County, which is now Lanzhou . . .

A few days after Zhichong Mansion received the letter from the Ministry of War, the troops in the encrypted military order arrived, and they were so busy that Captain Wu was choked. They also had to secretly set aside the tents of 5,000 people, and they had to prepare the corresponding grain and grass, and the most important thing was that they had to keep these things secret!

On the south bank of the Yellow River, Yang Qing and Guo Xi walked slowly along the riverbank.

If Qin Juan saw Yang Qing at this time, she would definitely be in danger of not recognizing her husband. In just one month, Yang Qing has lost a lot of weight, smoked a lot, and on his face that has not been shaved for at least five days, the green stubble occupies all sides of his lips. The biggest change came from his eyes, compared to before, Yang Qing seemed more calm and more resolute.

"Ziyin, go further, it's the Liangzhou Desert."

"Hmm."

"You mean no more than seventy miles a day?" Guo Xi was really a little dissatisfied with Yang Qing's insistence over the past month, although he finally agreed out of respect.

The journey from Chang'an to Lanzhou is actually very easy to walk, no matter how you say it, it still belongs to the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, and the environment should be regarded as a paradise compared to the harsh desert wilderness. But Yang Qing insisted on strictly controlling the daily marching speed from the beginning, and what made people feel a little excessive was that he didn't leave in the cool morning, and chose the fierce afternoon march of the sun, although it was April and had not yet entered the middle of summer, but the dryness of Longyou Road had already matched with the sun, and began to give Jian Yuwei a hard time. The sandbags on the soldiers were also not allowed to be taken, and the mounts that took place were only allowed to follow and not to be used. Some of the junior officers below are already complaining.

"Nope! Remove the sandbags, pack lightly, and quickly cross the desert. Ten days later, Ganzhou rested! What does Hillet think? Yang Qing smiled and stopped.

"Coming to Ganzhou in ten days?" Guo Xi was taken aback, "Our plan is to arrive at Yumen Pass in a month, and Ganzhou is right in the middle, too fast, right?" This section is the Gobi Desert! ”

Guo Xihu looked at Yang Qing suspiciously: "Ziyin, you are fast and slow, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd?" ”

Yang Qing smiled faintly: "Xilie, do you think we spent four months from Chang'an to Talas, just to help the Anxi army?" ”

Without waiting for Guo Xi to answer, Yang Qing was already shaking his head: "No, it's too wasteful." ”

Guo Xi simply closed his mouth, he knew that Yang Qing must have a lot to say.

"Since I Jian Yuwei became an army, let alone a battlefield battle with real swords and guns, I have never even had a long-distance march, where has I gone farthest? Lishan! Such an army that is seriously lacking in thrashing can also be pro-army in the future? How can you blame the border army for despising us and others? ”

"Maybe these brothers," Yang Qing pointed to the camp behind him, "there will be many who can't go back to Chang'an!" But those who can return to Chang'an must be the elite after the big victory! We know all this! But Xilie, how many of the Jian Yuwei brothers who will be buried in the desert of the Western Regions in a few months will die in a head-on confrontation because their skills are not as good as others? And how many of them actually died because of a lack of experience and will? ”

"Experience and will?" Guo Xi seemed to understand a little, but he didn't seem to understand.

"Experience is no way, only through the baptism of blood and fire in life and death can we know how to kill instead of being killed. But the will, we can strengthen it now! Yang Qing was already getting more and more excited the more he spoke, completely ignoring whether his language could be understood by Guo Xi.

"If we rush to Qiuzi and Talas as quickly as possible now, we may indeed be able to arrive a few days or dozens of days in advance, but I believe that Jian Yuwei in that state is not vulnerable at all! Tired soldiers are far away, how can there be any reason to be undefeated? Don't forget, we're on a long journey of months! What to do? The only way to grind words is to grind their hearts and endurance, so that they can maintain patience and strong fighting spirit at any time! No matter how difficult the situation is, they can carry out military orders without hesitation, without discount, and willingly! Only then will we be the real Jianyu, and we will not lose our lives because of our weak will! ”

Guo Xi looked at Yang Qing quietly, and suddenly smiled for a long time: "Well, this is like Yang Ziyin." ”

"Huh?" Yang Qing didn't come back to his senses.

"I can't speak these things, but I don't understand the truth. Otherwise, why do you think I agreed to your arrangement without asking? ”

Yang Qing had a feeling of being deceived: "Then why do you still ask?" ”

Guo Xi laughed, turned around and walked towards the barracks, leaving only a handsome back for Yang Qing: "Look at your sluggishness these days, tease you!" ”

Yang Qing was stunned, and then raised his middle finger angrily, glaring at the main general who was gradually moving away with contempt.

Guo Xi seemed to have eyes on his back, and he gestured back and forth with his backhand, and the middle finger of his right hand was erected!

Yang Qing smiled dumbly, this Guo Xilie, he learned really fast.

Guo Xi's observation was very careful, and Yang Qing was indeed a little depressed in the past few days. Not for anything else, I miss my wife.

I thought that I could at least hold on to Yumen Pass, but I didn't expect to be able to stand it when I arrived in Lanzhou, my heart was bitter and itchy, I thought about Juan'er's playfulness, Xiang'er's thoughtfulness, and the cuteness of the bell, and the cat's paws were generally uncomfortable.

At the risk of leaking the military aircraft, Yang Qing asked Shang Han to find the Qin family's shop in Lanzhou and give Qin Juan a letter. Although the content of the letter is simple, it is the first letter written by Yang Qing after arriving in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the first love letter.

"Madame, I miss you."

Tonight is a sunny and good day, I don't know if it's because the terrain of Longyou is higher, and even the moon in the sky is extraordinarily big and rounder. Yang Qing, who was looking at the moon and was distracted, thought to himself, I wonder if Juan'er and the others are also like me, looking at the same moon and missing?

Tomorrow is the end of the rest, although it is only a short day, but the soldiers seem to have recovered a lot. Although it is not physically hard, but psychological exhaustion is inevitable, so I hope it can have a good effect today. In another month, the army will leave Yumen Pass in the west, and it will really be far away from its homeland. "One body has fought for three thousand miles, and one sword has been a million divisions." This time, the battle is not more than 3,000 miles, but I don't know if the sword of Jian Yuwei can be a million divisions! I hope that by that time, the five thousand sons and daughters of my Jian Yuwei expedition will truly complete the transformation and become the army of wolves and tigers who are feared by the Great Eater!

Yang Qing, who was thinking about national and family affairs, had been wandering on the riverbank like this, unwilling to leave for a long time......

We don't know if Qin Juan is looking at the same moon and missing Yang Qing, but at this time, in the camp of Jian Yuwei in Chang'an Xiyuan, there is a person full of resentment, who is complaining about the good moonlight.

"I don't know where the army has gone now. , blame yourself for being too lucky! "Yan Chuan doesn't like anything now, and he can't wait to kick anything when he sees it. So his guards also hid far away and didn't dare to come.

Yan Chuan kicked a pebble that "stood in the way", and continued to think of the answer depressedly: Why did you draw yourself? Could it be that you shouldn't go to Minghequ to have fun before going up? But those bastards are gone! It's too back!

In order to confuse people with ulterior motives, Guo Xi deliberately left more than 1,000 soldiers to continue to practice in Xiyuan, and it was originally appropriate to arrange for the soldier Cao Yanchuan to guard the town, but Yan Chuan held his neck and did not do it, which provoked Guo Xi to almost move out of the military law to punish him. It was Yang Qing who used a clever trick to catch a lot with the trick of street magic, so that Yan Bingcao had to accept the ending of "Providence is so".

What Yan Chuan didn't expect was that Guo Xi and Yang Qing left him in Chang'an this time, which would bring him another small trouble, and this trouble was really related to Minghequ, but this is a later story.

also looked at the full moon and thought about it, as well as Li Yang.

This is to Lanzhou, but the army still has no intention of stopping, where is it going? It's hateful that every time Guo Xi convenes the generals to discuss matters, he sends out his personal guards. Have the heart to eavesdrop, but Li Yang is really afraid of Guo Xi and Ye Guan's skills, if he is discovered, won't he give up his efforts? What's more, Shang Han and Zhang Nan are not under themselves in martial arts, and while they have the opportunity to eavesdrop, it also means that Shang and Zhang have the opportunity to discover themselves.

Things came too quickly, Guo Xi was urgently summoned into the palace that day, and after returning to the camp, except for Yang Qing, no one was allowed to leave the barracks, and he couldn't even notify the lord, so he arrived in Lanzhou in a daze! What's next? I don't know, is it just like this to be Guo Xi's personal guard?

Li Yang was at a loss, since he entered Jian Yuwei, he has often avoided the fact that he is actually a soldier, and in his heart, obeying the orders of the lord has become his whole life. Now in such a situation, he never thought about it at all - isn't Jian Yuwei a pro-janissary army? Why are you running so far? Going to war? North or West? Hit whom? It's not right to hit anyone, right? Did I go to Jian Yuwei to fight?

A series of questions made Li Yang exhausted, but he couldn't sleep for a long time.

Also on this moonlit night, Gao Xianzhi, who was far away in Qiuzi and received the secret decree of Xuanzong, finally completed the final preparations before the expedition - Bahanna and Ge Lulu have replied, clearly expressing their willingness to fully cooperate with the actions of the Anxi army, and the 10,000 allied troops have been assembled, and they will reach Broken Leaf City within two months! As a result, the 8,000 Anxi Army stationed in Qiuzi took the lead and went straight to the Tianshan Mountain. At the same time, the three fast horses have galloped to the three towns of Khotan, Yanqi and Shule respectively, and the military orders brought are simple and clear: all the troops under the jurisdiction except for the necessary garrisons will go to Broken Leaves, and arrive within two months and wait for the Chinese army to meet!

Qiuzi is a military town, and it is also the location of the Anxi Protectorate, which is a bit of a disturbance, and it is really difficult to hide from others. And because Qiuzi is the key point of the southern Silk Road, there are many caravans stopping here. Therefore, almost at the same time as the Anxi army was opened, some unidentified caravan horses also set off.

Gao Xianzhi doesn't care, it's best to send the news out early! I'm not afraid that you know, I'm afraid that you won't come! Lao Tzu is waiting for you to deliver it to your door in Talas!