Hou Poyu was still discussing with Zhang Shenzhi in his tent about the taste of the slave girl last night, and when he heard the news from the scout, he knew that the hateful Xu Zhen was tied up back to the Liangzhou camp after all, and he was overjoyed, and he didn't even have time to change into a military uniform, so he rushed to the gate of the camp in a hurry.

Zhang Shenzhi was also knowledgeable, and hurriedly transferred more than 100 of his subordinate elite soldiers, which could be regarded as saving face for Hou Poyu, so that this little grandfather could humiliate Xu Zhen!

However, Duan Zhan's cavalry had not yet returned, but a cadre of officers came out of the camp one after another, and finally even the head of Li Daozong walked out in person!

"What's going on?!!! Hou Poyu had an uneasy premonition in his heart, seeing that Li Daozong did not wear it regularly, but in a serious military uniform, and even the mysterious boy brought back by Xu Zhen and the personal guard Li Dexuan stood by Li Daozong's side!

Hou Poyu's brows jumped suddenly, and he hurriedly kicked his entourage back, took the military uniform from the camp tent, and hid behind the soldiers to put it on, regardless of his manners.

Only then was he dressed neatly, the rumbling hooves sounded in the distance of the military road, and the Tang flag headed by the wind was waving in the wind, and the footsteps of the war horse were heavy and powerful, knocking on the pulse of the earth, and slowly stopped in front of the gate of the big camp.

Duan Zan is the leader, and Li Deqian is neck and neck, while Xu Zhen, the leader on the right, is half a horse behind, but he is extremely dazzling in red armor!

After the army slowly gathered, another two or three hundred ruined cavalry followed, looking like a down-and-out barbarian captive, all of them were skinny and vegetable, but their eyes were full of the essence of wolves and tigers!

What makes people's hearts palpitate is that no matter the thirteen red armor horsemen behind Xu Zhen, or the ruined cavalry team that followed, everyone had three or four or five hideous heads hanging on their horses!

It wasn't until Duan Zan and Xu Zhen and the others got off the horse, and Hou Poyu, who stretched his neck, saw clearly that there was still a person hanging horizontally behind Xu Zhen's buttocks, although his face was stained with blood, but Hou Poyu had already recognized that this person was Murong Xiao who was captured by Xu Zhen that day!

Duan Zan had already informed the scouts about Xu Zhen's situation, and ordered him to report back to the head of the march in advance, but no matter how great the credit of Xu Zhen and the others was, they only exterminated more than 300 Murong tribe captives and brought back more than 200 Rouran people, how could the chief manager personally come to greet them!

He rolled his saddle and fell off his horse in a panic, stepped forward, bowed down and bowed, "How dare you be treated like this!" ”

Li Daozong waved his hand slightly, his eyes fell on Xu Zhen's body, he stopped on the red armor and the long knife on Xu Zhen's waist for a few breaths, nodded at Xu Zhen, and then said to Duan Zan with an expressionless face: "Let them all go down first, settle down, these soft and good men are all arranged, and they must not be regarded as military slaves, and they will discuss the matter of asking for merit later." ”

Li Daozong naturally knew the preciousness of the Rouran people, but his face was as usual, which made Duan Zan quite puzzled, thinking about it, this marching manager should not have come to greet his team.

But at the moment, he didn't want to ask too much, so he had to order to go down and let the cavalry go around and enter the city, and Li Daozong and other generals really stayed in front of the city gate.

Xu Zhen threw Murong Xiao on horseback to the Tang soldiers beside him, and was about to return to the camp, but when he saw Li Daozong beckoning to him, he hurriedly took a few steps forward, but heard the latter laugh and said: "Er is the general's personal soldier, what do you want?" It's not a personal guard! ”

All the generals are discolored.

Xu Zhen smiled, pressed the knife, took two steps, but stopped, and shook his head at Zhang Jiunian and Zhou Cang and the other thirteen people behind him, who were agitated and hurriedly followed.

Li Daozong didn't stop it, but the generals around him couldn't help it, they couldn't even trust Xu Zhen, how could they trust these thirteen murderous red-armored martial artists of unknown origin behind Xu Zhen!

"How dare you get close to the main general! Looking for death! A lieutenant drew his sword, and the other generals showed their blades one after another, but Xu Zhen's face did not change, and he smiled at Li Daozong: "These are the brothers that my team is recruiting, the chief, you won't accept it, right?" But they're all good players! ”

Li Daozong saw Xu Zhen's hippie smiling face, and he couldn't cry or laugh, waved his hand at many generals, and said that it was okay, Xu Zhen took his brothers and stood behind Li Daozong.

Li Daozong saw that these thirteen people were walking heavily, their eyes were attentive, and their expressions were calm, not like the people in the mountains and fields, and the old spicy eyes immediately saw the clues, and looked back slightly and asked: "These are all from the retainers of the nursing home, right?" I don't know who the former lord is? ”

When Xu Zhen heard Li Daozong's question, a wave of respect suddenly surged in his heart, this old general's eyes were really poisonous enough, and he actually saw the origin of Zhang Jiunian and other retainers at a glance, and he didn't think so much about it at the moment, and replied: "It's Zhang Yungu..."

"Zhang Yungu? That Zhang Yungu? Li Daozong wiped his neck with his hand, Xu Zhen understood, thinking that yes, it was the Zhang Yungu who was killed.

"Yes, it's that Zhang Yungu..."

However, Li Daozong couldn't cry or laugh, this kid found a good team of guards for himself, just protected Zhang Yungu to death, and came to protect our old Li, isn't this bad luck, a scourge!

Xu Zhen saw that the generals' faces were not good-looking, but Li Lao'er secretly snickered, his mood was also relaxed, and he boldly asked: "Boss, our brothers are back, why don't you go back to the camp?" ”

Li Daozong knocked on his head and scolded angrily: "Do you really think that you are a victorious general? One day you cut off the head of the Nuo Hao bowl, but I, Li, don't mind going out of the camp to receive you in person. ”

Xu Zhen is such a clear person, he immediately knew that there must be someone else who was welcomed today, and immediately asked: "I don't know who the chief manager is using, has he ever carried Murong Fuyun's head?" ”

Li Daozong smiled and said with a slight ridicule: "Although this person did not carry Murong Fuyun's head, he followed the current sage to conquer the world, made monstrous achievements, ranked as the prince of the country, pacified the Turks, and destroyed Gaochang, do you say that the old man should greet him personally?" ”

Xu Zhenxin's head tightened suddenly, the answer was already coming out, the person who wanted to come was the boss of Hou Poyu, who was the same deputy general as Li Daozong, the head of the Jishi Road march, and the Hou Junji of Chen Guogong!

As early as a few days ago, Duan Zhan, in order to share the merits, had already set up a military order for Hou Poyu, and told Li Deqian that Xu Zhen had defected to the enemy, and Xu Zhen was waiting to see Hou Poyu's jokes, if his father came today, this matter would be even more lively, but he didn't know how to deal with this matter with Li Daozong's officialdom.

Xu Zhen was still thinking about this, but he felt a gaze sweeping over him, and when he looked at it, he saw that Li Mingda, the princess of Jinyang, who was pretending to be a little guard, just turned her head and pouted slightly, obviously angry that Xu Zhen didn't pay attention to her at the first time.

Everyone else is looking at Xu Zhen and the Hongjia retainers, and at the wild captives on the back of the Rouran people, but only Li Mingda, his eyes have always been different, not focusing on Xu Zhen, a stinky guy, but on the big sister Caesar!

Her daughter's mind is as deep as the sea, and she keenly feels that when she returns, this plump and mature sister of a beautiful woman of different races no longer has disgust and hostility towards Xu Zhen in her eyes, which makes Li Mingda very unhappy.

Just as she was sulking, Xu Zhen quietly moved a few steps, and secretly stuffed an object into Li Mingda's hand under his hand, and then smiled and moved it back again.

Li Mingda's heart tightened, not because Xu Zhen stuffed something to her, but when she stuffed something, Xu Zhen touched her hand!

Although she and Xu Zhen once rode on the same horse, their backs were close to each other, but it was also a helpless move, at this time she was protected by Li Daozong, Her Royal Highness the princess golden branches and jade leaves, Xu Zhen actually dared to touch it, she couldn't help but be annoyed, but there was a shameful excitement in this anger, which was really incomprehensible.

Taking advantage of everyone's solemn waiting, Li Mingda secretly spread out his palm, and there was a colorful and round small stone lying quietly in the palm of his palm, and he didn't know where Xu Zhen got it.

As a princess, can Princess Jinyang miss the good things she has seen? Such rotten goods are everywhere on the prairie!

"Miser! Stingy dog slave! Princess Jinyang scolded Xu Zhen silently, but the latter smiled in return, but scolded and scolded, and when Xu Zhen turned his head, Li Mingda quietly stuffed the stone into his underwear pocket, feeling the coldness of the stone, and being careful that his liver was fluttering for no reason, this annoying nasty ghost!

Li Daozong is the same age as His Majesty today, and he has not reached the point of old eyes and faintness, but the current attention is not on the small actions of Li Mingda and Xu Zhen, because at the end of the military road, a horse comes in the dust, the Tang character military flag hunts in the wind, and the flag soldiers on horseback are as tall as iron towers, holding the flagpole with thick human legs with both hands, completely borrowing their legs to drive the horse, and the riding skills are like reaching the peak!

After the Tang character military flag ran out of the horizon, there was another flag soldier riding a horse, but the top of his hand was a dark blood-red Da Min (Note 1), after this Da Min, the "Hou" character handsome flag followed, the back flag was like a forest, the sound of horses' hooves shook the earth, Chen Guogong Hou Junji's pomp, it was really shocking!

Xu Zhen couldn't help but snort coldly, he knew very well what happened to Hou Junji, seeing this person so high, he became more and more unhappy in his heart, even if he put aside the entanglement between Hou Poyu and himself, he would not have any good feelings towards Hou Junji.

However, Li Daozong smiled, and didn't seem to have much ill feeling for Hou Junji's behavior, but instead instructed the generals to let the sappers and civilians in the camp act in unison to help Hou Junji's army build a camp.

Under the escort of the pro-soldier team, the grandfather of Hou Guo, who let Li Daozong stand under the sun for half an hour, finally came belatedly, and the people came first, and came steadily after falling off the horse, and laughed heartily: "Hou Junji is late, and Li Gong welcomes him personally, but he can break the slave family (Note 2)!" ”

Li Daozong took a few steps forward, and Hou Junji talked happily, laughing constantly, and everyone cooperated tacitly, but they acted out a happy scene of seeing each other in a robe.

Although Xu Zhen lowered his eyebrows and was silent, he saw Hou Junji's true appearance, and his heart was inevitably a little lost, for this Tang Dynasty fierce general who can be called a hero, Xu Zhen has imagined his appearance and temperament countless times, of course, other famous generals are naturally among Xu Zhen's imagination.

But this Hou Junji has sunken cheeks, no flesh on his face, and two sparse beards, not like a general who crisscrosses the battlefield, but more like a ruthless and cunning dog-headed military advisor.

Hou Junji exchanged pleasantries with Li Daozong, and slightly praised the style of the generals, and then entered the camp with Li Daozong, his eyes swept over Xu Zhen, and he hesitated for a moment, but did not pay attention to Xu Zhenzhi's face, but noticed the bright red copper armor on Xu Zhen and his brothers.

From beginning to end, he didn't even look at his son!

This is also completely in Xu Zhen's imagination, but there is another person who is treated the same as Hou Poyu, and that is Li Mingda, the princess of Jinyang next to Li Daozong!

Hou Junji, as the proud favorite general of Li Tang Tianzi, is currently the secretary of the military department, and the head of the Jishi Road march, if he doesn't recognize the princess Jinyang, who is the most beloved by His Majesty the Emperor, this is simply unbelievable.

Xu Zhen is familiar with historical materials, Hou Junji is directly related to the upcoming imperial court storm, and even fuels the trouble, so Li Mingda's abduction, even if he has no share, must know!

However, he didn't look at Li Mingda from beginning to end, isn't this a thief with a weak heart and wants to cover up!

(Note 1: Dayan, also known as 旄旆.) Yinyin Mao, refers to the flag decorated with the tail of the yak, and can also be widely referred to as the precious flag decorated with animal fur and feathers. It refers to a flag with sharp horns at the end of the tail, mostly in the shape of a swallowtail. Such flags are often held by the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of a noble position. ）

(Note 2: The Tang people used to use self-names, and men can also use them, and it is not a self-name used exclusively by women in later generations.) ）