Li Zhi suddenly came to his senses, immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly said: "Desheng, you go to Zhongshu Province quickly, and ask Xu Jingzong not to issue the edict to punish Pei Xingjian for the time being." ”

"The villain obeys."

Zhang Desheng hurriedly walked outside.

Li Zhi was just dizzy in front of him, because this mistake would make Datang lose sight of one or the other, but at this moment, his mind became extremely clear, and he actually knew very well in his heart why Xu Jingzong and they excluded Pei Xingjian, Zhang Desheng was just about to go out, and he immediately said: "Slow." ”

Zhang Desheng immediately walked over again and said, "I don't know what else Your Majesty has to order?" ”

Li Zhi took out his waist card and handed it to Zhang Desheng, and said: "If the edict has been issued, you immediately take this waist card to Yang Sine, and let him chase the edict back to me no matter what, otherwise, I will blame him." ”

As soon as Zhang Desheng heard the emperor's tone, and took out the gold medal, he knew the seriousness of the matter, took the waist card and ran out with his short legs.

"Not good!"

Cui Jijian suddenly exclaimed.

Li Zhi was stunned and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Cui Jijian said with an anxious face: "Your Majesty, Weichen's original suggestion was mainly to use Nalu Dongzan's suspicious character to find a way to drag them, and after the pacification of Goguryeo, Tubo naturally did not dare to invade again." However, now that Khotan has been breached, Lu Dongzan will soon be able to know what is going on, and he will definitely lead a large army to attack Tuyuhun, Tuyuhun is in danger, and His Majesty should quickly send people to reinforce General Wang and them. ”

Li Zhi was immediately stunned.

After all, Khotan is 108,000 miles away from Chang'an, although it is more difficult to rescue, but it is also more difficult to crisis the Central Plains, and if Tuyuhun is broken, then the next slope is the Guanzhong region, which is too close to Chang'an, which is fatal.

But the shrewd Lu Dongzan won't give them another chance.

Originally, Lu Dongzan was indeed frightened, thinking that the Tang army had already prepared, so he ordered the three armies not to act rashly, but as soon as he heard that his son easily broke through the Khotanese Mansion, then he also knew the strength of the Khotanese Mansion well, if he couldn't react, it would really be damned, shouting that he was fooled, this is an empty city plan, so he personally commanded an army of 100,000 troops, divided into three routes, and attacked Tuyuhun, at this time, there is really nothing to say, that is, to start a war.

Both sides understand what is going on.

Wang Xuance and Wang Fangyi, the pair of Wang Zhan, plus the pair of super holders, are powerful, but because the difference in strength is too great, they have a total of 20,000, and Lu Dongzan knows that they have no soldiers, and their situation immediately becomes very dangerous.

When Cui Jijian reacted, in fact, Tuyuhun's distress letter was already on the way.

And when Zhang Desheng hurried to Zhongshu Province over there, sure enough, the edict had been issued, Xu Jingzong faintly felt that this matter was not so simple, so he hurriedly asked Wang Dejian and others to write the edict, and without Liu Xiangdao, he went directly to Menxia Province, anyway, Pei Xingjian was killed first, and even if something was found out, this person could not be resurrected after death.

Zhang Desheng hurriedly went to find Yang Sine again, and asked Yang Sine to quickly send a fast horse to recover the letter.

Yang Sine didn't know what was going on at all, it could be seen that Zhang Desheng even showed the emperor's gold medal, knowing that this matter was very serious, but he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately sent someone to chase after him.

After all, he was a member of the military department, and the edict was chased back before it left Gyeonggi.

Li Zhi immediately ordered Su Haizheng to be arrested, and Pei Xingjian was temporarily in charge of the defense of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and he must defend the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, saying so, but no one has the bottom, because Pei Xingjian has no soldiers in his hands, and there is also civil strife.

After Xu Jingzong learned about it, he was very surprised, and hurriedly went to find Li Zhi, shouting, Pei Xingjian is not credible, if you don't get rid of it, you will regret it.

At this time, Li Zhi has already reacted, where will he be fooled, he is much smarter than Xu Jingzong, at this time, you are still here thinking about cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and you have no time to take care of him, you leave me to stay.

However, when Tuyuhun's urgent news reached Chang'an, the whole country was shocked.

If this is not done well, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Li Zhi hurriedly convened a pivotal meeting to discuss how to deal with it, and for the first time let Cui Jijian participate in the meeting, he couldn't care so much at this time.

Cui Jijian didn't care about any dignity, and without waiting for the rest of the ministers to speak, he stood up and said: "Your Majesty, in the letter sent by General Wang, I just hope that Your Majesty will send more troops over, which shows that they are capable of dealing with the enemy, and the minister suggests that an additional 50,000 people should be sent over from the Guanzhong region immediately. ”

"No, no."

Xu Jingzong immediately jumped out and said excitedly: "When Sikong set out on the expedition, he had already transferred the elite of the Southern Ya Forbidden Army, and now there are only the troops of the Northern Ya, which are used to protect His Majesty and Chang'an. Moreover, Wang Xuance and Wang Fangyi are still inexperienced, and they do not have the ability to command the army, so how can they be Lu Dongzan's opponents, and it is too dangerous to hand over the only elite of Chang'an to them. ”

His remarks cannot be said to be wrong. The forbidden army is divided into two parts, the south is the national defense army, which is commanded by the prime minister, and the north is the emperor's janissaline army, which is directly commanded by the emperor. Li Ji went on the expedition, of course, to transfer the national defense army, if Li Ji was there, it would be okay to say, the problem is that Wang Xuance and Wang Fangyi are only middle-level generals, and it is too risky to hand over the emperor's forbidden army to Wang Fangyi.

Cui Jijian said: "But this far water can't save the near fire, only Chang'an can send troops to solve Gu Hun's urgent need." ”

Xu Jingzong said: "Tuyuhun is not my Tang territory, we were able to send troops to protect them before, it was already benevolent and righteous, and now we are too busy to take care of ourselves, and we should protect ourselves first." The old minister suggested that he immediately send a letter to Wang Fangyi and them, telling them that they could abide by the rules, and if they couldn't keep it, they would retreat to the Guanzhong area, and send a message to Princess Honghua, and she would move the people of Tuyuhun into our country. They should also send a message to Sikong and them as soon as possible, so that they can return to China as soon as possible to defend, Goguryeo can be eliminated at any time, and we must focus on the overall situation! ”

Husband and wife are originally birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster comes, not to mention that they are not husband and wife, of course Xu Jingzong is to protect himself first.

Xu Yushi said: "Even if they come back to defend, it is not possible to save the near fire from far water, if the troops are withdrawn in a hurry in the Liaodong region, they may be counterattacked by Goguryeo, didn't Emperor Yang of Sui also lose like this, besides, although Tubo is menacing, but we have a lot of troops in Guanzhong, why be so afraid." ”

Xu Jingzong said: "Although there are many troops in Guanzhong, there is no commander who can compete with Lu Dongzan, and the commanders who can fight well in the DPRK and China are all in the Liaodong region. ”

Lu Chengqing said: "There is one person who can resist Lu Dongzan." ”

Li Zhi hurriedly asked, "Who?" ”

"Lu Guogong." Lu Chengqing said.

Li Zhi slapped his thigh and said, "That's right! How did I forget Lu Guogong? ”

At this moment, Cheng Biting Jin, who was idle at home, immediately became the expectation of everyone, and Rao is Xu Jingzong didn't dare to say more, because Cheng Biting Jin was indeed the best candidate, and he also hoped that Cheng Biting Jin would be able to go out of the mountain.

When everyone thought that Cheng Yanjin would return to the army and stage a hero's return, Cheng Yanjin refused Li Zhi's invitation because he was old and couldn't see.

Li Zhi was very embarrassed, but this can only be said to be retribution.

At the beginning, he used that kind of trick to make Cheng Biting Jin fight the last battle in his life, and he was so wretched that he was looked down upon by his subordinates, which made Cheng Biting Jin lose face in the army, and now he has difficulties, and he thinks of Cheng Biting Jin, are you embarrassed.

But there was no way, Li Zhi asked Lu Chengqing to be a lobbyist.

Although Lu Chengqing didn't know the internal cause, he thought that no matter what the reason, Cheng Biting Jin was too much, so he went to Cheng Biting Jin, "Lu Guogong, as a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, you have served the three masters of our dynasty, and now that the national crisis is at hand, you should stand up, how can you be rash?" ”

If this was in the past, Cheng Biting Jin estimated that he would have slapped this guy out, and he came up with a question, and he didn't understand any humility, but he could also understand Lu Chengqing, and he was really anxious, and sighed and said: "Brother Lu, do you think the old man is acting rashly?" ”

Lu Chengqing said: "Otherwise, what is it? ”

Cheng Yanjin sighed heavily, and said: "The old man refuses to go out of the mountain, because the old man is really powerless, if he is willful, the old man will go into battle, and now the old man is old, he is more than enough but not enough." But this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the old man did not plan to lead the troops again when he unloaded his armor and returned to the field, he just wanted to spend the rest of his life in peace, live for many years, and have been idle for many years, and the spirit in his heart has long been lost. ”

Lu Chengqing saw that Cheng Biting Jin had white hair, his eyes were blank, and he sighed when he spoke, it was indeed the same as which Cheng Biting Jin was the same as before, how could Cheng Biting Jin say that he couldn't beat Lu Dongzan, and the king of heaven was not afraid.

It can only be said that Li Zhi's original move was really too insidious, and he directly made Cheng Yanjin angry, and Cheng Yanjin saw it at the time, otherwise, it is estimated that he would have to be depressed. Coupled with the fate of the eldest grandson Wuji, Cheng Biting Jin saw it in his eyes, don't forget, he is also the elder of Wagangzhai, he was glad that he got out early, and now if he goes out of the mountain, if he loses, the old Cheng family may be the same as the eldest grandson's family, can he not be afraid, he has no fighting spirit to fight with Lu Dongzan, and he is very timid, he has a lot of concerns, he feels that he is not going, it is good for him, his descendants, and Datang.

Lu Chengqing was still a kind-hearted person, so he went back and told Li Zhi that Cheng Biting Jin was indeed old, and he couldn't lead the troops anymore, so he had to choose another person.

But there is really no one in the DPRK!

Li Zhi didn't dare to shout for the royal drive this time, the four heavenly kings were not there, where did he dare to go out.

At the beginning of the court, many ministers suggested that Li Zhi should stop the battle of Liaodong and transfer the commanders back. Even Lu Chengqing and others felt that they should indeed consider giving up the battle of Liaodong.

On the contrary, Li Zhi himself really didn't want to give up the battle of Liaodong, how could he be willing to spit out this meat to his mouth.

But this is the reality, it can be seen that a country is not the bigger the territory, the better, this is based on strength, the Tang Dynasty in just a few years, so many territories, so many nationalities, this is actually beyond the limit of the Tang Dynasty, if it is not for Han Yi's northwest plan, it will not be able to stabilize the situation at all. In addition, this is an era of heroes, no one is a fool, in fact, Lu Dongzan did this, in order to protect himself, from the perspective of Tubo, he decided to do this, because if he didn't make a move, it would be the rhythm of waiting for death, once the Tang Dynasty integrated these forces, it would definitely attack Tubo, and how could others be allowed to sleep soundly on the edge of this couch.

The Tang Dynasty did not send anyone to condemn Tibet, and there was really no need for this.