Xiaofu put down the pen on Zhang Huan's copy of the appointment letter lightly approved the word 'quasi', and looked at the appointment letter carefully, this is the first appointment signed by her since she was the queen mother, according to the Tang Dynasty law, the appointment of officials of the third grade and above must be signed by the emperor, and now the queen mother is in charge of the country, and the imperial pen is in charge of her, although the personnel appointment is only a formality for her, but Cui Xiaofu is still very concerned, she read softly, "Appoint the Tianqi Camp Zhonglang to make Zhang Huan the governor of Liangzhou and the assassin of Wuwei County," This is from the third rank, In the 100 years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, how many people can be in a high position at such a young age?

However, Cui Xiaofu sighed not this, but Cui and Pei Erxiang's joint recommendation, Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it!

She casually handed the appointment letter to Li Chuanyun, and said with a slight smile: "The mourning family originally planned to keep him as the commander of the Yulin army, but it seems that the mourning family has wronged him." ”

Li Chuanyun's eyes were still cold, and she was wearing a Taoist robe, but some patterns were added to the Taoist robe, and the color was also slightly brighter, but despite this, she still looked a little out of place in the Tang Palace, which was full of flowers.

She took Zhang Huan's appointment letter, read it carefully, her cold eyes revealed a little warmth, and carefully took out the treasure seal of the Queen Mother from a jade box, dipped her feet in vermilion, and pressed the bright red seal on the appointment letter.

"It will be difficult for him in the future, Hexi has suffered disasters year after year, not to mention, how to survive this winter is a problem, but as long as he survives this winter, he will be able to gain a firm foothold in Hexi."

"He will!" Cui Xiaofu smiled, and then frowned, she had just gotten the news that Pei Jun's daughter Pei Ying was actually beside Zhang Huan. So what about Cui Ning? If he marries Pei Ying, wouldn't Zhang Huan break away from himself and turn to Pei Jun.

"How is Cui Ning these days?" Cui Ning met, but it was Li Fanyun because of his younger brother. He has a close relationship with Cui Ning.

"She has been asking me for Taoist scriptures for the past two days, and I suspect that she also wants to become a monk." He sighed.

Cui Xiaofu was stunned, and immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, once the eldest brother found out that Cui Ning was misanthropic. will marry her off immediately, and it is very likely that Wang Yan, the son of Wang Ang.

"No! I have to talk to my eldest brother. Cui Xiaofu made up her mind suddenly, she must not lose Cui Ning's chess piece.

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More than a dozen cavalrymen escorted Xuanzhilang rushed out of the Mingde Gate at a gallop, galloping away to the west and to the right of Long, frightening the passers-by on both sides desperately dodging on both sides, causing everyone to discuss. Who is going to be promoted this time, it is so urgent.

Since the death of the emperor. As usual, all public entertainment activities should be banned, starting with the annual polo tournament, which was suddenly cancelled by the imperial court just seven days before the start of the polo tournament, much to the disappointment of the citizens of Chang'an. Their attention was gradually attracted by the chaotic situation in the Tang Dynasty, and I don't know who reported that Zhang Huan, the general of the Tianqi Battalion, had left Chang'an and led the army to recover the Hexi hometown of the Tang Dynasty. In this winter when topics are scarce and boring, this is undoubtedly one of the most anticipated highlights in the Tang Dynasty, which advocates heroes.

In the hall of Guozijian, thousands of students sat solemnly, quietly listening to a speech by Han Yu, the eye of this year's imperial examination, which was strongly supported by Chu Xingming, the secretary of Guozijian.

"Since the Anshi Rebellion, the troops of Helong and Shuofang entered the Central Plains, and Tubo took advantage of the emptiness of my Western Regions to invade Helong several times on a large scale, plundering my millions of brothers and sisters, and the elderly parents were gouged and cut off their arms, abandoned in the wilderness, and occupied my Tang Gan, Liang, Su, Gua, Min, and Linzhong counties for more than ten years, and the descendants of the Tang people were born as Rong slaves, with unkempt hair and ochre face tattoos, sacrificing to their fathers and ancestors at the age of each year, wearing Chinese clothes, and crying for countless dead."

Han Yu's voice was low, and his eyes were full of grief and indignation, "In the second year of Zhide, Tubo captured Jincheng County, robbed the young and strong women and children of the Tang Dynasty, and handed over its most barbaric tribes as living slaves, and finally gazed at the land of his hometown, countless people cried and fainted, jumped off the cliff and died hundreds of people, born as the people of the Tang Dynasty, how unfortunate!" ”

At this time, there was already a sigh in the hall, and suddenly a hoarse voice chanted among the students: "Longtou has broken people, Hu rode into Liangzhou City at night." The Han family fought to the death everywhere, and once there was no land in Longxi.

Immediately after that, hundreds, thousands of people echoed the voice, and he millet was heard. Last year, China adopted a descendant, and now he is learning Hu in felt. Who can make Li Qingche more and collect the Han family belonging to Liangzhou? ”

The hall was filled with a sound of grief and indignation.

"But now someone wants to recover the rivers and mountains for my Datang!" Han Yu's voice suddenly rose, and he said impassionedly: "Who is the one who burned the military food back to the winter of the winter?" Who is it this summer? That's him! Zhonglang general Zhang Huan, he has led 5,000 Tang iron cavalry, rushed to Hexi, to recover my hometown in Hexi, to recover Anxi, Beiting, to rebuild the four towns of Anxi, he even wants to go further west, the dragon flag of the Tang Dynasty is re-planted on the head of the broken leaf city, and reproduce the majesty of my Datang Tian Khan! ”

He took a deep breath and said proudly: "Why don't you take Wu Hook and collect Guan Shanwu."

What the Seven Great Families couldn't do, but by a general as young as us. ”

Speaking of this, Han Yu finally burst out into a rage, he stared at the eyes of every young scholar present for a long time, realizing that their blood was about to boil, and his sad and angry voice echoed in the hall, "But just on the edge of the Yellow River, there is a great family that does not hesitate to use tens of thousands of people to encircle and suppress our hero for the selfish interests of the family, to make him hate on the edge of the west of the river, we can allow him to die on the battlefield, but we will never allow him to die under the sword of his compatriots, then we!" What should we do for him? ”

"Let's go and petition!" A low voice shouted in the crowd, and then hundreds of people shouted in unison, "Let's go to Daming Palace to petition!" ”

The voices of hundreds of people immediately turned into the shouts of thousands of people: "Let the Wei family let him go west!" ”

On November 14 of the first year of Xuanren, 3,000 Tai students marched in front of the Daming Palace, demanding that Wei Ge let Zhang Huanxi go, and the number of people became more and more numerous, and the momentum became more and more huge, and finally it evolved into 120,000 people who participated in the imperial examination in the following year to sit in Jingshizi on Suzaku Street, denounce Wei Ge's perverse behavior, and demand that the imperial court remove Wei Ge from his post as a cabinet minister.

Immediately, dozens of officials of the Wei family in Beijing hurriedly sent the sudden outbreak of public anger in Chang'an to Longyou in various ways.

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The banner was covered in the wind, a majestic white horse galloped at the foot of the Henan Mountain, Zhang Huan galloped on the horse, the white mane flew, floating to his silver helmet, the earth was covered with snow, behind him, thousands of cavalry were like a long dragon, roaring forward in the cold wind, the mountain dance silver, the original gallop wax elephant.

The Tianqi camp crossed the Yellow River in Lingwu County, has gone south for more than 300 miles, on the mountains on the right, the broken Great Wall is still faintly visible, and on the left is the Yellow River dozens of miles apart.

"Huh-" Zhang Huan snorted softly, slowly tightened the reins, he looked up at the sky, the sun was setting, the remnants were as red as blood, and a few small black dots quickly disappeared on the hill, which was the scout of the enemy army.

As soon as he waved his hand, he immediately whispered, "Set up camp on the spot and rest for two hours!" ”

Soon, hundreds of white tents rose, Pei Ying's face was frozen and painful, and she kept her hand warm and got into a thick leather tent next to the handsome tent.

Zhang Huan knelt on an old military blanket and carefully studied the map in front of him, there was no man's land in front of him, and the nearest county town was also 400 miles away, and on the other side of the Yellow River was Hui County, the only state and county in Hexi on the east bank of the Yellow River, with a garrison of 1,000 people.

In terms of time and distance, if there were no special circumstances for the Longyou Army and the Shuofang Army, they should have crossed the Yellow River, and the scouts also appeared, then they were very likely to be within a hundred miles of themselves.

Of course, these are just speculations, everything has to wait for the news of the scout, at this moment, the slight sound of horses' hooves came from afar, getting closer and closer, Zhang Huan walked to the door of the tent in a few steps, and several horses galloped over, this is the scout who inquired about the intelligence returned.

"Report to the general, the 20,000 Longyou Army and the 30,000 Shuofang Army have converged eighty miles ahead, have crossed the Yellow River, and are hurrying towards our side."

Zhang Huan nodded, and asked again: "Is there any information about the Hexi Army?" ”

"The brothers who are heading west have been gone for three days, and no news has come."

"Got it, probe again!" Several scouts headed south again, disappearing into the horizon for a moment.

"General, I wonder if Li Hengqiu will be fine?" He Lou Wuji next to him was a little worried, although he and Li Hengqiu often quarreled and were not convinced by each other, but when it was really time to face the enemy, he was very worried about Li Hengqiu.

"He's a local, he's a veteran, and he shouldn't be fine.

Zhang Huan turned around and walked into the tent, and beckoned to He Lou Wuji, "Come here, I have something to discuss with you." ”

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"What! The general wants to cross the river again to take the county? "He Lou is in a hurry, the only advantage of the Tianqi Battalion is that it is flexible and flexible, and taking Huijun is equivalent to giving up his strengths and falling into encirclement.

"The general must think clearly, the enemy army has 50,000 people!"

Zhang Huan walked to the gate of the camp with his hands behind his back, he stared at the boundless Gobi in the west, and sighed slightly and said: "Of course I know that it is not the best strategy to cross the river to take the county again, but our opponent is really cunning, he has always refused to let the Hexi army come out, if we linger for too long, the Hexi army will not come out, and at will take advantage of the fact that he is not very clear about our purpose now, and first fall into his own disadvantage, so as to lure the Hexi army out." ”

"But 50,000 troops are enough to surround us, and there is still no need for him to let Hexi come out to participate in the siege! General, will this outweigh the gains? ”

Zhang Huan smiled slightly, with a sly smile in his eyes, he looked in the direction of Lingwu County and said slowly: "Now they are fifty thousand people, but soon they will not be." ”