On the boundless prairie, a thousand cavalry people are quickly moving to the front of the northeast team, dozens of big flags are waving in the wind, in the middle of which is the team of Li Jiao, the king of Guangping, the armor is bright, all from Chang'an's ten thousand cavalry battalion, they set off from Baishui City, the target is Broken Leaf City four hundred miles away in the northeast, just two days ago, Gao Xianzhi of the Anxi Army just left Broken Leaf City.

Li Jiao was in the middle of the team, at this moment, the young emperor's eldest grandson was dressed in golden helmets and golden armor, riding on a majestic maroon horse, and from time to time he said something to a personal soldier beside him, the personal soldier, although the armor was no different from an ordinary soldier, but his eyes were cold, and his gestures revealed a kind of majesty that was difficult for ordinary people to reach, hundreds of soldiers guarded around them, and even the entire army was based on them

This Tang army dressed as an ordinary soldier is the new envoy of the Tang Dynasty Anxi Festival, the champion general Li Qing, he received Xi Yuanqing's express report yesterday, Gao Xianzhi returned to Chang'an, Kang Huaishun took charge of the army, and arrested Li Siye, Li Qing immediately decided to rush to Broken Leaf City overnight to seize power.

Since Xi Yuanqing escaped, Kang Huaishun would of course be prepared, in order to prevent unnecessary conflicts, Li Qing decided to push the king of Guangping to the front line, and he disguised himself as a small soldier, hiding in the army, after a night and a half day of marching, at noon, the towering city wall of Broken Leaf City was already faintly in sight.

The closer he got to the broken leaves, Li Jiao's expression began to be a little nervous, his trip was not to comfort the soldiers of the expedition, but to assist Li Qing to seize military power, this kind of struggle and conflict he experienced for the first time, and although the more than 1,000 soldiers beside him were wearing the armor of the 10,000 cavalry battalion, they were all the elite of the Doulu army without exception, and he was the only one left from Chang'an, which really made him uneasy.

Li Qing saw his worries on the side, and couldn't help but smile and comfort him: "Your Highness, don't worry, Kang Huaishun has only been in power for three days now. He had not yet had time to establish his prestige. If it were Li Siye, I would act at my discretion, but Kang Huaishun was far from him. ”

Li Jiao smiled bitterly, what else can he say now, he can only do it hard, he straightened up, and looked into the distance with the curtain, the city is imminent, and the first mile on the left is the original station of the Anxi army, which has all withdrawn to the city yesterday. There were still a few dilapidated tents left in the camp, shaking desperately in the wind.

Suddenly, Li Jiao seemed to see the gate of Broken Leaf City open, and a team of cavalry galloped out of it, he felt nervous for a while, and instinctively looked back, only to find that Li Qing beside him was gone.

The cavalry approached quickly, and the first two officers were smiling. On the horse, he arched his hand and said: "Is it His Royal Highness the King of Guangping?" ”

"It's the king!" arrange

The two officers looked at each other, and one of them smiled at Li Jiao: "The marshal has returned to Chang'an for the time being, and now Vice Marshal Kang is in charge of military affairs." ”

The other man flashed to the side and scrutinized the army. Perhaps not finding the person he was looking for, the officer immediately made a gesture in the direction of the city gate, and then heard the sound of horses' hooves roaring, and a large group of cavalry poured out of the city, and the fat middle-aged man was flying quickly. He had a long, thin hooked nose and wore a taut military uniform, which looked rather comical.

"Marching Sima Kang Huaishun to see His Royal Highness the King of Guangping!"

Kang Huaishun said, but his eyes patrolled behind Li Jiao uneasily, and sure enough, there was no trace of Li Qing, so he was relieved, after Li Siye was detained, the only thing Kang Huaishun was afraid of was Li Qing. He was afraid that Li Qing was in the army, but he didn't dare to welcome King Guangping. He is the eldest grandson of the emperor, if he does not serve carefully, he will go back to report the complaint, and his career will be over.

After thinking about it again and again, he had to gamble, betting that Li Li would not be in the same league with Li Qing, and when he saw Li Li from a distance, he sent someone to check first, and made sure that there was really no Li Qing accompanying him, so he was willing to come out to greet him, and he saw that Li Jiao's eyes were slightly unpleasant, "The marshal returned to Beijing to offer prisoners, and entrusted the military affairs to his humble post before leaving, and said that His Royal Highness was coming soon, and ordered me to receive him well. ”

Li Jiao's mind seemed to be in a trance, he waved his hand and said, "That's it, you lead the way in front!" ”

At this time, Li Jiao seemed to be a puppet led by Li Qing, he didn't know when Li Qing would start, so he had to greet him under his traction, walk forward step by step, and finally wait for the person behind the curtain to suddenly appear.

The Anxi army has been stationed in the city, almost half of the houses, after Gao Xianzhi issued the expulsion order, most of the Turks living in the city of Broken Leaves have retreated south with the army of Bakhana, the whole city seems empty, you can't see a worthless thing scattered on it, and a group of Tang troops patrols the streets to prevent the newly withdrawn army from taking the opportunity to invade the houses,

At this time, Kang Huaishun saw that Li Jiao's personal soldiers were still less than 300 people, so he was completely relieved, hurriedly walked to Li Jiao's side, pointed to a restaurant in front of him that was still in business and said with a smile: "I have prepared a few glasses of vegetarian wine for His Royal Highness, can His Highness appreciate his face?" ”

Li Jiao took the opportunity to bow his head and groan, his eyes quickly swept back, and he saw a large group of pro-soldiers and guards concentrated on the left, presumably Li Qing was inside, so he nodded slightly and smiled: "My pro-soldiers are hungry and thirsty all the way, can I give them a meal!" ”

Kang Huaishun was overjoyed, he was afraid that Li Jiao would not agree, the entire restaurant would be taken down by him, and it would not hurt for hundreds of more people to eat, "Then please come with me." ”

In a moment, more than 300 people surrounded Li Jiao and poured into the store, and the shopkeeper and men in the store suddenly became busy, opening the altar to pour wine, killing sheep and slaughtering cattle, and shouting loudly for Tang Jun to enter the table, but at this moment, strange things suddenly happened, and it was dark, and the three hundred Li Jiao's personal soldiers were all indifferent, and they stood densely, not moving, trapping Kang Huaishun and several of his personal soldiers in the middle.

"Your Highness, what does this mean?"

Kang Huaishun panicked, he looked for Li Jiao left and right, but he couldn't see Li Jiaodi's figure.

"Constance, don't bother

Li Qing walked out of the crowd with a sneer, and he took off his iron helmet and replaced it with a golden helmet. He squinted at him with his hands behind his back and said, "I'll just ask you one word." Are you going to die or live? ”

Kang Huaishun suddenly saw Li Qing, he was so shocked that he took a few steps back, his back was pressed against a table, he pointed at Li Qing tremblingly, and couldn't say a word, as if he had seen a ghost.

The atmosphere in Broken Leaf City began to become tense, and groups of cavalry galloped through the streets, and they shouted over and over again in the army garrison area: "The emperor has decreed that Li Qing, the deputy capital of Anxi, will be the envoy of Anxi." The tall and handsome man was promoted to the court! ”

It was so sudden that every barracks of the Anxi army was talking about it, 'Didn't you say that the marshal returned to Beijing to offer prisoners?' How could he be promoted to the court, but many people know that Gao Xianzhi was indeed promoted, and the news was transmitted in the true and false, and the entire Broken Leaf City was shrouded in doubts.

Inside the tent. Nearly 100 soldiers stood behind Li Qing with swords, and the new Anxi Jiedu envoy Li Qing was in the right position, and on his left stood the frightened Kang Huaishun, and on the right was Li Li, the king of Guangping, who was reciting Li Longji's secret decree.

Dozens of middle and high-ranking generals of the Anxi Army were temporarily summoned by Kang Huaishun. At this moment, they were all standing under the tent, listening carefully to the emperor's decree.

Changshi, Shazhou Governor Li Qing as the Anxi Festival Envoy, the Champion General, the School Inspection Department Shangshu, the actual leader of the four towns of Anxi.

After Li Jiao finished reading it, he took the holy decree away. Then he ordered loudly: "His Majesty the Emperor has issued a decree, and all the armies can see the new envoy!" ”

Although no one doubts the authenticity of this holy decree, Li Qing and Gao Xianzhi are contradictory, most people know a little about one or two, the big marshal did not explain this matter before leaving, and as soon as he left with his front foot, Li Qing came with his back foot, which was obviously to seize power.

In the army. The situation of loyalty to the commander is sometimes greater than that of the emperor, so Li Longji is in the overthrow of Wang Zhonghei. Fearing that his soldiers would rebel, it took him three years to find a successor and wait for an opportunity.

Today is the same, the generals are silent, and no one has stepped forward to see Li Qing, asking them to accept the new Anxi Jiedu envoy, unless Gao Xianzhi announces it in public.

The silence made the atmosphere in the big tent extraordinarily solemn, there was silence inside and outside the tent, only a heavy snort was heard, Li Jiao found that the situation was not good, he once again said loudly: "This is the emperor's will, do you still have any doubts?" ”

There was still silence, no one moved, no eyes made eye contact, the hearts of all the generals seemed to be interconnected, everyone's eyes were generally indifferent, staring at the ground, the air was already tense to the extreme, as if it had been bent to the extreme, either broken or violently rebounded.

Duan Xiushi and Wu Xingsu led the sergeants to surround the big tent, and the horizontal knife was unsheathed, just waiting for an order to swarm into the big tent, Li Qing did not speak, he was waiting, waiting for the last chance, if these generals still disobeyed the order, then he could only kill them all.

At this time, a loud voice came from outside the tent, "The enemy is now, why don't you follow the will of the imperial court!" ”

Humane, the burly and tall Li Siye strode into the tent, and the traces of rope binding could still be vaguely seen on his body, he glanced at Kang Huaishun coldly, and turned back to the generals and said: "Our Anxi army is not anyone's private army, but the army of the imperial court, should be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, now the big food is in the west, Tubo is in the south, all of them are eyeing my Western Regions, if there is chaos at this time, not only the tall handsome in the court is difficult to explain, but also will give the tiger and wolf an opportunity, if you don't want to rebel, please follow me to see the new festival envoy." ”

After that, he stepped forward, half-knelt and gave a military salute to Li Qing, and said in a loud voice: "The last general, Li Siye, see the envoy of Jiedu." ”

Li Siye has a very high prestige in the Anxi army, his kneeling, first loyal to his subordinates followed the half-kneeling, then Kang Huaishun's subordinates, the remaining middle-level officers also knelt down, and finally a few of Gao Xianzhi's descendants glanced at each other, Tibet, and the big food threatened them and did not care, but Gao Xianzhi's safety in the court they could not help but consider, if the name of rebellion, Gao Xianzhi would suffer first, the one-sided situation made them gradually soften, and they all bowed silently.

It was only at this time that the big stone that pressed on Li Qing's heart finally fell, he smiled and helped the generals up one by one, and said to everyone in a loud voice: "I know that Gao Shuai has always treated everyone well, maybe you still have doubts about me, and now I don't want to say anything beautiful, everyone is a pragmatic person, how am I Li Qing, please take a closer look in the future, but." ”

Speaking of the word 'but', Li Qing's tone suddenly became stern, and he stared at Gao Xianzhi's henchmen and said sharply: "Since I am the commander-in-chief, I will do it when the order is issued, and the order will be stopped, and there is no room for a little ambiguity, if anyone dares to slack off, he will not be forgiven!" ”

The generals were awe-inspiring in their hearts, and they bowed in unison and said, "I am willing to listen to the general's dispatch!" ”.

About half an hour later, the streets of Broken Leaf City were full of Tang Army's troops, cavalry, infantry, archers, staggered, a team of neat arrays, pushing heavy equipment to quickly drive out of the city, from time to time there were heralds from the black pressure of the team galloping by, this is the Anxi Army in the implementation of Li Qingdi's first order: Liuwu Xingsu led 2,000 people to garrison Broken Leaves, and the rest of the army marched towards Tuozhi City.

Li Qing appeared in the team surrounded by hundreds of pro-soldiers, although he had already controlled the Anxi army, but the people's hearts were not at peace, especially to prevent Gao Xianzhi's cronies from urgently reporting to Gao Xianzhi, so that he would turn back halfway, the best way was to leave his cronies to control Broken Leaf City, and the army would be stationed in Tuozhi City, so that even if Gao Xianzhi returned, he would not be able to pass through the two passes of Broken Leaf and Baishui City.

The team gradually left Broken Leaf City, at this time, Duan Xiushi led more than a dozen cavalry to gallop towards the Chinese army, he jumped off his horse and walked quickly in front of Li Qing, bowed down and said, "Humble duty has to be ordered to come!" ”

Li Qing nodded slightly, he urged him to step forward, leaned over and whispered in his ear: "You rush to Tuozhi City first, and kill Che Bi Shi's father and son for me, so as to prevent future troubles!" ”