The next day, a shocking news came from the city of Xishou, there was a civil strife in the capital of Hui, Dengli Khan hurriedly led all the troops to retreat north, and brought several major envoys of the Tang Dynasty back to the capital Hanerduobali, and even most of the defenders of the west and middle cities were withdrawn, and now there are only a small number of troops stationed in the middle and west sections of the entire Yinshan Mountain.

At the same time, news also came from Anxi that there was a rebellion in the Huanggas region due to severe drought, and the Hui Prime Minister Lu Ju Mo Dagan had withdrawn all the troops of Beiting back to the capital.

The opportunity is in front of Datang, if you can take advantage of the situation to take the west surrender city and the middle surrender city, then the Tang Dynasty will gain the strategic initiative, the right minister Cui Yuan immediately put forward two plans, one is to transfer 50,000 Longyou army to the north and station two surrendered cities; The second is to mobilize 80,000 local regiments from all over the country to train troops to the north and re-establish the Anbei Protectorate.

The plan to transfer the right army of Long to the north was immediately rejected by Wei Ge in the name of defending Tibet, and everyone's eyes naturally turned to the second plan, and many people read another flavor from it, and the Tang Dynasty Emperor Li was one of them.

At noon, Ma Yingjun, the personal eunuch of the Li family, hurried back to his residence after lunch, closed the door, quickly took a wax pill from his arms, and carefully peeled off the wax pill with trembling hands, and took out a paper roll from it.

He opened it slowly, and only four words were written on the scroll: 'Imperial Driving Expedition', this is Cui Yuan's handwriting, Ma Yingjun gasped unconsciously, and sat down on the wooden couch, he seemed to understand something, but he couldn't see it clearly.

At this time, someone outside the door knocked on the door, "Boss! The emperor is awake and tells you to go quickly. ”

Ma Yingjun was startled, he didn't have time to think about it, he stuffed the paper roll into his mouth and swallowed it twice, and then ran quickly towards the Li department's dormitory, Li Department had just woken up from a nap at the moment, he let the palace maid put on shoes for him, while looking down and thinking about the opportunity to send troops, 80,000 local troops were gathered together, which was a huge temptation for everyone, especially the Li Department who had no soldiers in his hands, if he could get the 80,000 troops in his hands, it would be his chance to turn over.

However, Cui Yuan will not let go of this opportunity to strengthen his strength, and even the purpose of his proposal is very likely to be out of his selfishness.

The most difficult thing for the Li family is that there is no one in his hands, he only has one henchman Duan Xiushi, but many of Cui Yuan's henchmen have higher qualifications than Duan Xiushi, and it is difficult to compete with them.

"Is this opportunity about to slip out of my hands?"

Thinking about it, Li Xian unconsciously stood up and walked towards the door, which frightened the palace maid who put on shoes for him, and the emperor still had a shoe not to wear! After walking a few steps, Li noticed that something was wrong, and when he looked down, he saw that he still had one foot bare.

"The emperor forgives the sin! The emperor forgives the sins! The palace maid turned pale with fright, and kowtowed again and again to beg for mercy.

"You fools, how do you serve the emperor!"

Ma Yingjun walked in quickly, snatched the shoes from the palace maid's hand, and carefully knelt down to put them on for him. With a sound, he strode towards the outside of the hall, Ma Yingjun followed closely with broken steps, and persuaded in a low voice: "The old slave heard that there is another war, hey! The emperor should be careful of his body! ”

Ma Yingjun has served the Li family for nearly 20 years, and the inner world inadvertently revealed by the Li family's every move and angry smile is all clear to him, and sometimes even the Li department himself has not realized it.

Sure enough, when Ma Yingjun said something casually, Li stopped and asked with interest, "What else have you heard?" ”

"I haven't heard anything else about the old slave."

"Really?" Li Xian's face was gloomy, and he sneered and said, "Do you even want to hide it?" ”

"It's not that the old slave wants to hide anything, it's just some boring words, and there is really no need to let Your Majesty know."

"If you're bored, you can bring me all of them!"

"This ....." Ma Yingjun hesitated for a moment, and said: "There are rumors outside that His Majesty wants to drive the expedition in person, and the old slave thinks how is this possible!" ”

'The Imperial Driver? Li Xian's eyes lit up, and his heart seemed to have opened a window, and there was a scenery outside the window that he had never seen before, yes! Although Duan Xiushi is loyal, but the military power is in his hands, it is difficult to ensure that he will not have dissenting intentions, if he masters the military power and then personally grant it to him, the meaning is completely different, and this is not a war.....

The more Li thought about it, the more excited he became, he actually trotted all the way to the imperial study, but as soon as he entered the door, his heart sank again, "I have a little wishful thinking, how can Cui Yuan agree." ”

He sat down slowly and fell into deep thought, "There is still a chance, this 80,000 army is the army of the imperial court, everyone wants it, but no one dares to make a move easily, as long as you make good use of this balance relationship, you should still be able to get it in the end." ”

Thinking of this, Li secretly made up his mind to give it a try no matter what!

In April of the sixteenth year of Qingzhi, the Tang Dynasty mobilized 80,000 troops from all over the country to gather in Chang'an, after several open and secret battles, the left minister Pei Jun, Chu Xingshui, and Wei Ge unanimously supported the proposal of Zhang Ruohao, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Duan Xiushi was appointed as the protector of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, leading the 80,000 troops to the north, and when today's Zi Li Department will follow the army to the west to surrender the city, where he presided over the ceremony of rebuilding the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate.

At the same time, it was decided that the logistics of the 80,000-strong army would be responsible for the three families of Shuofang Jiedu, Longyou Jiedu and Hedong Jiedu.

On the tenth day of the fourth month of the sixteenth year of Qingzhi, the army marched westward.

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In the western suburbs of Taiyuan, where the grass and trees are lush and sparsely populated, when the warbler is long and full of greenery in the mid-spring season, under the clear sky, several kingfishers are dressed in bright feathers from the willow branches by the river, and the fat grass grows on both sides of the official road, and a hare jumps and appears in the grass.

'Whoosh! An armoured arrow came out of the willow forest like lightning, and rolled the hare to the ground, and then out of the willow forest rushed out of the horsemen on horseback.

Four months ago, he left Beijing and returned to Taiyuan, and Zhang Potian ordered him to serve as a general in the new Hedong Army, although the position was not high, but he commanded the most elite 3,000 Yuxiang troops in the Hedong Army.

Today he had nothing to do, led a few entourages to shoot outside Taiyuan City, luck was not bad, half a day to shoot a few roe deer, only then Zhang Huan shot an arrow and knocked over the hare.

"General, good archery!"

A soldier stepped forward to pick up the rabbit, looked at it carefully, gave a thumbs up, and praised: "Fifty steps away, an arrow pierces the brain, and the general's archery skills are becoming more and more sophisticated." ”

When he first led the army, Zhang Huan put down the ring and competed with others, winning 20 games in a row, which caused a sensation in the Hedong army, but he was mediocre in archery, although he had also practiced cavalry archery in the academy in the past, but it was still far from the regular army.

So for the past four months, he has been practicing archery in the army, and all the soldiers have witnessed the progress of his archery and are impressed by his perseverance.

If you want to establish prestige in the army, not only does the martial arts need to be above everyone, but more importantly, he must show a spirit, a soldier's will.

Zhang Huan relied on his willingness to live a dull and boring life for four months, and with his persistence in practicing archery every day, he finally won the respect of 3,000 people, took off the signboard of the son of the family on his body, and regarded him as a member of the army.

In the past four months, Zhang Huan has become thinner and darker, he looked up at the sky and put away his bow, "That's it for today!" ”

With a wave of his hand, he turned his horse's head and galloped in the direction of the barracks.

Hedong Jiedu envoy under the jurisdiction of 30,000 Hedong army stationed in the north of Taiyuan and south of the city of two military camps, because the army spent most of the money and food are borne by the Zhang family, so this army is actually the Zhang family's tooth army, in addition to this army, the entire Hedong region also has more than a dozen scattered regimental training army, the number of people ranging from 1,000 to thousands of people, this time the imperial court gathered the army, and these local armies were all transferred to Chang'an.

Zhang Huan just arrived at the barracks, only to see a war horse galloping in his direction, the person on the horse was the herald in the camp, he saw Zhang Huan raised the arrow and said loudly: "General Zhang, the soldiers and horses have something important to look for you, order you to go to the big tent quickly!" ”

Zhang Huan's boss was Yang Lie, the soldier and horse envoy of the Baotian Army, who was anxiously waiting for Zhang Huan to come back in the big tent at this time, and on the couch next to him, Zhang Potian, the envoy of Hedong Jiedu, was drinking tea thoughtfully.

"General Yang, does Zhang Huan often leave the camp and go out?" Zhang Potian took a sip of tea and smiled slightly.

"Nope! No! No! Yang Lie hurriedly waved his hand, "Zhang Huan has never left the barracks since he took office for four months, although he is from the Zhang family, but he never puts on the frame of the children of the Zhang family, and practices archery hard, and his progress can be seen every day, no one in our military camp admires his perseverance. ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Huan's voice came from outside the tent, "General Yang, Zhang Huan is ordered to come!" ”

"Come in!"

Zhang Huan entered in response, he curtsied his knees and gave a military salute, and said in a deep voice: "Tooth general Zhang Huan, see the general of the soldiers and horses." ”

Zhang Potian stepped forward with a smile behind his back hand, "Zhang Yajiang, do you remember me?" ”

Zhang Huan hurriedly saluted him as well, "See Lord Jiedu!" ”

"No need to be polite, the head of the family sent someone back from Chang'an at noon today to deliver a letter and arrange a drudgery for you."

Zhang Potian paused, he saw Zhang Huan's expressionless face, and couldn't help but nod lightly and said, "The head of the family ordered you to lead the army and horses of the headquarters to escort 200,000 stone grain and grass to the West Surrender City." ”

"Yes!"

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Zhang Potian looked at Zhang Huan's distant back, and involuntarily sighed softly, "Eighteen Lang, the road in the future depends on you to struggle!" ”

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