When I returned to the house, I saw Zhou Bingrui and Xiao Hai waiting at home, Xiao Zheng didn't come back, Jin'er took Xiao Changning to accompany a few people to gossip, but I didn't expect Bai Chuanli to follow.

Zhou Bingrui saw Xiao Zheng, knelt on the ground and hugged his thighs and began to cry: "Mr. Xiao, Xiao Guogong, Uncle Xiao, Xiao Zuzong, the villain knows that you will do something big when you come to Chang'an, but what you do is too big!" Why did you even kill the crown prince and the king of Qi, who would have thought that you would do something like this! The little one was almost paralyzed with fright when he heard the letter, but fortunately what you did was done, otherwise the villain's whole family would have been buried in the grave by now."

This guy knelt on the ground and cried again, snot and tears rubbed the hem of Xiao Zheng's clothes.

"Boss Zhou, isn't it okay, at such an old age, it's not ashamed to cry in front of your uncle, you can do your business well and make your fortune in the future" Xiao Zheng comforted Boss Zhou for a long time before this guy stopped crying.

Bai Chuanli instead gave Xiao Zheng a big finger and praised: "Boy, you do this very well, and your kid's style of treating patients is very similar." If his family is hurt, no matter who he is, he will be destroyed with him by all means, he is ruthless, and the old man will do it with you if he is dozens of years younger."

After eating, Xiao Zheng and the three of them said: "Needless to say, my current identity must have been known by you, and there is no other meaning, do you want to make a fortune and make a fortune?" ”。

"I definitely want to!" Zhou Bingrui, who was relieved, happily replied, with such a big backer, it was no wonder that he was unhappy.

"Well, this time we will mobilize all the money, as many as we want, for ourselves and for the country."

"The old man also took out his coffin!" Bai Chuanli also said with a smile.

"Then thank you," .......

In Lingzhou, in present-day Wuzhong City, Ningxia, a few days after the news of Li Shimin's ascension to the throne came, Li Jing, who was guarding in Lingzhou, unexpectedly met Duan Zhixuan, and General Duan also brought nearly 20,000 soldiers to escort a large number of ordnance, grain and grass. After receiving the holy decree of strengthening the city defense and rectifying military affairs, Li Jing muttered in his heart, but he did it correctly.

With the autumn wind in August, the grass was yellow and the horses were fattening, and the people inside and outside Lingzhou City suddenly received a very strange order: harvest the crops, and it was the army that helped the people harvest them. Fortunately, the people of Lingzhou are located in the border area with the Turks, and many years of war have made the border people in this place develop the habit of obeying orders.

When the crops were finished, a fire burned the stalks, and the soldiers who helped with the harvest told the people living outside the city not to go out and wait for orders.

"Lao Li, you haven't asked me a word about the purpose of the sage letting you do this, this kung fu to nourish qi, I admire Lao Duan" Duan Zhixuan said to Li Jing in the lobby of the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion.

Li Jing replied with a smile: "I know that your General Duan didn't come to the duel this time according to me Li Jing, I guess nine times out of ten it is for the Turks, I'm just curious about the news I haven't gotten, how did you guys who are far away in Chang'an get it."

"Haha..., to be honest, I don't know, but I also told me about your method of harvesting crops and calming the people before I left Beijing, and since you General Li did it, I didn't mention it again" Duan Zhixuan said with a laugh.

"Oh, and anyone else is with me?" Li Jing suddenly became interested.

"Yes, the man gave this practice a name, 'Fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, leaving not a grain of grain for the enemy.'"

"That's a fitting name," Li Jing said with a smile as he stroked his beard.

While the two were talking, a fast horse outside Lingzhou City carried the scout to the mansion, and after seeing the two of them, he knelt down on one knee and said: "Report to the two generals, the villain's subordinates have found that 30,000 people from the Turks have galloped in the direction of my Lingzhou, and August 13 is 300 miles away from Lingzhou, and it is expected to arrive in two days, please decide."

"Naer, do you know which part of the Turks it is," Li Jing asked in a deep voice.

"There are too many Turks to get too close this time, and they haven't been detected yet," the scout replied hesitantly.

"Then you guys, let's explore again! Keep me informed of the movements of the Turks".

"No!" The scout saluted and turned around and ran out again.

Turki Khan, Ashina Bobi, the son of Shibi Khan, is the little Khan of the Eastern Turks, and he should be called Uncle Jieli in terms of seniority. At the beginning of June, he led the Turks to invade Lingzhou, but was beaten back by Li Jing and Li Daozong, and it was precisely because of his attack that Li Shimin's Xuanwumen Incident created an opportunity.

In fact, the strength of the people and horses is not weak, but his tribe is the closest place to the Tang Dynasty, God takes good care of him, although his position as Khan was snatched away by his uncle, but the pastures of the tribe are rich in water and grass, cattle and sheep are also strong, and he has been bartering with the Tang Dynasty for a long time, and he has no shortage of food and clothing, to put it bluntly, his survival pressure is much smaller than that of other tribes, and there is no need to rob the Tang people to the death, that is, when the Turks and the Tang Dynasty confronted each other, the two sides had no less private contacts, and the last time he was not forced to send troops by his uncle, If he is killed, he will not take the initiative to provoke.

This time, Jieli led a large army to the expedition, and he knew what virtue he had as a nephew, so he sent his confidant Wuyan Tu to command 10,000 troops for Apo Dagan (official name), and coerced Tuli's 20,000 people to directly invade Lingzhou.

August 15 was supposed to be the Mid-Autumn Festival of the Han people, but the sky over Lingzhou City revealed a tense depression. Li Jing stood at the head of the city and looked out, the people within a radius of two hundred miles of Lingzhou City had all been transferred, and there was a dead silence on the empty fields. The bright moonlight makes people feel a little breathless. Suddenly, a muffled thunder sounded along the ground in the sky, and looking into the distance, it was like a black wave slowly spreading towards Lingzhou City, and it stopped when it was a stone's throw away from the city.

The dust behind the group drifted into the air, turning into black clouds in the moonlight, and the people seemed to have come out of hell. Some of the soldiers in the city who had not experienced the battle whispered in a low voice, and after saying two words, they were stopped by the veterans, picked up the swords and guns in their hands and looked quietly under the city.

Li Jing smiled and said to himself: "It's here!" ”。

After observing the Turks below for a while, he turned his head and said to his subordinate generals: "Except for the necessary guards, the others will rest immediately, and they will have dinner at the beginning of the morning tomorrow morning, and order the soldiers to be sure to eat enough", the general was stunned for a moment and did not speak, and after answering the order, he went to order the soldiers to rest.

The next day, as soon as the sun appeared, people began to shout and neigh in the Turkic camp, and 2,000 people came out of the camp on the west side, carrying more than a dozen long ladders and slowly approaching the city wall. When they got closer, Li Jing saw from the city wall that these people were in ragged and untidy formation, just walking forward mechanically with the sound of Turkic trombets.

Seeing these people, Li Jing felt a pain in his heart, these people were slaves of the Turks, people who were taken captive by the Turks to other tribes on the steppe, and most of them were Han Chinese, and there were also many people from other ethnic groups, and even some Turkic elderly people were also mixed in, these people came to test the strength of the defenders, and to put it bluntly, they were cannon fodder.

Within range of the arrows under the city walls, several arrows rang out in front of the men's path, and it was clear that the warning was heavy, and the crowd slowly stopped. Unexpectedly, the bowstrings of the Turkic soldiers supervising the battle in the rear sounded, and the people behind the team were shot down, and the crowd suddenly became chaotic, and the people behind pushed the people in front and walked towards the city wall again.

At the moment of the great enemy, although there were many Han people in the team of temptations, but he could not tolerate him Li Jing had a woman, seeing that the ladder had been erected, Li Jing waved his hand and said: "Release the arrow" and looked at the Turkic camp and stopped talking.

There was a bang, and the arrows began to shoot sparsely. The people under the city had no fighting spirit, and had to rush hard in order to survive, but now they were shot down by an arrow from the city, and they ran to the Turkic side in the midst of shouting and screaming. It was the Turkic rain of arrows who had just run back to meet them, and they had no choice but to run back and attack.

After a few back and forth, most of the 2,000 men had already suffered casualties, and more people died at the hands of the Turks than under the walls.

The people lying under the city wall moaned from time to time, and the people on the city wall could clearly hear the people who fell to the ground shouting for help in Chinese, but they did not dare to go down. Many soldiers clutched their knives and guns tightly in their hands, and some bit their lipes with tears streaming from the corners of their eyes.

Seeing that there were not a few of the first wave of chargers left, Wuyan suddenly dismounted and walked in front of Tuli.