The night was deep and the moon was misty.

"The weather may not be too good in the next few days!" Xue Shao held a glass of wine, looked up at the moon, and said nonsense without words.

Xuan Yunzi, who was sitting opposite him, smiled and didn't speak.

Xue Shao blinked his eyes and felt even more uncomfortable, and said in his heart, you have to force me to chant "When will Mingyue ask Qingtian about wine", are you willing to answer my words?

"It should be cloudy for three days, and it won't rain, which is conducive to training and marching." Xuan Yunzi said suddenly.

"Oh......" Xue Shao blinked a few more times, when did he learn a new skill, weather forecast?

"When are you going to take this thing?" Xuanyunzi took out a tightly wrapped yellow scroll object.

"It doesn't matter, you can just give it to me now." Xue Shaodao.

Xuan Yunzi shook his head helplessly, "In the capital, you threw the purple gold fish talisman around; In Helong, you are not uncommon with holy decrees. Do you think that's really a good thing? ”

Xue Shao laughed and put down his wine glass, "With such a beautiful scenery, it's too wasteful to use it to teach." ”

"Well, then, when you have time to arrange an appropriate time, let me read the decree in front of all the generals of the army, and the matter will be over. Even if you really don't need a holy decree, there's no need to turn down a title that is rightfully deserved. This will make your generals more comfortable and obedient. Xuan Yunzi put away the holy decree and said, "That's all for this matter, let's talk about something else?" ”

"Okay." Xue Shao smiled, poured a glass of wine for Xuan Yunzi, and said, "There is something I want to discuss with you." ”

Xuan Yunzi took the wine glass and held it in his hand, not in a hurry to drink it, with a playful smile on his face, "I can probably guess what you want to say to me." ”

Xue Shao smiled and didn't answer, if he couldn't guess this, then the woman in front of him was not Xuan Yunzi.

"I think it's better for you to keep your mouth shut." Xuan Yunzi looked up at the sky and learned Xue Shao's tone, "With such a beautiful scenery, it would be too wasteful to use it to teach." ”

Xue Shao's expression suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, and he thought viciously in his heart--Since it is a beautiful day, is it good to have candles in the cave room?

"Since I'm here, I won't leave easily." Xuan Yunzi said with a smile on her face, but no one would doubt the resoluteness of her attitude at this moment.

"Why are you staying here?" Xue Shao breathed a little annoyed.

"I'm not a child, and I don't want you to carry it or carry it. I'm not a weak woman, I come and go alone in the war all over the river, and I walk thousands of miles unharmed. This means that I neither need your protection nor become a burden to you. Xuan Yunzi smiled and said, "In that case, what are you worried about?" ”

"Xuanyunzi, this is war!" Xue Shao raised his voice a little.

"I've seen a lot of dead people, and some of them died in front of me, while I was healing them." Xuan Yunzi smiled and said indifferently, "Of course I know that this is war, not child's play." I know even more that no one in the army dares to defy the authority of Young Marshal Xue. But I don't seem to be in your charge. So, I shouldn't be disobeying military orders, right? ”

"Yes, I don't have the authority to give you orders." Xue Shao hated itchy.

"Could it be that I and these doctors and volunteers I brought with me have broken your rules and caused you trouble, so you want to drive me away?" Xuan Yunzi asked.

"My robes, I am full of gratitude and respect for you. Me too. Xue Shao replied lightly, but he was a little crazy in his heart. For the woman in front of him who seems to be gentle like water, but in fact firm as iron, he really doesn't seem to have much to do.

Xuan Yunzi didn't speak again, staring at the misty half-string moon in the night sky, stunned.

Xue Shao didn't speak anymore, at the moment, it's just a matter of talking about love and love, and it really shouldn't be used to quarrel.

Long.

"Xue Shao, have you ever tried the feeling of having no one to rely on and wandering like a ghost?" Xuan Yunzi said suddenly.

Xue Shao was slightly stunned and nodded.

"When?" Xuan Yunzi asked.

Xue Shao took a deep breath and didn't answer, thinking to himself, how can I tell you? Do you also want to inquire about my past life?

Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly and didn't ask again, but said to himself: "I just experienced it." ”

"When?" Instead, Xue Shao asked.

Xuan Yunzi said: "From the time I left the palace to guard the tomb of the ancestor, until I left the palace again and came to Helong. ”

Xue Shao couldn't help frowning, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly and said, "During that time, I felt that Xuan Yunzi was simply superfluous in the world. Because there are not many of her in this world, she is not less, and she herself does not know what the meaning of her life is, as if she is just living for the sake of living. ”

"Why do you think that?" Xue Shao said, "In my eyes and many people, you are as free and easy as an immortal outside the world. Isn't that bad? ”

"Not good." Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly bitterly, and sighed very rarely, "People are people, how can you learn immortals?" ”

Xue Shao was slightly stunned and stopped answering, thinking that I really shouldn't talk to her about such a topic, it's too nerve-wracking!

"Don't talk about that. It's not just that you find it boring, and I don't want to talk about it anymore. Xuan Yunzi took the initiative to cut off the topic, and said with a slight smile: "It's a matter of things in front of me, unless you give me a good reason, you shouldn't drive me away." ”

"......" Xue Shao was speechless for a while, and said in his heart, are you forcing me to talk to you as a "husband"?

Xuan Yunzi smiled slightly, picked up the glass and took a sip of wine. Looking at that expression, it looked like he was waiting for Xue Shao's next words, but it was more like a hunter who had dug a trap, waiting in Zhizhu to harvest the prey that was about to be unlucky.

- I won't jump into your pit!

Xue Shao snorted angrily in his heart and said, "You can stay." But only if you obey military orders. In other words, no one can keep you in the army unless you are part of the army! ”

"Xuanyunzi, absolutely obey orders." Xuan Yunzi smiled and replied simply.

Xue Shao was obviously a little annoyed when he saw her "big victory" expression, but he laughed helplessly with annoyance...... Forget it, I really don't have too many reasons to convince her!

After a while, Xue Shao returned to the room, and stood in front of Cheng Boxian with his hands on his hips a little annoyed.

Cheng Boxian was about to laugh when he saw his posture and expression, "What's going on?" ”

"Ask a fart!" Xue Shao scolded angrily, turned over and lay down on the bed, "This girl doesn't have oil and salt at all!" ”

"Even you don't have anything to do with her, let alone the others." Cheng Boxian laughed, "If you want me to say, just let her follow you, it's not a bad thing?" ”

"You know what! When the war started, I couldn't even take care of my own life, so how could I take care of her? Xue Shao said angrily, "Yuenu has been fighting with me in the south and north for several years, and she is known as General Anda, she is a heroine among women, right?" Now I won't let her join the army! ”

"Xuanyunzi shouldn't have anything to worry about, right?" Cheng Boxian said: "In my opinion, Xuanyunzi and Yuenu are completely different. She is unlike any woman. I always felt that she was not like a mortal, she could always do unexpected and amazing things when others were not aware of her. ”

"I'm afraid of her!" Xue Shao sat up as soon as he patted the bed board, "The moon slave is strong in martial arts, bold and reckless, and when she is impulsive, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu don't pay attention to it, but I can still stop her - Xuanyunzi, who can control it?" ”

"Uh......" Cheng Boxian was stunned for a moment, and muttered with a pair of copper bells with big eyes, "Then you slept her earlier, wouldn't you be able to control it?" ”

"Get out!"

At dawn the next day, the school field practiced.

Xue Shao's subordinates are a large mixed team. Among them, there were not only the original team of the Shuofang army, but also the Hu team such as the Tutuo cavalry, as well as the defeated soldiers and rebels recruited in Yanzhou, and later joined the government soldiers in the Yulinwei and Fengxiang areas brought by Li Duozuo.

Now, another group of prisoners who have just surrendered has been added.

In the first battle of Qingyang Mountain, more than half of the 70,000 troops under the command of Lu Xi were killed and wounded and fled countless times, and Xue Shao captured more than 20,000 people. This number is quite staggering in today's era, and it is almost equivalent to the entire population of a certain county in Datang. If it weren't for the big granary of Yinchuan Juntun as a supply backing, Xue Shao could only kill all these captives without any choice to get rid of future troubles, just like when Zheng Rentai and Xue Rengui killed tens of thousands of Tiele troops after the battle in the Tianshan Mountains.

Of the more than 20,000 captives, seven or eight thousand were from the Tongluo tribe. Xue Shao had already let Shena Si go back to the grassland to migrate the tribes, and the Tongluo captives who remained in the military fort had to be postponed. Of the more than 10,000 captives left behind, only a few were true Turks, and most of the others were "string controls" from other tribes of the steppe. They participated in the war either voluntarily or coercion, but between death and surrender, they chose the latter.

There has never been a shortage of such soldiers in the army of the Tang Dynasty, and they, like many prisoners who have been exiled to the army, are "professional soldiers" for life. From the moment they put on their uniforms and pick up their knives and guns, they can only give up their previous lives and start a new life. From then on, they either proved themselves on the battlefield and regained their dignity, or they died a silent death in the war.

The drill has been going on for a few days, and the situation is finally better than the "scattered sand" situation earlier. But Xue Shao was still very dissatisfied. He knew that everyone was anxious to go south to recover Lingzhou as soon as possible, but in view of the current situation, it was absolutely imperative for the army to reorganize and conduct run-in exercises.

But Li Duozuo (or the Yulin guards under Li Duozuo) didn't seem to be happy to train with these "rabble", so they came to ask for battle. Li Duozuo said that his troops were full of physical strength and fighting spirit, and they could go to Lingzhou to take the lead first. When the young marshal has trained his men, it is not too late to come to help.

Xue Shao understood Li Duozuo's belligerence, but he was unwilling to divide his troops at this time. If he refused, it seemed that the hearts of the Yulin guards would be cold again - in other words, the Yulin Guards were the royal guards after all, not their own personal troops!

At this time, Xue Shao finally felt that he seemed to need the holy decree in Xuanyunzi's hand!