Half a month later, the eunuch sent by the emperor to announce the decree arrived, this person was the eunuch Yu Chaoen, who was later in power, and Yu Chaoen was just a small eunuch at this time, and he had no backers in the palace.

Yu Chaoen brought the emperor's will, and according to the terms of peace negotiations reached between the imperial court and the Tibetan mission, the Tang army was to retreat to the north of the Yak River (now Tongtian River).

When Yu Chaoen said here, almost all the generals in the camp were extremely angry, and their faces turned red, and Zhao Ziliang even stood up directly, his eyes red and angry: "Retreat to the north of the Yak River?" From Dafeichuan to the bank of the Lachu River, our army killed nearly 20,000 soldiers along the way, and more than 3,000 soldiers died of altitude sickness alone. ”

Zhao Ziliang was angry, and a surge of morale came in an instant, the little eunuch Yu Chaoen's face turned pale with fright, and he retreated again and again, and finally stood firm, only then did he find that he was sweating profusely, he swallowed his saliva, forced himself to pretend to be tough and said: "General Zhao, this is not about the slave, the slave is just a decree, this is the will of the saint, does General Zhao want to resist the decree and disobey it?" ”

Yu Chaoen's words were more like adding fuel to the fire, Zhao Ziliang stepped over and grabbed his shirt and shouted: "Saint, saint, you dogs just pushed everything on the emperor, now the traitors in the court are in charge, the emperor has been deceived by the saints, Zhao believes that the traitors are slandering, and they will never give up such a large piece of land to the Tubo people!" ”

Huangfu Weiming is also very sad, most of the nearly 20,000 Tang Army soldiers who died were his Longyou Army, why didn't he feel sad? But Zhongjun's thoughts still kept him awake, and seeing Zhao Ziliang's gaffe and wanting to eat people, he hurriedly got up and persuaded: "General Zhao can't make a mistake, no matter what, this is the emperor's will, as a courtier, we can only retreat to the north of the Yak River by edict!" ”

Zhao Ziliang's red eyes dimmed, and the hand that grabbed Yu Chaoen's shirt slowly loosened, and Yu Chaoen's heart finally slowly fell back when he mentioned his throat, and then he found that his crotch was actually wet, which made him ashamed and indignant, and he was actually scared to pee by Zhao Ziliang.

Yu Chaoen's face immediately became extremely ugly, he stepped up his double strands, lest he be discovered by others, and immediately coughed twice and said: "Slaves, slaves have not finished reading, Your Majesty has a decree, Feng Long's right section envoy, inspection Si Nongqing Huangfu Weiming is a man in Xiping County, and Zhao Ziliang, the governor of Xihai County, Taishou, and the Great Dou Army, is the male of Jiangling County, and the handover with the Tubo side and Huangfu Weiming is fully responsible, Zhao Ziliang will leave for Beijing to report on his work within ten days, and the affairs of Xihai County will be temporarily taken over by Liu Gong, the envoy of soldiers and horses, and the deputy envoy of the Great Dou Army."

Huangfu Weiming did not embarrass Yu Chaoen, after all, Yu Chaoen was just a summoned little eunuch, and after receiving the holy decree, he arranged for his subordinates to prepare tents, food, wine and meat for Yu Chaoen.

Looking at Zhao Ziliang's somewhat lost and depressed appearance, Huangfu Weiming understood Zhao Ziliang's mood very well, at this moment, he was in the same mood as Zhao Ziliang, patted Zhao Ziliang on the shoulder and said: "General Zhao, nothing will develop in the direction we imagined, although we have to retreat, but we at least keep the large area of land north of the Yak River to Dafeichuan, with such a large buffer zone, it will not be easy for the Tubo army to capture our city, since the Holy Lord is returning to Beijing to report on his work, you should hurry up and prepare!" ”

Zhao Ziliang also came back to his senses at this time and scolded: "Damn, it's really the ass that decides the head!" With that, he turned around and walked out of the tent.

Ma Luan, Ge Shuhan, Zhang Shouyu, Brehan and others followed Zhao Ziliang back to their camp, the news quickly spread throughout the barracks, the soldiers were excited, one was angry, fought for so long, nearly 20,000 people died, and the above sentence let this large piece of land be given out? It's heartwarming to think about!

"Get out, get out, get out of here, let Lao Tzu be quiet!" Zhao Ziliang's angry voice came from inside the big tent, and the servants and generals were driven out one by one, and the soldiers standing guard outside were frightened one by one.

In the evening, the meal had already begun, but none of the soldiers went to line up to receive the meal, and they were in a bad mood, where could they eat, and the soldiers protested against the decree of the Holy Decree to withdraw to the north of the Yak River.

After this kind of hunger strike, the generals and colonels were alarmed, and Brehan immediately ran into the big tent of the Chinese army to report the situation to Zhao Ziliang.

Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, and scolded: "What's the matter, these little rabbit cubs have a bigger temper than Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu can't sulk quietly if he wants to,!" Let's go, go and see! ”

Walking out of the big tent and coming to the room, I saw that the soldiers were all sitting together according to their respective units, no one spoke, Zhao Ziliang scolded as he walked: "What's the matter? Who do you show your sad face to one by one? Is his father dead? You, stand up, and say, Why don't you eat? ”

The soldier who was pointed at said in a muffled voice: "I am not angry, I feel uncomfortable!" ”

Zhao Ziliang laughed angrily, "Yo, you're still angry, you don't eat if you're uncomfortable, what do you say Lao Tzu should do?" You say, why is it not good, why is it uncomfortable? ”

The soldier said loudly: "General, we have died tens of thousands of people to fight here, tens of thousands of people are not tens of thousands of livestock, if we just retreat, these tens of thousands of brothers will die in vain?" ”

Zhao Ziliang asked rhetorically: "Then what do you say?" Do you want Lao Tzu to disobey? If Lao Tzu disobeys his orders, someone will immediately announce that we are rebels, surround this place, and wipe us all out! ”

After saying this, Zhao Ziliang sighed: "Soldiers, I have always told you, we are soldiers, our duty is to fight, guard the Tang Dynasty, open up the territory, whether to fight or not is the emperor and the ministers of the court and the central government have the final say, how to fight is our final say, the soldiers must first unconditionally obey the military order, this is the blessing of the country, if the soldier does not obey the order, this is the disaster of the country!" Now the emperor and the bigwigs in the court said that they can't fight, let us withdraw to the north of the Yak River, the emperor and the court also have their considerations, to be honest, I am also very unhappy, so many brothers have died, but in the end they have to return the occupied territory to the Tubo people, I also feel aggrieved, but there are some things that we can not see, the truth is not hidden, the military funds used by the court to fight the Tubo people are almost exhausted, and countless grains, grass and ordnance have been consumed, and we can't fight anymore, although we have to retreat to the north of the Yak River, But we didn't lose money this time, did we? It's not a big deal, let's grab it back in the future, as long as I, Zhao Ziliang, and you elite soldiers, there is no battle that cannot be won! Okay, okay, let's eat! ”

Soon someone stood up and went to the man to get food and soup, and after a while, the soldiers all stood up and began to line up to eat.

On the morning of the next day, Zhao Ziliang left the army to Zhang Shouyu and others to lead, and he took Ma Lu, Ge Shuhan, Gao Xiuyan, Brehan and others to hurry back to Fuqi City.

Back in front of the mansion in Fu Qicheng, as soon as Zhao Ziliang got off the horse, Nie Sanniang came out with the child in his arms.

"Welcome home!" Nie Sanniang took a few maids and said a thousand blessings.

"Okay, it's all your own family, so you don't have to be polite! Come, let me hug Ting'er! Zhao Ziliang reached out to hug the child as he spoke.

"Don't waste your courtesy!" Nie Sanniang said a word, but still handed the child to Zhao Ziliang, and everyone turned around and entered the gate together.

Nie Sanniang saw that Zhao Ziliang was in a bad mood and asked, "What's wrong?" The war is not going well? ”

Zhao Ziliang teased the child and replied: "It's not unpleasant, the imperial court has ordered a truce, and let our army withdraw to the north of the Yak River." In addition, the emperor and the imperial court asked me to go back to Beijing to report on my work, and I had to leave in a few days, and if I was late, I had to be included in a book of imperial history."

Nie Sanniang frowned and said, "Haven't you only been here for more than a year and less than two years, why did you have to be transferred?" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled bitterly: "Maybe I think I'm too noisy, I'm not at ease anywhere, the emperor and the ministers of the court are also worried about your husband, lest I make a fuss!" ”

Nie Sanniang was silent for a while and said: "Then the slave family let the subordinates prepare, fortunately, I got a letter to my sister and them, let them not come, if they just came and have to go back, isn't it a blind toss?" ”

Walking to the door of the main hall, Nur greeted him: "Master! ”

Zhao Ziliang patted Nuer's shoulder and said, "Nur, get ready, we're going back to Chang'an!" ”

"Yes, master, I should have left here a long time ago, it's hard to breathe, it's too uncomfortable!"

In early May, the imperial court made a new appointment, and Liu Gong took over as the deputy governor and taishou of Xihai, and Zhao Ziliang took advantage of the fact that he was still in the position of governor, and immediately appointed Ge Shuhan as the envoy of the Fu Qi army, and Ma Lan as the deputy envoy and cavalry general of the Fu Qi army, and recommended Zhang Shouyu as the envoy of the Great Dou Army and Gao Xiuyan as the deputy envoy of the Great Dou Army.

On 12 May, Zhao Ziliang set off for Chang'an with his wife, children, family and 300 guards, and saw him off in the north of the city.

Parting is always sad, although Zhao Ziliang came to Hexi only for more than a year, less than two years, but his achievements in less than two days are obvious to all, he gave most of the credit to his soldiers, under his leadership, the Hexi army not only repelled the attack of the Tubo, but also launched a large-scale counterattack, after accumulating strength, and took the initiative to attack the Tubo, and cooperated with the Longyou Army to fight against the Tubo, and achieved a great victory, occupying a thousand miles of land around the West Sea, there is a general of this, Of course, the soldiers were reluctant to let him go.

While walking, he sorted out the clothes and armor of the soldiers along the way, and when he reached the end of the army, Zhao Ziliang stopped and turned to Liu Gong and said: "General Liu, Xihai County and Fu Qi Army will be handed over to you, so many brothers have died, it is not easy for the soldiers to conquer this large piece of land, and you must not slack off in terms of armament, defense, and armor, and you can't give the Tubo people a chance!" ”

Liu Gong is not well-known in history, but he has a young son named Liu Yi, who is fifteen years old this year, and has already behaved extraordinarily, and this person will become famous in the future, becoming a warlord of a northern feudal town in the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing Zhao Ziliang say this, Liu Gong clenched his fists and said: "General rest assured, although the last general does not have the talent to open up territory for the imperial court, he still has more than enough to defend it, and he must not be neglected!" ”

Zhao Ziliang patted Ge Shuhan, Ma Lan, Zhang Shouyu, Gao Xiuyan and others on the shoulders and said: "I'm afraid that I won't come back after going to Beijing this time, there is only so much I can help you, it will mainly depend on you in the future, do it well, although there are villains in the court, most of the officials are still good, as long as the blood in our bodies has not cooled, there is hope for Datang!" Let's all go back."

"The general has a good way to go······". (To be continued.) )