"Black clouds crush the city!" Zhao Zongjing sighed secretly.

Wang Ningxuan on the side corrected: "It hasn't been repaired yet!" ”

Zhao Zongjing said: "It's all this time, don't take it seriously, hurry up and think of an idea!" To tell you the truth, when I heard about the hundreds of thousands of troops, I couldn't sleep for many days. ”

Zhao Wang Ye waited for the two rolling eyes, wailing weakly.

Wang Ningxuan said indifferently: "The soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and no one in our Wang family is afraid!" ”

Di Yong said with a calm face: "It's nothing to die, the problem is the entrustment of the imperial court, and it is not easy to take root in the Western Regions, if Pu Changhai is lost, we will have no shame to go back to see the princes of the imperial court!" ”

Zhao Zongyi said: "Otherwise, first evacuate the old and weak women and children to Qingtang, and we will stay and give it a go." ”

"This is a way, I just want to ask Lu Huiqing and Zhang Dun." Zhao Zongjing immediately ordered someone to invite these two to come.

They have always been in charge of civil affairs, and these days Lu Huiqing supervised the repair of the city, established the Yellow Book, and compiled the households. As for Zhangdun, it is to arrange employment, let the people under his command make the best use of their talents, or plough the fields, or herd, or fish, as well as various artisan workshops, in short, to improve the ability of self-sufficiency.

The two were busy when they heard that they were going to be evacuated.

"What are you kidding, there are no more people, how can we run the Western Regions? That's not what Wang Xianggong explained! ”

Zhao Zongjing was embarrassed, "Isn't there no way!" We only have 20,000 people, and the other side has more than 100,000 people, and if they spread the people and horses and keep attacking them, we will not have the ability to protect everyone. ”

Zhang Dun snorted, "Lord Wang, you have been discussing for a long time, and you have discussed such a result?" Isn't it too much of a betrayal of my master's trust? ”

"This ...... I'm not good at war. ”

"Then you look for someone who is good at it!"

"Good at? Who? ”

Zhao Zongjing subconsciously looked to the side, and suddenly he slapped his head.

"By the way, Jingping said that he would arrange a combat helper for me, what about him, others?"

Lu Huiqing said angrily: "We've been here for so long, will he not arrive?" Lord Wang, you were negligent, right? ”

"Impossible, I told the following, pay more attention. You say, will he have an accident? ”

Zhang Dun snorted, "The person that Master fancies, will have an accident?" I don't believe it, lord, you better hurry up and find someone! ”

Zhao Zongjing was also anxious, and immediately ordered everyone to go out, the Puchang Seaside under his control was only dozens of miles in radius, and he carefully checked it, but he didn't find the slightest clue.

Zhao Zongjing is going crazy, the trump card sent by Wang Ningan to himself is actually missing, isn't this fatal?

In one day, Zhao Zongjing walked back and forth at the city gate five or six times.

When I came back from the last trip, suddenly several men from the Western Regions ran over, knelt on the ground, and said in clumsy Chinese that they were Khotanese and asked to be taken in.

Before Zhao Zongjing could speak, the soldiers guarding the door ran over.

"Fuck off, you're all liars, you're not from Khotan!"

After blasting the people away, the doorman ran over.

"Lord Wang, don't care about them, many people come every day, some say it's Khotanese people, some say it's Hanmin, and some say that the general of Zhengxi is crazy, and they have all been driven away."

"You're doing a good job."

Zhao Zongjing was just about to leave, when he suddenly trembled, hurriedly turned around, and pulled the door official over.

"You said there was a self-proclaimed general of the expedition to the west?"

"That's right! That guy also said that he was the protector of the Western Regions, like a begging for food, and I didn't leave when I drove him away, so I had to send him to prison. ”

Zhao Zongjing's hands trembled, and his voice changed, "What does that guy look like?" What about the accent? ”

"Look? Thirty years old, quite young, the Chinese dialect is quite slippery, if he wants to say that he is an ordinary Han person, I will believe it, he actually said that he is a general, where is the general? ”

"Ahh

Zhao Zongjing couldn't listen anymore, "Quick, take me to the prison!" ”

……

"What am I talking about...... Brother Murong, how are you after so many years? ”

Murong Qingchen pillowed a roll of reed mats, and only gave his back to Zhao Zongjing!

"Yes, yes! It's just that he doesn't have the majesty of the king! ”

Zhao Zongjing was even more embarrassed, "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding!" ”

"There was no misunderstanding." Murong Qingchen stretched his waist, and said with a smile: "I was originally a slave of the Uncle Mansion, and I lived in this black prison, and I really found the feeling of the past, Lord Wang, you go and be busy with military affairs!" Let me rest and get a little more sleep. ”

Zhao Zongjing cried, getting you out is the biggest militaristic event!

He didn't pay attention, at this time, Wang Ningxuan and Zhang Dun arrived.

As soon as the two of them saw Murong Qingchen lying inside, the two of them were not polite, Wang Ningxuan kicked open the door, and he and Zhang Dun carried Murong Qingchen out with one left and one right.

Wang Ningxuan also said, "This girl is pretending to be garlic, if you don't give him some color, you won't know that the sky is high and the earth is thick!" ”

Zhao Zongjing didn't dare to laugh if he wanted to, so he made a lot of noise and returned to the temporary Western Regions Protectorate.

Murong Qingchen shook his shoulders and shook Wang Ningxuan and Zhang Dun away.

Standing at the door, he looked at the soldiers on the left and right, and the doorman was in the middle of the crowd, trembling.

"Yes, that's good! The Khitans didn't catch Lao Tzu, the Tanguts didn't catch it, and the Uighurs didn't catch it! When I got to my own territory, I was arrested by your grandsons, what a big dog! You wait, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up! ”

At this time, Lu Huiqing also came, as Wang Ning'an's disciple, when he was in Youzhou, Lu Huiqing and Murong Qingchen had the best relationship, to put it bluntly, these two people have the same smell, but one of them is more literary, the other is more martial, but they are insidious and ruthless, nothing different!

"Brother Murong, don't blame them, since the level was set, there are too many people pretending to be Han and Khotanese, at least hundreds of cases every day, negligence, negligence!"

"Humph! Does Lao Tzu use the Han people? I am the general appointed by the imperial court to conquer the west! ”

As he spoke, Murong Qingchen took off his coat and took out a scroll of holy decrees from between the two layers of skin.

He took a skin bag filled with water from his waist, tore it directly, and there was a gold seal in it, which was the seal of the general of Zhengxi!

"Open the dog's eyes and see!"

Murong Qingchen raised the holy decree and said to Zhao Zongjing: "Lord, Your Majesty's will, the king is the prime minister, every time there is a war, the general of Zhengxi will control all officials and people. Your Dongping County King is no exception! ”

Zhao Zongjing endured his anger, he finally understood why Wang Ningan didn't say who the candidate was.

Murong Qingchen's ability goes without saying, but because of his early experience, he didn't have a good opinion of any royal relatives and clan nobles, he looked down on the former master Cao Tong, and even more down on a group of clans who relied on the protection of their ancestors. Zhao Zongjing is also clear, if Wang Ningan told him, Zhao Zongjing would most likely ask for a replacement.

But there is no more suitable candidate, so there is only the first cut and then the play.

That's it!

Resignation!

"General Murong, Xiao Wang is willing to obey the dispatch and go to the soup to fight the fire, and he will not give up!"

Zhao Zongjing took the lead in giving gifts, which satisfied Murong Qingchen's self-esteem. He is not looking for someone who is unhappy, and hurriedly supports Zhao Zongjing.

"Lord Wang, military affairs have always been like this, and I will definitely make amends to the prince in the future."

Lu Huiqing said: "Okay, let's discuss countermeasures quickly!" ”

Returning to the signing room, Murong Qingchen took the lead and sat in the middle. He first listened to everyone's analysis, and after clarifying the situation, he couldn't help but ask, "How did that Xizhi's men and horses move?" And where did it come from? ”

"Xizhi's men and horses are divided into two roads, all the way along the Tianshan South Road, all the way along the hometown of Khotan, and the target is Puchanghai."

"Why divide the troops?"

"It's because of the water." Di Yong said in a sullen voice: "The water source of the Western Regions is precious, and the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops cannot be separated from the foothills, because only here is an oasis and a water source!" ”

Murong Qingchen suddenly laughed out loud and slammed his fist into it, "Aren't you saying it very clearly?" Why can't you come up with a countermeasure? ”

"Clear, clear what?" Zhao Zongjing said curiously.

Murong Qingchen pursed his lips, "Since the army can't do without the water source, we have to delay the other party's advance and destroy the water source, what's so difficult about this!" ”

What's so hard about that?

You can say it!

Several people present widened their eyes, and Zhao Zongjing coughed, "Brother Murong, do you know what the water source of the Western Regions is?" ”

"Isn't it a qanats! If it's something else, it can't be destroyed! Murong Qingchen said it lightly.

But Zhao Zongjing and the others all vomited blood.

The yellow sand in the Western Regions is thousands of miles, and survival is difficult. In particular, water is scarce and more precious than gold.

According to the "Historical Records", Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty passed through the Western Regions, and in order to garrison troops in the Western Regions and fight against the Xiongnu, he invented the Karez, also known as the well canal.

The climate and soil quality of the Western Regions are very special, there is dozens of millimeters of precipitation here a year, and the amount of evaporation is thousands of millimeters, and the ground is sandy soil that is easy to seep water.

Clever Han Chinese craftsmen found that although there was no water on the surface, there was still abundant water resources underground.

When they found an aquifer in the mountains, they first drilled a shaft leading to the aquifer, and then they drilled a shaft at intervals, and then they used a compass to dig a trench in the ground, and they joined the two wells, so that the water from the first well could flow down the underground ditch to the second well.

As long as there are enough shafts and long enough culverts, precious water can be diverted from the hillsides to the plains, irrigated and nourished the oases, and people and livestock depend on this little water to survive!

Think about it, to find a water source, to build a shaft, to dig a dark ditch, the slightest mistake will cause the soil to collapse, in order to repair the qanats, there are definitely more people dead than wells!

In the Western Regions, even the most frustrated people did not dare to touch the qanats.

Whoever touches the qanats will be damned!

"Brother Murong, it was the ancestors of the Han Dynasty who began to cultivate, more than a thousand years, aren't you afraid of God's curse?"

Murong Qingchen blinked, "Where is God?" Let him come to me! I want to ask him, is it to bless my Han people! Or to bless the wishes of the Qarakhanid? ”

He was full of disdain and said, "If God doesn't stand by us, what's the use of him?" There is a damnation, let him come at me! ”