The more this happened, the more frightening it became, the city was in chaos, the soldiers were in a hurry, and more and more people rushed to the city, but they did not dare to open the city gates.

At this moment, a loud voice sounded: "Don't panic, do your duty!" ”

This voice is not high, but it is categorical, showing a fearless personality. The man who spoke was a general in his forties, tall and burly, with thick, straight eyebrows and bright eyes full of life. This person's name is Guo Qianjun, and he is the deputy protector of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate.

The protectors of each capital of the Tang Dynasty are led by the prince, so the military and political affairs are presided over by the deputy protectors.

Guo Qianqian was not in a hurry to ask the person who came, he was waiting, waiting for the sky to be completely bright. At that time, in broad daylight, everything will be clear without asking. To tell the truth, he didn't believe that the Turks dared to come to Tingzhou to spread wilderness with only two or three hundred horsemen.

The leader of these knights is none other than Zhang Bao'er, who is hurrying day and night.

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Zhang Bao'er, who came out of the palace, did not delay, and sent a fast horse to Luzhou quickly, informing Qiu Baiyu and Wang Lin that 300 regimental training soldiers were carefully selected from the Luzhou regimental training, and quickly rushed to Qixingzhuang to assemble. At the same time, Zhao Langzhen was asked to prepare, and the three thousand trained Luzhou regiments were ordered to leave for the Western Regions at any time.

After the people sent to Luzhou left, Zhang Baoer summoned Wang Hufeng and Yangu to discuss separately.

The instructions given to Wang Hufeng were to go all out to procure all kinds of materials, form a huge caravan, and go to the Western Regions together with the three thousand Luzhou regiments.

The order given to Yan Gu was to send a large number of people to enter the Western Regions first and quickly collect intelligence on the Western Regions.

After all the arrangements were made, Zhang Baoer sent someone to move all the information about the Western Regions that Yao Chong had prepared for himself into the study, locked himself and Wei Xianyun in the study, and Wei Xianyun explained the specific situation of the Western Regions to him in detail.

Zhang Baoer has never fought unprepared battles, after all, he has never been to the Western Regions, how can he have the bottom in his heart if he doesn't do his homework.

This state lasted until Wang Lin, Qiu Baiyu and the others arrived at Qixingzhuang, which was considered to be the end.

On 14 July, Zhang Bao'er took 300 horsemen from Uncle Hua, Langtian, Qiu Baiyu and Luzhou to quietly set off from Chang'an, passing through Jingzhou, Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, Shazhou, and Xizhou, all the way west for more than 6,000 miles, and did not arrive at Tingzhou City until August 23.

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Zhang Baoer looked at Tingzhou City in front of her and couldn't help but think about it.

In the twelfth year of Tang Zhenguan, the Western Turks were divided into two khanates, the tooth tent of the Yibi Lulu Khan was in the north, and the tooth tent of the Yibi Shabaluo Khan was in the south, known as "North Court" and "South Court", and the name of the North Court came from this. In the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty placed Tingzhou, and governed the three counties of Jinman, Pu and Luntai, and later Jinman County was renamed Houting County. The ancient city of Beiting is densely populated and economically prosperous, and is an important transportation hub and military key point on the "Silk Road".

After a long time, Zhang Bao'er sighed and said to herself: "It is worthy of being the military key point of the Western Regions, but it is a pity that there are too few troops!" ”

The Beiting Protectorate was stationed in Tunxi Prefecture and Yizhou Prefecture, defending against the Tuqi Khanate and the Jiankun tribe, and commanding a total of 20,000 people from the Han Navy, the Tianshan Army, and the Yiwu Army. Controlling such a large place north of the Tianshan Mountains, 20,000 troops, is indeed too little.

The sky finally brightened, Guo Qianqian saw clearly, the three hundred horsemen under the city were clearly Han costumes, although there was no military uniform, but the veteran Guo Qianqian could see at a glance that these young people were well-trained. The other party didn't speak, and Guo Qianqian also calmed down, he wanted to see what kind of mystery these people were making.

What made Guo Qianqian feel a little relieved was that the other party couldn't hold his breath first. A man stepped forward and shot an arrow at the flagpole of the tower. The stunt of calm and leisurely is not only the soldiers on the city tower, but even Guo Qianqian secretly applauds.

Guo Qianqian knew that the other party was throwing a letter with an arrow. Sure enough, after a while, a sergeant brought the silk cloth tied to the arrow in front of him.

The words on the silk are very clear: "The Duke of Dingguo of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Baoer, the owner of the Royal Cen family's firm, pays a visit to Guo Qianjun, the deputy capital of the North Court!" ”

Guo Qianqian couldn't help frowning after looking at it.

He had heard of Zhang Baoer's name, especially the battle between the Luzhou regiment and the Khitan and Xi tribes in Yingzhou, and he had also heard that it was not easy for such a figure to be among the emperor's relatives. His Majesty gave the name of the Cen firm, and he also received it, but he didn't think so at the time, but he didn't expect Zhang Bao'er, as the owner of the Cen firm, to appear in Tingzhou, which made Guo Qianqian have an unusual feeling.

After reading the handwriting on the silk cloth, Guo Qianqian pondered for a moment, and ordered the soldiers on the city tower: "Put down a basket!" ”

Zhang Bao'er watched the city head swaying and put down a basket tied with a rope, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "This Guo Qianqian is really cautious enough!" ”

Uncle Hua said on the side: "Uncle, why don't you let me go up first, tell him to understand, and then you will enter the city after you open the city gate?" ”

Zhang Baoer shook his head and said: "With his current style, you can't tell if you go, so I'll go by myself!" ”

After that, Zhang Bao'er instructed Qiu Baiyu and Wang Lin: "You stand by and enter after the city gate is opened. ”

Qiu and Wang agreed.

Zhang Baoer dismounted, and under the gaze of everyone in Luzhou, he walked towards the basket that was put down in the city.

Zhang Baoer arrived in front of the basket, directly raised her feet into the basket and sat inside. After a while, Zhang Bao'er was dragged up to the city tower by the Tingzhou sergeant.

As soon as Zhang Bao'er went up to the city tower, dozens of sergeants came up, and they surrounded Zhang Bao'er with spears in their hands. Looking at that posture, as long as Zhang Baoer makes any changes, he will be stabbed into a hornet's nest.

"I don't know if Guo Qianqian and Guo Deputy are here to protect you?" Zhang Baoer asked loudly.

"Down there is Guo Qianjun, I don't know if your Excellency is ......" Guo Qianqian asked tentatively.

"Under Zhang Bao'er!"

Guo Qianqian bowed to Zhang Bao'er and said, "Qianqian has seen Dingguo Gong!" Guo Qianqian saluted Zhang Bao'er and said: "Because the Turks have entered the Western Regions, the prevention of Beiting has been strengthened. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, please forgive me for Dingguo Gong, and you must have an identity certificate issued by the Ministry of War to enter the city! ”

"It's nature! If I didn't have proof of identity, how could I have traveled all the way to Tingzhou? It's just ......" Zhang Bao'er looked left and right and said, "Can Deputy Guo Duhu take a step to speak?" ”

Guo Qianqian was stunned for a moment, he didn't understand what Zhang Bao'er was going to do.

Zhang Baoer saw that Guo Qianqian was a little hesitant, and deliberately provoked: "I'm just alone, Deputy Guo can rest assured!" ”