Changsun Sheng smiled and waved his hand: "I still have to be in charge of the Turks here, I can't leave it for the time being, even if this time the matter is smooth, I have to closely monitor Dulan Khan and Datou Khan, and if Dulan Khan really kills Princess Dayi, we have to send another princess to make peace, and the matter of liaison in the middle must be me."

My eldest Sun Sheng has always been suitable for this kind of hidden thing behind the scenes, and it is not my forte to arrange troops above the battle array, and the official position should not be too high. But Gao Servant Shooting is very appreciative of Hua Qiang's military talent, and he thinks that you want to get ahead, so he will give you a chance to fight on the battlefield, you have to take advantage of it. ”

Wang Huaqiang heard Changsun Sheng say this, and suddenly understood that it must be Gao Xi who asked him to blow the wind to himself in advance, so that he could prepare for this, Gao Xi has always been unsupportive of his own business in Jiangnan, but he is afraid that it is also because he knows that the gap between the north and the south is extremely deep, and the Southern Dynasty has already had its own economic sphere of influence for hundreds of years, just like the local tyrants in Guzang City, it is difficult for businessmen from the north to intervene in this circle.

Gao Xi deliberately wanted to go south with the army this time, but I was afraid that he also wanted to see with his own eyes whether it was possible to open a commercial market in the south, after all, the imperial court's order, the law, and the army were not as effective as commerce involving people's livelihood, and if you want to resolve the hostility between the north and the south for hundreds of years due to strangeness and isolation, it is not enough to rely on government decrees, but more to rely on people-to-people exchanges and integration.

Wang Huaqiang reacted, knowing that this time the southern counterinsurgency must go, it is estimated that it will take another year and a half, and his business in the north has to be delayed indefinitely.

Wang Huaqiang suddenly thought of something, frowned, and asked, "Ji Sheng, wasn't Yang Su named the Duke of Yingguo this time?" Why did you hear you say that you were Yue Guogong just now? ”

Changsun Sheng "hmm": "That was when we went to the Turks, because the traitor Wang Yi of the Great Sui conspired to rebel in the fifth year of the emperor's reign, and was ordered by the emperor to die at home, his title at that time was the Duke of Yingguo, Yang Su felt unlucky, so he wrote that he was unwilling to have a title with the traitor, so the emperor changed Yang Su to the Duke of Yue. ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded: "I see, I heard that Yang Su commanded the troops strictly and used the soldiers ruthlessly, but he is proficient in the art of war, and he is a famous general today, I don't know how high he is compared to He Ruobi and Han Baohu." ”

Eldest Sun Sheng Zhengse said: "In the eyes of Gao Servant, Yang Su's talent as a commander is only afraid that he is still above these two, his people are decisive in killing, and he often kills people when he fights, and when he is on an errand, if he doesn't pay attention, he may die."

But on the other hand, Yang Su has never spared no effort to invite merit and reward for the soldiers who followed him, and this time he followed him to the south, and the soldiers who went down to Jiangling accounted for more than half of the total reward, so the soldiers were willing to serve him.

Hua Qiang, I know you want to make meritorious service as an official, to be honest, we were born and died in the Turks like this, although the merit is great, but it is not visible, and it is not easy to publicly reward, and it is basically the end of an official of about five grades. ”

Wang Huaqiang looked at Changsun Sheng's sincere face, and suddenly felt that this person may not be sincere to himself, Changsun Sheng has been responsible for the subversion and differentiation of the Turks for many years, and he is good at strategy, and he uses most of the unsightly conspiracies.

But this time, he personally participated in this series of actions to divide the Turks, the depth of his wit, and the insidious means made Changsun Sheng also feel threatened, but I was afraid that he didn't want to continue to participate in the future with him to divide the Turks.

It is impossible for this credit Changsun Sheng to let others share it, so he wishes that he would go somewhere else early, don't get in the way of his business, and rob him of his credit, today he mentioned the Southern Expedition several times, I'm afraid it's not exactly to help Gao Xi spread the word, but more to exclude himself from Turkic affairs.

Wang Huaqiang sighed in his heart, his ability is outstanding, but he is a little too sharp, whether it is the southern expedition or this Turkic incident, it makes He Ruobi, Han Baohu and Changsun Sheng suspicious and defensive about themselves. It seems that in other places in the future, sometimes it is better to pretend to be stupid, otherwise it is not a good thing to be jealous and excluded by your boss and colleagues.

Thinking of this, Wang Huaqiang smiled slightly: "Ji Sheng, it's too early to think about the southern expedition at the moment, and then I have to go deep into the desert to face unknown dangers, it's hard to say whether I can survive or not, in the future, take one step at a time, I, Wang Huaqiang, am just a pawn, at the mercy of others, what do I want to do, can I still refuse?" ”

Changsun Sheng's face also showed a hint of a smile, a mouthful of white flowers and teeth were exposed, and with the few scars on his face that twisted around like earthworms, it was more ugly than crying under the dim light of the horse lamp in this tent: "Okay, I've talked so much today, let's rest early, I have to hurry tomorrow." ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded, got up and walked out of the tent, the sky was already bright, and the outside began to heat up gradually, Wang Huaqiang knew that it would not take half an hour for the sand on the ground to get hot, he went out to find a single tent, took off the leather jacket and silk on his body, closed his eyes, and slowly recalled the conversation with Changsun Sheng just now in his mind, and unconsciously fell asleep.

When Wang Huaqiang was woken up by Duan Da again, the sun had sunk in the west, and the whole day had passed, because he was too tired to walk this way, he was not woken up by the heat, and after being shaken awake, he found that his back had been scalded by the hot sand at noon.

The night is the same as yesterday's night travel, this time according to the plan, there is a water source more than 70 miles to the north, the group walked for more than three hours, arrived at this water source, and then camped here to rest until early morning, taking advantage of the moderate temperature in the early morning, all the way forced march, and drove more than three hours of road, to another water source more than 60 miles away, rushed to camp before noon to rest.

In this way, the camel team traveled day and night in this thousand miles of desert, a water source and a water source to advance in sections, because An Xinggui is extremely familiar with the terrain here, and along the way relied on a lot of markers to indicate the progress, never lost, three days down, in this desert through more than 400 miles, came to the junction with the An brothers and sisters.

The place where the junction is a grassland and a desert intersect, this desert outside the Yumen Pass, to the west needs to cross the seven thousand miles of sand sea, to reach Gaochang, but in the north, as long as you walk four or five hundred miles, you can reach the Xingxing Gorge adjacent to the southern grassland of the Turkic Desert, after the canyon, it is an endless thousand miles of prairie, and the place where An Xinggui and the An brothers and sisters have connected many times is here.

Two towering mountains stand on the edge of the desert, the mountains are bare without any grass and trees, blown by the wind and sand from the desert like a knife and axe, and through the three-mile-long canyon, Wang Huaqiang can faintly see the long-lost green green, yes, through the canyon, it is the grassland.

Wang Huaqiang and his Xiaoguo knights have been walking in this boundless desert for more than two thousand miles since Guzangcheng and Li Fan connected, and three days ago in Yangguan and An Xinggui and Cao Zhen's joint, it was the only time in the past half a month that they felt that they were still in the world.

And today's long-lost green makes Wang Huaqiang see a sense of anger, a kind of hope, and a feeling of reminding himself that he is still alive.

After seeing this green, the caravan that had already been tormented by this damn desert was dizzy and lifeless, and one by one suddenly came to the strength and ran forward with cheers, and hundreds of Xiaoguo knights completely forgot their guard duties at this time, and rushed to gallop their horses, wanting to rush through the canyon and rush into the embrace of the grassland.

Wang Huaqiang's heart was first ecstatic, and then he felt that something was wrong, it was a little too strange to be quiet here, so that he had a bad premonition, thinking of this, he suddenly shouted loudly: "Don't run, all stop, array!"