Now when the two of them mentioned Zuo Jigao, they invariably no longer said anything "Zuo Dashuai", but became "surnamed Zuo".

"It's the middle of the night, go to sleep!" Dai Zongqian knew that what he and Liu Chaopei said just now was also angry, as soon as the morning dawned, if the wind and sand stopped, they had to take their subordinates back, although the battle of the Western Expedition was basically over, but without the order of the imperial court, they still could not leave Xinjiang.

After the battle, they only hoped to leave Zuo Jigao as soon as possible.

But now they don't know that they will leave Zuo Jigao, leave Xinjiang, in a way that they would not have thought of at all.

Although the nightmare just now made the two of them sleepless, but because of the daytime pursuit and the relationship between avoiding the wind and sand, their bodies were still tired, so they quickly fell asleep, and when they woke up, it was already the morning of the next day (nine o'clock), and the sandstorm outside blew all night, and it did not stop, but it was much lighter than the previous wind, and this devilish sandstorm was finally coming to an end.

If there are two more such big sandstorms, I am afraid that this nameless ancient city will disappear into the desert, but even if it is all buried in the yellow sand, it does not mean that it will be buried forever, more than half of this area is a mobile desert, with the wind moving the desert, it will soon see the light of day.

Taking advantage of the fact that the wind and sand became smaller and the sky was bright, Dai Zongqian, Liu Chaopei and Zhang Jun gathered their subordinates to inspect the personnel and horses and supplies, and after everything was in order, they left the ancient city. Go the way you came.

And it didn't take long to go. The wind and sand stopped completely. For a while, the scorching sun was on his head, and the sun shone so much that people couldn't open their eyes, Dai Zongqian was still tired, and when he was drowsy on a horse, he was stabbed by Liu Chaopei with a horsewhip.

"Lao Dai, look! There's someone over there! Liu Chaopei said.

Dai Zongqian was violently excited, and immediately looked up in the direction pointed by Liu Chaopei, and saw two horses galloping. Dai Zongqian was worried that the Russians were attacking them, so he immediately picked up a clairvoyant mirror to look, but saw that it was two cavalrymen dressed in cadre uniforms, who were coming quickly.

"It's okay! It's your own people! Don't shoot! Seeing that someone around him had already raised the foreign gun, Dai Zongqian hurriedly stopped.

The soldiers put down their guns, and after a while, the two horses galloped in front of Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei.

The two cavalrymen of the cadre army seemed to recognize Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei, rolled their saddles and dismounted, and saluted Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei respectively.

"You're from General Kim?" Dai Zongqian didn't see the words on the other party's armor, and he didn't know which army they belonged to. Asked a little strangely.

The two cavalrymen shook their heads in unison and pointed to their mouths. Waving his hand again, Dai Zongqian realized that the two of them were mute and couldn't speak, and couldn't help but be surprised.

He turned his head to look at Liu Chaopei, who also looked surprised.

But what surprised them even more was still to come, and the two dumb cavalrymen took out a letter from their arms and presented it to Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei respectively.

Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei glanced at each other and took the letter separately.

Dai Zongqian first glanced at the envelope and found that there were only a few crooked words written on the envelope: "General Dai personally opened", obviously the letter writer wanted to hide his handwriting, so he deliberately wrote the words like this.

Dai Zongqian tore open the envelope and pulled out the stationery inside, the letterhead was not big, only a small one, he opened it and looked at it, and there was only a small word "go" written on the letterhead.

Dai Zongqian was stunned, he didn't understand why someone would send him such a word, he looked at the word carefully, trying to see whose handwriting it was, but after looking at it for a long time, he didn't see whose handwriting it was.

He turned his head to look at Liu Chaopei and found that Liu Chaopei was also stunned.

"What's on that letter?" Dai Zongqian asked Liu Chaopei.

Liu Chaopei did not answer, but handed the letter in his hand to Dai Zongqian, Dai Zongqian took the letter and looked at it, there was only one word on it, but it was not the word "go", but the word "fast".

"Let's go...... Fast...... Fast...... Walk? Dai Zongqian thought silently in his heart, and suddenly his mind flashed like a flash of lightning.

Liu Chaopei noticed that Dai Zongqian's face changed drastically after reading the two pieces of letterhead, and he was shocked, and was about to ask a question, but Dai Zongqian stopped him with his eyes, and showed him the two pieces of letter paper in his hand together.

When Liu Chaopei saw these two words, he looked at the two mute cavalrymen in front of him, and understood what these two words meant, and his face changed greatly.

"What's wrong? Lao Dai Lao Liu, but there is an emergency military situation? Zhang Jun didn't know what was going on, and asked behind them.

"It's okay, it's Marshal Zuo who wants us to beware of the Russian attack." Dai Zongqian quietly put away the two pieces of stationery and nodded to the two dumb cavalrymen, who understood, turned over and left.

"Guys, do you hear that? The Russians may find us in trouble, so give me a little bit of energy! Liu Chaopei immediately said.

Zhang Jun didn't know what was written on the letterhead, but when he saw that the cavalry who gave the order only gave Dai and Liu a secret letter, he didn't give it to himself, he thought that it might be that Zuo Jigao had some special arrangements, and didn't want to let himself know, in line with the principle of "more is better than less", he didn't ask more, but issued an order to the cavalry of the headquarters to prevent the attack of the Russian army like Liu Chaopei.

The cadre army trudged through the yellow sand, and at about the same time, another cadre army searched and advanced in the desert in the other direction.

"The wind and sand are too big, let's go back." Kim Soon-jae reined in his horse and spat on the ground with sand on it, and as soon as the saliva landed on the sand, it quickly disappeared without a trace due to the heat.

"General, this person didn't catch it, just go back like this, the marshal ......" A deputy general saw that Jin Shun did not plan to continue looking for Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei's troops, and quickly reminded him.

"If there is quicksand in a while, are you still looking for them here?" Jin Shun looked up to the sky and said angrily.

"What the general said is that they are coming back anyway. It's better to go back to the camp and wait. The lieutenant general understood Jin Shun's intentions. Hurriedly said. "The weather in this desert is fickle, if you really touch the quicksand, your life will not be guaranteed, can you care about anything else? The last general thinks that it is better to turn around now while the weather is still good. ”

"Hmm." Jin Shun nodded quietly, and the adjutant general immediately gave the order, and the army changed direction after a short time. Turn back along the road you came from.

When Jin Shun led the army back to the camp, it was already a little late, Zuo Jigao saw that he did not bring back Dai Liu's two scapegoats, so he asked, Jin Shun replied that he was afraid of encountering quicksand, Zuo Jigao also knew the power of quicksand, so he didn't ask more, but gave an order, as long as Dai Liu and the two came back, they would be arrested immediately.

But what he didn't expect was this. Dai and Liu never returned.

At dawn the next day, the army pursuing Bai Yanhu returned to the camp. However, only Zhang Jun led the team, Wan Huai, Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei were all gone, Zuo Jigao was shocked, and immediately asked Zhang Jun where the two went, Zhang Jun was terrified, and replied that Dai Liu and several guards suddenly disappeared last night, probably because of the quicksand, or for the night attack of wild beasts, he couldn't find it, and he was worried that the quicksand would come again, so he had to take the army back.

Listening to Zhang Jun's answer, Zuo Jigao was furious, he had already guessed that Dai and Liu must have gotten the news and fled at night, he didn't care about scolding Zhang Jun, but called Dong Fuxiang and ordered him to immediately lead the people to search for and arrest Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei.

The reason why Zuo Jigao asked Dong Fuxiang to arrest Dai and Liu was that he was worried that there were people in the army who were on good terms with Dai and Liu and deliberately released them, and second, although Dong Fuxiang was not at odds with Dai and Liu, he already knew the stakes involved, and for his own interests, he would definitely make every effort to arrest Dai and Liu.

According to his original plan, he put all the responsibility for the defeat of the Wucheng Battle army on Dai Zongqian and Liu Chaopei, and said in the compromise that Dai and Liu Liu "absconded in fear of crime", and asked the imperial court to issue a proclamation on sea capture, notify all localities, and assist in arresting.

Fuzhou, Changle Town.

Changle Town, on the outskirts of Fuzhou, is nominally a small town, but in fact it is just a combination of a larger village and several smaller villages around it, and it has relatively more complete shops, private schools, post stations and pharmacies and other basic facilities for human life that a small society must have. The town is mainly composed of a small cross-shaped street, on this small street, there are almost all the commercial shops in the town, it includes six grocery stores, two rice shops, a drugstore, two cloth shops, a Japanese restaurant, three small dry hotels, a small teahouse, a post station, and a pharmacy, which are located at the intersection of the best cross streets in the town, and the Matsu Temple, where the Qianguo soldiers are stationed, is in a quiet place covered with trees in a good location on the west side of the street. Next to it is a small money bank owned by Qianguo people, and next to the money village is a private school. The brothels, etc., are located on North Street, and the fruit stalls, vegetable shops, tofu shops, braised vegetable shops, live poultry shops, snack shops, two small tailor shops, two blacksmith shops, a tin hoop bucket shop, and flatbread shops, bun shops, butcher shops, and small shoemakers are hidden in South Street.

At this time, in a small country courtyard on North Street, a young woman was sitting at a table in the study, fiddling with some written pieces of paper.

This courtyard house was originally a place for a squire to cool off in the middle of summer, and it was very quiet and elegant, but a few months ago, it was bought by a young woman for a lot more than the original price, and it became one of the few sensational news in the town.

This woman was born very beautiful, wearing Western clothes, can speak the official dialect of Beijing and Western dialect, her speech and demeanor are generous, she is generous, and she has the demeanor of a lady, but since she bought this courtyard, she has lived in a simple house, no longer in contact with outsiders, but every day in the house to fiddle with newspapers, in addition to taking care of her diet and daily life, she can hardly see her go out.

At first, the arrival of this strange woman attracts the attention of the townspeople, but it is not long before the townspeople gradually forget about her existence.

People here would not have thought that although she stayed at home, she had a clear understanding of all the major events that happened in the outside world.

At this moment, the woman was holding a newspaper clipping, looking at it fixedly, and there was a crystal flash in the eyes of the scissor.

Newspaper clippings in her hand. It is a portrait of a samurai with two swords at his waist. Below the portrait. It reads "Shimazu Tadashi".

"Father...... I hear your call...... Rest in peace...... I...... I will definitely revitalize the Shimazu family! I'll take revenge on everyone! ”

Yoko Shimazu held back her tears as she carefully tucked the portrait into a book, her eyes falling on the scrap of paper on the table.

Underneath these pieces of paper is a huge map of the world.

She picked up today's newspaper and looked at it, then looked at the location of Qianguo Xinjiang, and put a piece of paper with the words "Zuo Jigao" written on it.

"It took seven years and nearly 40 million taels of silver to destroy Aguba. This Zuo Jigao called himself 'Jinliang', he fought so hard, and he compared himself to Zhuge Liang Jiu out of Qishan, which is really shameless! Yoko Shimazu sneered at the British newspaper report on Zuo Jigao's defeat of Agubai's "Zhedeshar Khanate" regime and regained Xinjiang.

"At such a large age, the desire to fight for merit still does not change, for the sake of his own private name, he has spent countless national funds, and the country has lost a good opportunity to rise, which is really a sinner who has misled the country! On the contrary, the voices of praise from the government and the opposition of the Qianguo are endless. It is also known as the 'Northwest Optimus Pillar', which is really speechless! ”

"There is this silver. If the West France is introduced and foreign affairs are established, the Qianguo State should now be able to compete with the Taixi countries, so why be afraid of Lucia entering the Kou? Why are the people of Qianguo always doing things so upside down! ”

"The current Zuo Jigao, but the dry bones in the grave, Hu Yulin has fallen, and the catastrophe is coming, I am afraid that this western expedition will not be able to save him."

Yoko Shimazu said, leaving Xinjiang and turning his gaze to the position of Qianguo Zhili Province.

"If you talk about the dry city of the country, this Governor Li Shaoquan can still be called it." As she spoke, Yoko Shimazu placed the piece of paper with the words "Li Shaoquan" written on it to the position of Naoli Province.

"It's just that this Lord Li acts, it is inevitable to lose his integrity, although he does not doubt the use of people, and the suspects do not need to use them, but the people he uses, most of them are profitable, and they must know that they are combined with profits, and if they are scattered, if he has a slight setback, he is afraid that the tree will fall and ......scatter," Shimazu Yoko sighed, "But this can't be blamed on him, the people of the Qianguo are still empty talk, and those who pretend to be high will only boast and do not do practical things, but those who are willing to do practical things, there are many greedy people, and there are few people who are willing to serve the public, and he Li Shaoquan wants to prosper foreign affairs, and he can only use these people." Judging from this point of view, it is more difficult for the country to change than for Japan! ”

"And even if this Lord Li can achieve great success in the future, it will be difficult to remove the name of 'feudal town' at that time, and in this case, the Qianguo government will only be able to trust him to the end." As she spoke, Yoko Shimazu placed four pieces of paper with the words "Empress Dowager Rentai," "Empress Dowager Renxi," "Prince Jing," and "Prince Chun" in Beijing, the capital of the Qianguo Kingdom.

"Lord Shaoguo suspects, although Li Shaoquan is trusted by the Empress Dowager and supported by two princes, but the voice of opposition to his foreign affairs in the court has not ceased for a day, as long as the emperor's master is there, it is impossible for him to enter the central ......" Shimazu Yoko sighed, put down the piece of paper with the name "Weng Shuping" written on it, and shook his head.

"Although the two queen mothers have the ability to govern the country, after all, their knowledge is limited, and if they are not guided by people who understand the general trend, mistakes are inevitable; Prince Jing has knowledge, responsibility, talent, and could have been a guide, but because of his old grievances, he was not fully trusted by the Queen Mother, and the pure prince was cowardly by nature, and he was used to being cautious everywhere, and he was the biological father of the Emperor of Qianguo, and it was difficult to do anything with a hundred pairs of eyes staring......"

"The ministers of the center of the Qianguo, since Wen Bochuan went, Li Gaoyang, Baojun, and Shen Guifen are all old-fashioned people, and they are not enough, Yan Danchu is a good hand at managing money, but he is upright by nature, and he is easy to attract jealousy, not to mention, it is not enough to just manage money......"

Yoko Shimazu said to herself, shook her head, and turned her gaze to the south of Qianguo.

"Peng Yulin, an old-fashioned character, is not enough to talk about; Ding Yusheng is talented and strategic, but he acts recklessly, and now he has the name of 'ghost slave', and it may be difficult to enter the center...... Shen Youdan is talented and knowledgeable, but his physical condition is not good, and he is too tired, and he is afraid that he will die soon......"

Yoko Shimazu sighed, and after putting away the pieces of paper with the names of these people in her hand one by one, she took out another piece of paper with the name of "Lin Yizhe" written on it.

"If you're here, you're the right person......"

"This Lin Yizhe, although he is young, but he is full of wisdom, has both literary and martial strategies, can be a general, and can be a phase, but he is feminine, and he is angry with the books of the people of northern Fujian, and he is not decisive enough, he is not good at the way of balance, and he is not cautious enough, and he is too hasty, and the result is plotted by others, and he does not know it...... Do you think that with the Queen Mother and Prince Jing as your backers, you can sit back and relax, you must know that the Queen Mother protects you, just for a while, can you always worry about the things you cause? ”

"If I had helped you there, I would have taught you not to make such mistakes, but ...... Now that you have done it, everything you say is in vain......"

Yoko Shimazu said, putting down the piece of paper with Hayashi's name written on it, and turning her gaze to her home country, Japan.

At this time, she took out a piece of paper and placed it in the southwest direction of Japan.

What was written on the piece of paper was the word "Lin Yiqing".

She stared at the name, her fingertips trembling slightly.

She settled down, and quickly put the pieces of paper with the names of "Saigo Takamori" and "Kirino Toshiaki" next to the pieces of paper with Lin Yiqing's names written on them.

"Father, every time you mention Mr. Nanzhou, you are always amazed, thinking that he is a rare talent in the world, but in the eyes of her daughter, I am afraid that it is exaggerated......" she said softly, as if she was talking to her father in the underworld. (To be continued......)

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