In the early morning, the grassland after the snowshower was covered in silver, a thin layer of snow just covered the horse's hooves, drowning the last bit of dry grass, fortunately, before the trip, the Fujian army also prepared thousands of pockets of soybean meal and horse feed for the war horses, and the quartermaster scolded and led the logistics soldiers to shovel the snow and pull the grass, and on the other hand, under the burning of dry cow and horse manure, the soybean meal was sent into the livestock shed.

With a snorting sound, batches of fine Fujian war horses flicked their tails and leisurely ate forage.

Sometimes, the treatment of people is not as good as that of horses, just on the edge of the livestock shed, thousands of captured Central Asian nomadic tribesmen hugging each other with an empty stomach and trembling, barely relying on their body temperature to keep warm, the Fujian army has a warm marching tent, they have nothing, last night's wind and snow, and froze to death I don't know how to go, one by one Fujian officers and soldiers were expressionless to pack up the frozen and stiff corpses, and soon, they were piled up outside the camp into a small pile.

In this era, mercy is an expensive thing, after more than half a month of conquest on the grassland, the logistics supply of the Fujian army has also reached the limit, tending to dry up, feeding these captives, the Fujian army may starve, therefore, the famous three arrows in history set the Tianshan Mountain, and the genius commander Xue Rengui, who killed 100,000 Tiele troops, did not hesitate to stop the ration supply of these captives.

"We'll be in Xinjin City in two days."

After the ice and snow, even if the tenacious Jurchens were born like a perfect face, they couldn't help but stretch their waists in the sun, licked their lips nostalgically and sighed: "I really want to go back all of a sudden, take a hot bath, and then drink a big bowl of hot spicy soup on the balcony, and feel warm all over my body, and I won't change a bunch of gold mountains!"

Listening to the good feelings of his colleagues, Xue Qing, the commander of the Western Route Army, was not so interested, and was also lazily basking in the sun, Xue Rengui looked at the grassland captives behind him who were shivering with cold, and sighed deeply and sadly.

"This time, it is estimated that the Sixth Route Army, and our Western Route Army will have the least gains, break three small tribes, hey, even a grassland head who took a shot was not killed, it is estimated that even some second-line government soldiers are not as good, and if you go back, you will not be laughed to death by those little rabbit cubs."

There is also competition and pressure between the generals of the Fujian State, the Xue family in Hedong, who was the first to follow Li Jie, is the leader in the generals of the Fujian State, the police commander Xue Zhiguan, and the general Xue Qing of the Zuo Wuwei who is most likely to be promoted to the general, but unfortunately in the Arab War, Xue Qing died in battle, and after returning to China, Xue Zhiguan was nowhere to be found, so that Xue Rengui, who was still behind the leisurely and leisurely, was at the forefront.

Broader and more fertile land, more favorable taxes and lulu, the Hedong Xue family devoted themselves to Fujian and occupied two-thirds of the entire family, a wide official road, and they did get more superior treatment than the Tang Dynasty, but these are not free, what is needed is that the Hedong Xue family pays loyalty in return, and joins the officialdom army, I don't know how many children of the Xue family.

However, Fujian is not so easy to mix, more and more indigenous families have accepted Chinese culture, with its use as a stepping stone into the officialdom, the Chinese millennium spirit represented by the Four Books and Five Classics is not so easy to grasp, and to pay a blood and courage, Bo a Wanhu Hou seems to be a shortcut than to study with a pen all day long, and more ethnic groups devote themselves to the army.

If you want to keep your superior and transcendent status now, you must pay and use your military skills to suppress countless pretenders, but this mission is surprisingly bad, and going back is not just as simple as losing face, no wonder Xue Rengui is worried.

"Okay, Brother Xue, this mission only needs to arrive in the Caspian Sea and draw a map to complete it, so we don't need to worry so much." Patting the map in his arms, Wanyan Agu smiled and advised, unlike Xue Li, he doesn't have so many ambitions, and now the bitter brothers who came out of Liaodong have become a member of the family, and everyone picks a thumbs up when it comes to him, the patriarch, but without the ambition of Liao Taizu with the same name for hundreds of years in later generations, Wanyan has a very comfortable life in Fujian.

It's easier said than done.

Looking at the smiling faces of his colleagues, Xue Rengui didn't talk back, but muttered in his heart, he was a little envious of the carefree Wanyan Agu now, at least he didn't have to carry so much family glory.

Just as the two commanders were chatting, a member of the former army was wearing heavy armor, but the fierce general Guanzhong hurried over, looking at Xue Rengui, Guo Zhifeng hurriedly rolled off his horse, knelt heavily on one knee in the snow, and gave a military salute.

"Tell the chief manager, deputy chief manager, the forward battalion encounters thirty cavalry to break into the battalion, please make a decision!"

"Decide to make a fart." It was when he was upset that Xue Rengui casually gestured his arm covered in armor: "Just kill them all."

"But ......" really choked, Guo Zhifeng's face was even more strange and arched his fist: "The other party holds the token of King Min, and he ......"

"And what?"

As soon as they heard that the messenger of King Min was coming, Xue Rengui and Wanyan Aguda's expressions were a little solemn, and they couldn't help but come over nervously.

"And the person who came is His Royal Highness Li Rang, the son of the previous life, and Her Royal Highness Anna, the Byzantine princess."

The eyeballs almost didn't pop out, Xue Rengui and Wanyan looked at each other in disbelief, and after a few seconds, the two nodded to each other with solemn faces.

"General Guo Lang, you go to appease the armies, preside over the army and continue to pull out the camp, this matter must not be leaked!"

As soon as he gave the order, Xue Rengui and Wanyan Agu hurriedly rushed to the camp, not noticing that Guo Zhifeng, who was kneeling on the ground on one knee, had a trace of resentment flashing in his eyes.

Guo Beifeng was the deputy envoy of Chang'an to Tubo, and his father was the prince of Yangzhai County, a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty, with a noble status, but unfortunately, he was defeated and died in the war against Qiuzi in the 22nd year of Zhenguan. Finally obtained a position as an envoy to Tibet, relying on the attack on the Fujian envoy Guo Beifeng to give Guo Jiabo a chance to turn over, but who knew that the situation was changing rapidly, and finally the spring breeze was proud, and in a blink of an eye, he and the envoy Ren Yaxiang became prisoners again.

The lord of Tubo would rather go to Beijing to apologize than form an alliance in Chang'an, which is enough ridicule for the Tang Dynasty.

In the end, Chang'an was given a little face, and the Min State did not behead the two, Ren Yaxiang was assigned to Borneo, and Guo Zhifeng was assigned to the Khorasan army, starting from the smallest soldier.

However, no one expected that this trip would become an opportunity for Guo Beifeng to make a career, in the frequent wars in Khorasan, with his family learning martial arts, Guo Beifeng quickly mixed up a lot of military exploits, and the battle of Thirsty Water City made him mixed with the position of Lang General, that is the Wupin real power military attaché, he was not mixed in the Tang Dynasty.

However, Guo Beifeng's ambition is not limited to this, so for Xue Rengui, who called him so easily, even if he had the grace to carry him, Guo Beifeng was still full of hatred, and stared at the backs of the two of them with resentment, before reluctantly turning his head to carry out military affairs.

Outside the camp gate, listening to the sound of the Min army holding spears and the crisp clanging of armor in the cold wind, inside the tent, Li Rang's face was already nervously pale, and he kept pacing back and forth silently reciting those few words.

"You can do it! Thou art the son of thy father, the firstborn of the king of Min. ”

On the side, Anna, who was sitting firmly in the chair, suddenly said a sentence coldly, turned her head in shock, and nodded to herself with an encouraging smile on Anna's face that was also red from the cold, and suddenly a hot current seemed to rise in Li Rang's heart.

Yes, I am the eldest son of the great King of Min!

Just when Li Rang gave himself the atmosphere in his heart, the door of Leng Buding's tent was opened, looking at the two pairs of generals, Li Rang subconsciously wanted to touch his chest and salute, fortunately, one step ahead of him, Xue Li and Wanyan Agu knelt on one knee and bowed in unison: "The last general has seen the king of Fujun!" Met Princess Anna! ”

Before this title came, Xue Li and Wanyan were really entangled for a while, and their identities were quite embarrassing, Anna until now, Li Jie didn't give her a name, it was obviously wrong to call the princess, and Li Rang was even more entangled, Li Jie had already abolished his position as the son, and the two had to call him the original title, vague in the past.

Awkwardly withdrew his fist from his chest, as if he had regained the feeling of being a prisoner, Li Rang calmly waved his sleeves and replied with grace: "Two generals, please get up."

"I don't know what happened when King Fujun and His Royal Highness Anna came to our army?"

As soon as he stood up, Xue Rengui couldn't wait to ask, his heart chuckled, he turned around and looked at Anna, who was sitting upright, calmly, Li Rang once again took out the momentum of the prison back then, and said with a straight face: "Pass on the order of the King of Fujian!"

Wanyan Aguda and Xue Li immediately became straight, and knelt down on one knee again and said, "The last general will take orders!"

A brief map of Central Asia was placed on the table, pointing to a few simple lines on it, Anna said seriously: "King Min ordered me to accompany King Fujun and Cao Guo surnamed Zhaowu, Mi has a secret mission, so it needs the military support of the two generals, and the King of Min wants the two to rush to this position within six days, waiting for the news of me and the King of Fujun, and send an army to fight the thief!"

Seeing this map, Xue Li and Wanyan Aguda looked at each other again, Anna's finger was far enough, directly through the Central Asian steppes along the Caspian Sea, to the middle of the river, the later generation of Uzbek, you know, even if the cavalry is the majority, it is risky enough to run so far, and in the middle of the river, most of the main forces of the Central Asian nomads and the Sogdians Zhaowu Jiu are gathered here, and it is possible to encounter the Turkic army of the Turkish Khanate, and if you go, you may not be able to come back.

They glanced at each other in surprise, hesitated for a moment, and after a moment, Wanyan Aguda couldn't help but arch his fist and asked: "Forgive the last general, can King Fujun and His Royal Highness Anna have an order from the military department?"

As soon as these words came out, Li Rang's face couldn't help but turn white, and his hands couldn't help but tremble, but Anna on the other side of the table was still so calm and spread her hands with a big grin.

"Nope!"

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