Under the lilac tree next to the side door of the west courtyard, Mu Lanqing was talking in a low voice with a teenage girl, the little girl was wearing a half-new pink silk dress, her face was black and thin, and she was carrying a wicker basket on her arm, which was covered with a piece of linen, and she didn't know what to put it, Yang Hao felt that this girl was very familiar, and she seemed to have seen it somewhere, so she unconsciously looked at it a few more times, who knew that an inattentive head hit the pillar,

Mu Lanqing hurriedly ran over, Yang Hao rubbed his forehead, and asked him, "Who is she?" Mu Lanqing said: "He is Miss Yingying, the daughter of the late Zhang Gong." ”

Yang Hao knocked his head fiercely, Zhang Huchen's daughter Zhang Yingying, how did she forget, Zhang Huchen and his wife died in a mutiny on Chinese New Year's Eve last year, the ten-year-old daughter Yingying has been living in the Defense Embassy and raised by Old Master Guan, witnessing the tragic death of her mother, Yingying's young heart has been greatly stimulated, these days she has been hiding and refusing to see people, except for following Master Guan to the back garden to wait for flowers and plants, almost never go out, no wonder she looks strange,

"Warbler see my lord." Zhang Yingying lowered her head and saluted Yang Hao, Yang Hao hurriedly helped her up, looking at Zhang Yingying's black and thin face and yellow hair, she felt quite uncomfortable, and she was ashamed and blamed herself for failing to take care of the orphans of her colleagues.

"What's in your basket?" Yang Hao lifted the burlap covering the basket, the burlap was wet, and under the burlap was a basket of yellow and clear autumn pears, knowing that he loved to eat pears, and he also knew that he used a damp cloth to keep the pears fresh on the basket, Yang Hao unconsciously had a good impression of this black and thin little girl,

"I saw that there were autumn pears sold on the street, and I remember that Sister Xiaoyu said that adults love to eat them, so I bought some for adults." Zhang Yingying lowered her head and whispered,

"Don't call me an adult, call me Big Brother, and you can call me Brother Yang in the future."

Zhang Yingying's mouthful of "adult" Yang Hao felt very awkward,

"Father and you are colleagues and brothers, how dare I call you big brother." Speaking of this, Zhang Yingying rolled her eyes and glanced at Yang Hao, lowered her head and whispered, "Why don't I call you Uncle Yang." ”

Yang Hao looked at Mu Lanqing helplessly, and wanted to ask him if I was really that old.

"It's okay to call whatever you like, but you're not allowed to call adults anymore."

Yang Hao deliberately said with a tiger face, and then he took out the majesty of the elders to teach people: "Go back and eat more, the little girl is too thin and not good-looking." Yang Hao pinched her little face, touched her head again, and walked to the inner study.

"Your Excellency." Mu Lanqing followed behind him and called softly, and then squeezed his eyebrows and pointed to the small corner door on the right side of the inner study, Yang Hao then remembered that he had come out to go to the toilet.

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Ge Twist is the younger brother of the Uighur Jade Manchu Khan Wujie Special Service, Wujie Special Service is the brother of the late Zhaoli Khan Gesa Special Service, the uncle of Zhangxin Khan, the Heavenly Wolf Army directly under the Great Khan has the Dragon, Tiger, Wolf, Eagle Four Guards, most of the commanders of the Dragon Guard are usually led by the prince, and most of the other three guards are also the most trusted nobles of the Zhangxin Khan, Ge Twist took over the position of the Tiger Guard from the hands of his brother Wujie Special Service,

It is an indisputable fact that the great Uighur Khanate has gone through its glorious years and is entering a bleak and depressed old age, but few people in the country are willing to face this reality, and during the period when the elder brother Wujie served as the commander of the Tiger Guard, he used cruel means to deal with the Ghrigas on the northwest border, which finally triggered a rebellion of the Ghyas, and in order to quell the rebellion of the Gyas, the Uighur Khanate had to spend one-third of the total tax every year, which was undoubtedly worse for the crisis-ridden Khanate.

However, the brutal war dragged down the Khanate and also pushed the Gnas into a desperate situation, their pastures were burned, cattle and sheep were plundered, and the people were scattered.

But at this critical moment, the down-and-out and treacherous little Qijin came to stir up the situation, and his rhetoric persuaded the Great Khan to agree to sit down and negotiate with the Khogas, so that he could free up his hands to help his son-in-law regain the lost territory, and the desperate Khogas escaped death, and the blood of tens of thousands of brave soldiers was wasted.

"The Great Uighur Khanate is ...... Complete"

On the night after the agreement was reached, the Wujie special service, who had been in charge of the Tiger Guard for thirteen years, was dismissed from the post of commander of the majority, and the cold but far-sighted brother became the victim of a group of shameless traitors in the court, and Ge Twist predicted that the khanate would pay a terrible price sooner or later.

Commanding 20,000 elite tiger guards to go south to regain the territory for Xiao Qijin, although Ge Twist is very reluctant, but he is still full of confidence in the victory of this war, he has studied the geography of Fengzhou, Yang Hao and the Xining Army have also done in-depth research, Yang Hao's resume can be written with a thin piece of paper, which is the highest command of the Tang Army in Fengzhou does not seem to have anything to boast about in the past, Ge Twist can't understand how such a mediocre prince son used to defeat the strength of the forest far superior to him and gain a firm foothold in the north of the strong enemy, is it just luck,

Ge Twist couldn't figure out the thing, Zhangxin Khan gave him the answer, just on the way he led the army south, the Great Khan sent a golden order: limit the Tiger Guard to take the megalith fort within two days, Ge Twist doesn't know who offered this strategy, this kind of person is stupid and confusing the lord should be killed, although the megalith fort is a lonely fort, but the terrain is very dangerous, twenty years ago, in order to fight for control of the west of the Yin Mountain, the two great powers of Tibet and the Uighurs fought fiercely around the megalithic fort, and finally the Tubo people seized the fortress at the cost of 30,000 casualties, It must be known that the Tibetans at that time sent 130,000 troops, carrying hundreds of artillery carts and winch crossbows.

After that war, the megalithic fort fell into the hands of the dala or clan in the middle of the forest, the dara or clan leader Sinuka exhausted his efforts to carry out a thorough transformation of the megalithic fort, the stone wall is five zhang thick and six zhang high, watchtowers, dark forts, and secret passages are countless, and the boulder fort has not been breached head-on for twenty years, the tiger guard is good at field attack and defense, and the siege of the city has never been his forte, if someone does not want to put himself to death, that is, the great khan is mixed with traitorous ministers,

The general will not be subject to the order of the foreign monarch, Ge Twist refused this golden order on the grounds that it is not easy to fight in the moulting season of the flying dragon horse, and he led the army to jump into the wolf mountain according to his original plan, and lurked in the Poyang Valley.

"Soldiers, treacherous ways, so they can show what they can't, use it and show it without it, show it near and show it far, and show it near and far away...... Attacking it unprepared, taking it by surprise, the victory of this soldier cannot be passed on first. Ge Twist can recite this passage with his mouth open, he can sweep Fengzhou in one day from Poyang Valley in Wolf Mountain, the earthen wall of Fengzhou can not stop the iron hooves of the Tiger Guard army from trampling, and when Yang Hao's head is mentioned to the royal court, will the little people who are either mediocre or treacherous still chatter to let themselves besiege the Boulder Fort?

"'If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger,' this is the essence of what the Han people say, "attack it unprepared, take it by surprise". Ge Twist thinks that he has been studying in Chang'an for eight years, and he has already seen through everything about the Han people.

"Most of the marshal, we intercepted a military report from the Tang Army."

Da Lu Shi walked into the camp tent with a military newspaper in his hand, Da Lu was similar to joining the army in the Tang Army, although Ge Tuo hid in Poyang Valley, but the reconnaissance of the Tang Army in Fengzhou did not relax at all, his spies were hidden in the various post stations leading to Chang'an in Fengzhou, and he often had special care for the messengers from Fengzhou,

“…… The Uighur Wolf Army assembled 30,000 infantry troops and 20,000 horse troops west of Wolf Mountain and north of Yin Mountain...... Well-equipped, with plenty of food and grass, the intention is not good...... Our troops plan to abandon the isolated stronghold outside the city of Toyosu and concentrate our troops in the city to fight a decisive battle with the enemy...... Allocate 100,000 taels of military expenses and 100,000 quintals of rice and grain ......"

After reading this military report, Ge Twist laughed and threw it aside: "It's still the same as in the officialdom, I said a long time ago that this country is incorrigible, just like a big tree, which has been hollowed ......out by insects" Speaking of this, Ge Twist sighed softly, saying that Datang is a big tree that has been hollowed out, and his own khanate is really a pair of difficult brothers......

"Is it to transfer two thousand troops to Taniguchi to garrison, this is ...... in case?"

Chilu is Ge Twist's brother, and he admires his bravery and loyalty Ge Twist very much, but what annoys him the most is Chilu's cautiousness, "This is simply the style of the Han people." This is a sentence that Ge Twist often uses to satirize Chilu, although he has studied in Chang'an for many years, he is still a Uighur in his bones, and although this younger brother has never even been to Fengzhou, he looks like a Han inside and out.

"The Han Chinese are a bunch of treacherous people who are as timid as rats and can bluff." Ge Twist sneered contemptuously, it has been a month since he got into this big gourd valley, and the Tang Army in Fengzhou has never figured out his position, what else is there to worry about such an opponent, Ge Twist tied his belt and hung his waist knife: "Go, look at our horses, I hope their fur has been changed." ”

When the oolong foal is moulted, there will be a large chunk of ringworm on the body, and the festering skin attracts piles of flies and mosquitoes, and each horse will lose more than 20 pounds during the half-month moulting period, but don't worry, after the moulting, the horses will be very excited, and their appetite has become excellent, and the weight lost can be recovered in just one month, and in the next two months, they will quickly increase forty or fifty pounds, and their long hair can withstand the cold of winter,

Ge Twist lay in front of the stable and looked at the lazy horses, "Get well quickly, in a few days, I will take you on the streets of Toyosu City, and those self-righteous Tang people will rush to offer you the most pious salute, what a glory it will be." ”

A wonderful vision appeared in front of Ge Twist's eyes: the neat and majestic Tiger Guard soldiers marched on the wide streets of Toyoshu, and the people of Toyosu City stood on both sides, the men trembled with trembling hearts, and the women greeted the arrival of the victors with tears of bitterness, and all the dragon horses suddenly stood up and hissed loudly,

No, no, it's not the neighing of a dragon foal,

"Someone, someone." Ge Twist roared loudly, "What the hell is going on. ”

"Oh no, the Tang army is here." There was a panicked shout from outside the stables,

Chilu rushed in: "Most of the marshals, the Tang army of Fengzhou has entered the valley." ”

"Ahh Ge Twist woke up like a dream, "This, how is this possible, damn it, they dare to challenge the great Heavenly Wolf Army...... Why don't you report me? Ge Twist shouted hysterically, "You are all a bunch of rubbish, Fengzhou City is two days away from here, and you actually let people kill people into the house to know wow." ”

Ge Twist picked up the horsewhip and whipped the wrangler beside him fiercely,

"Most of the marshals should go from the back mountain." Chilu grabbed Ge Twist's arm and pulled it away,

"No, as a commander, he will die with his soldiers." Ge Twist shook off his bare hand, pulled out his waist knife and shouted, "Warriors, for the sake of honor, rush with me." ”