From the Star Picking Pavilion, you can see the boundless wilderness in the north, but the rivers and forests in the distance have disappeared for the time being, and there is only a snow-capped world, living in the deep palace for many years, and suddenly the vision becomes so broad, even the palace maids can't help but marvel. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"In the future, they will all become part of the palace." A voice from the bottom came from behind him.

Everyone turned around, only to find that Zhang Xuan, the Son of Heaven, appeared behind them at some point, the palace maids were so frightened that they hurriedly saluted, Lu Qing pursed his lips and smiled: "When did the husband come over?" ”

The queen has always called the saint as her husband, and the concubines and concubines call the saint husband, which is an open secret in the palace, and everyone is not surprised, and His Majesty the emperor has so few concubines, which makes many young and beautiful palace maids have a non-dividing idea in their hearts.

Zhang Xuan stepped forward and said with a smile: "I came back a little early today, I wanted to see the progress of the construction of the new palace, but it was covered by heavy snow, and I couldn't see anything, but I just heard that the lady was picking up the star pavilion, so I came up to take a look." ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at Pei Zhizhi and Yang Ji'er again, and said with a smile: "Do you like it here?" ”

Pei Zhizhi was a little more reserved, blushing and nodded, but Yang Jier hugged Zhang Xuan's arm and said coquettishly: "Husband, Zhizhi and I want the sixth layer, you can tell the eldest sister!" ”

Lu Qing said with a smile: "The sixth floor is said to be a place for children to read, and the five floors below, you can choose one floor." ”

Zhang Xuan patted Yang Ji'er's head lightly and smiled: "According to my experience in Tiange, the third and fourth floors are the best, first, the wind is not too strong and it is warmer, and secondly, it is more down-to-earth, and it is more down-to-earth to live, if I were you, I would grab the fourth floor." ”

Yang Ji'er ran to discuss with Pei Zhizhi again, and she smiled and said, "Then we will have the fourth layer." ”

Zhang Xuan said to Lu Qing again: "Then the lady wants the fifth layer, Wu Niang and Xinyu want the third layer, the sixth floor is used as a gathering place for everyone, and the seventh floor is the view, as for the children's reading, it is best to put it on the second floor, and they will not be able to settle down when they put it on it, and sometimes it is more convenient for Mr. to teach." ”

"It makes sense for the husband to arrange this, so let's decide!"

Lu Qing was happy in his heart, and clapped his hands and smiled: "Let's go back and pack our things first, and after two days to arrange this place, we will move over, and we will live here in winter." ”

"Wait!"

Jao Hyun suddenly found a serious problem, and he pointed to himself, "You all have a place, so where do I live with your husband?" ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and at the same time laughed, they had forgotten about their husband.

At this time, the fine snowflakes fluttered and fell from the sky, the sky was low, the first year of Baoding, destined to have a snowy winter.

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Time flies, in a blink of an eye to February of the following year, in early spring February, the ice and snow covering the Luliang Mountains finally melted, a 30,000-strong Tang army under the leadership of the general Sheng Yanshi, from Lishi County through the Luliang Mountains, mighty to Taiyuan City, Li Yuan completely tore up the agreement reached with the Zhou Dynasty two months ago: the Zhou army will not attack Taiyuan City in winter, but the Tang army of Taiyuan City must be evacuated from Lishi County and merged with the state after the beginning of spring.

Not only that, Li Yuan also ordered the general Duan Zhixuan to lead an army of 50,000 to attack Hedong County, and a large-scale counterattack against the state began.

The main general in Taiyuan City is no longer Xiangguo Pei Lone, but the general Qu Tutong, Qu Tutong was ordered to Chang'an to arrive in Taiyuan two and a half months ago, he led three hundred soldiers to ride six hundred camels through the snow-covered Luliang Valley, and rushed to Taiyuan City with stars and moons, and fully took over the defense of Taiyuan City.

Qu Tutong came with the heavy responsibility of defending Taiyuan, he did not care about Pei Lian's feelings, and the first thing he did was to withdraw all the soldiers and people from the surrounding counties into Taiyuan City, in Qu Tutong's words, opening five fingers is not to hurt the enemy, only by closing the five fingers and pinching them into fists, it is possible to confront the enemy.

Qu Tutong not only withdrew the troops and people of the counties, but also demolished the houses and city walls in the county seat, transported the huge trees and stones back to Taiyuan, and he sent 10,000 troops to cut down trees around Taiyuan City, and began to make a large number of large defensive weapons such as trebuchets and bed crossbows, and collected hundreds of thousands of iron tools from the people, melted them all, and cast four city gates with molten pig iron, making Taiyuan City indestructible.

Qu Tutong is worthy of being a famous general of the Sui Dynasty, he took just two months to refresh the defense of Taiyuan, and his cohesion is very strong, and the soldiers eat and sleep together, train together, strict requirements for the soldiers, and at the same time love the soldiers like children, and soon the demoralized Tang Army reunited, became high morale, morale like a rainbow.

Pei Lian, who had been watching coldly, also had to be convinced, and he personally wrote an eagle letter to Li Yuan, the Son of Heaven, praising Qu Tutong greatly.

On this morning, Qu Tutong was training 5,000 new troops on the colonel's field, these new troops were recruited by Pei Lin from the people, a total of 30,000 people, originally just a group of rabble, but Qu Tutong invested a lot of energy and material resources to train them, after two months of strict training, 30,000 new soldiers have gradually been reborn and become a well-trained new army.

"Swing the spear!"

Qu Tutong shouted the order, and five thousand soldiers swung their spears together, the movements were neat and uniform, quite spectacular, but Qu Tutong was still not satisfied, he felt that these soldiers lacked a kind of strength in swinging spears and stabbing themselves, or lacked a kind of ruthlessness, they always seemed a little hesitant, they have been training for two months, this feeling has always existed, Qu Tutong understands the crux of the problem, but he can't do anything about this crux.

He knew that before the Turkic army was about to march south, a large number of Taiyuan people fled to Hebei for refuge, where they were well taken care of by the Northern Sui officials at that time, even if these soldiers did not go to Hebei, but they all had relatives who fled to Hebei, so how could they be hostile to the Zhou army? Fight to the death with Zhou Jun?

At this time, a cavalryman came galloping from a distance, shouting from afar: "General, urgent letter!" ”

The cavalry turned over and dismounted, and handed an urgent letter to Qu Tutong, Qu Tutong opened it and read it hurriedly, and his heart was suddenly overjoyed, Sheng Yanshi led 30,000 troops out of Luliang Mountain, and was rushing towards Taiyuan City.

He was a little worried in his heart, so he handed over the training to a partial general, turned on his horse, and ran towards the head of Dongcheng with a dozen of his own soldiers.

Qu Tutong went to the city, walked to the city wall and looked east, he also got information two days ago, tens of thousands of Zhou troops are gathering in Shouyang County, but I don't know if the Zhou cavalry has gone around to the north, ready to intercept Sheng Yan's army, this is Qu Tutong's most worried place.

Although the scouts he sent did not find any traces of the Zhou army's arrival near Taiyuan, Qu Tutong knew that the Zhou army's intelligence was powerful, if he believed that the Zhou army did not know that the Tang army had taken advantage of the opportunity of winter to quietly deploy 30,000 troops in Lishi County, it could only be said that he Qu Tutong deceived himself, such an obvious army movement, mobilized tens of thousands of people to help carry grain and grass materials, how could the Zhou Dynasty not know about the Chang'an intelligence agency, how could Zhang Xuan not know?

Qu Tutong suspected that the cavalry of the Zhou army had already been deployed in Loufan County, and once the Tang army entered Taiyuan County from Lishi County, they would march south and attack the Tang army of 30,000 people.

Qu Tutong was anxious, but he had no choice but to pace back and forth in the city, and he finally sent only dozens of scouts to inform Sheng Yanshi, asking him to be careful of the Tang cavalry attack.

But it turned out that Qu Tutong's worries were superfluous, the 30,000 Tang army went smoothly all the way, did not encounter any ambush, at dusk, the 30,000 Tang army marched into Taiyuan City, Qu Tutong and Pei Lin personally rushed to the city gate to welcome the arrival of reinforcements.

"See the general, see Pei Xiangguo!" Sheng Yanshi knelt down on one knee and saluted Qu Tutong and Pei Lian.

Qu Tutong hurriedly helped him up and asked with concern, "Didn't you encounter the enemy along the way?" ”

Sheng Yanshi shook his head, "We are also very careful, we sent scouts to investigate twenty miles from north to south, but we didn't find any enemy situation, it was very smooth, maybe the Zhou army didn't know about our arrival." ”

Qu Tutong's brows furrowed, he didn't want to force his inference to be correct, but this matter was really strange, and he asked again: "What about the remnants of Lu Chongmao of Diaoyin County?" Who's confronting him now? ”

"The general may not know that Lu Chongmao had already surrendered the Zhou army in Diaoyin County last month, and now the Zhou army has taken control of the entire Diaoyin County."

Qu Tutong was taken aback, "Then you mobilized tens of thousands of people in Shangjun to transport grain to leave the stone, didn't Zhou Jun know?" ”

Sheng Yanshi smiled bitterly, "How could they not know? ”

At this moment, even Pei Lin felt strange, "In this case, it is really a bit unbelievable that you can arrive in Taiyuan City safely from Lishi County!" ”

Qu Tutong pondered and was silent, Zhou Jun obviously deliberately put 30,000 Tang troops to Taiyuan, what kind of medicine were they selling in their gourds? (To be continued.) )