The decision to retreat back to Kannai was finally decided at the banquet.

Although it did not achieve the expected victory of Berus, but under several months of military operations, the indigenous Cypriots and Alans of Central Asia near Fujian could not withstand the blow, and a large number of them were attached to the command of Fujian.

There is such a group of guys outside the Saiwai, and within two or three years, the northern part of the territory of Khorasan in Fujian will be harassed by Central Asian nomads again.

After all, it was himself and other ministers who were persuaded that the king of Min ambitiously gathered 200,000 troops and wanted to make a big move, but the troops were unexpectedly insufficient, and the prime minister was also gloomy.

Under the rescue of the prime ministers, Wang Xuance rushed over from the western defense line and hurried back after eating a wine banquet, he came because of his old qualifications in Fujian, the earliest history of marching, only he could persuade the king of Fujian to withdraw his troops as soon as possible.

As for leaving in such a hurry, there are also Wang Xuance's considerations, he first advocated the use of troops to the west, but now the war in the north is tepid, and the gains are not as much as the military spending. In this case, he lingered in front of King Min every day, didn't he obviously remind Li Jie, hey, you are a second goods, how good is it to listen to me earlier? Dumbfounded, right?

A courtier who shows off in front of the king is an absolute way to die. At present, the territory of Fujian has gradually stabilized, according to the general trend of history, this time is the time when the dynasty turns to infighting, most of the time it is also the time when the king unloads the mill and kills the donkey and kills the hero, and he Wang Xuance does not want to become the first victim of the founding case of the Fujian State.

For fear that Li Jie would feel disgusted when he looked at him, as soon as he spent the night at the reception banquet, Wang Xuance hurriedly left the Hindu Kush under the pretext of the western frontier, and he didn't know that he would be too careful, at this time Li Jie didn't have the heart to worry about him at all, and Li Jie's affairs, which were even more disgusting than him, were now being caught in the palm of Li Jie's hand.

The string of crosses.

Although advocating freedom of belief, in fact, Fujian is still dominated by Confucianism, Confucianism does not worship God, advocates that the son is silent and strange and chaotic, even if he occasionally dabbles in it, it is just a pastime for Confucianism when he is idle, and as a result, his son Li Jie, the eldest son of the King of Min, did not take into account Li Jie and accepted the baptism of Christianity by Pope Eugene I, who came to visit Fujian.

Fortunately, Li Rang is in a private capacity, otherwise, with his sensitive identity as the eldest son of the king, he will definitely cause a commotion in Fujian, and then the other sects will also fall into unrest, and Li Jie knows too much about the dirty power struggle between the Holy See and the king in Europe in later generations, and he doesn't want his empire to be subject to the Holy See like France and the Holy Roman Empire.

It just so happened that Li Rang's left silver cross today aroused Li Jie's heart, and the war is now over, and as soon as Xue Rengui and Wanyan Agu's army come back, the Fujian army can slowly retreat to the pass, and Li Jie also has the time to talk to Li Rang about the future.

The sky once again floated with misty snowflakes, making the already twilight sky even more foggy, even the forbidden army's side room was cold and made people shrink their hands, several forbidden army foot soldiers stomped their feet to keep warm, while cursing this ghost weather, this kung fu, in the hazy snow, a figure was revealed in a trance in the snow curtain.

"Don't you want your head when you leave your post before you get off the job?"

Without thinking about it, the commander of the forbidden army in charge of attendance roared angrily, but after a while, he felt that something was wrong, behind the slender figure, a tall and strong figure appeared, which was too familiar to the forbidden army.

Trembling slightly, the commander of the forbidden army bowed down on one knee, stammered and said, only for a moment, he saw the leader of the forbidden army Zanpo following behind the tall and thin figure again, and a terrible possibility came to the heart of the commander of the forbidden army, and he fell down with despair.

"Bye, meet the King of Min."

"The last general has misbehaved, and he asked the king of Min to ......"

Without waiting for the commander of the forbidden army to finish speaking, Li Jie was already impatient and said, "Look for Li Rang alone."

Who knew that this sentence made the lieutenant lie on the ground even more, but the cold winter Layue was full of cold sweat, and replied with a solemn voice: "Back to Your Majesty, Li, Captain Li asked for leave in the afternoon, okay, it seems that he is going to meet Princess Anna."

"Anna?"

Hearing this name, Li Jie couldn't help grinning depressedly, the most unreassuring thing in the palace was this girl, she abducted Li Rang, there was absolutely nothing good.

With a matter in his heart, Li Jie simply didn't continue to entangle with the trembling captain, and led Zanpo to turn around and walk towards the harem, the poor trembling forbidden army captain didn't dare to stand up after walking for a long time, and he was still wondering in his heart whether he had said the wrong thing just now, would King Min be dissatisfied?

Before Anna's palace, through the window, I saw this girl shrunk like a little quail wrapped in a quilt and sitting on a warm couch, a young officer sitting under the bed far away, the two didn't know what to talk about, this normal appearance made Li Jie slightly relieved.

While wanting to talk to his uneasy son and the elf-quirky girl, Li Jie tilted his head and gestured to the eunuch at the palace gate, who also took the lead in the palace and roared in a sharp voice.

"King Min arrived, Princess Anna quickly picked up ......, huh?"

Before he finished speaking, the eunuch screamed in surprise, his heart tightened, and Li Jie hurriedly took two quick steps to catch up, and the scene inside couldn't help but make Li Jie angry, angry and helpless.

In front of the stunned eunuch, the palace was turned into a mess as if it had been a thief, jewelry and clothes were thrown to the ground, nothing more than a quilt was rolled up on the warm couch, and nothing more than a pair of armor sat on the ground.

"Where's Anna?"

"Small, the villain really doesn't know."

Sitting on the ground with a weak leg, the unlucky eunuch almost said with a crying voice, and Li Jie, who listened to it, was a little irritable, so he simply waved his sleeves angrily and shouted like thunder.

"Why don't you look for it!"

King Min was furious, and the small Xinjin City Palace was suddenly chaotic, and groups of daughters of the Forbidden Army Palace were running around like headless flies, shouting Anna's name everywhere, and the new snow was trampled to a pulp.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Anna said that she was sleepy and wanted to take a nap, and I, our sisters, went out."

The two little girls were also trembling under Li Jie's anger, Lian was almost speechless, relying on Hu Qian'er's stumbling narration, seeing her pair of little wives' frightened little hands tightly pinching the corners of her skirts, looking afraid, Li Jie couldn't help but sigh lightly, and her voice softened.

"It's none of your business, go back and get some rest."

Trembling to the door, Hu Qian'er couldn't help but turn her head tremblingly, and asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, then, Anna ......"

"Don't worry, Lone will get her back."

One after the other, watching the two little girls walk away, Li Jie, who barely kept calm, suddenly gritted his teeth and grabbed the blue and white porcelain vase on the table, slammed it to the ground, and roared like thunder.

"Anna !!"

The former Byzantine co-emperor status is self-evident for the importance of the Min State, in Eastern Rome, women also have the right to inherit, as long as there is Anna one day, Li Jie interferes in the internal affairs of Byzantium is justified, if Anna gives birth to a male heir, the challenge to the throne of Constantine IV will be more powerful.

Not only Anna, but also the eldest son of the king Li Rang who disappeared with her, don't look at Li Jie sent him to Khorasan, most of the time, this eldest son is still under Li Jie's sight, once he has something three long and two short, it will definitely cause the power of the Fujian State to shake.

It's no wonder that Li Jie was so angry, he smashed things for a long time unusually, Li Jie went out in a rage, almost hoarse, and ordered in a gloomy voice.

"Come, gather all the cavalry, scatter it, and find it!"

"Whoa!"

I don't know how many responses, countless Fujian messengers went out of the palace gate in a chaotic manner, in the front city of the new Jin City, in the market, in the barracks, the officers who were sleeping soundly in the wine shop were called, all holidays were canceled, the chaotic Guanning iron cavalry was gathered into the army, and one by one the Fujian ** officials woke up the Qarlu people and other affiliated herdsmen from house to house, and threw two portraits of human heads in front of them.

The night was getting darker and darker, and countless cavalrymen with torches were scattered like a big net, standing on the city tower, looking down, like a piece of starlight, holding the cold city stomping, Li Jie's fists clenched and gurgling, looking into the distance full of anger.

Thirty miles away from Xinjin City, a group of cavalrymen all riding white horses were also rushing in the ice and snow.

After Anna's regime collapsed, there were still many noble knights who came from Byzantium to join her, plus her long-sleeved good family, and many unwilling foreign nobles took refuge in her, so even in Fujian, Anna is not without power at all, and now this unreliable princess is slipping away, and these forces are just coming in handy.

A group of more than 30 people, all dressed in white cloaks and white horses, galloped on the ice-filled Central Asian grasslands, just like white foxes on a snowy night.

Almost three months pregnant, Anna still gritted her teeth and galloped at the forefront of the cavalry on horseback.

Don't look at Anna's usual unreliability, this Byzantine woman inherited the inheritance to Greece and Rome, the strength and ambition of a woman, otherwise she would not have brazenly stood up to fight for the throne, and wanted to use her political ambitions to change the world for Byzantium.

If you want her to rely on Li Jie in the harem for a lifetime like Hu Qian'er and Li'an, it is really uncomfortable to kill her, especially although this Northern Expedition is Li Jie's instruction, it also contains her political ideas, since the methods of Fujian do not work, let's use the Roman methods! The princess will not give up any opportunity to win meritorious deeds and make Li Jie change his mind.

In the midst of the rumbling of horses' hooves, suddenly the lookout knight behind him shouted sharply in Greek, and then the whole cavalry stopped in unison, and quickly lay down in the cold ice and snow, and even the horses were overwhelmed, and the ice and snow and white cloak hid all traces.

Within a hundred meters of Anna's cavalry, a Fujian cavalry narrowly brushed past the edge.

As soon as the danger passed, the Latin knights hurriedly helped their princess up, and beside Anna, a young and delicate face was also raised in the ice and snow.

habitually grabbed the cross on his chest, but Li Rang's hand was empty, and he was nervous, and Li Rang turned his head with a white breath.

"Aunt Anna, can we really do this? Father would have been very angry. ”

"Do you want to impress your father? Do you want your brother to beat you for the rest of your life? ”

While stepping onto the horse with difficulty with the help of the knight, Anna turned her head and asked sharply, the two questions seemed to arouse a raging flame from Li Rang's eyes.

A moment later, more than thirty snow-white knights trampled the snow in the northwest wind again.

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