With endless shame, Wu Qing said goodbye to women with big bellies and innocent young sons, and formed an army of 50,000 in three days, and then embarked on the journey.

Empress Dowager Wu rarely poured wine in front of the end gate to see her off, and Wu Qing and other generals dismounted and bowed down to drink goodbye, just like Xue Rengui when he went to the Western Regions.

50,000 soldiers wore war armor, rode war horses, held spears, walked slowly, and then sang a military song, "How can you say that you have no clothes, you are in the same robe with your son, Wang Yuxing is a teacher, repair my spear, and have the same hatred with your son"

Sorry for the farewell, drop by drop away from people's tears.

The people who saw them off were crying, and when they saw their own Lang Jun, they couldn't wait to tie everything to their bodies and put them on their horses.

Wu Qing's heart was very heavy, this time, these 50,000 soldiers still don't know how many will be able to return. As he rode his horse, a sense of tragedy rose in his heart.

Even if it is the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, it is still suffering from the invasion of border troubles, and the family is ruined and the wife is separated at every turn. He felt a deep and heavy responsibility that, if he were to lead the country, he believed he could make it stand on top of the world in a hundred years. Now, he is nothing more than a general of the third grade.

The court continued to inform, everyone was uneasy, Nayan Wang Dezhen was exiled to Xiangzhou, Pei Judao was the prime minister of the internal history, and Su Liangsi, the winter official Shangshu, was the prime minister.

Prior to this, Wu Qing finally got the information that the old man Li of Luoyang and his clan had swallowed up two million pieces of wealth. Wang Xiu even joined forces with his own family to open 2,000 other stores in the name of opening branches, and squeezed the old stores, not to mention the loss of the old stores. It also engulfed three million guan. After Wu Qing pondered, he finally issued a mutual aid order to clean up the portal, and a total of 1,631 people with entanglements of interests were all killed. This matter was handed over to Ya Jiu and Yan Ruyu. He believes they can do it. Crow Jiucheng's family members are all in the house, Yan Ruyu has become his woman, what else is he worried about.

As for the market vacancies left behind, they will be kept for the time being, and the business can only develop in the long run if everyone makes money, like Wang Xiu and Old Man Li, two people who followed him very early, but they can only end up in this way today. Deep down, he was very reluctant.

Half a month later. The army came to Xinzhou, and after passing through Wutai Mountain, Wuqing unexpectedly went up the mountain to worship Manjushri Bodhisattva. And donated sesame oil money.

Today's Wutai Mountain is not as full of garbage as in the previous life, too many things have been built, Wutai Mountain has many natural scenery, and you can look down and look up from Manjusri Temple. There are many temples hidden in the mountains. The scenery is quite beautiful.

After Wu Qing descended the mountain, he traveled to Daizhou, and there were people fleeing along the way, as well as dead bodies lying on the side of the road. It wasn't until I saw a mass grave that I knew that it was the 100,000 Tang troops who had been killed and buried by the people who fled here. Looking at the scattered graves, Wu Qing's anger rushed to his mind.

The army marched to Daizhou, and Chun Yu and Dou Huai, the governor of Daizhou, greeted him. Wu Qing's official position was much higher than that of the two, so the two hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"The lower officer has seen the general."

Wu Qingyi waved his hand. said: "No need to be polite, come here." Behead the sacrificial flag at the level of Chun Yu! ”

Chun Yu Chuping shuddered and said: "I am Wu Sansi's person, I am a person of your martial family, you can't kill me!" ”

Wu Qing snorted coldly and said, "Can you afford the lives of 30,000 soldiers?" Chop! ”

"General, you can't kill me! I still have it at home," and then he was pulled out by his own soldiers, only to hear a scream, and there was no sound anymore.

Wu Qing looked at the generals and said coldly: "As a general, you should know some art of war, you must be brave and strategic, such a cowardly and incompetent person, who became a general by selling official porridge, harmed the lives of soldiers, such a person is not enough to be worthy of the dead soldiers, do you understand?" ”

The generals replied in a deep voice: "The last general understands! ”

Dou Huai shuddered for a while, and hurriedly said: "General, the lower official has prepared a banquet to wash the dust for the general." ”

"The banquet is free, prepare food and grass, and find me a guide who is familiar with the terrain to serve in the army." After Wu Qing gave the order, he ordered the army to camp outside the city.

Wu Qing first went to inspect the remaining 60,000 defeated troops, and after asking some about the record of joining the army, he basically got a general idea.

The Turks had a heavy snowfall last year, and a lot of cattle, sheep and horses froze to death, so they took advantage of the dry season of the Yellow River to come to large-scale looting, and just passed under the city of Daizhou a few days ago.

The army rested for one day, and on the second day it left Yanmen Pass.

As soon as I came out of Yanmen Pass, I saw a barren land, the fields were uncultivated, artemisia grass had grown, and there were rotting corpses and white bones on the side of the road.

After a while, a scout came to report, "General, there are traces of Turkic people in the village ahead, and the horse manure is still hot." ”

Wu Qing asked, "How many horses can be found?" ”

"General, the horses' hoof prints are messy, and I can't see it really, but it should be between three hundred and five hundred horses."

Wu Qing said in a deep voice: "Who wants to lead the troops to destroy this group of Turkic soldiers?" ”

Zhonglang General Guo Zhiyun immediately bowed his hand and said: "General, the last general is willing to go!" ”

Wu Qing applauded loudly and said, "General Ben and you have a thousand horses, kill them all for me!" ”

Guo Zhiyun said in a deep voice: "If you let one go, the last general will come to see you!" ”

"Okay, let's go!" Wu Qing immediately gave an order.

Guo Zhiyun galloped forward with a thousand men and horses. Wu Qing led the army slowly, and more than 20 scout teams also released 30 miles of land to find the Turks.

Xue Ne, who was originally stationed in Shuozhou, was demoted to Lantian Order because of Wang Fangyi's continuous sitting, which was the result of Wu Qing's intercession with the Queen Mother, after all, there was still a layer of relationship with Fan Lihua, not to mention that Xue Ne had also saved himself, and he was a brother who killed the enemy side by side. If you don't save him, will you still be human?

But in this way, the generals and officials sent by the imperial court to garrison Shuozhou were almost useless except for extorting money, and the Turks closed the city gates when they came, and left to continue to live happily. In just a few months, in Shuozhou and Yunzhou, people's livelihood has withered, there is no overnight food, there are frozen bones on the road, and lime and coal mining in Wuqing have also been affected.

Wu Qing's mood is very heavy, in such a situation, it is really not a good thing for Datang. If it weren't for the prestige of those famous generals in the Tang Dynasty, who are still intimidating all ethnic groups, it is estimated that the situation will be even worse now.

Sure enough, after Wuqing annihilated several Turkic squads, the Turkic army could still not be found, and a few days later, the imperial court reported that Tiele Tongluo, Fugu and other tribes were anti-Tang and attached to the Eastern Turks, and the Eastern Turks were greatly invigorated.

At this time, the grain and grass in the Wuqing army began to be insufficient, and he was extremely depressed, so he led the army back to Yunzhou to rest and recuperate, and asked the court and the central government. (To be continued......)