Six days after the siege of Tianhan Mountain, the Huo Ill Department arrived at the foot of Tianhan Mountain, at this time the corpses under the mountain were uncollected, and the soldiers of the Turkic and Shun Dynasty armies were scattered, which made people know at a glance that there had been a bloody battle here.

The figure of the coach Liu Yu was not found, but from these corpses, some of Liu Yu's close guards were found.

Huo Yi went crazy, led his 3,000 cavalry to chase along the direction of the extension of the war, except for the Turkic stragglers and corpses all over the ground found nothing, but after the last Huo Yi still found a soldier in Liu Yu's army who escaped by hiding in the grass with a broken leg, according to the soldiers, the commander led a small number of troops to escape from the breakthrough, and his life and death were uncertain.

Li Mi and Sui Yi's troops arrived at Tianhan Mountain even later, they were like headless flies on the grassland, and they had to withdraw their troops for more than half a month, and they heard about the war under Tianhan Mountain, and hurriedly led the army over, and they didn't even see the shadow of Huo's department.

At the same time, the Chinese army led by Min Shaoqing had been stationed in Jinyao City for several days, and was still giving orders to the two expeditionary armies, asking them to quickly retreat and assemble.

"The coach is lost, what reward do you want?" Huo Ying received the order, but did not return to the army as soon as possible, and he continued to look for Liu Yu's traces on the grassland.

But if it goes any further, the whole army will lose its way. His soldiers and horses are no more than Liu Yu's Chinese army.

Following Liu Yu's southern expedition to the north, although this battle was won happily, it was also the most depressing time for Huo Ill. Because of his greed for merit, the Chinese army was attacked by the remnants of the Turkic army, and now Liu Yu's whereabouts are unknown, as if he has lost his way. Huo does not belong to generals with brains. In the past, Liu Yu pointed to wherever he went. Where he hits. He is accustomed to relying on other people's guidance to accomplish his feats.

For Huo Disease, the guiding light is gone, what is the point of winning this battle?

Hua Ji'an has been serving as a deputy general with Huo Yao's department, and at this time he keenly felt that the disappearance of coach Liu Yu seemed to have been planned for a long time, or maybe Liu Yu was calculated. Because Min Shaoqing's side didn't seem to care about the safety of the boss, the meeting in the hinterland of the grassland had been agreed before, and the border army had not arrived for a long time. Now it seems that the border army has never gone north from Jinyao City at all, and they have been cleaning up the mess.

"General Huo, don't be discouraged!" Hua Ji'an said, "The most important thing now is to contact General Li and General Sui first, and the two armies will work together, whether it is to continue to look for the forward general, or to return home, so that we will not be divided into others." ”

Huo Yi looked up at Hua Ji'an with a depressed face and asked, "What...... Meaning? ”

Hua Ji'an said: "General Huo, have you ever thought about it. If something really happens to the forward general now, who will take over the military power? ”

Huo Yi got up from his chair. Scratching his head, like a child solving a problem, scratching his ears and cheeks, he looked at Hua Ji'an and said, "He seems to have let Brother Hua take over before." ”

Before Liu Yu started the war with the Turks, he did make a similar confession, if he had anything to do, let Hua Ji'an take over the military power and give orders. But Hua Ji An knew that with his position in the army, taking over military power was tantamount to a fool's dream. No one wants to listen to a general.

"Leave that at that. Now if you think about it, Min Shaoqing and the others must want us to return to Jinyao City, take the opportunity to relieve our military power, and then he can sit back in the position of the commander again, so that the foundation of the grassland overlord laid for us by the forward general will definitely be buried! ”

Huo Yi hesitated: "You said that Min Shaoqing wants to seize power, I can understand, and I will ...... What is the meaning? ”

Hua Ji'an continued: "If Min Shaoqing takes over the military power, he will not think about how to break the Turkic court and expand the results of the war in the first place, but will choose to withdraw the army, and he will not care about the life or death of the forward general, let alone the remnants of the Turkic soldiers on the steppe. Min Shaoqing wanted to seize control of the three counties. In a few years, the Turks will definitely make a comeback, and then the imperial court will not have such a backbone as the forward general, and the outcome will be unpredictable! ”

Huo Yi nodded and said firmly: "Can't withdraw!" ”

"But we have to withdraw now! If we don't withdraw, Min Shaoqing will say that we don't obey orders, he will put pressure on us, and the court will issue an edict to punish us. What we have to do now is to make Min Shaoqing not suspicious for the time being, quickly return to the army, and control the military power of the whole army! ”

Huo Yi looked embarrassed, let him attack the city and seize the land, he definitely didn't frown. But now it's for him to go back and play conspiracy to seize military power, and he hasn't even found Liu Yu, let alone thought about that.

Fortunately, Hua Ji'an is not only a general, but also in terms of political acumen, he is much more sober than Huo Yi and even Li Mi and Sui Yi. For the struggle for power and profit in the army, Hua Ji'an can be regarded as experienced.

Hua Ji'an held a meeting of sergeants with Huo Yi and ordered: "Return to the North Cold Mountain and join the army for the time being!" ”

After all, Hua Ji'an and Huo Yi did not have many soldiers and horses, but Li Mi and Sui Yi led more than 20,000 soldiers and horses.

When thousands of soldiers and horses came, they were ambitious, but when they returned, they became decadent because of the disappearance of the commander, all the way to the southeast, all the way to the northwest, Li Mi and Sui Yi's department and Huo Yuanhua Ji'an department soon gathered in the northwest of the Beihan Mountain, three hundred miles northwest. When Li Mi and Sui Yi learned that Liu Yu's whereabouts were unknown now, they wanted to conceal the news on the one hand, and on the other hand, they got together to discuss countermeasures.

Li Mi and Sui Yi felt a little dazed since they came to the grassland, even if they had specially learned some strategic tactics in the military books, they found that they had learned martial arts fundamentally, if it wasn't for Liu Yu who had been commanding Ruoding, let them command this war, they would have lost a long time ago.

In the end, even the arrogant and arrogant had to turn to Huaji'an.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, the four people have set up a four-person group to seize power, this group in addition to Hua Ji'an, the other three can be said to be Liu Yu's friends of life and death, in order not to leak secrets, several people chose the second half of the night when they discussed in the tent, and it was also the dead of night.

"With the status of the four of us in the army, only General Huo can be a side, but unfortunately the people in the border army will not listen to him." Hua Ji'an began to say.

This sentence made Li Mi and Sui Yi feel that Hua Ji'an's grasp of the situation was very accurate, although Liu Yu had confessed to let Hua Ji'an take over the military power, but Hua Ji'an also knew that among the four of them, the only one who had the opportunity to take over the military power was Huo Yao, who was very prestigious in the invincible army.

"How's that good?" Li Mi took the opportunity to ask.

Hua Ji'an didn't like to go around in circles like Liu Yu, and said bluntly: "Now, we have to contact General Liu's other subordinates, for example, General Qi Fang, who is far away in the pass. Because General Qi's journey is very long, we still have to look for people who are familiar with the forward army under the command of Min Shaoqing as an internal response! ”

Sui Yi said disdainfully: "Following the surnamed Min, they are all a group of wrecks who fled without a war, who will have a relationship with Brother Wen Yan?" ”

Li Mi said cautiously: "In the border army, there is indeed one person!" ”

The four of them all thought of one person at the same time, that is, Liu Yu's old boss, He Mao, the former president of the Royal Forest Army.

He Mao can be said to be a very prestigious person in the border army, but he has always belonged to the deputy, when the emperor went out with Liu Zhao, the marquis of Dingguo, he was the deputy, and then He Mao took over the military power of the border army for a period of time, but because of the arrival of Min Shaoqing and Ma Feng, his status was depressed again and again, but because He Mao himself has no ambition and belongs to an indisputable person, so in the army, others are mostly respectful to him, and he is not his enemy.

But He Mao is the only person who can influence the attitude of the border army generals and have a friendship with Liu Yue.

Sui Yi's face was faintly happy, but he immediately thought that no matter what He Mao's current status was, when the emperor was alive, Huo Yi was still called Huazi in the countryside, Li Mi and Sui Yi were just inconspicuous figures in Chang'an City, and Hua Ji'an was still working under King Huai, and the three of them couldn't fight with He Mao's eight poles, and they didn't have any friendship at all. It is quite difficult to contact this person.

"It may be better for me to go on this trip!" Flower set Antao.

"You're going?" Sui Yi said, "What if Min Shaoqing detains you?" ”

Hua Ji'an said with a smile: "With my insignificant position in the army, no one would have thought that the forward general would trust me, this time I led a small group of men and horses back to Jinyao City first, Min Shaoqing would only think that I was not in agreement with you and withdrew the army without authorization, how could I think that I went back to contact General He?" ”

The other three people think about it, if it weren't for Liu Yu's explanation in advance, and now they are impressed by Hua Ji'an's insight, they also look down on this Huai army's general on weekdays, and now the four of them can be said to advance and retreat together, and Hua Ji'an, a very intelligent person, can indeed achieve a very good effect.

"I'll set off first, you withdraw your troops slowly, and you must not come within five hundred miles of Jinyao City in the near future." Hua Ji'an said, "If Min Shaoqing is forced to ask, there may be remnants of the army that need to be cleaned up, just wait for my news before returning to the army!" ”

Everyone discussed and planned, Hua Ji'an set off overnight, led more than 500 soldiers who were originally border troops, and returned to Jinyao City first. On the other hand, in order to strengthen the control of the border army after the fact, he had to invite Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu, the two most trusted military generals around Liu Yu. If the two of them were not here, it would be difficult to control the overall situation just by relying on Huo Yi, who has no political acumen, and Sui Yi and Li Mi, who are not familiar with people.

Hua Ji'an led the army back to Jinyao City, and when Min Shaoqing learned that it was Hua Ji'an, he personally went out of the city to greet him, in order to win over Hua Ji'an and make him feel that he was very kind to him. Hua Ji'an also showed sincere fear, and then specially held a banquet for Hua Ji'an to catch the wind and wash the dust, almost all the border army generals attended the banquet, but Hua Ji'an could not see He Mao's existence at the banquet, and some veterans were not listed. Hua Ji'an thought about it, it must be Min Shaoqing who was cautious, afraid that the veteran who now had prestige in the border army would harm him and isolate him.

On the one hand, Hua Ji'an was vain at the table, but he was also secretly thinking about how to achieve the best effect by contacting these people. (To be continued......)