Hua Ji'an was very decisive in dealing with the return of the position of the commander, and did not drag the mud and water to occupy the position of power, because he knew that he relied on the prestige of Liu Yu, the Marquis of Wuyi, to control the whole army, and now that Liu Yu is back, his prestige has fallen to the bottom.

No one can control a group of beasts like Huo Yi and Qi Fang as easily as Liu Yu, and no one is more suitable for the coach to suppress the veterans of the original border army than Liu Yu. Although He Mao supported Hua Ji'an, after all, He Mao was a general of the Chang'an aristocratic faction, and he was still different from those cloth-clothed generals who got up from the pile of dead.

Liu Yu's return to the camp as the commander of the Chinese army seemed very low-key, and in the next step, he presided over the withdrawal of the army. Before the arrival of the cold winter in the north, the Shun Dynasty army withdrew from Mobei and withdrew all the way south in the direction of Shaowuguan.

Far away in Chang'an City, it is difficult to pass on the news from outside the Saiwai, and the forces of all parties cannot even know whether Liu Yu is alive or dead, and they will focus more on how to deal with Liu Yu's wife, Xu Xuanzhu, the commander of the women's army. At the same time, all parties are also observing the situation in the Forward General's Mansion.

The result of their investigation was that the Forward General's Mansion was surprisingly calm.

Everything is peaceful in the house, the guards patrol step by step, even Xu Xuanzhu out of the city to inspect is also very frequent, the deputy marshal Xu Caihua has never entered Chang'an City after the autumn, Xu Caihua every time he goes to the military department to report on his work, it is precisely at the same time that Xu Xuanzhu is also outside the city. Xu Xuanzhu is avoiding the emergence of a vacuum in the power of the female army.

This made the DPRK and China helpless against the women's army.

Among the forces of several parties, the three factions of the Two Phases Party, the New Imperial Faction and the Four Princesses Faction were the most radical, and these three parties actually reached a tacit understanding after Liu Yu set out on the expedition, trying to disintegrate Liu Yu's old power in Chang'an City to achieve the overall control of the imperial power over the military power in Guanzhong.

The two battalions of Chang'an City and the new army were very simple to deal with. After transferring Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu out of Guanzhong to the border pass. Liu Yu's other subordinates only belong to the shrimp soldiers and crab generals. The emperor soon took full control of the two battalions of Chang'an City, the Six Defense Divisions, and the Imperial Forest Army. Only on the part of the women's army, Su Yan and Yuan Bolang, Su Bi and others found that it was a seamless needle.

The women's army is a very unique military system.

First of all, the women's army is all women, and there is no other family in the country.

This is from the early days of the founding of the Great Shun Dynasty, Emperor Zu's mother is related, Emperor Zu got the help of his mother's female army to pacify the north. Therefore, after the founding of the Shun Dynasty, the status of women was not inferior to that of men, and even princesses could become crown princes. The establishment of the women's army was also continued, and more than 100 years later, the Shun Dynasty made a contribution in the battle to pacify the world.

Although the Shun Dynasty was founded for nearly 200 years, it was only 60 years since the world was pacified.

The uniqueness of the women's army makes it impossible for male generals to command this army, and the female generals are all from the women's army, whether it is the deputy marshal Xu Caihua or other female army generals, they only follow the orders of the female army commander Xu Xuanzhu. What makes all parties even more helpless is that these women are notoriously dead-headed, and they don't know how to be flexible if they don't take advantage of temptation.

The women's army obeyed Xu Xuanzhu's orders. And Xu Xuanzhu is Liu Yu's wife, and he doesn't eat oil and salt. This game was a dead game from the start. Just when the new emperor was about to transfer the female army to the border pass, and it was completely over, it happened that Liu Yu was defeated and disappeared on the grassland by Min Shaoqing. A dead game seems to have a way to live.

Liu Yu died, and Liu Yu's old party took refuge in Huaji'an, which made the court passive for a while. If the female army is pushed out of the army at this time, it is tantamount to filling in the chips for the enemy, Xu Xuanzhu is different from Liu Yu's other old parties after all, she is Liu Yu's wife, if Hua Ji'an is not good for the imperial court, then at least the new emperor can still influence Xu Xuanzhu through family affection.

Liu Yu has been helping the new emperor from beginning to end, which is obvious to all. Although the imperial court strictly guarded Liu Yue, in the final analysis, he was still a loyal minister, and the widow of a loyal minister should not violate the will of her late husband and join the ranks of the rebels.

So the women's army continued to remain unchanged, or continued to be stationed around Chang'an City, and even Xu Xuanzhu asked for transfer to the border pass several times to meet the battle, but the new emperor also refused.

Everyone knows that Xu Xuanzhu didn't go to fight, on the one hand, she wanted to find her husband, but also wanted to find the Turks for revenge.

When she went to the border pass, she really became a gang with Hua Ji'an and Liu Yu's old subordinates, and she was in cahoots.

Sometimes things are twists and turns, and Liu Yu is not dead. In fact, no one in Chang'an City knew about this news at first, but Liu Yu brought the news from the Western Regions to Chang'an City through the scouts in Zhang Wuzhu's army for the first time, so that Xu Xuanzhu could know about it. Liu Yue didn't want the women in his family to worry about him.

It was late July.

While delivering the news, Liu Yu also came back with a secret letter, explaining his family affairs and some military affairs. One of the most important points is to remind Xu Xuanzhu to be careful of sniping from other forces in the court. In the high position of the general, Liu Yue knew that his wife was also easy to become the target of public criticism, and the things he arranged were very simple to summarize, as usual!

Xu Xuanzhu remained in the same state after that, everything pretended not to know that Liu Yu was still alive, he should train and train, and he should be transferred. The matter lasted for more than a month, until the overall situation of the war in the north was decided, and the excitement in the DPRK and China still did not know that Liu Yu was still alive.

However, because of a mistake by the quartermaster, the people of the household department noticed that there was something strange about this batch of tribute grain in the Western Regions, and the news was investigated by the household department, and then conveyed to the emperor and Yuan Bolang through Li Yannian, the secretary of the household department, so that most people in the court thought that Liu Yu was not dead. After all, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and after that, there are many "gossip" that prove that Liu Yu is now in the north, but he is not in the Chinese army of the Shun Dynasty. In other words, although Liu Yu did not die, he did not return to the camp to compete with Hua Ji'an for the position of coach, but chose to "go it alone".

What Liu Yu is doing, no one knows.

It was not until October 13, when the Turkic letter arrived in Chang'an City, that the new emperor was convinced that Liu Yu was not dead and had taken refuge with the Turks. After that, there was the Yaqian Hall meeting on October 14, and there was also the discussion between Su Bi and Yuan Bolang about "getting rid of" Liu Yu that day. At the same time, the Shun army had been divided into two parts, one had withdrawn to Jinyao City under the leadership of Qi Fang, and the other had returned to Shaowu Pass with Liu Yu and Hua Ji'an, and the envoy team of the Turkic envoys to Chang'an City under the leadership of Timur, the son of the Turkic Heavenly Khan, also set off with the Shun Dynasty army and arrived outside Shaowu Pass.

Liu Yu did not arbitrarily allow the Turks to enter the territory of the Central Plains.

Because Liu Yu's trip was low-key, the people in Chang'an City did not know that Liu Yu had returned, and the Shun Dynasty army that withdrew to Shaowuguan was nominally led by Hua Ji'an. Although Liu Yu and Hua Ji'an completed the transfer of military power, the matter could not be announced until the emperor reappointed Liu Yu as commander.

As soon as Liu Yu arrived at Shaowu Pass, the imperial court issued an order, on the one hand, agreeing that the Turkic envoys should send envoys to Chang'an City, and on the other hand, they also let Hua Ji'an lead the soldiers who had contributed to the pacification of the Turks to return to Chang'an City to accept the reward. Originally, this was understandable, but a little trick played by the imperial court in the will made Liu Yu feel the crisis, and the holy decree also said that for fear of the Turks' misdeeds, the army should continue to be stationed in Jinyaocheng and Shaowuguan to deal with it.

That is to say, only the generals will be transferred back to Chang'an City to receive rewards, and no troops will be transferred.

Even if the general returned with him, Hua Ji'an did not dare to return to Chang'an City, he knew that if he went back, he would die. At the beginning, Hua Ji'an staged a coup d'état and executed Min Shaoqing, which shook the government and the opposition. At this time, Hua Ji'an returned victoriously, and the court had already moved to get rid of him. This is also one of the reasons why after the victory of the army, he was willing to return the position to Liu Yu as soon as possible, because he knew that he was no longer tolerated by the new emperor and other magnates, and the day of victory was the time of reckoning, and only Liu Yu could keep him.

After thinking about it, Liu Yu made a decision to replace Hua Ji'an by himself, and led some of the generals back to Chang'an City to be rewarded. This is also Liu Yu's first official appearance after returning to the Chinese army, and he met with a group of people led by officials from the Ministry of Rites who came to deliver the holy decree. When the people from the Ministry of Rites saw Liu Yu, they were really sure that Marquis Wuyi was not dead.

Liu Yu saw the envoys of the imperial court and said bluntly: "Ben Hou will not die, and now he has regained the seal of the commander of the three armies, Ben Hou will return to Chang'an City with you, and the three armies must leave a general to guard, Jin Yaocheng is guarded by General Qi of Yunjin, and Shao Wuguan is garrisoned by Deputy Marshal Hua." ”

Liu Yu's words made the envoys look at each other, based on their feelings, Liu Yue has not appeared for so long, and this appearance will become the commander of the three armies again, and there must be something greasy among them! Otherwise, it doesn't make sense. There is only one explanation, that is, the current Marquis Wuyi was controlled by others and was "forced" back to Chang'an City by Hua Ji'an. And Hua Ji'an surrendered himself to the deputy marshal, so he didn't have to go back to Chang'an City to confess the crime.

Not only the envoys of the imperial court, but even the senior officials of the court such as Yuan Bolang Lanhe and others, including the new emperor, would also think that the three armies were still under the control of Hua Ji'an at this time.

But in fact, on the way back, Liu Yu had already regained the military and political power of the whole army in his own hands. Some of the old border troops that were not easy to govern were all led by Qi Fang and Zhang Wuzhu and stationed in Jinyao City. After that, these people will be dispersed and transferred to other border gates to achieve the purpose of differentiation. And when he returned to Shao Wuguan's headquarters, they were all soldiers and horses of the new army and the two battalions of Chang'an City that had followed Liu Yue's southern expedition to the north in the past year, and they could not be said to be disloyal to him.

The court envoys were willing to think so, and Liu Yu also wanted them to think so. Only in this way will he, the Marquis of Wuyi, seem "insignificant", a "puppet" controlled by others, and only in this way will Su Yan feel that this master can't give up, and rely on him to solve the big trouble of Hua Ji'an.

Liu Yu returned to Chang'an City this time, in fact, he wanted to step down from his big responsibilities and really be an idler in the future. The world is stable, and if you don't stand idly by, there will really be a day when rabbits and dogs will be cooked.

Without giving the imperial envoys a chance to refuse, the next day, Liu Yu symbolically dispatched hundreds of new army guards, with a group of seemingly inconsequential generals such as Sui Yi and Li Mi, and then brought the Turkic envoys to march towards Chang'an City together.

When Su Yan got the news, he put down the notebook in his hand and said, "Master...... He's back. ”

Not sad, even a little happy. (To be continued......)