On the seventh day of November in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, heavy snow, the main force of the Tang army had just returned to Shuozhou for only ten days, and the holy decree arrived-to stop the war, except for the prisoners of war of the Xue Yantuo Department who were escorted back to Beijing to hold a prisoner offering ceremony, the prisoners of war of the rest of the small tribes were released on the spot, regardless of their crimes; The three armies were rewarded, and the officials were added to the knighthood, and the Jingshi Guards immediately withdrew to Chang'an, and the Western Liang Cavalry withdrew to Liangzhou except for some of the remaining Shuozhou. The holy decree is a reward, everyone has a reward, those who have military merits can also be promoted to the rank of knight, the three armies are excited, everyone is happy, so the drunk people are extraordinary, but there is a strange thing that makes the generals in the army extremely confused - Li Zhen, the king of Yue who has made great military achievements, has nothing to gain, not to mention any reward, even if he has rummaged through the holy decree, Li Zhen's name has never been mentioned.

To tell the truth, Li Zhen, who is not rewarded, doesn't care about it at all, as far as the little money that the old man can reward, for Li Zhen, a rich man, it is really nothing, adding an official to a knight? Of course, there is no play, without him, Li Zhen is already a prince at this time, and besides, won't he become an emperor? You can't let the old man abdicate and let Li Zhen come to power, right? can make such a great feat, and he didn't even say a word of praise, isn't this a humble person?

Depressed! Don't look at Li Zhen on the surface everything is as usual, but in his heart he is really depressed enough, and he can't wait to pick up a gun and kill him, but he can only think about it in his heart, Li Zhen at this time really doesn't dare to act recklessly, so he can only sulk alone. Others couldn't see Li Zhen's unhappiness, but Na Long knew it in his heart, and he didn't say much, just mentioned a sentence - a big reward is not a reward, and I will see it after returning to Beijing.

See you when you return to Beijing? Oh, maybe, it's time to go back to Beijing soon, and then we'll talk about it. At this time, Li Zhen is really too lazy to think about the mystery, and now there are still a lot of things waiting for him to be busy with - because of the dredging of the generals of various factions in the army to ease the cheeks of the ancient department, Li Zhen owes a lot of favors, jumping up and down for a while, giving money, and promises, and taking out the declaration of righteousness to work all the way, and finally settle the matter, at this time the holy decree has been issued, and the favor that should be repaid must not be returned quickly, yes, the waist bag is deflated, fortunately, Nalong kept his promises and never left Li Zhen's side, didn't even go to see off other clansmen, which didn't make Li Zhen feel like the bamboo basket was empty.

The favor should be returned naturally, but there is one thing Li Zhen will not forget to do, that is, to form his own personal army - according to the Tang system, the prince who opened the palace and built the government can have a personal army of 1,200 people, although Li Zhen has already obtained the permission of the opening of the government, but Li Zhen has not officially opened the government to build the government, and the team of pro-soldiers in his hand is only more than 30 people who are pitiful, and most of them are old people who came from Li Jing and Qin Qiong back thenFor the construction of the pro-soldier team, Li Zhen has always held an attitude of rather lacking than indiscriminate, and has never established a pro-guard army, this time it's good, as soon as the battle is over, all the pro-guards under his command have made war merits, and they have all been released to be officials, even Li Ge and Qin Fengxiang are no exception, so that the entire pro-guard team is empty, taking advantage of the military power in his hands at this time, how can Li Zhen let go of this good opportunity, naturally he is in a hurry.

Li Zhen has always been generous and righteous, coupled with Shuozhou's prestige after the First World War, he said that he wanted to call the guards, and the "Mao Sui" who came to the door went to the sea, not to mention 1,200 people, it is not a problem to turn seven or eight times, which makes Li Zhen happy and annoyed - just kidding, the army is the old man's army, but not his Li Zhen's private army, if he really wants to make a big incident, then it will be repaid, helpless, Li Zhen had to compress the original 1,200 personal guards to more than 600 people, As for the shortage, Li Zhen plans to select a group of orphans from the "Yan Ji Firm" to supplement them after returning to Beijing, and as for the captain of the personal soldiers, he will be handed over to Chen Liang to act as the captain, and the rest of the royal officials such as the army and the soldiers, and the cavalry Cao and other royal officials are all vacant.

The Spring Festival is approaching, the whole army is like an arrow, since the receipt of the holy decree to withdraw the troops, from the commander Li Ji to the small soldiers under the head are all busy, even the dismissal of prisoners of war to the camp back to Beijing in just three days to finish, all the way to the Beijing division hurried, heh, good guys, when the rescue soldiers rushed like a fire, it took more than 20 days to travel, this withdrawal took only 14 days to withdraw to the Beijing division, stunned Li Zhen sighed - it feels so good to go home!

What? Presiding over the prisoner sacrifice ceremony? Make no mistake! As soon as the army arrived outside Chang'an City, before entering the city, Gao Yao, the inner chamberlain, rushed to deliver the decree, and the intention was clearly stated - Li Zhen, the king of Yue, presided over the prisoner ceremony, this amazing will, stunned Li Zhen was dumbfounded, and even forgot to thank him, if it weren't for Gao Yaoke's pretended cough several times, Li Zhen almost lost his etiquette, but the shock in his heart was really too great, without him, this prisoner sacrifice ceremony is a great honor, non-boss can not do it, Li Zhen is the prince is not fake, But after all, he is just a small vanguard officer in the army, bypassing the commander Li Ji, not to mention, there are still many generals above Li Zhen, how can such a great glory fall on Li Zhen's head, how can Li Zhen not be suspicious!

What does the old man want to do? Li Zhen didn't understand it after thinking about it, so she had no choice but to receive the order, and went back to the camp to discuss the matter with Nalong, but she didn't think that Nalong replied nonchalantly: "Why should the prince worry too much, the saint is just to establish authority for the prince, although you can do it with confidence." ”

Liwei? What is the prestige? Li Zhen's head was full of confusion, and after thinking for a while, his heart suddenly moved, and he squinted at Nalong, who was smiling and groaning, and asked tentatively: "......What does Mr. mean?"

"Hehe, hasn't the prince already seen it? Why don't you say more. Naron didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded.

Ha, damn, it's true that I dare to be affectionate, hehe, the old man's means of playing balance are really high, yes, this time, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will immediately become the Great War of the Four Kingdoms, damn, Lao Tzu is not fooled, hey, let's laugh at the sweetness, just skip the singing, isn't that kid of Lao Jiu not very peaceful recently? Let him get busy! Li Zhen's eyes rolled, and he immediately guessed a rough idea, while feeling that Emperor Li Shimin had a good mental skill, he also secretly became vigilant, he didn't want to be someone else's gun, even if it was his own old man, he still let others carry the notoriety of forcing the prince, Li Zhen didn't want to bear this burden.

Li Zhen laughed and said: "Okay, just do what Mr. wants, and see that this king comes up with some means, he will definitely make this prisoner sacrifice ceremony beautiful, and if you want to establish your authority, you will completely establish it enough!" ”

Offering captives at noon? Oh, it's a big mistake, without him, there is no such door as the Taiji Palace in Chang'an City, and the ceremonies of the Tang Dynasty were all carried out in the Chengtianmen, which should be called the Chengtianmen prisoners. Ten gates of the imperial city, in terms of military significance, Xuanwu Gate bears the brunt, is the most important one, but when it comes to political significance, it has to count Chengtianmen, the reason is very simple - Chengtianmen is located in the middle of the south wall of Taiji Palace, is the main gate of Taiji Palace, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty carried out every major event in this gate.

On the first day of the first month of the sixteenth year of Zhenguan, the wind stops and the snow rests, the long-lost sun quietly jumps into the sky, shines on the people warmly, it is comfortable, on the occasion of the Spring Festival, the city of Chang'an is full of joy, laughter and laughter continue, from the south city gate to the Chengtian gate, the two ends of the whole south street are crowded with the people of Chang'an City, and the Chengtian gate is even more crowned and gathered, the imperial relatives of the full Beijing division of the grade, the civil and military heavy city are all above the gatehouse, around the side of the emperor Li Shimin, and those ministers of a slightly lower grade can only stand under the city gate, Although it was very cold, no one complained, and the big guys were waiting for the arrival of the triumphant army led by Li Zhen.

At the end of the day, a rousing drum sounded, and a commotion arose outside the South City Gate - the triumphant division has arrived! The first one was a silver helmet and silver armor, holding a bright silver spear, and the mighty warrior of the snow dragon horse under the crotch was Li Zhen, the new god of war of the Tang Dynasty, followed by a thousand cavalry neatly in a column of four, each holding a spear, a spear like a forest pointed obliquely at the sky, the sharp tip of the spear flashed in the sun with a dazzling light, everyone walked into the south gate with a solemn face, followed by a column of two thousand infantry with five people, all the infantry were empty-handed, but the posture of stepping forward was particularly majestic and majestic, followed by a large group carrying various military flags, The dejected Xue Yantuo prisoner of war, and then a 2,000-strong infantry squadron, the whole army walked up and down neatly, but when they heard the sound of footsteps, they couldn't hear a single word, and this just appearance immediately attracted the cheers of the onlookers.

"Raise your gun, salute!" As soon as the whole team walked in front of the Chengtian Gate, Li Zhenyun shouted loudly, and in an instant, the spears in the cavalry queue stood upright like a forest, and at the same time, a thousand cavalry at the same time issued a tsunami-like battle cry: "Datang might, Datang might, Datang might!" The shouts of more than a thousand people were uniform, as if they were from one person, and then, seeing Li Zhen wave the bright silver spear in his hand, a thousand cavalry suddenly dispersed, and in an instant formed a vigilant circle in the small square in front of Chengtian Gate, and the spears in their hands were all pointed straight to the sky, and everyone stood solemnly.

At the moment when the cavalry had just set up the formation, the infantry team that was stepping on the foot also happened to step on the edge of the small square, with Li Zhen's order, two thousand infantry at the same time pulled out the horizontal path on their waists, the same knife tip pointed obliquely at the sky, the pace under their feet was not chaotic, two thousand mouths shouted at the same time the battle horn of the Tang Army, as soon as the entire infantry team stepped on the square, but Li Zhen shouted: "Lizheng!" Suddenly, the two thousand infantrymen who were walking on their feet stopped in unison, put their swords into their sheaths, and moved neatly, and they were very neat, showing a good level of training.

As soon as the more than 1,000 prisoners of war who walked into the small square behind the infantry team stepped onto the small square, Li Zhen shouted: "Present the flag!" I saw more than 1,000 prisoners of war holding various military flags walking to the city gate tower in a row, throwing all the military flags in their hands on the ground, and retreating to the side, more than 1,000 military flags were immediately piled up into a tall lump, and the last prisoner of war dressed in the uniform of ten thousand commanders walked to the front of the city gate tower with a handsome flag set by Xue Yantuo, the governor of Xue Yantuo, and pointed to the ground on one knee, kowtowed, and threw the handsome flag on the top of the pile of military flags.

The 2,000 infantry who finally stepped onto the square also drew their swords and saluted, but instead of shouting, they shouted, "Glory to my emperor!" With the sound of "Glory to the Emperor", the 3,000 soldiers who had been lined up in the small square earlier shouted in unison, and their voices were uniform and resounded in the sky.

Shock! Novel! There are not many people involved in this prisoner sacrifice ceremony, even the prisoners of war plus together are only 6,000 people, compared to the previous posture of tens of thousands of people at every turn, this point is not even a fraction of the number of people, but the momentum is unprecedented heroic, which makes people see the blood boiling, no, even the well-informed Li Shimin is so happy that he can't keep his mouth shut, and excitedly walks to the entrance of the city gate, waving his hand frequently to the lower head, and loudly announcing the award of the participating sergeants, and suddenly there is a loud cry of long live that resounded through the sky... …