The standard-bearer on the side replied: "I can't go back yet, the big army should be coming soon, and how long will it take for General Cheng to arrive!" ”

Li Chengqian didn't dare to say how long it would take to arrive, so he could only reply: "It's almost here, let's just stay for a few more days!" ”

After talking with Li Chengqian for a while, he went back.

However, Li Chengqian fell into thought, he had not seen a Turkic during this time, although he had guessed that King Wu and the Turks would have contact, but these suspicions disappeared after King Wu was assassinated, and now when he heard the satisfactory news, Li Chengqian fell into a trance again, he couldn't imagine whether the matter between King Wu and the six princes of the Turks was true or false.

Xiangxin didn't have time to entangle with Li Chengqian, and after returning to the team, he asked, "Do you have any way!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and then Cheng Chumo said: "We have studied it, with our current equipment, it should be the most suitable choice to dig a pit on the road below!" ”

Satisfaction also suddenly realized, and hurriedly said: "Then hurry up, dig as many rows as possible, don't rest tonight, everyone work hard!" ”

Cheng Chu silently agreed and immediately took the brothers down, everyone dug a big pit with stones, wooden shovels, and fingers, fortunately there were many people, otherwise there was really no way to dig such a pit.

Seeing everyone's hard work is also a little helpless, this is an emergency order in wartime, fortunately, when a soldier went to the toilet, he found that the Turkic wide knife could also be used as a shovel, which greatly accelerated the progress.

Satisfaction naturally won't help dig a pit, when everyone is working hard, Xiangxin is sleeping on the top of the mountain, Xu Dong is also on the top of the mountain, but he is not sleeping, but staring at the sentinel in the distance,

The sentinels stared at one by one, looking at the road in the distance, for fear that if they didn't pay attention to the Turkic cavalry, they had already arrived in front of them, and everyone dug for nearly twenty hours day and night, except for eating and going to the toilet, everyone was completely relying on the will to support, and they were originally going to dig a few more pits, but at this time it also became a big deep pit, and the excavated soil was also moved far away by them, and the hard broad knives of the Turks did not know how many were broken.

The sentry, who had not slept for several days, suddenly saw a small figure in the distance, and it appeared in front of him as if it were nothing, and the sentry looked carefully at it, and determined that it was the cavalry of the large army, and the sentry sent a message to the sentinel in the distance.

The news was passed on one after another, and Chengxin was soon woken up by Xu Dong, and when he learned that the Turks were coming, he immediately climbed to the side of the mountain and said: "Come back, everyone, the cavalry of the Turks is coming!" ”

Cheng Chumo and the others immediately climbed out after hearing the satisfactory words in the pit, but because the side was too vertical when digging the pit, everyone wasted a lot of effort to climb out of the big pit, and ran back to the top of the mountain to eat hot porridge with a slight temperature.

After everyone was full of food and drink, they all fell asleep on the spot, looking at everyone's hard work with satisfaction, and looked at Ashina Muyun on the side with some dissatisfaction, and then sighed and ignored them, and instead climbed to the highest point, carefully looking at the figure in the distance.

Li Chengqian's side also knew the news that the Turkic cavalry had arrived, and Jingzhou City had only rested for a day before entering a state of emergency battle, and everyone felt that this matter was the last battle, some people wanted to escape, some people wanted to hide, and some people stood on the city wall and waited for the arrival of the enemy.

The battle on the side of Jingzhou City was about to break out, and Cheng Yanjin had already received the exact news that the Turks were going to attack Jingzhou City, so he asked the sentry to call Hou Junji and Wei Chigong to come together, and at the same time quickly rushed to Jingzhou with the existing soldiers, he couldn't imagine how the Tang Dynasty would fight the Turks if Jingzhou City was captured by the Turks.

After Wei Chigong got the news of Cheng Biting Jin, he immediately led his troops to Jingzhou, but Hou Junji smiled even more happily.

At this time, Yizhou City has been taken over by Hou Junji, Yizhou City has returned to its former calm, Hou Junji looked at the anxious sentry on the side and said: "You go back and tell General Cheng that it is too troublesome to rush from Yizhou to Jingzhou, why don't I help them outflank the back road!" ”

Saying that, Hou Junji pointed to Gao Changguo on the map, and the sentry didn't dare to argue with the general, so he could only nod his head and leave.

Hou Junji looked at the departing sentry and laughed: "Soldiers! Ready to go! Target Gao Changguo! ”

Hou Junji left Yizhou City with an army of more than 100,000 troops, their purpose was very clear, since Gao Changguo dared to let the Turks take a shortcut to attack Jingzhou City, they naturally wanted Gao Changguo to pay the price of two faces.

Cheng Yanjin didn't know Hou Junji's thoughts here, at this time he was anxiously hurrying on the road, and met the sentry who had just come out to report the news on the way, and heard that Jingzhou City had been attacked by the Turks, so he couldn't wait to run over with a few more pairs of legs, but there were many soldiers, so he could only speed up as soon as possible.

But it was said that in Youzhou City, the King of Chu stayed in the mansion after returning to his mansion, not daring to enter and leave at will, for fear of revealing any horses' feet.

Commander Wang, who had just released the news to Chang'an, came over and said, "Your Highness, the letter to Chang'an in the past few days has always said that you haven't been anywhere in the mansion, will such a big thing make Chang'an suspicious!" ”

When the king of Chu heard this, he smiled, pointed at the king and said, "What do you know, no one has time to care about me now!" Yizhou has already started a war with the Turks, and a lot of soldiers and horses from my Youzhou have also been transferred, how can they have the strength to look at me! ”

Commander Wang nodded, and said as if he remembered something: "By the way, Your Highness, our spies outside sent a message yesterday, saying that Cheng Yanjin went to Jingzhou with 100,000 soldiers and horses, what did he do in Jingzhou!" ”

The King of Chu, who was asking about the fragrance of tea with his eyes closed, was stunned, and only opened his eyes for a while and said, "When did you know something!" ”

Seeing that his face was not good, the king explained: "I knew this morning, but I was busy catching pigeons just now and forgot to tell you!" ”

The King of Chu sighed and ignored him, but instead drank the tea in front of him, and then said: "There should be an accident over there in Jingzhou, one Jingzhou and one Yizhou, and one King Wu and King Shu, how can the territories of the two of them be so coincidental that they have become the target of the Turkic attack!" ”

Commander Wang was taken aback, and said with some puzzlement: "Could it be that His Highness thinks that this matter is related to His Royal Highness King Wu!" ”

King Chu looked at no one around, nodded and said: "Think about it, if King Wu took you to assassinate Li Chengqian behind his back, no matter how I thought about it, I felt that it was aimed at me, I didn't go out of the city at that time, so I was caught by Li Junxian, otherwise think about why he did it!" ”

Commander Wang was a little puzzled and said: "But His Royal Highness King Wu was killed, this is impossible!" ”

King Chu smiled but didn't say anything.

Although Chang'an City seems to be as safe as ever these days, only everyone knows how much undercurrent is surging behind the scenes.

Fortunately, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, everyone did not dare to move casually, although the price of grain did not rise, but the grain merchants only sold a little grain every day, basically you have not seen the rice grains and told you that they are not sold.

Li Shimin also knew these things from below, but he was also a little helpless, because the sudden war caused him to forcibly requisition grain, although there were potatoes and sweet potatoes to fill the vacancy for himself, but the people were panicked, and everyone was afraid that they would not be able to eat food. As a result, the price of rice did not increase on the surface, but secretly the price of rice doubled.

Li Shimin also knew from Li Junxian that there was a force that was buying grain around the capital on a large scale, and before he was angry, the people who collected the grain actually took the initiative to come out and distribute it to the people.

Li Shimin didn't know what the King of Shu thought at this time, and he didn't know how he persuaded those squires and rich people to obediently hand over the grain, in short, the King of Shu brushed a wave of goodwill near Chang'an City, which made the people start to rumor again that the prince would be abolished and the King of Shu would be established.

At this time, the king of Shu was celebrating with Changsun Chong, and the king of Shu looked at Changsun Chong and said: "Now that the matter of grain has been temporarily resolved, it is time to prepare soldiers and horses to ambush Li Chengqian!" ”

Changsun Chong shook his head, and said helplessly: "There are too few people under your hands, and the people I am looking for are only 10,000, if you really fight with Li Chengqian and them, if you can't keep it, you will lift a stone and shoot yourself in the foot!" ”

The King of Shu also knew that what they were going to fight was not Li Chengqian and his 1,000 soldiers and horses, but more likely Cheng Yanjin and the soldiers he led.

The king of Shu only felt that the meat in his mouth was not fragrant, and said with a little doubt: "Then what else can we do now, the food has also been sent out, and the soldiers and horses have been handed over to you, wouldn't it be a pity if you don't do anything!" ”

Changsun Chong shook his finger and pointed out the window, the king of Shu looked out the window with a question mark on his face, but saw the palace standing there, and Changsun Chong said: "Your goal now is to find a way to take over your brother's previous position in the court, if you can stand in the court and have a trace of right to speak, it can be regarded as participating in the succession, like you are now in the early dynasty and said that you want to take the heir, it's a joke!" ”

The king of Shu knew what he meant, at this time Li Chengqian left Chang'an, and there was the foundation of King Wu in the court, as long as he advanced a little, he could replace his brother's position, which was to ascend to the court.

The eldest grandson Chong saw that the King of Shu knew what he meant, and said while eating the dishes: "You recently went outside to send a few more waves of grain, this should be the last batch I can get, and then I will arrange for them to mention the matter of letting you go to the early dynasty in the early dynasty, and your mother's side should also blow the wind, although she doesn't want to participate in the matter of seizing the heir, but no matter what, the prince's biggest reliance in the palace is his own concubine, and I don't need to teach you this truth!" ”