The night was deep, and the cold wind whistled outside the window, beating against the window.

He stopped slowly, took her hand and kissed her carefully, and said hoarsely: "There may not be time to stay at the front line, tonight, shall we sleep later?" ”

Lan Fang smiled lightly, pulled down his head and kissed him and said, "You can ...... whatever you say."

The night is still very long, as long as he doesn't feel tired, she will accompany him to the end.

This night, after all, he was very tired before he went to sleep, and he hugged her tightly, with a satisfied smile on the corner of his mouth.

The next morning, they got up early, when dressing, he couldn't help it, and pressed her in front of the table for a long time, Ling'er stood outside and heard it red-faced, after thinking about it, she moved her steps back to her room, looking at Jin Guiyi, who was dressed and carrying a sword, she pounced on it and said: "Prince, they will take a long time, they will go to the front line today, I am afraid that there will not be much time in the future, I will want to ...... Do you give it or not? ”

When she said this, her face was about to drip blood, Jin Gui was stupid for a moment before she came back to her senses, turned over and pressed over, grinning with bared teeth and said, "I can't ask for it!" ”

In this way, the two women met with pink faces, both of them were from the past, and they were a little embarrassed when they met, and after a long time, they were better when they were ready to leave.

Li Ye and Zhong Lao rode in front, Zhong Lao looked at him in good spirits, remembered that he brought his favorite side concubine over, and couldn't help sighing, his granddaughter entered the palace for herself, although it was the will to return to her hometown, but seeing that the prince favored other women like this, he still felt that he had hurt his granddaughter, and he felt guilty.

If Jingyu doesn't enter the palace, marries into an ordinary family, and is also a wife, and her husband is in harmony with her until she is old, but when she enters the palace, everyone knows that the prince favors her, and it is really hard for the child...... But now that I'm pregnant, it's a little comforting......

remembered that last night the prince took out Jingyu's family letter, which only said many trivial matters at home, but did not say anything about her situation in the palace, and he was really sour in his heart.

But I talked with the prince for a long time last night, and he also knew that this prince was different from the previous prince, this one had real talent and courage in his chest, and I heard that he went to the northwest to suppress the bandits and won a big victory, and now the northwest is guarded by the Tian family, presumably the bandits will be extinct from then on.

As long as it is not a mediocre and incompetent prince, then his granddaughter is not married to the wrong person, relying on the military exploits of his Zhong family, the prince of the East Palace will be more or less kind to his granddaughter.

After walking to the front line for two or three days, the army arrived, and after some resettlement and ordering, Li Ye followed Zhong Lao and Zhong Laosan to the council hall to look at the map and talk about military affairs.

The houses here are low and simple, they were built simply for the garrison temporarily, and they can only barely live for one person, and the furnishings in the houses are extremely simple. There is nothing else except a table and two chairs, but this is not bad at the border pass, after all, there are too many soldiers, some people don't even have a place to live, they can only live in the people's homes, get up and practice in the morning and evening, and disturb the people in panic, so most of the soldiers are huddled in this low hut, the quilt is spread on the hay, and it is warm to sleep in a crowd.

Ling'er and Lan Fang are naturally going to sleep in one room, this is not a post station, there are not so many rooms, the two of them packed up their things, and went out to see if the soldiers had anything to help, usually they are helping in the gang, there are too many soldiers, just cooking, they have a lot every day, and after a meal, they are also tired and their arms are so sore that they can't lift up......

In the conference hall, Li Ye was looking at the sand table, Zhong Laosan was a bold man, although he was born handsome, but his temperament was extremely free and easy, and his speech was crisp and neat, without dragging the mud and water, while looking at the sand table, he explained the current war situation to Li Ye.

"A while ago, their second prince Kashgar led troops to raid one of our towns, robbed grain, cattle and sheep and went back, this has been born for a few days, if I am not mistaken, they will definitely come to loot these days. However, because there are too many small towns in the vicinity, those people are not willing to give up their homes and go to the city to avoid the war, so they can only send troops to protect them for a while. ”

"However, at the beginning of this year, the border gate released thirty percent of the veterans to return to their hometowns, and now most of these recruits are not strong enough to fight, and there are too many small towns, and it is really difficult to play a big role in such a scattered force. There are still 20,000 people left on the front line in case Kashgar suddenly leads an army to attack the city. However, as soon as the crown prince comes, this lack of troops can be alleviated! ”

When Li Ye came, he brought 30,000 troops, and on the way, he transferred 30,000 troops from all over the country, plus the people here, it was about 100,000 troops, which was less than those Hu people, which was really very good. However, the Hu people's combat power is strong and ferocious, especially the cavalry, which has always been a headache and there is nothing to do.

However, the quality of the horses in this dynasty is not good, and they are often used in the battle with the Hu people, and they can't outrun the Hu people's war horses at all, so now the two sides are also in a state of stalemate, and the Hu people just come to loot from time to time, and when they send people to chase here, they have already left on fast horses, and they can't catch up......

Li Ye thought for a while and said: "In these unprotected towns on the border, no matter how many troops are sent to defend them, we can't let the people's winter reserves be robbed, and we won't cause casualties to the people." In addition, we have to find a way to pick some elite soldiers and strong generals, and form a raid team with good horses, ready to go to the Hu people to collect debts at any time! They can't let them rob us all the time, but we can only watch and can't do anything! ”

As soon as Li Ye's voice fell, Zhong Laosan showed an excited look in his eyes and said, "I heard that the prince formed a raid team when he was in the northwest, and most of the bandits in Fengliang Mountain were also the result of this raid team?" I just don't know, how was this raid team formed? ”

When Li Ye heard this, he smiled and began to explain to him how to form a raid team, which was nothing more than to select soldiers with strong combat power to come out, practice equestrian martial arts diligently, and act as elite soldiers to resist the Hu people who came to loot on the front line.

It's just because there are too many small towns here, and the number of people selected this time will be a little more, so it's better to go to the tribe of the Hu people to muddy the waters!

All day long, because of the bad horses, they didn't dare to go deep into the territory of the Hu people, and this war was too passive!

"Third child, you go to the barracks, select a thousand elite soldiers, remember that the only son in the family is not wanted, lest there be no one to support your parents when something happens, and secondly, the martial arts must be strong, and you need to have a heart that is not afraid of death! When we've picked up enough of a thousand people, let's discuss the matter of this horse! ”

Li Ye stood in front of the sand table, looking at the white flag planted on the town that had been ransacked by the Hu people, and a trace of anger flashed in his eyes: "These Hu people, it's time to give them some hardship!" ”

On the other side of the mountain forest opposite the high city wall, the tribe of the Hu people is hidden in the plain in the mountain range, and there are cattle and sheep walking around grazing everywhere, but because the weather is cold and there is not much grass, the cattle and sheep look very thin and have no spirit.

One tent after another was attached to the meadow, and occasionally a lady with a child carrying a bucket to fetch water from a nearby lake.

Not far from the foot of the mountain, the city wall was built high, although it was not so high, but it looked like it, and this was the palace of the Kashgar people.

The number of the Kashgar ethnic group is considered to be a relatively large tribe here, and the battle and reserves are relatively large, but those nomadic people have no harvest and winter reserves because of this year's drought, plus the Li Dynasty has changed the emperor, the old patriarch Kashqi moved the idea of going out, after all, this side of the pass has been stable for many years, and they rely on the sky to eat is really too insecure.

The old patriarch also wanted his people to live a good life in the Central Plains, have enough land and food, and no longer worry about starving cattle and sheep in the winter season, so he let his second son Kashgar Zhuozhuo, who has always been brave, lead troops to test the Li Dynasty.

The defense on the opposite side is tight, and they can't attack it, so they can only use guerrilla warfare to get small profits on the periphery, but it's better than nothing.

But what he didn't expect was that the Li dynasty actually sent a large army to come, and this time Kashqi knew that the new emperor who was appointed this year was not easy to bully, so he immediately summoned his sons to discuss how to deal with this matter.

This year's winter is definitely difficult, even if there are food reserves in the palace, but they can't all be taken out to help the nomads, after all, no one knows what the harvest will be next year, these old books can only be used when the wind and rain are good next year, otherwise they will be used this year, and if they encounter any natural disasters next year, then their Kashgar ethnic group will be in a big disaster!

Therefore, even though the Li Dynasty came with a large army, their brave Kashgar tribe is not afraid at all, they have strong horses and heroic clansmen, even if the other party is several times more numerous than themselves, they firmly believe that they will not lose when they fight!

Kashqi sat in a chair made of tiger skin, looking at his sons below, all of them handsome and strong, but the most capable was the second son Kashgar Zhuo Zhuo, and sighed: "Zhuo Zhuo, I heard that the crown prince of the previous dynasty brought an army, and this time, my plan to capture the border city is afraid that it will fall through again!" ”

Kashgar Zhuo Zhuo is a brave but relatively calm person, he can stand out among the many brothers and be valued by the old patriarch, no scheming can not be the leader, listening to his father's words, he smiled faintly, said: "We have fought with the ancestors of the Li family in the previous dynasty for many times, and we have never entered the border city once, just look at the high city wall, you can know how difficult their defense is to overcome." So my son still thinks before, this year's natural disasters we don't have enough reserves for the winter, just want to find some things to come back for the people to eat, there is no need to waste the lives of our people to attack a city that can't be taken! ”

After he finished speaking, his eldest brother Kashgar Erkun next to him said with mocking eyes: "Zhuo Zhuo, you won't see the prince of the Li family leading the army here, and you are afraid that you will lose your face if you can't win, right?" ”