Li Siye and Jia Chonghuan slipped along the bank of the Pearl River, and by the way, let Jia Chonghuan know the reason for yesterday's failure, although there is a suspicion of hindsight, but if something happens and is not deeply educated, the same mistake will be made next time.

"Phew!"

Li Siye grabbed the horse's head and stopped by the river.

"That's where the Turgish smuggled across the river to attack the city of Dundo?"

"Yes."

A knight who followed Li Siye spoke: "The river is wide and turbulent, indicating that there is a drop under the water, but it is not deep. There are only two places along the Pearl River that can be crossed by trekking. If the envoy of Jia Cheng had sent people to find and defend these two shallow water areas in advance, no matter how many men he sent to lure the enemy into attacking, he would not be able to set foot on the south bank of the Pearl River. ”

Jia Chonghuan sounded very harsh at this, and turned his head to ask the knight who spoke: "Who is the Venerable Driver, how come I have never seen it before." ”

The knight bowed his head and crossed his hands, and Li Siye turned around and introduced: "This is Feng Changqing, and now he is the ...... in our army" In fact, he has not arranged a position for Feng Changqing, but just followed and called by his side.

"The subordinate is General Lee's marching master."

The chief of the army is actually a nice name for the officials, there is no grade, not even a stream.

Jia Chonghuan glanced at the ugly-looking cripple, nodded and said, "You're right, in the twenty-seventh year of the old calendar, when Gaizhong Cheng pacified the Tuqi Shihei surname, this was also a grain land. At that time, there were 60,000 stone of grain in the grain hoards outside Dunduo City, and General Li was only a lieutenant. I remember that at that time, it was also more than 1,000 people who were stationed to guard the grain and grass in Dashicheng, but no enemy dared to provoke a sneak attack on the riverside. Similar situations, but how different. ”

After he said this, he disdained the unbearable Feng Changqing and looked at Li Siye.

"Yesterday and today, of course, are different, yesterday's ally is today's enemy, the south bank of this multi-city is the territory of the surname Huang, how can you copy the cognition. For the generals, they should be cautious and prepared, and if they do the battle, they will be in a battle formation, and they will be strictly defended when they live, and they should go out as if they see the enemy. Okay, let's talk about something else. ”

Li Siye asked Jia Chonghuan: "What is your only goal at the moment, it should be how to save your life, right?" ”

Jia Chonghuan thought a lot, what he wanted to save was not only a life, but also the humiliating fiasco last night. A general who has lost a battle will not be promoted for a long time, and some will even stop moving forward in this life. But he can't expect so much, it's good to save his life now.

"Yes."

"Why don't you hurry up and write a letter to Zhongcheng to report, do you think you can hide it from the past! The more you conceal it, the greater your sin will be. ”

Jia Chonghuan asked him worriedly: "If not, how about asking General Li to send a letter to Zhongcheng on my behalf?" ”

"How can you let others do it for you, you should take responsibility for the mistakes you made, and it is just a good time to test Zhongcheng's attitude towards you."

Jia hurriedly asked: "General Li, how can you try Zhongcheng's attitude with a letter?" ”

"After sending the letter, if Zhongcheng replies to reprimand you and detain you on the spot, then you probably won't die. If you ignore it and don't reply, then your life and death are unknown, and if you reply to him with a blank letter or talk about him left and right, then you will definitely die. ”

Jia Chonghuan was worried after hearing this, but he didn't dare to write a letter but had to write it, so he transcribed a letter and handed it over to his soldiers to pass it to the Anxi Protectorate. What happens after I send off the letter? Waiting dryly along the shores of Dundo, a city that was burned to the ground? There is no point in staying here anymore.

Li Siye turned over his horse and gave an order to all the Shule army to retreat to the front line of the city. Jia Chonghuan hurriedly stepped forward to grab his horse's head, raised his head and asked eagerly: "If the general leaves, what should I do, do I stay here, or do I ......?"

Li Siye asked him: "Is there any surplus grain in the city?" ”

"It seems to have more than 2,000 stones."

"Since there is surplus food, let's go to the city first, and we will go there to receive orders from the Protectorate, so it should be faster."

Jia Chonghuan had no better idea, so he could only follow Li Siye's advice and follow him to retreat to the city. Dundo City, the Tang Army's royal advance base, was finally abandoned.

Three days later, Li Siye took the Shule army and the exchange battalion to the post station near the exchange city, and the official documents passed through here. No sooner had they been stationed than a letter from the Anxi Protectorate arrived.

To be precise, this official letter was sent to Li Siye, and when he opened the envelope and saw the contents, Fumeng Lingcha asked him not to go to Dundo City for the time being, and to lead troops to garrison in Diao City first. It's just that he Zhongcheng underestimated Li Siye's advance, in fact, they had already gone to Dunduo City and then retreated to this place.

The letter did not say a word about the burning of grain and grass, but judging from the content of the letter, Fumeng made a change of strategy.

Jia Chonghuan stood beside him, raising his chin and squinting his eyes to this side, wanting to look but not daring to look, and he knew from the panic on his face that he was worried. Li Siye smiled and handed the paper to him.

He took it as if he had been burned, hurriedly took it out and shook it in his hand, and asked suspiciously: "Please also ask the general to teach me, you have accompanied Fu Mengzhongcheng around, he didn't mention a word, what is the sign?" ”

"Because this is a letter to me, of course, not a word."

Jia Chonghuan was silent.

In the next few days, the Qiuzi Army and the Yanqi Army came to assemble and camp in front of the city one after another. Their horses were saddled with sacks filled with grain to replenish the grass burned by the Turgish.

This dry Gobi hard rock land is bustling with activity. The old acquaintances in the army were like old friends who had not seen each other for many years, greeting each other, and the old soldiers took out the old wine they had accumulated and began to gather and drink heartily.

But most people carefully avoided Jia Chonghuan, probably for fear that the sky would thunder and take them with them, after all, at this time, what kind of sympathy is not appropriate.

Li Siye met his acquaintance, General Ma Phosphorus, and after the two exchanged fists, he welcomed Ma Phosphorus into his military tent, prepared a glass of thin wine, and shared the news he had with each other, which was actually a kind of resource sharing.

"The results of the big exam held in the first month of this year have come out."

"Oh," Li Siye held the wine cup and pricked up his ears for a moment, after all, this has something to do with his future, and he can't help but pay attention to it.

Ma Phosphorus said again: "The results of the examination must be reported to the imperial court first, and then reported to the Metropolitan Protector's Mansion, and I have already received the news from the Trustee's Metropolitan Protector's Mansion." You are the highest in the evaluation of our Anxi Protectorate, the highest middle school of the three goodnesses, the top middle school of Lianfu Mengzhongcheng, and the upper middle of Gao Xianzhi. ”

"Thank you," Li Siye arched his hand with a smile.

Ma Phosphorus looked at him suspiciously: "You don't seem surprised at all. ”

"Who said not to be surprised. But I was frightened, and I didn't show it on the surface. ”

"Hah!" Ma Phosphorus poked him with his finger and said: "The most arrogant person is proud in his heart, do you think that Huangfu Weiming actually wants to give you a superior?" It's just that I'm afraid that you will be jealous of your colleagues and the people in the court, so I reluctantly gave you a Shangzhong. Do you think so? People like you think so highly of yourself! ”

General Ma Phosphorus has not changed at all, this mouth is still so easy to offend people. Li Siye laughed and said: "I never thought about it like this, but if you suddenly mentioned it like this, I think it is possible." ”

General Ma slammed the wine cup on the table, and said resentfully: "I caught you today, I must not let it go, take out all your wine, only when I am drunk can I feel better." ”

Li Siye hugged the wine jar painfully and said: "I will only take this jar, the lady did not let me bring it when I went on the expedition, and now it is all cheap for you." ”

Ma Phosphorus didn't speak, but stretched out his index finger and bent it downward, pointing to his empty wine cup.

After he poured the wine, he asked Ma Phosphorus curiously: "I don't know what General Ma's evaluation is?" ”

"It's far less than you, just a step high can protect the footsteps."