Cui Shu's matter is just a small episode, what should be done after the interlude. The work of going to Xizhou made Zhang Zheng feel a little difficult.

It's not because Xizhou is difficult, but the road is difficult, the road is too far, so far that Zhang Zheng is a little desperate.

It's been more than half a month since he went out, and he hasn't reached Yumen Pass yet, Zhang Zheng is so depressed that he wants to vomit blood. After entering the Hexi Corridor, goose feathers and heavy snow began to fall in the sky, which made Zhang Zheng's journey even slower.

Zhang Zheng couldn't help but feel a little resentful about Li Shimin. Why don't you pick a better season, such as spring, or summer.

In this winter, you let me brave the heavy snow from Chang'an to the Western Regions, and I have a relationship with the snow? When it snowed, the Mo family's snowmobile came in handy.

Fortunately, this year's snow is normal, neither big nor small, although it is very cold, but it does not say that the road will be blocked directly.

You can still walk, but it's not easy to walk. Zhang Zheng's white land was plowed out of a hard snow road by Li Jing's army, and he admired Li Jing a little more.

Li Jing's two battles to destroy the country were both achieved on such snowy days. It was still difficult for him to walk with more than 100 people, and he didn't know how Li Jing marched.

In short, it lives up to the name of the god of war. ………… When the jade door was closed, Zhang Zheng almost shed tears of excitement.

Shaken by the snow! Zhang Zheng, an army of 5,000 people, did not see it, only the empty city walls and the sparsely populated Guancheng.

"What's the matter, didn't you say that there are five thousand people waiting for us here?" Zhang Zheng looked around, and his face suddenly became ugly.

The Yumen Pass guard will be Tian Zheng, and now Tian Zheng is leading 10,000 elites to garrison in Shazhou, intimidating a small country in the Western Regions.

So now the defenders of Yumen Pass are less than 3,000 people. Tricked?

"Go, knock, let them open the door." Zhang Zheng's face was very ugly, and the soldiers were also confused.

What about the promised army of 5,000? What's the situation with these big cats and kittens, is Your Majesty shaking us?

Chen Yu stepped forward and shouted to the soldiers on the wall: "Your Majesty has sealed the county of Weinan, don't drive Zhang Zheng here in Xizhou, and ask the brothers in the city to make it convenient, open the gate and let me go to Xizhou to take up my post." After a while, the two sergeants opened a gap in the huge gate, and an officer dressed as a lieutenant ran out of the crack in the door and arched his hand to Chen Yuyi: "The last general is Qian Han, the captain of the Yumen Pass, I don't know if that is Zhang Xianbo?" Chen Yu looked at the person who came, and then led Qian Han to Zhang Zheng and said to him: "This is the ...... of Weinan County, who was enshrined by His Majesty."

"The last general has seen Uncle Zhang." Seeing Zhang Zheng so young, the captain was subconsciously stunned for a moment, and even his attitude towards saluting seemed to be a little casual.

"Let me ask you, Your Majesty once told me that there will be 5,000 people waiting for me here at Yumen Pass, why haven't I seen it now?" Zhang Zheng was riding on the horse, his face had returned to calm, and his tone was so flat that people couldn't tell what he really thought.

"Uncle Hui, this is a letter left by Xu Tingshi, he said that you can see at a glance that as for the army, it has already set off for Xizhou with Xu Tingshi half a month ago." A trace of sweat dripped from the captain's forehead, and a trace of smoke rose above his head in the winter weather, and he whispered back to Zhang Zheng.

Zhang Zheng took the letter expressionlessly and looked at the name of the inscription. Xu Jingzong! It turned out to be him!

Zhang Zheng looked at this name and was stunned, he didn't have much contact with Xu Jingzong. But in history, Xu Jingzong's popularity is definitely not lower than that of Fang Mou Dudu.

The names of the Gaozong Dynasty and the Wuhou Dynasty can be said to be quite famous. It's just that Fang Mou Du Duan is famous for centuries in the name of virtuous ministers, but Xu Jingzong has been stinking for thousands of years in the name of treacherous ministers.

Holding the letter left by Xu Jingzong, Zhang Zheng's face was cloudy. In the end, Zhang Zheng made an unbelievable decision, and directly tore up the letter and raised it in front of the door.

He didn't read what was written in Xu Jingzong's letter, because it was unnecessary. When Xu Jingzong took away 5,000 people without waiting for him to reach Yumen Pass, he was already doomed to be enemies.

This is a power struggle over the power of the two words. The situation in Xizhou is complicated, but the total strength of the two men is only 5,000.

These 5,000 people say more or less, if they just take a Xizhou city, it can be said that it is more than enough.

But if you have to face the counterattack of the coalition forces of the countries in the Western Regions, then the role that five thousand people can play is not so great.

Therefore, these 5,000 people must be firmly controlled in their hands, and only by commanding these 5,000 people like an arm, can Zhang Zheng be sure to retreat from the small city in Xizhou, which is in crisis step by step.

Now it seems that Xu Jingzong also thinks so. If Xu Jingzong honestly waited here for his arrival and rushed to Xizhou together, then in Zhang Zheng's opinion, as long as His Majesty's goal can be achieved in the end, the military power will be the same in anyone's hands.

But Xu Jingzong's move was obviously to directly kick Zhang Zheng out of the game and play alone. It's just too deceitful, this can't bear it, since his debut, he has been in Datang for more than ten years, where has Zhang Zheng suffered such a big loss?

Zhang Zheng said nothing with a calm face, he originally wanted to rest at Yumen Pass. Now, it seems, there is no need for this.

Therefore, Zhang Zheng ignored the captain, and when he saw that the Yumen Pass was wide open, he led the team straight out of the gate and stepped on the snow-covered Gobi Desert.

The vast Gobi Desert could not be seen at a glance, and the more Zhang Zheng and the others walked, the smaller the snow became.

"Shaolangjun, further afield is the vast desert, if there is no guide, it is easy for us to get lost in the desert." After walking for a few days again, Zhang Zheng and the others had already set foot on a land paved with yellow sand.

The snow was gone, replaced by a sky full of wind and sand. It's not the first time Zhang Zheng has come to the desert, but the last time he came to have his beautiful sister as a tour guide.

And this time, my group couldn't even find the road.

"Let's camp on the spot." In the end, Zhang Zheng gave the order to camp on the spot. Chen Yu is right, if there is no guide, then his two hundred or so people will rush into the desert like this, which is really no different from looking for death.

So the first priority is to find a guide first? Of course not, eat first, as the so-called people are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic.

It was already afternoon, and Zhang Zheng was already so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back. After setting up the camp, curling smoke rose from the Gobi, and Zhang Zheng sat in the tent and spread out the map.

Of course, the map is not a simple marching map like the Tang Dynasty, but a standard map drawn by Zhang Zheng with the memory of later generations.