The drums of war were pounding, and the gates were wide open.

The 5,000 soldiers and horses in Tuweizi City rushed out, and they had no scruples at all, and pushed straight towards the more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in the department of A Tie.

"Run."

"The Han people are out of the city!"

After a moment of panic, the hateful fellows shouted and screamed in the skilled Hun dialect, turned on their horses, turned around and ran.

As for their tents, pots and stoves, and stewed beef and mutton, naturally they couldn't take care of it.

That's, and ran away again?

A Han military captain charged forward, and couldn't help but feel suspicious, he reined in the horse's head, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, looking at the more than 2,000 Huns who were holding their heads and rats, and inexplicably felt a little uneasy.

The lieutenant turned his head and looked at the general at the head of the city.

Han Yan wore a bright armor, a scarlet coat and a scarlet coat to show in the wind, and with her extremely handsome face, she was very powerful.

It looks so good!

The captain of the Northern Military Academy sighed secretly, and pointed the horse lance in his hand in the direction where the irons ran out: "Chase!" ”

Five thousand elite iron horsemen chased after them unhurriedly.

The sound of hooves rumbles, and the yellow dust rolls out.

Under the afterglow of the sunset, this chase in Tuweizi City was inexplicably a little iron-blooded, which made Han Yan, who was standing at the head of the city watching the battle, a little excited.

I saw him carrying his hands behind his back, independent of the city, and in the eyes of the two good-looking peach blossoms, a desert was reflected, and the sun was setting over the long river.

"Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, the lonely city looks at Yumen Pass; Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will never be returned if it is not broken......"

"Pingyang Hou Cao Xiang has a bad character, behaves wildly, bullies men and women, and is the biggest evil in Chang'an City, but this hand of poetry and articles is the best in the world, and it will be inferior."

Han Yan turned her head and looked at the soldiers stationed at the head of the city, as well as the five thousand elites of the Northern Army who were waiting in the north of the city, and sighed with emotion: "Huangsha wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken, good poetry, good poetry." ”

"Pass me on the ......"

At this moment, there was a sudden and chaotic sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

A small group of soldiers and horses wearing Han army armor galloped over, and the war horses under their crotch seemed to be about to be unable to hold on, sighing for a while, and white foam overflowed from the corners of their mouths.

"Urgent military intelligence!"

"Quick, please come out of the general, there is an emergency military situation ahead!"

A soldier roared sharply and raised his head, only to see that his face was covered with blood: "Quick, hurry up and ask the general to ride the chariot, our 20,000 soldiers and horses are surrounded!" ”

"General Che Cavalry, hurry, send troops to help!"

Han Yan, who was still chanting poetry just now, changed his face greatly, held on to the city wall, leaned out half of his body, and asked in a deep voice: "Where are the 20,000 soldiers and horses surrounded?" ”

The small group of men and horses ran out of two blood-stained soldiers, and rode their horses to a place more than a dozen steps under the city wall.

One of the soldiers took out a roll of silk from his arms, hurriedly tied it to a feather arrow, and said with a roar: "This is the map, this is the map, the general of the chariot cavalry hurriedly sent troops to help." ”

Between words.

Another soldier secretly pointed a special crossbow at Han Yan at the head of the city.

There was a soft click.

A short crossbow burst out and shot directly at Han Yan's face.

Ahh

With a terrible scream, Han Yan fell backwards in response, and three short crossbows on his face penetrated into the front door, a full depth of four or five inches, one of which shot into his left eye, leaving only two inches of arrow tail......

Not good, fooled!

At the head of the city, the Han army was in chaos, and they all shouted in unison, and they took down their bows and arrows, crossbow machines, etc., and wanted to shoot the enemy on the spot.

However, the dozen or so 'Huns' did not stop at all, they galloped wildly, and ran out more than a hundred paces long ago, and ordinary bows and arrows could not shoot that far.

A burst of yellow sand swept by.

Outside Tuweizi City, the sun sets in the desert, and the remnant sun is like blood.

The small group of centaurs, after a dozen breaths, had long since disappeared, leaving only a messy field of wild grass, whining in the wind, which looked very strange and desolate.

Shoot a big Han chariot general, and go straight away?

"Quick, send a team of soldiers and horses to catch up!"

A captain of the Northern Military Academy strode up to the city, and with just one glance at Han Yan, he knew that this thing was dead.

He immediately took over the military power, passed the order, and immediately sent three hundred elite iron cavalry out of the city to investigate, and then ordered the soldiers to drag Han Yan's body down the city and began to dispatch troops.

The captain of the Northern Army, who once followed the general Wei Qing to fight in the south and the north, has been on the battlefield for decades, and is naturally not comparable to a fool like Han Yan.

So far.

Yang Chuan's 'strategic goal' was accomplished, and it was time to retreat......

……

Ten days later.

The news of Han Yan's 'death in battle' was transmitted back to Chang'an City, causing an uproar, Liu Che was furious, and tossed hard for most of the night in a certain dormitory in Weiyang Palace, so that the two Hun little women could not get out of bed.

The Huns of the dog day!

I finally cultivated a talent, and I died in the Hexi Corridor so inexplicably?

What does Huo Qubing eat?

There is also Zhang Qian, I sent him over, and the envoy to the Western Regions was just a convenient task, and the main task was to assist Han Yan, the general of the cavalry, to make contributions in the Western Regions, and he actually acted without permission!

And also.

Who else?

Liu Che urgently summoned Wei Qing.

"Brother-in-law, I heard that you have been in poor health recently, I have asked the imperial doctor to see it a few times, how is it, are you better?"

Liu Che's face was gloomy, he sat behind a desk, holding a volume of military intelligence reports in his hand, and asked casually: "The general of the chariot and cavalry, Han Yan, died in battle, brother-in-law, who do you think is worthy of this important task in the DPRK and the Central Committee to conquer the Western Regions?" ”

Wei Qing arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty Xie is worried, Weichen has a strong body, and he has eaten a decoction for a while, and now he is already very good." ”

"As for the candidates for the Western Expeditionary Army, Wei Chen ...... I am willing to share your Majesty's worries. ”

Liu Che sighed and said softly: "Brother-in-law, I originally wanted you to go to the west, but the northwest is different from the desert to the south and the north, the spring and winter are bitter cold, and the summer and autumn are hot and dry, how dare I let my brother-in-law drag the sick body to the west?"

What's more, there are sick children over there, fighting and killing, and it is enough for him to be alone. ”

Wei Qing's face was calm, and he said: "Your Majesty, Weichen was born as a slave, and he can have today's glory and wealth, all of which are given by His Majesty, even if his body is broken, he is willing to go to the soup for His Majesty and die without giving up!" ”

"The Hexi Corridor has been initially decided, and the Western Regions have not yet been leveled."

"Your Majesty."

"In such a situation, only the elite iron cavalry swept the countries of the Western Regions, it is far from enough, the imperial court has to come up with a charter for reclamation and garrisoning the border as soon as possible, while sending a large army to clear the remnants of the Xiongnu Right Xianwang and suppress the countries of the Western Regions, it is necessary to resume production as soon as possible, reclaim a large amount of farmland, and settle those nomadic tribes to carry out farming, only in this way can we ensure that the Hexi Corridor and the land of the Western Regions can be included in the territory of our Han Dynasty as soon as possible."

"In addition, it is necessary to recruit and mobilize people, form several infrastructure battalions, and build roads to the Western Regions."

"At the same time, when ramming the gallop road along the way, it is also necessary to build the city pass and send troops to garrison it."

"If the imperial court does not have enough troops to defend it for a while, you can consider recruiting county soldiers to hold on to the city and ensure the smooth progress of the reclamation of tuntian......"

Wei Qing said the words pressed in his chest in one breath, his pale face gradually became a touch of blood, and the momentum of the whole person gradually recovered by two or three points.

He bowed and saluted, and said sincerely: "Your Majesty, Wechen would like to ask Your Majesty to pass on a decree to order Wechen to go to the Tuntian border of the Hexi Corridor, even if this old bone is thrown in the northwest, it is willing......"

Liu Che's eyes flashed, and he sighed: "Brother-in-law, you should recuperate with peace of mind." ”

Wei Qing persisted a few more times.

Liu Che didn't answer after all, but instead summoned two imperial doctors to check Wei Qing's pulse on the spot, and his face was very sincere with concern.

"Your Majesty, the general has lost both qi and blood, and his heart is unstable, so he must recuperate."

"Your Majesty, the general's body and bones are seriously deficient, and he urgently needs a decoction to recuperate, so he can't work hard to avoid aggravating his condition."

“……”

Liu Che sighed, took the initiative to walk down the white marble steps, patted Wei Qing on the shoulder a few times, soothed a few words softly, and then asked the two imperial doctors to 'support' Wei Qing to leave Weiyang Palace.

The emperor saw it clearly.

When the general Wei Qing left Weiyang Palace, his expression was gloomy, and the gray hair on his sideburns seemed to be a little decayed.

The nine-foot man suddenly fell ill.

"Alas, after all, the years are still urging people to grow old, look at this brother-in-law of mine, after the end of the Mobei War, it was only a few months, and his body bones collapsed."

Liu Che walked out of the front hall slowly, stood on the tall steps, looked at the garden, medicine garden and bamboo forest at the turn of spring and summer, and his mood gradually improved.

Cui Jiu, the great Changmen, followed behind the emperor and suddenly spoke: "Your Majesty, the general's body is fine, he is a rough man, he should do a little rough work, heavy work, and his condition will naturally improve." ”

Liu Che didn't look back, looked up at a few white clouds in the clear sky, and said expressionlessly: "Cui Jiu, what did I do wrong?" ”

Cui Jiu shook his head: "That's right." ”

Liu Che took a deep breath, and after holding back seven or eight breaths, he slowly exhaled: "Cui Jiu, you are an old man in the palace, you have served Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, and now, you have been by my side for all these years, and you know more things than me, you."

Cui Jiu, I ask you, should the relatives of the emperor's family be in charge of the military and the opposition? ”

Cui Jiu groaned slightly, and said: "When Emperor Gaozu was in power, Empress Lu was in power, and while killing the meritorious princes, he almost killed all the bloodlines of Gaozu's relatives, damn it."

During the time of Emperor Wen, the Empress Dowager Dou was in power, the Dou family controlled the government, and Dou Ying was both the prime minister and the general.

Under the prestige of Empress Dowager Dou, even Emperor Jing, who is the first in the world in terms of cultural and martial arts, is also in a dilemma, and he has changed his mind several times, and a candidate for the crown prince almost fell on His Majesty.

When His Majesty first ascended the throne, the Queen Mother's dictatorship, coupled with the power of the eldest princess Liu Xuan, was in power, and even His Majesty could not support it. ”

The old thief talked eloquently, without the slightest hint of sheeping, just like talking about some trivial things of other people's families.

"Your Majesty is worried that Empress Wei Zifu will become the second Empress Lu, Empress Dowager Dou, and Empress Dowager?"

Liu Che did not speak.

He walked slowly down the steps, through a garden of medicine and gardens, and at last, to a pond of less than ten acres, and leaned down to watch the finger-sized fish swim in the water.

At the turn of spring and summer, the weather in the Guanzhong area is very good.

It's not very hot, and the white clouds are long.

Some unknown birds flew by quickly, casting shadows on the calm water of the pond, startling the swimming fish, which was very ridiculous.

Liu Che grabbed a handful of fish food and spilled it out.

A school of fish is coming.

Look, this is the truth of the court......

……

Liu Che still didn't let Wei Qing go west after all.

Instead, it was chosen.

Gongsun He.

This Marquis of Nan, who followed the general Wei Qing to 'attack the Huns seven times without great merit', was quickly promoted by Liu Che, appointed as a servant and a servant, and concurrently served as the general of the expedition to the west, replacing the previous straw bag Han Yan, and becoming the 'supreme administrator' of the Han Dynasty through the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions.

Hearing this news, Yang Chuan couldn't help but sigh: "Liu Che, you sixth!" ”

Gongsun He, this person, brave and fierce in battle, similar to Su Jian, slaughtered the Hun tribe at every turn, once followed the general Wei Qing to fight in the south and the north, and made great contributions, just enough to seal a Guanwai Hou.

It's just that there are people above him.

Strictly speaking, there are two people on it.

Gongsun He's wife is the eldest sister of Empress Wei Zifu and General Wei Qing, even if Emperor Liu Che sees it, he has to reluctantly shout 'eldest brother-in-law'.

However, it is such a person, everyone thinks that he is the person of the great general Wei Qing.

In fact, Yang Chuan knew that this vulgar and unbearable Marquis of Nan was actually Liu Che's person after all, thinking about it later, this Marquis of Nan Cheng replaced Shi Qing to become the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, and for a time the power leaned towards the government and the opposition, but he did not avoid the involvement of the 'witch curse', not only was he dismissed from office, but also more than 300 women and children in the whole family, old and young, were ordered by Liu Che and killed them all.

As for whether there are three clans or nine clans, it doesn't matter.

Because, if it is really connected to the three clans and the nine clans, Emperor Liu Che may inevitably be stabbed......

"In Chang'an City, there is no rotten Big Wild Goose Pagoda."

Yang Chuan hid in the Sugan Lake in the Dunhuang area, fishing, hunting, and commanded his infrastructure battalion to build several solid city and military villages, quietly making himself the largest 'head snake' in the Hexi Corridor and even the Western Regions.

The little woman of the Huns, Reka, finally gave herself a breath of relief, and under Yang Chuan's continuous trumpeting, she changed several postures and finally became pregnant.

With a slightly bulging little belly, this little woman was very proud.

"Xiao Langjun, I'm also pregnant."

"Okay."

"Xiao Langjun, I want to give you a son."

"Okay, work harder, give this king two hammers."

"Two mallets?"

"Uh, it's two ......"

"Hmm!"

Reka was proud like a pregnant hen, walking around the yard, wanting to help Yang Chuan Xiaolangjun do some work, which made Yang Chuan laugh for a while.

"You go to the backyard and help the Huotou Army wash the vegetables," Yang Chuan was tinkering with a bunch of bottles and cans, and was disturbed by the little woman's mood walking around, so he had to wave his hand and send the little woman to the backyard.

'Gongsun He wants to come to the Hexi Corridor, with the heart and means of that old thief, as long as he hears that there is a strong and rich ethnic group on this side of Dunhuang, he will definitely lead troops to attack. ’

Some of the layouts of the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions have not yet been completed, and several major events have just begun, and Yang Chuan does not want to expose his existence.

How to deal with it is still a question.

(End of chapter)