Food is Li Hao's life.

If the grain area in Weibei is destroyed, what will be used to distribute troops to his soldiers?

If you don't know that the whole Guanzhong will cause a famine, the hungry people and the soldiers will riot together, and there will be no peace in Guanzhong, even if there is no chaos, the Tang Ting will lose its trust in the soldiers, what will it take to resist Zhu Wendong?

Li Ye's forehead was covered with cold sweat.

This kind of intrigue is more dangerous than war on the surface.

When I first came, I felt that I was terrible, playing with others in the palm of my hand, Bianzhou moved my fingers, and my side was in danger.

Xue Guangheng was able to find out the clues in advance, and it was really the blessing of the ancestors of the Li Tang family, otherwise Meng Fang would destroy the grain area together, and Yang Shihou would mess with Chang'an, and he would lose his skin if he didn't die.

"Gather the cavalry in the army and chase after me!"

Chang'an is more than 300 miles away from Tongzhou, and Meng Fang is also a foot soldier, so he can't go far in half a day.

Yang Shihou's department is not a cavalry, there are only 200 horses used by scouts in the army, and there are 500 horses in the palace, and there are 700 horses, which can be beaten by 700 horses, but it is okay to drag them down.

Li Ye took Xin Shilang and other guards on the horse, "I went to drag Meng Fangtong first, and General Yang led the army to come later." “

The military situation is urgent, and it doesn't matter if Yang Shihou is injured or not.

"The last general obeys!"

Li Ye quickly whipped through Chang'an, and the chickens and dogs in the city suddenly jumped, and now he can't control so much.

"Your Majesty." Li Ye, who was wearing a helmet, was still recognized by the people in the city.

The people consciously gave up a road, and even more strong people took the initiative to clear the road and maintain order, which made Li Hao's heart warm, and it seemed that his efforts were not in vain after all.

There were still 1,000 Praetorian Guards in the Tonghua camp, and Li Ye sent more than a dozen personal guards to restrain them and let them follow behind.

Out of the Tonghua Gate to the east is the official road, over the years the war is still frequent, in disrepair, everywhere potholes, the cavalry does not dare to accelerate, and in order to maintain horsepower, the guards have to dismount from time to time, even so, or the war horse was broken hooves.

It doesn't feel like walking as fast as it gets.

Li Ye used to have the intention of repairing, but he has been fighting, and he has no money or energy.

It was so bumpy that it didn't even catch up with the shadows at night.

The scouts came back and shook their heads one by one.

Could it be that instead of going east, crossing the Weishui River and going north?

Li Ye changed a group of scouts to search north.

Li Ye himself felt tired, so he asked the soldiers to dismount and rest.

Xin Shilang handed over the water bladder, "Could it be that Meng Fangtong didn't go to the grain area of Tongzhou?" “

Li Ye was stunned for a moment, and did not rule out this possibility, but where could he go if he didn't go to the grain area? Tongguan?

Tongguan is guarded by Li Yun, and Li Ye is not worried at all.

"Report to Your Majesty, fifteen miles to the east have found traces of the Praetorian Guard!" A scout returns.

"East?" Li Ye was puzzled, if Meng Fangtong wanted to destroy the grain area, he should go north and cross the boundary of Tongzhou to the east, did he really want to attack Tongguan?

In terms of income, destroying the grain area is definitely more cost-effective than attacking Tongguan.

Li Yun is not an idle person, without Chang'an's order, Meng Fang will only be regarded as an enemy army if he approaches 2,000 people.

"Get on the horse!" At this time, I don't feel sorry for the war horse.

Fifteen miles, half an hour to catch up. The Praetorian Guards were resting, and they didn't set up any camps, Li Ye couldn't figure out what Meng Fangtong meant, so he stopped a stone's throw away and looked at them coldly.

It used to be the Hezhong Army, but now they are the Praetorian Guards, or Li Ye led people to treat them, and when they saw the emperor, the whole army knelt down and saluted.

didn't see Meng Fangtong, Li Ye didn't dare to go over after all.

used to walk a tightrope barefoot, but now it's different, Guanzhong is all tied to his life, and he doesn't dare to take risks alone.

Five officers walked out of the middle, who should be the head of the army, and walked to Li Ye's horse to pay respects, "The last general will meet Your Majesty." “

Li Ye slapped his horsewhip in a false way, "You are so bold, it is a capital crime to leave the camp without my military order, who made you do this?" “

The five of them looked at each other, "Your Majesty forgives me, General Meng said that there was a rebellion in Tongguan, and he led me to quell the rebellion." “

Li Ye's face darkened, "What about Meng Fangtong?" Don't you dare to come to see me?

"General Meng said to take two hundred soldiers to the front to reconnoitre."

"In which direction is he going?"

"Northeast."

Li Ye was confused again, the northeast direction is the Yellow River, what is he going to do?

"Did Meng Fangtong tell you anything?"

All five shook their heads in unison.

Li Ye looked at the northeast direction, did he want to kill back to Hezhong Mansion alone?

When I think of Meng Fangtong's character, it is absolutely possible, he is from a general's background, and he is strong-blooded, impulsive, and there is nothing he can't do.

Perhaps he did want to destroy the grain area at first, but halfway through the journey, he changed his mind.

Tang Ting also has the grace of knowing him, much stronger than him in Hezhong Mansion, and promoted him to deputy commander, seeing that the expansion of the army in Guanzhong is imminent, the next step is to command the envoy, or the real Tang commander.

Reasonably, Meng Fangtong had no reason to betray Li Ye.

Li Ye sighed, "How long has General Meng been gone?" “

"An hour and a half."

For an hour and a half, it is estimated that it will be difficult to catch up without war horses, and after two days of high-load reconnaissance, the scouts are tired enough.

"Let's go to Tongzhou first."

A day later, Li Ye came to Tongzhou sleepily, and Pei Zhen hurried out of the city to greet him.

Li Ye didn't have time to greet him, so he directly asked Tongzhou to send scouts to reconnoiter in the direction of Puban, find Meng Fangtong, and let him come back.

However, the scout did not bring back the news of Meng Fangtong after all, Li Ye waited for two days, but waited for Xue Guangheng instead.

Xue Guangheng was covered in blood and still had wounds, "Your Majesty, the last general has successfully rescued General Meng's family." “

Li Ye's heart warmed, "Wang Ke is still embarrassed by you?" “

Xue Guangheng was in good spirits, "That's not true, Wang Ke didn't help each other, he just didn't see it, but the enemy was very piercing, and he ambushed in advance, and we lost dozens of brothers." “

"Such a big casualty?" Li Ye was distressed

This can be said to be the largest casualty of the establishment of the guards.

"The other party is from the hall." Xue Guangheng presented a black iron plaque with a word written on it, which was a traditional hall character.

Halls all?

Isn't this Zhu Wen's most elite pro-army? It is estimated that it is similar to the special forces of later generations.

Zhu Wen selected the rich man's martial artist to put it under the tent, called "Hall Capital", extremely well-equipped, and crossbow arrows can be fired in a row.

It was not easy for Xue Guangheng to come back alive.

The hall is only one of the strong armies under him, as well as the Luoyan Capital, the White Army, and so on.

Zhu Wenneng was attacked on all sides of Xuanwu, started in a hundred battles, and his ability to command troops was absolutely the best in the world.

"The other party is extremely powerful, if it weren't for the few people, I wouldn't have survived!" Xue Guangheng had palpitations.

Li Ye patted him on the shoulder, and even the hall in Bianzhou was dispatched, and in order to deal with himself, he also calculated the blood cost.

Meng Fangtong has only four people in the family, parents, wife and children, no wonder Meng Fangtong wants to kill back, his parents are old, his wife is weak, and his son is only four or five years old.

Li Ye didn't want to disturb them, so he asked them to rest in Tongzhou for two days temporarily, and then sent them to Chang'an.

When Meng Fangtong returned to the river, he should have known that someone from Chang'an had picked up his family.

However, whether he will come back is two words, the more fleshed and strong the person, the heavier the shame.

The grain producing area is safe, which makes Li Ye breathe a sigh of relief.

Today's Tang Ting looks thriving, but in fact, it walks on the tightrope, like a newly unearthed seedling, which can't withstand any wind and rain.

Meng Fangtong's departure gave Li Ye a great lesson, the generals can move troops and horses at will, which is definitely not a good thing.

Of course, this is also related to the frequent wars in the late Tang Dynasty, and the warriors gradually got out of control due to the war.

Although Li Ye issued an edict that troops should not be sent at will without an imperial order, there was too much room for movement.

Just like Meng Fangtong casually sent troops to quell the rebellion, his soldiers would follow.

Thinking about it, you can only use the traditional tiger charm system.

In order to avoid the ancestor of the Li family, the Tang Dynasty changed its name to the fish charm, and gradually became a symbol of the official's rank, deriving the fish bag.

The end of the Tang Dynasty was the era of the rise of martial artists, and these bells and whistles were not as good as the big blades for the martial artists.

The fish charm is gradually declining.

Li Ye thought about changing the dual regulation of edicts and fish charms in the future, and there were fish charms and edicts before troops could be dispatched.

In non-wartime, any transfer of more than 100 troops requires an application to the Privy Council.

Now there is still a Privy Council in Chang'an City, but like the Six Ministries, it has nothing to show for it.