"General Zhang, this time I brought 5,000 Baiyinyi to the rescue from the army, this General Kuang Zhang is the protector of Baiyinyi's army, and he is also the commander of the troops this time. These two are silver righteous military judges, and they also serve as staff officers of the army. They will join forces with General Zhang's Guiyi Army to attack Xihu, and several of them will be close. Lei Changye said with a smile.

"A few generals, I am glad to meet you. Zhang Yichao and Zhang Yitan immediately clasped their fists and saluted.

"The two generals, who have admired the name for a long time, will join forces in the future, please advise more. Kuang Zhang smiled calmly.

"The two generals are cloudy and righteous, and when they see them today, they are worthy of this life. Jia Xu and Pang Hengyi bowed at the same time.

"The arrival of several Shangguan made Peng Shen shine, but it's a pity that I ...... I have no wine to raise a glass here, no food to raise a bowl, and I have neglected all my brothers who are righteous and obedient to silver. Zhang Yichao said with emotion.

"General Zhang, this time I brought one million stone grains with the ship, all of which are newly harvested Bashu rice, and at the same time 10,000 catties of pigs, cattle and mutton, hoping to solve the general's urgency. A month later, I will sail to Shazhou again to bring in the wine, meat, rice and grain raised in Jiangnan to reward the three armies. Lei Changye said with a smile.

"This, this, this...... Too...... I...... This ......" Zhang Yichao opened his mouth and finally laughed up to the sky after a long time, "This is really an unexpected joy." If there is such a rich salary, I am willing to make a military order to the imperial court, within half a year, to restore Sha, Gansu, Su, Shan, Yi, Xi, He, Lan, Min, Kuo 11 prefectures, so that this Hexi corridor will reproduce the charm of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"General, the soldiers are hungry for a long time, and it is not suitable to eat rice, so they need to eat porridge and soup tonight, otherwise there will be losses. Lei Changye added a sentence while Zhang Yichao was flying.

"Lord Lei loves soldiers like sons, and the officials admire him!" Zhang Yichao glanced at Lei Changye deeply and said sincerely.

That night, Lei Changye started three food workshops to make dishes, and made all the 10,000 catties of pigs, beef and mutton he brought into bacon that could be placed for a long time, and made a lot of meat soup and minced meat, which were mixed with the rice porridge made by the gang in Shazhou City, and fed to the soldiers and civilians in Shazhou City.

The citizens of Shazhou, who had not eaten for a long time, drank the soup porridge and were moved to hug each other and cry, and the Qihu soldiers in the city, including the Xihu who surrendered to the righteous army, made up their minds to completely naturalize the Tang family because of this fragrant and refreshing meat porridge.

Wu Zhen specially brought a big bowl of mutton porridge to Master Hong Bian, who was already full of skin and bones. Master Hong also did not abide by the monks' precepts, feasted a lot, and persuaded Wuzhen to have a bowl as well. When the monks and soldiers under his command saw that the commander had eaten the meat, everyone also flocked to grab the minced meat to eat, and they were all smiling and red-faced.

After a meal, the whole city of Shazhou laughed and laughed, and the sound of singing was everywhere, as if returning to the charming charm of Dunhuang in one day.

In the meeting hall of the Shazhou Thorn History Mansion, Lei Changye, Zhang Yichao, Zhang Yitan, Kuang Zhang, Jia Xu, and Pang Hengyi gathered around the combat sand table specially made by Lei Changye for this Western Expedition, and each person had a bowl of meat porridge, drinking and discussing the future war situation in Shazhou.

"Does this time Xihu's withdrawal mean that the siege of Shazhou has been completely lifted?" Zhang Yitan asked.

Everyone looked at the sand table map in silence. After a while, Jia Xu shook his head: "King Zampu has bet all his bets on the counterinsurgency in Shazhou. The Shazhou rebels are not extinguished, and the dignity of the royal family is no longer there, which is the source of civil strife. The Xihu army will not return to the plateau if it does not break through Shazhou. ”

"The Xihu cavalry did not need supplies, and could continue to fight only by raiding on the spot, and today's retreat was only a temporary expedient measure, and in the months to come, they would make a detour around Shazhou, looking for an opportunity to attack like a pack of wolves. If the Xihu cavalry could not be eliminated in Shazhou, the spring seedlings in Shazhou would never be able to go to the ground, and other state capitals would not return to Tang. Zhang Yichao pointed to the wilderness near Shazhou City on the sand table and said.

"We want a complete withdrawal of Xihu troops unless we can give them a head-on attack every time the Xihu cavalry attacks, and the cost of making them attack outweighs the benefits they can get. Pang Hengyi said in a deep voice.

"However, how can we do it?" Zhang Yichao pondered.

"Use. Jia Xu said categorically, "The seven-bearded disciples in the city have their hearts set to the Heavenly Empire, and with a little training, they can disperse the people, and they can monitor the movements of Xihu at any time without suspicion." As long as I am informed of the Shazhou horse team in time, so that I can quickly mobilize superior forces to attack, the Xihu cavalry will be attacked head-on, and in the long run, the Xihu tribe and thousands of households will have doubts and will gradually retreat. ”

"This sounds like a good idea, but the key is how to report it in a timely manner. Zhang Yichao shook his head with a wry smile, "The people of the Seven Beards will fight side by side with me Hanmin in this and within a year, with one heart and one mind, and their loyalty can be trusted." But if they saw the cavalry and immediately set up their horses to call the police, they would have been shot by the Xihu cavalry. While such an arrangement is costly, it is also extremely difficult to succeed. ”

"What's ...... about this matter," Jia Xu, Pang Hengyi, and Kuang Zhang looked at Lei Changye with a smile at the same time.

"General Zhang, recently in the Tang Dynasty, into the picture box is in the ascendant, now Chang'an has one, I think the Shazhou military and civilians in their spare time, but also want to pass the time, so I also brought three thousand pieces for the Guiyi Army. Why don't you let me explain to you how to use the painting box?" asked Lei Changye with a smile.

Looking at the painting box that came out of Lei Changye's hand like a trick, Zhang Yichao and Zhang Yitan both stretched their necks and looked curious.

When Lei Changye briefly introduced the use of the Divine Sense into the painting box, Brother Zhang Yichao gave it a try, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Lieutenant, this is a battlefield artifact, if there is such a thing, although it is thousands of miles apart, but the divine consciousness can meet in the painting, close to the end of the world, overnight. If I can have 3,000 seven-bearded disciples holding the painting box in their hands, I know the movements of Xihu well, and we can arrange in the middle, and I can deal with it calmly, and I will not be defeated in a hundred battles. Zhang Yichao hissed ecstatically.

"General Zhang, this time the five thousand silver righteous servants I led are all first-class riders, but unfortunately Chang'an is withered, there are few good horses, this time if the war horses captured on the battlefield are used by our army, it can form a rapid mobile cavalry, the general only needs to disperse the seven-bearded people, form an intelligence network, once the police are called, by my silver Yicong attack, there will be something. Kuang Zhang said confidently.

"It turns out that the lieutenant has already set a winning strategy for my Shazhou City from the beginning of the battle, and I have captured 10,000 war horses on the battlefield today, and I should hand them all over to General Kuang. Zhang Yichao was overjoyed.

"Good. This time, I can only anchor in Shazhou for one night, and tomorrow I will return to Chang'an to prepare for the westward expedition. At the same time, I also need to do something new to contribute to the development of the Western Regions in the future. The rest of Shazhou's matters will be left to you to decide. Lei Changye said with a smile.

"I wish the Lieutenant Lieutenant an invincible expedition to the west. The generals in the council hall clenched their fists and said in unison.

"Borrow the auspicious words of the king. ”

The next morning, Lei Changye drove the Flying Fish Lady ship to set sail and turned around and flew towards Chang'an amid the cheers and farewells of the soldiers and civilians in Shazhou. Wuzhen, who came with him, was reluctant to accept the believers in Shazhou, and insisted on staying in Shazhou to organize monks and soldiers.

Lei Changye drove the boat while paying attention to the situation in the picture box. He collaborated with Wu Daozi to produce two batches of painted middle bodies with his specialization in the method of ten thousand transformations.

A group of paintings are used by the Shazhou Guiyi Army, and they are specially used by the seven-bearded people to deliver messages. In these paintings, he is hidden in a blessed place outside the Immortal Hidden Diagram - Loulan City. As long as the seven-bearded people are in the painting, they can wander around Loulan City, and even go to the palace of Loulan City to find the painting bodies of Zhang Yichao and Zhang Yitan to pass on information.

Of course, out of the inertia of being a game community, Lei Changye also set up many houses and shops in Loulan City for the seven-bearded people to hang out and socialize. However, he didn't dare to set up any specific areas for Lei Gong Opera and Leaping Circus here. lest the seven-bearded people become addicted to the game and forget to do business.

Another batch of paintings is the body of Bai Yinyi's paintings used uniformly. The body of these paintings focuses on a blessed place in the northern snowfield, the Long Day Pool. On top of the Long Day Pool, Lei Changye placed a building complex called Valhalla, which was used to load the silver righteous divine consciousness that had died on the battlefield.

The Valhalla complex also has facilities for leisure, recreation, practice and socialising. And there are as many as 150,000 in the paintings. Lei Changye was placed in the painting according to Bai Yinyi's most optimistic estimate of the number of recruits, for fear that the lack would not be enough, but it was not because he thought that so many people might die in the Western Expedition.

By the time the Flying Fish Lady's boat sailed to the second day, Lei Changye had already felt that the three thousand people in the painting in Loulan City already had divine consciousness in their bodies. These are all loyal seven-bearded people screened out by Zhang Yichao.

Among them are the remnants of Achai, the remnants of the party, the children of Xihu, the remnants of the six major tribes of the Northern Barbarians, and the children of the princely states such as Yangtong and Subi. They came all the way to Dunhuang, because the Shazhou City in Dunhuang was mainly under the jurisdiction of the Zhang Yichao family, and the local governance was the most effective, the products were relatively rich, the commerce was also prosperous, and the standard of living was relatively high in the Western Regions.

Influenced by the remnants of the Han nationality here, their degree of sinicization is very high, and because Zhang Yichao followed the concept of mixing the four seas in the founding era of the Tang Dynasty, he strengthened his education, and in the two years after the uprising, they already regarded themselves as Tang people.

They entered Loulan City and wandered among the pavilions and pavilions rich in the atmosphere of the Western Regions, all of them were sincerely amazed and nostalgic in the languages of various ethnic groups, and even knelt down to worship. The scenery and breath in the immortal hidden picture made them extremely intoxicated.

Immediately after that, they began to show the movements that all the consciousness that enters the painting for the first time will subconsciously perform, jumping and running, running and jumping, wandering around, and being extremely happy.

Fortunately, Lei Changye set up an enchantment. Otherwise, they would even run out of the desert where Loulan City was located, and mistakenly broke into the Lei Gong Canyon, which was located not far away.

Lei Changye patiently observed for a while, and found that the degree of militarization of these seven-bearded people was also very high, and after playing in Loulan City for a while, they withdrew from Loulan City, thinking that they set off to the four borders of Shazhou and began the mission of lurking and reconnaissance.

The seven-bearded people who are holding the picture box in their hands are the time bombs buried in the major military administrative regions of Xihu. The whereabouts of the Xihu cavalry are no longer a secret.

And in Valhalla, there are also 5,000 silver servants looking around. They just walked around Valhalla and saw that there was nothing to do, so they just quit. They were all players of the Leaping Circus, and they were already as familiar with the Xianyin Diagram as if they were their own home, so they didn't sigh any sighs, just breathed a sigh of relief.

Many people looked around and nodded with satisfaction, they could be resurrected in such a magnificent palace after death, magnificent, not in vain.