Deputy thousands of households were overjoyed, kneeling down and kowtowing repeatedly. Chen Lu took the officers and soldiers of the mission, protected Yin Ji, returned to the camp, checked the military horses, and lost more than 30 people, Li Da was in pain.

Yin Ji solemnly thanked him, comforted Li Da, and promised that when he arrived in Turgan, in addition to replenishing the establishment of the mission, he would give one more general staff.

Then Yin Ji sent someone back to the Xuanwei Division to tell the prince that Maham had rebelled against the king of Wara Zhongshun and had gone dozens of miles deep into the Turkan interface, and he had made preparations in advance. Hurry up to the imperial court and send troops to recruit and suppress.

In the evening, Li Da set up a banquet for Yin Ji to suppress the shock, Chen Lu drank two more glasses and rested early. He returned to the lower place, took out the Zhenhai Pearl, recited the incantation, saw that everything was normal in the Sea Ghost Country, relaxed his heart, and stripped to bed. He glanced at the blue belt, and two more vertical bars disappeared. He knew that it was caused by the use of magic today, and that if he used it on ordinary people, he would be damned.

Chen Lu sighed in his heart, went to bed, and said nothing all night.

The next day, Mao Zheng set off for Thurfan, and in less than two hours, he arrived at the Xuanwei Division, and the officials were already waiting outside the east gate to take the mission to the palace.

Three trumpet cannons, the middle door of the palace was opened, and the prince of Yongning and the consolation envoy Ha'er led hundreds of civil and military officials, generals and colonels to welcome them, and invited Sheng'an, read out the holy decree, a series of activities, and will not repeat them.

King Yongning feasted the officers and soldiers of the mission, the officers and soldiers changed into new clothes at that time, had dinner, and the soldiers went to the east of the city to camp in Yacheng, and the two hundred soldiers from the Western Regions who supplemented the mission also arrived at the camp together.

After lunch, Yin Ji told the prince about the situation of the past two days, especially the matter of Wara, which Yin Ji had written in the evening and handed it to the governor of the palace.

When King Yongning read it, he was very annoyed and said to the three envoys: "The court has always been kind to Warat, Mahamu is the king of loyalty, Taiping is the king of virtue, and Polo is the king of Anle. The three of them were all named the special Jin Ziguanglu doctors, and the rewards were innumerable, and he still wanted to rebel! The king has already written a letter and sent for questioning. It just so happens that the angel is here, and you must borrow your Great Seal of Defense, which can be regarded as sending accountability. ”

Chen Lu translated it, and Li Da said: "Although the northwest land is nominally the territory of Warat, all tribes are also stationed there and grazing. The envoy heard from Long Gang that the Tartar ghost Li Chi also attacked them during the Chinese New Year. The envoy thought that it was necessary to send him a letter of accountability, and that it could also be stamped with the Great Seal of the Imperial Mission. It's just that I'm not sure yet, so the tone should be relatively relaxed, and let him Mahamu explain. ”

Everyone agreed that they wanted to take a break. Li Da said that the journey is tiring, the dinner party will be exempted, and he will come to disturb him again at noon tomorrow, and King Yongning will not be reluctant. Yin Ji, as the royal envoy, sent them to the camp in the east of the city.

Chen Lu and the others arrived at the camp and looked around, and the Xuanwei Division had already made arrangements. This is a large barracks, with a compound specially separated from the mission, and the soldiers of the Propaganda Department do not interfere with each other. Li Da has promised the prince to rest here for five days.

Chen Lu came to his room, which was two big rooms, where he lived, and there were two more rooms next door, where Han Liu'er and two personal soldiers lived. Chen Lu didn't dare to be careless, and without waiting for Han Liu'er to settle down, he lined up the incense case indoors, asked for a run, and drew fifty sheets in the council hall and posted them everywhere.

In the evening, Xuanwei Si Bingding delivered dinner, the dishes were very rich, and there was good wine.

After everyone had eaten, Li Da asked Xizi to bring Ha San to talk about his marriage to Nalan. Both of them had no opinion, especially Nalan, who made it clear that the envoy was in charge of the decision. Because of the last arrangement, Li Da is his mother's family.

In the end, the three envoys discussed, arranged by Li Xian, and the marriage was completed here in Turgan, and Li Xian happily accepted the errand. After the shift, everyone turned off the lights and rested.

At this time, the rumbling of cannons woke everyone up. Chen Lu felt that the sound of the cannon shook the earth, and the indoor furnishings were swaying and swinging. He remembered the last time he was in Hamiwei, and he didn't know who had poked the basket again.

At this time, Han Liu'er had already come in, Chen Lu subconsciously glanced at him, Han Liu'er understood in his heart, and he didn't feel red-faced. Chen Lu didn't say anything, hurriedly got dressed, pulled and stopped, and heard the sound of Ha San gathering the team, he hurriedly ran out, and heard the sound of horses' hooves on the road outside.

Han Liu'er said: "My lord, Xizi has just come, and the envoy is invited." ”

Although Chen Lu was also a little panicked in his heart, he was no longer the same as before. During this time, all kinds of weird things rubbed him out of his temper. He was thinking, the sound of the cannon didn't look like a drill, it seemed like a siege.

He came to the council hall, two angels were waiting for him, he stepped forward to salute, and just sat down, Ha San hurriedly came in, and said, "My lord, just now Long Gang went to ask, it is the Wara soldiers who are attacking the western suburbs. Our team has been assembled and is on standby. ”

Li Da asked, "How many men do they have?"

Ha San said: "It's not clear yet, just now the Xuanwei Division came to a hundred households to report, the enemy situation is unknown, let us not move, they have sent troops to protect us around." The lowly general has also sent out a sentry. ”

Li Da nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's handled well, listening to this movement, it doesn't look like a small group of troops harassing you." ”

Ha San said: "What the adults said is that this is the sound of tiger head guns and stone throwers, which are only equipped by large troops. ”

As he was talking, Long Gang ran in and reported: "Report to your lordship, this is a large army, about 30,000 people. The prince sent people to say, looking at this scale, it is very likely that it is Warat, and the Tatars are too far to come here, and it is impossible for so many soldiers to come here. The Propaganda Department has sent troops to meet the enemy, but there are less than 20,000 people stationed in the city, so we need to pay more attention. ”

After listening to this, everyone showed solemn expressions on their faces.

Chen Lu stood up and said, "Envoy Daren, my Zicheng and General Ha San will go outside to take a look at the defense. After saying that, he said goodbye and walked to the gate with a few people. Two teams of soldiers from the Western Regions came over to salute, saying that the boss had an order not to go out.

Chen Lu ignored him and walked out of the camp, these two teams of soldiers were not easy to stop, so they had to follow and line up to escort.

Chen Lu wanted to take advantage of the moonlight to check the terrain and be prepared. This camp is the barrier of the east gate of the city of Thurfan, bordering the river in the north, a hill in the northwest, and the city of Thurfan ten miles to the west.

Chen Lu saw that the moat divided the camp and the east gate of the city into two places. The perimeter of the camp was a circular position because of the fortifications. On the wall of the camp there is an arrow stack every few dozen steps, and there is a big horse lantern that is angry.

Chen Lu walked to the northeast, and there was a row of stone throwers placed side by side, and the soldiers were all in place. Chen Lu relieved himself a little, returned to the camp, and walked around the courtyard, there were nearly 3,000 people in the entire camp, and there were 2,000 outside the barracks.

A heavily armed general saw Chen Lu and ran over to give a military salute. Reporting the title, it is the secretary of the health department and the knowledge of Ba Xin. Chen Lu returned the salute, nodded, returned to the camp gate, climbed the arrow tower, and looked west, the flames were soaring, and explosions were heard from time to time.

Ha San said: "My lord, if I use soldiers, I will definitely quietly send troops to the east gate and the south gate, and take our big battalion, and the east gate will be in no danger to defend, and Turfan City will be at your fingertips." It can be seen that the Warat soldiers do not have this insight. ”

Chen Lu said: "You ask Long Gang, do they have this knowledge?"