Don't look at Lin Xiao's search for medicine and exploration in Wudang Mountain, he often chats with various hermits who live in seclusion here, but he is also very concerned about the current environment and court situation of the Great Sui Empire.

Sometimes, the more secluded the place, the better the information.

For example, a few days ago, there was news that the barbarians outside the Saiwai had moved again, and began to gather a large number of men and horses, planning to go south to the Heshuo area to fight the grass valley, and Li Hu, the Duke of Tang Guo, received the will of His Majesty the Emperor who is now in Luoyang, gathered the government soldiers of Longxi and Guanzhong, and prepared to go north to the Great Wall to prepare for the border.

The Li family mobilized almost all their strength for this purpose, planning to teach the grassland barbarians a hard lesson, but they did not have Lin Xiao's whereabouts, and originally wanted to use Li Qing's innate divine power, but now they have nowhere to look.

If it was before, Li Qing would not have had the opportunity to participate in this kind of border war on a huge scale, but now it is different, first of all, the Sui Emperor's defense of the Li family has increased, who let the Miss Li family worship an immortal as a teacher, with the immortal as the backing, the future of the Li family is not something that the Sui Emperor can handle at will.

However, even if the Sui Emperor is uneasy in his heart, he does not dare to play a black hand in the dark, everything must be carried out in accordance with the laws of the imperial court, and the number of troops that can be used to provide the Li family with the amount of troops that can be used, but the Sui Emperor can be relatively arbitrary, such as reducing the army that could have been prepared by half, of course, the reduced half of the Sui Emperor will definitely be transferred to other directions that are not the responsibility of the Li Mansion, which forces the Li Mansion to take out all his family funds, otherwise once the battle is defeated, it is better to say that it is not impossible to commit suicide.

In this way, the Li Mansion's expectations for the force of his own young lady have reached a higher level.

Since Lin Xiao advocates "no disloyal and unfilial immortals", then he will not let Li Qing participate, besides, although Lin Xiao is not a nationalist, but after all, one thing is right, that is, the invasion of the grassland barbarians, the people who died were the people of the Central Plains, and the biggest loss was also the most ordinary people. And death is not the most unfortunate thing for the common people of the Central Plains, and it is even more unfortunate that they will be enslaved by the barbarians, and they will have to live as slaves for generations, which is the saddest place. If we look at it this way, the invasion of the barbarians outside the Cyprus is more harmful than a great flood.

In public and private, this is not what Lin Xiao expects to see. Besides, if Li Qing has experienced one, two, or three battlefield battles, he will also have a promoting effect on the maturity of his personality, and he will be able to look at things from a third-party perspective and have a normal heart in advance.

Just like Li Yingqiong, she has seen countless flies and dogs in the rivers and lakes since she was a child, and she has a deep understanding of human nature, but she is innocent and hearty.

Lin Xiao hopes that Li Qing, a disciple, can be like Li Yingqiong, even if he is in charge of the portal in the future, there will be no problems - Lin Xiao will still soar sooner or later.

Calculating the time, the Li family should also organize their own guards and the government soldiers in Longxi to gather together at this time, and prepare to send troops to the Great Wall.

The Great Sui Empire inherited the military service system in the early days of the Han Empire, although there were some changes, but the changes were not big, so the assembly of government soldiers was very fast, but it took some time to allocate grain and grass. The advance personnel of the Li Mansion did not go out with the government soldiers, but went to the border in advance to receive the border troops, and only Li Hu, the prince of the country, and Li Hu's third son, Li Hao, remained in the rear.

Lin Xiao sneaked directly into Li Hu's study silently at night.

As one of the eight great families in Kansai, Li Hu's martial arts are needless to say very high, and his best skills are also riding and archery, so even if he is fifty years old, his eyesight is as sharp, and his body's reaction is not at all like that of old decay, as soon as Lin Xiaogang appeared in the study, Li Hu noticed the changes around him. Needless to say, this was also Lin Xiao's intention, because the first thing Lin Xiao did when he came to Li Hu's study was to isolate the movement inside and outside the study.

It was the sudden silence in the study that alarmed Li Hu, and after Li Hu looked up, what he saw was Lin Xiao's smiling face.

Seeing Lin Xiao, the immortal who made his daughter disappear, Li Hu was both happy and a little complaining: I just said hello to us as parents, we don't even know your whereabouts, what can I do when I miss my daughter?

It's not that Li Hu has such a grudge, but many of the Sui Emperor's current measures, the Li family is like walking a tightrope, and if one is not careful, it will fall off a cliff. And the Sui Emperor was obviously wary of the Li family. Seeing Lin Xiao was very happy, and it was very simple, which meant that Lin Xianchang would not see the Li family unlucky, and he had the intention of helping.

"Master Li, Poor Dao knows what you think in your heart. That's right, in a few days, the poor path will take the apprentice home, and letting her experience the battlefield is also the only way to cultivate. Poor Dao also knows that there are shamans and wizards in the army of barbarians outside the Saiwai, and there are even snowy monks, their evil arts, but not the army of the Great Sui Empire can deal with them, for this matter, Poor Dao has personally gone to spy on it, if these wizards and monks do not make a move, Poor Dao will sit on the side and watch the Li family master lead the army to conquer the Saiwai, if those people make a move, Poor Dao will also kill. ”

Li Hu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, Li Hu had fought with the barbarians outside the Saiwai before, many times because of the existence of wizards in the barbarians, forcing the Great Sui army to rely on the Great Wall for defense, although the iron cavalry of the Great Sui Empire was invincible in the world, of course he was not afraid to meet one or two shamans, and there was even no lack of records to kill them, but once the barbarians outside the Saiwai concentrated their forces, once the scale exceeded 50,000 or more, then the concentrated wizard shamans were not something that the ordinary iron-blooded army array could deal with.

Not to mention the distance, it is Li Hu's own family, and there are no less than twenty losses on the barbarians outside the Saiwai over the years, this is still a close branch of the Li family, and there are even more casualties among the disciples of the distant branch and their own generals and guards. With Lin Xiao's promise, at least one thing is that the Li family will not die many times this time.

In fact, the situation of the Li family is similar to that of several major families who have been staying in Guanxi, because of the confrontation with the barbarians outside the Saiwai for many years, the clansmen of each family's lineage, near branch, and far branch have suffered great losses, and they have gradually been surpassed by the Yang family and the Yuwen family who moved to the Central Plains, and even began to be suppressed. This time, the Sui Emperor reduced the original Li family's deployment of troops by almost half, which was not unusable, and it was regarded as a temptation by the Sui Emperor.

If the Li family's strength loss is too great, it is estimated that it will be an opportunity for the Sui Emperor to clean up the Li family, but if the Li family's loss is not large, or even the military exploits and results are brilliant, then the Sui Emperor will not only not be able to weaken the Li family, but will vigorously win over - everything follows the law of the jungle of the jungle.

Whether Li Qing appears or not, it is very different for the Li family, don't look at Li Qing is daughter, she is only the fifth in the family, but the Li family, including Li Hu, has no martial arts that can beat Li Qing, the only difference is that several brothers, including Li Hu's uncle, can take Li Qing's few moves. Although the battlefield fights, not only in the level of the general's personal force, but the battlefield needs the command of the general, once the general is killed, then it may lead to a phalanx losing command and collapse, a rout will cause the collapse of the whole army at any time, then this one will be completely lost, whether the general or the small soldier can escape the cavalry of the grassland barbarians, there will only be a few, and there is the Sui Emperor behind the more fatal, but I don't know whether the Sui Emperor will raise his hand and let it go gently, or fall into the well.

There is also a strong general who can also play the role of a charging arrow, and the effect of killing through the enemy formation will spread, once the enemy formation is broken and disrupted, the next thing is often to chase and kill the rout.

Of course, no matter how large-scale a war is, only a small part of the people are engaged, but there has never been a shortage of war cases in history where hundreds of thousands of troops collapsed because the morale of the army was defeated.

And Li Qing's role for the Li family is a mascot like the Dinghai God Needle, at least the soldiers know that they have an invincible general in their army, which will improve the morale of the army, which is of great significance for large-scale joint battles.

The purpose of Lin Xiao's arrival was not to cheer up Li Hu, but to tell Li Hu to pay attention to secrecy, and only when Li Hu came to the front line in person and wanted to start a war with the barbarian army, Lin Xiao would show up with Li Qing. Of course, Li Hu also needs to bring the wild horse head and the lance that Lin Xiao found for Li Qing to the front line of the border pass, otherwise Li Qing, who has no weapons, will fight.

Li Hu knew that his daughter would definitely participate in the war anyway, but he was very happy in his heart, and he nodded and agreed to Lin Xiao's request, and even said that he would set up a small camp for Lin Xiao and his daughter, and the Li family's family would be responsible for building and guarding it, and even the other Li family children would not tell him.

Although the Li family's own children are trustworthy, there are still wizards and monks in the barbarian clan after all, and those people have a lot of partial spells in their hands, such as what kind of soul calling, evil ghosts into dreams, etc., in case these Li family disciples are seized by the barbarian wizards and monks to search for souls and refine their souls, Lin Xiao just doesn't want to make a move.

For this situation, it is the last thing Lin Xiao wants to see, this will enhance his relationship with the secular dynasty, and form a cause and effect, once the Great Sui Empire is destroyed in the future, Lin Xiao will also be implicated; or although the Li family has the opportunity to reach the top of the Great Treasure in the future, his own interference may lead to the interference of other forces - Lin Xiao's cooperation with Buddhism is still unseemly, or this is just a tacit understanding, but once Lin Xiao is implicated, his luck will be lost, and it will inevitably destroy this tacit understanding.