According to the plan, the 500,000 troops were divided into two routes: the 200,000 army, including the Xiaoguo army, was personally commanded by Taishi and marched northward, and the remaining 300,000 local troops, led by Li Jing, headed westward.

In order to rush to the front line as soon as possible, Li Jing personally led 10,000 vanguard horsemen to march first, galloped 800 miles day and night, and camped in Shuobei at the end of the second night.

As soon as the sky was bright, the breeze from Shuobei's early breeze blew into the tent, carrying layers of mist, bringing a trace of coolness to the young man who was sleeping in leather.

Xu Ziling opened his eyes and found that Kou Zhong had gotten up earlier than him, and was sitting outside the military tent, looking in the direction of Luoyang in a daze.

Xu Ziling sighed lightly, "Zhong Shao, why are you pretending to be deep here?"

Kou Zhong sighed, "Xiaoling, I found out that I really fell in love with her!"

Xu Ziling lost his voice and said, "Ah, who is it? It won't be the eldest princess." ”

Seeing that Kou Zhong was silent, he reacted and said, "Is it really her?"

Kou Zhong said in a low voice, "Don't you think the princess is beautiful? And if you can go to the hall and enter the kitchen, isn't it the dream lover of all men? God! I can't sleep with excitement just thinking about the fact that I can sleep with such a beautiful woman in my arms every day. Her voice and expression are intoxicating, and a sweet smile occasionally glances at your mother. Ah, Xiaoling, I'm dying!"

Xu Ziling said disdainfully: "This is fucking called love, I think you bastard is just lustful." ”

Kou Zhong rubbed his face and said distressedly, "It's just because I miss her so much that I deliberately said such things to numb myself." Hey, it's hard to concentrate when I'm practicing martial arts now, you know?"

Xu Ziling sat beside him, hugged his broad shoulders and said, "It seems that you are serious?"

Kou Zhong said loudly: "Of course it's serious, just like you did to Qin Chuan." ”

"Damn, what about you, what are you talking about me?"

"Hey, our two brothers are in the same condition. One is the princess of Da Sui with golden branches and jade leaves, and the other is a fairy who does not mess with mortals...... The gap between us two little bugs and their identities is too big!"

Xu Ziling was stunned for a long time before he whispered: "Hey, don't you always advocate that we are Yangzhou Mansion Shuanglong, why are you not confident at this time." ”

Kou Zhong shook his head and said, "This time and that time. Perhaps, this is what Master said, the more you love someone, the more humble you are......"

Xu Ziling smiled bitterly, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Although the two of us have entered the Taishi's sect, Fairy Qin and the princess are polite to us, but we always feel ...... They have a taste of rejecting us from thousands of miles away. Zhong Shao, such an excellent woman, is like the stars and moon in the sky, which can only be seen from a distance and cannot be obtained. ”

Kou Zhong frowned, and said firmly, "It's just because we haven't gotten ahead yet. If you can be like the master, you will be a supreme minister and have the power of the world. At that time, the princess will naturally look at me differently......"

In the end, he even knew that this was unrealistic, and sighed, his eyes fell into the vast white mist in the distance.

Xu Ziling didn't know how to answer for a while, and said after a while:

"Zhong Shao, do you want to establish a reputation?"

Kou Zhongyi's tiger eyes flashed with a resolute look, "Master said: 'Why don't you take Wu Hook and collect Guanshan Fifty Prefectures.'" In any case, I have to do something, at least first to build up a work that will make her look at me differently. ”

He turned around like a whirlwind, clenched his fists and shouted, "I will definitely do something with the army this time." Hmph, I will use the enemy's head and blood as a sacrifice for my pursuit of the princess, hahaha!"

Xu Ziling saw that his face was full of hideousness and his eyes were red when he said it in the end, and he couldn't help but feel a wave of dissatisfaction in his heart, and said sharply: "Zhong Shao, we killed the enemy with the army because Beidi invaded my border, and we waited to protect the people." How can you...... How can you fight for your own selfish desires?"

Kou Zhong was stunned for a long time, staring at him for a long time before saying, "Do you remember the story of the underworld that Master once said?"

Xu Ziling frowned and said: "If you have the heart to be good, although you are good, you will not be rewarded; ”

Kou Zhong snorted and said, "I'm standing in front of the steppe wolf cavalry, and life and death have long been put on the line. No matter what my motives are, I am better than those who keep talking about benevolence, righteousness and morality, but once they start fighting, they run faster than anyone else, right?"

Xu Ziling retorted: "When Master told that story, the moral he wanted to express was not what you thought at all. Besides, if you strive for fame and fortune for the sake of others, the pattern is much lower. If I were a princess, I wouldn't look down on you for that alone!"

Kou Zhong snorted: "Ling Shao, you have fallen for the cause." You know, it's what you do first, and then there's the result. Besides, it would be a pity if the husband could not accomplish some deeds in the world and let his precious life slip away in vain. ”

Xu Ziling thought about it for a long time, and after a long time, he punched Kou Zhong in the chest, and scolded with a smile: "The last sentence is a bit of a man." You're right, no matter what, at least we're fighting for the Great Sui and the people of the Fourteen Prefectures. ”

Kou Zhong stood up, raised his arms and shouted, "I, Kou Zhong, vow to marry Princess Nanyang as my wife!"

Xu Ziling also jumped up, but he was not as exaggerated as him, and only whispered: "I, Xu Ziling, will not marry ...... if I am not Qin Chuan."

"Hahaha!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, their smiles slightly bitter.

The world is so ingenious, with the intervention of Mo Xiaolou. Shuanglong, who was originally the protagonist, fell in love with a name at the same time - Shi Fei Xuan.

True and false master concubine!

"Hey, you two stinky boys, have you been here talking about women so early?"

A gentle voice came from behind the two of them.

"Ah, Brother Li, you are up too. ”

The person who came was Li Jing, the main general this time, who was promoted from a county to the general of the expedition to the west, he can be regarded as being promoted fast enough, it is simply a step to the sky.

Kou Zhong rolled his eyes and said, "Brother Li, you're so boring, you actually eavesdropped on our conversation." ”

"You two are talking so loudly, I can't even listen to it. But...... One of you has a crush on a princess, and the other has a crush on a saint, and they don't want to marry. Hey, I, Li Jingjing, are a man, and I wish you good luck. ”

Although the official worshiped the general of Zhengxi, Li Jing did not have the slightest sense of arrogance, and his words still carried the honest taste of the first meeting.

Xu Ziling tilted his head, and said in a strange manner: "Hey, I don't know who it is, I dream of 'red whisk'......"

"Stinky boy, if you want to eat military sticks, get out of the military tent, I have something important to discuss. ”

The three of them came to the Zhongjun tent during the fight, and the central area was a "holographic" map simulated with sand and stone, and there was no need to think about it, this must be another trick of the Taishi.

When Kou Xu and the others read the complete plan made by Li Jing in detail, they couldn't help but admire their newly recognized eldest brother even more.

Kou Zhong originally learned the most from Mo Xiaolou's spiritual realm, in addition to martial arts, the art of military formation, at this time, after a little thought, he found out the loopholes in the plan and asked directly.

"This plan is a strange victory, but if the Golden Wolf Army in the territory of the Great Sui suddenly returns, wouldn't it be embarrassing for us to wait for the situation?"

Li Jinghu's eyes lit up and praised: "Xiao Zhong, you are really clear and wise, and you can see the key at once. But, have you forgotten that we have two armies?"

Kou Zhong said clearly: "I know, Master's soldiers and horses all the way are not to drive away Beidi, but to make them unable to go back!"

"Exactly. ”

Kou Zhong said, "The second question is that dividing the troops into two ways will not extend the time limit of the war, which is inconsistent with Master's plan for a quick victory." ”

Xu Ziling also said: "We are the teachers of the royal road, so we naturally want to fight for the people." At this time, shouldn't we gather all our forces and drive Beidi away first?"

In the past few days, Xu Ziling was stunned to find that Li Jing did not follow the previous marching route to the front line of the battle, but went farther and farther. Although this doubt has been solved after seeing Li Jing's plan. But that doesn't mean he's in favor of the plan.

Li Jing's plan is a risky move, but if it can really be realized, there will indeed be no danger of boundary trouble in the north, but if it fails, 300,000 Great Sui soldiers will be attacked by the enemy, and the whole army may be wiped out!

After listening to Xu Ziling's words, Li Jing shook his head and said:

"I'm not trying to repel them, I'm trying to destroy their roots. ”

He dotted on the map,

"Starting from this road, bypass Shuofang, take Xiliang, and go straight to the Turkic king's tent. The matter of the Northland, a battle can be decided!"

"Impossible. Xu Ziling frowned and said: "The Turks are different from our Han people, even if they destroy his royal tent, soon they will support another khan and set up another royal tent." ”

Li Jing coughed and said with a light in his eyes: "Ziling, do you know why the grassland tribes and the Central Plains have repeatedly fought and won and lost each other, but they have never been ruled by the Han people?"

"This ...... Ziling didn't know. ”

"Because of the nomadic life of the grassland, seeking water and living, it is fundamentally not suitable for the living habits of the Han people, and the grassland, for the Han people who seek a stable life, can not plow the fields, like chicken ribs, therefore, the Han generals of all dynasties are fighting a city and abandoning a city.

However, in the past 100 years, the situation in the Central Plains has been turbulent, and the steppe tribes have intensified their plundering of the border people in the north of China, and all men, women, and children have been taken away as slaves.

Today, there are at least two million slaves of Han Chinese descent on the steppe. They are familiar with the steppe way of life and can organize them into an army. Starting with the largest khanate tent, we will give each tribe we destroy to rule over to them, and when we slaughter the Turkic tribes—"

Li Jing's eyes were full of pride, and he scolded Fang Xuan,

"Thousands of miles across the grassland, it has become the territory of my Han family!"

Hearing this, Kou Zhong's eyes lit up and he shouted,

"The general's plan is very good, don't the Turks always want to drink the Yellow River and want to enter the Central Plains, so we will give them a move to enter the grassland. Hahaha. ”

Entering the grassland is a more ancient miracle, sealing the wolf Juxu, and Le Ma Yanran, which is not a problem. The two glanced at each other, agreed, continued to discuss, and found that it was indeed feasible, so excited that they almost hooked their shoulders.

It was Xu Ziling, who secretly felt that something was wrong in his heart: "The whole clan slaughtered ......"

(End of chapter)