Before people discovered the billowing smoke and dust on the horizon, after Duan Zhengyan's teachings, Zhong Ling, Ju Jian and others began to praise Bai Sheng's family.

Boasting about Bai Sheng's ability, bearing, status and status, even a maid under his wife has such exquisite martial arts, which is really amazing.

The vast majority of people are not confused in their hearts, knowing that this time out of danger is all due to the identity and background of the Bai Sheng family, so after complimenting the emperor, they can't ignore the kindness of the Bai Sheng family.

Mu Wanqing was very unhappy when she heard this, and suddenly poured a basin of cold water: "Don't talk about them as gods, okay? His daughter-in-law is a princess of Western Xia, of course she can eat on the ground of Western Xia, isn't it the same for a few of us on the ground in Dali? What's the big deal about this?"

She was so bad that everyone was silent. Mu Wanqing has the worst temper among the concubines, everyone has been used to letting her for many years, and seeing her interrupt at this moment, of course I understand that she is unhappy.

Everyone knows that Mu Wanqing has a deep grudge with Bai Sheng and this Yahuan surnamed Xiao, last night's collision between men and women, and they almost shot each other to death today, such a grudge is difficult to unravel.

Mu Wanqing's voice was very high, as if to tell everyone that she was not afraid of being heard by Bai Sheng and his wife in the carriage and Yahuan surnamed Xiao.

Of course, Bai Sheng could hear it, but he didn't want to and couldn't deal with Mu Wanqing, because he couldn't move, so he could only lie in the car with Li Ruolan and wait for Mei Lan Zhuju and Zhong Ling to deliver food and water.

Fang Jinzhi really didn't hear Mu Wanqing's cynicism, because she was riding alone on a camel, following the end of the team, taking care of Mrs. Xiaolei's food.

In order to make this situation seem reasonable, Bai Sheng and Fang Jinzhi also teamed up to act in a play - when they first came out of Liangzhou City, Fang Jinzhi wanted to fight Mu Wanqing to the death, and was scolded by Bai Sheng in public, so she cried and fell at the end of the team, saying that she refused to come to serve her "master couple" anymore.

And Bai Sheng reluctantly said that this girl was spoiled by the princess, and he had nothing to do with the pony, so she could only teach her a lesson when she got better.

So Duan Zhengyan generously arranged for Zhong Ling and Mei Lan Zhuju to take care of Bai Sheng and his wife, while Fang Jinzhi began to take care of Xiaolei's life as if he had repaid the favor.

According to Xiaolei, she was originally the maid of Yinchuan Princess Li Qinglu, and she married to the Vulture Palace with Li Qinglu, but the owner of the Vulture Palace refused to be regular and accepted her and Meilan Zhuju quadruplets and maidservants, so she gave them to the third brother as concubines.

Since she is Li Qinglu's maid, she grew up with Li Qinglu in the Xixia harem since she was a child, and naturally recognizes Li Ruolan, who is also a princess, although she is already a princess of Dali at this time, she does not dare to forget her former identity and humility, and insists on meeting Princess Pingnan, but Bai Sheng refuses, saying that the princess is unconscious, what is there to visit? Everyone is lying in the car to recuperate.

In fact, even Fang Jinzhi didn't know why Bai Sheng had to arrange it like this, but she was now used to accepting Bai Sheng's inexplicable command, because countless facts had proved that Bai Sheng's things were always right.

Only Bai Sheng knew that the reason why he did this was just to let Fang Jinzhi take the Dragon Sparrow Divine Sword to deal with him farther away, so that he could recover as soon as possible.

Mu Wanqing saw that although everyone didn't speak, their expressions showed disagreement, so he said again: "Now the desert under our feet is no longer the territory of Western Xia, and his family doesn't rely on us to reach the Tianshan Mountains, so he should thank us." ”

The first half of her sentence was correct, at this moment they were walking the Northern Silk Road, and the location was already thirty miles west of Liangzhou. It was indeed not part of the territory of the Western Xia, but of the Uighurs of the Western Prefecture.

The Western Uighurs are also known as the Qiuzi Uighurs and also the Gaochang Uighurs. It was a secession regime during the establishment of the Anxi Protectorate in the Tang Dynasty. The 800-mile Flaming Mountains in Journey to the West, as well as the Daughter Country, Chechi Country, Qiuzi Country, and Gaochang Kingdom, are all between this vast desert and oasis.

Of course, Duan Zhengyan and Bai Sheng and their entourage would not go over the Eight Hundred Miles Flame Mountain, let alone look for the Daughter Country, just because they would go twenty miles further, they would turn north, and the north was the Tianshan Mountain.

The mountain area of the Tianshan Mountains is very vast, not to mention the east-west stretching for thousands of miles, only the width of the north and south, the widest mountain area is also 800 miles away, so even before the Tianshan Mountains, there are still hundreds of miles to go from the Ethereal Peak.

Mu Wanqing's voice fell, and people saw the long dust on the western horizon, the dust covered a wide area, and there was no end in sight from south to north, looking at this situation, there were extremely large troops approaching the east in the west, and the number should be at least tens of thousands, or even more than 100,000.

Duan Zhengyan and his entourage looked at each other and involuntarily stopped the camel.

I can't go forward, I can't get through it at all, I can't get around, unless I return to Xiliangcheng, and then go around from the east of Xiliangcheng to the north, but no one knows if there is a path to the Tianshan Mountains over there, and Duan Zhengyan, who has been to the Tianshan Mountains twice, doesn't dare to take that road.

The desert is not a wilderness, and you can't walk casually if you don't know the road in the desert, not to mention that the desert is full of dangers, just that there is no oasis that there is no expected water supply, and to break into it is to seek death.

"Where did this army come from?" Duan Zhengyan asked Zhu Juanyi.

Zhu Juanyi is the scholar with a pair of judge's pens on his body, his father's name is Zhu Danchen, and his father gave him this name in order to encourage his son to study diligently, and it means that it is beneficial to open the book.

Zhu Juan Yizi inherited his father's business, read a lot of books, and studied the customs, customs, military and politics of various countries, just like his father Zhu Danchen was a military advisor to Duan Zhengchun, the king of Zhennan, he also often gave advice to Duan Zhengyan.

At this time, he shook his head and said, "It can't be the Uighur army of Xizhou." ”

"How so?"

"As far as I know, the Xizhou Uighur army did not have this size, and they were good at guerrilla tactics using camels as their horses, so they would not form such a long snake formation and push flat in the desert. ”

Duan Zhengyan nodded and said, "I think so, even if the Xizhou Uighurs have an army of this size, they will not go to Liangzhou City for thirty miles, isn't this tantamount to a declaration of war?"

The Western Uighurs had never been able to defeat the Western Xia, so the two sides were bounded by a desert to the west of Liangzhou City, and no one would cross the desert to provoke.

Duan Zhengyan paused and said, "Since it is not the Uighur army, where did so many people come from? Could it be that it is from the Great Song Dynasty?"

Zhu Juanyi said: "I guess it's also from the Great Song Dynasty, aren't they going to be in the middle of the five-way expedition? This time, when we passed through Qingtang, we also saw that the Xixia people in Qingtang were already fighting hard and waiting for the battle...... If my prediction is correct, this should be the Fifth Route Soldier of the Great Song Dynasty!"

The Great Song Dynasty's five-way expedition to Xia is not a secret to all countries in the world, and it has been carried out several times, but anyone who pays attention to the war knows that the fourth of the five offensive targets is the Qingtang Dynasty, and this fifth route is from the southern foot of the Qilian Mountains to the desert between the Uighurs and the Western Xia in Western Prefecture, and then attack Liangzhou, which is the retreat route to cut off the Western Xia.

As if to prove Zhu Juanyi's words, after the army in the west marched for another while, people could already see flags fluttering in the distance, and almost every flag had a big "Song" character written on it.

And when these Song troops got closer, people had already seen the largest of them, which read "Zhengyin Pioneer Officer Bai in the Front of the Expedition to the West".

As the saying goes, there are no boundaries for tens of thousands of people. This overwhelming crowd of people and horses is extremely magnificent, and the men and women under Duan Zhengyan have changed their faces, in the face of this vast coercion, even if they are martial arts masters, they can only retreat.

People all looked at Duan Zhengyan, meaning what should I do?

Seeing this scene, Duan Zhengyan frowned and said, "This time it was so unsmooth to come to Tianshan, I was most annoyed to deal with these troops. ”