The civil and military forces of the Zhou Kingdom all want to enjoy peace, and they don't want a big war to happen in the Zhou Kingdom, they all want to sit on the shore and watch the fire, and they don't want to take advantage of the situation to raise troops to attack Zongyuan, Yun Feiyu can't help it, he can't tell Lan Zhang to give me 100,000 soldiers, and I will fight all the way to Qingcheng for Your Majesty!

Lan Zhang saw that Yun Feiyu's face was obviously lonely, sighed in his heart, and said loudly: "Yu'er, you are still young, you are not in a hurry to make meritorious achievements, and the war in the north has just started, no one knows how far you can fight, and our Zhou country should not act rashly!"

Yun Feiyu also understood at this time that some things were simple for himself, so he could only thank his father-in-law Lan Zhang's words of comfort, and left the palace lonely and returned to the Horse Mansion.

In the Qinglan Courtyard, Lan Xue'er wanted to wait for Yun Feiyu to come back from the court with good news, but when Yun Feiyu returned to the house and entered the living room, just looking at Yun Feiyu's face, she knew that things were not going well, Lan Xue'er opened her mouth and asked, "What, my father still doesn't agree to send troops?"

Yun Feiyu shook his head, sat down on the chair next to him, and said in a loud voice: "Zhou Guo has enjoyed peace for many years, and the civil and military officials have long been unambitious, and no one has mentioned the matter of taking the opportunity to raise troops to conquer the world!"

Lan Xue'er was angry in her heart, and couldn't help scolding: "These fools only know how to enjoy glory and wealth, and they don't have a bit of enterprising!"

Yun Feiyu smiled wryly and said, "I thought about it just now, in fact, now is indeed not a good time to send troops!"

Lan Xue'er couldn't help but ask, "Oh! Why? ”

Yun Feiyu groaned and said: "The war between the West Wind and the Prairie people has just started, and the strength has almost not been damaged, it is still unknown whether Hu Erlie can make up his mind to attack with all his might, and it may be best to wait and see what happens!"

Lan Xue'er Bingxue was smart, and instantly understood what Yun Feiyu meant, and nodded: "You mean that we have to wait for the West Wind to fight a few tough battles with the grassland people, and the West Wind will be greatly weakened and deeply trapped in it, and then we will no longer be able to interfere with the south of the Linjiang River." ”

Yun Feiyu nodded and said, "Not only that, I saw the old emperor Shangguan Ye in Zongyuan last time, although it is far away, I can see that he can't last long, but he has never established a prince, and the successor is uncertain, and the Zongyuan royal family is very likely to cause trouble!"

Lan Xue'er's eyes lit up, and she bit her lip and said: "The west wind is too busy to take care of itself, and Zongyuan is in trouble with Xiao Wall, that is really a good opportunity for my boat country!"

Yun Feiyu can almost imagine that the turbulent situation in the world is not optimistic in the future, even if the opportunities are in the Zhou Kingdom, it is not easy to destroy Zongyuan, and then send troops to the west wind, it is even more necessary to wait for the opportunity, the people in the war in the four directions will definitely suffer the most, but since the grassland people have unified and attacked Gale City, no one can stop this trend, Yun Feiyu just wants to take advantage of the situation to calm the hatred in his heart, no matter how much he kills, there is no resentment!

Although the people of Zhouguo also heard the news that the grassland people gathered a large army to attack the west wind, this did not have much impact on their lives, after all, those wars were thousands of miles away, at most, there were more talk in the wine shop and teahouse, and there were also some righteous indignant people who thought that the barbarian people in the north dared to invade Zhongzhou, and they talked about the fact that the imperial court should cross the river to help the west wind, but it was just grandstanding!

From late August to mid-October, Yun Feiyu has been in Jiangzhe for a long time, and Lan Zhang finally passed the decree that the two sons-in-law should also return to their respective garrisons, after all, they want to be leading generals, and Yun Feiyu is ready to return to Liucheng.

If you want to return to Liucheng, the rest is okay to say, but the extra Linghua and Zhi'er should also give a clear arrangement, Yun Feiyu naturally didn't want to interfere in this matter, so it fell on Lan Xue'er, the head of the inner house.

This night, Lan Xue'er summoned the master and servant of the flower to her room, although Lan Xue'er is charming and amiable, but the girl who reads a lot of people is very afraid of her, and the master of the horse may pity the flowers and cherish the jade, but in the face of this beautiful princess, she is really worried!

Linghua took Zhi'er into the house, and Lan Xue'er was sitting on a soft stool and drinking tea leisurely, looking at the two people who entered the door with a smile in her eyes.

Linghua and Zhi'er bowed respectfully, and said in unison: "The slave has seen Her Royal Highness the Princess!"

Lan Xue'er put down the teacup in her hand, looked at Linghua with a smile and said, "Are you still used to staying in this Qinglan Courtyard these days?"

Linghua didn't dare to raise her head and look at each other, and replied carefully: "Thanks to the princess's great kindness, the people in the house also take care of her, and Linghua is flattered!"

Lan Xue'er tapped the table with her jade finger and said, "I haven't asked you since you came, do you have any plans for the future?"

Linghua couldn't guess Lan Xue'er's heart, so she could only salute and say: "The slave was originally bought by the princess, and everything is under the princess's orders!"

The smile on Lan Xue'er's face became vague, she looked at the Linghua who bowed her head, and ordered, "You raise your head!"

Raising a thousand charming faces, Zero Flower looked at Lan Xue'er, her heart was pounding, and there was a sense of powerlessness in her heart!

After looking at it for a long time, Lan Xue'er said softly: "Sure enough, good looks, I really feel sorry for you! Seeing that you also seem to be a smart person, this princess will give you two choices." ”

Knowing that her fate was in Lan Xue'er's next words, a pair of jade hands hanging down from Linghua couldn't help but hold on tightly to the plump double retreat!

The corners of Lan Xue'er's mouth curled slightly, and her voice lowered: "One is the inexhaustible road to heaven for glory, wealth and enjoyment, and the other is that it is more difficult to wash away the lead and obscurity, but it may be able to make some of your wishes come true, which of these two paths do you choose?"

Linghua bit her lip and said boldly: "The slave is stupid, please ask Her Royal Highness the princess to make it clear!"

Lan Xue'er's eyes gradually revealed a little fierce, and said: "On the road to heaven, this princess can send you to the palace, and there will be someone inside to take care of you, no matter what means you use, if you can win the emperor's favor, you can ascend to the sky in one step, with your appearance, this should be very simple!"

Linghua's face changed miserably, and she was horrified, and Zhi'er's maid was almost shocked, Her Royal Highness the princess wanted to dedicate the young lady to the current emperor!

Lan Xue'er stared at Linghua's face and said, "What, don't you want to? or don't you dare to think about it?"

Linghua lowered her head and said in a low voice, "The slave wants to know what Her Royal Highness the princess just said about the wish of the second way to come true. ”

The sharpness in her eyes dissipated, Lan Xue'er became lazy, and said: "This princess knows that you admire the master of the horse very much, and I am not a jealous person, but the horse is a person who wants to do great things, and he can't indulge in female vocal music, if you still want to stay by the horse's side, you have to learn to do something, if you do it well, maybe I will let him accept you!"

Linghua's face was slightly red, her heart was drumming, and she raised her eyes to peek at Lan Xue'er, not knowing if Her Royal Highness the princess was joking or serious.

Lan Xue'er glanced at the corner of her eyes and said, "This princess never lies, you can choose two paths, give me a clear answer now!"

After thinking about it, Linghua gritted her teeth and said: "The slave maid only wants to do things for Her Royal Highness the princess, but I don't dare to hope to win the mercy of the princess!"

Lan Xue'er nodded, and said: "I like smart people, don't worry, what this princess said must count, wait a minute, I will let He'er come and take you to get acquainted with the various subordinates in the lower mansion, after we go to Liucheng, this is where you are in charge, recently, you can first make friends with Qin Dan wholeheartedly, understand?"

Linghua nodded, Lan Xue'er got up and softly called He'er outside the door to come in, she explained a few words and then asked He'er to lead Linghua's master and servant down, stretching her waist, Lan Xue'er said to herself: "The red face and thin life are all because the heart is higher than the sky and the life is thinner than the paper, this Linghua still knows some advances and retreats, it seems that it is worth cultivating, hey, sleepy, sleepy!"

Two days later, Yun Feiyu and his entourage set off to return to Liuliu City, and Linghua was promoted to the housekeeper of the Horse Mansion, staying in Jiang Zhe to do things for Lan Xue'er.

Let's not mention that Yun Feiyu is training the Tiger Camp Army in Liucheng and waiting for the news of the West Wind War, and then let's talk about the invasion of the West Wind by the grassland army.

After conquering the Yezu tribe in March 574, Kurlie was so ambitious that he wanted to immediately send troops south, but in the end he was persuaded by his most relied on strategist Duanfang Mu, and under the auspices of Duanfang Mu, he further strengthened his military rule over all tribes, large and small, and took all the troops into his own hands as much as possible.

Intending to emulate the Central Plains countries to claim the emperor, under the suggestion of Duanfang Mu, the first step of Hu Erlie is to draw 10,000 elites from each ethnic group to form the Four Protector Khan Army, which is led by a young general who was newly promoted by him, and the Four Guardian Khan Army is quite the Praetorian Guard of Hu Erlie. The old aristocratic leaders of the Zheye clan only had titles but no real power, while the young generals from poor backgrounds who were promoted by Kurlie held real power in the army, and these people were loyal to the Great Khan Kurlie, which further consolidated Khurlie's dictatorship.

More than a year has passed, as early as June 575, Hurlie wanted to lead a large army to invade the west wind, but because of the battle five years ago, the west wind has strengthened the city of Gale Wind many times, although the grassland also plundered back a lot of blacksmiths and carpenters, but the large siege equipment created is still limited, and the terrain of Gale City is extremely dangerous, and Khurlie is not willing to fold the savings of several years under Gale City.

It was still Duanfang Mu's idea, it turned out that as early as when Hu Erlie sent his subordinates to search and hunt for Yun Feiyu in the mountains on both sides of Gale Wind City, a team actually found a small road that could cross the heavy mountains to the inner realm of the west wind, this path was rugged and difficult, although the army could not pass, but for several months without interruption, there have been elite soldiers from the small road into the territory of the west wind to lurk, so in October, it has turned over three thousand elites, this is already the limit of being able to lurk without revealing their whereabouts, and finally the last group of people passed the siege time.

On October 10, 575, the grassland army suddenly gathered under Gale City, began to attack, a whole day, the war in the north has not stopped, to the night is still continuous, the defenders in Gale City are careless for a while most of the garrison in the north, but not to prevent the south There are 3,000 elite enemy troops sneaking into the city, there are masters to take the lead, stealing into Gale City with flying claws, grabbing the south gate, 3,000 elite killed, the defenders in Gale City were caught off guard, chaotic at night, failed to block the three thousand elite rush to kill, was opened to the north gate, the grassland army outside the city poured in, the defenders of Gale City could not resist, the first danger Gale City was lost！

Hu Erlie led the army to invade the west wind this time, made up his mind to destroy the west wind, and prepared for a long war, even if the worst was to forcibly occupy the north of the west wind, he divided his army into three ways, that is, to maximize the mobilization of the west wind of the army, just after the autumn harvest, the west wind ordinary people have grain in every household, the grassland army looted, come and go like the wind can fight and feed the war, but the west wind to defend the whole line is a lot of trouble, not only tired of support, grain and grass supply is also threatened.

Moreover, because of Duan Fangmu's suggestion, Kuerlie did not rob and kill the army this time, but only grabbed food and money, and robbed the young and strong as slaves, and ordinary old and weak women and children generally did not kill, but just drove them all to avoid the cities, intensifying the food pressure in the counties and cities in the north of the west wind!

The three-way army seems to be evenly balanced, but the West Route Army, that is, the 100,000 troops led by the uncle of the Huerlie tribe, Huerqin, is the weakest, but the miscellaneous armies of all ethnic groups are gathered, and the main purpose is to let the West Wind divide the troops and cover the middle and east roads, but even if it is a miscellaneous army, they invade everywhere in the land of Fenjun and steal food, kidnap young and strong, and burn houses.

The middle route army Hu Erlie personally led the strong attack on Gaocheng, the front of the soldiers should be directed at the west wind Kyoto, and the east route army is the elite of the 300,000 army, because the east road soldiers are referring to the west wind of the Youjun, the east county, these two counties are thousands of miles of fertile fields, the most suitable for galloping horses, 100,000 grassland elite soldiers are almost invincible, and these two counties are the west wind of the grain and money land, since five years ago was killed and looted, heavy losses, five years ago the west wind to these two counties to move a lot, and reduce the grain tax, all parties to support the vitality of a little recovery, do not want to face the catastrophe again, and the city of Youjun Taicheng is also surrounded by grassland guerrillas, the city of 40,000 guards can only shrink their heads。

After all, five years ago, the old man thought that there was nothing to praise in the big war, and the old man thought that there was nothing to praise, that time, the west wind was completely led by the nose of the grassland people, and the only thing that could be taken out was the 50,000 defenders of Gale City who swore to block it to the death, as a result, because he was afraid of the more than 100,000 troops of Hu Erlie, Zhu Lian could only sit and watch Zhou Ba's 50,000 defenders fight alone until the city was broken and slaughtered, all of them were killed, and the people of Zephyr still thought they were victorious, but they didn't know that it was the grassland people who took the initiative to retreat but were not retreated by the west wind！

This time he was ordered to lead the army again, Zhu Lian was really worried that Emperor Zhu Gan had some amazing strategy, the old man just wanted to die less, and the more than 100,000 southern troops were unable to compete with the grassland on the flat land, so they could only divide into several groups to support and strengthen the garrison of each important city, and Zhu Lian's subordinate Che Qi was ordered to lead 10,000 troops into Gaocheng to strengthen the garrison of Gaocheng!

There is Wen Ting, the king of the north in the high city, as the main general of the reinforcements, of course Che Qi has to go to the city to meet, I don't want the king of the north to watch the enemy on the north tower, Che Qi also went to the city to ask to see, and when he saw the head of the Wen family, Che Qi bowed and saluted: "The last general Che Qi was ordered to lead the army to support, and listen to the prince's dispatch!"

Wen Ting twisted his short beard to look at this Che Qi, and found that this Che Qi was burly and handsome, although he was young, but his temperament was calm and moderate, and he was very different from the ordinary, Wen Ting was happy and asked, "Where is your surname Che?"

Che Qi replied respectfully: "The last will be the Fenjun Daliang clan!"

"Oh!" Wen Ting was even more interested, you must know that Fenjun Daliang refers to the tribe of the West King Che Heng Zhan, this Che Qi is so young and heroic, can he be the commander of the general, is it a child of the Xi Wang family, Wen Ting couldn't help but say: "Do you know that the West King Che Heng Zhan?"

Che Qi did not hide the truth, and replied: "Wang Ye Mingjian, the West King Che Hengzhan is the eldest uncle of the last general!"

Wen Ting couldn't help but smile and said, "It's rare to be an old man! It's just that I haven't heard anyone talk about you before?"

Che Qi replied embarrassedly: "Back to the prince, the last general was convicted of killing people because of his youth and stubbornness, and was convicted of confiscating the army in Lancheng, five years ago the grassland people invaded, was incorporated into the forward battalion, went north with King Chang's reinforcements, fought a few battles and was lucky not to die, and then has been following His Royal Highness King Chang, and now as a commander, he came to aid Gaocheng on the orders of King Chang. ”

Wen Ting's face was slightly moved, listening to this Che Qi's experience, he was not very old but extraordinary, the forward battalion, Wen Ting knew that it was extremely difficult to survive in the forward battalion during the war, it seems that this Che Qi did not rely on his family background alone to get to today's status, Wen Ting's heart moved, thinking of his grandson Yun Feiyu, Wen Ting had sent someone to pay attention to secretly, and he knew that Yun Feiyu had also been assigned to the forward battalion to reinforce the north, if it weren't for Zhu Xing, maybe the one standing in front of him at this time might be Yun Feiyu, the old man sighed in his heart, everything is destiny and helpless。

Thinking of his grandson, Wen Ting was even closer to Che Qi, sorting out his thoughts, the old prince Wen Ting smiled and said: "I came to Gaocheng just to boost morale, this specific matter of defending the city is in charge of Che Qi, the original guards in the city are also under his command, General Cao, what do you think?"

What can Cao Qingshan, the guard general of Gaocheng, say? As the same commander, it stands to reason that the guest army should obey the main army, but the northern prince spoke, and this Che Qi is also the son and nephew of the prince of the west, and the favorite general of the prince of Chang, so what can he fight for? How dare he fight!