Tang Xuan

The 18 troops set off one after another, and now the 5 Sichuan soldiers from Shuzhou are stationed outside Chang'an City.Although they are brave and good at fighting, because of Zhang Quan, they can only be used as a reserve force to transport the largest batch of grain and grass.

And Mingda is ready to go to Dunhuang with them.

After many days of hard work, she thought about it, and the lack of troops and food and grass was no longer Datang's weakness.In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Li Yu even ordered Anxi to be injustice, and the Hanyuan Hall and the East Palace not to be repaired, to show his determination to support this battle and trust Lang Huai.In order to save resources and open up the flow, he also ordered that all the supplies in the palace should be provided according to the three achievements in Kaiyang years.A minister suggested that the tax should not be increased, but Li Yu rejected it.However, there are few business travelers along the Silk Road, and the east and west markets are deserted. At this time, Fang Shiquan advises that he may seek business opportunities from the sea.

Li Yu immediately decreed that Fang Shiquan, the servant of the household department, went to Jiangnan Dongdao for inspection.

This small personnel appointment only caused a small splash, and no one paid much attention to it.However, a year later, the income brought back from Goguryeo, Dongying and other countries completely revived Datang's almost exhausted business.

The day of the Dragon Boat Festival was just over, and the military tents in the military camp in the east of the city had already been cleaned up.The general who commanded the army this time was Yuchi Yanguang who had made great contributions, and Cen Shang of the Ministry of War, as the supervisor of supplies and supplies, led the army with the rank of manager.

Li Yu, dressed in ordinary clothes, also came to the camp to strengthen the army and see Mingda off.

Ming Da has grown much taller than when he left Beijing, and is no longer the frail little girl.She combed a man's hair in a bun, was dressed in light armor, and carried a dagger at her waist.

Jiang Liang read the imperial edict aloud, but there was a passage that aroused the attention of the officials from various ministries who came today.

"In the past, there was Princess Pingyan, who fell into Chang'an and guarded Weize. She took the lead and made great achievements. Now the imperial sister is marching out with the army. I really hope that I will specially designate the captain of Shangqi, and honor this."

All the audience was shocked for a moment, no one expected that Ming Da, as a commoner, would be directly promoted to captain of the Shangqi.Although she is Li Yu's direct younger sister, after all, she does not belong to the sect and has no title.

However, Li Yuli ignored the commotion of the crowd, and called Mingda to come forward, and said in a low voice, "I'll give you the captain's brother first, and then you'll get military merits, and then you'll shut up these people's mouths. Ah Huailiu For the Huben Army, I have filled you with a hundred men, who are your personal soldiers."

Mingda smiled helplessly: "It's not like this."

Li Yu said solemnly: "You led the troops to rescue him, and you are the hero who broke Li Qian's conspiracy. Others don't know the details, but I don't know? Swords and swords are silent on the battlefield. I want you all to return safely, you know?"

Mingda put away his laughing expression and was held in Li Yu's arms. "Seventh brother knows that you are the most impatient of restraint, so I will give you personal soldiers and private soldiers. You miss A Huai and don't want to be separated from her. Seventh brother understands it, so I will help you. But Mingda, seventh brother hopes that you will be peaceful An'an. Don't worry, there is Seventh Brother in Chang'an City, I won't pay attention to those gossip. When you come back, Seventh Brother will beat drums outside the city to welcome you!"

Mingda finally burst into tears and responded with a sob.Li Yu wiped her cuffs, and said with a smile: "Don't even mention it, you can really compare me to me in this outfit. If the emperor sees it, he will be very happy."

The two brothers and sisters bid farewell as if no one was around, until the auspicious time, Ming Da said: "Seventh brother, I'm leaving."

Li Yu helped her get on the horse, took the whip from the servant and handed it over, patted the horse's buttocks, and watched Mingda leave.Seeing her put on the helmet and put down the visor, the young emperor suddenly had a feeling that it would be hard to say goodbye.

He didn't care about the honor of the emperor, he jumped up and down and waved: "Mingda! Seventh brother is waiting for you to come back! Lin'er's writing is still waiting for you and Ah Huai to get it!"

After the beginning of spring, the battle of Kucha became more intense.Cong Canglanhu only left [-] defenders for each of the other three cities, and transferred the rest to the battlefield of Kucha.And the reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty came one after another, and Lang Huai personally sat in the town and retreated one after another. Cong Canglanhu attacked several times.For a while, the morale of the Tang army was stable and the morale was high, so some generals were eager to try and leave the city.

However, Lang Huai ordered that no one should go out of the city to attack without reason, and those who disobeyed would be beheaded. Once this order was issued, those noisy hearts were suppressed and the situation was stabilized.At this time, the proclamation issued in the name of Princess Anmu also played its due role. From time to time, warriors from all over the world risked their lives to rush to Kucha City to join Princess Anmu.Lang Huai sent Shang Yan to assist An Mu, and every person who came to seek refuge was carefully interrogated, and a dozen of Cong Canglanhu's spies were caught.

Lang Huai was relentless, and at noon on the second day, a sergeant killed each of them with a knife, and then threw the corpses outside the city. He was born and died, and there are very few people in the Western Regions.

Seeing that the iron barrels in Qiuci City were like iron barrels, some people advised to guard the other three towns, and it was only reasonable to collect enough gold and silver property and return to Tufan.How could Cong Canglanhu be willing?This delay gradually reached early summer, but Tang Jun's counterattack weakened.

The news came out from the secret workers who managed to sneak into the city before, it turned out that there was not enough food and grass.Part of Princess Anmu's department, where Xizuo is located, will look for opportunities to leave Kucha in search of food and grass. He is not part of the part that left.

Cong Canglanhu was hesitant at first, fearing that it was Lang Huai who cast doubts.But more than half a month later, although the Tang army resisted tenaciously, it was really not the way that the Tubos would pursue after retreating in the past.Li Jin's cavalry has also changed from more than [-] in its heyday to more than a thousand now, and the horses have indeed lost weight, and are no longer as strong as they were at the beginning.

Around the Dragon Boat Festival, Cong Canglanhu supervised the battle in person, and Lang Huai also hung a banner to supervise the battle on the tower, looking at the situation on the battlefield from time to time.Cong Canglanhu sneered, and quietly ordered a dozen or so Tubo soldiers to approach the front of the formation, under the cover of others, and equip the two siege fighters they had obtained in Shule City earlier.

Only two sharp bangs were heard, and Lang Huai on the top of the wall disappeared.Soon Datang desperately ordered the archers to release arrows, blocking the Tubo's strong attack.After that, Li Jin led his troops out of the city and drove Tubo for more than ten li before returning to the camp angrily.

In the next half month, I didn't see Lang Huai again.The detailed work sent back the news that Lang Huai was wounded, the condition of the injury is unclear; Princess An Mu returned, lost soldiers and lost generals, and the Tang army has begun to kill horses for food.And this detailed work will follow An Mu out of the city, and he doesn't know when he will go back.

This news made Cong Canglanhu sweep away his previous depression. He immediately ordered to shrink the encirclement and only attack fiercely, regardless of the survivors who rushed to the city one after another. Anyway, after entering the city, it will only increase the burden on the Tang army. As far as Tubo is concerned , only benefits.

At the end of May in Bingshen, the first year of Zhicheng, Lang Huai ordered troops in the center of Qiuci City. He personally led [-] elite cavalry and [-] infantry, and more than a thousand soldiers under the command of Princess An Mu, went out of the city in batches by night.This day is already the last group of people.

Lang Huai was wearing an ordinary hu suit, his face was as usual, and there was no sign of any injury at all - it was just a pretend that day to deceive Cong Canglanhu.

"General, the last general still thinks it's wrong, let's do it for the last general!" Gu Yang anxiously dissuaded him, since he knew Lang Huai's calculations, he always felt that it was wrong-how can the commander go deep into the city alone?

Li Jin also persuaded, saying: "You are too risky, the chance of winning is less than half, if that An Mu is bragging and loses you, Mingda will kill me."

Lang Huai just shook his head and said: "I have known about the existence of this secret road for a long time, but I just can't figure out the route. What's more, I just got the news of Lin Xian. He gathered the remnants of the towns, there are more than [-] people, and there is no other way. Start the horse bandit business. I have ordered someone to send a message to him, and there is no reason to join forces in the future."

She looked at the two tallest guards in Qiuci City, and said: "What you have to do is to hold Cong Canglanhu firmly. This person is too ambitious. If you don't take advantage of this battle to get rid of him, you will be killed." He fled back to Tubo and trained for more than ten years, Anxi set up a sword. I would rather fight for a few more years, and I will completely kill him."

These words won the heart of Li Jin and Gu Yang, and the two of them fell silent.

Lang Huai suddenly said: "If Sizi comes, you can take good care of her, don't let her go out of the city to find me. We will know at the end of the year, see you next year!"

Li Jin and Gu Yang knew that there was no way to stop them, so they looked at each other, clasped their fists together and said: "The general wins the flag! I will wait here for your triumphant return!"

Lang Huai laughed loudly, got on his horse, pulled the veil, only showing Lang Che's eyes, rode his horse and followed, and disappeared into the vast night together with Tao Junzhu Jun who was transformed into a disguise.

Guided by the stars, Lang Huai and his party ran wildly all night, and did not slow down until the morning star rose slowly.Changing horses throughout the night, they were already more than [-] miles away from the battlefield of Kucha, and they were no longer afraid of being spotted by Cong Canglanhu.

After another half day, when the sun came up, Lang Huaicai ordered to stop and rest.Mr. Zhu handed over the water bag and said, "Master, that spy is following us, how should we deal with it?"

Lang Huai pulled off the kerchief, her face was flushed, she drank half a bag of water before recovering, and said: "Let the nails deal with it tonight, don't leak any traces."

"Yes." Mr. Zhu had expected this earlier, so he was not much surprised, he just asked, "Master, are you really sure?"

Lang Huai said with a smile, "I'm not sure."

"what?"

Lang Huai got off his horse, found a shady place to sit down on, and said, "It's good if we can beat him down, but if we can't beat him down, we have to take Lin Xian and the others back."

Mr. Zhu seemed to understand, but he heard Lang Huai sigh: "Except for those in the Imperial Forest Army, only those in the Imperial Forest Army were left alive. No matter what, they should not be left to fend for themselves."

"But the price is too high..." Mr. Zhu wondered, "Master, what is your plan?"

"The price? Now the soldiers are more than enough to defend the city and not aggressive enough. In a short period of time, according to the routine, I can't do anything. But if I take back Lin Xian and those people, with the veterans leading the way, the recruits will soon become bloody." Lang Huai explained in a low voice: "You forgot that when we were in the Vanguard Battalion, there were only two or three recruits out of ten. What I want is such a group of veterans, to draw out the true blood of our recruits."

"It can be counted, and the girl will arrive in about ten days." Zhu Jun's voice fell, and Lang Huai sighed.

"The current situation is like this, I have no choice." Lang Huai closed his eyes and rested. Mr. Zhu knew that she was not feeling well, and he didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only quietly accompany her.

After the hottest time, Lang Huai ordered to set off again.It wasn't until late at night that they finally arrived at the place and joined An Mu.

The supply battalion had prepared meals for them a long time ago. After being tired all day, the soldiers had enough to eat, settled their horses, and went back to sleep with a yawn.

But Lang Huai was lying in his tent with a full stomach, his heart was surging, and he didn't fall asleep until four o'clock.