At night, Guo Song returned to his mansion, and the housekeeper hurriedly asked the maid to report to his wife, these angels were very busy, and they had no time to go back to the house, so it was rare to go back to the mansion today.

Xue Tao came out with a few maids, and she was really happy in her heart, "Why did Husband come back today?" ”

Guo Song smiled and shook his head, "I invited a group of officials from the military government to dinner today, saying that it was to catch the wind, but in the end I paid the bill. ”

"No wonder my husband smells of wine, I will cook a bowl of decanting soup for my husband."

Guo Song waved his hand, "It's okay today, you don't need the decanting soup, just bring me a cup of tea." ”

Xue Tao hurriedly instructed the maid to go to sencha, helped her husband into the inner study and sat down, and asked in a low voice while there was no one on the left and right: "Husband won't go back to the barracks at night!" ”

Guo Song hugged her waist and said with a smile: "It's rare that I won't order tomorrow, I drank again today, it's not good to go to the barracks, so I'll accompany you tonight." ”

Xue Tao's face was slightly red, she saw the maid entering the courtyard with tea from the window, she quickly stood up, went out to take the tea, brought it into the room and said with a smile: "Husband, drink tea first, sober up, and then let's talk." ”

Guo Song took a sip of tea from the teacup, and sighed softly: "I haven't drunk such a good tea for several days, I miss it!" ”

Xue Tao sat aside, looked at his husband with his hand on his cheek and said with a smile: "Doesn't your husband have tea in the barracks?" ”

"The army drinks milk tea, in order to enhance the physique of soldiers, everyone is the same, I am no exception, after drinking it for a few days, I smell that smell and I have to vomit, I would rather drink water."

"Husband seems to be in a good mood, things should be straightened out!"

"It's okay, after all, I'm the coach, as long as I want to do it, there's nothing I can't do, it's just the difference in means."

Guo Song said a little absent-mindedly, he yawned, took his wife's hand and said with a smile: "Lady, it's too late, let's go to bed early!" ”

Xue Tao understood her husband's thoughts, her face was hot, and she said to him: "The sweat on your body is frosty, soak in a hot bath before you are allowed to go to my bed." ”

Guo Song smiled and said: "The lady has an order, how dare I disobey, why don't I wash it with me?" ”

"Who's going to wash with you?"

Xue Taojiao said angrily: "I asked Ah Qiu to serve you to take a bath, didn't you serve her to take a bath last time?" It's time for her to repay the favor tonight. ”

"Last time.... Last time, it was to save her life, otherwise she would have lost her life, and you thought too much. ”

"Where do I think too much, you think too much yourself, don't let Ah Qiu serve you, do you want other maids to serve you? I don't think they can ask for it. ”

"Good! Good! Good! ”

Guo Song smelled the sour taste in his wife's mouth, and he hurriedly raised his hand to beg for mercy, "Ah Qiu, Ah Qiu, you can arrange it, I will listen to you." ”

"I'll ask them to boil water!"

Guo Song pulled his wife and smiled: "Stay with me for a while, and then go to the bath later." ”

"No, I'm a little sick!" Xue Tao clutched his chest, forcibly enduring something.

Guo Song saw that his wife's face was a little wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Lady, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I.... I ......"

Xue Tao couldn't help it, covered his mouth and ran out of the door, squatting on the edge of the flower bed and retching for a while.

After a while, she was dizzy for a while, grabbed her husband's arm and said, "I don't know what's going on?" Always want to vomit these days, but it's all retching. ”

Guo Song is from the past, of course he knows what the symptoms are, he hugged his wife and smiled: "If I guessed correctly, you should be pregnant." ”

"Ahh Xue Tao was surprised and delighted.

"Is it true? I.... Am I pregnant? ”

This is easy to judge, Guo Song immediately instructed the housekeeper's wife, "Quickly go to the Rejuvenation Hall and invite Doctor Liu!" ”

The results of pulse diagnosis showed that Xue Tao was really happy.

.........

Two new armies appeared on the martial arts field, the heavy crossbow army is available in many armies, the huge rhubarb crossbow weighs thirty or fifty pounds, and two people need to lie on the ground at the same time to kick and pull to wind, and both soldiers must be extremely powerful, the effective killing range of the heavy crossbow is up to four hundred and fifty steps, second only to the bed crossbow, three hundred steps away can directly shoot through the enemy's shield and armor.

The heavy crossbow army has a total of 2,000 soldiers and 1,000 heavy crossbows, and the main general is Yang Miao, who is also Guo Song's henchman, when he went to Anxi, he was a young crossbowman, and gradually grew into a qualified crossbow army commander.

But the soldiers were more interested in another army than the ultra-long-range heavy crossbows, a group of 1,000 heavily armored Mo swordsmen, and a thousand co-attendant soldiers, who were responsible for putting armor on a thousand heavy infantry and were also crossbowmen.

The heavy infantry was a row of 500 people, a total of two rows stood in front and rear, each of them was burly and strong, the shortest soldier was more than 1.85 meters, and the leader Kang Bao standing at the front was more like a powerful black bear.

A thousand tall and burly soldiers formed an impregnable wall, they were dressed in black iron armor, holding a five-foot-long Mo sword, and their cold gaze peeked through the cracks in their masks, which made people shudder.

"Follow me, raise your sword!"

Kang Bao shouted, and a thousand heavily armored infantry brushed the ground and raised their swords, the blades shining coldly.

"Up!"

With a long shout from Kang Bao, a thousand Mo knives were slashed down at the same time, extremely powerful.

"Down!"

Kang Bao shouted again, and a thousand soldiers stepped forward, standing in lunges, long knives swept away from below.

"Left and right!"

Everyone gathered and slashed out two knives, four knives in one go, and then there was no longer any need for Kang Bao to shout, and a thousand heavily armored soldiers waved their swords in unison, advancing step by step.

.........

In the middle of April, an army of 20,000 Shatuo arrived in Jiuquan under the leadership of the commander Zhu Xie Jinhai, and with the 12,000 troops stationed in Jiuquan, the army of the Shatuo people in Suzhou had reached 32,000.

Zhu Xie Jinhai is the commander of the Shatuo army in the Beiting and Guo Song war, Shatuo Khan Zhu Xie Jinding died of illness two years ago, Zhu Xie Jinhai finally failed to take over the position of the eldest brother, and the Shatuo Elders unanimously elected Zhu Xie Jinding's eldest son Zhu Xie Liang as the new Khan, which shattered Zhu Xie Jinding's dream of being a khan.

Although the Khan's dream was shattered, Zhu Xie Jinhai still held the military power of the Shatuo army, and his nephew Zhu Xie Liang also named him Gaochang Ye Hu, making him the second person in the Shatuo regime.

Since last summer, the Hui people have been putting pressure on Shatuo to attack the Hexi Corridor, and although there are many people in Shatuo who oppose it, the Uighurs' demands are the same as Zhu Xie Jinhai's goal, and he has long wanted to capture Ganzhou and Liangzhou.

With the support of the Hui people, Zhu Xie Jinhai first led the army to capture Shazhou, and then the army immediately moved south, captured Qilianshu in October, and then defeated 10,000 Tang troops, annihilated nearly 7,000 Tang troops, and won the most brilliant victory of the Shatuo army, Zhu Xie Jinhai led the army to sweep most of Ganzhou except Zhangye County and Jiedan County, looting people, grain, cattle and sheep, and captured Juyanhai.

Just when the Shatuo army was preparing to attack Zhangye City on a large scale, a heavy snowfall came early, so that the Shatuo army had to temporarily withdraw its troops.

After a winter of preparation, the Shatuo army was already well fed, and the Hui craftsmen also helped them build a large number of siege weapons, and the time was ripe to attack Zhangye.

The Shatuo army was stationed outside Jiuquan City, and Zhu Xie Jinhai came to Jiuquan City under the escort of 1,000 soldiers.

Shatuo's chief official in Suzhou is a strategic envoy, and he is currently vacant, and the new official is still on the way to take office.

Zhu Xie Jinhai and the crowd exchanged a few words, and then entered Jiuquan City surrounded by everyone, and then he came to the official office, he had already heard in Yiwu that the Tang army had sent reinforcements to Ganzhou, and he was anxious to know the latest situation in Ganzhou.

As soon as he sat down, Shalekhan handed him a pigeon letter, "This is a pigeon letter sent by Zhangye City a month ago, sent five days after the Tang army reinforcements arrived in Zhangye, please take a look!" ”

Zhu Xie Jinhai looked at the pigeon letter in a hurry, his pupils suddenly contracted into a line, and a name appeared in his eyes 'Guo Song', did that bastard come back then?

Shalehan also participated in the battle to encircle and suppress Guo Song that year, and he said in a low voice: "This Guo Song should be the envoy of the Tang Dynasty back then, he was in Fengzhou before, and the fall of Xue Yantuo had something to do with him, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty sent him to Ganzhou to replace Wang Lianen!" ”

It took a while for Zhu Xie Jinhai to calm down, he looked at the troops supporting Ganzhou, and frowned, the reinforcements were only 7,000 people, is it possible?

"Is this information accurate?"

"I think it should be correct, the establishment of the Ganzhou Army is 15,000 people, there are 8,000 people left before, and 7,000 people are supplemented, which is exactly 15,000 people."

Zhu Xie Jinhai did not express his position, and continued to read, the last three sentences of the intelligence were that the morale of the Tang army was low, Guo Song was difficult to convince the public, and the generals had serious internal friction.

Zhu Xie Jinhai sneered twice, it is their tradition for the generals of the Tang Army to fight infighting, and it is completely normal for Guo Song to be difficult to convince the public for a while, the key is that the Tang Dynasty changed generals in battle, this has always been a taboo for soldiers, in just one month, how could Guo Song complete the integration of the Ganzhou Army? At least a year is about the same.

This is Changshengtian giving Ganzhou to Shatuo, if he doesn't take it, I'm afraid Changshengtian won't forgive him.

Zhu Xie Jinhai nodded, and said to the generals: "We have waited for a winter, and we have prepared for a winter, now we have enough soldiers and food, and the materials are abundant, and the time to seize Ganzhou has come, I ask to capture Ganzhou within ten days, and then attack Liangzhou, and strive to capture all the Hexi Corridor before the summer comes." ”