Northern Xinjiang is more than 2,000 miles away from the capital, and although the news from the dark department is transmitted quickly, when Li Xin received the news from northern Xinjiang, the northern side has actually been fighting for five or six days.

Now the war in the north is not only related to the peace of the border pass and the future situation between the Great Jin and Xianbei, but also closely related to the next trend of the situation in the capital.

At least it will be looked at by the people of the southwest line.

It's just that although the north side has been fighting, but it is far from the degree of intensity, the cause is that in early April, the Xianbei tribe of the Helan department, in one breath occupied the two horse farms of the king's tent, although the king's tent is weak, but the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, the young and strong are missing, but the skeleton is still there, the two sides immediately broke out into conflict, and two or three hundred people died in a few days.

Originally, the two sides maintained restraint in this matter, and it turned a big deal into a small one, but after Yuwen Tao of the Helan Department was the patriarch for two years, the Helan Department had a smooth journey, and he also became the most powerful patriarch among the Xianbei tribes as he wished, and his mentality was naturally different from before.

When he was old last year, he asked for beauties from other Xianbei tribes to enrich the harem, except for the royal tent, each of the other two parts offered ten girls to him, so that the young man who used to raise horses in the Roman field became more and more arrogant.

This collision, the Helan Department and the royal tent were each damaged, but Yuwen Tao was unforgiving, and directly sent a large-scale army to seize the two horse farms, the king tent as the Northern Zhou Dynasty, of course, at this time can not bow their heads, both sides because of these two horse farms to fight, in just four or five days, there are two or three thousand deaths.

At this time, Yuwen Zhao had already died, and Yuwen Di, who was in charge of the king's tent, immediately sent someone to send a letter to Jimen Pass, Ye Mao was also very face-saving, and after receiving the letter, he directly sent 10,000 people out of the pass, disguised as the strength of the king's tent, and under the attack on both sides, he defeated the Helan Department, with more than 5,000 casualties.

However, casualties of this scale were obviously far from what the imperial court had expected, so this was only the beginning of the Great War in Northern Xinjiang.

In Jizhou City, Ye Guogong, who was only wearing a black robe, was lazily half lying in his yard, and in front of him, a young man stood respectfully with his hands down.

This young man, Yuwen Zhao's youngest son, Yu Wenhu, is mainly responsible for the connection between the royal tent and the Great Jin Dynasty court, he also lived in the Jing'an Hou Mansion for a period of time when he was young, and now he has returned to the northern Xinjiang, mainly in Jizhou City to be responsible for liaison with Ye Mao.

However, this second son of Yuwen Heavenly King was quite humble in front of Ye Mao at this time, he lowered his head and smiled bitterly: "Grandpa Ye, the Helan Department is already reassembling its forces, and it will soon attack my king's account, how can the 10,000 people you sent out before withdraw again?" ”

Ye Mao sat up from the recliner, first stretched his waist, then glanced at Yuwen Hu, and said lightly: "We said before, when your royal tent and the Helan department have a decisive battle, our Zhenbei army will look for an opportunity to make a move, but last time, your royal tent came to Jizhou to ask for help because of the trivial matter of two horse farms and hundreds of people fighting. ”

He said coldly: "Do you want to defeat the Helan Ministry, or do you want to protect yourself in the name of my Great Jin?" ”

Yuwen Hu's face was a little pale, and he lowered his head and said, "Grandpa Ye, at that time, my department also thought that it was really going to fight, but I didn't expect that the Helan department would stop at the point......"

"But they suffered a loss last time, with Yu Wentao's character, this time they will definitely not give up, there are about 100,000 young people in the Heran Department now, if the general does not send troops, my king's account will be in danger!"

Speaking of this, he gritted his teeth and said: "The general must be clear, my royal tent and the Helan department belong to the Xianbei department, and even the surname Yuwen is Yuwen, if the general does not interfere, our two families will not fight to the same end, as long as the royal tent can't support it, he will definitely surrender to the Helan department, and then the Xianbei tribes will be integrated again......"

"Thinking about this situation, Ye Guogong also doesn't want to see it."

Ye Mao sneered: "Your king is called the Northern Zhou lineage, and you will be willing to bow down to the Helan Ministry?" ”

"If you are not reconciled, there is no way."

Yu Wenhu smiled bitterly: "Dignity is always less important than life. ”

"Grandpa Ye, I asked to see Governor Li in the capital a few months ago, and Governor Li has agreed to let the Zhenbei Army cooperate with our department, you ...... You can't ignore me! ”

Hearing Yuwenhu mention Li Xin, Ye Mao seemed to be a little unhappy, he snorted and said: "Since the imperial court has an order, the general will obey it, if you really fight, of course our Zhenbei army will send troops to rescue, but if it is still a small fight, our army will send troops, and the Helan Department will be alert, and the next time you want to find an opportunity, it will be difficult." ”

Yu Wenhu smiled bitterly on his face, and arched his hand at Ye Mao: "General, if my royal tent can't resist this time, under the stake of life and death, I can only bow my head and surrender, and don't blame my department when the time comes." ”

After that, Yu Wenhu saluted Ye Mao and said goodbye.

After Yuwen Hu left, after a while, a middle-aged man with a lot of white hair pushed the door out of the room and walked out, he hadn't walked to Ye Mao's side, Ye Mao, who was still lazy, immediately stood up and said respectfully: "Fourth uncle." ”

This middle-aged man, naturally, was the military department Shangshu Ye Lan who had gone north from the capital all the way to the north, and after he arrived in northern Xinjiang, he was not very worried about the situation here, so he stayed in Jizhou to help his eldest nephew sort out military affairs.

Ye Lan waved his hand at Ye Mao, signaling that he didn't need to be polite, and then frowned slightly: "In the whole world, the people who hate our Ye family the most should be the descendants of these Xianbei kings, because my father single-handedly destroyed all their rivers and mountains, and these people desperately broke through the Jimen Pass two years ago, and almost annihilated the Zhenbei Army at any cost, also because of this grudge back then." ”

"Now that my Ye family has a mortal enmity with them, I don't know what the imperial court thinks, and I actually let the Zhenbei Army cooperate with the Xianbei King Tent."

Ye Mao stood behind Ye Lan and said with a smile: "Now the meaning of the imperial court is what Uncle Li means, Uncle Li will not harm our family, we just do what he wants." ”

"As for the personal enmity between our family and the Xianbei people, we can put it aside for the time being."

The three generations of the Ye family all belong to the kind of relatively pure soldiers, and the family and country are greater than everything else, and naturally they are also greater than their own personal enmity.

Moreover, Li Xin had already explained to Ye Mao in his heart about the arrangements for the Xianbei people, but the matter was secret, and Ye Mao did not mention it to his uncle.

Ye Lan nodded, and sighed silently: "Now that the Zhenbei Army has recovered, I still have the position of the secretary of the Ministry of War, and he has written to me many times in Chang'an to urge me to go back to the capital, and I can't stay in Jizhou City." ”

"I'll leave for the capital tomorrow, and by the way, I'll help you see what the capital looks like now."

"The affairs of the Zhenbei Army will be entrusted to you."

Ye Mao smiled innocently: "Fourth uncle, don't worry, there is no problem here, and my nephew can handle it alone." ”

"After the fourth uncle returned to Beijing, please look at some of my family members and don't let them get into trouble."

Ye Lan reached out and patted his eldest nephew's shoulder, sighing slightly.

"You can be on your own now, I am naturally relieved, but your identity is different now, there is a sentence I want to tell you."

Ye Guogong's face was serious, and he bowed his head and said, "Uncle taught." ”

"Now you are the general of Zhenbei, our Ye family's Chen Guogong, and you are no longer the Ye Mao you used to be."

Ye Shangshu's voice was low.

"In the future, you can no longer be in the military camp until you are at the intersection of life and death, no matter what the war is, your life is the most important thing."

"If you live well in the north, the Chen Guogong Mansion in the capital will have a foundation."