Qiuzi, Qiming Fang behind Chengxi Street.

A secluded alley to the west of the square, most of which is occupied by a mansion. With such a chatter, the people in the fang didn't know who the owner of this mansion was.

In the afternoon, the east of the mansion occupies a vast area. Tree-lined landscape. Behind the three pendulum gatehouses, there is a large compound. In the hall of the compound, Yang Wei sat in a chair and asked the black-clothed crescent guard who came to report: "That Sogdian merchant has fled?" ”

This mansion, which is extremely mysterious in the eyes of outsiders, is the headquarters of the army's intelligence agency, the black-clothed Crescent Guard. This is only 100 meters away from the Governor's Palace!

The man in black lowered his head and said ashamedly: "The subordinates are incompetent!" ”

Yesterday, Qin Hongtu Qin sent news from Shule that the Sogdian merchant Alibov sent guards to follow the Persian general Musa and attack and kill the Zhou envoy Cheng You. The black-clothed Crescent Guard commanded Yang Wei to order the arrest of this person. But they were busy all night and all morning, and they still let this man escape.

The expression on Yang Wei's face slowly sank, but after all, he endured it and didn't say anything, and said, "You go down!" ”

After waiting for his subordinates to leave, Yang Wei sighed lightly. He was in charge of intelligence in the army and was silent. But he and Cheng Gongda have served under the Governor of Qi since the southwest and have had many years of friendship. On the same day, Hu Chi saw off Jia Huan and presented him with a fire gun, hoping that Jia Huan would avenge Gongda.

What about him? Directly assign Jia Huan's friend Qin Hongtu to Jia Huan to increase his ability to obtain intelligence.

After being silent for a while, Yang Wei called a subordinate and commanded softly: "Send a pigeon letter to Shule!" ”

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In late May, Shule entered the scorching heat mode. The heat is pressing. In the early morning, the morning light shines through from the top of the mountain. There is still a little coolness left among the stone slabs and trees on the streets of the city.

Jia Huan, Pang Ze, Shen Qian, Zhang Sishui, Huang Guan, Xie Shen, Qin Hongtu and his party went out of the city on horseback. Qin Hongtu immediately reported to Jia Huan about the situation in Qiuzi.

Jia Huan groaned on the horseback and said, "Since he let him run, forget it." Skynet is magnificent, negligent but not leaky. We'll hit the river one day! ”

At this time, Jia Huan did not know that the Sogdian merchant who had discussed the Silk Road with him that day was Alibov. But measures against Sogdian merchants were already being conceived in mind. There has always been a habit of keeping slaves in the riverine region. Many of the Sogdian merchants were slave traders.

There is nothing wrong with being a slave trader. However, if you dare to sell Han slaves, you have to be mentally prepared to bear the wrath of the Han dynasty!

Qin Hongtu nodded with relief.

The latest appointment of Jia Huan by Marshal Guiziqi has arrived. A series of official positions and the authorization of recruiting the army can be summed up as: Shule Jiedu envoy! What kind of status and power is this?

As Jia Huan's confidant and friend, he also felt slightly restrained in front of Jia Huan. Want to get things done!

This is not that Jia Huan has become reserved and shelf-oriented in front of him, but a change in his consciousness. It is appropriate to have a reverence for power. He reads history books, and many emperors and ministers find it difficult to share wealth and prosperity, and the root lies in this.

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Jia Huan led everyone out of the city early in the morning to welcome the 20,000 new troops who arrived from Qiuzi.

Qi Dashuai is still very powerful! He asked 10,000 new troops to be prepared to clear the wall grass in Shule City, and rode the wall faction. And Qi Dashuai gave him 20,000 people. He was also given the right to recruit a hundred thousand new troops. Of course, he was also given a new task.

He needs to provide Beiting's army with a million stone of food within half a year. In other words, the Governor of Qi decided to blow up the ancient filial piety of Baye within half a year! In the Qiuci, Yanqi, and Gaochang areas, war mobilization has already been carried out.

Groups of cavalry continued to cross the grassland, desert, and passes, and gathered towards Jinman County, the core of Beiting. At the same time, the people were requisitioned and transported all kinds of military supplies on horse-drawn carts, ox carts, and manpower wheelbarrows to Beiting.

Spirits, medicinal herbs, and food are controlled. On the middle road of the Silk Road, on the ancient road south of the Tianshan Mountains, there are no business exchanges, but only overwhelming flags and armies. Red, with no end in sight!

On the basis of providing one million stone of food, he could recruit an army, up to 100,000, to attack the Trough Warrior Shibonde Khan of Broken Leaf in the north. Block the escape path of Baye Gu Xiaode and annihilate him in the north courtyard.

Baye Gu Xiaode slaughtered the city in Hami, and the sins he created must be repaid!

"Fengde Khan..."Jia Huan went through it in his mind, and he didn't think much about it. It's too far to attack Broken Leaf now! The difference between a recruit and an elite soldier was witnessed by him in the Battle of Shule.

Things have to be done step by step!

First of all, it is necessary to thoroughly grasp the Shule area. Then, it is possible to supply manpower and material resources to Beiting. Only then will it be possible to recruit the army. It is also necessary to train the troops, and only at this point can they consider fighting the Turgish people.

When Jia Huan was thinking about it, the grassland under his feet shook slightly. The grass is lush on a grassland outside Shule City. A cavalry of thousands appeared at the end of the horizon and galloped forward.

"They're coming!"

Jia Huan and the others were waiting one mile east of Shule City. A moment later, a forward force of five thousand with an army of twenty thousand arrived.

Hu Guji, the former Gumo City guard who led the army to come, rolled the saddle and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and bowed: "The last general will see Jia Yuanjun!" ”

This meeting is a little embarrassing! He was still mocking Jia Huan in Gumo City some time ago. As a result, in the blink of an eye, he became Jia Huan's subordinate.

"General Hu, please get up!" Jia Huan smiled and helped him up. Hu guerrilla Hu Nai, the word ten thousand bells. He has a good reputation in the army. He has the reputation of "loving soldiers like children". Treat his own people, Jia Huan will not treat the Hu'er in Shule City as well.

Not to mention that his prestige in the army has not arrived. His personality makes him different from the style of the Governor of Qi, the Governor of Qi has a strict bearing, and his subordinates are generally a little afraid of him. And Jia Huan learned from Wei Yang's father Wei Kang, which was like a spring breeze, and he couldn't learn it.

Jia Huan has a calm temperament, and his style of dealing with people is: neither humble nor arrogant, round on the outside and square on the inside.

At this moment, Jia Huanzi didn't know what Hu Guerrilla was thinking!

"Thank you!" Hu Nai got up and said respectfully: "General Yang will lead the Chinese army, and it will arrive in an hour." ”

Jia Huan nodded.

Shen Qian and the others greeted each other with Hu Nai, and after greeting each other, Shen Qian sent someone to bring the new army to the large camp in Shule City. Hu Nai flowed down and waited. About an hour later, an endless burst of red appeared at the end of the grassland outside the city.

The lineup is at its peak. There are all kinds of troops. The neat red uniforms made the marching army like a thick flame!

Pang Ze commented with a smile: "In the end, it is an army that has been trained for more than half a year." "The new army that came to Shule this time was recruited in Dunhuang in October. It's the end of May. This new army, the so-called new, is relative to the Beijing camp and the elite soldiers of the nine sides.

In fact, it has experienced a thousand-mile trek from Dunhuang to Qiuci, and has sieged cities and suppressed bandits along the way. They are already qualified professional soldiers. At this moment, it is initially shown that the Zhou army is invincible in the world!

In the army, a group of cavalry galloped in front of Jia Huan.

Yang Ji, the guerrilla of the Beijing Camp Shenwei Battalion, skillfully turned over and dismounted, knelt down and said, "The last general Yang Ji will see Jia Zhijun!" The whole army is 20,000 people, and the last general is all brought! ”

Yang Ji's etiquette is more respectful than Hu's guerrilla just now. Although, it is now popular for generals in the army to pay homage to Zaifu, governors, and governors. But that's a bit too much!

Yang Ji originally belonged to Niu Jizong's old Wuxun group faction, but he did not immediately defect to Jia Huan when he came to Dunhuang, the first stop of Jia Huan's visit to the Western Regions. It wasn't until Jia Huan defeated the influence of the deputy general Miao Qi that he expressed his support for Jia Huan's position to Shen Qian.

But then, he and Shen Qian followed Xun Yang, the general of the Yaowu Battalion, to fight Qiuzi, and they never crossed paths with Jia Huan again. At this moment, he led the army to come and became Jia Huan's subordinate.

This worship is not only the envoy of Shule Festival, but also the ruler of the Rongguo Mansion in the old Wuxun group.

With Jia Huan's status as a "festival envoy" at this time, it is enough to accept the political legacy of the old Wuxun group in the Western Regions Army!

Jia Huan smiled, helped Yang Ji up, and said, "General Yang, please get up." You and Yu Qiao are world friends. You don't have to be formal. He also helped the generals behind Yang Ji up, and said, "Generals, please get up!" He smiled at the crowd and said, "Now that the army has arrived, let's go into the city." ”

On May 27, the 20,000-strong Zhou army entered Shule. The endless stream of military athletes walked through the city gate hole and stepped on the streets of Shule City.

And this scene was witnessed by many Shule people! Word spread.

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In the city, in the Pei family's house.

After dinner, Pei Dengli called his eldest son, Pei Shi. The weather is hot, and there are ice cubes in Pei Dengli's room, which is quiet and quiet. Calligraphy, painting, chess and piano display. The tabernacle was scattered.

Pei Deng's waist was a little rickety, he sat in the chair, gave the invitation in his hand to Pei Shi, and said, "Shi'er, have you heard the news in the morning?" Look. When the Zhou army came, he felt uneasy.

Pei Shi stood in front of his father. He was about thirty years old, dressed in a fine robe, with a deep brow. In fact, it's not just him, it's the entire Pei family. On that day, although Pei's "guilty of pleading" on the long street, it was not yet possible to believe whether Jia Yuanjun forgave them.

Pei Shi opened the invitation: The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and Huan wants to celebrate with all the virtuous people in Shule City. It is scheduled to gather at noon on April 30 at Qingyun Tower. Please come and visit us.

Pei Shi looked up in astonishment and looked at his father, "This..."

Pei Dengli sighed and said worriedly: "Alas, the Hongmen Banquet! I'm afraid that this Jia envoy will rip off the bamboo. It was rumored in the city that he was going to collect a million stone of grain. If you can buy peace with your money, it's worth it. I just don't know how much he wants. ”

Pei Shi was silent, bitter in his heart.

Not only that, Pei Shi is afraid that he has to be more active! The residence of the Persian Mosa was provided by Pei. And this Jia envoy Jun almost flattened the courtyard with a cannon.

This is a ruthless man!