The major event in Tubo has been decided, except for the black tooth Changzhi who is still stationed in Dafeichuan to deal with the aftermath, Xue Shao led the generals to return to Lingzhou together.

The people of all the prefectures, counties, villages and fields under the rule of the Lingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion spontaneously greeted Guo and celebrated Xue Shao's triumphant division.

It was a brilliant victory.

Helong has no sleep tonight.

Xue Shao and Di Renjie spent nearly half a month dispersing all the soldiers recruited from Helong and sending them home. There are many people who want to follow Xue Shao back to Beijing and become a "sergeant and combat officer", that is, a professional mercenary, and Xue Shao tried his best to persuade him to quit. It's not that Xue Shao looks down on them, and it's not that the country doesn't need these warriors, but that the Helong area has experienced several wars, and the people are too thin, especially the lack of strong labor. The imperial court has been trying to find a way to recruit a group of people to come over, and how many prisoners have been exiled in recent years have been sent to Liuhu Prefecture, so how can Xue Shao take away the strong men again?

The martyrs were compensated one by one, and the retired soldiers were persuaded to compensate them generously. After doing these things, Generalissimo Xue, who was originally very rich, became destitute, and it was impossible to talk about it if he wanted to give the generals a little more war profits. Fortunately, these generals around him were very considerate of Xue Shao, saying that we would have our own queen reward after returning to the dynasty.

The top and bottom are concentric, this is the most gratifying thing for Xue Shao. In this way, he can "do whatever he wants" in the army and not worry about being isolated by hatred.

After dispersing the Helong soldiers, Xue Shao reorganized the soldiers and horses. The 50,000 Luoshui army at the time of departure increased to more than 70,000 after several battles. In addition, the number of war horses has increased by nearly 100,000. This seems very gratifying, but half of the 70,000 men were Tibetan soldiers. If all these people are brought back to the capital, it will inevitably cause panic in the imperial court, and it will be more or less a bit of a security risk.

So Xue Shao decided to make some personnel adjustments to the soldiers and horses under his command on the spot. Fortunately, Yao Yuanchong was by his side, and Xue Shao reached a consensus after discussing with him, asking Yao Yuanchong to immediately return to the court to inform the empress and the Xia official issued an order to "regularly exchange blood" for the garrisons of the three surrendered cities.

This plan was actually in Xue Shao's deployment. The soldiers stationed in the surrendered city live overseas all the year round, how can there be a reason not to be homesick? Therefore, it is necessary to rotate them on a regular basis. But Xue Shao had not officially finished these things, so he was forced to "go into the wilderness". Now that so many Tibetan troops have been recruited, it is a good opportunity to execute.

So after the soldiers and horses were reorganized, Xue Shao waved his army north to "patrol the northern frontier".

Before leaving, Xue Shao left 50,000 fine Tubo war horses in Helong Horse Husbandry, and then transferred a large amount of grain and grass from Yinchuan Juntun. Xue Shao joked to Di Renjie, we are "bartering", and no one will suffer.

Only Di Renjie knew in his heart that the reproduction of war horses was much more difficult than growing grain in the soil. Helong Horse Farm was once the most important horse farm in the Tang Dynasty, but it was later sacked by the Turks and has been in a state of collapse ever since. Now Xue Shao has replenished 50,000 war horses in one go, obviously planning for a long-term militaristic plan.

Helong has been in war for a long time, although it is poor, but the people are fierce and the soldiers are strong, and now there are a large number of war horses as strategic material support. If there is another war in the future, as long as Xue Shao ascends to the heights, Helong can pull out tens of thousands of powerful troops to the battlefield at any time.

Tibetan soldiers bravely go to the country in the people, and they can fight when they are recruited, this is the real martial arts, and this is the real Han and Tang Dynasty heroes.

No one dares to commit such a kingdom.

Xue Shao took his army away, but he left the martial spirit in the land of Helong forever, deeply rooted in the hearts of every people.

Out of Shuofang, all the way to the north.

This road is too familiar, and Xue Shao seems to have returned to the beginning of that year when he was in charge of the Shuofang army. But he looked around him, how many of the original Shuofang generals were still around?

In addition to Guo Yuanzhen still in Fengzhou, Zhang Renyuan is willing to be stationed in Fuyun Temple, Tang Xiujing is far away in Yunzhou, and only Xue Chuyu and Dugu Zhizhi and Sha Zha Zhongyi are left.

War, took away a lot.

Xue Shao's army stopped in Fengzhou. Guo Yuanzhen and Zhang Renyuan, Pegasus will see you.

When Guo Yuanzhen jumped off the horse, the first thing he did was to rush to Xue Chuyu, jumped up and hugged him, "Erpole, you're not dead!" ”

"Let go, let go!" Xue Chuyu was embarrassed, and everyone laughed.

However, he has not seen him for many years, and Zhang Renyuan has obviously aged a lot. Life at the border is very hard, and leading soldiers is even harder.

Xue Shao hosted a banquet to entertain the two border generals and introduced them to Gongren.

Along the way, Gong Ren has been quite silent, after all, Da Zhou is not his homeland, and everything in front of him is unfamiliar. But the generals around Xue Shao were very kind to him, and it was not difficult to get along with each other. After all, Gong Ren was a simple and upright young man, and gradually opened his heart and began to take the initiative to integrate into this new collective.

Xue Shao asked Guo Yuanzhen and Zhang Renyuan about the border defense situation in detail, and on the whole the situation was not bad. But as Xue Shao expected, after staying on the border for too long, the soldiers were homesick.

The regular rotation of soldiers in the border seems to have become imperative.

After waiting in Fengzhou for several days, an order finally came from the imperial court, allowing the soldiers and horses of the surrendered city to rotate regularly. This first rotation mission was carried out by Xue Shao himself on the front line. In addition, the imperial court also issued two personnel appointments, transferring Guo Yuanzhen and Zhang Renyuan back to the court to listen to the use, and reappointing Dugu Zhizhi and Sha Zhan Zhongyi as the new governors of Fengzhou and Qinzhou respectively, and also receiving the military surrender of the city.

Last time Xue Shao went on a northern expedition, Dugu Zhizhi and Sha Zha made few meritorious contributions, so they were not promoted, and the rewards were few. This time, they attacked the Garqin Mausoleum and defeated the Tibetan Zampu, and the two of them finally showed their skills and made a contribution. This time, he was promoted to the governor of Sanpin, although he was a magistrate, he was also a feudal official of the party with real power, and he was promoted. The most important thing is that according to the current unwritten rules, it will be easy to promote the lord in the future if you can "refine" for a period of time in such a key military town as the surrendered city. Right now, Guo Yuanzhen and Zhang Renyuan are not the best examples?

Therefore, Dugu Zhizhi and Sha Zha Zhongyi are very happy. They were all former generals of Shuofang's army, but after Xue Shao left, they switched to Wei Zhiyuan. For a few years, they only ate in Xiazhou and waited for death to be "local tyrants", and later watched Guo Yuanzhen and Xue Chuyu and others brought out by Xue Shao, one by one, they had a bright future when they became famous, and they could only regret and envy in their hearts. Now that they have finally been promoted to governor, it is really not too late for them to make amends, and the daughter-in-law has finally become a mother-in-law.

How important it is to follow the right people.

Of course, Xue Shao's greatest concern for this trip north was still the Turkic issue. Therefore, he wanted to lead this army to re-take the road of Nuozhen Shuiyin Mountain and go to Heisha Xuene to have a look. But the court didn't seem to be happy with Xue Shao doing this, and the empress wanted Xue Shao to return to the court earlier, and the generals would come quickly to receive the reward.

Xue Shao also knew in his heart that it was indeed not a worry-free thing for him to lead troops to wander around like this. From the perspective of the imperial court system, it is also inappropriate. So he dismissed his plan to go to Heisha and decided to return to Beijing after the change of guard.

At the moment, there is no one happier than Guo Yuanzhen.

From the first time he followed Xue Shao to Shuofang, he never returned to the capital. Among all the generals of the Shuofang Army, he is the only one who has never moved his nest. It's also thanks to Guo Yuanzhen who is calm, otherwise who can stay at the border gate at such a young age for so long like him?

The change of defense was carried out in an orderly manner, and the two surrendered cities, plus the border guards of Fengzhou and Qinzhou, each exchanged 3,000 men, nearly one-third of the soldiers and horses. In addition, there are seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses, who will go to Yunzhou, Heisha, Shuozhou and Daizhou along the road of Nuozhen Shuiyin Mountain to change the border defense.

The towns changed their defenses, and the soldiers who were replaced were mainly Tubo troops, and a total of nearly 10,000 people were replaced. They account for less than one-tenth of the total number of border guards in the entire northern Xinjiang. Of course, they will not stay in Yunzhou and Heisha forever, and in the future, they will also participate in the continuous exchange of defense between various military towns, and belong to different local military governments. In a few years, they will be scattered to different regions of the land of Kyushu, and from then on, they will take root and have their own lives.

To accomplish this, Gong Ren contributed a lot. Although he was reluctant to be separated from his compatriots, he also knew in his heart that it was impossible for him to gather with the 30,000 Tibetan soldiers all the time. Gradually separating and merging with each other is the inevitable trend.

Now that we have taken that step, we must now accept this reality.

The change of defense in northern Xinjiang took two or three months.

In the blink of an eye, it's summer again. At this time last year, Xue Shaozheng and Yu Hongye were dashing in Huaiyang.

It's finally time for the class teacher to return to the court. Xue Shao has a feeling that the sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and time is urging people to grow old.

In a flash, a whole year passed like this.

The army had just passed the Shuofang military town when the empress sent envoys to urge Xue Shao's division. This time, the envoy also brought the empress's "secret decree", which was actually a handwritten letter written by Wu Zetian to his son-in-law Xue Shao as his "mother-in-law", telling him to hurry home to accompany his wife and children.

Xue Shao just smiled and said nothing, knowing that what the empress was really anxious about was probably her marriage with Xuan Yunzi.

He thought about it carefully, and today, the brown "political marriage" between himself and Xuan Yunzi seems to have lost its meaning a little. When this marriage was proposed, it was Wu Zetian who hoped that he and the sons and nephews of the Wu family could get along in harmony and assist her together. But now, the Xue family's military and military lines and the Wu family's royal family have become a strong trend, and they check and balance each other, which is just convenient for the empress to control. If the two families really move from antagonism to unity, can the empress still be calm?

Therefore, Xue Shao felt that at this time and that time, the empress should be unwilling to marry Xuan Yunzi again. Although it is not the right thing for a king to break his word and get fat, it is only a trivial matter compared to the actual political needs.

"Then after I go back, how should I face Xuan Yunzi?" When he walked towards Guanzhong step by step, this question has been haunting Xue Shao's mind.

[In recent days, I have been ill and unable to code. I wanted to take a leave of absence to rest, but I thought about it or the code word update...... If there is any update in the near future, please forgive me! 】