Datang: The prince of salted fish was overheard by Li Er

A month later, the news that Li Chengqian's army crossed the border and entered Dashi territory came as expected.

Hearing this news, although Li You was angry, there was nothing he could do.

The general is away, and the king's fate is not accepted, not to mention the relationship between Li You and Li Chengqian, the prince Li Chengqian is the one who is the king.

In desperation, Li You could only dispatch another [-] Tang troops into the Western Regions to meet Li Chengqian's army at any time.

However, Li You's caution was ridiculed by Hou Junji.

In the next two months, news of Li Chengqian's army's success spread frequently, and they soon approached the holy city of Medina, the capital of the Great Food Kingdom.

Such a result made those ministers who supported Li Chengqian very excited. Under Hou Junji's bewitching, they all felt that what Li You did before was to fear that the East Palace would become bigger.

However, facing the situation on the front line, Li You became more and more worried.

He kept urging the reinforcements to speed up, and at the same time sent a letter to the Persian Kingdom to gather troops and enter the Dashi Kingdom to echo Li Chengqian's troops from afar.

However, the distance between Dashi and Datang is too far, and in the absence of effective means of communication, Li You's actions are still slow after all.

Another month later, the situation on the battlefield ahead changed suddenly, and the good situation suddenly reversed.

Li Chengqian's army, which was originally powerful, fell into a stalemate with the Dashi Kingdom's troops on the outskirts of Medina.

After several consecutive encounters, the troops of both sides were consumed a lot, but at this time, behind Li Chengqian's army, a large number of Dashi Kingdom's troops had gathered.

For a moment, Li Chengqian's 30 troops fell into the siege of more than [-] people from the Great Food Kingdom.

What's more terrible is that the food road of Li Chengqian's army was also broken by the enemy. Because the attack was too deep before, now Li Chengqian's [-] troops have only less than half a month's rations.

Moreover, most of the territory of the Great Food Country is the Gobi desert, with a huge temperature difference between day and night, and a serious shortage of water sources.

Li Chengqian's situation is now more dangerous than that of Li Ke who was besieged by the Tubo army back then.

Although Persia began to organize troops to rescue immediately after receiving the request for help, Persia was waiting to be done, and the troops formed hastily had no combat effectiveness at all.

The army of 10,000+ was beaten to pieces by tens of thousands of people.

Now, the only ones who can save Li Chengqian are the 3 people dispatched by Li You.

However, even if these 3 people traveled all day and night, it would take at least a month or two to get to the place where the accident happened, and Li Chengqian might not be able to last that long.

Suddenly, a depressive atmosphere enveloped Chang'an.

The most anxious thing at this time was Hou Junji, he summoned Queen Bao and Songtsan Gampo, and then he started to lose his temper.

"This matter is all your idea. If Li You's secret letter hadn't been tampered with at the beginning, how could this happen?"

"If the crown prince returned to the imperial court in the first class, although his military achievements are still inferior to Li You and Li Chuang, he still has merits in martial arts, and combined, he will not lose to them."

"It's good now. If His Royal Highness is gone, I want you to look good."

In fact, at this moment, Princess Bao and Songtsan Gampo were even more panicked than Hou Junji.

Long before Hou Junji summoned them, they had already discussed a countermeasure together.

Judging from the current situation, even if Li Chengqian can come back alive, this big defeat is inevitable.

Datang's only defeat in the past 20 years was in the hands of Li Chengqian, so his crown prince must be in jeopardy.

If Li Chengqian did not become the crown prince, Hou Junji would definitely hold grudges against the two of them, and it would be a question whether the two of them could survive.

To Hou Junji, this matter may be just the size of the power in his hand, but to the two of them, it is a matter of life and death.

As the saying goes: Anger starts from the heart, and evil grows from the gallbladder.

The two people who were forced to the edge of the cliff suddenly had an extreme idea that they wanted to rebel.

And the two of them didn't add up to a dozen guards in Chang'an, so if they wanted to rebel, they had to bring Hou Junji together.

But Hou Junji's situation is quite different from theirs. In order to make Hou Junji submit, they can only use another trick.

After Hou Junji was furious, Princess Bao frowned and said another thing: "Chen Guogong, the prince's matter is far away, and now there is still a difficult matter in front of us!"

Although these words came from Queen Bao, Hou Junji still said impatiently: "Is there anything more important than the safety of His Highness the Crown Prince?"

Princess Bao leaned her whole body on Hou Junji's body, and said with a worried face: "Did Chen Guogong ever hear that King Liang is going back to Beijing?"

Hearing this, Hou Junji finally calmed down: "His Zhenla has completely surrendered, so he naturally wants to return to Beijing. Didn't we talk about this a long time ago?"

"If it wasn't for his success in the First World War in the South, how could I agree with the plan of the two of you."

At this time Songtsan Gampo said: "Chen Guogong, according to reliable information, His Royal Highness Liang Wang seems to have known about our tampering with the secret letter, and he came back this time to ask the teacher for punishment."

Hearing this, Hou Junji was shocked: "How is this possible, this matter is so secret that even the King of Qi doesn't know about it, how did Li Chuangyuan know about it in the south!"

Hou Junji was asking Songtsan Gampo, but he didn't want Princess Bao to kneel down all of a sudden.

"Chen Guogong blames the servants for not having any. The day before yesterday I found out that there were a few servants who were sneaky. After some torture, I found out that they were the spies of King Liang."

"Not only did they know about our secretly exchanging secret letters, but they also knew about the slave family and the Duke!"

Immediately, Hou Junji was struck by lightning and almost lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Princess Bao hurriedly helped him to the side and sat down, but Hou Junji was heard muttering to himself: "What should we do with the current situation!"

Even though Hou Junji was courageous, he was considered a strong general, and he once asked Li Jing about the art of war, but now the news brought by Empress Bao was so shocking that he didn't know what to do for a while.

At this moment, if you ask Hou Junji what he thinks, maybe he will say that he regrets going to Queen Bao's appointment under the moon that day.

Hou Junji's mind is full of thoughts now, the master he chose is gone, and it's all because of him that he was found out.

In this way, not only Li You and Li Chuang could not spare him, but even those ministers who were loyal to Li Chengqian could not spare him.

However, when Hou Junji was in despair, he saw that there was still a slight smile on Songtsan Gampo's face.

Hou Junji was furious immediately: "Well, Songtsan Gampo, you can still laugh at any time."

"This time, if something happens to me, both of you will be buried with me!"

Hearing this, Songtsan Gampo quickly said: "Duke Chen, don't worry, the prince is in danger now, Li You is in charge of supervising the country, and Li Chuang is returning to Beijing with the army."

"No matter how you look at it, this is a game of dead chess."

"However, in fact, turning points are often hidden in crises. This time may not be our chance to turn things around!"