I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

Li Yazhi covered her lips and joked with a smile: "You are getting shy. Didn't you make a lantern for me before? I am just returning the favor. The lantern you made is really exquisite. I don't know how much those sisters envy me."

"It's just a worthless little thing." Yin Fushu's skill in making lanterns is all because he couldn't bear to spend so much money to buy a lantern, so he made the lanterns himself. That day, he saw Li Yazhi staring at the lanterns in the hands of the girls outside Tingyu Tower, so he made one.

"How can your feelings be so clichéd as to be measured by gold and silver?" Li Yazhi said to her angrily, "But since you didn't sleep well last night, you should rest first. I won't disturb you. We can have dinner together later when you wake up."

Yin Fushu hesitated for a moment, but still nodded, but she also felt a little strange. Although she and Li Yazhi were good friends, Li Yazhi had been particularly intimate with her recently, and she always felt that something was not right.

She might really be a little tired during this period. She is just a little girl, how could she have any deep thoughts? Maybe she was overthinking.

"You just stole other people's literary talent, but you really take yourself seriously." Yin Fushu laughed at herself. If it weren't for Song Shixia, in the eyes of these girls, she would just be a village woman who had good looks but couldn't read a single word.

Yin Fushu looked at the sachet in her hand. Her surname and orchids were embroidered on the sachet. From the stitches, she could tell that the embroidery skills were excellent.

If it weren't for Song Shixia's literary talent, this sachet would not have been given to her.

She looked at the snow on the treetops outside the window. Although the snow had not melted yet, there was already a little green on the branches, as if announcing that the cold winter was about to pass and spring would soon be here.

The scattered snow dances as taught, and the returning wind blows as it pleases.

Xi Lilong led the Yuanyang Army to search for Geshu Ying in the north, but they did not see any trace of the Turk for several days.

"General, could this be a trick of the Turks? Perhaps they didn't even go south, but just ambushed us." Deputy General Xiao Yizheng sat next to Xi Lilong, chewing on some dry food while expressing his concerns.

"But even though the mountains in the north are all covered in snow, where can they hide? They can't fly or hide underground, otherwise the scouts will not be able to find them." Another deputy general chewed beef jerky and didn't think that the Turks had a place to hide. You know, the biggest feature of the north is its openness.

"I heard that some tribes would dig holes underground, and once they were invaded by foreigners and there was no time to evacuate, they would hide underground. The Turks might be the same." Xiao Yi really knew that what she said made sense, but if they hadn't been hiding, they should have been found by now even if they were dressed up as herdsmen.

It can't really disappear.

"That's even more impossible. Even if they hide underground, they can't go without food or water. The scouts can't fail to find them, unless they really are rats that can live underground their entire lives."

Xi Lilong drank hot soup, listening to them and thinking at the same time. It was not until several people asked her to speak that she expressed her worries: "It's not a big deal to hide underground. We only took a few thousand soldiers with us. Even without us, Su Chengan and his men can still win. I'm just afraid..."

"They didn't go south directly dressed up as herdsmen, but went east to the Turkic land first." Xi Lilong held the bowl. If it was really as she worried, it would be dangerous. Although there were herdsmen in the Turkic land who could fight on horseback, they were no match for Ge Shuying and his men.

Xiao Yizhen stroked his chin and said, "There aren't many people in the Turkic land, so it's indeed the easiest to sneak into Daxia without getting in the way of people. However, it takes a lot of time to get to the Turkic land from the Western Regions. It's a good thing to sneak into Daxia from the Turkic land. We should be able to catch up if we hurry."

Hunger made Xi Lilong's mind a little confused. She ate vegetable soup with dried meat to fill her stomach and then she calmed down again: "But if we don't go to the Turkic land, what should we do?"

The Yuanyang Army could not continue to disperse. There were only a few thousand of them. If they were to split into two groups and really run into Geshu Ying, they would be sending themselves to die in vain.

Xi Lilong listened to the quarrels of several people and finally made a decision: "Yizhen, take a military flag and take it to find the Uighurs who retreated to the Central Plains. Ask them to continue looking for Geshu Ying in the Western Regions. The Yuanyang Army will follow me to the Turkic land."

The Uighurs knew the terrain of the Western Regions best, so the possibility of finding the Turks would be greater if the Uighurs continued searching in the Western Regions. On the other hand, they could not relax their guard either. Once the Turks took advantage of the situation and invaded, it would be even more impossible to find any trace of them when they were broken up into pieces.

"But if Ge Shuying is still alive, the Uighurs..." Xiao Yizhen closed his mouth appropriately. The Uighurs are also Daxia people. Some words would be too disrespectful to say directly. However, the Uighurs are afraid of and hate Ge Shuying. Under the emotion of fear, it is impossible for them to defeat the Turks. "The morale is low and it is easy to suffer defeat."

"Once Geshu Ying is found in the Western Regions, you can do whatever you want and take my military token to find Su Chengan." Xi Lilong also had this concern, but Su Chengan and the others were still in the Western Regions. As long as they found Geshu Ying's trace, they would definitely have time to find Su Chengan.

Xi Lilong looked at the Yuanyang Army who had finished their meal and had a good rest: "Everyone else, follow me to the Turkic land now!"

"General!" Xiao Yizhen held up the military token and shouted, "What if..."

What if Brother Shuying is really just one move away from Xu Huang?

"There's no such thing as a safe bet, Yizhen. We've been searching in the Western Regions for so many days. If Geshu Ying is really still in the Western Regions, it's impossible that we can't even find any trace of him." Xi Lilong asked her to look for the Uighurs just in case, but he was already certain in his heart that Geshu Ying might have really gone to the Turkic area.

"If Geshu Ying really went to the Turkic land, only by rushing over now can we save the people in the Turkic land. Those herdsmen can't hold out for long." Xi Lilong looked solemn. "If he was in the Western Regions instead of the Turkic land, he would only lose a little military merit. But if he was there and the Yuanyang Army didn't arrive in time, he would lose the people and more comrades."

She actually hoped that Geshu Ying would not appear in the Turkic area. If he had already arrived in the Turkic area, it was possible that some civilians had already been killed.

Xiao Yizhen also became serious and clasped his fists: "I will obey your orders!"

Xi Lilong asked two scouts to follow her to the place where the Uighurs were currently stationed. Although the Uighurs also had scouts guarding the Western Regions all year round, the scouts who came from the White Crane of Daxia were more professional in gathering information.

Xi Lilong led several thousand soldiers eastward towards the Turkic territory, hoping to find their whereabouts before the Turks began to massacre the civilians.

"General, if the Liao people really intend to enter Daxia from the Turkic land, they would have already started their action. By the time we find the traces of the Liao people, there may be tribes living in the Turkic land that have been attacked."

Xi Lilong knew this, of course. That was why she asked the Yuanyang Army to abandon their baggage and travel light: "That's what I'm worried about."

She should have thought about it. She actually wasted several days in the Western Regions. If Geshu Ying was still alive, he would definitely guess that they thought he was dead, and then secretly lead his troops to take a long detour to kill them by surprise, instead of sneaking in from the Western Regions in a hurry. If she sneaked in from the Western Regions, she might still be discovered by them.

In this case, Ge Shuying would definitely rather spend a little more time and take a longer route. Not only would he be able to kill them by surprise, but he might even be able to catch them in a trap.

"Ge Shuying had a good plan. He made us think that he died together with the Liaozhong Khan. He let Ge Shuxue appear on the battlefield as a military advisor to disrupt our vision and distract our attention. Everyone's hatred was focused on Ge Shuxue, so they would not notice that some of their troops had already quietly left."

Both Geshu Ying and Geshu Xue were hated by the people of Daxia. After Geshu Ying died, when Geshu Xue appeared on the battlefield again, the soldiers wanted to eat his flesh and blood. They didn't care about Geshu Ying, whose body was already gone.