Sha Po Lang

Gu Yun's heart tightened, all this happened faster than he imagined, and even more chaotic than he imagined.

In the Western Regions, there are many shallow pits and toads. The small countries are like a bunch of sheep dung eggs.But in the past few years, Xuantieying Town has been at the entrance of the ancient silk road, and no one dared to stab it for a long time.

Kucha Kingdom is such a small and ruined country, even if it sells everything, it can't afford hundreds of sand tigers. There must be tigers and wolves behind this change. This is obvious, and it is not a problem at all.

The question is—what is the purpose of the forces behind the Kucha Kingdom?

Gu Yun also didn't believe that all of this was planned by the one in the palace, because Li Feng had a strong desire to control and liked to be safe and controllable in everything he did. Act rashly.

I'm afraid that Li Feng will be caught off guard. On the one hand, he doesn't know what is going on in the northwest, and on the other hand, he is afraid that the Xuantieying will move without call and disrupt the imperial court's deployment, so he uses the commander's seal to be detained and the drumming order to be ineffective. Hold them back.

Gu Yun asked: "About how many troops are stationed in each country?"

Xuan Ying: "There are about two to three thousand missions stationed in the Western Regions. Tianzhu is a little farther away, and there are only one thousand troops for defense, and the rest are the countries of the Western Regions."

"Impossible." Gu Yun bit the tip of his tongue slightly, barely able to swallow the word "re-exploration", and only then remembered that he was not in the army at this time.

Trapped in this well-covered Forty-Nine City, he is out of reach.

"Since hundreds of sand tigers have appeared, the opponent must want to fight a tough battle. If there are not tens of thousands of elite soldiers behind them, it will be a waste of money. Even if there are not many troops on the surface, it does not mean that there are no hidden ones." Gu Yun closed his eyes slightly, and clasped his fingers slightly on the desk table, "A team of heavy armor and two or three sand tigers are enough to deal with the clumsy cavalry in Loulan. They gathered a large number of sand tigers and tens of thousands of troops on our border. It is absolutely impossible for the small matter of three mice and four eyes among the small countries in the Western Regions."

Xuanying was stunned for a moment: "Then...then either the subordinates will hurry back..."

Gu Yun interrupted him and said, "No need, and it's too late."

Xuanying rushed from the ancient silk road station to the capital, and it took nearly two days at the fastest, which is already extremely fast, and the capital is forbidden, so he can only settle in the Beidaying first, even if he enters the capital overnight, it is already too late to reach Gu Yun It was the third day, and if he went back to deliver the order, even if he ran away to death, it would take five or six days.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, five or six days is enough to subjugate the country——

Gu Yun gritted his teeth, but he was detained in the capital at this time!

"Go down and rest first." Gu Yun said softly, "Let me think about it."

Xuanying didn't dare to talk too much, and took the order to go.

Gu Yun turned around and warmed up a pot of wine for himself, walked around the room for a couple of steps, within an inch, he had completely calmed down, and he figured out a clue, thinking: "It may not be the worst situation. .”

He was detained, and Shen Yi was not there. Right now, the Northwest Xuantie Battalion is headed by He Ronghui, Chief Captain of Xuanying.

Gu Yun knew about He Ronghui's temper. He was a notorious and peerless assassin. Apart from Gu Yun himself, even Shen Yi might not be able to subdue him. If he dared to act wildly in Xuantieying by relying on the drumming order, He Ronghui would probably take the lead in launching the attack, and if not, Meng Duhu would be packed up and locked up.

So what's next?

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door of the house from outside. As soon as Gu Yun opened the door, he saw Chang Geng standing at the door.

Gu Yun was holding half of the door in his hands, and when he saw Chang Geng, his heart that had just calmed down started to twitch again, so he asked with a stomach ache, "Why are you here again?"

Chang Geng: "I think foster father may need me now."

Gu Yun: "..."

Chang Geng stood at the door dignifiedly and asked, "Can I go in?"

After asking for instructions, he turned half sideways and made a "ready to go" posture, preparing that as long as Gu Yun said the word "scroll", he would immediately be wiped out.

Gu Yun thought to himself: "I must have owed this bastard a lot of money in my previous life."

Then he reluctantly gave way and put the bastard through the door.

Gu Yun was too engrossed in thinking about things just now, and when he didn't pay attention, the wine warmed on the small stove was overheated, and it boiled gurglingly, and the room was full of alcohol, Gu Yun picked up the wine pot and asked Chang Geng. : "Drink?"

Chang Geng ignored him, and turned out a pot of cold boiled water on his own, and sat upright beside a chessboard - if he had shaved his head, he would look like an ethereal monk.

Chang Geng asked: "Xuan Ying didn't come from the Northwest camp overnight for no reason, is there a change in the border?"

Gu Yun didn't really want to tell him, so he said vaguely, "It's a little troublesome, nothing."

His personal prestige in the army is extremely high. The advantage of this is that he speaks the same thing and has excellent control and efficiency. When he doesn't understand something, he will not be the first to speak to others.

Over time, it's easy to rest on your laurels.

Chang Geng raised his eyelids to look at him, but quickly withdrew his gaze, returning to the state of looking at the nose, nose, and mouth, as if he was afraid that he would sink into it if he watched too much.He picked up a chess piece from the chess box next to him and played with his fingertips. The chess piece was so black that it glowed green, and it was slightly fluorescent when it was hit by the gas lamp.

Seeing that Gu Yun was unwilling to say more, Chang Geng continued by himself: "The generals of the three major battalions of Xuantie can all be on their own, and if there is a little friction on the border, they won't come all the way to bother you—I guess there are at least tens of thousands of them. Abnormal troop build-up, or almost the same trouble, will let that Xuanying brother run around in this battle."

Gu Yun spun the steaming wine glass over and over again, narrowing his eyes slightly in the sloppy drink: "General Zhong has taught you a lot."

"There is also something that Old General Zhong didn't teach me," Chang Geng said, "What is foster father thinking?"

"Xuantieying regards protecting the country as its eternal bottom line," Gu Yun said in a low voice, "When the incident happened suddenly and the situation was unknown, Lao He would automatically regard the border as the front line and close the ancient Silk Road portal. All roads are cut off, and anyone who enters or exits without authorization will be punished. If the friendly country asks for help, and the commander is not there, the Xuantie Camp will only provide shelter at most, and will never leave the post to send troops. The [-] Xuantie Battalion, unless the Da Luo Immortal has landed, don’t worry about it Whoever comes here has no reason to easily break through my northwest barrier—I don’t worry about it for the time being, I’m just thinking about what they will do next.”

His voice was low and gentle, and it seemed to be stronger than the smell of wine in the room, Chang Geng's ears couldn't help but numbed, so he lowered his head calmly, trying to get rid of distracting thoughts: "If it were me, I wouldn't take advantage of this moment to attack Daliang. "

Gu Yun's eyes paused on his black and white fingertips and chess pieces: "Why?"

Chang Geng dropped a piece on the chessboard, with a "pop", the sound was clearer and more tactful.

"Because the fire is not enough," he said, "the conflict between foster father and His Majesty has not yet reached the point of fire and water. Although he temporarily put you under house arrest in the capital, the Black Tie Camp has not yet disbanded, and it is still monolithic. If foreigners invade, the emperor will use you at any time, and the conflict between political power and military power that has intensified in the past few years will be repaired overnight, and the layout of the previous few years will be destroyed."

Ever since the carriage lost its composure that day, Chang Geng suddenly became sharp in front of Gu Yun. Whether it was family affairs or state affairs, when he spit out from his mouth, he pointed directly at the red heart, leaving no room for it.

Gu Yun was stabbed hard by the words "contradiction between political power and military power", and his finger that was red from the wine glass stopped in the air.

Daliang has a very deadly place.

Emperor Wu had no children, so the prince could only take over from the sidelines. No matter how wise and powerful he was in the legend, Emperor Wu was still a human being. When he was dying, this old man had a little selfishness. He left the military power of the princes to the emperor Since then, my beloved daughter has artificially separated the military power from the North Korean regime.

This has probably become the biggest failure in Emperor Wu's life - if the commander-in-chief keeps himself safe and the emperor has a broad mind, then the relationship between the monarch and his ministers may last for one generation, but what about two generations?What about the third generation?

Gu Yun is well aware of this matter——

One day, the contradiction between the Xuantie Tiger Talisman and the Emperor's Jade Seal will be irreconcilable, and then at the end, there will be two endings, either "the country's thief usurps the throne" or "the bird is exhausted".

"I think this is a test that kills two birds with one stone." Chang Geng laid out several pieces on the chessboard, "If those foreign people find out that once you are not in the camp, the Xuantie camp will become a game of drumming orders." The straw commanded to the left and right, then the army they are looking at is prepared for us, not only the Western Regions, maybe there are barbarians in the northern borders, and Japanese pirates in the East China Sea for many years. But this possibility is very small, the most likely outcome Yes, the Northwest is still impenetrable, General He will forcibly detain the Northwest Protector with the drumming order—"

Gu Yun finally looked at him with a bit of shock.

Chang Geng met his gaze with a half-sour smile: "Father, don't be surprised, there is no one in the whole of Liang who knows better than me about matters related to you."

Gu Yun: "..."

This kind of soft-hearted and extremely difficult young man is really difficult to deal with. He can't be beaten, scolded, coaxed, or coaxed. Shameless." Dafa turned his head to the side and said seriously: "What, are you molesting your adoptive father?"

Sure enough, Chang Geng was caught off guard by him, and his plain white sleeves spilled a bowl of clear water on the table.

The invincible Gu Dashuai was not impressed by this small victory, and waved his hand very gracefully: "Go on."

Chang Geng quickly came to his senses, although he was taken aback by Gu Yun, but at the same time he was a little relieved - even if the sky fell, that person would always be alive and kicking.

"...If it were me, I would continue to pressurize the border of the ancient silk road with heavy troops, especially heavy armor and chariots," Chang Geng said, "pressing murderously towards the Black Tie Camp, as if ready to attack at any time. When my father is not in the army, General He is hanging on the suspension bridge at most, and he definitely does not dare to take the initiative to send troops. He will send someone to deliver a letter to you, and on the other hand, he will ask for help from the nearest city—it may be the northern border city defense army, or it may be the garrison with heavy troops in the Central Plains. "

Gu Yun's eyebrows twitched.

"The request for help from the Xuantie Camp must be an emergency at the border. No one will take it lightly. Although the drumming order has been passed from southern Xinjiang, but in just a few months, its prestige is not enough to order the whole territory, so reinforcements are very likely. They will jump over the Ministry of War and come out." Chang Geng stared at the mottled chessboard with serious eyes, "But if I remember correctly, when the son of the northern barbarians attacked Yanhui town back then, the northern border city defense army was cleaned by his adoptive father—— You can say that you didn't intentionally put people in it, but I'm afraid those who judge the heart of a gentleman with a villain's heart will not believe it, and... the elder brother of General Cai Bin, the commander of the Central Plains heavy army, is the old Hou Ye The old lineage."

"In this way, among the five major military regions in Daliang, it goes without saying that Southwest was once your armor division. General Shen was once your armorer, and the Western Region was the base of the Xuantie Battalion. They were lawless and dared to detain the Northwest Guard. Order, Xuan Tieying asked for help together, and then privately deployed soldiers and horses." Chang Geng grabbed a handful of chess pieces, flicked his sleeves and threw them on the chessboard, there was a cacophony, the sound was like pearls and jade.

There is no need to say more about the following words——

Emperor Li Feng would probably realize more suddenly that Gu Yun's concession on the drumming order was completely a "scam". He would think that half of the country was in Gu Yun's hands, and he would be out of breath.

Chang Geng's eyes were deep: "Father, can you listen to me?"

Gu Yun: "Say."

Chang Geng: "First, immediately send Xuanying to deliver a letter to General Cai, telling him not to act without orders. Even if General Cai decides to send troops, he still needs to organize his troops and prepare supplies. It is very likely that he can still catch up now."

Gu Yun immediately asked back: "Why didn't you send a letter to the Northern Border City Defense Army?"

Chang Geng replied without changing his face: "Because the foster father only has a black eagle, he can only bet this once. Given that the northern barbarians are likely to take advantage of the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, I can understand why General He can't ignore it, so he is the most likely Seek far from the near—after Xuanying returns to the Northwest camp, he must tell General He not to be impatient, he does not need to listen to the drumming orders, but he must not offend the Northwest Protectorate too much."

Gu Yun: "The third?"

"Third," Chang Geng said slowly, "I would like to ask the emperor to submit a letter to the emperor before the news of the adoptive father's presence on the ancient Silk Road has reached the capital, and to find a reason to hand in the commander's seal thoroughly. Make it clear that you have never been involved in military affairs, and at the same time make it clear to the emperor that the safety of the Northwest is of great importance. You have explained to your subordinates before you leave that there is no commander seal. The dragons have no leader, so please find someone to replace you as soon as possible."

Taking a step back can not only avoid his sharp edge, but also save He Ronghui, who committed the crime below.

In fact, Chang Geng wanted to say, "This is the worst strategy, it can only be used to alleviate the delay, to treat the symptoms but not the root cause", but he had an intuition that Gu Yun might not like to hear what was said later, so he finally swallowed it back.

Gu Yun was silent for a long time after listening.

Suddenly, his thoughts wandered away, and he couldn't help but think of the child he picked up from the wolf's mouth that year in the heavy snow outside the pass.

At first Shen Yi fooled Chang Geng into saying that it was a coincidence, but it was not.

At that time, they had their own eyeliner in the front line of northern Xinjiang. After Gu Yun received the emperor's order, he actually found Xiu Niang first, but he didn't startle the snake when he found out that she had contacts with barbarians.

At that time, Gu Yun himself was not very old, so he was somewhat sloppy and incapable of doing things. His eyes were fixed on the barbarian, and he had long forgotten the order of the late emperor to let him find the little prince and return to the capital quickly. Chang Geng actually ran out of the pass alone, he panicked, and hurriedly led Shen Yi to chase him out.

Now that Gu Yun closes his eyes, he can still think of Chang Geng's appearance at that time - his whole body is covered in injuries, such a bony bony mass, miraculously survived until they arrived after being kissed by a wolf in the wind and snow.

Gu Yun wrapped him in the cloak, which was so light that he could hug it with one hand. He felt like he was hugging a dying chick, and he was afraid that his hands would be too strong to strangle him to death.

And if you don't pay attention, people have grown so big.

Seeing that he hadn't answered for a long time, Chang Geng couldn't help asking: "Father?"

Gu Yun tilted his head slightly, the expression under the lamp was almost gentle for a moment, Chang Geng's heart skipped a beat.

Maybe it was the mouthful of blood that Chang Geng vomited out when he should have been frightened and angry, or maybe it was the burnt out in the next few days, in short, although Gu Yun felt that this matter was absurd, helpless and troublesome, he was not as angry as he imagined.

Gu Yun: "I see, you should rest earlier."

Chang Geng heard his order to evict the guest, and immediately stood up wisely and left.

Gu Yun: "...wait a minute."

He lowered his eyes, as if hesitating slightly: "Then you will tell me, I hope you can do anything, right?"

Chang Geng's hand that was going to open the door stretched out into the air, and his fingers curled up slightly.

Gu Yun: "I don't want you to go too far, and I don't want you to force yourself to do something. My foster father just wants you to be well."

Chang Geng stood there blankly for a moment, then ran away without saying a word.

Gu Yun unhurriedly picked up the half jug of wine that was left just now, tested the temperature, took a sip from the spout leisurely, and said in his heart: "Little brat, can't you be cured?"