After several months of preparation, Li Ji, Chai Shao, Zhang Gongjin, Zhang Baoxiang, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Xue Wanche, Duan Zhixuan and other famous generals of the Tang Dynasty came out in full swing, and Li Jing, the Minister of War, was the chief supervisor of Dingxiang Road. In mid-November of the second year of Zhenguan, he took the wind and thunder and went north to the Turks.

As soon as the news came out, the world was shocked, and all parties responded in different ways.

When Jie Li Khan received the news, he was enjoying singing and dancing. His first reaction was to throw a cup to fight and threaten to stay with the Tang Dynasty.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that Jie Li is so harsh and weak on the outside. After all, today is different from the past. The Turks are no longer the ironclad piece of the way they went south. If Jie Li showed a little intention to retreat, the tribes that once depended on the Turks would probably suffer even if they could not suffer.

And just as Jie Li made a bold statement, an unsightly farce happened in a large tent not far from his golden tent.

More than 20 Turkic soldiers, holding shiny steel knives, blocked the tent. Jie Li's confidant Kang Sumi blocked a beautiful woman with a smile and said with a threat: "Empress Xiao, pack up your things and take your highness to come with me."

Empress Xiao is not someone else, but the Empress Xiao of Yang Guang back then. In order to protect Emperor Yang's only descendant, Yang Zhengdao, he traveled to Yu Culture and Dou Jiande, and finally followed Princess Yicheng to the Turks, and survived to this day.

At this time, facing Kang Sumi, Empress Xiao blocked her grandson Yang Zhengdao behind her, looked stern and shouted: "Kang Sumi, you are so brave. I advise you to retreat early, otherwise you will count your crimes today in front of the Khan."

When Kang Sumi heard this, she laughed: "Hahaha..., sue me in front of the Khan? Queen Xiao, let alone whether you can see the Khan now, even if you can see it, the 200,000 troops of the Tang Dynasty will soon be on the grassland. This prairie will soon be replaced by another master. Khan... Hehe, who do you want to sue me?"

"What?!" Empress Xiao's expression changed drastically when she heard this: "You, say it again."

"I'll say it again." Kang Sumi's face turned cold and said sinisterly: "I'm not afraid to tell you now. I'm going to take you to Dingxiang to surrender. With your previous dynasty queen and the remnant of the previous dynasty behind you, even if you can't win a wife and a son, at least you can get rich and prosperous."

"Kang Sumi, you are still not a human being. Khan treats you like a confidant, but you abandon him at a critical moment!"

Empress Xiao was still making the final struggle, trying to awaken Kang Sumi's last little "conscience". However, the Turkic general had already had a heart and curled his lips disdainfully: "Confidant? I'm afraid it's a confidant!"

"you……".

"Empress Xiao, I advise you to give up, otherwise the sword will be blind. If you hurt the little prince behind you, it will be bad." Without waiting for Empress Xiao to say anything, Kang Sumi waved his hand to instruct everyone behind him: "Tie all of these two people away."

"Wait." Seeing that the matter was unsuccessful, Empress Xiao shouted again and stopped everyone who was about to rush up. She said to Ding Shin: "Kang Sumi, it's okay to let us go with you, but you must ensure the personal safety of my grandson, otherwise... our grandparents and grandchildren would rather die here than walk out of this tent."

Kang Sumi also knew that the woman in front of her was not easy to offend her to death, so she waved everyone away and changed into a smile: "Okay, I will promise you. But the Queen should move faster, and I will have limited patience."

Queen Xiao didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't answer his words. She just snorted coldly: "Hmph, give me half an hour, I'm going to clean up."

"Very good, let's go and wait outside the tent."

With Kang Sumi's words, everyone in the tent, along with the maids he served before, also retreated, and only Empress Xiao's grandchildren were left in the tent.

After a while, Yang Zhengdao pulled the corner of Queen Xiao's clothes and whispered: "Grandmother, grandson is afraid."

Looking at his grandson who was only eight or nine years old, Queen Xiao’s eyes were slightly red. She squatted and held Yang Zhengdao in her arms, patted him gently on the back, and comforted her weakly: “Don’t be afraid of grandson, with grandmother here, I will definitely keep you safe for the rest of your life.”

The four great tragedies in life: A widow and her son cry, and the general was captured by the enemy. He lost his gratitude to the palace master and fell to the ground to raise his son's heart.

Although Queen Xiao has a noble status, she is essentially a widow who has lost her husband's support.

The grandson Yang Zhengdao is the posthumous son of the second son of Empress Xiao, Yang Ting. His father disappeared before he was born. Later, his mother died and he was wandering around with his grandmother since childhood.

Without Emperor Yang's blessing, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Tang Dynasty, the two ancestors and grandchildren can be said to have experienced all the warm and cold relationships and the world is in a cold state, but unexpectedly, they did not escape this in the end.

After a long time, after Yang Zhengdao's mood stabilized, Empress Xiao took a jade pillow he often used and handed it to his hand. She said seriously: "Please keep this thing well. If someone asks, you will say that you are used to using this pillow and don't like other things."

Yang Zhengdao was a child after all, and he was confused when he heard this: "Grandmother, why is this?"

"Don't ask why, just take it well." Queen Xiao thought for a while, and finally added: "If you arrive in the Tang Dynasty in the future and Emperor Tang wants to kill you, you will present this thing. Do you remember?"

"Well, grandson remembers it." Facing the only person he could rely on, Yang Zhengdao nodded and responded despite his confusion.

Then, the grandparents and grandson cleaned up some of the fine and soft things and called Kang Sumi who was guarding outside in.

That night, Empress Xiao and Yang Zhengdao disappeared into the night under the hostage of Kang Sumi.

In December, the water dripping in Yunzhou turned into ice. Li Hao took his hand and walked around the city for a while before hurried back to the camp outside the city. He plunged into the warm tent and complained: "Damn it, this is too cold."

Hegan Chengji seemed to have expected this, and smiled and handed over a cup of hot tea: "The prince is suffering."

Shaking his head, taking the cup, Li Hao took a sip, feeling that he finally came back to life, and said astonished: "I wear so much and it's like a grandson. What's the coldest of the brothers below? Why don't you go to the camps later?"

Hegan Chengji smiled and said, "It's good to go down and take a look later. The prince should take a break first. When he gets out of the gate, he is afraid that there will be even fewer opportunities to rest."

Li Hao's mouth twitched. If he had known this, he would not have taken on this job. It would be great to stay in Chang'an to enjoy happiness. Why do you have to come to the Turks to be a pioneer officer in the wind and snow? Now, it's fine, it's frozen to a slutty calf and there is no place to complain.

"Forget it, let's go together. Leave everything to you, and I feel uncomfortable." Rejecting Hegan Chengji's kindness, Li Hao roasted the fire for a while, and it took a long time to make a comeback before Laohegan made an appointment.

Because of the muskets, the prince Liu was unscrupulously transferred 3,000 troops to form the vanguard of the Central Army. Li Hao, the prince's attendant, was appointed as the vanguard officer in the face of danger. Hegan Chengji, the bodyguard leader of Li Chengqi, became Li Hao's deputy.

The two of them led the team out of Chang'an and walked along the way. The roads and roads were frozen strongly, except for the cold spots, it was not slow to travel.

It took less than half a month to arrive in Yunzhou, and it was less than a few days away from the Turkic Dingxiang City. If it weren't for the fact that the weather was not beautiful and it started to snow again, it would probably have left the customs now.

Outside the tent, two groups and four personal soldiers were trembling in the cold wind, and their noses were long. Boss Li Hao couldn't bear it and patted one of them: "You four are divided into two shifts, go in and bake, warm them up and then come out to change to the other two. It's really, it's so cold that standing like this is so snowy."

"Thank you, thank you, general, general." When the personal army said this, his face immediately turned like a cracked porcelain, which was so scary.

But if you look closely, you will know that the faces of these personal soldiers had already been frozen with ice shells. The muscles on their faces twitched when they spoke, and it was like they were broken.

Li Hao waved his hand: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and get closer."

Throughout history, the army has been the most protective place. Seeing his soldiers being frozen miserably, Li Hao felt very embarrassed.

After all, the Central Army tent is in the middle of the camp, so there is no need for so many people to guard it. It is better to let them go into the tent to rest. Then again, they are all frozen. Can you still expect them to show their warnings to defend the enemy?

He walked around other places in the camp and found many such situations. Given that someone had to keep a watch, Li Hao and Hegankiki could only order each battalion to shorten the defense change time to prevent the soldiers under him from freezing out of illness.

"Lao He, this won't work." After walking around, Li Hao felt that his face was numb from the cold.

"There is no way, this is the only way to fight in winter." Hegan Chengji had given up on correcting Li Hao's plan and sighed: "But we are cold, and the Turks are cold. If we really want to compare, we can be much better than them."

"That's not OK." Li Hao shook his head: "Let's go, let's go into the city and take a look."

Seeing Li Hao gritting his teeth, Hegan Chengji felt nervous: "What are you looking at? I said to my little ancestor, this is a border state, not Chang'an, so don't do anything randomly."

Li Hao waved his hand impatiently: "Just go in and take a look, why are you so nervous?"

There was no way. Hegan Chengji knew that he could not resist Li Hao's temperament, so he wanted to not go with him and was worried that he would cause trouble that could not be solved, so he could only follow him with the bullet.

In this way, Li Hao returned to Yunzhou City, which had just left, and found a ready-to-wear shop with a familiarity, and walked in casually: "Where is the shopkeeper?"

"Oh, what do you need for the two generals? The old man is the shopkeeper, but he always obeys the orders." An old man about 60 years old turned from behind the counter and bowed with a wink.

"Do you have white folds here?" Li Hao looked around the store, turned around and asked the shopkeeper.

Modern people call white folded zi cotton. Because it is difficult to remove seeds, it is not popular in the Tang Dynasty. The reason why Li Hao asked this question was that he saw some cotton cloth in the store for sale.

The shopkeeper obviously did not expect Li Hao to ask such a question. After a moment of being stunned, he replied: "To be honest, the two generals, the old man sells ready-made clothes here, and there is no white fold for sale. If you really want to buy it, you can go to the Liang Family Clothing Store in the west of the city to take a look."

"Liang Family Bushang?"

"Yes, Liang's cloth store specializes in cotton cloth business, and there should be a lot." The shopkeeper answered honestly.

"Okay, please trouble you." With a place to go, Li Hao didn't delay, asked the path clearly, and headed straight for the Liang family's store.

Hegan Chengji was confused and had no idea what the young master was going crazy. He chased him out of the store and asked, "Criminal, do you want to buy a white fold?"

"Of course." Li Hao nodded, as if he had remembered something, and stopped and said to Hegan Chengji: "In this way, we will divide our troops into two groups. I will go to the Liang family cloth store to find Bai Diezi. You go to the Yunzhou Prefecture Office and ask the Yunzhou Envoy to help collect the feathers of poultry. The more the better, the quantity is unlimited."

"Ah? The feathers of poultry?" Hegan Chengji became even more confused: "Criminal, can you tell me what you want these things?"

"Make clothes..., hey, don't worry about what I'm going to do. Go and find something quickly. The more poultry hair there is, the better. If there is no..., just buy live poultry and ask them for as much as possible. Tell them that the money is not a problem."

"Oh." Hegan Chengji understood now. It turned out that this little ancestor was idle.

However, since he can't get out of the snowy day, he can just toss it. Trying clothes is better than scrambling those soldiers.

Standing in front of the garment shop, Li Hao and Hegan Chengji parted ways, and took Xi Junmai and Tiezhu alone to inquire about the Liang Family Bushang in Xicheng.

It took about half an hour to see a two-story building standing next to the road in the wind and snow, and a huge plaque standing next to the road with four large characters "Liang Family Bu Xing".

Li Hao was happy at first sight: "Oh, it's so big and elegant, it's not bad, I like it."

"Young master, do you want to go over and take a look?" Tie Zhu asked silly.

"Of course, if you don't go over and take a look, we're here for nothing." Li Hao said as he strides towards the Liang family store. Soon after, he had already arrived at the door of the store and walked in.

There is no fire in the cloth shop, except for the lack of wind and snow, the temperature is almost the same as outside.

After Li Hao and the other two went in, Xi Jun bought the first one and said: "Can the shopkeeper be there? Do you have white stacks here for sale?"

The sound fell, and a middle-aged man raised his head from behind the counter: "You want to buy a white stack?"

"Yes, quote a price." Li Hao and the middle-aged man looked at each other and yawned.

This is not because he deliberately despises others. It is because it is too cold and yawning is involuntarily.

The middle-aged man did not answer immediately, but just stared at Li Hao and the other two, as if evaluating whether they were rich. After a while, he slowly said: "Three generals, the shop does have white folds, but... the price is a bit high."

Who do you look down on? Li Hao was dissatisfied when he heard the shopkeeper's words: "I didn't ask you about the quality of the article, I just asked you how much it costs."
Chapter completed!