Chapter 406: Relief
The sudden imperial edict made Tian Renhui confused, and he stared at the man who announced the imperial edict, his eyes full of doubts. ☆→,
The man who announced the order seemed to see what Tian Renhui was thinking, and he smiled proudly on the horse. Tian Renhui's eyes quickly narrowed.
He was so familiar with this smile.
Tian Renhui also worked as an official in Chang'an. After the Jinshi of the Science Examination High School, he served as a recorder in the Shangshu Province in Chang'an and worked hard for three years. During these three years, he had seen too many such smiles. Only those from Tai Chi Palace would show such smiles because they were close ministers of the emperor. No matter how big or small the official position, they seemed to be born with a sense of superiority. They bowed to everyone in Tai Chi Palace, but once they left the palace gate, their nostrils were facing the sky, and everyone was shorter than themselves.
From ancient times to the present, people from the palace have all had this kind of virtue. Whether it is the generals guarding the Da Nei Guards or the eunuchs in charge of the eunuchs, they are so angry when they leave the palace. Tian Renhui served as the Minister of the Secretariat in Chang'an, and is the central government office responsible for conveying and executing the imperial decrees. The most common ones they see every day are the palace generals and military generals who go back and forth in the palace. This kind of smile is naturally the most common.
Seeing the appearance of the man on horseback, Tian Renhui believed it three times. Then he saw the man on horseback take off a tooth sign from his waist and handed it to Tian Renhui along with the imperial edict and the military transfer document. He said with a smile: "My surname is Huang and his name is Qiu. He is the commander of the left cavalry camp of the Right Martial Guard. The imperial edict, tiger talisman and military transfer document are sent by His Majesty from the golden imperial tent in front of the northern frontier. If General Tian does not believe it, he might as well check it carefully."
Tian Renhui was also an old official in the officialdom. He heard this and laughed and said he didn't dare, but he still took the imperial edict and the tiger talisman and the document, and carefully checked it in front of Huang Qiu. After a long time, Tian Renhui breathed a sigh of relief, showed a relaxed smile on his face, bowed to Huang Qiu, and said, "Angel is waiting for a moment, and we will immediately order troops."
Turning his head, Tian Renhui shouted: "Come here, beat the drum, gather generals to order troops!"
Huang Qiu still had a proud smile on his face, looked up and squinted his eyes and looked out the door, saying, "Who is the more than a thousand cavalry teams ahead?"
Tian Renhui's expression suddenly became bitter: "It's... the young master of Duke Lu's mansion."
Huang Qiu's eyelids twitched. Duke Lu's name is scared in Chang'an, and his son's reputation is not much better. Huang Qiu is in the palace. He is very familiar with the virtues of the father and son of the Cheng family, so he no longer dares to show a proud smile. His expression froze, and said, "What is Mr. Cheng going out of Yumen Pass?"
Tian Renhui sighed and said, "Like us, we rushed to Xizhou, but the Chang'an Duke Mansion received the news very early. Mr. Cheng had no right to mobilize troops, so he mobilized more than a thousand veterans from his own village and went to Xizhou to help Jingyang County..."
Huang Qiu's eyelids twitched twice, and he adjusted his attitude without realizing it. A young master was enough to make him look up to him, but judging from his current situation, Mr. Cheng took the risk of gossiping and scattering veterans from the village and led his eldest son to help. The weight of this county is much heavier than he imagined. If he sees him in the future, he must lower his posture. Don't take out this proud smile that is not enough to be pulled out.
Huang Qiu came to his senses and looked down at Tian Renhui. He said curiously: "I just saw the mess here from afar. What are you doing?"
Tian Renhui's expression became even more bitter: "My general was held hostage by Li County's wife to threaten Mo general to send troops to Xizhou. Then Mr. Cheng came, and Mr. Cheng was held hostage by Mr. Cheng again and threatened me to send troops, but I refused..."
"You are the guardian of Yumen Pass, and you have been held hostage twice?" Huang Qiu's expression was also a little wrong. His eyes looked at him were a little strange, and I don't know if it was sympathy or contempt.
Tian Ren could thrust his cheeks. This person... really can't chat. I wonder if there is a kind of sadness in the world called "crowding in the gutter"? It's not surprising that the boat capsizes twice.
Huang Qiu looked at the veterans of Chengjiazhuang from afar, and his expression seemed to be enlightened: "It is too important to be good at dispatching troops and horses, so General Tian refused. So, Mr. Cheng just broke his compassion with General Tian and led a lonely army on the way?"
Turning his head and looking at Tian Renhui sympathetically, Huang Qiu said, "But, at this moment, you have to mobilize troops to catch up with Mr. Cheng. The stern refusal has become a happy Jingcong. This is done...tsk!"
Tian Renhui lowered his head and looked at the imperial edict and tiger talisman in his hand, and said in endlessly: "If the angel had come one hour earlier, why would it be so unfair to be a person inside and outside?"
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Outside Xizhou City, the cavalry camp.
Li Su was lying in the handsome tent and humming.
The shoulders of the arrow were hurting severely. The doctor in the city came to see him and gave Li Su a kind of medicine that looked dirty like black mud, and it was very simple and roughly wrapped around the arrow wound. Li Su's clean skin touched this kind of medicine that was like mud like dug out of a gutter every day, and he was almost crazy.
After being injured, there was a perfect excuse, so Li Su's lazy disease began to occur, which was more serious than the injury. She lay in the tent every day and did not move. When she woke up, she opened her eyes and stared at the dome of the tent in a daze, or when the sun was not too strong, she put a soft couch on the sand outside the tent to bask in the sun.
Time is peaceful and life is like a dream.
After the war, after a talk with Cao Yuchang, Li Su finally took over the city in full.
Seizing power is not a desire for power. Li Su doesn't have a big hobby for power. He just likes to be neat and straightforward in his work, does not like talking and talking, and does not like someone to be hindered behind his back. For Xizhou, the most important thing at the moment is to give a commander. A person can have hands and feet, but he can definitely have only one brain, and one more will be messed up. Since Cao Yu lacks ability, Li Su has to go on.
After the first battle to defend the city, Xizhou City was devastated, and reconstruction and restoration of the city was the top priority. Li Su made a plan and the restoration of the city was handed over to the officials of the Xizhou Governor's Office to implement the rest.
The key point is naturally the city wall. The city wall of Xizhou is the weakness of defending the city, but it must be repaired.
The second important thing is to inquire about the enemy situation. Now it is certain that the Western Regions teams have joined forces, and the Gaochang army is just a vanguard of the army. Therefore, on the day after the war, Li Su sent scouts to all directions of Xizhou, and daily military newspapers were sent to the commander's tent. Not only that, Li Su also ordered the scouts to build a simple beacon tower a hundred miles away. If they encounter the enemy and don't have time to report the news, they can ignite the beacon to prepare for the battle.
Finally, it is to rectify the three armies.
Another Zhechong Mansion patrolling the border of Xizhou has been urgently recalled to Xizhou and gathered in the city with the cavalry camp and the soldiers of the Zhechong Mansion who had originally guarded the city. The number was about 2,800.
The people of the six counties under Xizhou were also moved to the city, and all the food that could be eaten and used were brought with them, and those that could not be taken away were destroyed on the spot. Not only that, Li Su also ordered the men to be strong, but the young and strong people among the people were all pulled into the army, and a village camp was temporarily built, with a population of about 2,000, and Jiang Quan was personally responsible for the daily exercise and tactics of defending the city.
Regular and irregular, elite and chaotic, Li Su is not picky about food now, wants everything, just to defend this city.
As Li Su said at the beginning, he was doing his best. As for whether he could defend Xizhou after hard work, it was all up to God's will.
The sunlight outside the handsome tent was a bit dazzling. Li Su was unique and put a piece of cloth on the top of the soft couch to shade. A short table next to the couch was placed, and a few fruits and a small jar of grapes were placed on the table. If you put on a pair of sunglasses, it would be a leisurely vacation.
After waking up, I didn't know the time, I looked up at the sky. The sun was gradually sinking. Li Su lay on the soft couch and stretched her long and lazy waist, half open her sleepy eyes, and began to think about what to eat tonight.
Zheng Xiaolou was very despised Li Su's lazy and lazy manner. In the first two days, he still patiently fulfilled his obligation to be a personal guard and stood behind Li Su in a good manner every day. However, Zheng Xiaolou soon found that this behavior was meaningless. Li Su only slept soundly every day. When she woke up, she thought about what to eat. After eating, she looked at the sky and was stunned for a while, and then her head started to turn on the sleep mode...
So Zheng Xiaolou finally found that he was standing behind such an old man who had eaten and slept with a full meal and waking up to eat was stupid. After deeply examining his mind, he stopped paying attention to Li Su and found a secluded place to practice.
Wang Zong's ability to adapt to the environment was obviously much better than Zheng Xiaolou. Seeing that Li Su was sleeping soundly every day, he also followed him to sleep with a small sauna. So the most common thing the soldiers of the cavalry were to sleep with the guards. If they weren't wearing clothes, the picture would be even more filthy...
Then, Li Su began to feel unhappy because Wang Zhuang was so loud that Li Su even found sensitively that the sand on the ground trembled slightly with Wang Zhuang's snoring.
Li Su couldn't bear it anymore and kicked him unceremoniously: "Soul Xi is back!"
Wang Zong paused his snoring, sucked his big mouth a few times, and looked at Li Su blankly with his eyes half open: "What's wrong?"
Li Su looked at him helplessly: "Can't you just sleep in another place?"
Wang Zong smiled silly: "That's what I said, I am your personal guard, of course I have to protect you in a row..."
Li Su really wanted to kick him again.
I slept even harder than a pig, and my snoring sounded so hard that the earth was shaking. I felt embarrassed to say that I was protecting myself with a calm face.
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Chapter completed!