After receiving Xian Yu Zhongtong's reply, the Empress Dowager slowed down. In this inquiry reply, the abnormal movements of the Tubo people in the Ministry of War's official documents were explained by Xian Yu Zhongtong as "a normal scene that happens every autumn." Xian Yu Zhongtong even more confidently ensured that Jiannandao was under the absolute control of the court's military force. Once the Empress Dowager's car drove into Jiannan, it would be as safe as it was in Gyeonggi Province.

As soon as the Empress Dowager's carriage walked out of the border of Jiangnan West Road, it was immediately protected by the 10,000 Jiannan Town Legion who had been waiting here. The explanation for Xian Yu Zhongtong's failure to appear in the welcome team, the general who commanded the 10,000 people was "My general is personally leading the Yajun army to check the defense along the way to ensure the safety of the Empress Dowager's carriage." The governor of a town was personally the pioneer. After hearing this explanation, Yang Concubine Yang, who felt very happy in glory, smiled and blinked at Tang Li beside him, and then comforted the generals of Jiannan commanding the army.

Knowing that Concubine Yang's little daughter-like movements were making fun of her being too cautious these days, Tang Li was lazy to pay attention. After seeing the army of ten thousand people, his heart was finally settled a lot. Therefore, when Concubine Yang, who was eager to return, ordered the trip to speed up, he did not stop him.

Concubine Yang's carriage entered from the eastern part of Jiannan Road. In addition to Xian Yu Zhongtong closely watching the Queen Mother's itinerary, Tian Chengsi, who was stationed in the northern part of Jiannan Road, was not idle at all.

Since being transferred to Jiannan as deputy governor of the army, Xian Yu Zhongtong did not even do superficial skills to Tian Chengsi. Since the first meeting, he has not given this new colleague a good look. Fortunately, Tian Chengsi was mentally prepared for this, so he didn't care about it on the surface. He inspected the grain warehouse and the arsenal, and received subordinates and generals, and was very busy inspecting the various places.

For many years, he has been a world-class man in Jiannan Road. Now, Tian Chengsi has come. As the deputy envoy of the Jiedushi, he is the second-ranked figure of Jiannan Road appointed by the court. He has a background of a Tang Dynasty upstart, both invisible and invisible. He is extremely tempting for those generals who are unsuccessful in Jiannan Road. In addition, Tian Chengsi is an old fox with old soldiers. With his means, he has been fighting with some generals in just over a month, especially among the lower-level generals in the land of Xianyu Zhongtong with weak influence.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Xian Yu Zhongtong, who was already very disgusted with Tian Chengsi, first ordered the 20,000 soldiers from Wei and Bo to be transferred to the northern part of Jiannan Road to garrison. After doing this, he made a discussion and asked Tian Chengsi to go there. To his surprise, Tian Chengsi did not respond at all with ruthlessness to this appointment. He agreed so readily that many of the arguments that Xian Yu Zhongtong had prepared in advance had no use of power.

The northern part of Jiannan Road refers to the area that borders the east and west roads of Shannan. The biggest feature of this place is that it is large and dense forests. Because of this, it is also the most barren place in Jiannan Road. This place does not border Tubo, and it is also very barren. As a military general, there is no chance to fight on the front line to earn military merits, and it is difficult to generate much oil and water in the local area. Therefore, the northern part of Jiannan Road has always been a place for military generals to be afraid of, and it is also a good place for Xian Yu Zhongtong to send his disobedient generals to send Tian Chengsi here. Xian Yu Zhongtong's intentions are really clear.

Tian Chengsi was not unaware of the situation in the north of Jiannan Road, but he was not angry with Xian Yu Zhongtong's arrangement. Not only did he not hate him, but he was secretly happy. It can be said that the reason why he has been so high-profile in the past month after he took office in Jiannan Road was to wait for the day when he was released.

Xianyu Zhongtong was originally a native of Jiannan and served as a Jiedushi here. He had strong support from Yang Guozhong in the court. He had clan forces in the local area to help the auspicious support and held the military power. He could be said to be deeply rooted in Jiannan. If he was an external Jiedushi, it would be difficult to ascend to the sky if he wanted to make a difference here. Faced with this reality, what Tian Chengsi was most afraid of was that Xianyu Zhongtong trapped him by his side and dispersed 20,000 people under his command and transferred him to various places. If this is true, no matter how big a means Tian Chengsi had, he could not make any big waves.

It was because of this that Tian Chengsi was unpredictable. As a military general who was transferred from other places, when he first entered Jiannan, he did not maintain the low-key and cautious he should have, but instead moved everywhere with great fanfare and acted in an ambitious manner. Finally, his abnormal behavior was in exchange for such an arrangement. It doesn’t matter if Jiannan Road is poor, but Tian Chengsi didn’t expect Xianyu Zhongtong to give him a good place. What he valued the most was such a free right to move, leading 20,000 direct descendants to go, which means that Tian Chengsi finally had a base for his own words in Jiannan Road.

The northern part of Jiannan Road, which is poor and bad, is really in decline. For example, the location where Tian Chengsi is stationed in the Jiejie. Although it is nominally a county seat, it is actually not as good as a medium-sized town in the East Jiangnan Road. It has few people and low walls. At first glance, you can see all the mountains in the black and continuous Qing Dynasty.

This is a house with three courtyards and land, which occupies not small land, but it is made of loess and only added a revolving land at the gate of the veil corner, but it is really not so grand.

There was a flag on the flagpole, and no one would believe that this would be a military governor.

In the main hall of the second courtyard of the cottage, Tian Chengsi was listening carefully to the military newspaper. The content of the military newspaper was the itinerary of the Empress Dowager. Since receiving an urgent letter from Tian Qi, the confidant who was left in the capital, such military newspapers have been twice a day and cannot be shaken.

"Two days ago, the Empress Dowager's carriage had entered Jiannan Road. General Wang Qingsong led 10,000 troops to guard it. According to the itinerary of the carriage, it should turn from east to north in three days."

"Well! Are there any abnormal mobilizations between the soldiers of Jiannan Road?"

"There is no such thing. Now it is the time to prevent autumn. The troops stationed in various places will not be easily mobilized. In addition, the scouts we sent to various places will also disperse. I dare not say that any more than 3,000 people will be transferred, so I will not be able to hide the eyes of the general. I will not dare to guarantee this with the head of the man."

"You have been with me for five or six years. I can't believe you!" He smiled and stood up and patted the general's shoulder. Tian Chengsi followed the trend towards the Jiannan Road Mountain and the geographical map hanging on the wall.

The military newspaper had finished speaking. The general bowed to Tian Chengsi and turned around and went out. When he walked to the door of the hall, he suddenly took back his foot that had already been taken out.

He noticed the abnormal sound of footsteps. Tian Chengsi, who was carrying his body on his back, turned his head, "What, what else is there?"

"There is one thing that is a bit strange, but the general did not find anything wrong, and I don't know whether to say it or not."

His words made Tian Chengsi interested. He smiled and pointed at Hu Tang under the Shuai's case and said, "But it's okay."

"Yes". The general turned around and sat down on Hu bench and said, "When the brothers who were sent out to investigate passed by Xiongwu Town in recent days, they found that the place was very cautious. It was normal to strengthen the guards when preventing autumn, but what is puzzled is that the strict guards in Xiongwu Town are more cautious than external."

"Oh!", after hearing this, Tian Chengsi's heart moved. In order to disrupt the general's thinking, he did not show any abnormality on his face. Instead, he got up and poured him a cup of tea.

"Gudong Gudong" After the two of them drank the tea in the cup, the general shook his mouth with his sleeve and then said: "Xiongwu Town is not far away or close to us. The brothers sent by his subordinates were afraid that this abnormality of Xiongwu Town would be unfavorable to us, so they spent a lot of effort to investigate. Only then did they find that there was nothing abnormal in Xiongwu Town at all. But the guard began to send troops to attack Tubo, kill the barbarians, and grab cattle and sheep. Master, you said, this is normal, what are they good at defending against?"

"Send troops to attack Tubo?" Tian Chengsi was slightly stunned when he heard this. He had carefully learned about the future Shangguan long before he came to take office. Although Xian Yu Zhongtong was the governor of the army, the nature of the merchants had not faded at all, and he even cared about gains and losses when fighting. In terms of personal combat power, the soldiers of Jiannan were not as good as those of Tubo barbarians. Therefore, once the two armies fought, especially in field battles, most of the losses were Jiannan. It was just that there were no losses.

In view of this, after taking the initiative a few times in his early years and then returning, Xian Yu Zhongtong began to firmly implement the policy of "preservation as the main focus" to the Tubo people, never take the initiative to attack, never fight against the enemy, and use his strong city and terrain advantages to block the Tubo people from advancing eastward. The current situation of taking the initiative in Xiongwu Town is not like he did. This idea flashed through. Tian Chengsi immediately asked: "Can the army be transferred in Xiongwu Town?"

"No, we have seen all the people in each barracks and barracks. Xiongwu Town has no army transferred in, but instead, two thousand people were transferred away a few days ago. This is not hiding people. Many people have seen the ground. Now there are only five thousand troops in the entire Xiongwu Town, so we have to rely on these five thousand people to fight us! No need to worry, as long as there are three thousand old brothers from Wei Bo, the last general can make them come and go."

Xiongwu Town is not a big city, and Tian Chengsi has not been in Jiannan for a long time, so he has no impression of it. At this time, he was confused when he heard the general say this. Xiongwu Town does not increase its troops and withdraws its troops. As the two hostile sides, it is normal to send troops to attack Tubo. What should we be prepared for? While thinking, Tian Chengsi unconsciously knocked on the Shuai Case and murmured unconsciously: "Xiongwu, Xiongwu!"

"Although Xiongwu Town is not in the north, we can't compare to it in terms of mountains and forests. Among the entire western garrison points on the junction of Jiannan Road and Tubo, it is the most dangerous terrain. Finally, I have asked that since ancient times, whenever Tubo barbarians invaded eastward, they have detoured when facing Xiongwu." When the general saw Tian Chengsi thinking about this, he would tell the situation casually.

"The Tubo people have never attacked Xiongwu Town!" After talking to themselves, Tian Chengsi fell into deep thought again. Seeing this, the general stopped disturbing him. After bowing, he left.

After thinking about this doubt for a long time, there was no answer. Tian Chengsi shook his head and stood up to see the mountain and river geographical map. In this picture, there was a thin little red line marking the itinerary of the Queen Mother's car.

Unconscious eyes slid along the small red line on the mountain and river geographical map. After a moment, Tian Chengsi turned around and wanted to walk outside the main hall, but just took two or three steps, his

He shook his heart and turned around like a person who had changed. He stepped back to the mountains and rivers. His fingers were slightly rough and slid rapidly along the small red line in the picture. Finally, he saw the three words "Xiongwu Town" as big as rice grains. In this picture, the small red line representing Yang Fei's driving trip back to her hometown passed straight through, and dyed the already extremely small three words "Xiongwu Town" into blood-like red.

"Xiongwu, Xiongwu!", punched the mountain and river geographical map with a heavy punch. Tian Chengsi turned around and said quickly: "Come here!"

As he shouted, the general of the Qunxingxing immediately responded to the sound of "Beat the drum and gather the generals!" Before Tian Chengsi's order was completed, he heard the dull drum sound outside.

When we arrived in the mountains in the north of Jiannan Road, in addition to occasionally suppressing the bandits who were poor and bad waters, the 20,000 Wei Bo Army and the original 8,000 local garrisons had nothing to do. Because of this, the generals had less time to gather together, and they had to beat drums and gather them together in an emergency like the moment. So when they suddenly heard the sound of drums, the generals were surprised and more excited.

The county town is already small. Everyone will be in the future soon. The incense has just passed halfway. The generals have gathered together. But to their surprise, the head coach Tian Chengsi had a calm face with a gentle smile. No major matters are coming.

Seeing the generals running in panting, Tian Chengsi laughed and said with a self-deprecating smile: "It's really hard for the generals to follow me to this remote place. My close-knit soldiers hunted two big insects in the mountains outside the city, and a few more jars of top-grade wine were sent to the capital. I originally wanted to take this opportunity to have fun with everyone. So I asked someone to invite him. Unexpectedly, the official at the moment heard the wrong words and beat the drum of the gathering generals. This is all the fault of the generals. I couldn't explain to me. I will punish myself three times later."

Who can follow Shangguan in this matter? I heard that there was tiger meat and wine. The generals were relieved and hurriedly bowed to thank him.

He waved his hand to the close-fitting fang soldiers to guide the generals to the Sanjinyuan courtyard to wait for the banquet. Tian Chengsi smiled and called the military ration envoy about to leave the land and said, "Yuan Army, wait a moment. I have something to ask you."

As soon as Liu Yuanjun led the military rations to the secluded study, Tian Chengsi asked directly: "The Yuan army, can the Yingfen military rations from both the east and west of Shannan be delivered?"

Jiannan Road is as famous as the three major military towns as Longxi and Fanyang. The number of troops garrisons is large, and it needs to consume more food. In addition to the supply of this road, it also needs to be supplemented by the local government. The east and west roads of Shannan are in this situation. As the junction of these two roads, it becomes the closest route through the northern part of Jiannan Road. Speaking of which, this is also Tian Chengsi’s main task here.

No military ration officer was not involved in meat and was called here privately by the commander to speak. In my heart, Liu Yuanjun was worried that what Tian Chengsi asked about was this matter. When he felt relieved, he replied respectfully: "Go back to Tian Shuai. The grain from the two roads of Shannan has been sent. His subordinates are preparing for the grain transport team and are expected to set off in two days."

"Oh! How many people are there in the grain transport team? Who will escort the team?"

"The road is not easy to walk. We must not miss the time to deliver the grain. Therefore, there are more people in the grain transport team. Our subordinates plan to allocate 5,000 people, of which 4,000 are the original local garrisons, and the other 1,000 are the old brothers of Wei Bolai, and will be escorted by General Li."

"Five thousand people!". He lowered his head and pondered for a while. Tian Chengsi looked up and whispered to Liu Yuanjun: "Five thousand people are not enough. If there are too many people, just seven thousand people. The local garrison is not needed. You can draw the elite troops in the headquarters and set off tomorrow morning. Remember, I want seven thousand elite troops in the land, and I will take the team myself."

"ah!"

"This matter is settled, you are so prepared. Remember, you only know about my escort outing. You must not disclose the news. Otherwise, military law will be used. Go!" When saying this, Tian Chengsi suddenly showed a fierce look on his face, which made Liu Yuanjun's heart jump. He didn't dare to ask anymore. He bowed and hurried.

If Tian Chengsi was assigned to garrison here, if Tian Chengsi mobilized the army on a large scale, he had to report to the Jieduan Xian Yu Zhongtong. Not to mention whether he would be accurate, it was too late to calculate the Queen Mother's itinerary to return home. At this time, the army could only be mobilized by the name of escorting military rations and land. He himself had to hide his actions so that if Xian Yu Zhongtong could catch the handle when he was nothing, although Tian Chengsi didn't think that Xian Yu Zhongtong would dare to do such a big deal as he thought, but he had to prepare in this way. As for his original intention, he didn't care about the safety of Yang Fei at all. Who made Tang Li accompany the Queen Mother's chariot team? Tang Li was related to his future and his Jiannandao Jieduan's position. Before this goal was achieved, Tian Chengsi could not let Tang Li get any damage, even if it was just possible.

Sitting alone in the study and thinking about the past and the next things carefully, Tian Chengsi pushed the door open with a warm smile.

At the same time, Tang Lizheng protected Yang Fei's land carriage and drove eastward to the north, heading forward all the way to the direction where Xiongwu Town is.


Chapter completed!