Chivalrous Song Dynasty

But Bai Sheng said helplessly that this girl was spoiled by the princess, and he, the son-in-law, has nothing to do with her, and he can only teach her when he recovers.

So Duan Zhengyan generously arranged for Zhong Ling and Mei Lanzhuju to take care of Bai Sheng and his wife, while Fang Jinzhi, as if reciprocating, began to take care of Xiaolei's life.

According to Xiaolei, she was originally the maid of Princess Li Qinglu of Yinchuan, and she married Li Qinglu to the Vulture Palace, but the owner of the Vulture Palace refused to follow the rules and accepted her and the quadruplets of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. The maids gave them to the third younger brother as concubines. Anyway, there are countless concubines of the emperor, five of them are not too many, and five of them are not too many.

Since she is Li Qinglu's maid, she grew up with Li Qinglu in the Xixia harem, so she naturally recognizes Li Ruolan, who is also a princess. Although she is now the empress of Dali, she dare not forget her former status and insists on paying a visit to Pingnan The princess, but was rejected by Bai Sheng, saying that the princess is unconscious, what is there to see?Everyone lies in the car to recuperate.

In fact, even Fang Jinzhi didn't know why Bai Sheng made such an arrangement, but she was also used to accepting Bai Sheng's inexplicable orders now, because countless previous facts proved that what Bai Sheng did was always right.

Only Bai Sheng knew that the reason he did this was just to make Fang Jinzhi take the Dragon Sparrow Sword away from him so that he could recover soon.

Mu Wanqing saw that although everyone didn't speak, they showed disapproval on their expressions, so she said: "Now the desert under our feet is no longer the territory of Xixia. Doesn't his family rely on us to reach Tianshan? So he should thank us for that." yes."

The first half of her sentence was correct. At this moment, they were taking the northern route of the Silk Road, and their location was already thirty miles west of Liangzhou.This is indeed not the territory of Xixia, but the territory of Xizhou Uighurs.

Xizhou Uighurs are also called Kucha Uighurs, also known as Gaochang Uighurs.It was the separatist regime during the establishment of the Anxi Dufu in the Tang Dynasty.The [-]-mile Flame Mountain in Journey to the West, as well as the daughter country, Chechi country, Kucha country, and Gaochang country are all between this vast desert and oasis.

Of course, Duan Zhengyan, Bai Sheng and his party will not cross the [-]-mile Huoyan Mountain, let alone look for the Daughter Country, because they will turn off and head north after another [-] miles. To the north is the Tianshan Mountains.

The mountain region of Tianshan Mountain is very vast, not to mention thousands of miles from east to west, but only the width from north to south, the widest mountain region is [-] miles away, so even if you get to the front of Tianshan Mountain, you are still hundreds of miles away from Misty Peak Way to go.

As soon as Mu Wanqing finished speaking, people saw the long dust in the western sky. The dust covered so much that it couldn't see the end from south to north. Judging from the situation, there was an extremely large army in the west heading east. Approaching, the number must be at least tens of thousands, or even more than one hundred thousand.

Duan Zhengyan and his party looked at each other and stopped the camel involuntarily.

I can't go forward, I can't go through it at all, I can't go around it, unless I go back to Xiliang City, and then go around from the east to the north of Xiliang City, but no one knows if there is a path to Tianshan there. Duan Zhengyan from Tianshan Mountain did not dare to go that way.

The desert is not a wilderness. If you don’t know the road in the desert, you can’t walk casually. Not to mention that the desert is inherently dangerous, but there is no oasis with the expected water supply. If you rush into it, you are looking for death.

"Where did this army come from? Uighurs from Xizhou?" Duan Zhengyan was asking Zhu Juanyi.

Zhu Juanyi is the scholar with a pair of judge pens on his body. His father's name is Zhu Danchen. His father gave him this name in order to encourage his son to study hard, and it means that reading books is beneficial.

Zhu Juanyi's son inherited his father's career, besides reading widely, he also studied the customs, customs, military and politics of various countries, just like his father Zhu Danchen was the military adviser to Zhennan King Duan Zhengchun, he also often advises Duan Zhengyan.

At this time, he was asking the question solemnly, and he shook his head and said, "It cannot be the Uighur army in Xizhou."

“How come you see?”

"As far as I know, the Xizhou Uyghur army does not have this scale, and they use camels as war horses, and they are good at guerrilla tactics. They will not form such a long snake formation to push flat in the desert."

Duan Zhengyan nodded, and said: "I think it is true. Even if Xizhou Uighurs have an army of this size, they won't be able to march thirty miles outside Liangzhou City. Doesn't this mean a declaration of war?"

Xizhou Uighurs have always been unable to defeat Xixia, so the two sides use a desert to the west of Liangzhou City as the boundary, and no one will cross the desert to provoke.

Duan Zhengyan paused for a moment and said again: "Since it's not the Uyghur army, where did so many people come from? Could it be from the Song Dynasty?"

Zhu Juanyi said: "I guess it is also from the Song Dynasty. Aren't they carrying out a five-way expedition against Xia? This time we also saw it when we passed Qingtang. , this should be the fifth army of Song Dynasty!"

It is no secret to all countries in the world that the Song Dynasty’s five-way attack on Xia has been carried out several times. Anyone who pays attention to the war knows that the fourth of the five offensive targets is Qingtang, and the fifth The route is to detour from the southern foot of Qilian Mountains to the desert between Xizhou Uighurs and Xixia, and then attack Liangzhou. This is to cut off Xixia's retreat.

As if to prove Zhu Juanyi's words, after the army from the west moved in for a while, people could already see flags flying in the distance, and almost every flag had a big "Song" written on it.

And when these Song troops got closer, people had already seen the largest flag among them, which read "Zhengxi Front Zhengyin Pioneer Guanbai" on it.

As the saying goes, tens of thousands of people have no boundaries.This overwhelming force was so magnificent that all the men and women under Duan Zhengyan changed their faces. In the face of this vast coercion, even martial arts masters could only retreat.

Everyone turned their attention to Duan Zhengyan, meaning what should we do?

Seeing this scene, Duan Zhengyan frowned, and said: "This time the Tianshan Mountain is so difficult, I am most annoyed to deal with these troops."

Chapter 512 Uncle Wei Guo Who Corrupted Military Discipline

The army is not the government, and the soldiers are not politicians. Especially on the battlefield, the commander of the army will not weigh the political pros and cons.So for Duan Zhengyan, civil servants like Li Jingsi, the prefect of Liangzhou, were easier to deal with.

This is the so-called saying that when a scholar meets a soldier, the reason cannot be explained clearly.

Duan Zhengyan looked at the Song army approaching in front of him, and said thoughtfully: "I only hope that the front Zhengyin vanguard officer of the Song Dynasty is a civil servant. If he is a warrior, it will be a bit troublesome."

But Mu Wanqing looked at the cavalry and infantry on the opposite side and asked strangely: "Didn't it mean that there must be camels in this desert? Why can they get here without camels?"

Zhu Juanyi said: "That's because they came from the south, just like we took the Qingtang way, but if they go further west or north, they must have camels."

Before the words were finished, more than a dozen war horses galloped over, and the first officer shouted, "Who is sneaking around here? Could it be Xi Xia's spies? Arrest them!"

These soldiers of Song Dynasty were more arrogant than those of Xixia, they didn't allow Duan Zhengyan and others to answer at all, they just got off their horses and came to arrest them, and they all rushed to arrest women, just looking at the parts of the shots, they were full of obscene moves.

In fact, this group of people just wanted to coerce people back to the barracks. Since they came out of Bianjing, they hadn't had the chance to touch a woman for more than a month.

The commander-in-chief Tong Guan was not close to female sex, and even his generals became ascetic monks. Among the hundreds of thousands of troops, there was not a single female, at least the military discipline of female sex was very strict.

But since arriving in Weizhou and dividing the troops into five groups, the situation has been quite different.

Because the leader of the fifth army is Bai Sheng, who sits in a wheelchair all day and doesn't care about things, while the supervisor is Wei Xianda, who likes to play with women.

Ever since we left Weizhou, there have been rumors in the army that Uncle Wei Jianjun privately arranged for soldiers to arrest women along the way and send them to his military tent for fun. Or if they are tired of playing, they will be distributed to officers and soldiers at all levels as benefits.

This matter was sneaky at the beginning, but the closer it was to Liangzhou, the more open and aboveboard it became, and it finally evolved into what it is today.

It's a pity that there are some Gobi deserts along the way. Occasionally passing through oases, those people living in the oasis got the news early and ran away. I really didn't catch a few decent women along the way.

Only today, like a blessing from heaven, six or seven delicate beauties appeared in this desert, and each of them was so mature that it was ridiculous.

As long as they can be captured and offered to Supervisor Wei, needless to say, the double salary will be doubled, but after Supervisor Wei gets tired of playing, wouldn't everyone follow suit?

So as soon as this group of people came up, they rushed towards the woman like wolves and tigers.

Seeing this, Mu Wanqing couldn't help being furious, and shouted: "You soldiers, are you unreasonable? It's obvious that you blocked our way, why did you arrest people without asking indiscriminately?"

Although she has a big temper, she also knows that she can't make a move on this occasion. Once she makes a move, even Duan Zhengyan will not be able to please her.

In the martial arts of this era, there has never been a true enemy of ten thousand people, that is, one person can fight against ten thousand people and still be able to retreat.

If such a person really exists, then there is no need to launch any wars between countries, as long as this martial arts master is taken under his wing, he can sweep the world.

Therefore, even if Duan Zhengyan's martial arts were as strong as Duan Zhengyan's, he would not be able to fight against tens of thousands of troops.

Duan Zhengyan didn't expect that this group of people would fight as soon as they said they would, so he couldn't help being furious, and shouted: "Let's fight! After the fight, withdraw to Liangzhou City."

In such a world, with such an army, reasoning is definitely unreasonable, and the only option is to fight.

The men and women under him were already furious, and they immediately took action as soon as he gave the order.

How could these dozen soldiers of Song Dynasty dare to fight in front of such a large army?Immediately a little confused, she was beaten three times, five times and two times, and Mu Wanqing even killed a sergeant who reached out to touch her chest.

In fact, even if they are not ignorant, they have never practiced any practical fighting skills on the battlefield. Under the guidance of Gao Qi, even the army looks like a soldier, and their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of Xixia in Liangzhou city. How could the city management be the opponent of these Dali martial arts masters?

"withdraw!"