On the day when the main force of the Dashi Army and the Pioneer met, Zhang Xingquan led his troops back to the front of Yuluzhou.

"Protector, the prince of Dabolu, Wo Song, has led his troops into Yuluzhou, and will arrive near Yuluzhou City in about an hour." A postman walked into the public housing of the Protectorate and bowed.

"Da Bolu Bing has arrived? This is so good." Li Gong immediately shouted in surprise when he heard this.

Before Feng Changqing was still in Anxi and led his troops to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, he summoned nearby Fan Kingdoms in the name of the Anxi Protectorate; after Li Gong officially served as the Anxi Protectorate, he summoned Fan Kingdoms again in the name of the Anxi Protectorate.

But for the second conscript, neither Li Gong nor the generals who stayed in Anxi were taken seriously. The Tang Dynasty was unprecedentedly weak and faced a powerful enemy like Dashi. It seemed that the storm might be destroyed at any time. How could the Fan Kingdom come to help the war?

As they thought, most foreign countries sent envoys to politely refuse to help the war. Li Gong did not dare to care at this time, so he could only summon envoys from various countries, say a few words, accept more or less tributes from foreign countries, and send them away.

But beyond everyone's expectations, the king of the Boru, who had fought with Anxi two years ago, actually told the envoy of Anxi that he would send a thousand troops to help the battle, and that the prince Wo Song, the chief general, would lead the troops to come.

When everyone heard about this, Anxi was very surprised. The 1,000 soldiers of Dabolu were dispensable, and the generals did not expect such soldiers to fight. However, at such a difficult time, there was still a foreign country supporting Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, which was of great significance.

In order to show his importance, Li Gong specially sent someone to instruct the government along the way to prepare food and grass for the Dabolu soldiers and treat them well. However, he also specifically instructed that if the Dabolu soldiers' military discipline was corrupt, they should be severely punished and should not be indulged.

"Go and call Liu Duwei and welcome Wo Song with me." Li Gong ordered while putting on his coat.

"Yes." The guard agreed and hurriedly told Liu Qi.

Liu Qi was working with Zhang Cheng at this time. He listened to the words of Li Gong conveyed by the guards and complained: "As a guru, he will just go to welcome him by himself. Why should I be busy with this?"

"This shows that the Protectors value you. Isn't it a good thing?" Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "I ask you to come forward with everything. I have done this many times. In addition to the Protectors who are familiar to everyone in Anxi are you. No matter what your official position is, the Protectors of Anxi are second only to the Protectors, and it is a good thing for you."

"That's the battle that will be won." Liu Qi said again. After all, Anxi is a place where force is the first. If the Battle of Luzhou fails, he will lose his military power and be familiar with everyone. What's the use of it?

"You are still too radical in your actions." Zhang Cheng said softly. He actually opposed Liu Qi's plan, but because of the relationship between the two, he never publicly opposed it, even if Li Gong finally made the discussion before the decision.

But now he has just stopped. The matter has been decided long ago, and it is useless for him to say more.

Liu Qi smiled and did not answer. Instead, he quickly finished the matter at hand and ordered his subordinates to say a few words, then left here and rushed to the city gate.

When he arrived at the city gate, he could already see the flag of the Dabolu army from afar. Li Gong hurriedly asked him to tidy up his clothes and then stood beside him.

Soon the Dabolu army came to the city gate. The young man led by the leader quickly walked to Li Gong and saluted and said, "Daboluwosong, I have met the Protector of Anxi, His Highness, King Feng."

"Crown Prince, please get up quickly." Li Gong smiled and said, "No need to be polite."

"The courtesy cannot be abolished." Wo Song said again.

His words made Li Gong very happy, but Li Gong still helped him up and said, "The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and there is no time to talk about those false rituals."

"Ma Shiwei, lead the Dabolu army into the barracks for rest," he turned his head and ordered the guards, and smiled at Wo Song and said, "I have prepared a welcome banquet for the prince, please follow me."

'Didn't you say that the soldiers are in danger and there is no time to talk about vain etiquette? How could you prepare for a reception banquet?' Wo Song complained in his heart. Of course, he wouldn't say this. Wo Song walked into the city with a smile on his face.

But he had just taken a few steps and suddenly stopped. Li Gong looked at him in confusion, but Wo Song pointed to a flag on the top of the city in surprise and said, "What flag is this?"

Following Wo Song's gaze, you can see many flags. This is also common. In ancient times, the emperors, royal families and generals had flags, and various flags were indispensable in marching and fighting. There were many flags on the top of the city; but Wo Song naturally would not be surprised because there were too many flags. He was surprised because of one of the flags that he had never seen before.

"The Tai Chi Bagua diagram is embroidered on that flag?" Wo Song pointed to the flag and said, "I'm sorry, why does such a flag appear?"

"That flag is the flag of the commander Liu Qi (supervised flag). He believed in Taoism, so he chose the Tai Chi Bagua diagram as his flag." Li Gong explained. But from his expression, it can be seen that this flag has other mystery.

It does have other mystery. After Zhang Xingquan led the vanguard army to leave Yuluzhou City and rushed to stop the cannibals, Liu Qi didn't know what was going on (Li Gong's perspective), and suddenly came to Li Gong and told him that a flag representing the Anxi Protectorate was set up; he also said that because the Tang Dynasty admired Taoism, the pattern of this flag should be defined as the Tai Chi Bagua diagram.

Li Gong immediately rejected Liu Qi's request. The Tang Dynasty only had flags representing the emperor or individuals, and never represented a certain place or yamen. Although the kirin yellow flag, the white tiger white flag and the turtle and snake black flag are often standing among the three provinces and six ministries, they actually represent the emperor, not the yamen.

Liu Qi repeatedly persuaded him, but Li Gong just refused. Liu Qi thought about it and suddenly asked himself if it was OK to use the Tai Chi Bagua diagram as his personal flag pattern.

Li Gong was stumped for a moment. According to the rules, the generals decided to seize the flag of the commander themselves. There was no regulation that the flag of the commander could not be a Tai Chi Bagua diagram. Moreover, the Tang Dynasty believed in Taoism and could see the Tai Chi Bagua diagram all over the streets. This was not a taboo. But usually, the generals only embroidered their own surnames and had never embroidered other things.

He thought about it for a while and finally nodded and agreed: "You can embroider the Tai Chi Bagua diagram."

"Thank you, Protector." Liu Qi immediately expressed his gratitude.

"But I'm a little confused. Why do you embroider this pattern on your handsome flag?" Li Gong asked curiously again at that time.

"I dare to ask Mr. Liu, why do you embroider this pattern on the slab?" At this time, Wo Song also asked curiously.

"Because I believe in Taoism and no one else embroidered this pattern on my own, I did this." Liu Qi gave a similar reason to dealing with Li Gong at that time.

This reason is reasonable, but Kowosong felt that it was not the real reason. But he couldn't ask again, so he could only smile and say a few more words, praise Liu Qi, put it aside and continued to walk into the city.

What Liu Qi said is indeed not the real reason. The real reason is very simple. According to the convention of later generations, Liu Qi believed that the Tang Dynasty should have a national flag; now he cannot affect the entire Tang Dynasty, so he wanted the Anxi Protectorate to have a "official flag".

It just so happened that at this time, the flag of Dashi, the biggest enemy in Anxi was the green flag representing the Tianfang Sect. Liu Qi, who did not involve the flag pattern, believed that the "official flag" of the Anxi Protectorate should be the Tai Chi Bagua diagram representing Taoism.

But the concept of "official flag" was also rejected by Li Gong. Liu Qi was so angry that he simply used it as his personal flag. In this way, a unique flag was born. Of course, this real reason cannot be told to others.

Everyone talked and laughed and walked into the city. Wo Song noticed that there seemed to be not many people in the city, and they were very depressed, and couldn't help but be curious. Although he had never been to Yuluzhou before, he also knew that the city was a big city with a population of at least 200,000. It should not be so depressed.

But he soon thought of the reason. 'It seems that the Great Cannibal is about to attack this city, and King Feng will withdraw all the people in the city to other places, so as not to be slaughtered by the Great Cannibal if the city is broken.'

He was thinking well this time. Since Liu Qi planned to fight with the Great Veterans, in order to avoid the Great Veterans being angry (he did not know that according to the latest order of Bingbo Silin, the Great Veterans could slaughter the people in the city at will without being angry), he moved all the people in the city, including the young and strong, out of the city.

Among them, the elderly, young, women and children were temporarily moved to the northeast of the Governor's Mansion City, and several small cities north of the Yili River, and most of the young and strong were placed on the opposite bank across the river from the Mansion City. All the generals believed that Bingbo Silin would not divide his troops to occupy the other bank before seizing the Mansion City, and Liu Qi also regarded the north bank of the river as a logistics base for street fighting.

Because there are many people in the city, they have begun to move while sending Zhang Xingquan to lead his troops to stop him. Although the people are resurrected and are unwilling to move away, they remember how cruel the people who escaped from Suiye City are. They are worried that if the Great Cannibals are invaded, they will slaughter them, so they agreed to move away one after another, and the relocation is quite smooth.

They soon walked to the restaurant where Li Gong prepared a welcome banquet for Wo Song, which was the only restaurant in the entire Luzhou City that still opened.

At the banquet, everyone cheered and sang, which was very lively; there were delicious dishes for the wine, and the generals had not been allowed to eat wine for a long time. Although everyone said at the beginning that they would not eat more or eat more, they gradually became more and more.

Eat more, and talk more. The generals present said everything they should say and should not say.

‘The Tang army did not plan to use the general method of defending the city? How to defend the city?’ When he heard what a general said, Wo Song thought curiously.

Because this matter was related to the life and death of a thousand soldiers of their Dabolu, Wo Song was very concerned and wanted to ask. But he looked at the general whose face was already red and began to talk nonsense, and looked at Li Gong, who was sitting in the main seat, and his eyes were a little confused, temporarily dispelling this idea.

‘Let’s ask when everyone wakes up tomorrow.’ he thought.

After thinking about this, Wo Song raised his glass and wanted to toast Li Gong with another glass of wine. But Liu Qi suddenly walked towards him and wanted to have a drink with him. Wo Song did not dare to refuse, so he could only agree and ate a few glasses of wine while chatting with him.

"Prince Wo Song," Liu Qi suddenly asked, "I have a doubt, I hope the prince will solve his doubts. Why did the prince lead his troops to support Anxi?"
Chapter completed!