Chapter 78 Five Stayed

After Tian Han, Cao Ju and others got rid of Cao Yuanzhong, they secretly called luck and went west along the Loulan Mountains. Soon after, they arrived near Puchang Sea. Khotan stationed 10,000 troops in the ancient city of Loulan in the northwest corner of Puchang Sea. Ma Jirong used this as the center and covered the reconnaissance range dozens of miles away. His reconnaissance cavalry discovered Tian Han and his gang, and soon a team of cavalry came to stop him.

Cao Ju shouted, "Why did you meet a large army again? There were not so many powerful people on this road."

The team leader discussed with Tian Han and felt that the Khotan army might help him, but he still had to guard against it. He decided to divide the troops into two groups and let Tian Han go to see Ma Jirong. The team led thirty cavalry to try to break through.

Tian Han approached the Khotan army, showed his flag, and declared that he would meet Ma Taiwei. Khotan and Anxi were allies, and it was normal for Anxi army to have a messenger from Shazhou to rush back to Kucha, so the Khotan's reconnaissance cavalry did not stop him and took Tian Han to see Ma Jirong.

Tian Han thought to himself: "The team is just over, so it's okay for me to talk straight here." He told Ma Jirong about what happened to Shagua recently.

It was nearly half a month since the situation of Shagua became clear. In order to avoid premature interference from Khotan, Cao Yuande tried his best to conceal Loulan, so Ma Jirong didn't know it yet and said in surprise: "I think the situation is different recently, but I didn't expect such a big thing to happen!"

Tian Han said: "Now Ma Taiwei already knows it, but he doesn't know how to prepare?"

Ma Jirong glanced at Tian Han, but he didn't blame him for speaking out, and said with a smile: "You little deputy team leader, are you afraid that I will be unfavorable to you by joining Cao Linggong?"

Tian Han said: "My official position is small, but the big thing in front of me is the big thing for everyone in the Anxi Army, so I dared to ask Ma Taiwei!"

Ma Jirong laughed and held back the others, then said to Tian Han: "Little General, this time Zhang Dadu sent you to this road, but he did not bring me a word of help. I knew that he understood my difficulties. Please go to Kucha to tell Mrs. Zhang, and said that now my prince and two princesses are still in the city, and Khotan and Guiyi Army are close relatives, so I am not good to stand out first. But if there is a big move in Kucha, I will definitely provide full support, called mediation, and help Anxi. What I can do is this, please understand Mrs. Zhang."

Tian Han's status was too low, so Ma Jirong asked Tian Han to pass on the message. After that, he sent someone to escort him all the way to Qu Li, but he himself pretended not to know about this.

Tian Han quickly whipped up his horse. After arriving at Quli, he asked the local guards. He found out that the team had already gone to Gaochang and sent a fire chief to Kucha to report his wife. Tian Han thought to himself: "I am the deputy team leader, the team is going to Gaochang, I should go to Kucha."

He ran to Kucha, and the second generation of sweat-blooded BMWs were changing all the way. He arrived in Kucha at dusk the next day, and actually caught up with the Fire Elves who had set out before!

He had not closed his eyes for two days and two nights, looked at the Kucha City Gatekeeper and shouted: "Urgent military information! Let it go!"

The city guard at the east gate of Kucha was also an old army in Xinshuoye City. He happened to recognize him and ordered him to be let in. Tian Han went straight to the Great Protector's Mansion and asked, "Where is Madam? Where is Madam?"

Tian Han is Guo Bian. In the same year as Yang Zhuo, he often walked into the hall in Kucha. Guo Fen just thought he was his younger brother, but he had not tidied up his appearance for more than half a month and had a messy beard. Who would have recognized him if Brother Guo Lu? He hurriedly blocked him, Tian Han shouted: "I am Xiao Han! Where is the wife? Where is the wife? Alas, where is the sister Fen!"

Then Guo Fen shouted in the hall: "Is it Xiao Han?"

She spoke, and Brother Guo Lu let him go. Tian Han rushed in. Seeing Guo Fen, he bowed and shouted, "Sister Fen, most people protect him..."

Guo Fen was originally very healthy, but because he had suffered some damage to his vitality because he had given birth to two girls in a row, he had not been completely treated. At this time, his cheeks were still quite thin, but his reaction was still very fast. He pressed Tian Han's mouth and said, "Come to the back."

He took him to the inner hall and asked, "What's the matter?"

Tian Han shouted: "Cao Yijin betrayed his faith and colluded with the Uighurs in Ganzhou to encircle the Dadu Protector at Yumen Pass!" As he said that, he took out a copy of the encrypted letter, but the original was at the team's main point.

Guo Fen was shocked. He took the encrypted letter but couldn't understand it. He hurriedly sent someone to search for the declassified documents in Kucha City. While asking about the details of Shagua, he couldn't help but scold Cao Yijin for being unfaithful and unrighteous!

At this time, the decryption document had arrived, so according to the previous agreement, the encrypted letter was rearranged and the tone was changed. Then the original letter briefly described the situation at Yumen Pass, and finally Zhang Mai's order that the five ministers who stayed behind would try to go east to Hexi for reinforcements.

Tian Han said: "Before us, the Protectorate sent five groups of messengers, but they all went to Gaochang. I don't know if they arrived. After I arrived at Quli, I knew that the team had already gone to Gaochang, so I rushed to Kucha."

Guo Fen touched his hair and said softly: "Good boy, good brother, go and rest first. I know the matter. If my sister takes it, she will definitely rescue the Protector."

He asked Guo Luge's general Tian Han to be arranged in the wing room, but he couldn't help but feel anxious. As soon as the eldest daughter cried, she couldn't separate her spirit from taking care of her, but she was just thinking about her husband's safety. Because she thought: "Kucha is now a hinterland, and all the important officials and generals are in Gaochang. The remaining chief lieutenants and lieutenants are not enough to make plans, only Uncle An can discuss it!"

He hurriedly sent someone to invite An Shoujing. An Shoujing was in charge of the military affairs and public security of Kucha, Yanqi, and Wensu. All the garrisons from Yinshan Village to Weitou obeyed his command. He often went out to inspect on weekdays. At this time, he happened to be in Wuleizhou and rushed back two days later. At this time, news had reached him in Gaochang. It turned out that before Tian Han, a group of secret envoys who had pretended to be smuggling business travelers arrived at Chiting Pass. Guo Shiyong learned about it and immediately forwarded the news to his old comrades. Therefore, An Shoujing had already made a draft on the road. After seeing Guo Fen, he comforted him first and said: "The Great Protector is now at Yumen Pass. Listen to Tian Han's description, and he can rely on the relevant cities, and there is a grassland to advance and retreat. In the short term, there should be plenty of buffering. The lady doesn't have to worry too much. What we are most afraid of now is the Beiting Huihe taking the opportunity to attack."

"Baiting Uighurs?"

"Yes." An Shoujing said: "Although Viaga was defeated by the Protector, he only lost ground. The main force of the army did not collapse. They were nomadic people, unlike our Han family, who were cautious in moving the land. The temporary loss of land would be a small blow to them. If the Protector was still in Gaochang, we were not afraid of them coming. But now the Protector was isolated in Hexi. If Viaga received the news and took the opportunity to attack, then we would have no leader in our internal groups and the external army was in a hurry. I am afraid that Gaochang, Yanqi and even Kucha would be in danger!"

Guo Fen said: "Uncle, what do you mean by saying that? Didn't you say that regardless of whether the PROP is enough?"

"Of course I don't mean that!" An Shoujing said: "I just thought that the allocation of reinforcements and defenders should be adjusted. This matter should not be urgent. The more urgent the more it is, the more trouble it will occur. In short, please rest assured, Shi Yong and I will definitely come up with the most appropriate method. We must calm down at the moment and try not to let the news leak out, so as not to disturb the people's hearts."

When he said this, Guo Fen was in a loss of confidence and thought to himself: "It's right, what's right? Zhang Lang has always been strong and has three thousand elite soldiers under him. If it weren't for the critical situation, he would send someone back to ask for help?" She was only thinking about her husband. Others analyzed to her that Zhang Mai would not be in danger in the short term. That was all the cold and rational calculations of outsiders. However, when Guo Fen thought of her husband being surrounded thousands of miles away, his whole heart was suffocated, but he could not let it go. At this time, he wanted everyone to kill Zhang Mai to Hexi and rescue Zhang Mai.

Because he remembered the five major left-behind people in Gaochang, he rated the past one by one: the first one is Xue Fu, but she has never had the trust that Xue Fu could trust her confidant; the second one is Zheng Wei, Guo Fen felt that he had an independent feeling for Zhang Mai, not like Shiba, relying on Zhang Mai was like a vine and relying on Qiaomu; and the second one is Guo Shiyong, he was too mature, which was originally Guo Shiyong's biggest advantage, but as An Shoujing said just now, Guo Fen was a little worried that Guo Shiyong would "hold on" this time. If he gave up support to Zhang Mai for the sake of the "big situation", or failed to provide support, wouldn't it delay the major event of rescue of her husband? Then Murong Chunhua and Xi Sheng, both of them are both talents in the aspect, but at the threshold of the rise and fall of Anxi, not only military talent is needed, but also political talent is needed. They are afraid that they will not have the courage to turn the tide!

"Oh, it would be great if my brother was here, or Yang Yi was here!"

Guo Fen was resentful and felt that Zhang Mai had left the wrong person this time.

"Lu Ge!"

"Miss……"

"Prepare the carriage and horses, I'm going to Gaochang!"

"What?" Brother Guo Lu was surprised. The news that Zhang Mai was surrounded was not officially released. Guo Fen also hid it tightly, so the servants in the mansion didn't know it. At this time, he said worriedly: "Miss, why did you suddenly go to Gaochang? Your body..."

"I'm fine!" Guo Fen suddenly remembered that he was going to Gaochang, so it would be better to find a reason, so as not to make random guesses when the outside world heard about it: "I'm so suffocating in Gaochang. Now the three towns in the East are already peaceful, so I'm just going to relax. You go and inform Xue Fu, Murong Chunhua, and Xi Sheng's family, and then follow me to go to Gaochang and let them explore their husbands."

"This...yes, I'll inform you tomorrow."

"Tomorrow? Go now!"

"Now...now? It's the second update now!"

“Yes, now!”

She is the first lady of Anxi, and can even be said to be the hottest woman in the entire Western Region. She will leave if she wants to leave, and no one dares to disobey her.

Murong Chunhua's wife was Guo Fen's elder sister when she was in the new Yecheng. She knew the general, Xi Sheng's wife Elena had a good temper and then packed things overnight. Xue Fu's wife Zheng Xiang was not so kind. While watching Shanya ask her subordinates to clean up, she complained: "What are our Majesty Protectoral Lady? Suddenly she said she wanted to go to Gaochang, and she didn't sleep well! She wanted to go to her, but I won't go!" She was a young lady, and in Samarkand, she was the pearl of her father and brother's hand. After marrying Xue Fu, she was even more caring. She had never suffered since she was a child, so it was inevitable that she would have a little temper.

Shanya advised from the side: "Don't say that. If it's spread, I'm afraid there will be trouble. Anyway, it's okay to go to Gaochang. Don't you keep thinking about my brother?"

Zheng Xiang was rich since childhood and couldn't play with Guo Fen, who was born in a hard life. However, Shanya had long become her best friend. After listening to her advice, she reluctantly agreed not to make trouble. She hugged Shanya and said, "Where is me, I'll go see your brother. You can also take this opportunity to meet my brother."

Shanya sneered her itchy with her backhand, and she ran away, and then she shouted: "I'll tell you to gossip!"

Zheng Xiang ran away and smiled, "You are not young anymore, but you still refuse to get married. Do you want us and my wife to raise you for the rest of your life!"

Shanya pretended to be angry and said, "My brother is not in a hurry yet. You sister-in-law are just anxious!"

Zheng Xiang smiled and said, "This kind of thing is, of course, my sister-in-law is anxious. Anyway, my brother is not bad. You can marry me and let's kiss you. From now on, you call me sister-in-law, and I can also call you sister-in-law."

Shan Yadon said, "If you gossip, I won't go to Gaochang with you."

Zheng Xiang shouted, "No, no, Fu'an is not here now, and the rest are all a group..." He lowered his voice: "Rough woman... If you don't go with me, I will not be suffocated to death! Good sister, I won't laugh at you anymore, but don't let me go to Gaochang alone."

The two women finally set off the next day. Zheng Xiang was insane and could not make fake things. She looked bad when she didn't sleep enough last night. Guo Fen was stunned when she saw Shanya, but she didn't have time to care about them at this time. She pulled the group of women and just showed them to others. When she was in the city, she was scattered and walked slowly, as if a noble lady was traveling together. After leaving the city, she left the sight of everyone, and ordered a team of cavalry to take good care of her, but she ordered the carriage and horses to hurry to Gaochang.

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At this time, Gaochang's situation had already entered a turmoil!

Long before Tian Han arrived, Zhang Mai's secret letter had already arrived in Chiting, but before this secret letter arrived, Xue Fu had already discovered that the military situation had changed!

He had a premonition from some small movements on the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains that the Beiting Uighurs would launch a major offensive soon. As expected, just when Xi Sheng passed the secret letter to the other four left-behind, the Beiting Uighurs' vanguard arrived at Longquan Pass. Xue Fu personally led the cavalry team to fight and repel the opponent, but after several thousand people walked away, the mountains and fields were covered. Looking up, there were not as many as tens of thousands of cavalry!

Xue Fu was surprised and returned to the back of the lower body to submit the secret letter. Xue Fu glanced at him and changed his face slightly, but this change was fleeting. Only Ma Humeng and Xue Suding noticed it. Xue Suding asked, "What?" Xue Fu said, "It's nothing." After returning to the inner hall, he told them the news. Ma Xue and the two were shocked and shouted in unison: "I didn't expect that Cao Yijin's name was so ungrateful!"

Xue Fu did not answer their words and said to Xue Suding: "I am going back to Gaochang soon, leaving behind three thousand cavalry and all infantry equipment. I will take all the others away, and Longquan Pass will ask you."

Xue Suding said in surprise: "This... General, Vijay is coming in a fierce manner this time, I'm afraid he will win it! If there is only such a little force, I'm afraid..."

Xue Fu said: "I naturally know that this matter is in a difficult situation, but although Longquan Pass is important, the matter in Hexi is even heavier, so I can only ask Brother Su Ding to do my best to deal with Via."

Xue Suding was also a conspirator in her heart. She seemed to understand Xue Fu's intention and agreed, "Okay, general, you go, I will do my best!"

Xue Fu immediately ordered Ma Shun and Wu Liji to set off in batches, and he rushed to Gaochang City first. At this time, Zheng Wei, Guo Shiyong and Murong Chunhua were discussing countermeasures. Guo Shiyong met him and said, "Why are you here? Didn't you say that the Vijay army is approaching and Longquan Pass is in a hurry?" Xue Fu said, "No matter how urgent Longquan Pass is, you are in a hurry to cross Hexi?"

Guo Shiyong said: "The matters over Hexi are of course important, but Longquan Pass cannot be lost, otherwise the situation will be even worse. We will entrust you the northern barrier, why have you abandoned the pass?" This sentence was already faintly blamed.

Xue Fu did not respond or argue, but asked, "Does the three of you have any resolutions to reinforce the Protectorate?"

When Zhang Mai left, he ordered Guo, Zheng, Xue, and Muxi to discuss the matter and decide together. Xue Fu is in Longquan Pass in the northwest, Xi Sheng is in Chiting Pass in the east, Gaochang is under the leadership of Zheng Wei, Guo Shiyong, one literary and one martial arts, and Murong Chunhua, who is in the center, has already accounted for the majority. Therefore, if there is a major event, the three of them will discuss and issue orders without any objection. So far, there has been no situation to invite Xue, Xi and the other two to ask about their opinions.

But when the secret order from Hexi was passed this time, the three of them had a dispute. They had no different opinions on rescuing Zhang Mai, but they had a strong fight for how to rescue Guo Shiyong and Murong Chunhua.

Guo Shiyong was preparing to ask Murong Chunhua to lead 7,000 cavalry to rescue, but Murong Chunhua felt that the troops were too small and asked for more troops. Guo Shiyong was worried that too much troops would make Gaochang empty and unable to resist Vijay's invasion. If Gaochang was in trouble, he was afraid that the three towns in the East would be in danger of being in danger. Moreover, he believed that if Murong Chunhua's seven,000 men could break through the barrier and meet Zhang Mai, Zhang Mai would have tens of thousands of cavalry on hand. Even if he could not win, it would be enough to come back.

Murong Chunhua thought that if ten thousand cavalry rushed together from the beginning, of course, they could be staggered without any obstacles, but now they rushed to Yumen Pass, and there were no obstacles between them. If they only depended on 7,000 people, they would be afraid that they would not be able to get through. Guo Shiyong believed that Zhang Mai was inside and Murong Chunhua was outside, and Guiyi's army would have to reveal flaws when the situation in Gaochang slowed down slightly, and then they would continue to increase their troops to reinforce. But Murong Chunhua felt that doing this was not safe, and there was no guarantee that he would rescue Dadu Kuang would be able to recover.

Both sides have their own opinions and their own reasons. Zheng Wei has followed the army in the past few years to fight, and is often responsible for logistics affairs. He has had a lot of contact and does not understand military affairs at all. However, he is a little speechless in front of two experts Guo Mu. He was silent for a moment and saw Xue Fu and said, "General Xue, you are here just right! Let's discuss it together to see if General Guo is right, or should you listen to General Murong."

Since joining the Tang Army of Anxi, Xue Fu has been cautious in his words and actions, and rarely offends others, especially for those who are older than him. But at this time, he looked at Guo Shiyong and Murong Chunhua, and blurted out: "I think both of you have problems with your views!"

Guo Shiyong and Murong Chunhua exclaimed, and looked at him at the same time. Murong Chunhua said disapprovingly: "If you have any questions, I will ask General Xue for advice!"
Chapter completed!