Chapter 994 Haiyan Fort
"The weather is fine today, why not go hunting!"
Northeast of Qinghai Lake, in Haiyan Fort, the eldest grandson's family, Crown Prince Chengqian is dressed in a hunting suit, and Helan Chushi is holding a sea dongqing.
Hou Junji looked at the prince helplessly.
"Your Highness, our scouts haven't found the Tuyuhun Army yet, and the Shenwei Army hasn't found any trace of them."
"Oh, it means that they are afraid of us, so they escaped." Chengqian laughed triumphantly.
"I have a bad feeling. I think the Tuyuhun people may be near us."
"where?"
"I don't know, maybe hiding in a certain valley, there are so many valleys around here, it's too easy to hide a hundred and eighty thousand soldiers and horses." Hou Junji reminded Chengqian to be careful.
Here is no longer Shancheng, after leaving Chiling, this is already a frontier. Although there is a Shenwei army city ahead, the Shenwei army has only 3,000 people in total, and they have to garrison several forts and many beacon towers scatteredly. The troops are weak. They can't find the whereabouts of the Tuyuhun people, which does not mean that the Tuyuhun people have really retreated. On the contrary, Hou Junji felt more and more that these Tuyuhun people were up to some kind of conspiracy.
Chengqian laughed and said, "Hou Chengong has been too serious since he left Chiling, and he has been suspicious all day long. You said before that the Tuyuhun people would ambush us between Chiling and Haiyan Castle, and then you said it was extremely serious. It may be waiting for us in some valley in the Huangshui River Valley, but this way, let alone a Tuyuhun man, or a pile of Tuyuhun man's horse dung, thousands of people from the Shenwei Army guarded the front. Now, didn’t you say that no one from Tuyuhun was sent over?”
"The weather is so fine today, and it's just a good time to go hunting. If Hou Chengong doesn't want to go, it's fine, don't disturb Gu's good mood."
After finishing speaking, he beat the horse and walked away.
A group of hounds barked and followed behind.
Hou Junji looked at the movement of the prince's horse and whip, and could only nod to his eldest son-in-law, Helan Chushi.
"Please rest assured, my lord, we will definitely protect His Highness thoroughly."
The old Hou sighed, regretting that the prince followed him. Now you go out here and there all day long. If you are only greedy for some beauty or something, it’s okay, but now you’re all outside the pass, and you’re still like this all day long. I have a headache, I really want to send troops to **** the prince back to Shancheng.
But he didn't dare, he didn't dare to offend the prince, and he didn't want to offend the prince.
"Be careful, don't let the prince get hurt."
Hou Junji was a little annoyed, "I always feel that something is wrong, I feel like I'm being targeted. I really doubt that the Tuyuhun people are really hiding around here."
"No way, the Shenwei Army has always said that they haven't found the Tuyuhun army. It's impossible for the Tuyuhun people to come under their noses, right?"
"There's nothing impossible about this. This is outside the Great Wall, not inside the pass. The Shenwei army went far out of the pass, and went out alone to guard the west. In fact, it was just a warning. However, if the Tuyuhun people really want to lie in ambush around here, There are plenty of ways, and the Shenwei Army may not be able to find it. This bird land is sparsely populated, and there are mountains everywhere. One hundred and eighty thousand people can be hidden in any valley. Back then, Qin Lang led the Longyou Army to attack Tuyuhun , Fu Yun hid thousands of troops in the Kushan Valley by the Qinghai Lake, and later fought against the Yifu tribe on Mantou Mountain, and later on Chishuiyuan. of."
"Could it be that grandpa is too worried, that's why?" He Lan Chushi said.
"You go first, be more careful, if something happens, immediately protect the prince and come back, don't go far."
Going back to Haiyan Castle, I stood on the tallest bell tower in the castle and watched for a long time. The surroundings were very peaceful, and the herdsmen of Changsun’s family were still grazing cattle and sheep near the castle.
The small Haiyan Fort even became lively because of the sudden arrival of thousands of troops. The only small market in the city was very lively. Not to mention all the restaurants, tea shops and restaurants, even the only brothel in the city , there are usually a dozen or so girls in there who often have no business, but now they are extremely hot.
No matter young or old, beautiful or ugly, there are people waiting in line.
The old bustard was smiling like a flower, and his mouth was grinning behind his ears.
Even those blacksmith shops, etc., are also booming with business.
Now the armies of Longyou, together with the conscripted soldiers and horses of various tribes, the area around the small Haiyan Fort has gathered less than 100,000 horses, and there are still civilians coming in an endless stream to transport their luggage.
Hou Junji led the army, and he was well-behaved. Although he was looked down upon by the prime ministers and despised by many generals, he had fought battles for many years after all, and had experienced countless big scenes. It can be regarded as learning a lot, and later Li Shimin specially asked him to worship Li Jing as his teacher to learn the art of war.
With nearly 100,000 horses, Hou Junji spread out his echelons and deployed them one by one with Haiyan Fort as the center. Not all of them were crowded together, but they kept a safe distance so that they could support each other. .
Haiyan Fort is in the center, where the most elite soldiers and horses are located, and there are countless troops on the periphery, defending layer by layer, so normally speaking, Haiyan is indeed safe. A group of soldiers and horses can also gradually intercept it, and warn Haiyan Castle in advance, so that it can take precautions early.
Although Haiyan Fort is not too big, it still occupies a dangerous position. Relying on this fort, coupled with the fortifications being built around the fort, there should be no problem.
This is not the first time he has led troops into battle. A few years ago, he led Qinghai's Tuyuhun army to the Western Regions, stealing Changsun Wuji's victory in Pingxi Turks.
So they should be familiar with Qinghai, the Tuyuhun people, including the Dangxiang people who have been ordered to come here now.
Surrounding Haiyan Fort, there are already nearly 100,000 troops here. Although good and bad are mixed, there are still many tribes among them, but after all, there are so many soldiers, and those Tuyuhun people are not so elite, especially since Qin Lang killed Tuyuhun. Tuyuhun is long gone.
Why am I always uneasy?
This feeling is completely an intuition, which has been experienced on the battlefield for many years. He has always tried everything before, and he usually has this feeling before every battle.
Did I become suspicious this time, or was I really being targeted?
Walk down the watchtower and return to the Military Conference Hall.
"Let those party members spread Qingqi out again, I want them to search every valley within a hundred miles, and search every suspicious place several times!"
"Chen Guogong, the party members have searched for it several times, and now they are complaining, saying that we are deliberately torturing them, and that our Tang army is here to rest and bask in the sun, and it is unfair for them to run around all day."
"unfair?"
Hou Junji threw down the horsewhip in hand, "Tell them, don't forget your identity, they are not qualified to negotiate terms with someone, this is the army, and what we are doing is military orders, if you dare to disobey, you will bear the consequences!"
"Also, tell them, don't think that I don't know that they acted carelessly and perfunctorily before. I can let go of the past, but this time, you must give me him. He will search carefully and never let go."
Wait for the soldier to walk away, he yelled at another soldier, "Why haven't Cheng Yaojin and Xue Wanche arrived yet?"
The soldier who joined the army didn't dare to make a sound, and lowered his head and replied, "Mr. Xue from Lanzhou said that all the soldiers in the Lanzhou Governor's Mansion have been transferred by the Xuanshuai. He has no soldiers to send now, and he said that he will wait in Lanzhou for Liangzhou Cheng to come back." Come with the governor."
"Where is Cheng Yaojin?"
"There is no news yet, it is estimated that... should have arrived in Lanzhou."
"Bastard, guess? Should? What I want to know are these conjectures? What I want to know is the exact situation, so go check it out immediately!"
Hou Junji, who was so angry, scolded all the soldiers in the hall bloody, and when the anger was over, he left with a dirty face.
Hou Junji once again boarded the bell tower in the castle, looking down condescendingly outside, he was extremely restless, as if he wanted to search for the location of the prince here.
But the prince ran away early and disappeared, including his dogs and eagles.
The inside and outside of the castle are still bustling, although Hou Junji has arranged more than half of the soldiers and horses to the outskirts of Haiyan Fort, the farthest is even tens of miles apart, especially when he has arranged most of the Tibetan troops to the outskirts , the closer to the castle, the more trustworthy Longyou Tang Jun's own people.
"How did Qin Lang make the crown prince obey him? What kind of mana does that guy have?" Hou Junji muttered to himself, "After all, he has grown up and is no longer a child. It is impossible for him to obey his ministers. Yes, Qin Lang can't do it either, so Qin Lang has now gone to Lingnan and handed over all the official positions in the East Palace."
"This idiot, no matter how disobedient the crown prince is, he is still the crown prince and the future emperor. If a good crown prince teacher does not do well, and Donggong Zhan does not do things properly, how many people can't ask for it. Today the crown prince's teacher, tomorrow is the emperor's teacher, today Zhan Shi of the East Palace, in the future he will be the head of the prime ministers under the Zhongshu sect."
Hou Junji understood that he was never seen by the prime ministers and ministers in the court, and was even despised in the army. Firstly, he lacked sufficient military achievements, and secondly, he was always regarded as the emperor's childhood friend. Playmates or close vassals.
Although his status as a playmate and close minister allowed him to gain the emperor's trust, he was rejected by others. Even now the emperor began to feel dissatisfied with him, and felt that he had no merits and was not worthy of being a prime minister.
Hou Junji wants to prove himself, to show Li Jing, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Cheng Yaojin, Qin Lang and others who look down on him. Today you love me, but tomorrow I will make you proud Fan can't afford it.
Wasn't the eldest Sun Wuji also a down-and-out guy who was kicked out of the house by his half-brothers back then? In the end, his brother-in-law was the wife of the King of Qin, so he could be reused, and then he became the prime minister by virtue of his meritorious service as a dragon. Besides, Fang Xuanling was only a second-class gentry boy in the past, neither in the eyes of Guanlong wealthy family, nor by the top gentry in Shandong.
But just because he followed the right person and seized the world with King Qin, he has the status of prime minister for ten years now.
As for Qin Qiong and Qin Lang, there is no need to mention them.
He, Hou Junji, is now regarded as a close minister of the emperor and is rejected by others, but as long as he hugs the prince's thigh tightly and waits for the prince to succeed to the throne in the future, he will become the head of the country. To be a prime minister, isn't the head of the country enough to be a prime minister when he arrives?
Emperor Qin Lang's son-in-law can be a chancellor, Feng Sikong, and Qin Qiong's son-in-law can also be a grand protector. Couldn't he, Hou Junji, be a grand master or grand tutor in the future?
"Report!"
A sound of hurried footsteps approaching, and a sergeant reported loudly, interrupting his thoughts.
"Report, Xuan Shuai, something is wrong..."
(end of this chapter)