Xiao Yanhan returned to the back house, took off her blood-stained robe and armor, walked out of the bedroom, tied her hair and wore a crown, and wore a green shirt. She was tall and strong, but she had a strange heroic spirit.
The child was still riding a bamboo horse and swinging a wooden sword carefree in the courtyard. At this time, there were several maids looking after him nearby.
Xiao Yanhan frowned slightly and said sternly: "Who neglected supervision just now and asked Bai'er to run to the government office? Go to me, Manager Wu, and get ten lashes as a minor punishment! You will never do it again next time!"
"If you want to punish, punish me," a graceful and beautiful woman walked into the courtyard, waved to the maid to take the child to another courtyard to play, and said to Xiao Yanhan, "Don't blame them, I asked them to lead
Bai'er ran to the front office to play..."
"Sister-in-law, what are you doing?" Xiao Yanhan asked in surprise.
"I am a woman with limited knowledge. You don't tell me who Bai'er's biological father is. But after all these years, can I really not guess at all? That is to say, your brother is pretending to be an idiot. It seems that he is really attracted by you.
I hid it," the woman said, "I also secretly observed Jingshenghou's appearance with someone else, and copied a portrait of Jingshenghou and brought it back for careful identification. I think I won't guess wrong, and the people from Chushan should also
I know Bai’er’s existence…”
On the way to Qinzhou westward, Xiao Yanhan became pregnant. After arriving in Qinzhou, she lived in seclusion and left Xiao Bai to be raised by her brother and sister-in-law. It was announced that Xiao Linshi had given birth to another son. Even those who knew about this internally did not know about Xiao Bai.
Xiao Yanhan herself kept silent about who Bai's biological father was.
Xiao Bai was young at first, and his round face was unremarkable. However, in recent years, he was forced to practice martial arts by Xiao Yanhan, and his face gradually became more contoured. The Xiao family went to Chu Mountain to take a look at the appearance of Jingsheng Hou Xu Huai.
But it confirmed the previous speculation.
"Sister-in-law," Xiao Yanhan was stunned for a while before she said, "this matter is not a trivial matter. If any news leaks out, it will cause huge waves. Sister-in-law has to work hard to take care of Bai'er all these years."
"You understand the difficulties there, and I don't blame you, but you must also understand that hundreds of thousands of tribesmen are about to be desperate," the woman said. "Your brother is worried every day and has trouble sleeping all night. He often sits in the study all night.
I am thinking hard and have no solution, and my body is getting thinner and thinner day by day. You should also be able to see all this, right?"
"Yan Han knows!" Xiao Yanhan didn't want to argue with her sister-in-law, so she bowed her head and admitted her mistake, and stopped mentioning the punishment of her daughter. Then she went to greet the visitors from Chushan and walked to the front office.
Xiao Linshi led the army to sneak attack Henan to ensure that after the Khitans left Qinzhou, they would still have a place to live in the Taoshui River and the Daxia River. However, he did not expect that at this time, the elite Chihu forwards would directly attack the hinterland of Qinzhou.
Although there are still two to three thousand elite soldiers left in Qinzhou, and they are not afraid of the harassment of more than a thousand Red Husband cavalry, the reality has been revealed by the Red Husbands. On the one hand, it is not clear whether a large number of Red Husband cavalry will take advantage of the situation and attack in the future.
It is also not clear whether the Chihu people will see through their intentions and directly send a large number of troops to Henan to intercept their sneak attack on Henan. Therefore, the Qinzhou Governor's Office can only urgently carry out the final attack on the tribesmen.
mobilization.
At this time, Shi Hai, Wu Sanrong and other left-behind generals were rushing between the government offices and the military camps to deal with urgent military affairs.
Xiao Yanhan walked to the government office but did not see Shi Hai, Wu Sanrong and others. They had settled some official matters at hand, and the sky was getting dark before they knew it.
"Princess, the birthday banquet has been prepared. Zhang Xiongshan and the others have also been invited." Shi Hai walked in and asked, "Princess, do you want to come over and have a banquet with us?"
"Okay, I'll go over to have a banquet too," Xiao Yanhan stood up, hesitated for a while, and asked, "Is it because General Shi Hai ordered Bai'er to come to the government office before?"
Although her sister-in-law took over everything today, Xiao Yanhan didn't think it was all her sister-in-law's idea. She stared at Shi Hai and asked.
"..."
Shi Hai's hair has long been gray, and his messy beard cannot hide his old face. He did not deny Xiao Yanhan's question and said calmly,
"Even if the commander-in-chief successfully seizes the Taoshui River and the land along the Daxia River during this trip, the ideal result will only be to win a breathing space for hundreds of thousands of people; further to the west, Heihe and other places, thousands of miles of vassal
The clan has long since succumbed to the iron heel of the Red Hu people, and we have no room to continue moving westward. If Xiao Shuai's trip does not go smoothly, or if Xiao Shuai's trip does not go smoothly, or because he has contacted the resistance forces of Dangxiang and attracted the special attention of the Red Hu people,
Shi Hai is worried that before Qishan Mountain is broken, hundreds of thousands of our tribe will be annihilated first. Please forgive Shi Hai for his selfish thoughts!"
"..." Xiao Yanhan frowned slightly and lowered her voice and asked, "Even if this matter is revealed, what can Chushan do?"
"The commander-in-chief often said that Xu Hou is a great man in the world, and he can do things that ordinary people can't do. If Shi Hai remembers correctly, he used the remnants of our tribe to sneak into Taiyuan, and Xu Hou also agreed to make a promise," Shi Hai said calmly, "Furthermore,
The grievances the princess has suffered over the years should also be known to Chushan..."
Xiao Yanhan waved her hand helplessly, signaling Shi Hai to go and greet Zhang Xiongshan and others first, and she would arrive soon after.
Under such a tense situation, the birthday banquet was hasty and no one really wanted to have a good time.
Zhang Xiongshan's trip here not only gave him a better understanding of the bad situation in Longxi and Hexi, but also led the cadet army generals to exchange cavalry battles with Qinzhou generals - of course, the situation is now so urgent that Xiao Linshi completely ignores Dai Viet and the party.
The alliance between Xiang Xiang and Xiang Xiang sent troops to sneak attack Henan. After the banquet, Zhang Xiongshan proposed that this trip could expand the scale of the war horse trade.
In addition to overcoming all difficulties and opening up mountain pastures in Tongbai Mountain, Funiu Mountain and other places, Chushan's only external source of good horses was Qinzhou.
In the past, on the one hand, the Khitans suffered heavy losses in their herds during their westward migration and needed to recuperate, so they did not dare to easily expand the scale of foreign trade. On the other hand, all the soldiers and horses in Vietnam were eager to obtain more war horses from Qinzhou.
In order to avoid disputes, both Chushan and Qinzhou carefully maintained a small amount of war horse trading.
Each time the mule and horse team eliminates two to three hundred bad horses in Qinzhou and replaces them with two to three hundred good horses, carrying many products from Qinzhou back to Chushan, it is not very eye-catching.
In recent years, Chushan has introduced a total of six to seven thousand fine horses from Qinzhou.
Although Chushan has tried its best to expand the local breeding of fine horses, the battlefield consumption is still high, and the current number of war horses is only 12,000 to 3,000.
Zhang Xiongshan is not sure what choice Xiao Linshi, Shi Hai and others will make in the end, but what is certain is that once the remnants of the Khitan move westward, Qinzhou will fall into the hands of the Chihu people, and Chushan will have the only external source of war horses.
, will be cut off.
Zhang Xiongshan didn't know what decision Xu Huai, Shi Zhen, Xu Wuqi and others would make after learning that Xiao Yanhan had given birth to the young prince in Qinzhou, but he could decide now. This trip will go directly from Qinzhou
It is definitely not wrong to bring two to three thousand war horses back to Chushan.
And they have to be quick. The mule and horse team will not rest when entering the city this time. As long as the horses are delivered here, they will start the return journey directly.
Maybe after receiving new instructions from Chushan, we might be able to pull another war horse back from Qinzhou.
"Okay, there is no problem with this. If Commander Xiao is not here, the princess can make up her mind!" Shi Hai glanced at Xiao Yanhan and put all the blame on her, saying, "Besides, we Khitans can fight on horseback.
We already have a limited number of men, no matter how many war horses we keep, it will be useless..."
"..." Of course Xiao Yanhan knew the subtext of Shi Hai's words. After pondering for a while, he said: "If the people of Chushan ignore their fatigue, Qinzhou can start recruiting two thousand good horses to go to Chushan tomorrow...
"
"Thank you so much, Princess," Zhang Xiongshan thanked him.
After all the mules and horses entered the city, and they took the time to rest for three or four days, the Qinzhou Governor's Office recruited two thousand good horses - leaving the mules and pack horses that had previously carried the goods in Qinzhou for disposal, and more than 400 grooms
and one hundred and fifty armed cavalry guards hurriedly escorted these good horses on their return journey.
Zhang Xiongshan took Xu Pang, Su Mi, Han Qihu, Liu Yueting and other military trainees to stay in Qinzhou to participate in the counter-infiltration operation of Qinzhou soldiers and horses against a small group of red cavalry. More importantly, he used this to familiarize himself with the terrain of Qinzhou and the conditions in Qinzhou.
Cavalry groups fight in this kind of terrain.
Qinzhou's empty defense was accidentally pierced by the red cavalry sneaking in. Xiao Yanhan, Shi Hai and others were worried that a large group of enemy cavalry would attack, or that Xiao Linshi's plan to sneak attack Henan would be intercepted and destroyed.
However, by the end of June, when Xiao Linshi sent troops to help the Dangxiang nobles Pohuang suppress the capitulation forces, control Zhuolu City and the surrounding areas, and withdraw their troops back to Qinzhou, the Chihu army was not in a hurry except to concentrate on storming Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Dangxiang.
Signs of dividing the troops and heading south.
In early July, news reached Qinzhou that the Red Army had captured Xingqing Prefecture and massacred the city. However, not only did the Red Army show no signs of going south, some of its troops even returned from the north of Xingqing Prefecture.
Zhang Xiongshan also felt strongly that something big had happened to the Chihu people, but it was not until July 16 that he rushed to the Dudu Mansion to find Xiao Linshi to inquire about the news. As soon as he walked into the Dudu Mansion, he saw a scene of joy both inside and outside the government office.
With Wu Sanrong's loud voice, he couldn't restrain his excitement and shouted:
"The old thief king of Chihu has been a prodigal for a lifetime. Every time he conquered a place, he would search for beauties to sleep with. I don't know how many beauties in the world were gathered into his tent. This time he deserved to fall into the hands of a woman! What a joy, a joy...
