The captain of the escort team was named Zhao Congfang. He had a thin face and a pointed chin, and a mustache that looked quite energetic. After he met Li Siye with his arms crossed, he invited him to the room on the second floor of the Guanyi Station. There was already a plan on the table.
Food and drinks.
Li Siye lowered his head to take a look. The food and wine on the table were extremely rich. There were mutton and roasted deer legs in a basin, as well as sesame oil pancakes and meat slices mixed with green onions. There were also a few peppers on the meat slices. The wine turned out to be wine from Gaochang City. The standard of living was very high.
Gao, when did I, the captain of the Anxi Army, become so wealthy?
Captain Zhao noticed Li Siye's strange expression, smiled bitterly and explained: "I have spent all my salary in the past few months on food and drink. Today is the last and most sumptuous meal. Please sit down and have a meal, General."
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Li Siye knelt down opposite him and said with a smile: "Then I would like to thank Colonel Zhao for his hospitality."
Zhao Congfang looked tired and raised the wine cup to fill Li Siye's cup. He raised his head and poured it into his mouth without waiting for Shangguan to eat first. He wiped his mouth, breathed out happily, and said to Li Siye in a teasing tone.
: "The general has a great future. He has just been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. Why did he end up like his subordinates? You and I are in the same boat."
Li Siye was stunned for a moment: "What kind of situation have I fallen into?"
Zhao Congfang thought that his words were to bolster her self-esteem, so she smiled crookedly, poured herself another cup, raised her head and drank it again, and then said, "General, is there any solution to this critical situation?"
Li Siye saw that this man was a simple and pure man, so he also smiled and said: "I haven't thought of how to deal with it yet, but isn't this kind of thing just a matter of observing the mood and adapting to the situation?"
Zhao Congfang was startled and had to face Li Siye again. He picked up the wine cup and said with both hands: "The general is an open-minded person, and Zhao Congfang feels inferior. But in the face of the angry Tuqi Shiren, there is no use in adapting to the situation." He said
He lowered his head and complained again: "I can finally see that an honest person like me who can't adapt will always suffer. I joined the army in Anxi for ten years, and I went through several battles to become a captain.
People who joined the army in the same year as me and who have made similar contributions are now General Huaihua and General Dingyuan."
Li Siye said casually: "What is Huaihua General and Dingyuan General? I have only been in Anxi for four years, and now I am already a Zhonglang General."
Zhao Congfang's expression froze, and he twitched the corner of his mouth. Then he picked up a piece of meat with his chopsticks, took a few bites and said: "The trees are as beautiful as the forest, and the wind will destroy them. You just rose too fast, which aroused the fear from above."
, that’s why I sent you such an unfortunate job.”
Li Siye was not annoyed, but smiled and said, "I finally understand why you haven't been promoted for a long time."
"Why?"
"My mouth is too bad."
Captain Zhao paused in chewing meat, and the muscles on his face became stiff. Then he put his chopsticks on the counter and said with a groan: "Anyway, this errand is probably going to be a death, and I'm not afraid of offending you. I can catch up with a middle-aged man."
We will go to hell together, and I won’t suffer any loss.”
Li Siye smiled and asked him again: "Who did you offend again this time to send you to do this unfortunate job?"
"It's possible that my former superior Situ Nan was the warden of the Tiaodang camp and a member of the vanguard. He was also the governor of Jiedu. He should have been promoted to Longyou, Hexi Province with Gaizhong Cheng. Because I was with him
When I was serving as a school captain under my command, I was not as filial as others, nor as flattering as others, so I was treated as a favor before leaving. It is also possible that the new escort officer and combat vanguard joined the military and wanted to make his own.
A close confidant promoted me to the rank of captain, but even before I took office, he picked on the weak and found me a job that would cost me my life, so that the position under my butt could be freed up."
I have a rich imagination, but I am afraid that my daily work pressure may have suppressed my persecutory delusions.
Li Siye laughed and said: "According to what you said, you seem to be a person who has never been recognized for your talents. Otherwise, how could you be so good that the wind has ruined you to this extent? What can you do when you go to Suiye City to announce the decree to the Khan's court this time?
Dedicate your strategy to me."
Zhao Congfang showed his drunkenness and laughed: "What strategies can I have? It's just a little idea. The general can listen to it or not."
"But tell me."
"There are three regiments from the 34th Zhechong Prefecture stationed in this big stone city, and they are in charge of the city envoy and prison officer. If the general has a good relationship with this prison officer, a regiment of troops can be borrowed from him to escort us there.
Broken leaves, this way even if the Tuqishi suddenly get angry and attack after entering the city, we can still use the strength of a regiment to form a formation with swords and guns and retreat calmly."
Lieutenant Zhao then laughed and said: "This is not a complete strategy. If Hemo Dagan is determined to rebel against the Tang Dynasty, a regiment of more than two hundred people will probably not be able to escape in the face of tens of thousands of enemy troops in Suiye City.
Out."
Li Siye laughed, and Captain Zhao Congfang could no longer interest him at all. He reached out and picked up the wine cup and drank it all in one gulp. He stood up from the desk and said: "Eat and drink enough today, tomorrow morning
Let’s go, I’ll go find the prison officer of Dashi City and ask for someone.”
Zhao Congfang sat in front of the wine table and was stunned for a long time. He was just talking casually, but he didn't expect that Li Siye would actually go to ask for someone. Without the military order of the Protectorate, he would only be in trouble.
He left the room directly, walked out of the hotel and went to the official residence of the city tower of Dashi City, asking to see the military and administrative chief of Dashi City.
The soldiers standing guard outside the gate crossed their arms at him and immediately went to the tower to report.
After a while, the city envoy and jailer personally ran to the door to greet him, and crossed his hands respectfully: "I am humbled by the Holy Envoy."
Li Siye didn't expect that carrying the title of imperial conferment on his body would have the advantage of being a senior official. However, although Meng Yu was at the same level as himself, as a casual official, he was only a fifth-grade Huaihua Lang general.
, even if he is not a holy envoy, he still has to salute himself according to the rules.
"General Meng, there is no need to be polite."
Meng Yu personally invited him to the meeting hall on the top of the city tower, which was bright and spacious. Sixteen wooden doors were opened one after another, and outside were the tower walls, and one could see the Bodal Ridge in the distance.
"Holy envoy please."
Li Siye sat down in front of the screen table on the stage, Meng Yu knelt down and sat at the bottom, crossed his hands and said: "This time the Holy Envoy should go to Suiye Town to offer a reward and canonize the Tuqi Shi Khan."
"That's right," Li Siye said with his hands on his knees: "The Tuqi Shi Huang is proud of his merits, disobedient to Wang Hua, and greedy. It is quite risky to go to Suiye to announce the canonization. I hope Huaihua Lang will be able to send people to protect me.
The envoy’s safety.”
A look of astonishment appeared on Meng Yu's face, he suppressed his smile forcibly, lowered his head and crossed his hands in a businesslike tone and said: "Dashi City is located in a dangerous location, so there must be no mistakes. The three regiments in our city are
It's just enough. If the Holy Envoy has an official letter from Jiedushi to mobilize troops, his subordinates should obey it. If there is no military order, please forgive me for my difficulty in obeying the order."
"Then what if I have a transfer order?"
Meng Yu's movements of crossing his hands froze, and he nervously raised his eyes from between his fingers to look at the expression on Li Siye's face, as if he wanted to judge the authenticity of the other person's tone.
He said hesitantly: "Then... please ask the Holy Envoy to show you the order."
Li Siye took out the piece of paper from his pocket and handed it out: "This is the transfer order. Take it and read it yourself."
Mengyu supported his knees with both hands and took a breath of cold air, as if he had received a verdict that was opposite to what he expected, but he couldn't believe it. He stood up from the ground hesitantly, and his slowly stretched out hand was suspended in the air, as if
This piece of paper is the red soldering iron sticking out in the air.
He finally held his breath, held the paper in his hands, and opened his hands, his expression changing, but in the end he suppressed the ecstasy, and the turbid breath held in his lungs slowly followed his breath.
discharge.
"It turns out that only one person was transferred."