In the Lizheng Hall, Empress Changsun took the medicine and fell asleep quietly. Fang Xuanling stood beside her with her hands behind her back, her face full of worry. Everyone was silent, and only the more ticks were leaking, making her look even quieter.

After a while, a slight footsteps sounded in the hall. Empress Changsun slowly opened her eyes and said, "Is Mr. Wei back? Has the Supreme Emperor returned to the palace?"

"Report to the Queen," Wei Zheng had just stood still, and he hurriedly replied in a low voice: "The Emperor is so sick, say..."

Fang Xuanling's pupils shrank when he heard this, and his face became even more angry. He snorted: "The Supreme Emperor is really old. When is it time? I still have the leisure to be angry!"

Wei Zheng opened his mouth and closed it again. The matter was not done, and even if he was covered in mouth, he couldn't say anything.

"Fang Xiang, be careful!" Queen Changsun's face turned pale, her breathing became more and more rapid. Seeing that she was about to cough again, Fang Xuanling quickly closed her mouth.

Queen Changsun coughed a few times, finally stopped it, and said, "It seems that the Supreme Emperor still refuses to forgive... Well, I will explain myself, come, prepare the carriage,"

"No!" Not only Fang Xuanling, but even Wei Zheng also spoke up to stop him. Looking at Empress Changsun's current condition, he was really not optimistic. If something happened, neither of them could afford it.

"You have to go... you must go." Empress Changsun's voice intermittently, speaking very hard, but her tone was very firm.

Seeing that the pressure from Empress Sun was only increased after further persuasion, Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng both stopped talking and let the female official make arrangements.

The female official laid a thick Persian blanket in the four-wheeled carriage, carried the people to carry the Empress Changsun to the carriage, and asked Liu Shenwei to accompany him with the medicine box. Everything was ready, and half a day had passed. Seeing that it was getting late, Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng wanted to persuade Empress Changsun to go tomorrow, but Empress Changsun said that it was just right at this time, and she was traveling lightly to avoid attracting attention and causing the people to panic.

Late at night, the group arrived at the entrance of the valley, and Empress Changsun fainted again.

Li Yuan, who received the news, could no longer hinder him. He sighed heavily. On the one hand, he arranged for Empress Changsun to stay. On the other hand, he saw Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, and expressed his willingness to temporarily accept the Dingming Treasure and supervise the government, but he was exempted from the court. He had already abdicated and would not sit back on the dragon throne. Didn’t Xue Yantuo come in now? He lived in the valley first, and everything he responded to was handled in the valley. At the same time, he also clearly stated that this was just a temporary solution for the current critical situation. Once things eased, they would be handed over immediately. He only wanted to live a life of idle clouds and wild cranes, and did not want to be disturbed by earthly affairs.

Speaking of this, he was too cautious. Even Fang Xuanling could not find any problems. The situation is now critical and many major issues in the court need to be decided. Under Wei Zheng's supervision, Fang Xuanling returned to Lizheng Hall to collect all the memorials to be ordered and came back to report to Li Yuan.

Li Yuan has not been involved in government affairs for many years and is older. He must be unable to read so many memorials. So he asked Wei Zheng to help him read them, condense the long memorials into a few useful words, and then make a decision.

After all, Wei Zheng was of high quality. He glanced at a glance at a memorial and basically filtered the nonsense. He picked up important words and said a few words. Li Yuan was the founding emperor. He did not require training in his business, so he was still very easy to make an idea and dealt with it quickly.

I just left Fang Xuanling aside and couldn't even talk.

Fang Xuanling saw that this was not good. Although he knew he was not welcomed, he still gritted his teeth and stood up and said, "The most important thing at the moment is how to deal with Xue Yantuo's invasion. These memorials are trivial matters, so don't worry!"

Li Yuan nodded, glanced at Fang Xuanling, and said, "The Fang Qing family must have made a decision in their minds. Then tell me, how to solve it?"

Fang Xuanling was so choked that he almost didn't feel angry. He thought to himself that if I knew how to solve it, I would have done it long ago, so why should I stand here and be angry? But he definitely couldn't say that, saying: "The Supreme Emperor, I can't think of a solution, but it's related to the rise and fall of the country. Should the Supreme Emperor let go of prejudice first... Summon all civil and military officials and discuss it!"

"What to discuss?" Li Yuan chuckled and said, "Now there are no soldiers, no generals. There are food and supplies. Is it too late to recruit soldiers and horses now? It's useless! What you should do most at this time is to believe in the soldiers in front of you. Believe that they can withstand the enemy and defend the city. Apart from that, they can't do anything."

"Then do nothing?" Fang Xuanling laughed furiously and said, "Just watch like this, the country of the Tang Dynasty is in the hands of Xue Yantuo?"

"If it is really like that, there is nothing we can do." Li Yuan said coldly: "It is really like that, it is fate! But if you summon all officials and gather them together, and there is no need for Xue Yantuo to call him, the country will be in chaos."

Li Yuan said firmly, saying: "Since the rise of Jinyang, I have had an experience. The real threat is not in the grassland, but in the Central Plains. Those nomadic peoples are a group of reckless men who only know how to plunder, but these clans in the Central Plains are hungry wolves who eat people and don't spit bones. If the court is in trouble now, it will send them a signal that the court can no longer sustain. At that time, the war will be everywhere!"

He stared at Fang Xuanling and said, "If there are separatist areas now, just like at the end of the Sui Dynasty, you can tell me what will the imperial court use to suppress the rebellion?"

Fang Xuanling couldn't answer, and after a long time, he said, "You have to do something, you can't wait to die. Now that Li Mu is missing, you can't expect him to eat both the Turks and Xue Yantuo with ten thousand soldiers. How is this possible?"

"Yes, how could it be..." Wei Zheng also murmured. Both of them knew very well that the army had no food, there were wolves in front and tigers in the back, so Li Mu could not have any chance.

Fang Xuanling said annoyedly: "Li Mu is still too young. The court has issued an order to tell him not to underestimate the enemy and advance rashly. Now, Dingxiang is surrounded and needs him to defend the city, but he is gone!"

"Just fart!" Li Yuan retorted mercilessly. He already knew the whole story. Li Yuan was naturally completely on Li Mu's side, but Fang Xuanling was Li Shimin's subject after all, and he was not convenient for him to say anything more, so he cursed and waved his hand to drive him away.

Of course, Fang Xuanling didn't dare to retaliate and surrendered with grievance. Until now, he didn't feel that he had done something wrong!

Just here in Chang'an City, when the incident was in panic for Xue Yantuo's affairs, Li Mu, who was in the controversy, was leading his cavalry troops, trekking hard on the storm-torn desert.

When the sandstorm was dark yesterday, the wind was weakened for a while, but Li Mu and others were not happy for long before they started to rage again. In the second half of the night, the wind was even more violent, and sand and stones flew, and the power of heaven and earth was extremely violent.

The soldiers of the Tang army felt that they could not hold on. If it weren't for the darkness that Li Mu said that it was only forty miles away from the oasis, everyone would have been lying on the ground without hesitation, and they would have been lying on the ground without hesitation!

"Grudge your teeth and it will be here soon!" The schoolmen were hoarse and cheered up their morale.

"Bah! You've been around dozens of times!" The soldiers are now irritable and don't care about the superiors and inferiors. They cursed: "Why haven't you gotten on your mother's horse yet?"

"That's right, these forty miles are too long!" The soldiers finally burst out with strong suspicion and said, "Why are you not even dead?"

"The wind is strong! The wind is strong!" The generals were actually puzzled. Although everyone lost their judgment ability under the strong wind and sandstorm, they could not reach it even after walking for a night, which was really unreasonable! But they could not shake the slightest, otherwise the shaking army would completely collapse in the next moment.

The generals and schools could only shout against their conscience: "It's ahead!"

"Damn it's not right now, I'll change the front!" The soldiers cursed and said, "The genius believes in your nonsense!"

"Then don't leave!" The generals also became angry and cursed: "Stay here and wait for death!"

This is the truth that truly inspires the soldiers to move forward. After going deep into the desert, turning back means death, and not moving means death. Only by moving forward can one win a glimmer of hope. Do you think they have other choices?

"Damn! You can't lead the wrong way!" The soldiers transferred their anger to the scouts leading the way.

The sound followed the wind and reached the ears of the scouts in front. Wei Fu and others shrank their necks and thought to themselves that if the direction was really wrong, they would definitely be swallowed up by these angry soldiers when the sandstorm ended. But they were really wronged, because Li Mu had been leading the way since they entered the desert, and they were just symbolically walking ahead.

Wei Fu was getting more and more confused, so he leaned into another scout's ear and whispered: "Brother, have you found the marks along the way? Why do I feel something is wrong? Is the direction right?"

"I don't know either." The scout said frustrated: "The mark we made is that the wind and sand can't see any shadow. This vast desert is full of the same thing, so where can we tell the difference."

"How did you think the Marquis know where to go? Is he leading the way?" Wei Fu murmured in a low voice.

"Why don't we run away?" The scout's psychological endurance finally collapsed and he whispered: "Even if I die in a sandstorm, I don't want to be eaten by these lunatics."

"Bastard! You bastard!" Wei Fu patted the scout's head and said, "Our life has been sold to the Marquis long ago. Now you say you have run away, are you going to have a conscience?"

That's it, but what I thought in my heart was. If you really took the wrong path, do you think the Marquis could run away? The soldiers wanted to eat it, and they were the first to eat him. Everyone died together, and the road to the underworld was not lonely.

Just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly stepped on something under his feet and almost tripped him. Wei Fu just thought it was a dead bone or something, bent down and touched it, suddenly he was stunned and took out a jar of wine from the sand.

Wei Fu's heart was almost jumping out of his excitement, and the scout was even more excited. He wanted to shout at the army behind him, but Wei Fu covered his mouth and whispered: "Stop it! Idiot! What should I do if I shock the enemy?!"

He signaled the scout to continue moving forward, but he turned around with the jar of wine and reported the news to Li Mu.

In fact, Li Mu had known that he had been to the place by relying on the system to locate the Daobin Stone. But he still looked excited and asked Wei Fu to quickly pass the news to the back. No matter how late he was, he was afraid that the soldiers would not be able to withstand the pressure and mutiny. If that were the case, he would be really not lonely on the road to the underworld.

...

Although the carnival was over in the typhoon pond, the Turks were still hungover and still not awake, and the snoring sounded like thunder in the camp tent. Several Turkic nobles who did not drink were tossing and turning all night because of the noise, and it was difficult to fall asleep. They finally fell asleep until dawn.

One of them was named Sasha. He had insomnia. He had not slept much until now when he entered the typhoon pond. He always felt something was going to happen and was upset. He couldn't sleep, so he got up and dressed neatly, and walked out of his tent.

There are continuous camp tents in the oasis, and there are no exceptions in each tent. There are almost no figure. Only a large number of war horses are calling to their masters. Sasha can't help but shake his head when he sees this. In the past few days, these guys have only been drunk and don't even feed the horses!

Sasha walked in the camp for a while, and somehow, he felt a chill on his back and his ominous premonition even stronger. But he couldn't think of it, but he only felt his bladder tightening.

Well, let's pee first. Sasha walked to a corner of the oasis under the wind and sand, untied her belt and put it on quickly and quickly. Unexpectedly, when she was halfway through the urination, she saw many black shadows appearing in the sky in the distance!

Sasha was immediately creepy, his teeth trembled, and he held back all the remaining urine, shouting in his heart: "Can it be the legendary ghost..."

There are legends of various kinds and one kind of circulating on the grassland, among which there are legends of ghosts that appear in sandstorms... It is said that they are the wandering souls of people who die in the sea of ​​sand! At this time, in this place, the only thing Sasha can think of is ghosts!

It was not until the distance between the two sides was only ten feet away and was so scared that Sasha could not urinate clearly that those guys who were covered in dust and could not see clearly were not ghosts at all, but living people!

Sasha was even more frightened, because he had seen clearly that the figures surrounding him were nothing but other people, and they were clearly the Tang army who chased them all the way like chasing rabbits!

"Tang Jun..." Sasha trembled with his teeth and trembled, and sat on the ground with his butt, screaming in surprise: "You are Tang Jun!"

"Congratulations on your answer right!" The Tang cavalry who came through the hardships of crossing the sandstorm and finally arrived at the oasis!

These Tang soldiers stared at Sasha with perverted eyes, rushed up with ecstasy, and then pressed Sasha to the ground!

The next moment, countless Tang cavalry roared out of the strong wind and flying sand, and rushed into the Turkish camp with a overwhelming force! The Turkish war horses were immediately shocked and neighed, screaming and trying to awaken their master!
Chapter completed!