Facing Shatuo's sad face, Li Jun said quietly: "General Shatuo, following me back to Luoyang is likely to be dead!"

"Your Highness, Shatuo has long understood this." Fearing that Li Jun would not agree, Li Duozuo hurriedly confessed to him.

Li Jun ignored his bluff, he was silent and stared at the weather-beaten veteran in front of him.

Can he really accept his ending?

Time flowed peacefully for a moment, and Li Jun suddenly realized that the sand in front of him actually smiled heartily.

It was a smile that was open-minded and cheerful when he experienced a lot.

"Your Highness, I have been in the army for more than 20 years. I should have died many times. It is a blessing to survive until now. Even if Your Majesty wants to chop my head, I don't care. I just want to seek justice for tens of thousands of soldiers in the Lingwu Army."

Since that is the case, there is nothing to say.

Li Jun happily agreed to his request and promised: "General Shatuo, although you are not afraid of death, it does not mean that I can let you die."

"You should know that many people in the court want you to die. How can we do what they want!"

"What does Your Highness mean?" This time Wu Mingzi was shocked.

Does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince come forward to help Shatuo take this matter up?

"Of course I'm looking for a good explanation to get the rewards of the casualties of the Lingwu Army soldiers!" It turns out that Wu Mingzi was thinking too much.

Li Jun looked at Shatuo with kind eyes and attention. Before he knew it, Shatuo was very convinced by his abilities.

I believe he can seek justice for the soldiers.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince, even if you can keep my soldiers from bleeding in vain, Shatuo is willing to obey His Highness's arrangements."

"General Shatuo, if you want the blood of the Lingwu Army soldiers to be in vain, I must understand the whole story of the defeat in this battle."

"You know, the people from the Luoyang court will definitely focus on your defeat and make mistakes."

It’s not necessary that Li Jun is clear, everyone here knows that this person who knows how to make up stories must be Wu Sansi.

He has never won a battle himself, and his experience on the battlefield is probably not the same, but this does not prevent him from picking on his own.

Moreover, Li Jun believes that he is very powerful in picking bones.

"When talking about this, I am really ashamed!" Shatuo Zhongyi sighed deeply, recalling the battle that almost ruined him for the first time.

The real reason for his failure will also be gradually revealed in his telling.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince also knows that the generals had been stationed in Hebei Road before. Although they had fought with the Turks, they still had too little experience compared to the generals in Guannei Road, Hedong Road and other places. This was not my intentional argument, but the facts were indeed the case. It should be said that when the imperial court's order was placed in front of me, I still couldn't believe my eyes."

"I asked me a general who had little combat experience with the Turks to go to the Lingwu Army, and I became the chief executive. At that time, I really couldn't believe that the court would take a fancy to me."

"But I will do my best to complete the tasks assigned by Your Majesty. To be honest, it was my first time to fight Mo Chuo in Xishoujiang City. Before that, I had some understanding of his tactics. I knew that this person was very famous in the border areas of the Turks and the Tang Dynasty. He had the skills to control troops and was flexible in tactics, and he was called a strong enemy."

"To be honest, since I was defeated and fled, I have repeatedly recalled the development of the war at that time. I admit that as a main general, my tactics were failed and ineffective. At that time, there were about 80,000 Tang troops stationed in Xishoujiang City. The other side Mo Chuo commanded the troops, with a total of about 100,000. It should be said that first of all, we do not have the advantage in terms of number of people."

"Putting aside the original adverse factors, my tactics were also very failed. I chose the wrong position and failed to resist the charge of the Turkic cavalry from the beginning. The clumsy use of troops gave the flexible Turkic cavalry an opportunity to take advantage of."

"These are my mistakes and should be borne by me. However, I still want to say that every soldier in the Lingwu Army is good. Facing the powerful Mo Chuo army, none of them chose to retreat and surrender to the enemy. This is also one of the reasons why the Lingwu Guards were almost completely destroyed in the end."

"Since this is one of the reasons, there must be two." Li Jun's brain was running quickly, imagining the scene at that time, and prompted in time.

At this time, Du Rao, who had been silent beside him, shouted excitedly: "It's a traitor, Your Highness, the traitor betrayed the Lingwu Guardian!"

"Traitor?" Li Jun said suspiciously.

"Is it the Tang people?"

Shatuo Zhongyi shook his head with a dismal expression: "No, it should be a Hu person."

"Hu people? How can Hu people betray them?"

The answer Shatuo Zhongyi gave him made Li Jun feel no surprise at all.

In his eyes, it would be strange if these four barbarians were truly loyal to the Tang Dynasty and had a consistent body and mind.

It is normal to betrayal or betrayal.

Because, in their dictionary, there was never the word "loyalty", they would not be loyal to the Tang Dynasty, and even said that they did not have a mother country worthy of their loyalty.

For example, Shatuo people or Hu people, strictly speaking, they had only part of their territory in the past, and this range was very unfixed.

This territory often changes due to war, and their roots are not in the Tang Dynasty, nor in this nominal territory.

Therefore, their sense of loyalty is not strong, and it is not just that they are not loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

Li Jun said this very freely, but when he heard Shatuo Zhongyi's ears, it was really a bit harsh.

Li Jun saw Shatuo's face changed a few times, and he kindly comforted him, "General Shatuo, I have no other meaning. Now the situation in the border has changed drastically. Some of the Hu people can't tell their origins at all. It is a demanding demand for them with absolute loyalty."

"What we need to do now is to really solve the problem, General Shatuo, and let's continue to talk about how the battle failed."

"good!"

In front of Shatuo's eyes, the ugly faces of the two shameless people gradually emerged.

Ah, when I think of them again, I still feel so angry that I want to get rid of them quickly.

He paused and said, "Your Highness, I am now dying, so I don't avoid a lot of things. As the new head of the Lingwu Army, I and the former general of the defender were not in harmony. As far as I know, the former head of the army had a very good record, but I had occasionally lost a few times in the past year. The court always believed that the defenders on the Lingwu front line were too conservative when fighting against the Turks and were unable to drive Mo Chuo to the north of the Mo to compete for more territory."

"It was only after I arrived in Lingwu County that I gradually learned this inside story. It turned out that over the years, the court had been very dissatisfied with the Lingwu defenders. They believed that they had no actions and only knew about passive defense. The supplies given to them were relatively poor, and military funds were often delinquent."

"So, this time, just because of these two small defeats, the court couldn't wait to replace the original chief executive. Regardless of whether it was suitable or not, I transferred me to Lingwu."
Chapter completed!