"You are only fifteen years old. Can your father worry about you joining the army?"

Yuchi Gong's kindness gradually faded the young cavalry's fear, and he whispered: "My father has also joined the army, and the seven servants in the family have also been incorporated into the militia."

This is the issue that Yuchi Gong is most concerned about. They also received information from Taiyuan before. Pei Ji immediately formed a militia army after arriving in Taiyuan. The exact information was to form a militia army of 50,000 people, wearing the most crude leather armor and holding the worst quality weapons. From the surface of the information, this militia army seemed to be just a mob, and it was not worth worrying.

But Yuchi Gong is a cautious person. He needs to understand the details of this militia from the bottom. Judging from the current situation, the news from the Taiyuan Intelligence Agency is not very accurate. The young man in front of him is an example. It is obvious that the civilians who have just recruited have also entered the regular army.

"Do your father and seven guys are all cavalry like you?"

"My father and three friends went to the logistics battalion to take care of the war horses, and I and the other four were joined into the cavalry."

"What about your neighbors?"

Yuchi Gong asked again: "How many people do you know are in the army?"

The boy lowered his head and thought, "All those who are older than me have joined the army, but they are all training. There are very few people like me who are directly joining the army."

After a moment, the boy's tone was filled with a hint of resentment, as if he had been deceived, and in fact it was the case!

"The conscription tells us that the Turks have assembled hundreds of thousands of troops to prepare to go south next spring to defend our country, so we are willing to join the army actively. I also took the initiative to show my riding skills. If I knew that I was fighting with you, I would not agree to death."

"What about besides you? I mean, does your father know the truth?"

The boy shook his head, "He doesn't know, but in fact most of us don't know. Even those of us who join the army don't know. Even ordinary Tang soldiers don't know. Only our patrol can guess a little."

"Why?"

The boy was silent for a moment and said, "The Turkic cavalry will not come from the east and south."

"You are quite smart!"

Yuchi Gong had already asked about the information he wanted. He looked at the boy's body like a cowpea, and couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart. According to convention, prisoners of war usually had to work in the mine for three years before they were released, but this boy

"I'm missing a few soldiers who report the news here. Since you have good riding skills, would you like to stay?"

"I do!"

The young man was so excited that he was speechless that he almost cried out. Although becoming a mighty soldier was his childhood dream, it did not mean that he wanted to be a Tang army and become a cavalry of the Great Zhou Empire. If his father knew about it, he would not know how proud he would be.

Yuchi Gong smiled gently, patted his thin shoulders, and said to a personal soldier: "Take him to change his armor and then hand it over to Captain Ling!"

The personal soldiers took the young man down. Yuchi Gong slowly walked to the sand table, pondering for a long time, his tall figure was like a huge rock

Tens of thousands of troops of the Zhou Dynasty appeared east of Yuci County and soon spread throughout Yuci County and Taiyuan City. Especially Taiyuan City, the atmosphere suddenly became tense. It was not so much that civilians were nervous, but rather that Pei Ji was nervous. He issued nine orders in a row, from closing all city gates and not allowing entry and exit to starting the wartime state of the army, his hands were so long that even Li Deliang was a little dissatisfied with him.

Li Deliang is in his early forties, with a medium figure, and has a long and thin horse face. His face is always as pale as if coated with powder. A big black mole on his nose is lying on a snow-white wall like a fly. His eyebrows are thick and thick, and he becomes angry like two brooms placed vertically on the corner of the wall.

Li Deliang was the clan brother of the emperor Li Yuan. He had received good lessons since childhood. He was like other Guanlong children and had both civil and military skills. He was also good at martial arts. He was skilled in a heavy iron spear about 40 kilograms and was skilled in archery and horses. Li Deliang was not outstanding in the Li family, and even his fame was not as good as his brother Li Shuliang. He looked a little mediocre.

However, Li Deliang and Li Yuan had a very good personal relationship. In addition, he was modest and cautious, and relatively low-key and pragmatic, so he was highly valued by Li Yuan and ordered to be in charge of the military and political affairs of Hexi. After Li Shenfu was transferred from Taiyuan to Jiangxia, Li Yuan transferred him to Taiyuan and took over as the position of Bingzhou General Manager, and was in charge of Bingzhou military affairs.

A few months ago, the Prime Minister Pei Ji led 20,000 troops to support Taiyuan's defense. He also served as the Minister of the Bingzhou Xingtai, in charge of Bingzhou government affairs. The military affairs under the supervision of Li Deliang can be said to be that the water of water does not interfere with the rivers. However, Pei Ji served as the commander of Bingzhou the year before and did not step down. Moreover, he led 20,000 troops to assist Bingzhou this time, and Li Yuan did not clarify his scope of authority. In fact, Pei Ji was appointed because the Zhou army might have attacked Taiyuan.

Because of this, Pei Ji was unceremonious and took away the military command power belonging to Li Deliang. Li Deliang became the deputy general who carried out his orders. Of course, everything Pei Ji has done in the past few months is in defensive preparations, and Li Deliang also tried his best to tolerate it. Imagine that after the war broke out, Pei Ji would naturally return the military power to himself.

When Yuchi Gong's army appeared near Taiyuan City, the scene that Li Deliang was looking forward to did not happen. On the contrary, Pei Ji issued nine combat orders in a row, and even Li Deliang, who has always been known for his good temper, finally could not bear it anymore, especially what happened this morning made him unacceptable.

Li Deliang quickly walked to Pei Jiguan's room, and the armored leaves were rustling. The anger in his heart was hard to hide. His eyebrows were tangled together, as if two brooms had already fallen apart.

Pei Ji happened to come out of the official room and almost bumped into the angry Li Deliang. Pei Ji couldn't help but take a step back and smiled awkwardly: "So it's the prince, is there anything wrong?"

"I have something I want to ask the Prime Minister." Li Deliang said coldly.

"The prince asked to go into the house and said."

"No, it's great here!"

Li Deliang's cold tone was like a cold wind blew away the hypocritical smile on Pei Ji's face, and a layer of frost was also hanging on Pei Ji's face, and he said coldly but politely: "I hope I can help the prince."

"I ordered the army to attack the Zhou army today. Why didn't the Prime Minister stop me and not allow me to leave the city?"

Li Deliang's eyes were sharp and staring at Pei Ji like a knife. Today he was going to lead his army out of the city to fight Yuchi Gong's army, but Pei Ji ordered that no one be allowed to leave the city. Wang Jungu, who was responsible for guarding the city, would not open the city gate and did not obey his orders, which made Li Deliang angry.

"It's very simple. I think Yuchi Gong led 20,000 troops to come, neither attacking the county town nor carrying siege weapons. It is obvious that he was luring us out of the city. I don't want the prince to be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy and eventually the entire army was destroyed."

"It seems that Pei Xiangguo really thinks he can do whatever he wants!"

"I don't understand what the prince means?"

"It's very simple. I just ask Pei Xiangguo one sentence: Who is the decision of Taiyuan's military power? Is it you, or I, Li Deliang?" Li Deliang's words revealed the key issues that had been confused between them for several months.

"Prince, we are all serving the emperor. The enemy in front of us should be united. Why bother with mere power?"

"You can't say that. The emperor asked me to be the chief supervisor of Bingzhou, not to let me be a clay sculpture in the temple. Before Pei Xiangguo came, Taiyuan was in order. But since Pei Xiangguo arrived, Taiyuan and Zhou County were in chaos. I endured all this because I didn't want to see internal conflicts in the Tang army, but Pei Xiangguo issued military orders without authorization. What am I? Have Pei Xiangguo solicited my opinions?"

Pei Ji said coldly: "When I came to Taiyuan, I should have seen the imperial edict for the prince! The imperial edict was made very clearly, and it made me participate in Taiyuan defense. Does the prince have any other understanding of what the emperor means?"

"You are just participating, I am the general manager of Bingzhou. The emperor did not remove my military power!"

Li Deliang roared angrily, "You are bullying others too much!"

Pei Ji said calmly, "Okay! I'll send a quick letter to the emperor today to let the emperor decide the ownership of military power. The prince is satisfied now!"

Li Deliang stared at Pei Ji for a while, snorted heavily, turned around and strode away.

Pei Ji looked at Li Deliang's back and walked away. He felt a little worried. Before the war began, the military power issue caused disagreement between generals and ministers. He was really worried. In fact, he felt that the distinction between military power was easy to understand. He did not only ask about the specific affairs of the army. He just formulated countermeasures, and then Li Deliang was responsible for the implementation. This was the most coordinated. But now Li Deliang not only controlled the army, but also took the lead in decision-making power. So what did Pei Ji do in Taiyuan?

Pei Ji felt that it was too slow to report the 800-li fast, so he immediately wrote a simple letter of eagle and asked the letter to send the eagle to Chang'an.

At noon the next day, Xinying returned from Chang'an and brought back the handwriting of Emperor Li Yuan, with only four words on it, "Add to negotiate and decide!"
Chapter completed!