Chapter 523 Abnormal

Li Jing felt a little relieved, and the two of them stood in front of the sand table again. No matter how many times they looked at the sand table, they would make people admire the leader even more. It was really too meticulous!

Especially the sand table that the leader made new, the content of this sand table is mainly the terrain near Wancheng, so meticulous that it gives people the feeling of observing another small world.

Xu Yeji narrowed his eyes slightly and looked up at a huge map hanging behind the sand table. This is a map of Jiuzhou, with many marks marked on it, including red, green, and blue. In addition, there are various hill signs, the Great Wall, and each city has its own unique marks.

At a glance, you can find the extremely conspicuous purple mark on the northwest corner of the map. This is a color specially changed by Dongfang Ming to show that this is Li Erlang's army. He also specially drew a small circle on it, so that this small piece of purple can be seen at a glance.

The leader was very careful about Li Erlang and almost everything was related to it. However, the second son of the Li family was indeed not a thing of the cage.

Xu Yeji sighed and his eyes fell back to the sand table.

"Master."

The guard guarding outside the door suddenly shouted.

The two people standing by the sand table couldn't help but look at Dongfang Ming, who was striding into the conference hall at the door.

"Master, didn't the doctor say you still have to continue to cultivate?"

Seeing him come in, Li Jing said directly.

Dongfang Ming coughed lightly: "I'm already well, why do you protect me as carefully as a three-year-old child?"

Li Jing said this, which was completely because Dongfang Ming’s rib fracture had been much healed before. Then he squatted mushrooms in the Divine Sect for almost half a year, and then took Yingyue out to take a look while the weather was good.

As a result, the little girl fell somehow, and Dongfang Ming also fell to save her. The injuries she had basically recovered before began to hurt again. She was so scared that the few people who stayed in Wutou Mountain wanted to confess him, for fear that something would happen to him again.

Yingyue was so scared that she didn't dare to look for him for several days. When she saw him, she didn't dare to get close to her before, for fear that she would accidentally hurt him again.

Dongfang Ming was speechless about their care.

He sat in front of the case where he worked, reached out to support the case, and slowly said, "When I came, I heard that Jingde's first battle failed..."

Li Jing continued: "Now Jingde has retreated to Wancheng, and is probably preparing to take advantage of the easy-to-defense terrain in Wancheng, plus the sufficient food and grass in Wancheng, to slowly consume Zhou Fashang's army's food and grass, and wait a while before finding a way to defeat the imperial army."

Dongfang Ming nodded: "It's not a big deal to spend it all the time. The imperial army did not have much food and grass. Although it failed to plunder the people of our side at the beginning, the imperial court has already started to transfer grain. It is said that the southern early rice harvest this year is still good..."

Before he finished speaking, Li Jing continued: "In this way, our army can send people to hijack their food and grass, and do not ask for all of them to be intercepted, but it can make the opponent less."

"Master, are there some gunpowder there?"

Xu Yeji suddenly said something without any beginning or end.

After a moment of silence, Dongfang Ming quickly understood what he meant, put his hand on the table and changed into a comfortable position. Then he said: "I had some left when I attacked the Jiangnan area last year. I could be transferred to the front line. It would be useless to stay in the teachings. Maybe I would leave it to Bo to see that they could have other wonderful uses."

"That Musketee?"

Speaking of gunpowder, Li Jing's eyes lit up and he quickly asked another question he was more concerned about.

Dongfang Ming shook his head: "The number of muskets produced by the Blacksmith Camp is not enough, so it is not advisable to directly throw them on the battlefield now."

The musket is also a hot weapon, but in this era of cold weapons and flesh-to-meat fighting, it is a big killer weapon. Dongfang Ming is still going to put it on first and use this thing at the right time.

After saying this, the three of them continued to talk about other things, including how to resist the court army in the future, how to better use the musket troops, and related issues of Xia Bo.

"Report!"

"Um?"

Dongfang Ming and the other two turned their heads at the same time and looked at the guards who were stroking in.

The guard was sweating profusely. After running in, he took out a scroll from his arms with panting, bowed and presented it to him and said, "Master, Mr. Xu, Mr. Li, this is an emergency secret letter from the northwest of the Ancient Tribe."

Dongfang Ming reached out to take the scroll and waved the breathless guard to rest.

After the guard left, Dongfang Ming immediately opened the scroll and lowered his head to browse it carefully. In just a moment, his face pulled down.

Seeing that Dongfang Ming had a different expression, Li Jing immediately asked, "What's going on in the northwest?"

Putting down the scroll in his hand, Dongfang Ming's expression was a little subtle: "Dong, Tuque's Khan suddenly became seriously ill recently. Now Dong, Turkic matters are handled by the son of that Khan."

When Li Jing and Xu Yeji heard this, their expressions became subtle and complicated.

Dong, Tuque and the Sun and Moon Sect are considered to be in good terms. There will be no war between the two sides within at least ten years, but this friendship is based on the fact that there is nothing wrong with Tuque Khan.

Now that Dong, Tuque Khan suddenly became seriously ill and handed over power to his son, it would not be good news for the Sun and Moon Sect.

“This is quite strange.”

Xu Yeji came to a conclusion.

Putting down the scroll on his hand, Dongfang Ming reached out and touched his chin: "At that time, Bi Khan was in his prime, and when I saw him a few years ago, I was in good health and could eat five kilograms of meat in one breath. Why did he suddenly get sick?"

"It was after Li Erlanggang handed over to the Northwest Border Garage."

Li Jing narrowed his eyes slightly, with other meanings in his words.

Xu Yeji's beautiful eyebrows frowned: "You mean Dong, what's wrong with Tuque can't be separated from Li Erlang?"

Li Jing also felt that this matter was unrelated to Li Erlang, but when he thought of Li Erlang's relationship with the Emperor of Sui, he complained: "If he colluded with Dong and Turks, wouldn't it be a treason to collude with the enemy? The Emperor of Sui was his cousin, and his father was still the prince of the same dynasty. Can he do this?"

Dongfang Ming could guess whether Li Erlang was treasonable. Even according to the original history, Li Erlang would continue to harm the people around him for his ambitions.

What's more, when he was dealing with the affairs of the Que and Chonghu tribes in Panyang Lake, he received news that Li Erlang and Xituque were in contact.

Think about the abnormality in Dong and Tuque now, otherwise it would make people wonder what role Li Erlang played in it.

Dongfang clearly waved his hand: "The other side of Tuque is too far away. The far water cannot save the nearby fire. Even if we have the will, we can't care about it. What we need to do now is how to repel the imperial army."

He is not going to take care of Dong, Tuque for the time being, although Dong, Tuque Khan does have a good relationship with him.

But now there is snow in front of my house and the door is blocked, so who can care about the frost on the neighbor's tiles?

"This is to let the Ancient Army keep a close eye on the movements on Tuque in advance. Let's talk about whether the court will send troops to attack us from the south next."
Chapter completed!