In the Western Regions, Suiye Town, the Tang army on the Western Expedition braved the heavy snow, and the Tang army's flags were torn apart by the wind and snow, almost turning into strips of cloth.

This Tang army was dressed in rags and curled swords.

"I'm finally back."

When the army poet Wang Changling saw the familiar Saiye Town, tears filled his eyes.

The cold winter in the Western Regions is even more terrifying than that in the Central Plains. On the way back, there were thousands of Tang soldiers who were frozen to death and frostbite.

The Tang army commander Gao Xianzhi's face turned pale.

He brought back less than 10,000 people to the 40,000 Tang troops during the Western Expedition.

The servants of the Anxi Protectorate's Mansion were also disbanded halfway.

When the Tang army fought westward, they encountered the Macedonian Legion. In addition, the betrayal of the Dayuan people, Gao Xianzhi's Anxi Army failed and had to retreat to Suye Town, one of the four Anxi towns, to obtain supplies.

Gao Xianzhi has superb mountain marching talent and led the Tang army back to Suye Town from the Tianshan Mountain Road, which was difficult for the Macedonian Legion to pursue.

"Strengthen control over various tribes, otherwise these tribes will betray them when they hear that we have failed."

Gao Xianzhi adopted tough ruling measures against tribes in the Western Regions. After failing to expedition to Dayuan, he strengthened the suppression of tribes within the sphere of influence of the Anxi Protectorate.

Before rebuilding the Anxi Army, these tribes could rebel at any time.

"Where do these Macedonians come from?"

Gao Xianzhi returned to Suiye Town to rest and held a grudge against the Macedonians who intervened in Dayuan.

The Macedonians and the Dayuan people worked together to prevent Gao Xianzhi from annexing the Dayuan Kingdom.

After the winter, the Dayuan nobles, who were forced to surrender to Gao Xianzhi, saw that the Tang army could not occupy the entire Dayuan Kingdom, so they betrayed one after another, resulting in Gao Xianzhi's lack of food and grass, and were defeated by the Macedonian Legion and the Dayuan Kingdom royal family.

Deputy General Feng Changqing said: "Based on the Macedonians who we captured alive in the battle to the Dayuan people and to our Tang people, this group of Macedonians seemed to be a legion left in the east during the expedition of the west by a barbarian emperor named Alexander. The commander of the legion was named Seleucus."

"If it were just these Macedonians, our Anxi Army would not have failed so easily. The main reason is the attitude of the Dayuan people, who seemed to be dissatisfied with the rule of this general. Without them providing food for the Macedonians, the outcome would be hard to say."

Gao Xianzhi was full of hatred for the nobles of Dayuan.

In Gao Xianzhi's opinion, these barbarians have no loyalty, and they are just mothers with milk.

Wang Changling proposed: "Although the general is not a military general who has experienced many battles, he also knows the principle of keeping a low profile. Now that thousands of miles of ice are frozen and thousands of miles of snow are falling, our Anxi Protectorate has suffered heavy losses and should not continue to use troops. Once the Macedonians rule the Dayuan Kingdom, in order to recruit soldiers and horses, they will definitely impose heavy taxes on the Dayuan people. Over time, the Dayuan people became resentful, and our Anxi army could easily defeat Dayuan."

Gao Xianzhi looked at this Wang Changling who had no sense of existence, and unexpectedly Wang Changling had such an opinion.

"Before the Anxi Army recovers its strength, let's spend this cold winter calmly."

Gao Xianzhi also knew that after losing 30,000 elite troops, the Anxi army was no longer able to launch an expedition again, so he narrowed his sphere of influence, consolidated the four Anxi towns, and waited for the glaciers to melt.

In Chang'an City, thousands of miles away, Zhang Hua is also recruiting troops and waiting patiently for the ice and snow to melt.

There is no entertainment activity in the cold winter. Zhang Hua encourages residents in the territory to reproduce. As long as there are large populations, corvee labor can be reduced and exempted.

Population is everything.

In the feudal era, due to the premature death rate and the lack of labor, every household was desperately dying to have children.

In the palace of Chang'an City, there was light purple smoke in the incense burner. Zhang Hua opened his eyes and found that he was sleeping with Liang Hongyu and Princess Yongmu, which was still unimaginable.

Princess Yongmu has a icy skin and jade bones, and her forearm is still pressed against Zhang Hua, which makes her feel a little chill.

As soon as Zhang Hua woke up, Liang Hongyu and Princess Yongmu were also awakened. She covered her head with a quilt in embarrassment and did not dare to look at each other.

Liang Hongyu and Princess Yongmu have two different personalities, one is as passionate as fire, and the other is as icy as jade bones, which made Zhang Hua understand what the two heavens of ice and fire last night.

"You two are wearing clothes quickly and go for meals."

Seeing that the two of them were still unable to let go, Zhang Hua urged them.

"Um……"

Liang Hongyu and Princess Yongmu's voice were as light as a mosquito. Yes, um, for a long time, the two girls put on their clothes and came out for dinner in awkward manner.

In ancient times, serious women were still relatively subtle. At this time, they met honestly, and the atmosphere was inevitably a bit subtle.

Zhang Hua came to the courtyard, Mulan was sitting on the swing, and when she saw Zhang Hua come out, she smiled sweetly.

The weather is getting warmer and the snow in the courtyard is already showing signs of melting.

"Young Master, how comfortable was my two sisters serving last night?"

This time Mulan teased Zhang Hua instead.

"Ahem, I can't stand this kind of erotic blessing a few times."

Zhang Hua finally understood Bai Juyi's meaning, "The spring night is short and the day is high, and the king will not go to court early from now on."

Zhang Hua had already struggled to face the two girls, let alone those kings with 3,000 beauties in the harem.

"As long as the young master doesn't go to find the woman outside."

Mulan’s idea is also very simple.

"If my inference is correct, after the beginning of spring, the Xianbei people who lack food and grass will go south to attack the Mizhizhai of the King of Chuang Li Zicheng. For the husband, he will personally make an expedition in the north. You stay in Chang'an, and I will return before the baby is born."

Zhang Hua left the pregnant Mulan guarding Chang'an, and used Liang Hongyu as the temporary palace guard commander to protect Mulan.

The Daxia forces established by Zhang Hua have the potential to compete in the Central Plains. Currently, there is a lack of an heir, so Zhang Hua still attaches importance to this child.

If there is a lack of heirs, then there will be great trouble.

Liu Bei is a child in his old age and has no time to train Liu Chan as a qualified hero.

When Liu Bei died, Liu Chan was not yet crowned.

In contrast, Cao Pi and Sun Quan received more training than Liu Chan.

Cao Cao believed that the war was in chaos. Cao Pi learned to shoot archery at the age of six, rode a horse at the age of eight, and started to follow Cao Cao to fight north and south. Cao Cao also asked the legendary swordsman to serve as Cao Pi's teacher.

Sun Quan was appointed county magistrate at the age of fifteen and attacked bandits. Later, he followed Sun Ce to attack Lujiang Prefect Liu Xun and Jiangxia Prefect Huang Zu.

Therefore, if a qualified heir is cultivated in advance, it is crucial for a large force, otherwise the country will be suspicious, which will be a bad idea.

Zhao Kuangyin's Chenqiao mutiny was in a yellow robe because his lord Chai Rong died young, and his successor Chai Zongxun was only seven years old and could not control Zhao Kuangyin.

Some kings train multiple princes, and there is another consideration - that is, the eldest son died young or died in battle, and the heirs he had finally trained suddenly disappeared like this.

For example, Sun Quan's eldest son Deng died young, which led to a political crisis in the Eastern Wu, and the third son and the King of Lu Sunba had a "two palaces dispute" with Sun Ba of Lu.

The consequence was that Sun Quan was furious, deposed Sun He, sentenced Sun Ba to death, and changed Sun Liang to the crown prince.

Just because the heir was suddenly killed, the Eastern Wu fell into chaos in the later period, which shows the importance of the heir to a force.

Zhang Hua realized this problem and began to cultivate his heirs for the sake of long-term considerations.

However, the premise is that there is an heir first.

So Zhang Hua began to develop feelings with the girls.

"Young master should put great cause first and the love between children is strong, so you can put it aside for the time being."

Mulan supported Zhang Hua's North Expedition.

Mulan from the Northern Wei Dynasty knew the strength of the Tuoba Xianbei in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Tuoba Xianbei is not a simple nomadic tribe, but many fierce people have been born.

Tuoba Gui and Tuoba Tao were both emperors who were good at using troops. Their opponents were all heroes for a while. Tuoba Xianbei was also a powerful force that reunified the north after the death of Fu Jian, the King of the Former Qin Dynasty.

Zhang Hua still remembers Xin Qiji's poem - "Yuanjia, sealed the wolf's residence, and won the panic of the north. Forty-three years, I still remember the beacons and the road of Yangzhou. It is worth looking back. Under the Buddha's temple, there is a piece of divine crow club drum."

Among them, the Buddha refers to the Northern Wei Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao, the son of Liu Yu, and Emperor Wen of Song Liu Yilong launched the Northern Expedition of Yuanjia. Tuoba Tao personally led hundreds of thousands of infantry and cavalry to marquis and marquis and marquising the six states. The capital was shocked, and hundreds of thousands of cities were all frightened.

You can imagine the army's front of Tuoba Tao who unified the north.

According to the information obtained by Zhang Hua, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Hong was also in the Tuoba tribe.

Tuoba Hong gathered hundreds of thousands of Han farmers in the clouds and launched a large-scale military farming. His contribution to the Tuoba tribe was no less than that of Emperor Taiwu Tuoba Tao.

The figures who are qualified to be named Emperor Wu and Emperor Wen are all heroes from all dynasties.

Tuoba Xianbei and Yang Dayan's level are powerful generals.

According to Yang Yanzhao, the Tuoba Xianbei even had a team of iron cavalry similar to the Iron Futu. On the plain, many nomadic tribes could not stop the impact of Yang Dayan and the Iron Cavalry, and often collapsed with one blow.

Yang Yanzhao could not stop the impact of Yang Dayan and the equipped iron cavalry.

Therefore, Zhang Hua decided to personally fight for the land of the Loess Plateau with the Tuoba Xianbei.

Of course, Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, who was sandwiched between the two forces, was also a hero for a while, and had many powerful generals and strategists under his command.

"Yu'er, Liu'er, take good care of Mulan and wait for me to come back."

After Zhang Hua and Liang Hongyu got along, they became intimate with Liang Hongyu.

Liang Hongyu's father entrusted his orphan in Liangjiabao. Liang Hongyu had already made a secret promise, and at this time he got what he wanted.

"Um."

Liang Hongyu agreed.

Liu Rushi nodded repeatedly in his envious eyes.

Liang Hongyu guarded the city, and ministers such as Xie An, Han Fei maintained public order. There were six gates in Chang'an City, the Imperial City Office and the Jinyiwei, which were foolproof.

After a series of complete deployments, Zhang Hua began to mobilize the Imperial Guards to prepare to attack the King of Rebellion Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng had more than 100,000 soldiers and horses on the Loess Plateau. Relying on the 65,000 Wu Jie's army alone was not enough to destroy Li Zicheng.

The Tuoba Xianbei tribe in the north can be used.

Tuoba Tao thought that he had killed Zhang Dachuan's team and found him at night without taking over, and no one knew about the plan to attack Li Zicheng.

But Zhang Hua had already inferred Tuoba Tao's plan and decided to take advantage of Tuoba Tao's use of troops to attack Li Zicheng to stalk a mantis and the oriole is behind.
Chapter completed!