Li Mu hesitated a little, kneeled down and answered the orders in a regular manner, "My minister Li Mu received the orders."

The eunuch said in a long tone: "The edict said, "I am happy to hear that the king's army defeated the Tartars on the banks of the Tam River. You are pursuing the destruction of the canal. You are ready to see the spirit of loyalty and righteousness, and communicate with the gods, but you are the only one who is the one who is responsible for the enemy. However, the military strategy is that the enemy should not pursue the enemy. It is a taboo for the military strategist. I hope you must not be greedy for merit and advance rashly. You should train your troops as soon as possible, and receive rewards to relieve the suffering of the officials and the people. I should personally dispose of the battle robe for you and share the peaceful and prosperous era. I send this letter to you, and I hope that on the day of seeing the edict, I will hand over the troops to Cui Wang, the Minister of the Ministry of War. Remember, remember, remember this."

The eunuch recited the contents of the edict slowly and nervously, with a tone that sounded very nice. However, the people around Li Mu were furious and seemed to be unable to help but tear the imperial edict and the eunuch to pieces at any time...

Li Mu's expression gradually subsided, and his heart was also angry. He really didn't expect that Chang'an City would be afraid of him and that he would rather give up the opportunity to completely wipe out the Western Turks and restore the complete peace of the Western Regions, and let himself hand over the military power!

Who gave it to? Cui Wang? He returned to the Minister of War? I haven't heard of it!

Before he knew it, Li Mu was still immersed in anger and couldn't extricate himself from his orders. He did not follow the rules at all.

The little eunuch was very embarrassed now... He looked around at the people around him who wanted to eat people, especially Li Mu's dark face. He was so scared that he fought with two fights, and hesitated coldly. He was not as arrogant as an imperial envoy? He was helped by someone and stood there. After hesitating for a while, he had to bite the bullet and said timidly: "Prince, please accept the imperial envoy."

Unexpectedly, Li Mu frowned and ignored him, but still refused to accept the order.

The little eunuch secretly complained in his heart that he had been given a death order and must deliver the order to Li Mu. Seeing that Li Mu refused to accept the order, he had to support him and handed the order to Li Mu. If you refused to accept it, I will hand it to you the assembly...

Just when the two sides were in stalemate, Usman rushed forward angrily, snatched the imperial eunuch's hand, holding it in his hand like waste paper, staring at him with wide eyes, and asked angrily: "Whose idea is this? The army is about to win, but the Marquis is letting the Marquis compete for military power at this time? What does this mean? If you can kill all the bandits but not all the soldiers, how can you be peaceful in the northern border of the Tang Dynasty? Where is that Cui Wang? Call him out, I'll ask him what skills he has and can replace the Marquis!"

The little eunuch was suddenly taken away from the imperial edict, and he became increasingly at a loss, but he still had to say what he should say, and could only face Usman's gaze and cried, "Our family is just a person who brings the words. Since this general has already received the imperial edict for the prince, please prepare and return the imperial edict to the court. Mr. Cui was not here, so he was slower. Now he calculated that he had just arrived in Dingxiang. When we go back now, we can see him, and we can definitely do it!"

"Bah! I'll answer the bad intention! What do you mean to answer the bad intention?!" Usman threw the yellow silk to the ground, stepped on it a few times, then pulled out the sword, and was about to kill the little eunuch!

"I will kill you, the eunuch slave, and let's see how you will return to the court with me!"

The little eunuch was so scared that he sat on the ground and screamed, "I am the imperial envoy who sent the order. Killing me will be like rebelling. The general thinks twice, do you want to be killed by the nine clans?!" Even though this guy was so scared that he still couldn't forget his identity. It can be seen that when the little eunuch came, he had been instructed long ago, and he was not panicked at all.

"I'll kill you!" Usman smiled grimly and slashed at the head of the eunuch with a sword.

"Stop!" Li Mu finally spoke. As soon as he spoke, Usman's movements stopped, and it was only the width of a fist from the little eunuch's neck.

"Hmph!" Usman turned his head in anger, and the eunuch collapsed on the ground like a mud. Everyone suddenly asked a scent. It turned out that this guy was scared to pee his pants.

Li Mu stood up slowly with his legs, patted the grass leaves and soil on his knees, and said without looking at the eunuch, "You come from afar, you have suffered a lot along the way, please go and rest. As for the military, we will make our own arrangements, and we will know with you after making a decision."

After Li Mu finished speaking, a guard immediately set up the eunuch and went out. As for the entourage guards brought by the eunuch, they had already been scared and shrank into a ball like a sieve. Who would dare to rescue his father-in-law?

The eunuch wanted to say something else, but saw the soldiers around him glaring at him, holding the hilt of his sword tightly, hoping to chop him up. After all, the eunuch was still cherishing his life and swallowing his words back to his mouth.

When the eunuch's back disappeared, Usman bent down and picked up the already dark imperial edict, walked to Li Mu and shook it, "This is probably not the emperor's idea. The marquis thinks twice. Maybe something is wrong in Chang'an?"

At this time, Li Mu reached out to take the imperial edict, spread it out, glanced, and stood there with his hands behind his back, thinking.

"Why is the Marquis trying to fulfill their wishes?" Usman roared and said, "How can the Marquis be so angry with such birds? It's better to... rush the army south, but..."

"Shut up, I don't want to hear this!" Li Mu's eyes were like lightning, and Usman dared not speak anymore. Although he is a general of the Tang Dynasty, he has no loyalty to the Tang Dynasty. His loyalty is all for Li Mu personally.

"Mr. Marquis, do we still want to chase after you?"

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "When I write a confession, I will take the eunuch back to Chang'an. I will divide another 5,000 troops and let him take him back to Dingxiang, and there will be 10,000 people left. Continue to pursue as planned!"

...

A few days later, the fast horse returned to Chang'an. The cavalry led by Li Mu did not complete the entire army, but followed Tong'e's traces and brought back only five thousand people to Dingxiang. Following the news, he also returned with a letter from Li Mu's handwritten confession.

"Seeking death, seeking death!" Fang Xuanling knew on the way to the palace that Li Mu was not in charge. He was mixed with joy and sorrow, but he thought to himself: 'The gods can't save him now!'

Maybe Li Shimin had no grudges before this incident, but Li Mu did not respect the imperial edict, which was a big deal in itself!

"Hey, Fang Xiang, look?" Li Tai was a little gloating in the Lizheng Hall. Seeing that he had a strange expression, Fang Xuanling took Chen Qingbiao over and saw that he was so angry that he almost turned his back on him. He saw that there were only one line of words on the Chen Qingbiao. I was the Shangshu Ling, and I could issue an imperial edict if I broke the seal?

It turns out that people don’t believe it at all. This imperial edict was written by Li Shimin.

Fang Xuanling was so angry that he was so embarrassed that he didn't realize it when he was digging a pit to harm others. Once others didn't jump into the pit as he wanted, he would be furious immediately! At this moment, Li Mu had already become a traitor in his heart. It seemed that only when the king asked his ministers to die, the ministers had to die, and no complaints were allowed, he was a good minister worthy of commendation.

Seeing that Fang Xuanling's face looked even more ugly and was in a better mood, Li Tai sighed and said, "It was nothing, but Fang Xiang insisted on doing this. Now, he was seen through at first sight... If Fang Xiang is capable, why not write a memorial to his father and ask for a true imperial edict?" Li Tai sighed and said, "The father probably won't issue this decree. What should I do? What should I do?"

Fang Xuanling also regretted it. If he had expected such consequences, he would not have chosen to issue this order to Li Mu. Even if he wanted to issue it, he would never use the order.

Fortunately, Li Mu did not make this matter clear, but returned 5,000 troops, which gave him face. If the remaining 10,000 did not come back, he could use the opportunity to fight and would not be rude to the outside king's orders, so he would not be able to argue.

Otherwise, if this unspoken expression was revealed, the court's face would be greatly lost.

But at this moment, Fang Xuanling could not admit that he was wrong. He still said indignantly: "Li Mu dared to resist the order. How brave is he? This is clearly because he is not arrogant and respectful to the court, and has poor intentions. He hits my guess!!"

"Why didn't you say that you were falsely circulating the imperial edict? Is your decree the father's intention?" Li Tai couldn't stand it anymore, so he wanted to argue with reason. Empress Changsun stopped him and interrupted, "Fangxi, this matter is no longer done. Let's put it aside for the time being. Everything will be decided when His Majesty comes back. It is indeed an exaggeration to say that Li Mu has self-respecting troops. If he really has self-respecting troops, he would not have sent 5,000 troops back to Dingxiang with only 15,000 troops. The prince of Dingxiang's troops and horses were handed over. The prince was also angry because of this. He wrote a letter back to question the King of Wei. You are really confused this time."

"The prince is young!" Fang Xuanling said in pain: "Is it Li Xiaogong's opponent? I'll fool you in a few words! The queen must not fall into their plan!"

Li Tai is about to get mad, why is this person so stubborn?

"There was nothing, you made it all out of nothing. Now my elder brother will give you a face. If you ask for trouble again and again, it would be unreasonable! Don't forget that the Shangshu Ling appointed by the father is Li Mu, not you Fang Xuanling! Shangshu Ling is the leader of all officials. If my elder brother sacrifices the Shangfang sword, exercises the power of Shangshu Ling, and removes your Zuo Pushe official position, what should you do?"

"The old minister will definitely commit suicide to thank the world!" Fang Xuanling has been the prime minister for more than 20 years, so naturally he was not scared. Li Mu, a young boy who is still not dry, is he his opponent? He was so crowded that he was picked up by some words. Fang Xuanling looked at Empress Changsun and said, "Empress, now the princes are young, and Your Majesty is not in the court. You have to make decisions on major issues! You should continue to suffer the chaos, regardless of whether Li Mu is unfaithful or not, whether the old minister has done things backfired, but the overall situation is correct when things are done now!"

Fang Xuanling said in a deep voice: "The old minister knows Li Mu's character, and he definitely cannot bear such grievances. If he is a loyal and patriotic person, even if the old minister is retaliated by him, he will be willing. By that time, the old minister will bear it with all his strength, and His Majesty, Empress, Regent, will not know about it!"

"Hey, how could I let you bear this? "Empress Changsun said that, but she relaxed her expression, but she still said with great doubts: "It's just that if this matter is done, if it doesn't work, if it's wrong, it's just..."

"If Li Mu suffers a little grievance and rebel, then he will not be considered a loyal minister!"

Li Tai was angry and laughed: "It's really aware. My elder brother used to say that the corrupt scholar was sour and stinky. I even thought he was nonsense. Today, I saw that the elder brother was indeed right!"

As he said that, he presented the 'Dingming Bao' to Empress Changsun with both hands and said, "The child believes that he is not talented and knowledgeable, and he cannot be appointed as a regent. If he is a major event in the court, please ask his mother to decide!"

After saying that, he left without caring about Empress Changsun's call.

Soon, the little eunuch rushed to report that Li Tai actually left the palace and led all the guards of the Prince of Wei's Mansion, about one hundred people, all the way west.

Empress Changsun immediately felt dizzy and fainted from the screams of the palace servants.

...

The imperial decree from the court soon spread throughout the army, with the morale swaying and whispering loudly. But immediately, the soldiers learned that Li Mu would rather resist the order than pursue him, and they were all infected. They were all soldiers guarding the border and knew the dangers of the Western Turks. If they could do it once and for all, it would be the best.

Li Mu's firmness made them abandon all distracting thoughts, and there was only one thought left in their hearts, which was to catch up with Tong'e and eliminate the Turks no matter what!

The army was united and united, and the combat effectiveness of the army was greatly improved again. The wolf and pigs that were chased by the same E were unable to get rid of it. Instead, it lost two or three thousand people. At this time, the two sides were already thousands of miles away from Dingxiang. After passing the junction of the grassland and the desert, there was no trace of green again, and it was gradually replaced by yellow sand.

As he was about to be caught up, Tong'e gritted her teeth and led the remaining 12,000 people into the vast ocean!

Although the Turkic tribes did not say anything, they were secretly speculating in their hearts that although the vast sea of ​​Gobi is a forbidden area for life and the Tang people dare not pursue it, their tribes were also trapped in the desert and were in danger of protection. Wouldn't they wait for death?

Seeing everyone's puzzled look, Tong E laughed loudly and said, "The Han people have an old saying that 'Cunning Rabbit Three Holes'. Today I will let you see it. Where does this cave come from?" As he spoke, he ordered the army to turn and head to the north.

Everyone was confused, but when they looked at Dashan, they could only follow him with great confidence. They trekked hard along the way, and ate countless yellow sand in their mouths. Unexpectedly, when it was dark, the scout came to report that an oasis was found in front of them!

At this moment, everyone suddenly realized that Dahan was not aimless, but had already left a hand! People said that there is no way out, and there is also a source of water in this desert and Gobi. However, the desert is vast and the water source is very small, and the possibility of finding it is extremely small. Tong'e brought people straight over. Obviously, he had discovered this place for a long time, but he had never told anyone.
Chapter completed!