Li Zhi suddenly woke up and immediately became scared and sweated. He quickly said, "Desheng, go to the Secretariat quickly and ask Xu Jingzong not to issue the edict to punish Pei Xingjian for the time being."

"The villain obeys the order."

Zhang Desheng hurriedly walked outside.

Li Zhi was just out of breath, because this mistake would make the Tang Dynasty lose sight of the other side, but at this moment, his mind became extremely clear. He actually knew very well in his heart why Xu Jingzong and the others excluded Pei Xingjian. Zhang Desheng was about to go out, and he immediately said: "Let's go."

Zhang Desheng immediately came over again and said, "I wonder what your Majesty has to give?"

Li Zhi took out his waist card and handed it to Zhang Desheng, saying, "If the imperial edict has been issued, you will immediately take the waist card to find Yang Sine, so that he will recover the imperial edict from me no matter what, otherwise, I will blame him."

When Zhang Desheng heard the emperor's tone, he took out the gold medal. Knowing the seriousness of the matter, he took the waist card and ran out with his short legs.

"not good!"

Cui Jieren suddenly exclaimed.

Li Zhi was shocked and said, "What's wrong?"

Cui Jieren said anxiously, "Your Majesty, my uncle's original suggestion was mainly to use Lu Dongzan's suspicious personality and find a way to drag them down. After pacifying Goguryeo, Tubo naturally dared not invade again. However, now that Yutian has been captured, Lu Dongzan will soon know what is going on. He will lead a large army to attack Tuyuhun. Tuyuhun is in danger. Your Majesty should send people to reinforce General Wang and the others."

Li Zhi was immediately confused.

After all, Khotan is 108,000 miles away from Chang'an. Although rescue is difficult, it is difficult to crisis the Central Plains. If Tuyuhun is broken, the next slope will be the Guanzhong area, which is too close to Chang'an. This is fatal.

But the shrewd Lu Dongzan will not give them any chance.

Originally, Lu Dongzan was indeed scared. He thought the Tang army was prepared for a long time, so he ordered the three armies not to act rashly. But as soon as he heard that his son easily captured the Yutian Mansion, he knew the strength of the Yutian Mansion. If he could not react, it would be damned. He shouted that he had been fooled. This was an empty city plan. So he personally commanded a hundred thousand troops, divided into three groups, and attacked Tuyuhun. At this time, there was nothing to say, and he was going to start a war.

Both sides understand what's going on.

Wang Xuance and Wang Fangyi, the pair of kings, and Chaojiman, are powerful, but due to the huge difference in military strength, they have only 20,000 in total. Moreover, Lu Dongzan knew that they had no soldiers, and their situation immediately became very dangerous.

When Cui Jieren reacted, Tuyuhun's letter of help was already on the way.

When Zhang Desheng rushed to the Secretariat, the imperial edict had been issued. Xu Jingzong felt that this was not that simple, so he quickly asked Wang Dejian and others to write the imperial edict. Without Liu Xiang's way, he would go directly to the subordinate province. Anyway, he would kill Pei Xingjian first. Even if he found out anything, he would not be able to resurrect even if he died.

Zhang Desheng hurried to find Yang Sine again and asked Yang Sine to send a quick horse to recover the letter.

Yang Sine didn't know what was going on. It was seen that Zhang Desheng even showed up the emperor's gold medal. He knew that this was very serious, but he did not dare to neglect it and immediately sent someone to chase him on a fast horse.

After all, he was from the military headquarters, so the imperial edict was chased back before it left the capital.

Li Zhi immediately ordered Su Haizheng to arrest him, and Pei Xingjian was temporarily in charge of the defense of the Anxi Protectorate. He must defend the Anxi Protectorate. He said that, but no one was sure, because Pei Xingjian had no soldiers in his hands and had civil strife.

After Xu Jingzong learned about it, he was very surprised and hurried to find Li Zhi, yelling, Pei Xingjian is not trustworthy, if he doesn't get rid of it, you will regret it.

At this time, Li Zhi had already reacted and was not fooled by him. He was much smarter than Xu Jingzong. At this time, you were still thinking about eliminating the roots here, and you didn't have time to pay attention to him. You can stay with me.

However, when Tuyuhun's urgent reports reached Chang'an, the whole country was shocked.

If this is not done well, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Li Zhi quickly convened a meeting of the stern and discussed how to deal with it. He also asked Cui Jieren to participate in the meeting for the first time, and he didn't care about so much at this time.

Cui Jieren didn't care about any respect and without waiting for the other ministers to speak, he stood up and said, "Your Majesty, in the letter sent by General Wang, I just hope that Your Majesty will send more troops. It can be seen that they are capable of responding to the enemy. I suggest that you send 50,000 more people from Guanzhong area immediately."

"No, no."

Xu Jingzong immediately jumped out and said excitedly: "When Sikong went to war, he had already transferred the elite troops of the Southern Ya Imperial Army. Now only the troops of the Northern Ya Imperial Army are left. This is used to protect His Majesty and Chang'an. If they are sent to Tuyuhun, if Tuyuhun is captured by Tubo, Chang'an will be in danger. The consequences are unimaginable. Moreover, Wang Xuance and Wang Fangyi and others are still inexperienced and do not have the ability to command the army. They are not Lu Dongzan's opponents. It is too dangerous to hand over the only elite troops in Chang'an to them."

His remarks cannot be wrong. The imperial guards are divided into two yamen, the southern yamen is the National Defense Army, and the prime minister is the emperor's imperial guard, and the emperor is directly commanded by the emperor. Li Ji went to war, of course, to transfer the national defense army away. If Li Ji was there, it would be okay. The problem is that Wang Xuance, Wang Fangyi is just an intermediate general, and it would be too risky to hand over the emperor's imperial guard to Wang Fangyi.

Cui Jie said, "But this far water cannot save the near fire. Only Chang'an can send troops to solve Tuyuhun's urgent need."

Xu Jingzong said: "Tuyuhun is not my Tang Dynasty territory. We were able to send troops to protect them before, but it was already the most righteous. Now we are too busy to take care of ourselves, so we should protect ourselves first. The old minister suggested that we send a message to Wang Fangyi and others immediately, telling them that the rules can be kept. If we cannot defend, we will return to Guanzhong area and send a message to Princess Honghua. She moved the people of Tuyuhun to our country. She should also send a message to Sikong and others, so that they can quickly return to the country to defend. Goguryeo can be eliminated at any time. We can put the overall situation first!"

The husband and wife are birds in the same forest, but when the disaster comes, they fly away, let alone not to be husband and wife, so Xu Jingzong of course protects himself first.

Master Xu said: "Even if Sikong and others come back to defend, the far water cannot save the near fire. If they are in a hurry to withdraw their troops in Liaodong, they may be counterattacked by Goguryeo. Didn't Emperor Yang of Sui be so defeated? Besides, although Tubo is coming in a fierce manner, we have many troops in Guanzhong, so why should we be so afraid?"

Xu Jingzong said: "Although Guanzhong has a large number of troops, there is no commander who can compete with Lu Dongzan. The commander who can conquer and fight in the court is in the Liaodong region."

Lu Chengqing said: "There is one person who can resist Lu Dongzan."

Li Zhi hurriedly asked, "Who is it?"

"Duke Lu." Lu Chengqing said.

Li Zhi slapped his thigh and said, "Yes! Why did I forget Duke Lu?"

At this moment, Cheng Yaojin, who was idle at home, immediately became the most popular one. Even Xu Jingzong didn't dare to say a word, because Cheng Yaojin was indeed the best candidate, and he also hoped that Cheng Yaojin could come out.

When everyone thought that Cheng Yaojin would return to the army and staged a hero's return, Cheng Yaojin refused Li Zhi's invitation because he was old and could not see anything.

Li Zhi was very embarrassed, but this could only be said to be retribution.

He used that trick to make Cheng Yaojin fight in his last battle in his life, and he was so cowardly that he was looked down upon by his subordinates, which made Cheng Yaojin lose face in the army. Now that he is in trouble, he remembers Cheng Yaojin again. Are you embarrassed?

But there was no way, and Li Zhi asked Lu Chengqing to be a lobbyist again.

Although Lu Chengqing did not know the internal reason, he thought that no matter what reason, Cheng Yaojin did this, he went to find Cheng Yaojin, "Duke Lu, you are a minister of the Tang Dynasty and served the three lords of our dynasty. Now that the country is in trouble, you should stand up. How can you act irresistibly?"

If it were in the past, Cheng Yaojin would probably slap the guy out with a slap. He came up and questioned him, without understanding any magnanimity, but he could understand Lu Chengqing, and was indeed anxious and sighed, "Brother Lu, do you think I am using impulse?"

Lu Chengqing said: "Or what?"

Cheng Yaojin sighed again and said, "I refused to leave the mountain because I was really powerless. If I acted voluntarily, I would go into battle. Now I am old and have no intention but have no strength. But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that when I was unloading my armor and returning to the fields, I didn't plan to lead the troops again. I just wanted to spend the rest of my life and spend my spare time. I have been idle for many years, and my heart was already exhausted. I asked myself that I could not match Lu Dongzan. Instead of letting me go out of the mountain, I would rather trust Wang Fangyi and the others."

When Lu Chengqing saw Cheng Yaojin's white hair and his eyes were dull, he sighed and said, "It's indeed completely different from Cheng Yaojin before." How could Cheng Yaojin say that he could not beat Lu Dongzan before? I'm not afraid of the Heavenly King.

I can only say that Li Zhi's move was too insidious and he directly got rid of Cheng Yaojin. Fortunately, Cheng Yaojin looked away at that time, otherwise he would probably have depression. In addition, Cheng Yaojin saw the fate of Changsun Wuji and others. Don't forget that he was also a veteran of Wagang Village. He was glad that he had escaped early. If he came out of the mountain now, if he lost, the Cheng family might be the same as the Changsun family. How could he not be afraid? He had no fighting spirit to fight Lu Dongzan, and was very timid and had many concerns. He felt that he would not go, and he would be good to him, his descendants, and the Tang Dynasty.

Lu Chengqing was still a kind-hearted person, so he went back to tell Li Zhi that Cheng Yaojin was indeed old and that he could not lead the troops any longer, so he had to choose another person.

But there is really no one in the court!

This time, Li Zhi didn't dare to clamor for the imperial commander to personally fight. He was not there, so how dare he go out?

Many ministers in the court began to submit memorials to Li Zhi to dismantle the Liaodong Campaign and transfer all the commanders back. Compared to Goguryeo, Tuyuhun and the Northwest are much more important, so they cannot lose their big things because of small things. Even Lu Chengqing and others felt that they should indeed consider giving up the Liaodong Campaign.

On the contrary, Li Zhi himself really didn't want to give up the Liaodong Battle. How could he be willing to spit out the flesh from his mouth?

But this is the reality. It can be seen that a country does not have the bigger territory, the better. This is based on its strength. In just a few years, the Tang Dynasty conquered so many territory and had so many ethnic groups. This actually exceeded the limit of the Tang Dynasty. If it weren't for Han Yi's northwest plan, it would have been impossible to stabilize the situation. In addition, this is an era of heroes, and no one is a fool. In fact, Lu Dongzan did this to protect himself. From the perspective of Tubo, he decided to do this, because if he didn't take action, it would be a rhythm of waiting for death. Once the Tang Dynasty integrated these forces, he would definitely attack Tubo. How could others sleep soundly on the edge of this couch?
Chapter completed!