The court officials remembered the hundreds of iron horses that appeared on the official road a few days ago and the soldiers who suddenly descended to the Tang Dynasty. The court officials in the hall whispered in a low voice, telling each of them about the strange things on the official road a few days ago.

"If you don't remind me, I'll forget this. A few days ago, there were many iron horses and soldiers in strange clothes on the official road. Many people said that they were borrowed by Marquis Li from the gods. The weapons they used were also weapons they had never seen before."

As soon as the minister finished speaking, the ministers in the court also remembered the murder of Chai Hui. They looked at each other and understood who had killed him. But now no one dared to stand up and mention this matter.

The main reason is that they are afraid. Chai Hui had just offended him and was shot dead in the tightly guarded mansion at night. If he stood up, would that cruel guy take revenge on him?

Some court officials not only did not stand up for Chai Hui, but also looked at Chai Shao with gloating expressions on their faces.

When Chai Shao saw those guys who were gloating, his face turned pale. He had known a few days ago that Chai Hui was killed by Li Yu, but the family did not let him do it. At this moment, the angry Chai Shao clenched his fists, and even his fingernails were embedded in the flesh without knowing it. He was about to come out and scold Li Yu for his atrocities.

It was the white-bearded deacon of the Chai family again. He walked over quickly, grabbed Chai Shao's arm, and said gloomyly: "Don't go out. Even if you go out, your Majesty will not deal with him. And he will also alert the snake. Before you can't figure out Li Yu's strength, you must not take action now. After you understand it clearly, you will take action, but you must kill it with one blow, otherwise our Chai family will have big trouble."

After hearing the old man's words, Chai Shao took a deep breath of air, calmed down the anger in his heart, bowed and said, "I understand the elder."

After saying that, Chai Shao ignored the gloating court officials, but looked at Pei Ji, who was planning to read the spoils.

Pei Ji took the battle report and said happily: "This time the Women's Detachment seized more than 110,000 horses, more than 80,000 cows, mules and horses, 200,000 sheep, more than 10,000 kilograms of gold, and more than 10,000 kilograms of silver..."

"Of course, a lot of supplies have not been counted yet. In addition, because there are too many and too many, the war report is not very clear. I think the number will not be small. After all, this time it was the supplies carried by the Turks of 200,000, and the supplies they robbed the people were even more huge."

After hearing these huge amounts of supplies, the court officials in the hall lit up. The generals focused on the war horses and weapons, while the civil officials focused on the gold, silver and supplies. They had long forgotten that the Turks went south some days ago and pushed Li Xiuning out as a scapegoat.

...

After the scattering, Li Yuan, who was sitting on the dragon throne and did not get up, looked at Pei Ji who stayed and asked, "Pei Qing, look at how to reward this time?"

Pei Ji understood that the reward Li Yuan mentioned did not refer to the reward of the Detachment of Women, but to Li Yu.

Pei Ji immediately said, "Your Majesty, since Li Yu is not mentioned in the battle report, it means that Li Yu himself is unwilling to let someone mention it. Just give him a reward according to the usual rules!"

When Li Yuan heard this, he nodded immediately and said, "Okay! Just do as Pei Ji wants."

After saying that, Li Yuan was silent for a while and said again: "But in case of prevention, we cannot let them come back for the time being. Let's see if he has any plans to compete for the world."

Li Yuan subconsciously was afraid that Li Yu would return to Chang'an and suddenly attack Chang'an, so he didn't even have a place to run, so he would rather let him stay in Fengzhou for a while.

Pei Ji did not hesitate and said directly: "I think Sanniang and the wife's army stayed in Fengzhou, and let them take on the post-war reconstruction of Fengzhou first. It just so happened that Sanniang would persuade Li Yu more, which would be safer."

After listening to Pei Ji's suggestion, Li Yuan said with joy: "Pei Qing, your suggestion is very good. Why don't Pei Qing do it? First, you should reward all the soldiers. Second, after counting the materials, you can take them back to the national treasury, and third, you can remind Sanniang to pay attention to everything about Li Yu."

"Here!"

After Pei Ji agreed, hesitated and asked: "That Chai Hui..."

Li Yuan interrupted Pei Ji and said with a smile: "Since the ministers in the court have not made any mention, we should pretend not to know. Let the Chai family fight with Li Yu, so we can also watch the tiger fight in the mountains, right?"

"Your Majesty, wise!"

...

Fengzhou!

A team of women and soldiers were chasing the fleeing Turkic soldiers.

"No, it smells bloody." Li Yu on the horse's back said holding the reins.

Hearing Li Yu's reminder, the entire team stopped quickly

Li Yu, who was sitting on the horse's back, pointed to a small bush forest and said, "You go find it in that direction."

Li Xiuning immediately said, "Xueyi, Xiangshanzhi, you two bring the soldiers to see."

"Here!"

"Here!"

Li Xueyi and Xiang Shanzhi got off their horses and made a battle formation and walked slowly forward, crossing a low shrub. Between these shrubs, some dirt roads that were stomped out could be seen vaguely. Half-height thatch covered the rugged earth tightly. From time to time, some poisonous snakes and mice were frightened and they avoided and ran into the low shrubs.

A dozen people went deep into the low bushes not far away, and they smelled a strong smell of blood. The crows in the distance noticed a strong smell of blood and rushed over.

Walking along the dirt road that was trampled out, the thatch on the ground was trampled into pieces, with dozens of corpses in front of them, including the corpses of soldiers of the Lady of Women and the corpses of Turkic soldiers.

After the soldiers checked the scene, they came over to report to the angry Li Xueyi: "The general has no survivors. Our Lady Army soldiers have twelve and more than twenty Turkic soldiers."

This group of soldiers of the Women's Army were all Li Xueyi's subordinates. They were still joking together before chasing the enemy last night, saying that after returning to Chang'an, they invited them to Chang'an to eat the most delicious food in the world, drink the most fragrant wine, and then go to the brothel to find the most beautiful rude girl, but now they have turned into cold dead bodies.

Each corpse had at least several wounds on its body, otherwise it would not have killed so many Turkic deserters.

Li Xueyi and Xiang Shanzhi's guards dug a big hole with a shovel and buried them together without erecting a monument. In this ancient era, ordinary soldiers had no conditions to enjoy this treatment. The soldiers were killed and the corpse was not exposed in the wild and the wild wolf and crow were given food. This was a good destination.

After seeing the simple burial method, Li Yu just shook his head helplessly.

When Li Yu saw Li Xiuning's sad face, he advised: "Go back to Fengzhou! We have already pursued the Turkish territory. Even if we continue to pursue, we will not gain anything. And we should go back to govern Fengzhou, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment are the main business."

As a commander, Li Xiuning said that she was already accustomed to life and death, and should be accustomed to it, but Li Yu found that she was still very sad inside.

"Well, this battle has finally ended. Although more than 500 people were injured and killed by the Turks, it was worth it. More than 5,000 people were wiped out. We will not suffer any losses by one to ten." Li Xiuning said, turning his horse's head sadly towards Fengzhou.

When he was about to arrive in Fengzhou City, Li Xiuning gradually recovered.

"Li Yu, how do you think our Women's Army will be reorganized?" Li Xiuning came over and asked with Li Yu.

Li Xiuning's question, Li Yu understood that she wanted to change it to an army organization like the Dragon and Phoenix Empire.

Li Yu asked back: "Did you copy it completely or modify it partly?"

When Li Xueyi and Xiang Shanzhi heard what Li Yu and Li Xiuning said, they all followed him.

Li Xiuning said with admiration on her face: "I have been thinking about this for a long time. The more I think about their military organization, the more I feel that their organization is very reasonable, especially the military rank system is simply a pioneering move, and their staff system is even more reasonable. I want to learn from them to adapt the Women's Detachment Army into a similar organization."

Li Yu asked with a smile: "They are all professional soldiers. Now the Women's Detachment is still half farmer and half soldier. Do you have that much military expenditure?"

Li Xiuning said confidently: "I have also considered this, reducing the 20,000 troops of the Women's Detachment to 10,000. Even if the military expenditure is not enough, the villa has built so many workshops and earned a lot of money. I am subsidizing part of it, which is enough."

"I think it's OK. Although half of the soldiers are missing, it's okay to increase the combat effectiveness by at least five times. But will your father agree?" Li Yu agreed. Finally, he reminded him.

Li Xiuning hesitated and said, "When I return to Chang'an, I will tell my father that I will agree!"

Li Yu was not optimistic that Li Yuan would agree to the adaptation of the Women's Detachment Army. If Li Xiuning did not have any relationship with him, Li Yuan might agree. Now Li Yuan should be prepared for Li Xiuning. In addition, if Li Yuan agreed to the adaptation of the Women's Detachment Army, if other generals also wanted to adapt, where did the military expenditure come from? With the poor finance and low productivity of the Tang Dynasty, they would raise professional soldiers at all.

"When your father agrees, we are considering adaptation!" Li Yu comforted him.

Li Xueyi and Xiang Shanzhi also shook their heads, and they were not optimistic about Li Xiuning's success. Everyone knows that professional soldiers have strong combat effectiveness, but the court has no money and the population base is impossible to achieve.

When Li Xiuning saw Li Xueyi and Xiang Shanzhi shook her head, she thought about the reason and understood the reason. Finally, she sighed helplessly, but she still wanted to give it a try.

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