As expected, as soon as Li Ye returned to Nanyun City, he locked himself in the city lord's mansion. Even Mu Mu took him to go shopping and refused to go, saying that he wanted to continue sleeping.

What surprised him was that the little guy Yueying had actually reached the third level of Qi Gathering in the days since he left.

This made him feel depressed for many days, and finally a ray of sunshine shone in.

Touching the little girl's hair, just like he had touched Mu Mu, Li Ye took out ten gold coins and put them into Yueying's hand.

He smiled and said: "I will go shopping with sister Mumu tomorrow and buy whatever I want."

Yueying looked at him and nodded vigorously. In her heart, Li Ye and Mu Mu were her closest relatives besides her mother.

Mu Mu looked at the two of them and shouted: "Brother, you haven't given Mu Mu money for a long time!"

Li Ye looked back at her and smiled: "Why are you in a hurry? I guess the eldest prince will pass the battle report to the imperial city. When the emperor is happy, he may reward you with a female general or tens of thousands of gold coins, so don't stare at him all day long.

Keep it in my pocket, okay?"

Hearing what Li Ye said, Mu Mu's eyes lit up, she jumped up, held his hand and said with a smile: "Brother, you won't lie to Mu Mu, right? Mother said it's not a good boy to lie to others!"

Li Ye was stunned, waved his hand to mess up the bangs on her forehead, and said with an angry smile: "I don't need to lie to you. If you are worried, you can take Yueying back to the imperial city first. How about I have someone take you back?"

"

Upon hearing this, Mu Mu quickly waved her hands and curled her lips and said, "I'm not going, I'm still waiting to go to the battlefield with Brother Nalan after the spring!"

Li Ye looked at her speechlessly, stunned for a long time, then turned to look at Yueying and said: "Practice is not something that happens overnight. Don't make yourself too hard. When you have nothing to do, let your sister teach you to read some poems, okay?"

"

Yueying looked at him and nodded, then looked up at Mu Mu with a look of expectation.

Mu Mu was stunned, looking at Li Ye like a cat with exploded fur, and yelled: "Why don't you teach your sister this by yourself? Do you have to teach me? Do you know how many poems and essays I have learned from my mother?"

Li Ye looked at the panicked Mu Mu, laughed, and said lightly: "It's precisely because you don't study hard that I asked you to teach her. While teaching, you recall the poems and essays you learned. Come back later

Imperial City, let mother and husband teach you, and you will be liberated."

Mu Mu looked at him depressedly and reluctantly accepted the decision. She took Yueying's hand and said, "When you get up in the morning, you can memorize poetry for an hour first. My brother is really a bad person."

After speaking, he glared at Li Ye fiercely.

Li Ye looked at her, waved his hand and said: "I won't have lunch. I'll put dinner in my room. I'll eat it when I'm hungry. Don't let anyone disturb me these days. I want to sleep well for a few days."

Mu Mu nodded, took Yueying's hand and walked out. As he walked, he turned back and said, "Do you want to tell the Generalissimo and City Lord Yang?"

Li Ye waved his hands and said, "The two of them know that if you go shopping tomorrow, you can take Yueying's mother with you to see if she needs anything and buy it together."

Mu Mu replied impatiently: "I know, it's so verbose, hurry up and go back to the house to sleep."

...

In the Nanyun City Lord's Mansion, Yang Kaiyi found the eldest prince, and the two were chatting with Jiang Huo who had rushed back.

The day after the army returned to the city, Jiang Huo also returned to the city with 5,000 troops. Only dozens of soldiers were left at the post station according to Li Ye's instructions to monitor the prairie cavalry in the three towns.

Provide food and grass, and rotate defenses every ten days.

"Deputy Commander Long Jingyun has gone down to make arrangements for the army to celebrate the victory tomorrow. The merchants and shops in the city have hung up lanterns to express the celebration." Yang Kaiyi looked at the eldest prince and Jiang Huo and said with a smile.

Jiang Huo looked at the eldest prince and asked: "Grand marshal, have you reported victory to the imperial city? The additional troops from the five regions must arrive at Nanyun City on time before the beginning of spring."

The eldest prince looked at him and nodded, saying: "The good news has sent the inn to the imperial city today. I also urge the emperor to arrange for reinforcements from the five regions to come to Nanyun City as soon as possible. Before this big battle begins, the new soldiers will

We still have to go through a training process.”

The eldest prince thought to himself that no matter how we arrange it, no matter how powerful the weapons designed by the national division are, the men and horses of the army cannot be too disparate in strength compared with the tribes on the grassland. Otherwise, how can we fight this war?

Looking at the two people in front of him, the eldest prince continued: "It's a pity that the Imperial Master is not interested in the celebration. Once he returned to Nanyun City, he stayed behind closed doors. Even I was rejected."

When Jiang Huo heard this, the smile on his face suddenly felt a little far-fetched. He secretly thought that the Imperial Master was so depressed because the Battle of Xia Xichun did not start that he returned to Nanyun Gate and did not even see the Generalissimo.

The eldest prince seemed to have read his thoughts and said with a smile: "The affairs of the imperial master have nothing to do with the war in Xichun. He just feels too tired and wants to rest for a few days. It will not affect the war after the spring."

When Jiang Huo heard this, he nodded with relief and said with a smile: "We have to let the Imperial Master have a good rest. He has been the one who has been working the hardest these days. He probably hasn't slept a wink for several days."

The eldest prince naturally knew these things and watched him make arrangements in a deep voice.

"After these few days of vacation, you two deputy commanders still have to lead the Nanyun City army to pay close attention to training. When we fight together, we not only need good cooperation, but more importantly, have good physical strength."

The soldiers of the five regions have not fought for a long time, and their strength is not as good as the cavalry of the grassland tribes.

If there is no sense of crisis and these soldiers who are accustomed to acting as military masters are left alone, there will be no need to think about the war after the spring. It will be just like when the three towns were broken.

The battle between three towns gave the eldest prince and Yang Kaiyi hope of victory, and they also understood why the army could win.

In the opinion of the eldest prince, apart from the favorable time and place mentioned by the Imperial Advisor, the only thing left is to train the troops desperately and build the many soldiers of Nanyun City into a steel-like army.

After sitting down, Jiang Huo reached for the tea cup in front of him, looked at Yang Kaiyi and asked: "City Lord Yang, how are the horses brought back from the battlefield distributed?"

"After statistics on the prairie war horses, there are currently 4,800 in good condition. All soldiers are not allowed to handle them without authorization. They will be under the control of the breeding officers in the military camp and let them train first. After next spring, they will breed with our military horses to produce more

A good army horse."

Yang Kaiyi said.

"This is a good idea! If we just defend Nanyun City in the big battle after the spring, and the army does not charge, we won't need too many horses. As long as we survive the summer, we can breed more war horses."

"City Master Yang has a good idea. This way, we will all have war horses in the future. This is a great achievement!" The eldest prince clapped his hands and laughed.

"Maybe it won't be much worse than the troops and horses of the grassland tribes, which will be beneficial to our future battles." Jiang Huo looked at Yang Kaiyi and the eldest prince and said.

"This idea also came from the Imperial Master." The eldest prince looked at Jiang Huo.

...

Five Realms Royal Academy.

Xia Yuan and Nalan Kunxuan were making tea and discussing Taoism around the stove.

"Isn't there any news from southern Xinjiang back to the imperial city? It's been more than a month since the commander-in-chief led his troops, right?" Nalan Zhuoxuan looked at Xia Yuan and asked.

Xia Yuan glanced at him, turned back to stare at the teapot boiling on the fire, and shook his head.

He replied calmly: "They just arrived not long ago. If they had not had a head-on conflict with the soldiers and horses occupying the three towns in the grassland, there would probably be no battle report. After all, their mission this winter is to stabilize Nanyun City and prevent the grassland tribes from

Attack in winter."

"At such a young age, the Imperial Master has never been on the battlefield. Can he cope with such a big scene?" Nalan Kunxuan said worriedly.

"Who is he? The Emperor and Mr. Mo know better than you and I. How to deal with it is not for us to interrupt randomly. But since the Emperor has hidden him for five years, I believe that even if he risked his life, the Imperial Master will also

I will not let the Emperor and Mr. Mo down."

Xia Yuan said after drinking the hot tea in the cup.

Nalan Kunxuan looked at him and shook his head. In fact, what he asked was what Xia Yuan wanted to ask.

"I heard some of Huangcheng's disciples in the academy shouting that they also want to form a team to fight in southern Xinjiang. I wonder what you think, Dean?"

Nalan Kunxuan picked up the teapot and filled Xia Yuan with hot tea. He looked at him and asked. He had no idea about this matter at all. He wondered what use some students at the Nascent Soul level of the Golden Core Realm could do if they went to the front line.

"Neither you nor I are suitable to make a decision on this matter. You should report this matter to the court and let the emperor and ministers make a decision. In my personal opinion, this is a battle between a large army and not a pair of practitioners.

One-on-one challenge."

Xia Yuan shook his head and said.

"The dean and I have the same point of view. These students should practice well in the academy and do what they should do. The ministers and the emperor will decide on the affairs of the dynasty. However, these little

This guy accepts death and says that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, so I can't object."

Nalan Kunxuan said helplessly.

"Yes, the theory makes sense, but from a fundamental point of view, and even from the perspective of everyone's spiritual practice, these children are just flowers in the greenhouse. They have never even seen blood. How can we let them face the bloody battlefield?

?”

Xia Yuan frowned, he disagreed from the bottom of his heart.

"Then, let the Emperor and the others decide. I will arrange for someone to report the situation here to the Imperial City tomorrow."

Nalan Kunxuan thought for a while and replied leisurely.

"It's better to let the emperor make the decision, so as to save these children from complaining about our unreasonableness." Xia Yuan looked at him and said calmly.

...

On the grassy slope of the college, no, it should be said on the snowy slope now, in the little sister's wooden house.

The master and apprentice were warming themselves around the stove.

Looking at the listless young lady, Xu Jingyun asked softly: "If the dean and the others approve it, do you want to follow those little brats to the battlefield in southern Xinjiang? You must know that it is a battlefield, not a training ground. Once the war breaks out,

Burning, killing people every moment!”

The young lady raised her head, glanced at Xu Jingyun, and shook her head gently.

He replied with a firm look: "That guy Li Ye doesn't even have the realm of cultivation. Didn't he also become the national counselor of the imperial city and lead the army to southern Xinjiang? I can't say that his realm is much higher than his.

Speaking of the ability to kill enemies and protect yourself, right?"

Looking at the longing young lady, Xu Jingyun couldn't help but smile.

Said: "You are overthinking. The battlefield in southern Xinjiang is not as simple as you think. I heard the dean say that there are 200,000 grassland cavalry there. Do you understand what cavalry is? The army can charge thousands of people in one charge.
To be continued...