The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 282 Hiding in the Gu Department

Last time, we talked about the Tiger Guards returning to the Western Regions after the surprise attack on Tuyuhun. The next question is how to capture Dunhuang. Now the Tiger Guards are exhausted. If they attack Dunhuang, it will be tantamount to suicide. So what will Li Yi do? Let's read on.

The Tiger Guards returned to the Western Regions and did not choose to set up camp around Dunhuang City, but retreated to Guazhou to rest. However, the Tiger Guards could rest, but Li Yi could not! The first thing he had to do was to listen to the order!

Steward Zhou stood in the room holding Yuan Jun's imperial edict, waiting for Li Yi to kneel down and listen to the order. However, Li Yi sat in his seat without moving, with no intention of accepting the order at all.

Butler Zhou said in embarrassment: "Sir, can you please give me a chance to live? Do you accept this decree or not?"

Li Yi winked at Xiao Ziyi, who shook her head, walked to Manager Zhou, casually pulled out the imperial edict, opened it, and then threw it back.

She said contemptuously, "Just like we thought, Jun Ge disagrees with your surprise attack on Tuyuhun and said he would make other arrangements. The imperial edict also said that he has transferred several teams of troops originally sent to the Western Regions to attack Dunhuang to the vicinity of Tuyuhun, and they will not be able to come for a while."

Liu Ruyun chuckled and said, "I can't believe you, Li Yi, know the little emperor well."

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "I don't know Yuan Jun, but I know Old Silver Coin! Given his character, he will definitely try his best to persuade Yuan Jun not to act too hastily, so I can guess that we have to rely on ourselves to attack Dunhuang."

Manager Zhou's face turned green. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Yi, then begged, "My Lord, my Lord Li, please be kind and accept this decree. I beg you!"

Li Yi winked at Zhang Biao, who stepped forward to help housekeeper Zhou up, then stuffed two memorials into his hand and said, "These are the memorials from you and General Liu. Tuyuhun has been captured. The course of events and the battle situation are written in General Liu's memorial. Yours is a memorial of apology. Please send it to Zhongdu at an expedited speed of 800 miles."

Steward Zhou was surprised and said, "What? Tuyuhun was taken down? No, what's going on! It took just over a month to take it down? This... How is this possible!"

As he spoke, Butler Zhou opened Liu Xun's memorial and after a quick glance, his face was filled with surprise! He had only lost more than a thousand people to resolve the crisis of Tuyuhun's rebellion. With such a record, no emperor would blame him!

Steward Zhou smiled flatteringly and said, "Oh, Master, you should have said earlier that the battle was over. I saw that the Tiger Soldiers returned to the city with their heads down, thinking that the battle was not going well. Why didn't you say earlier that you won? If you had said it earlier, I wouldn't have taken out this imperial edict!"

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "Reading the imperial edict is your job, you should do it. For example, sending these two memorials to Zhongdu by express horse is your job now."

"Hey, young master, you fought such a great battle, why are you still writing a memorial of apology? It's unnecessary!" As he said this, Manager Zhou opened Li Yi's memorial of apology. It only had a few short lines of words, without even a beginning or a signature. It didn't look like a memorial written by a minister to the emperor at all:

I fought, I fought to the end, and I won. Tell Old Silver Coin to bow and apologize to me when we meet again! I guessed that he would persuade you to mobilize troops! When will the 5,000 Qiang cavalry arrive? I'm waiting for them to capture Dunhuang!

After reading Li Yi's memorial, Steward Zhou's face turned green again. He said in embarrassment, "Sir, can we rewrite it? If this memorial is sent up and others see it, I'm afraid they will impeach you again."

Li Yi ate the dried fruit handed to him by Langya, spit out a mouthful of skin, and said with a rogue look, "Why did I ask you to send the military report with General Liu together at an 800-mile express? It's just to prevent others from seeing it! Can you use your brain?"

When Butler Zhou heard this, he nodded quickly and said, "Hey, hey, hey, I understand. I'll do it right away. I'll do it right away."

Li Yi asked Xiao Ziyi: "What's going on with Zhou Bo? Why is he so ignorant?"

"Him? Logically, he shouldn't be in this position. He is also an old man in the palace. Among Master Zhou's adopted sons, he has the best cultivation, but the lowest official rank. We sent him here to help him get promoted. I didn't expect him to be so stupid that he still hasn't figured out the relationship between you and Jun."

Zhang Biao shook his head and said, "You can't blame him for this. If I hadn't followed you for so long, I would have thought you became famous by flattering him and writing poems and singing songs to please His Majesty."

Xiao Ziyi said with a click of the tongue: "Did you analyze this yourself or did you hear it from others?" She pointed at Li Yi and said: "He was even more presumptuous in front of Jun Ge than in front of me! He pointed at Tao Zhongwen's nose and scolded him. He never said anything flattering. He usually said something nasty. He even said that Jun Ge was good-looking but had no other merits!"

Li Yi cleared his throat, and Xiao Ziyi realized that she had said too much. Langya asked with a puzzled look on his face: "Sir, if you talk to the emperor like this, won't the emperor be angry?"

Li Yi shook his head and laughed, "This is how it is. If a person is good-looking and you say he is ugly, he will not be angry because he knows you are joking. But if a person is really ugly and you say he is ugly again, he will definitely fight with you because you are telling the truth! So telling the truth requires the right method, especially when telling the truth to the emperor.

"Master Xiao didn't say the whole story. I said the emperor is useless with a premise. I'm only referring to his military prowess. Since he took power, he has quelled two civil wars and never expanded his territory. I said this to provoke him to use military force. Otherwise, how could the Dunhuang plan come about?"

Zhang Biao asked, "Sir, can't we dig another tunnel to launch a surprise attack?"

Liu Ruyun shook his head and said, "You are a commander. The area around Dunhuang is all sandy, and Dunhuang City is large and divided into three layers. The tunnel will be very long. If it collapses, it will be all over."

Zhang Biao smiled innocently and said, "Master Liu is right. I didn't think it through."

Xiao Ziyi looked at Li Yi and asked, "We didn't find any flaws in Dunhuang City last time. Is there no other way except to storm it?"

Yu Jiu said, "Of course there is, but you don't want to do that."

Zhang Biao asked, "What method?"

Liu Ruyun shook his head and sighed, "Raze Dunhuang to the ground, but this method will kill too many people, no one would do this."

Li Yi rubbed his brows and said, "We still have to outsmart them, but I haven't figured out a way to get back to Guazhou. It's really a headache. Let's go, maybe we can gain something by changing our mood."

"Where?"

"Big jail!"

Arriving at the prison, Li Chu saw Li Yi and the others coming in dejectedly, and he was filled with anxiety, thinking that Li Yi was taking his anger out on him after the defeat at Tuyuhun, so he kept hiding. The jailer opened the prison door, and Li Yi and the others entered the cell, surrounded Li Chu, crossed their hands in front of them, and put on an expression of silent mourning.

Li Pu was so scared that he huddled in the corner, looking aggrieved, "No, Li Yuefu, Lord Li, you can't blame me for your defeat! It was you who insisted on launching a surprise attack on Tuyuhun!"

"Clang clang! We won!" Li Yi, Yu Jiu and Lang Ya made a victory gesture together!

When Li Chu heard this, he said in a tone of surprise and complaint: "Why are you putting on that expression after you won? Are you trying to scare me to death?"

Yu Jiu said coldly: "We are observing a moment of silence for the Tiger Soldiers who died in the battle. Isn't that right?"

Li Chu immediately replied: "Of course, of course!"

Langya put his hand on Li Chu's shoulder and said seriously, "How is it? Is my young master's experience full of surprises? Do you want to become a part of us?"

Li Chu shook his head and said, "Me? Forget it. I'm a coward. Your surprise will turn into a shock for me. I'm afraid it will shorten my life."

Yu Jiu put his arm on Li Chu's other shoulder, put on a rogue look, and said coldly: "You'd better think before you speak and analyze the situation. Do you think we give you the right to say no?"

Li Chu looked at Li Yi with a sad face. The latter clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Welcome to the Dunhuang Special Operations Team! Let me introduce the members of our special operations team." Li Yi waved his hand, and the jailer stepped forward to untie Li Chu's shackles and handcuffs.

Li Yi pointed at Zhang Biao and said, "This is our deputy team leader, Zhang Biao." He then pointed at Yu Jiu and Lang Ya and said, "Yu Jiu and Lang Ya, you, brother Li Chu, are the propaganda committee member of the team, and you are mainly responsible for propaganda work."

Li Chu touched his wrist and asked, "The chains in this prison have been removed, but the chains on the soul have not been removed yet, right?"

Li Yi patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "That's right. After all, Brother Li has just joined the team, and our revolutionary friendship is not yet solid. We need this kind of soul bond to strengthen our feelings!" Li Yi raised his hand, and the Soul Sealing Lock appeared, connecting from Li Pu's wrist to Li Yi's hand.

Li Pu sighed and asked, "Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

Li Yi took back the Sealing Soul Lock and said with a smile: "When we return to Dunhuang, tell them that although the Tiger Guards won the surprise attack on Tuyuhun, it was a narrow victory and they no longer have the strength to fight again. Let them rest assured."

Li Chu was surprised and said, "You are planning to launch a surprise attack on Dunhuang. This is impossible. Where can you hide troops around Dunhuang?"

Li Yi said, "You don't have to worry about this, Brother Li. In order to protect your identity, Zhang Biao will lead people to hunt you down and escort you back. The rest depends on you. Have a good meal, and then we'll be on our way."

Li Yi deliberately said the last sentence as if he was sending a death row prisoner to death, which made Li Chu look nervous. When sending him off, Li Yi even bowed deeply and almost played and sang the song "Farewell Comrade".

When Li Pu disappeared from everyone's sight, Xiao Ziyi asked, "It seems that you trust him very much. Is the mission you gave him important?"

Li Yi was surprised and said, "Didn't I say that we should change our mood? Let's not talk about business. Let's go to the Gu Department to see how Yuehua and Aunt Baozhu are doing."

Li Yi and his group found Gu's troops stationed outside Dunhuang City. When Yuehua saw Li Yi, she ran towards him and pounced on him.

Li Yi held Yuehua and spun around, then put her down, put his arm around her shoulders and said with a smile: "Oh, you miss me so much? Or is Gu Zhou not good to you? If he dares to bully you, I will help you vent your anger! It's inconvenient for me to take action here, so there's nothing wrong with hitting him!"

At this time, Wei Lue and Wei Zhen came to Li Yi, bowed and said, "Greetings, sir."

Li Yi asked: "How is it? Are you used to living here?"

Wei Lue shook his head and said, "I'm not used to it. I still prefer to live in the house and sleep in the bed."

Wei Zhen smiled and said, "I'm fine. If I have a bed, I sleep on it. If I don't have a bed, I sleep on a mat. It doesn't make much difference."

"Why didn't you ask me, brother?"

Li Yi was surprised and asked, "Didn't I ask you before? Didn't you say you didn't like living in the city? Has it changed now?"

Yuehua replied: "I like living in a tent with a bed now, is that not okay?"

"What? A tent with a bed. It would be so troublesome to move the bed. When the tribe migrates, we will have to arrange a carriage to pull the bed for you."

"I made a detachable bed for Yuehua. It's not that troublesome to move and I can do it by myself." Gu Zhouwei said as he walked in front of Li Yi. The two hugged each other and patted each other on the back with their fists.

After they separated, Li Yi patted his chest and laughed, "You've finally gotten the idea! You can actually see what Yuehua likes. Not bad, not bad, you've made progress! But the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrade, you still need to work hard!"

Gu Zhou reached out and punched Li Yi on the chest, shook his head and laughed, "No matter how hard I try, it's useless. Once you come back, she'll only have you in her eyes! Your brother is like a mountain blocking her way. Anyone who wants to get close to her has to climb over you. It's too difficult."