Time flies, and it’s been two years in the blink of an eye...
Half a year ago, there was a great victory on the front line. The remaining external army, led by the Great Khan of the Wuya tribe, was captured. The external remnant army was defeated and declared unconditional surrender.
From then on, all the tribes on the border of Jin State were included in the territory of Jin State and became the territory of Jin State.
The commander-in-chief is Jiang Guogong. After pacifying the border issues, he elected new kings of each tribe according to the Holy Emperor's will. From then on, they were no longer respected as Khans. They were all kings conferred by the current Holy Emperor, and they only managed these tribes for Jin State. .
These newly elected kings are all external royal families who are easy to control and belong to the side branch. The side branch that the original khans looked down upon the most before they were defeated has now become a peasant singer and voluntarily loyal to Emperor Jin.
After the incident, Duke Jiang Guo left part of his army to guard the border, while he led the remaining army to escort the prisoners back to Beijing. Among those who followed him back to Beijing were Jiang Yu and Su Chen.
The immediate family members of these captives, whether they were originally princesses, princes, princesses, concubines or direct descendants, as long as they were of the blood of the captives, would all be escorted back to the capital.
Now Su Chen has been promoted to the deputy general of the coaching camp. Jiang Yu is the forward, and his rank is lower than that of Su Chen because he has not made as many achievements as Su Chen. Both of them are wearing silver battle armor and look majestic.
Su Chen was the biggest contributor to the victory at this time. He was captured by the Wuya tribe to cover the commander's retreat. After he was brought back, he suffered a lot and almost died.
An outsider girl named Mimi found him and was about to let him go, but Su Chen did not choose to leave the enemy camp. Instead, he used a trick and asked Mimi to deliver the message, while he persisted and risked his life.
Jiang Yu and the seventh prince Murong Huai came up with a plan. They were originally planning to sneak into the enemy camp quietly to rescue Su Chen, but before they could enter, the girl named Mimi risked her life to deliver a message to the enemy. Su Chen informed Jiang Yu of his plan.
Jiang Yu didn't believe it at first, until Mi Mi took out the peace charm Su Chen carried with him, which Su's mother went to the temple to ask for before he joined the army.
When Jiang Yu saw the peace talisman, he was ready to take a gamble. Together with Murong Huai, he cooperated with Su Chen in the enemy camp.
Mi Mi secretly gave Su Chen a lot of life-saving medicine and saved his life. Only then did Su Chen have the strength to sneak into the coach's camp and capture Wuya Khan alive.
At the same time, Murong Huai led his men to attack from several places, attacking from the side, burning grain, grass and baggage, and cutting off the enemy's retreat. Jiang Guogong led the army to confront Huanglong head-on.
Su Chen had the ability to capture the king, and it was precisely because of his risking his life that this battle, which had lasted for more than three years, was completely won, ending the war more than half a year early and reducing huge losses.
Su Chen was captured by the enemy camp and suffered severe internal and external injuries. After capturing Wuya Khan, if Jiang Yu hadn't arrived in time, Su Chen would have died.
He had been lying on the bed for more than two months. Now that the army has returned to the court, Su Chen is the one who attracts the most attention. After returning, he must be made a serious general, no lower than the fourth rank.
In the team returning to Beijing, the prisoners were all locked in cages, like pigs and dogs, but there was a carriage holding a girl.
She had clean clothes to wear, as well as clean food and water. This girl was Mimi.
She is the daughter of Wuya Khan, but she is only born to a dancing girl with low blood. Her mother was humiliated to death. When she was a child in Wuya tribe, although she had the status of a princess, she was always bullied. Khan treated her badly. Unfortunately, she witnessed her mother's death but remained indifferent. He also called her unclean and later allowed her to be bullied by other princes and princesses.
Because of her beauty, Sister Wang was jealous of her, so she deceived her out of the country and sold her to Jin State. This led to the scene where Su Wan and Su Chen rescued her in the slave market in Xiangzhou.
Good and evil in the world have causes and consequences. Su Chen planted the cause, so he got the result.
Mi Mi had always heard about Su Chen's name from behind. After Su Chen was captured, she was extremely disappointed with her father and family, so she chose to help Su Chen.
It is precisely because of this that she can receive such preferential treatment as a prisoner now.
While the army was resting on the spot, Murong Huai got two wild pheasants from somewhere and asked Jiang Yu and Su Chen to roast them.
This kid Murong Huai is indeed brave and resourceful. I was really deceived by him before and didn't realize that he had such a great talent.
His deeds in the military camp were reported back to Kyoto, and Emperor Longxin was so pleased that he directly promoted his mother-in-law to a noble concubine.
He has some kind of Sun Tzu's art of war, he can arrange troops and formations, and he can predict events like a god, and his popularity far surpasses that of the fifth prince Murong Sheng.
Over the past two years, Murong Huai also relied on his sincerity to become good brothers with Jiang Yu and Su Chen. The two of them ate and lived together, completely eliminating Murong Sheng's desire to win over him.
After the pheasant was cooked, Su Chen took off two chicken legs and left.
Murong Huai and Jiang Yu both knew what he was going for. This kind of thing had become commonplace along the way, so they didn't take it seriously and just took care of themselves.
Su Chen took the chicken legs to the carriage guarding Mimi. The carriage door was locked. Su Chen signaled the soldiers to open the lock. When the soldiers saw that it was Deputy General Su, they opened the lock.
Opening the door, the thin girl was huddled in the corner. Her eyes lit up when she saw it was Su Chen. She was kneeling in the carriage with iron chains on her feet:
"General Su!" Mimi shouted.
Su Chen hummed lightly and handed her the two chicken drumsticks in the bowl:
"Eat it!"
Su Chen's expression was also indifferent. In the past few years in the military camp, he had matured a lot, his edges and corners had been smoothed a lot, and his whole body exuded a strong masculinity.
The outside soldiers were all fierce and cruel, and he had no good impressions of outsiders, but Mimi was different. She helped him and saved him, and was his benefactor.
He has already begged the coach for mercy. After returning to Beijing, he will try his best to give Mi Mi a good place to live and let her live well.
Mimi took the chicken leg and looked at Su Chen gratefully:
"Thank you, General Su."
"You're welcome, I'm leaving." Su Chen left after delivering the things, not staying any longer. Mi Mi wanted to say something, but she held it back and stared blankly at Su Chen's leaving figure. The carriage door was also closed. Closed it again and locked it.
When he returned to Jiang Yu's place, he thoughtfully left half a pheasant for him, and he started to nibble on it.
Murong Huai joked:
"Brother Chen, are you attracted to that Mimi? She is the daughter of Wuya Khan. If you two get together, your backbone will be exposed in the future, and it will also have an impact on your career!"
Murong Huai was joking, but he was telling the truth.
Su Chen glanced at him and replied naturally:
"Of course I know, don't worry, I don't like her, but she did the same to me when I was a prisoner. Now I'm just repaying her."
Although Mimi was given preferential treatment among the prisoners, her food was not good.
"Okay, I'm relieved with your words. We can arrive in Kyoto in a few days. Are you all ready to meet the people you want to see?" Murong Huai raised his eyebrows at Jiang Yu.
