The nineteenth day of the first lunar month of the twenty-fourth year of Zhaohua.
night.
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse.
Li Chenan and his party have arrived in Feng County and have not entered the city.
The team was stationed at Wushanyuan, three miles away from Maple County.
Wufan is located at the foot of Maple Leaf Mountain.
They are located southeast of Gohanhara.
The 50,000 soldiers led by Commander Xie Jing are in the northwest of Wushanyuan.
The distance between the two armies is roughly seven or eight miles.
Fifty thousand soldiers have gathered, and there is a large barracks on the five-door plain.
To go to Shuzhou, you must pass through Wushanyuan from the northwest, that is to say, you must pass through Xie Jing's camp.
But Xie Jing was not in his camp at this moment.
He is by Li Chenan's side.
"Everyone used to be their own masters. As a commander, you took orders from Yu Wanzhi and Song Shiming. This is not a big mistake in my opinion."
Xie Jing never expected that the young regent would say these words in an understatement.
He expected to be severely scolded by the regent, even whipping himself with a whip.
Because if you don’t know the truth about what you did, you are really rebelling!
But at this moment Xie Jing did not tell Li Chenan the truth behind this matter.
He wanted to see how big-hearted the regent really was.
He bowed quickly and said casually: "Prince Regent, this is just a moment of confusion!"
Li Chenan waved his hand and pointed at the dimly visible lights of Fengxian County in the distance, "You didn't go into the city to disturb the people, which shows that you still have some conscience."
"By the way, I remember that you once served as General Dingyuan in the Western Frontier Army..."
Li Chenan turned to look at Xie Jing with a smile on his face: "He is under the command of General Wu Mian, right?"
"When Wu Mian was transferred to Kyoto as a general by the emperor, he brought you back from the western frontier army and placed you here in Jiangnan Road."
"Do you remember that Wu Mian still had a chariot general named Xia Yunhu in his hands?"
Xie Jing never expected that the young regent would actually know his name and his experience.
It has been nearly twenty years since I left the Western Frontier Army.
He appointed a military commander in Jiangnan Road... He was said to be a commander, but the one who really held the military power in Jiangnan Road was the Governor Song Shiming.
The general told himself not to fight.
He also told himself to turn a blind eye and spend the rest of his life in Jiangnan.
For the rest of my life...
I was only in my early twenties at that time!
It is the time of prosperity.
The rest of my life is really long.
But the leisurely days are indeed more pleasant than the tense days and nights in the western frontier army.
It seems that I am slowly getting used to it and slowly degenerating.
I also gradually learned to enjoy it.
He didn't ask about anything except training his three thousand soldiers.
This lay for twenty years.
The family is settled in Pingjiangcheng, with a wife and three children.
I should have grown old so quietly and died quietly.
Unexpectedly, Ning Guo suddenly changed.
What's more, he didn't expect that the regent would come to Jiangnan.
He, Xie Jing, does not belong to the Jitai family.
Song Shiming asked him to lead his troops to kill the regent, which forced him to choose a position.
This position is actually not difficult to stand on.
He didn't need Huang He to give him any ideas, he knew what to do next.
Because when General Wu Mian led his troops to Wuyaguan last year, he passed by Jiangnan Road and met him once.
He wanted to follow the general to the front line of Wuyaguan, but he was rejected by the general.
General Wu didn't say much.
I just told him one sentence——
"Anyone in the world can die, but the regent must not have any accidents!"
"You...just stay in Jiangnan Road!"
"Jiangnan Road is the top priority of Ningguo, and the regent will go to Jiangnan."
The regent did come.
Song Shiming didn't know how to lead troops in war, and he was still afraid of death!
He really handed over the command of fifty thousand soldiers to his own hands.
He led the fifty thousand troops and did not enter the city.
Instead, he was stationed in the northwest of Gohanhara——
It is not that they are going northwest to guard the regent, but Xiahou Zhuo's troops are coming from the northwest!
His original purpose of Xie Jing was not to surround and kill the regent Li Chenan as Song Shiming had assigned him, but to prevent Xia Houzhuo from sending his army south!
He didn't understand what kind of person this regent who held the power of Ning State was.
He only heard that this man's poems and articles were excellent and he was named a Poet Immortal by the late emperor!
He also heard that the regent was the missing eldest son of the emperor... He asked General Wu Mian about this, and Wu Mian was silent for a long time before nodding.
This move made him quite suspicious.
Then I heard that he was with Xi Wei's daughter... The debt for going to the Chehou Mansion was on Xi Wei's head!
But what surprised him was that General Wu was a close servant of Lu Zhanxiao who was waiting in the car, but General Wu didn't seem to have any intention of seeking revenge from Xi Wei.
He went to Wuyaguan.
He said he still didn't know who Xi Wei was.
He also said that it wouldn't matter if Xi Wei's daughter was with the regent.
Many things were beyond Xie Jing's knowledge, and he found that he was no longer a pure soldier in the western frontier army.
He shouldn't think about things that have nothing to do with war.
What he had to consider was how to ensure the safety of the regent and how to annihilate Xiahou Zhuo's troops in Wushanyuan.
After calming down his thoughts, he bowed again:
"Back to the regent, the general did know Xia Yunhu when he was in the western frontier army. We are still very good friends!"
"Oh, then do you know that after Xia Yunhu was promoted as deputy in the Imperial City Division... he betrayed the Imperial City Division?"
Xie Jing pondered for three breaths: "General, I have heard of it."
"Then based on your understanding of Xia Yunhu, why do you think he rebelled?"
"this……"
Xie Jing raised his head and looked at Li Chenan, "The general thinks there must be a hidden secret."
"Xia Yunhu has made outstanding achievements in the western frontier army. He is very good at handling the soldiers in his hands, and he gets along very well with us lords... He is not a person who is ambitious for power. What he did... does not make sense!"
Li Chenan grinned and said something that made Xie Jing confused——
"I can rest assured that."
"Since you came here on your own initiative...do you know that Xia Houzhuo also came with 30,000 border soldiers?"
"He is here to kill me. Look, I only have so many people..."
Xie Jing clasped his fists and looked sincere and serious:
"Xiahou Zhuo is handed over to the last general!"
Li Chenan was slightly surprised by these words, and he asked doubtfully:
"But the fighting power of the government soldiers... do you think they can withstand Xiahou Zhuo's 30,000 elite troops?"
"Back to the regent, the general's three thousand personal guards were trained by the general himself. They are the main force in this battle!"
"The general will definitely do his best to kill Xia Houzhuo!"
"Are you ready to fight Xiahou Zhuo head-on?"
"I hope the regent will allow it!"
"No!"
Li Chenan stretched out his hands to help Xie Jing's bent body stand upright.
"Although it's good to be brave enough, it's better to be smarter!"
"Next, listen and do what I want!"
"The general is all ears!"
Xiao Baozi stood in the night wind and looked at the bright starry sky.
Her ears moved slightly and she heard what Li Chenan said to General Xie.
She raised her eyebrows, "This cow is really damaged!"
I just like how bad he is at heart!
