Volume 5 War and Peace Chapter 20 The Governor of Xinzhou

I proposed to let Qin Yiwu go first, not to be polite to him, but we can't withstand any accidents now and ask us to pass by the Heijis army. I really don't have the confidence to do so. If Qin Yiwu hides some evil intentions or changes his mind, our fate is likely to be annihilated. Let them pass first and the end of the team cannot be connected, which should be safer.

After Zhang Shilei sent the order, Hong Liejun collectively let the troops of Rong Heijis move slowly. In this way, the troops of the two countries were so close to each other for the first time without any soldiers. The two armies were in a wrong direction, almost breathing and hearing each other. The soldiers on both sides were on high alert, and everyone pressed the hilt of the knife, ready to deal with the opponent's attack at any time. Fortunately, most of the Heijis's troops passed by were still safe. I looked at them with good eyes.

The team passed by, hoping to identify which one was Qin Yiwu from a clue, but the other side's cavalry passed by in a flash and there was no time to look closely. I had no other thoughts, but I was full of curiosity about Qin Yiwu. It is said that he is the youngest commander of Heijis, and his subordinates are commanding the most elite cavalry army. Judging from today's performance, this artificial scheming is an extremely powerful figure, and Shi Cundao's evaluation of him seems to be biased.

This was an experience that was very impressive to both soldiers, and the mentality of both sides was extremely subtle. Logically speaking, the enemy was extremely jealous when they met, so they should immediately fight a bayonet, but it was all changed because of the existence of one person. If it weren't for me, the sword god, the Heijis army would certainly have the strength to launch an attack, but the reason why they dared not do this was because they ate two soldiers and threw a cart. Hong Lie's side was not strong enough, so these two soldiers were difficult to give up. Both sides had their own concerns and their advantages and disadvantages, which led to the ending of being able to temporarily compromise with the other party. This was a deformed even-match. It was hard to say who had the more psychological advantage. This was the first time I had resolved a war with one person...

After the Hegis army, the soldiers who were fully relaxed suddenly seemed exhausted. Fortunately, Lizhou City was right in front of me. Before I could enter the city, a soldier suddenly brought a military order from Shi Cundao. The military order said that Stilwell and the right-road army who participated in the battle entered the city and asked me to follow me to report to Xinzhou City.

After a night of life and death, the soldiers under Shi Dong had a deep relationship with me. When they knew that they were about to part, they all came forward reluctantly to say goodbye to me. I waved to everyone and looked at Stilwell again. I really didn't know what to say, so I had to say, "Second brother, don't be impulsive in the future. Next time you are surrounded, I am willing to save you, but it's better not to implicate so many people."

This is actually what I said, but of course I didn't have any good intentions when I said it. Stilwell automatically filtered it into a sarcasm and said coldly: "Don't worry, I won't implicate you next time." I shrugged, and he finally added lightly, "This time... I appreciate your affection."

After saying goodbye to the soldiers, I still led Zhang Shilei and others to follow the messenger to Xinzhou. Li Xinfu and the three prefectures were all border cities of the Honglie Empire, which belonged to the provincial units of Zhili. The three prefectures were lined up on the border at three points and one line. The states were a hundred miles apart. The people were already trapped in halfway. I saw that they were unable to enter the city gate. I didn’t know what Shi Cundao wanted to call me back so anxiously, so I could not tell the soldiers that they asked. From the early morning to the evening, a magnificent city tower in front of us finally stood in front of us, and we saw that the city wall was three meters high, and a large number of soldiers were patrolling on the city wall. Military officers at all levels were galloping on the city wall, with long spears and short swords spreading outside the wall, like a huge mutant centipede.

It turned out that Li Xinfu's three prefectures were located on the border and have always been the key defense city of the Honglie Empire. Not only were the city walls tall, but there were also powerful border troops stationed, among which Xinzhou City was the most solid, because Xinzhou City was located on the central axis of the Honglie Empire and was closest to the imperial capital. Once Xinzhou was broken, it was equivalent to the opening of the gate, so Shi Cundao decided to take charge personally.

Our group slowly approached the city gate. Although the defenders on the city saw us wearing Hong Lie’s uniforms, they still shouted loudly: “Comeone is here to report the order quickly.”

The messenger who was walking with us did not dare to neglect at all, and raised his head and said, "God blesses Zhaohe."

Someone from above said, "But General Sword God has arrived?"

The commander said, "That's right!"

"Occurrence!" The defenders in the city sued and hurriedly put down the suspension bridge. I walked in first, but there was an arched city wall facing me. It turned out that I had entered the urn city. Unlike other places, Xinzhou City adopted the structure of an inner city. It was proved through actual combat that the inner city can kill and damage the enemy more effectively than the outer city, achieving the effect of catching turtles in the urn.

For a moment, the city gate opened and before I could enter, I heard the drums and music in the city. As the city gate slowly moved, a row of generals with distinctive armor appeared in front of everyone. Before I could figure out the situation, one of the veterans strode over and held the reins of Wulong's horse and said, "General Shi, I am missing the opportunity to welcome you."

As soon as I was stunned, I saw Shi Cundao standing behind the veteran and laughing: "Wulang, you have a great face to be able to get the governor to lead the horse and kick it in person."

"Oh!" I heard this and quickly got off the horse. Hong Lie governed the country with martial arts. The governor was the highest military officer in charge of the army in a state, equivalent to the local emperor of one side. More importantly, the governor of Xinzhou has a deep relationship with the historians. If I remember correctly, this old man should be Shi Fei's father-in-law. In this way, he is also a person of my grandfather.

I vaguely remember the single name of Shi Cundao's family is Jian. Before the three armies of Hong Lie Empire were unified, they were affiliated with Huaiyuan's army. Later, Shi Cundao became the marshal and became Lao Shi's subordinate. Li Jian was not convinced by Shi Cundao at first, and relied on his position in the army to challenge troubles everywhere. Lao Shi did not attack him because he was indeed a good match for everything. When the war with Heijis broke out in full swing, the general of the general finally gradually cooperated. Li Jian was influenced by Shi Cundao and later formed a relative. A large number of middle-level generals of the Huaiyuan army under Li Jian were truly attached. Speaking of which, Li Jian made contributions to Shi Cundao's unification of the three armies, so the relationship between the two was very complicated. They were both opponents and old friends with tacit understanding. Although Li Jian had only 50,000 border troops under his command, his status in the army was very transcendent.

Li Jian held my hand, and the rituals and music behind us were celebrating with music. There were 10,000 Xinzhou troops brought by Li Jian to welcome me. I looked at the white-bearded veteran in front of me and was very embarrassed. By grade, the governor was a third-rank, one level lower than me, but his seniority was two ends higher than me. I really didn't know what to call him. Seeing me hesitated, Shi Cundao whispered: "People follow the military system, you have to call Grandpa San in private." Then I said: "Grandpa San."

Li Jian was not polite, patted me on the back and smiled, "Okay, this is the first time I have seen this old fifth." Li Jian was busy with military affairs, and he did not go to Beijing to meet the saints in person. The Shi family, from Shi Diyang and his two grandsons, had all taken official business opportunities to Xinzhou, and only five were useless people to leave the house, so he had never seen this distant relative. Li Jian waved his hand, and ten thousand Xinzhou soldiers knelt on one knee together, shouting: "Gourmet to General Sword God!"

I said uncomfortable: "Grandpa Third is making such a loud noise."

Li Jian said: "The Sword God is stationed in the city, and I just let the soldiers raise their morale."

I smiled and was already familiar with this procedure, so I signaled everyone to stand up and didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore. I just said some encouragement and comforting clichés, but just a few nonsense, the Xinzhou defenders all shiny their eyes, as if they had found great sustenance.

Li Jian sighed: "The Sword God's speech was indeed extraordinary. When he learned that the Sword God was coming, the people in the city ran around and told him, and even the peddlers and barons were brave - Brother, I didn't expect you to have such a good grandson." He and Shi Cundao privately called him the third brother, and Li Jian was the third brother at home, so Shi Cundao called him the third brother.

Shi Cundao smiled and said, "My grandson is your grandson, what's the point of being jealous?"

Li Jian said regretfully: "It's a pity that I only have one daughter to marry your son, but no granddaughter to marry your grandson. Otherwise, wouldn't it be better if we kiss each other?"

Shi Cundao laughed and said, "You idiot."

After the welcoming ceremony, Li Jian led everyone to the governor's mansion, which had been transformed into a temporary command center. I said to Shi Cundao on the way: "Grandpa, I have rescued my second brother."

Shi Cundao said: "I know everything, you did a good job."

Seeing that no one around was around, Li Jian came to Shi Cundao and said, "Brother, please, can you take Diqi and Dizhou to Xinzhou to meet me?"

Unexpectedly, Shi Cundao said decisively: "No."

"Why?" Li Jian said dissatisfied, "You know that I miss my grandson, it would be fine if you didn't arrange them to enter Xinzhou before, but why don't you agree to me if I give up my face?"

Shi Cundao said: "I didn't punish the two of them for defeating the right army. How could they be with the care of reunion?"

Li Jian said: "What does this have to do with the child?"

Shi Cundao said: "After being born as a member of the Shi family, there is no other responsibility. Unless the Right Army gives me a reasonable reason, I will not meet you and your grandson. If you wait for him, you will be fined at the least and suspended from your salary, and suspended from your job and investigated!"

Li Jian knew Shi Cundao's temperament, and no matter how strong the relationship was, he dared not say much. A group of senior generals in Hong Lie's army entered the governor's mansion with Shi Cundao and Li Jian, and local chief executives greeted him from afar. For a moment, the banquet was arranged in the meeting hall. Today's governor's mansion is really brilliant, but people are still unable to be excited because they all know that just like 23 years ago, this is the prelude to a fierce battle...

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I won’t say much about guilt, there will be another update tonight.

Speaking of which, Mao Ni and 72 have opened new books recently (Jiang Ye, Judgment). These two people are my favorites, but I found a very interesting phenomenon. The characters written by this fat man are always sunny on the outside and dark on the inside, while the seventy-two man is a dirty and sunny on the outside and sunny on the inside, both of which are deeply savage. But if you want to say that these two fat men are not bad people... At the end of the day, only the characters written by Zhang Xiaohua are sunny on the outside and bright on the inside, haha~
Chapter completed!