Chapter 496 That Night (Part 1)(1/2)
The 19th day of the first lunar month of the 24th year of Zhaohua.
night.
The moon is bright and the stars are sparse.
Li Chenan and his party had arrived in Fengxian County and did not enter the city.
The team was stationed at Wusanyuan, three miles away from Fengxian County.
The five fans are originally located at the foot of Maple Leaf Mountain.
They are located southeast of Wusanyuan.
The 50,000 troops led by commander Xie Jing were in the northwest direction of Wusanyuan.
The two armies are roughly seven or eight miles apart.
Fifty thousand soldiers of the palace have gathered together, and on the five fan fields is a vast barracks.
To go to Shuzhou, you must pass through Wusanyuan from the northwest, that is, you must pass through the camp of Xie Jing's troops.
But at this moment, Xie Jing was not in his camp.
He is by Li Chenan's side.
"I used to be their own masters. As the commander, you obeyed Yu Wanzhi and Song Shiming. This is not a big mistake in my opinion."
Xie Jing never expected the young regent to say this in an understatement.
He thought he would be criticized by the Regent, and it would not be an exaggeration to even beat himself with a whip.
Because if you don’t understand 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 incident.
He wanted to see how big the Regent had.
He quickly bowed and said, "Regent, this is a villain who is confused for a moment!"
Li Chenan waved his hand and pointed to the lights of thousands of houses in Fengxian that were vaguely visible in the distance. "You did not enter the city to disturb the people, which means you still have some conscience."
"By the way, I remember you used to be General Dingyuan in the Western Frontier Army..."
Li Chenan turned his head and looked at Xie Jing with a smile on his face: "Being under the command of General Wu Mian, right?"
"When Wu Mian was transferred to Kyoto as a general, he brought you back from the western border army and placed it in Jiangnan Road."
"Do you remember that Wu Mian had a chariot and cavalry general Xia Yunhu?"
Xie Jing never expected that the young regent would know his name and his experience.
It has been nearly twenty years since we left the western border army in a blink of an eye.
He served as the commander of the government troops in Jiangnan Road... He said he was the commander, but the commander-in-chief Song Shiming, the one who truly held military power in Jiangnan Road was the commander-in-chief.
The general told himself not to fight.
I also told myself to turn a blind eye and just live my life in Jiangnan.
The rest of your life...
At that time, I was only in my early twenties!
It was the prime of life.
The rest of this life is really a bit long.
But leisurely days are indeed more comfortable than the tense days and nights of those days when they were in the Western Frontier Army.
I seemed to be so slowly getting used to it and slowly falling into depravity.
I gradually understood enjoyment.
He only asked anything except the three thousand personal soldiers who trained him.
This has been lying for twenty years.
The family settled in Pingjiangcheng, and had a wife and three children.
It should have grown old so calmly, and then died quietly.
However, Ning Guo suddenly changed the world.
I didn't expect the Regent to come to Jiangnan.
He Xie Jing does not belong to the Ji Tai family.
Song Shiming asked him to lead his troops to kill the regent, which forced him to choose a position.
This position is not difficult to stand.
Huang He didn't need to give him any ideas and he knew what to do next.
Because General Wu Mian led his troops to Wuya Pass last year, he passed Jiangnan Road and met him.
He wanted to follow the general and go to the Wuyaguan front line again, but was rejected by the general.
General Wu didn't say much.
Just told him one thing-
"No one in the world can die, but the Regent must not have any accidents!"
"You... stay in Jiangnan Road!"
"Gangnan Road is the top priority of Ningguo, and the Regent will go to Jiangnan."
The Regent is indeed here.
Song Shiming didn't know how to lead troops to fight, and he was still afraid of death!
He really handed over the command of the 50,000 soldiers to his own hands.
He led the 50,000 troops to the city without entering the city.
Instead, it is stationed in the northwest of Wusanyuan-
It was not to guard the regent and head to the northwest, but Xiahou Zhuo's soldiers were coming from the northwest!
His original purpose was not to siege and kill the regent Li Chenan as assigned by Song Shiming, but to prevent Xiahou Zhuo from marching south!
He did not know what kind of person the Regent, who held the power of Ningguo, was.
He only heard that this master was very good at poetry and was named a poetic immortal by the late emperor!
He also heard that the regent was the lost eldest son of the emperor... He asked General Wu Mian about this, and Wu Mian was silent for a long time before nodding.
This action made him quite suspicious.
Then I heard that he was with Xi Wei's daughter... The account of getting into the Marquis's mansion was on Xi Wei's head!
But what surprised him was that General Wu was originally a trusted slave who had gotten into the car and waited for Lu Zhanxiao, but General Wu seemed to have no intention of seeking revenge on Xi Wei.
He went to Wuyaguan.
He said he still didn't know who Xi Wei was.
He also said that what's wrong with Xi Wei's daughter following the Regent?
Many things went beyond his understanding of Xie Jing. He found that he was no longer a pure soldier in the western border army back then.
He should not think about these things that have nothing to do with war.
What he should consider is how to ensure the safety of the regent and how to wipe out Xiahou Zhuo's troops in Wusanyuan.
After calming down his thoughts, he bowed again:
"When the Regent, when he was in the Western Frontier Army, he did know Xia Yunhu, and we are still good friends!"
"Oh, do you know that after Xia Yunhu became the deputy chief of the Imperial City Division... he betrayed the Imperial City Division?"
Xie Jing pondered for three breaths: "I have heard of it."
"So based on your understanding of Xia Yunhu, why do you think he is betrayed?"
"this……"
Xie Jing looked up at Li Chenan, "I think there must be hidden information in this."
"Xia Yunhu has outstanding military achievements in the western border army. He is very good at his soldiers and has a very good relationship with us robes... He is not an ambitious person for power. He does that...it makes no sense!"
Li Chenan grinned and said something that made Xie Jing confused—
"Then I'll be relieved."
"Since you came on your own initiative... do you know that Xiahou Zhuo also came with 30,000 border soldiers?"
"He is here to kill me. Look, I'm just a thousand people..."
Xie Jing clasped his fists, his face sincere and serious:
"Shehou Zhuo handed over to the last general!"
This sentence surprised Li Chenan slightly, and he asked in confusion:
To be continued...