After a while, eunuch Shi Long led two guards with swords to escort a bound prisoner into the palace. This prisoner was Duan Fei, the newly promoted cavalry general of the imperial court.

After Duan Fei knelt down in the main hall, Emperor Wu Beikun said to him: "I am not kind to you, why did I do something disobedient?"

"I am loyal to the country and do not dare to do any disobedient actions." General Duan Fei replied without changing his expression. Wu Beikun was very surprised after hearing this and asked Shi Long: "Has this person been convicted?"

Shi Long looked embarrassed for a moment, but he immediately answered: "The case involving the guilty subject Duan Fei is still under trial, but there is one charge that the guilty subject has confirmed. That is that he has admitted that he is not the real surrendering subject.

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"The guilty minister Duan Fei, you pretended to surrender to this court and colluded to rebel against the party. Do you know whether you are guilty?" The emperor asked Duan Fei again.

"Your Majesty was misled by the sycophant. This statement is false. I am neither a traitor nor a traitor," General Duan replied.

"how do I say this?"

"I am originally a minister of Dafeng. Now I am serving the Dafeng Dynasty and serving the emperor. How can I say that I rebelled or surrendered? I obeyed the orthodoxy, broke away from the rebels, and returned to the court. Can it be called a rebellion? You think so.

, who do you regard as your master?" Duan Fei asked Shi Long and Huang Kewei.

"You, you, you, stop being so eloquent and arrogant here!" Shi Jiang argued with a blushing face.

"Okay, okay, let's not argue about this for now. Let me ask you, General Duan, why did you only bring back the corpses of the soldiers who died in Yuwen's army after the battle at Anninghekou to claim credit, but you didn't pull back the soldiers who died in the Imperial Guard?

Come back and bury it?" the emperor asked.

"Also, all the war dead reported by your department are false. All of these people are now working in the patrol camp. How to explain this? I don't think there was a battle to stop Yuwen's army at the mouth of the Anning River. It was actually your private release.

After taking away the rebels, he also made false claims to claim credit and deceived the emperor!" Lord Admiral Huang stepped forward and added.

At this time, everyone focused their attention on General Duan who was kneeling in the main hall to see how he would defend himself.

"Your Majesty, there is indeed something fishy about the battle at Anninghekou, and Wei Chen has always been suspicious. Since Lord Admiral Huang also wants to know the truth today, Wei Chen can't help but tell the truth." Next, General Duan recounted that day in detail.

The specific course of the First World War.

"Wei Chen received the order from Lord Shangshu to send troops, and ordered me to move 100,000 troops to the Nu River Valley to cooperate with the Forbidden Army troops to encircle and suppress the rebel troops passing by. I immediately ordered my troops to go. On the way, I thought that the Forbidden Army troops had already arrived two days in advance.

An ambush was set up in the Nu River Valley. I was afraid that our army would arrive and it would be too late, so I led my troops straight to the mouth of the Anning River at the exit of the Nu River Valley. I expected that if the rebels could break out of the Nu River Valley, they would have to come out from this mouth. In order to

Being able to contain the rebels at the mouth of the Anning River in time, I had no choice but to lead the 30,000 light cavalry troops as the vanguard, and the other troops followed behind, hurrying and slowly all the way, and finally met the rebels led by Yuwen just seven or eight miles from the mouth of the Anning River."

"At that time, because the enemy was outnumbered and we were outnumbered, the cavalry vanguard unit I led did not dare to take the initiative to attack. However, the other party seemed to be very afraid of our army and did not conflict with our army head-on. Instead, they chose to break out from our left flank."

"It happened that Zhang Tianci, the former commander-in-chief of Quyang who had been demoted back to Beijing from Quyang County, led a team of less than a thousand people and met Yuwen's army head-on. General Zhang Tianci was brave and resourceful. He saw that the enemy army was already exhausted.

, so we bravely stepped forward to intercept them. Although they were using their arms as chariots, they still caused a big impact on the enemy troops, and they were immediately in disarray. Upon seeing this, our army was inspired and immediately launched an attack from the enemy's flank, defeating the enemy troops. In the end, the enemy troops were defeated.

, the enemy army relied on the strength of their numbers and managed to break through." General Duan Fei continued.

"After meeting Zhang Tianci, General Zhang told me that he had intercepted the enemy's outpost in front, learned that the enemy had been attacking for many days, and had fought a fierce battle with the main force of the Forbidden Army at the mouth of the Anning River. We both immediately

We led our troops into the mouth of the Anning River, preparing to rendezvous with the Forbidden Army troops there. Unexpectedly, we did not encounter the Forbidden Army troops at the mouth of the Anning River. Instead, we encountered a Tufan army coming out of the Nu River Valley. We were very alert at the time.

Thinking that the Tufan army was preparing to launch a sneak attack on the Central Plains from the mouth of the Anning River, they immediately prepared for battle. However, after seeing our army, the Tufan army did not launch an attack, but turned around and withdrew from the original road. Our army later discovered An Ning

The battlefield at the mouth of the river has been cleaned up, and neither the Forbidden Army troops nor the corpses of any Forbidden Army soldiers were found at the scene. At that time, I was very curious as to where this Imperial Army force had gone and what it had to do with the Tufan army that appeared here.

Woolen cloth?"

"Ha, ha, ha, what's so strange? These are the friendly troops invited by Admiral Huang to help in the battle." The hearty laughter of the Queen Mother suddenly came from the Zijin Palace. Then, accompanied by Eunuch Hai, the Queen Mother

Huang stepped onto the throne of the Emperor's Golden Palace.

Upon hearing this, Mr. Huang Kewei's face suddenly changed, revealing a look of panic. Everyone else in the hall was also shocked.

Wu Beikun hurriedly stood up to greet the Empress Dowager and sat down on the golden chair beside him.

"Why did the Imperial Grandmother say this? Could it be that she was making fun of Mr. Huang?" Wu Beikun chatted up to the Empress Dowager.

"Are you kidding? Huang Kewei participated in the truce mediation between our country and the Tufan Kingdom. It is normal for him to be acquainted with the Khans of the Tufan Kingdom. Your Majesty, you don't know, right? The battle at the mouth of the Anning River,

It was Admiral Huang who had negotiated with Tufan in advance and planned to make a pocket formation for King Yuwen here. Unfortunately, Admiral Huang's men did not do the job well and did not tie up the pockets, leaving dozens of King Yuwen's enemies behind.

The army of ten thousand people escaped, and the troops sent by Huang Shangshu, who heard the news, were caught. Although they were using mantis arms as chariots, with fewer enemies and more enemies, they also caused a lot of suffering to the troops of King Yuwen who fled in a hurry.

.The general situation is like this, right, Admiral Huang, is the Ai family right?" Huang Shi, the Queen Mother, asked Huang Kewei with a smile.

"Well, this, what the Empress Dowager said is true, but Wei Chen did not collude with the Tufan Kingdom. It was Wei Chen who provided the intelligence to Tufan's insiders. Wei Chen just wanted to borrow Tufan's power.

Just take this opportunity to destroy Yuwen's army." Huang Kewei quickly explained.

"Admiral, there is no need to defend yourself. The elimination of the Yuwen rebels is the common goal of Dafeng and Tufan. Even if you conspire with Tufan for this matter, it is not a crime. They are all efforts to quell the civil strife in Dafeng.

Well." The Empress Dowager comforted Huang Kewei.

Hearing what the Empress Dowager said, Huang Kewei finally felt relieved. He quickly kowtowed to the Empress Dowager and thanked him: "Thank you very much for your consideration for me!"

The eunuch Shi Long who was on the side saw that the Empress Dowager did not hold Huang Kewei accountable for his affair with Tufan. He immediately became energetic and jumped out to continue questioning General Duan Fei: "Then you falsely reported your death in battle?

How should we explain the warrior thing?"

Huang Kewei then took over and asked: "Since there are no casualties, it can be seen that there was no battle between the two armies, right?" Everyone turned to look at General Duan to see how he would answer.
Chapter completed!