Chapter 256 Testing

As for the hundreds of people who had just come for a surprise attack, it was naturally impossible to do much harm to them. Xu Huanzhi arranged for some of the soldiers to hide.

One is to show weakness - after all, Li Shengqi initially expected only Ke Yongzhao to come, but unexpectedly two came. If Ke Yongzhao was really a traitor, he led a large army to come to the rescue and saw that only a few of them were left.

As a soldier, what will he do? Continue to take advantage of others? How is that possible?

If she is the traitor, she will definitely take this opportunity to kill all the people in this group. Maybe he can't incite the soldiers, but as long as he says that they are pretending, in such a situation, the soldiers will naturally believe him

General. As long as there is no evidence of death, no one will know that it was him who killed him.

What's more, it doesn't matter even if she knows. If she and Xu Huan die, Jinzhong, no, the state capitals along the Li River will be in chaos. Even if Mu Jing is here, it won't help. He only needs to escape overnight or stay in

Xizhou, together with the Xirong people, should cooperate internally and externally, capture Xizhou, and occupy Wangling Pass. If this happens, the morale of the Southern Jin Dynasty will inevitably be low, and Xirong's eastward advance is just around the corner.

Secondly, of course there are other reasons.

Li Shengxi pretended not to know. She looked at Xu Huanzhi solemnly: "Huanzhi, what's going on?"

Xu Huanzhi sighed, "Your Highness does not know something. The last general led a thousand men to ambush the pursuers and chased them to the canyon. They were ambushed by the thieves. Although they counterattacked well, they suffered a lot of losses. Counting those in the military camp, we are afraid that they will be killed."

There were more than five hundred people who went there."

"What kind of villain is he? He is so audacious that he dares to ambush His Highness's army in Jinzhong. It is simply lawless." An Huai's face was full of anger.

"Their actions are quite orderly and even resemble those of the military. They may be related to the group of rebels that His Highness exterminated before." Xu Huanzhi said deliberately.

It is not a secret that Li Sheng wiped out five thousand people before the attack, and she also told the story of the Prince of Chu to Heaven.

Li Shengxi's face was also ugly, her eyebrows were angry, but she had a deep meaning, "It may not be the rebels. Before you find out, it's better not to get dirty with the rebels. The rebels are indeed hateful, but if someone takes advantage of them,

In the name of the rebels, their behavior may not be any better than that of the rebels. Leave it here, make arrangements, and ask people to investigate carefully."

"Yes." Liu Jinzhi nodded.

"Your Highness, please wait." Rong Zhi suddenly spoke.

Everyone looked at this slightly frail scholar. In a room full of generals' tents, Rong Zhi was indeed a different kind of existence. However, because everyone's eyes had been on Li Shengxi before this, and Rong Zhi had not spoken, they did not pay much attention.

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"Although the ambush of the men and horses this time was a surprise attack, they were able to cause such heavy losses to His Highness. This shows that they are menacing and their scale and strength are not small. Moreover, His Highness and the Marshal were not aware of it before, indicating that they have been in ambush for a long time.

, it will definitely not be a temporary idea." Rong Zhi's voice paused slightly. Although Li Shengxi and Xu Huanzhi did not tell him what the specific deployment was, he could guess a little bit at this point.

If so many people are really lost, it means that the fighting outside is very serious. Since it is serious, how can Li Shengxi sit in the camp and calmly read a book? What's more, he is also an experienced person, and the soldiers on guard are General Ni.

The thief pressed and beat.

Li Shengxi suddenly understood the meaning of Rong Zhi's words, and she quickly agreed: "Rong Changshi is right."

His eyes flickered on An Huai and Ke Yongzhao, "In this case, with such a large scale and such careful preparations, didn't the two generals have any awareness before? General An also fell, General Ke, you

But the guard of Xizhou, this place is only a few miles away from Xizhou. Didn't General Ke notice such an ambush before? It's no wonder that the Xirong troops were so neglected."

"The general will finally be convicted." Ke Yongzhao was so embarrassed and angry.

An Huai had a violent temper: "Where did you come from as a white-faced scholar? His Highness has never spoken, how can you allow you to point fingers?"

"That's enough, An Qing." Li Sheng glanced at An Huai, who quickly shut up and said, "Ce Chen is the chief historian of this palace and a staff member of the eldest princess's palace."

Li Shengxi looked at Rong Zhi again, "Chen Chen, you must not talk nonsense. Now at the Xirong border, they are all focused on the front line, and there may be some negligence."

Even though An Huai was dissatisfied, he couldn't help but look at Rong Zhi: "This general is rude and has offended Chang Shi."

"General, your words are serious." Rong Zhi cupped his hands and continued: "But even so, Your Highness, even if you are concerned about the front line, you have to guard your back. If the enemy goes around to the rear to attack, Dingning Marquis will still be there."

Without returning to Qingxia, under such internal and external attacks, I am afraid that the Southern Jin Dynasty will be restless."

An Huai was surprised by Rong Zhi's "reasonableness", but when he thought of what Li Shengxi had just said, he did not refute and just glared at Rong Zhi.

On the other hand, Ke Yongzhao nodded, "What Rong Changshi said makes sense. No matter what the situation is, a general should not be negligent, otherwise it is easy to make big mistakes inadvertently."

Li Shengxi sighed and ordered: "Those five hundred people must not die in vain and stay here. In addition to finding out the identity of the criminals, we must also bury the soldiers generously and give their families more pensions as a token of comfort."

"Yes." Liu Jin nodded.

"Since this person has such ability, I am afraid that his strength is not small. Although there is no danger tonight, the loss is heavy. Your Highness has a valuable status. If something happens again, I am afraid that the morale of the army in the Western Region will be unstable. Xizhou is not far from here. In the end,

General and General An are coming with their troops again. Why don't you ask Your Highness to move into the city first and stay in the last general's residence temporarily to avoid any further mishaps?" Ke Yongzhao suggested.

Rong Zhi nodded, "That's fine. In that case, I will take people back with you. Huan Zhi will stay here to bury the soldiers, and then send a group of people from General Ke to search the mountains to see if there are any others."

There are no remaining thieves."

Li Shengxi became suspicious of Ke Yongzhao, but he still trusted the soldiers under Ke Yongzhao's command.

Even if there is a traitor here, he would not dare to openly incite his troops to defect to Xirong. Even rebellion is fine, but to defect to Xirong, it does not even require the court to do anything. The anger of a common man can cause bloodshed for thousands of miles.

Generals may abandon their country and forget their true intentions for some reasons, but soldiers will not. Countless of their soldiers died at the hands of Xirong, and many of the soldiers in Jinzhong's army were Jinzhong people. Among them,

Seventy-eight percent of the people had family members tortured and killed by the Xirong people, so it was impossible for them to surrender to the enemy.

Li Shengxi did not trust the generals, but he would definitely trust the soldiers.

"Yes." Everyone accepted the order and quickly packed up.

I have four pictures to hand in tomorrow o(╥﹏╥)o. I’m really busy. I’m taking a day off. I won’t update tomorrow. I’ll start updating on the 16th.
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