In the early morning, Yucheng was still wet from a rain, and it was cold. The voice of an old general suddenly exploded in the sky above Yucheng.
Dongfang Jing, who was reading the files, and Yu Wen, who was training his soldiers, both set off in a hurry and rushed to the city gate.
"Greetings, my lord!"
Outside the city gate, soldiers from Muyunzhou were already standing, including Dongfang Jing and Yu Wen, who all clasped their fists and saluted happily.
The Lord of Western Shu in front of them finally came to Yucheng.
"rise."
Xu Mu looked calm, dismounted and walked forward. When he reached Dongfang Jing's wooden wheeled cart, he put down his hands and helped push it.
"Lord, how can this be done?"
"No matter what, Bo Lie is like an arm to me. Wenze Ma Yi, who is guarding Muyun Prefecture, and thousands of soldiers are also old friends and brothers to me. I arrived late,
I feel guilty."
Everyone present had moved expressions on their faces.
As the king of Western Shu in the six states, he was willing to go to the battle in person and join forces with them to defend against the enemy.
"Everyone, let's enter the city together."
Raising his head, Xu Mu looked at the Yucheng Pass in front of him. Under the control of Dongfang Jing and Yu Wen, this original small city to the east had slowly expanded and became the eastern barrier of Muyun Prefecture.
"Bo Lie, Wenze, how is Cangzhou lately?" Xu Mu couldn't help but ask as he pushed the wooden wheel cart. What he came to Muyun Prefecture this time was nothing more than the drastic changes in Cangzhou and the dangers derived from it.
"Lord, there is no big change." Yu Wen followed and shook his head seriously, "Ning Wu, the garrison general at Xinyue Pass, has not sent out troops recently and is guarding the border of Cangzhou."
"Ning Wu? According to the intelligence, he is the general promoted by the Demon Queen. He is responsible for all matters related to Crescent Pass."
"That's right." Yu Wen nodded.
"What is this person's temperament like?"
"Very calm." Dongfang Jing frowned slightly, "To be precise, he is almost the same type of person as Chen Zhong, the Shuzhou general. He is good at defending and doesn't like to attack. And... I found out some things about Ning Wu.
When we enter the city, we will take the files and show them to the Lord."
Xu Mu nodded. Otherwise, the Demon Queen would not have sent him to guard the New Moon Pass.
"These days, except for the encounters in the reconnaissance camp, Ning Wu only made a feint attack when the lord was fighting Liang. The rest, there was no fighting."
One day, if you want to break into Cangzhou, Xinyue Pass and the guard Ning Wu are the first barriers. Therefore, you must master the information about this person.
"Bolie, how is our Jiangan navy in Western Shu doing now?"
"My lord, the navy is now under the command of Ma Yi. Like Yucheng, there is no war. Whether it is by land or water, Queen Su seems to have no intention of conquering Shu. I guess she still wants to put defense first. By the way.
, I got the secret letter from the lord before, and I checked it several times to confirm what the lord said. Now, there is indeed an inexplicable army in Cangzhou. But there is no progress in more specific information. "
If you think about it, you know that since Demon Empress Su secretly mobilized the army, the news will be locked up. It is not easy for Dongfang Jing to confirm this news.
"In addition, after Emperor Ji Yuan ascended the throne, he gathered some aristocratic families and moved into Cangzhou. On the other side, Emperor Ji Xing Yuan Song also gathered many generals from aristocratic families."
One country and two emperors, even if it is a collapsed dynasty, will still cause a lot of disasters.
Xu Mu frowned.
The situation in Muyun State was far more complicated than he imagined.
"Bo Lie, enter the city first."
"My lord, as well as General Tiger, we have already prepared a reception banquet, and tonight we will wash away the dust for your lord."
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More than a hundred miles away from Yucheng, Xinyue Pass.
At this time, above the level, a calm middle-aged general was holding the knife on his waist and looking into the distance with his head raised.
He is Ning Wu, an unparalleled hussar general in the Great Era. Of course, this general is not comparable to before. If placed in the prosperous times of the Great Epoch, every hussar general would have been a famous war hero.
He is as powerful as Li Poshan, the number one general in the Epoch Times a few years ago, and he has never been awarded the title of Cavalry Commander.
Ning Wu was not at all proud. He frowned on his steady face, trying to see clearly every move in Yucheng City.
He knew that the king of Western Shu today had entered Yucheng. It was very likely that he came for the battle at Xinyue Pass.
"Beheading the treacherous prime minister and rejecting Beidi...the best commoner in the world who entered Shu to destroy Liang has been a close friend for a long time."
"General, all the sentinels sent out to investigate were captured by the Shu people in Yucheng."
"It's normal." Ning Wu was not surprised at all, "When the King of Shu enters the city, the lame military advisor must be more careful. Speaking of which, this lame man and I have also been close friends for a long time. If one day, he arrives in a wooden cart
At the Crescent Pass, I really want to offer you a bowl of water and wine first."
Ning Wu stood solemnly, his figure as tall as a mountain.
…
"Ning's surname."
After the banquet, Dongfang Jing took the files from the governor's house in Yucheng and spread them out in front of Xu Mu.
"The surname Ning is very rare. I thought there was something wrong with Ning Wu appearing out of nowhere. So, I checked some and found out."
Dongfang Jing said seriously, "People like this often do not change their names or surnames. After all, after a famous general is exiled, the Gu Nian family will eventually rise again. Just like the descendants of Zhang Chenggong, the famous general in Yanzhou."
Three of Zhang Chenggong's descendants defected to Liangzhou, but were taken away by Dongfang Jing.
"Bolie, where are you from?"
"More than seventy years ago, the descendants of Ning Guanbei, the famous general of Yongzhou."
"Bolie, Yongzhou has been lost."
Li Poshan, the general who conquered the north, originally defended Yongguan with 6,000 warriors. However, under the violent attack of nearly 200,000 Beidi troops, he was left without help and food, and his entire army was almost wiped out.
All of the six thousand warriors in Zhengzheng City are unworthy of being a real man.
"Indeed." Dongfang Jing nodded, "That's why I feel strange, how could such a person join Empress Su's camp."
Xu Mu was silent for a moment, lost in thought.
"I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort to obtain specific information. My lord has come to Yucheng in person, so he must already have a corresponding strategy."
Xu Mu shook his head seriously, "To be honest with Bo Lie, I didn't. In Xishu today, as Bo Lie thought, at least before the autumn harvest, the only priority is to defend. In it, what you and I can do is to based on
This change is to strive for the best interests of Xishu."
The Second Emperor, Zuo Shiren, and four other forces, including Xi Shu, were all involved in it. It is not yet clear who can gain weight.
As for the possibility of forming an alliance, of course there is. It will be a secret battle of intrigue and life-and-death.
"My lord, Yuncheng General Ma Yi is here to report——" At this time, another military officer hurriedly stepped in from outside the county governor's house.
"Huang Daochong of Kezhou wants to take advantage of the road and enter Yucheng to pay homage to his lord."
"Old Huang is here again?" Xu Mu was startled when he heard the information. Just now he pulled out an old ginseng tree in the cold, but now it's better to pull out the ginseng again in Muyun Prefecture.
"My lord, if my guess is correct, I should have been entrusted by Zuo Shiren. Zuo Shiren must have known that my lord has arrived in Yucheng."
Dongfang Jing next to him shook his cattail leaf fan and smiled.