Seeing the book boy walking into the hospital to report, Yang Dayan wanted to wait patiently.
And at this moment, the sound of rushing horse hooves suddenly came.
Everyone followed the sound and saw a Yun soldier lying on top of his horse, galloping towards him.
When he arrived in front of Yang Dayan, he didn't even have time to rein in the horse. He rolled off the horse and ran up to Yang Dayan. He knelt down on the ground and said urgently:
"General, I'm here to report that there are a large number of warships coming upstream from the Red River. The flag is from the Navy of Li Chao East Road!"
When Yang Dayan heard this, his eyes suddenly widened and he shouted:
"really?"
"Three-way expedition to report back quickly, there is no way to make a mistake!"
Yang Dayan shouted loudly and said:
"Okay, Your Majesty has just issued a secret order for me to be careful of the Li Dynasty. I thought I still thought about it, but those losers from the Li Dynasty still have the courage to play tricks. I didn't expect that they actually sent the navy to come!
"
Speaking of this, Yang Big Eyes shouted:
"Get on your horse, let's go back to camp!"
When all the soldiers heard this, they immediately shouted loudly and got on their horses.
Yang Dayan had just walked to the horse, but he hesitated for a moment, then turned to look at the yard in front of him, and couldn't help but say:
"Damn it, I've already come here... I'm such a polite corporal, general. If I go back directly, won't I have to come back next time?"
The soldiers were suddenly a little stunned. They looked at Yang Dayan who turned around and pushed open the courtyard door and said:
"General, that's not right!"
Yang Da said directly without turning his head:
"Hey, we've all gone in to inform you. It would be quite rude for me, the general, to turn around and leave!"
After that, he said no more and walked straight into the courtyard.
The book boy received Zhuge Liang's instructions and just walked outside the house. He was thinking about how to reject Yang Dayan. When he looked up and saw Yang Dayan walking in quickly, he was stunned.
After hesitating for a moment, the book boy immediately became anxious and subconsciously stepped forward, stammering:
"General, general, general, general, my husband, he, he..."
Yang Dayan was anxious at this time, and without saying a word, he threw away the book boy and said casually:
"General and Corporal Li Xian, I don't want your husband to come out to greet you in person, I will go in by myself!"
The book boy was pushed away and was stunned for a moment.
And at this moment, a clear light exuding mysterious meaning flew out of the house, hung in the sky, turned into mysterious and complicated formations, and countless clear lights fell.
The flowers, plants, trees, rockeries, rivers and other objects in the courtyard were illuminated by the clear light, and their aura suddenly changed, and they were faintly connected with each other, and the formation gradually emerged.
The air of clouds and mist is diffused from all around. Although it is not very dense, being in it still makes people feel disoriented.
Yang Dayan's eyes widened, he was not angry but happy, he laughed and said:
"Sure enough, you are quite capable. You can teach me Yang Dayan!"
After saying that, he glared sharply, pulled out the long knife from his waist with his right hand, and swung it out boldly.
I saw the light of the sword flickering, a white sword energy condensed out, and the extremely sharp sharp gold power surged out, heading towards the mysterious formation of clear light hanging in the sky.
The loud sound that broke through the air suddenly turned into the roar of a tiger.
Only a faint sound was heard, and the formation talisman in the sky suddenly shattered and turned into dots of light.
The clouds and mist that had just gathered in the courtyard immediately dissipated when the breeze blew.
Yang Dayan quickly walked outside the hall, looked at the two people in the room with expressions of astonishment on their faces, raised his brows, and said in a deep voice:
"Who among you is Mr. Zhuge?"
Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu looked at each other for a moment, then lowered their voices and started talking to themselves.
Seeing that the two of them were so silent, Yang Dayan snorted softly and said:
"His Majesty said that a capable person always likes to be with capable people. Mr. Zhuge is very capable and well-deserved, so those who stay with him are definitely capable!"
Having said this, Yang Dayan waved his hand slightly and said in a deep voice:
"Come here, please bring these two gentlemen back!"
A group of soldiers behind them walked into the house with helpless expressions on their faces, and looked at Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu with a look of helplessness.
Xu Shu's face changed. He looked at the elite soldiers around him, and then at Zhuge Liang who looked helpless next to him. He sighed immediately, put down his right hand that was holding the hilt of his sword, and said softly:
"Well, although you are powerful, you are still powerless. You are really worried about going to the army alone."
Upon hearing this, Zhuge Liang turned his head to look at him and said extremely seriously:
"I practice martial arts to strengthen my body. It is true that I am not good at using force. But in terms of martial arts cultivation, you are not much better than me! You are not strong enough to tie a chicken. It is an exaggeration..."
Xu Shu twitched the corner of his mouth, rolled his eyes, and said:
"Is it appropriate to talk about this at this time?"
Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan, nodded with approval, and said:
"It's not appropriate..."
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In front of the gate of Zhongqing City, a group of four people were seen, headed by a middle-aged man, followed by a man and two women, slowly arriving.
Regardless of their appearance, these men and women all have outstanding temperaments. They are either holding jade flutes or carrying jade flutes, or carrying piano cases on their backs, which are quite eye-catching.
One of the women looked at the leader and said:
"Master, what should we do next?"
The tall, elegant and handsome middle-aged man at the head heard the words, nodded slightly and said:
"The top priority is to contact your senior sister as soon as possible!"
Another disciple heard this and couldn't help but ask:
"Senior Sister is here now...how should we contact her!"
The disciple on the side heard this and said solemnly:
"And about that matter, we still need to inform Senior Sister as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid it will be too late!"
The middle-aged man's face darkened slightly at this time, he nodded, took out a golden token engraved with auspicious clouds and phoenix patterns from his arms, lowered his voice and said:
"Although we have arrived in the Yun Kingdom, the Xia Kingdom's embroidery envoys may not be without manpower and intelligence in Zhongqing City. Just in case, we need to divide our troops into two groups. You will go to Jixia in the name of my Yin family.
The academy has settled in. As a teacher, I will go to the East Jishi Factory in order to see your senior sister as soon as possible!"
In fact, just judging from the clothes of these people, there is a guess that they are from musicians. After all, if there is a group of people walking around in the world with musical instruments, they are probably disciples of musicians.
At this time, the middle-aged man paused slightly, lowered his voice, but said with an extremely solemn expression:
"Although my music family ranks among the top 100, today, ritual music has collapsed. We, the musicians, can only rely on the powerful to govern elegant music. And because we do not know how to govern the country, we have no official status to follow.
I can only serve as a guest in my house. People in the world don't know the reason, but they call my music family Qingyin Xiaoban, which is full of contempt. Today's trip is not for power, position and wealth, but for my pleasure, to earn a living.
Come on!"
Qingyin Xiaoban is a relatively elegant brothel. Most of the famous prostitutes who are good at singing and dancing, and proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting are from here.
However, the musician is one of the hundreds of sects after all. He is a member of the martial arts community, and there are many masters in the sect. If someone is in a hurry, they don't even need to kill people. They can just play the piano and the flute. Naturally, it is impossible to really reach this level.
It is just because the most basic essence of Yinjia martial arts was mostly realized by the sages of the Yinjia through the generations from the elegant, pure, profound and solemn Yale. To practice, Yinjia disciples must master Yale.
And this kind of elegant music is exclusive to the powerful class to show their status and bloodline. Folks are not allowed to play privately, so the musician has to rely on the powerful. Therefore, everyone in the world has such contempt.
Judging from the meaning of the middle-aged man's words, these music disciples came to Zhongqing City and obviously brought something with them, hoping to gain a background for the music family through Bian Liuyun.
At this time, when these disciples heard the middle-aged man's words, their faces showed determination and without any hesitation, they all leaned forward and bowed, saying:
"I will obey my master's orders!"
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Jinling City, in the Xia Kingdom Palace.
Emperor Xia raised his head and looked at the sky outside. He was silent for a while and then suddenly said:
"I remember that King Qi returned to Beijing last night, right?"
The old eunuch Sixi heard the words and quickly answered:
"Yes, His Highness returned to the capital at midnight last night. That is to say, His Majesty had previously promised to let the city gate be opened for His Highness, otherwise His Highness would have to wait outside the city all night!"
Emperor Xia nodded, hummed slightly, and said:
"It seems that after traveling day and night from the southwest, he is in good health!"
After saying these words, Emperor Xia lowered his head again and began to review the memorial.
Eunuch Sixi beside him rolled his eyes and suddenly asked tentatively:
"Your Majesty, would you like His Highness Prince Xuanqi to enter the palace to give a speech?"
Emperor Xia lowered his head and said in a low voice:
"No need! If he is serious, he will come to see you!"
When the old eunuch heard this, he said sarcastically:
"Perhaps His Highness is too tired due to traveling day and night..."
At this time, Si Xi didn't even dare to say that Prince Qi went to Prince Jin's Mansion early this morning and waited at the door until noon before going back.
The old man is the emperor, and apart from matters above the court, he does whatever he wants. It is rare to be as tough-talking as he is today!
At this moment, the sound of rapid footsteps was heard suddenly.
Looking up, he saw that the embroidered messenger wearing a gorgeous colored satin embroidered coat hurriedly walked into the hall, knelt down on the ground, raised his hand high and reported, eagerly saying:
"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the Wuzhou camp! All the layout in the capital has been discovered by Yun Guo. Three thousand Beisei elite cavalry were all killed in one battle. The rear general, Marquis Deyang, was lost among the rebellious army!"
Hearing this, Emperor Xia was startled, looked at His Highness's embroiderer and said in a deep voice:
"Say it again!"
The embroiderer lowered his head and said in a trembling voice:
"Yun Guo understood the layout in advance, and all three thousand of Beisei's elite cavalry were wiped out in one battle. Marquis Deyang was separated, and his life or death was uncertain..."
Emperor Xia's face was ashen and his expression was extremely ugly.
The old eunuch knew that Emperor Xia was not in good health. Seeing his appearance, he couldn't help but feel frightened. He quickly winked at the young eunuchs next to him and asked them to prepare pills in advance to prevent Emperor Xia from getting sick again.
On the other hand, Emperor Xia, after all, has been the emperor who has been in charge of Daxia for decades. What kind of things have he not seen?
Although I was shocked and angry at the moment, I still suppressed it with my deep thoughts.
"Check, why does the Yun Kingdom know about this plan?"
The old eunuch Sixi on the side was delighted when he heard this. Cold sweat suddenly broke out on his forehead, and he gritted his teeth and said:
"Yes, I will go check it out right now and never let anyone go!"
Emperor Xia had prepared this layout for a long time based on Yu Yingyao's plan. He had used all his efforts to cover up the food and fodder raised in advance and the elite cavalry from Beisai that had been transferred secretly.
The only people who knew about this matter in the entire Xia Kingdom were only a few people, namely those who handled the embroidery. If you want to investigate, you can naturally only start from this aspect.
And at this moment, another burst of rapid footsteps sounded.
Another embroiderer quickly ran into the hall, knelt on the ground, and said loudly:
"Your Majesty, please report urgently! Marquis Deyang has returned to the Wuzhou camp safely. This is his confession from above. Please review it!"
When Emperor Xia heard this, he stood up suddenly and said:
"Quick, bring it up!"
The little eunuch on the side trotted over to take the memorial and presented it to him.
Emperor Xia opened it and glanced at it. Although his face was still ugly, he breathed a sigh of relief visibly.
He put together the memorial, sat down slowly, rubbed his somewhat stuffy chest, and said in a deep voice:
"Fortunately, nothing happened to Zimmer!"
Three thousand fine cavalry were wiped out in one battle. This loss was a bit large, but it was still acceptable. But if even Zimmer, the famous northern general, was lost so easily, it would be a huge blow to the morale of the army!
Seeing this, Si Xi quickly stepped forward to comfort Emperor Xia's chest.
Emperor Xia calmed down for a while and then said in a deep voice:
"Quickly convey the decree that Deyang Marquis Qimo underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, resulting in heavy losses. He was demoted to the first rank and fined two years' salary. He is allowed to perform meritorious service and continue to be in charge of the Wuzhou camp!"
When Zimmer first took charge of the Wuzhou troops, he suffered such heavy losses. If he was not punished, how could he convince the entire army? This was also the reason why Zimmer took charge of the military law before. This is also the case with this plea.
How could Emperor Xia not see this? He would naturally cooperate, give him some mild punishment, and let Zimmer continue to lead the army.
Hearing this, the embroiderer in the hall quickly clasped his fists and shouted:
"According to the order!"
Immediately, the embroiderer hurriedly turned around and went down, arranging people to go to Wuzhou to deliver the imperial edict.
Emperor Xia pondered for a moment and said with a gloomy expression:
"In this way, I have underestimated the little emperor of Yun Kingdom. It can be seen that this famous reputation is not all just bragging. The previous layout was probably wasted..."
The original plan was to incite a rebellion in the Yongzhou camp and let it cause chaos on its own. The navy of the Le Dynasty used water veins to blockade and isolate the four areas of Yongzhou, so that the two countries could easily divide the four states.
But now this first step of planning has come to nothing, so naturally we cannot follow the previous plan.
Emperor Xia paused and suddenly said:
"We have summoned Taiwei Luo Jing, Sikong Xianghui, Shaofu Ling He Xiangming, General Zhi Xiangrong of the upper army, General He Quan of the Fu army, General An Huarong of the left, and General Zhang Zhe of Pingxi... come to discuss matters!"
This long list of names were either officials of the Xia Dynasty who were in charge of providing food and supplies for soldiers, horses, or military generals on the battlefield.
On the basis that the previous layout was no longer sufficient, Emperor Xia did not hesitate and decisively convened everyone in the court for discussion. Just looking at this posture, it seemed that he was ready for a real-scale national war!
Having said this, Emperor Xia suddenly paused and then said:
"Also, let King Qi come to the palace to discuss matters!"
Si Xi heard the words and quickly responded, already understanding in his heart.
On such an occasion, only Prince Qi was invited to come. It was obvious that His Majesty wanted to formally signal to the courtiers which prince he preferred.
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I'm currently drawing the map, trying to make it look better, and I'll see when it can be posted.
Posting two chapters in a row like this feels a little bit cool...
