After walking out of the low, cold cell and seeing the sky covered with leaden clouds, Guo Zhongxiong felt even more depressed.
Zeng Run, Zhu Xiaotong and others were all guarding outside the cell. When they saw Guo Zhongxiong and Yue Hailou walking out, they came over and asked in a flustered low voice: "The Ge family has been generals in Hedong for several generations. The trees are big and have deep roots. Why?"
How easily can Wang Fan take away the general's power? Ge Huaicong was shot dead in public again. If the soldiers made a fuss, wouldn't there be another big trouble?"
Guo Zhongxiong looked at Zeng Run and Zhu Xiaotong, without saying a word, and walked outside the state prison compound.
"If there is no big trouble, why are you worried?" Yue Hailou glared at Zeng and Zhu, and motioned to them and other soldiers to stay behind and not to hinder him from talking to Guo Zhongxiong.
"..." Guo Zhongxiong stopped in front of a pile of uncleared snow, turned around and said to Yue Hailou, "The Tianxiong army was defeated, and Ge Huaicong's generals were timid and fearful of the enemy. It is almost a conclusion that the Ge family father and son bear all the blame.
, Liu Shuai, it won’t be a problem if you don’t respond to it as little as possible, I think it’s better not to cause any complications!”
"From Tongbai Mountain to Lanzhou, Xu Huai and others deliberately planned to deploy their forces in Lanzhou. Xu Wuqi even went so far as to infiltrate Dong Cheng's side. It's hard for me to believe that they weren't targeting everyone related to the prime minister -
Guo Jun is also a man who knows soldiers. Do you really think that there is nothing wrong with Datong City and that Zhu Hang can bring back tens of thousands of soldiers intact?" Yue Hailou asked, "I escaped from Datong City and deployed the troops.
It's extremely thorough and the morale is high. I've witnessed it with my own eyes. If the enemy hadn't deliberately manipulated me, I would have given my head to Jun Guo as compensation!"
"Whether we believe it or not, sometimes it doesn't matter. The key is how to make the government and the public believe it, and let the officials believe it," Guo Zhongxiong said thoughtfully, "Wang Fan sent a letter saying that Zhu Hang returned more than 1,500 prisoner heads. It should be
There will be no lies. As Zeng Run and Zhu Xiaotong said just now, the Ge family has deep roots in the Tianxiong Army, but it was so easily taken over. This just shows that the soldiers of the Tianxiong Army are alienated from the Ge family. Another one, Wang Xiaocheng's wife and children
He died in a robbery, not an ambush. This was a public case that had been settled long ago. This case cannot be overturned. It is just that Wang Xiaocheng's old men were deliberately plotting for old enemies, and even did not hesitate to collaborate with the enemy. It is difficult for us to convince others...
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"Why do we need to convince others? Ge Boyi can just believe it without doubt." Yue Hailou said with his hands behind his hands.
"What are you planning to do..." Guo Zhongxiong looked at Yue Hailou hesitantly. He also suddenly learned so many shocking secrets that he couldn't wrap his mind around it for a while.
"Yue sometimes behaves unfairly, and Guo Jun may not be happy about it, but the civil and military forces in the dynasty are all over the moon. If Yue wants to do something, how can he do it openly?" Yue Hailou did not directly mention his plan.
, branched off to other topics, and said, "Take the grain issue as an example. How did this mud pool form? How could Wang Zhen not know whether Guo Jun was able to solve it? However, they insisted on inciting the soldiers to cause trouble.
Using this matter to suppress Guo Jun in Lanzhou, can Guo Jun reason with them openly? As I expected, Wang Zhen will definitely take advantage of the defeat and then advocate a truce with the Khitan. Can Guo Jun
Can you bear to see all our years of hard work go down the drain?"
"There are many shortcomings in the government and the public. The defeat may not be an accident..." Guo Zhongxiong said.
"It is precisely because the government and the opposition have serious problems that cannot be solved suddenly, so we must capture Yanyun at all costs to protect Hebei and Hedong! Without the dangers of Yanshan and Yinshan, how can the soldiers of Dayue resist the sharp cavalry of the Red Guards?"
Yue Hailou said, "Guo Jun really thinks that Yue can't see the long-standing shortcomings that have turned the whole dynasty into a quagmire?"
"Okay, I don't know what you want to do!" Guo Zhongxiong said with a sigh.
He served as a minister, and the Privy Council was ordered to go to Lanzhou. He was thinking of conquering Yan in the north to gain fame, but who would have thought that he would end up with nothing but chicken feathers?
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Wang reported that Wang Fan arrived at Yangkou Village before dusk.
Yangkou Village is the largest military stronghold in Vietnam in the north of Ningwu City. It can permanently station tens of thousands of elite soldiers and horses. The walled city is strong and has complete defense facilities. There are also stone-clad side walls that stretch for hundreds of miles on both sides. The dangerous terrain of the peaks and ridges resisted the southward invasion of the captives.
The main force of the Tianxiong Army was defeated in Datong. There were only 10,000 selected old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers and horses left in Lanzhou. Five thousand of them urgently gathered at Yangkou Village to guard against the possibility of Khitan cavalry attacking Yangkou Village. He went to Lanzhou, Taiyuan and other places to penetrate.
Wang reported that Wang Fan successfully took over the defense of Yangkou Village and the matter of seizing the army could be said to have come to a successful conclusion.
When the news came back, Yin Chao led his troops as the second batch of evacuating troops, and before dusk, he surrounded more than 10,000 Han people and left the city to go south.
When the second batch of southward evacuations left the city and embarked on the road to the south, it was late at night again. Zhu Hang dragged his exhausted body and returned to the Governor's Mansion accompanied by Wen Hengyue, Cao Shixiong and others. Xu Huai stood in front of the gate tower. , looking out at the night as thick as ink.
After a while, a primary school student ran up to the city gate to report: "Miss Liu, please come with Master Shi!"
"What news did Miss Liu get?" Xu Wuqi looked at Xu Huai in confusion and asked.
The manpower of Zhufengtang is relatively sufficient, and there is no shortage of manpower to stand alone. However, in the face of such a big incident suddenly, in addition to directly leading the 800 courtyard soldiers to garrison the south city gate, they also have to maintain control of the Tongbai Mountain soldiers as the main force. He was responsible for the control of the Lord's work camp and was responsible for reconnaissance and reconnaissance of enemy tracks on both sides of the Hui River. He should assist Zhu Hang in controlling and monitoring Cao Shixiong, Wen Hengyue and other troops, Xu Huai, Xu Wuqi, Xu Wukun, Su Laochang, Zheng Tu, Zhou Jing As well as Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Yin Peng, Han Qi, Tang Qing and others, none of them had a chance to breathe at this time.
At present, Liu Qiong'er is mainly responsible for summarizing and sorting out all aspects of information.
It was inconvenient for Liu Qiong'er to come directly to the tower, but he sent someone to send a message to Xu Huai. Xu Wuqi came at the same time. It must be that extremely important information had just arrived in Shuozhou.
Xu Huai was responsible for garrisoning the south gate. Except for Zhu Hang who called him for business, he ate, drank, and slept in the gate tower all day and night. However, Liu Qiong'er, Su Laochang, Zhou Jing and others led by Zhu Feng The men and horses of the hall did not need to defend the city, so they occupied a courtyard near the south city gate to rest temporarily; they also arranged a residence for Xu Huai.
Before the raid on Datong, the Qing Shun army carried out a round of bloody purges of the Tibetan people in the city, and the Han people withdrew two batches in succession. This important border town in the southwest of the Khitan was already half empty.
In the quiet and cold night, the streets were frozen solid and slippery, and occasionally one or two muffled cries came from a corner.
Xu Huai and Xu Wuqi walked back to the residence arranged for him and saw Xu Wukun and Su Laochang who were also rushing from elsewhere after receiving Liu Qiong'er's notification.
"What news did Miss Liu get here?" Xu Wukun dragged his tired body and sat down.
After retreating to Shuozhou City, Xu Wukun continued to stay with Zhu Hang as Jun Yuhou. Together with Lu Wenhu and others, he monitored the movements and military discipline of various troops in Shuozhou City, which was even more tiring than Xu Huai and others stationed in the southern city.
"A message has just been sent back from Kelan." Liu Qiong'er signaled the guards in front of the corridor to retreat into the courtyard, closed the door to prevent the partition wall from being broken, and after everyone was seated, he said, "I think this matter is not a trivial matter, so I went directly Invite everyone here!”
"What kind of flowers does Guo Zhongxiong want to create in Kelan? The key is, what other flowers can they create?" Su Laochang thought that the matter was settled after he learned that Wang Fan and his son Wang Fan had successfully taken over the defense of Yangkou Village. , I can’t imagine what a big ‘surprise’ awaits them in Kelan City, where the prefectural government of Lanzhou is located.
"Ge Boyi arrived at Kelan before noon. He did not continue to Daizhou to find Liu Shizhong and Cai Yuanyou to plead guilty. Instead, he put on wooden shackles, carried Ge Huaicong's body into the city, and imprisoned himself in the state prison!" Liu Qiong'er! said.
"Bah, after all, the Ge family can be counted as generals for several generations. If you want to show off your face, you can just wipe your neck and pull him down. What's the point of Ge Boyi performing such a painful show for the world to see?" Xu Wukun spat disdainfully.
Xu Huai frowned slightly and said: "Since Ge Boyi still wants to make trouble, he will definitely find a way to shirk the blame. Especially the fact that he carried Ge Huaicong's body while walking on the street shows that he may know that Cai is a centipede insect and died. Rather than being stiff and unable to force the issue, he still wants to make a fuss about Ge Huaicong's death and try to argue with us."
Su Laochang and Xu Wuqi also frowned and sat down.
They all knew that shooting Ge Huaicong at that time was necessary to deter the morale of the troops, but it was difficult to deny that the death of a figure like Ge Huaicong under random arrows would have many sequelae.
"Is there any other news?" Xu Wuqi asked Liu Qiong'er.
"After Ge Boyi imprisoned himself in the state prison, Yue Hailou and Guo Zhongxiong rushed to the state prison to see Ge Boyi at noon," Liu Qiong'er said.
"Yue Hailou blindly urged Ge Boyi to flee westward in Datong. No matter how stupid Ge Boyi was, he should have come to his senses at this time - Yue Hailou ran to see Ge Boyi at this time, wasn't he afraid that Ge Boyi would slap him on both ears? "Xu Wukun asked.
"Not only did we meet Yue Hailou and Guo Zhongxiong, they also stayed in the state prison for nearly an hour," Liu Qiong'er said, "But unfortunately, Ge Boyi, who Yue Hailou and Guo Zhongxiong met alone, did not let anyone else get close to them. We don’t know exactly what they talked about. However, we have to assume that Yue Hailou has guessed Xu Huai’s life experience, and then leaked Xu Huai’s life experience to Ge Boyi at this time..."
Everyone took a deep breath at this time.
Yue Hailou persuaded Ge Huaicong to flee to the west in Datong to hide his evil intentions. This was something that Ge Boyi and others could never come back to afterward. But under such circumstances, Ge Boyi was still in the state prison with Yue Hailou and Guo Zhongxiong. After discussing it for so long, everyone knew that the matter was definitely not trivial.
In order to attract more Tongbai Mountain soldiers in Datong to gather in the northwest city and escape during the defeat, Xu Huai publicly admitted his identity as Yaksha Fox, and he had already considered that Yue Hailou and other private officials of the Cai clan might suspect him. life experience.
Previously, Su Laochang and Xu Wukun thought that Zhufengtang had reached this stage and its power could be said to have just begun.
They thought that even if Yue Hailou and other Cai officials could guess Xu Huai's life experience, they would be unable to capture them.
They were not afraid that the Cai people would dare to open up the old cases, but they never thought that Yue Hailou might use Ge Boyi, a man who was about to drown, to bite them...
