Li Sanding was escorted back to Hengxiang Yamen, and Wang Fengnian went with him. Xu Yinjun and several servants helped Kang Jian into a wheelchair and pushed him along.
Xia Zhaoyi didn't follow. She went to the medicine pavilion in the waterside pavilion to get a bottle of plaster and asked Zhan Ning to take it to Shu Xiaoqing before sending Shu Xiaoqing back to Qimotang.
Wang Fengnian, who had just left not long ago, suddenly sent someone back to ask Xia Zhaoyi if he wanted to go to Qu Mansion, and took Shen Xu to Hengxiang Yamen together.
Xia Zhaoyi thought for a while and said, "Send someone to ask Shen Shu. If he wants to go to the Yamen, he can go. If he doesn't want to, just give up."
The subordinate who was sent back was confused and asked again: "Big boss, should you ask Shen Xu, or should you ask Mr. Wang?"
"Ask Shen Shu." Xia Zhaoyi said.
"Yes." The men turned and left.
Guan Chi, Fan Yu, and Liang Dechang raised their heads from the map and looked towards Xia Zhaoyi.
Xia Zhaoyi frowned slightly and looked back at them.
"The second young lady will go to Enyi Gong's place outside the city later to see the soldiers and horses," Liang Dechang said. "It is said that General Lu Mingfeng of the Tianrong Guard is busier than the Dog Emperor. He has many things to do, but I think the second young lady is no different. .”
Xia Zhaoyi chuckled: "You're not busy. Compared to me, Manager Wang is the busiest right now."
"I heard that Mr. Wang picked it up from the road by Miss Second?" Guan Chi was curious.
"It was because he was so outstanding that I chose him among so many people." Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile.
"Second Miss is so awesome!" Liang Dechang gave a thumbs up, "I will definitely tell Manager Wang this. He may be very happy!"
Xia Zhaoyi looked at the skylight outside the window and said, "It's getting late. I'm going to leave the city."
"It must be very lively. We also want to go." Fan Yu said in a low voice.
"Hey! Business is important. We also have our own busy work." Guan Chi said.
"There will be plenty of opportunities in the future, and we will surely get good results one after another in the future!" Liang Dechang said with confidence.
Xia Zhaoyi smiled and said: "The real excitement lies in the march map you wrote."
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It was approaching dusk, the sea of clouds in the sky suddenly became more numerous, and the wind in the wilderness became stronger.
Chen Xihua and others were exhausted. Qi Yong remained on the carriage and refused to get off.
If another soldier came forward and shouted "report", all the officers would be numb and it would be difficult for them to make any more trouble.
Only the staff chief Shi and the assistants were busy counting the people over and over again.
As Qi Yong said, the opponent is an eagle, and they are rabbits without the slightest ability to resist. When the opponent is happy, they can hit whoever they want and whenever they want. They can only let them do whatever they want.
The only way to turn things around is to go straight into Hengxiang and turn the surprise attack into a frontal annihilation battle.
Another batch of people was reported, and the staff director Shi let out a long sigh, "Another three hundred people were gone."
After calculating the total number of people on the paper, the staff director Shi suddenly paused and his eyes became confused for a while.
The assistant noticed and whispered: "Sir?"
"That's not right." Staff Chief Shi muttered.
"Uh, what's wrong?"
"This..." Staff Chief Shi looked at the soldiers who came to report their numbers, "There are no corpses, right?"
"Yes, there are no bodies. They were all captured. There are also...slight injuries."
"It's terrible, it's terrible!" Shi Fang, the staff commander, exclaimed, "So the other side doesn't have thousands of soldiers and horses. After they used our soldiers and horses as their own, their number suddenly increased, and now If the other goes up, then we..."
Then they will lose even their final advantage!
Everyone was stunned.
"But if someone comes from the same barracks as us and comes to beat us, wouldn't he be a traitor?" someone said.
"They are all going to die, who cares?" said the staff chief, Shi.
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but everyone was speechless.
"I'm going to report it to the general!" shouted Shi, the staff commander, handed the paper and pen to the assistant, ran to his mount, got on his horse and chased ahead.
The afterglow of the setting sun is making its last wild flame in the horizon, eager to burn out. The earth is covered with a layer of orange clothes, and the green grass on the fluffy grass is glowing.
Hengxiang Mansion appeared at the end of the sight, a huge and vast city, and the suburban villages extending out were lit with scattered lights.
Staff manager Shi rushed over with all his strength, but before he could take a breath, he was suddenly dumbfounded.
There were four long queues lined up on the horizon, with less than 300 people. The leader was a young girl. She was far away, but her figure was tall and thin, and she formed a landscape on horseback.
Chen Xihua reined in his horse and did not move forward.
Qi Yong heard the movement outside the car, opened the car curtain and took a look, and suddenly frowned.
Those four long rows were not all cavalry. There were two rows of about a hundred people standing on the ground. Judging from the armor they were wearing, they were not their captured soldiers!
"Strategy!" A soldier ran from the front, "General, please come over!"
Qi Yong's face tightened, and he opened the car curtain and got out.
"General." Qi Yong held on to the feather fan and raised his hand to bow.
"Dingxin, look!" Chen Xihua said, "What does this mean?"
Qi Yong looked at her and said with difficulty: "Maybe... kill her to show us how to build her military power and lower my morale."
"It's so abominable!" Chen Xihua was furious, "How could the world be like this and allow a woman to act so arrogantly? He Qing, you immediately send someone to scold her and ask her if the soldiers and horses behind her are still men for being commanded by a woman like her.
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"General!" Qi Yong said hurriedly, "You can't do it!"
"Then what do you say?" Chen Xihua shouted, "Otherwise, if we charge forward now, aren't we going to fight head-on? There are only three hundred people here, why should we be afraid?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a man came on horseback from the opposite side.
"General, someone is coming!" a deputy general shouted.
Chen Xihua quickly looked around and saw Gao Zhou reining in his horse and stopping forty steps away from them, shouting: "General, what's your surname?"
When Chen Xihua was about to speak, Qi Yong stopped him and looked at one of Chen Xihua's relatively gentle lieutenants.
"Vice General Yan, you can go ahead."
Yan Xun nodded and rode forward.
Gao Zhou looked him up and down: "What is this general's last name?"
"My surname is Yan!"
"My surname is Gao, and I am the general of the left guard camp of the Xia family army!"
"What's the matter with you?"
"My second lady sent me here to ask your commander-in-chief if I can make a deal!"
"Business?" Yan Xun frowned and turned to look at Chen Xihua behind him.
Chen Xihua was puzzled and looked at Qi Yong.
"Ask him what the deal is!" Qi Yong shouted.
"What deal?" Yan Xun asked loudly.
"Trading captured soldiers!" Gao Zhou said, "We have 8,312 captured soldiers in our hands, and each captured soldier is worth ten taels of silver!"
Yan Xun was stunned for a moment, suspecting that his ears had heard it wrong.
Behind them, Chen Xihua, Qi Yong, and all the lieutenants were also dumbfounded.
"He, he just said he wanted to sell the captured soldiers to us?" Chen Xihua said.
Qi Yong didn't answer and frowned.
"Eight thousand three hundred and twelve people, that's... more than eighty thousand taels!" Chen Xihua shouted.
"Should I buy it or not?" Gao Zhou asked, "It's selling for ten taels of silver now, but in a few days, the price will double!"
