As military advisor Li Yuanzhe said, if you want to overthrow Xiao Zhao, you must not rely on a moment of recklessness! The emperor knew in his heart who Chen Guang was, and he would have suspicious without mentioning King Xuanwu Xiao Zhao!
Wei Dongting suppressed his indignation towards Xiao Zhao and pointed all the spearheads at the cavalry commander Chen Guang. The emperor was afraid that he had already thought of something!
Xiao Heng was silent for a long time before asking thoughtfully: "Since there is a problem with the food and grass, who transported the food and grass to Yecheng later?"
"After the prince was seriously injured, it was Weichen and his elder brother who sent him an urgent letter, so the elder brother sent his lieutenant Yang Ce to personally escort the food and grass to Yecheng to solve the crisis of exhaustion!"
"Captain Yang Ce?" Xiao Heng repeated the name, pondered for a moment, waved his hand and said, "Wei Dongting, you go down first!"
Wei Dongting was stunned. He didn't expect that the emperor would let him retreat so quickly, and he couldn't figure out what the emperor was thinking at the moment.
He wanted to say something else, Xiao Heng was clear and said kindly: "Your elder brother has also made contributions to sending food and grass this time. I will reward him!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Since the emperor said that, Wei Dongting could not say anything more. He knelt down and thanked the emperor respectfully, and left the palace.
After Wei Dongting left, Xiao Heng's gaze returned to his previous coldness and ordered Chen Rong, the eunuch who had been guarding by his side, who had not spoken, and said: "Chen Rong, go and summon the captain Yang Ce!"
The reason why he wanted to summon the captain Yang Ce was not that he did not believe Wei Dongting's words, but Wei Dongting was young and energetic and was not calm enough to do things, so he could not help but make mistakes in judgment!
Xiao Jingyao was ambushed by the Northern Wei iron cavalry on his way to welcome the food and grass. Chen Guang, the cavalry commander, also said that the food and grass were robbed by the Northern Wei. Perhaps the Northern Wei spies did rob the food and grass, and they sent secret spies to learn about Xiao Jingyao's whereabouts!
He would rather believe that all this was a traitor in the army, let the Northern Wei Dynasty learn about Xiao Jingyao's whereabouts and then rob the food and grass, than believe that Xiao Zhao had ill-hearted love and colluded with the Northern Wei Dynasty privately!
Xiao Zhao is his younger brother, the person he and his mother loved the most... When the mother passed away from illness, she grabbed his hand and told him to treat Xiao Zhao well no matter what. He also stood in front of the mother.
I swear that no matter what Xiao Zhao does, I must protect this younger brother!
As an emperor, his hands were covered with countless blood, but he did not want to be stained with the blood of his relatives!
As long as Xiao Zhao has never done what he guessed, he must keep Xiao Zhao no matter what! Otherwise, he will be unfilial!
Xiao Heng had already made up his mind, but when Yang Ce, the captain under General Wei Ziyi of the Cavalry, came to report these things, he could not keep his calmness before!
Because the facts reported by Yang Ce are consistent with what is said in the letter!
In addition, Yang Ce also reported something that shocked him!
While picking up Wei Zijin, the legitimate daughter of the old general Wei, they encountered Xiao Zhao's group of subordinates. If Yang Ce had not led his troops to arrive in time, Wei Zijin and others would have died on the way, so where could they still go to the battlefield and kill the enemy and retreat?
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"Yang Ce, do you say that those people are Xiao Zhao's subordinates, do you have any evidence?" Xiao Heng asked sternly, really unwilling to believe that Xiao Zhao had done so many things secretly with his emperor brother on his back!
Yang Ce nodded, took out a token from his arms, and respectfully presented it to Xiao Heng: "Master, this is found by Bei Zhi from the leader among them!"