Towards the end of June, it has been raining in Henan. Both the sky, the earth and people are wrapped in a layer of moisture that cannot be broken away. The originally scheduled auspicious day for the crown prince's canonization has also been delayed. As an alternative, Chen Chong could only
All the elderly people were invited to the palace and a relatively small ceremony was held. The whole process was very simple. It was nothing more than bringing the prince into the palace from Pingyang Palace, Chen Chong awarding the seal in public, and then worshiping the ancestors on the altar.
Lie Zong.
Speaking of which, Prince Liu Yi was only a four-year-old child and showed no signs of precocious wisdom. Basically, Chen Chong led him through the entire process. At the end of the ceremony, the prince secretly tugged on Chen Chong's clothes and whispered that his feet hurt.
Then he stuffed a candied fruit into his mouth and asked the prince to hold it in his mouth. The prince immediately beamed with joy, and then the ceremony was over. Looking at the young and easy-to-satisfy smile of the prince, Chen Chong felt a little melancholy in his chest. He didn't know that he would have a child.
Is it the right choice to bring him into this kind of vanity fair? But he has no other choice, and at the same time he has to make more and more choices.
As July approaches, the signs of war in Liaodong are becoming more and more obvious. The vanguard of the Liao people has been frequently in the mountains and forests of Yanshan in western Liaoning, and there are also reports of ships gathering in Liaodong. This makes Chen Chong read out about western Liaoning under the lamp every night.
Yang map. He sent a message to Jiang Ji saying that all the soldiers from Youzhou could be gathered at Lulongsai to confront the Liao company without any intention of going to war. The Liao people had many soldiers but little food, so they could only fight quickly.
Once it is unfavorable, they will inevitably retreat, so not fighting him is the best countermeasure. Compared with the actions of the Liao people, Chen Chong was more worried about the Yunbei tribes: In this case, the grassland annexation that was originally contained has now been
If there is no way to stop it, who will unite with the Liao people? Who will start a war? These are all bad things.
On the night of Bingyin in July, it cleared up after the rain, but the weather was still unbearably hot and humid. After Chen Chong fell asleep, he had a dream. This time he fell into a dream, which was different from the past. He didn't realize he was dreaming. So he calmly wandered in the dream. The dream
There was a wide river in that place, and the ocean was endless, but Chen Chong knew that it was not the Yangtze River, but the Han River, because he saw a city on both sides of the river. The two cities faced each other across the river, and he immediately understood that this was Xiangyang.
The sky was dark, thick clouds covered the ground, and he didn't know whether it was day or night. Chen Chong saw the flags on both sides of the strait stretching, but the two armies seemed to be in peace. The people on the south bank were still repairing the newly acquired Xiangyang City, while the soldiers on the north bank were in the city.
They practiced martial arts on the plain behind, which made the Han River quiet. Chen Chong thought to himself, it seems that the Wu army's offensive will stop here.
In such a quiet atmosphere, Chen Chong began to walk on the river. He saw a huge ship moored on Yuliang Island, so he wanted to get closer and take a look. As he walked, for some unknown reason, he suddenly felt like
The premonition prompted him to walk towards the north bank. Passing through the vast sea of reeds, reed flowers were fluttering in the wind like snowflakes. When Chen Chong was feeling confused, he heard a rustling sound, followed by a low whisper.
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Chen Chong looked over and realized that it was a white deer. Different from the white deer seen in Hanzhong and Guanzhong, this white deer was much smaller, only about half a person tall. Standing in the reed marsh, it looked like a mass of accumulated reed flowers.
.This white deer seemed to be able to see Chen Chong. It tilted its head curiously and approached cautiously, but missed. This frustrated the white deer, but it didn't care, and just walked among the reeds as it pleased.
Chen Chong also found it interesting, so he kept following the white deer to see what it would bring to him.
But suddenly, he heard a familiar voice from his ears. He looked up and saw about twenty knights riding their horses slowly beside the reed marsh. Seeing this, Chen Chong forgot to follow the white deer for a moment, and instead went to the white deer.
This group of people approached. But the strange thing was that no matter how he tried to get closer, there seemed to be a thick barrier between him and this group of people, which could never be crossed. There was no way, Chen Chong could only watch from a distance, and in his heart
I'm curious, is something very important about to happen to this team? They are not in the camp, so why are they heading towards Yuliangzhou?
While he was thinking this, he saw the person at the back taking off his iron armor and looking around impatiently. Chen Chong recognized it immediately. Wasn't that Guan Feng who he had sent out? With this impression, he looked at the men and horses.
The rest of the group recognized Sun Lang, Hu Yanping, and Lian Yu, and the knight surrounded by them was obviously Chen Zhang.
At this time, Chen Zhang was talking to someone beside him, pointing at the Wu ships in the distance, and seemed to be looking at the terrain in the north and south of Yuliangzhou. He was obviously planning something. When they reached a meander in the river
At this time, a group of people dismounted and stopped, tied the horses to a bush, and then dived into the reed swamp and continued to lean in. Chen Chong could see that they were going to conduct a reconnaissance on the Wu Army's navy. Could it be the Han Army?
What was the arrangement? But he recalled it and couldn't remember the relevant part from the military report.
Just when Chen Chong was puzzled, the sound of insects gradually sounded in his ears. Chen Chong secretly screamed, maybe he was about to wake up? He hadn't figured out what happened. When he was anxious, he jumped up, but unexpectedly he jumped into the air.
In the middle, I looked down at the changes in the reeds from the air. I wanted to move again, but my whole body felt nothing. It was just as soft as clouds, and my hands and feet could not move even half a minute.
At this moment, he noticed a horrifying scene below. Dozens of Wu people wearing black armor were lined up on a hillock more than a hundred steps away, and Chen Zhang and his party seemed to be led by someone.
He leaned directly towards the hillock. Something happened. Someone in the Han army suddenly pulled out a knife and slashed at his comrades with a wave of his hand. It was Guan Feng who was hit by the knife. He was completely unprepared and received a blow.
After that, he immediately fell straight into the shallow water, causing a commotion around him. It turned out that there was a traitor among his colleagues!
What followed was a larger-scale fight. The Han troops were divided into two groups, shouting and waving weapons in the reed swamps. The Wu people not far away heard the noise and quickly surrounded them. Chen Zhang and others
Seeing this scene, how could they not know that they were caught in a conspiracy, so they stepped into the water and retreated. The cold water splashed and was soon stained with blood. Just as promised to Chen Chong, Sun Lang and the others formed a small
Formation, resisting enemies several times larger than one's own, giving the young master time to escape.
The Wu people who came to help also made a noise, sounded gongs, and then shot arrows at Sun Lang and the others. The random arrows were like heavy rain. Even if they were wearing armor, they were shot into pieces under the three rounds of arrow rain.
The hedgehog had lost its physiology. Only Chen Zhang and his entourage were left running away in the reeds. The people behind shouted: "Catch up, catch up quickly, that's Chen Chong's son!" They all tried their best to chase forward.
, lest this credit go away in vain.
Chen Zhang originally wanted to go straight to the place where the horse had been hidden before, but he was chased so fast that he became dizzy and couldn't tell the direction at all. He could only go to the right and sometimes to the left according to his feelings, hoping to use this to
Get rid of the pursuers behind. But from the perspective of Chen Chong in the air, he actually did a lot of useless work, but the people behind him were getting closer and closer to him. At this time, Chen Chong saw the white deer in front of his son.
A trail has been trodden among the reeds, leading directly to the hidden horse bush.
Chen Zhang seemed to be stunned when he saw this, and Bai Lu was also startled and ran away very quickly in the direction he came from. At this time, Chen Chong saw that the pursuer behind him was only ten steps away from Chen Zhang, and he could already vaguely see the knife.
The room was quiet as usual, nothing happened. "Shh!" Chen Chong let out a long breath.
In the following days, the rain continued, but Chen Chong never had the same dream again. He began to deal with official affairs of various states, but no longer paid attention to the war in Beiping County. Instead, he repeatedly asked if there was any urgent report from Xiangyang, but
Unfortunately, there was no reply. However, there were some miscellaneous cases in Beijing, some of which had a considerable impact. For example, one of his own clan members named Chen Jian raped a civilian girl in Yanshi and ended up killing someone by mistake. This
It caused a lot of turmoil in the capital, but Chen Chong's parents came to Chen Chong through Chen Qun to plead for mercy, hoping to be sentenced to exile instead of death. But Chen Chong was not merciful, and with solid evidence, he immediately sentenced Chen Chong to death in public in Luoyang.
Owl head.
This incident once caused a cold war between the tribesmen and Chen Chong. Someone said: "You only know how to make profits for your own son, but you don't consider other people's love for their children. How can you be so unkind?" Chen Chong had no objection to this.
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On the third day of July, after the rain and the sky cleared up, Xiangyang finally sent the latest military report. When the letter arrived, Chen Chong was at the Shangshu desk, and Pang Tong was the first to open it. After Pang Tong read the letter, his face changed.
It was cloudy and uncertain, and he hesitated to speak to Chen Chong, who was immersed in his desk. After a long time, he stood up, walked to Chen Chong's desk, handed the military newspaper with both hands and said: "Teacher, this is a letter from Xiangyang!"
Chen Chong raised his head, said "Oh", opened it and held it in his hand. At this time, the voices around him were silent. Everyone could tell that something serious had happened, so they held their breath and watched the Prime Minister's expression.
The letter was very short, and Chen Chong read it quickly.
After reading it, Chen Chong showed no strange expression and handed the letter to Pang Tong and said: "I know about this matter. You can come up with a plan first. I will go out for a walk first. Don't report this matter to Your Majesty before coming back."
." After saying that, he waved his sleeves and quickly walked out of the chancery.
This scene surprised everyone. What happened? So they all gathered around Pang Tong to see. Seeing that the teacher had gone far away, Pang Tong didn't bother to pass it around one by one, so he said in public: "Over in Xiangyang, Sima Zhongda used it to detect the enemy's situation.
, invited Chen Hanzhen to go to Yuliangzhou, set up an ambush and killed the master and servants, and then defected and went to Zhou Yu!" He paused, and then said: "Zhou Yu took advantage of the situation and wanted to capture Fancheng, but fortunately Guo Huai was in charge of the overall situation.
We have already beaten Wu Gou back."
But everyone no longer cared about listening to the rest of the words. When they heard the shocking news, they all looked at the stage gate, wondering when the Prime Minister would come back after going out for a walk. Unexpectedly, when the night watch sounded that day, Prime Minister Chen Chong did not
He appeared in Taige and did not return to the mansion.