At dawn the next day, troops from the Northern First Army who went out on patrol returned to their barracks one after another.
When they came back, they brought back a piece of news: In Linfen and Quwo areas, several unidentified troops massacred local villages.
As soon as this news reached Luo Yao's ears, it aroused the suspicion of the two counselors.
Luo Yao immediately invited Wang Yu, the leader of the Wang clan, to ask him about the reliability of the news.
Unfortunately, Wang Yu has been staying in Anyi these days, so he doesn't know the situation in Quwo and Linfen, which are more than a hundred miles away.
After Wang Yu left, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan looked particularly ugly.
Because when he was in Daliang, he heard that during the Northern Xinjiang Campaign, his Northern First Army soldiers looted and massacred innocent local villagers. What's more, they raped women, massacred the entire village, and used the innocent villagers' blood as weapons. Becoming an enemy and lying about military exploits, in Zhao Hongxuan's opinion, is simply insane!
You must know that in this regard, Zhao Hongxuan was deeply influenced by his brother Su Wang Zhao Hongrun. He believed that soldiers are soldiers and people are people. Even if there is a war with South Korea, Korean civilians must not be killed indiscriminately. Otherwise, what is the difference between them and bandits? ?
At this point, the troops of King Su's party did a good job and never killed innocent people indiscriminately. Because of this, when King Su Zhao Hongrun attacked the Chu State, the Wei army's status in the hearts of the Chu people was actually higher than theirs. The team is even higher, so that there are as many as 1.5 million Chu people in total who are willing to defect to the Wei State. They currently live in Shangshui County and settle down there.
Perhaps seeing the expression on His Highness's face, Zongwei Chief Zhang Ao persuaded him: "Your Highness, if you insist on commanding an army and fighting on the battlefield, you will encounter this kind of ugly war sooner or later..."
After hearing this, Zhao Hongxuan retorted angrily: "My brother's soldiers never kill civilians indiscriminately!"
After hearing this, Zhang Ao and other Zongwei secretly dumbfounded: How do you compare the two elite armies of Shangshui Army and Yanling Army with the Northern Army? The original intention of creating the Northern Army was that the nobles of various countries wanted to conquer the Wei Dynasty. To make profits in the Korean War, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked. It can be imagined that the quality of the North's first army is not comparable at all.
"When His Highness takes charge of the First Army of the North in the future, he will rectify military discipline and put an end to this matter... then such ugly things will not happen again." Zongwei Li Meng advised.
King Huan Zhao Hongxuan breathed out angrily, and then he seemed to have thought of something, and asked curiously: "Wait a minute, Zhang Ao, Li Meng, tell the truth. When His Highness the Crown Prince and I led the Northern Army to attack Quwo, During this period, was there someone doing this? ...Looting, massacring nearby civilians, and falsely claiming military merit?"
All the sect guards looked at each other and lowered their heads in unison.
Zhao Hongxuan understood immediately, and asked angrily: "You... why didn't you tell me then?"
Zong Wei Chief Zhang Ao sighed after hearing this and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, even if I had said it at the time, what would have happened? I would have just made you angry in vain... Your Highness, the Crown Prince, cannot stop it, so what can you do, Your Highness?" "
"I..." Zhao Hongxuan was speechless.
Indeed, you must know that when Zhao Hongxuan was the deputy commander of the First Army of the North, although he did have a lot of power in his hands, these rights all came from the trust of Zhao Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, in him. But the problem was that the prince of the East Palace, Zhao Hongli, could not discipline his subordinates. soldiers and generals, will these soldiers listen to Zhao Hongxuan's words?
"No wonder His Royal Highness is so disappointed with Bei Yijun!"
Zhao Hongxuan angrily slammed the table in the tent, and then said angrily: "But now that the Northern Xinjiang campaign is over, do those people still want to cut off the weapons of innocent civilians and falsely claim that they are the weapons of Korean soldiers?
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"Maybe it's just to rob property." In a corner of the tent, Zhou Min, who had been closely guarded by the clan guards, was lying on the couch and said with a half-smile: "His Royal Highness King Huan, you must know that the East Palace Party this time
They were forced to hand over all the spoils of war, which made it impossible for them to make up for the money they spent to build this army... It can be said that they suffered heavy losses. Since the profits here can't be counted on, then they can start from the Koreans.
Let’s loot some from the people, and at least we can recover some losses.”
After hearing this, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan turned red with anger and cursed angrily: "They are just robbers and thugs, and they are not the sons of human beings!" After that, he stood up suddenly.
Seeing this, Zhou Min glanced at Zhao Hongxuan and asked with a half-smile, "Where is His Royal Highness King Huan going?"
I saw Zhao Hongxuan touching the real account book hidden in his arms and said angrily: "I can take over the military power if I want and tell those people to get out of the Beiyi Army!"
Hearing this, Zhou Min burst into laughter.
At this moment, Luo Yao frowned and stopped Zhou Min, and said displeasedly: "Zhou Dongxi, how long has it been since then, and you still want to provoke His Highness King Huan?"
Zhou Min laughed when he heard this and said, "I'm not sowing discord. Zhou just thinks His Highness Huan Wang... well, his sincere heart is very interesting, so I just teased him."
Luo Yao frowned and glared at Zhou Min, and then said to Zhao Hongxuan, who was a little confused: "Your Highness, King Huan, please calm down. Even if innocent Korean civilians are still being massacred, it is definitely not done by people from the East Palace family."
"Mr. Luo means..." Zhao Hongxuan asked in surprise.
At this time, Zhou Min turned over and sat up, straightened his sleeves, and said calmly: "Nine times out of ten, he is a member of King Yong. I have warned you that Zhang Qigong is not a kind person." After that, he turned to look.
Luo Yao said with a smile but not a smile: "The Donggong Party's butt is not clean to begin with. Now that Zhang Qigong has done something like this, how is Mr. Luo going to resist?... People from the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Etiquette are almost here."
"I will ask the Wang family to send troops to investigate this matter." Luo Yao said seriously.
"You still want to catch the Yongwang Party?" Zhou Min curled his lips and sneered: "Don't say that the troops who massacred the village were absolutely impossible to leave alive. Even if one or two people were lucky enough to survive, do you think those Koreans,
Can they tell clearly who is the Donggong clique and who is the Yongwang clique? Maybe they only recognize the military flag of the Northern First Army, and in the Northern First Army, the majority of people are from the Donggong First Party, right?... What’s more, the Donggong Party itself
Your butt is not clean. During the war, you did this kind of shit a lot. Don’t let the Yongwang Party fail to catch the Yongwang Party and get yourself into it instead.”
Luo Yao nodded thoughtfully and then asked: "What do you think we should do?"
"Don't ask me." Zhou Min turned over and lay down again, leaning on his hands and said slowly: "Right now, I am an outsider."
Luo Yao pondered for a moment, and finally decided to send several troops to Quwo and Linfen to explore what was going on.
From that moment on, both Luo Yao and Zhou Ming, who claimed to be an outsider, focused their attention on the villages that had been massacred, feeling that this might be Zhang Qigong's ruthless plan.
It was not until the night of that day, when Luo Yao and Zhou Min were sitting across from each other to have a drink, that they suddenly heard that there was a flood and fire in the camp, they both felt that something was wrong.
"Damn it! This is to lure the tiger away from the mountain!...Zhang Qigong's target is the middle camp where the loot and loot are piled inside the camp!"
Luo Yao cursed angrily and immediately entrusted several clan guards to invite the Wang family.
On the side, Zhou Min's face was not good-looking, because a few hours ago, even he thought that Zhang Qigong's purpose was to make the Northern First Army actually guilty of killing civilians, robbing civilians, and falsely reporting military merits, etc., but he did not.
It occurred to me that Zhang Qigong actually instigated the Yongwang Party members in the First Army Camp of the North to stage a mutiny and attack the middle camp where war trophies and supplies were piled inside the camp.
Sure enough, when King Huan Zhao Hongxuan and his sect guards escorted Luo Yao and Zhou Min to the outside of the tent, the entire camp was filled with flames and shouts of killing.
"General in front, please stay!"
Seeing a relatively familiar general and his soldiers rushing past not far from the front, Luo Yao quickly called out to the man.
Hearing Luo Yao's call, the general stopped and glanced at Luo Yao doubtfully, probably because he felt unfamiliar.
But the general recognized Zhou Min who was standing with Luo Yao, so he hurriedly walked over and cupped his hands towards Zhou Min: "Mr. Zhou."
Zhou Min glanced at Luo Yao and saw that the latter was staring at him intently. He sighed helplessly, and then asked in a deep voice: "What happened in the camp?"
The general hesitated for a moment and said: "It is said that the people of King Yong and King Xiang's party attacked us, and they lied about the attack by the Korean army."
After hearing this, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan was shocked and said angrily: "How dare they rebel?!"
The general glanced at Zhao Hongxuan and said nothing.
Seeing this, Zhou Min coughed and said in a deep voice: "General, I hope you will answer truthfully when I ask you this question!...Did the soldiers of King Yong and King Xiang's party really attack you?"
"This..." The general scratched his head and said hesitantly: "Reporting to Sir, I am also confused in my heart. Our soldiers said so, but I also heard that the soldiers of King Yong and King Xiang
What they said was that our soldiers attacked them in order to create chaos and cover up...Wang and others secretly intercepted the gains from the war."
"I understand, just go ahead."
Zhou Min nodded, and after the general left, he looked at each other and Luo Yao, and said with a half-smile: "Not a bad reason, at least it's reasonable, right?"
Luo Yao frowned and looked around anxiously: "Are the people from the Wang family still coming?"
Looking at this scene, Zhou Min shook his head, turned to King Huan Zhao Hongxuan and said: "Fortunately, we are fighting among our own people. If they were really Koreans, we would all be dead standing here... There is no army worse than this.
And you still have hope for this army?"
"..." Looking at the military camps that were on fire everywhere, King Huan Zhao Hongxuan remained silent.
At the same time, Cui Xie, Liu Yi and other generals took advantage of the fact that the generals of the East Palace faction were not on guard. While spreading rumors and creating chaos, they attacked the central camp and set fire to the place where the loot and loot were piled.
Camp.
Looking at the blazing sea of fire, Cui Xie's face, which was slightly ferocious because of the killing, showed a hint of ecstasy.
Even he didn't expect that this operation would go so smoothly.
After lighting the last tent on fire with his own hands, Cui Xie said happily: "That's it, everything is ready!"
After hearing this, Liu Yi, who was beside him, looked around and shook his head: "No, there is still one step left."
"What?" Cui Xie looked at Liu Yi doubtfully, but saw the latter raising his hand and pointing into the distance, and whispered in a vigilant tone: "Brother Cui, look over there!"
Seeing this, Cui Xie subconsciously turned his head and looked in the direction pointed by Liu Yi's finger. At this moment, Liu Yi suddenly covered Cui Xie's mouth and nose with his left hand from behind, and then stabbed it in with the sharp blade in his right hand.
Cui Xie's back.
"Well..." Cui Xie's eyes widened and he looked at Liu Yi in disbelief from the corner of his eye.
"Puff puff puff"
Liu Yi stabbed him more than a dozen times, and Cui Xie's blood splashed all over his face.
Liu Yi, you...bastard...
Cui Xie breathed out with resentment.
Seeing this, Liu Yi let go of the sharp sword that had penetrated Cui Xie's body, and found the letter written by Yong Wang Hongyu from the latter's arms.
In the light of the fire, Liu Yi saw a few drops of blood on the letter, and frowned slightly: "Ah, it was almost in vain..."
After that, he pushed Cui Xie's body into the burning tent next to him.
At this time, Cui Xie's guards had been attacked and killed by Liu Yi's guards, and their bodies fell to the ground.
"Come." Liu Yi summoned a personal guard to his side and whispered: "Go and deliver this letter to His Highness Prince Xiang immediately!"
"Yes!" Several guards clasped their fists and left.
At this time, Liu Yihuan glanced at the distance of the military camp, which was still in chaos, and then turned his gaze to the burning tent, watching Cui Xie's body being swallowed up by the sea of fire.