Chapter 1649 A Clear Result

(ps: I had something to do during the day and went out, so I coded late. Don't panic, there will be more tonight)

"Has the Empress Dowager rested?"

The Regent asked a eunuch beside him.

"Replying to Your Highness, the Empress Dowager has already rested. Earlier, she sent someone to ask how many bowls of porridge Your Highness had this evening. This servant saw that Your Highness was playing chess with Lord Meng, so I took the liberty of having the porridge simmered for a while longer."

The Regent nodded and said to Meng Shou,

"Accompany me to have some, my dear minister."

"Thank you for Your Majesty's grace."

The porridge was served.

It wasn't plain porridge, but rather had some ingredients added to it, and the cooking method was also different, so it was very fragrant and delicious.

Drinking porridge to nourish the body and stomach is actually not bad, but porridge and porridge are different.

After the chessboard was removed,

The monarch and his minister slowly ate at the stone table where they had been playing chess.

"In the future, it will be difficult to eat porridge peacefully."

"It was Your Highness who wanted to live such a hard life."

"Hey, isn't it because the original peaceful days couldn't go on?"

"This minister doesn't think so. This minister believes that even plain white porridge with a little pickled vegetables can be eaten deliciously. And whether the porridge is good or not depends on whether the chopsticks, the bowl, and the plate belong to one's own family.

"This minister has always had a few acres of land in Chu, taken care of by the Chen family. Every year, the produce is recorded in the account of this minister's old house. When this minister was compiling history in Yingdu, I often ate millet grown from my own fields;

"When this minister was in Jin, when this minister was in Qian, when this minister was in Yan, there was also an old servant at home who brought a bag of rice from home to this minister every year.

"He is old and can't deliver it anymore, so he let his son deliver it. Now, it is his grandson who delivers it to this minister every year.

"Saying that homesickness is added to the bowl is false;

"To put it bluntly,

"The rice produced from one's own fields makes the porridge fragrant, so fragrant and reassuring."

"What my dear minister said is so comforting, making me feel much better."

"To gloss over faults and beautify wrongdoings, the Spring and Autumn brushwork is what historians claim to disdain but are most skilled at."

"Hahahaha."

The Regent let out a loud laugh.

After a while,

The Regent stirred the small spoon in his hand,

And said;

"If all those things are smashed, I can start to make my own bowls and chopsticks."

"Since I started compiling history, what I have seen the most is the passing of days under the decline of the country. The superiors always have thousands of reasons to excuse themselves, opening their mouths and closing their mouths with gradual progress, and mentioning the governance of a great country as cooking a small fish;

"What they value are exquisite porcelains, as if they are invaluable treasures, and they are always concerned about the common people of the world;

"But what I also see is that those jars and pots that they claim are exquisite and cannot be moved lightly, after being shattered on the ground, the successors can often quickly gather them up again.

"Is this world really that precious?

"I think, not necessarily.

"What they value is not this world, but..."

The Regent opened his mouth and continued,

"But the chair under their own asses, the wealth and glory of their family for generations, and their power to rule the world together with the Son of Heaven.

"It is impossible for them to hand over everything they have.

"So,

"I can only go and grab it myself.

"This, on the surface,

"Will inevitably be unsightly."

Meng Shou bowed and said;

"Your Highness, this minister has compiled the history books of the four countries and only saw four words."

"Please speak, my dear minister."

"The victor is always right."

"Yes, yes, this world is actually like this. Where does the so-called since ancient times come from? Where does the so-called eternal and unchanging come from?

"The Great Xia was so glorious back then, but it collapsed when it collapsed;

"Even if the history books say that I am harsh to the nobles in the future, forgetting the friendship between the ancestors of the nobles and the ancestors of my Xiong family, and destroying the promise of sharing the world;

"What about Yan?

"Didn't the Yan Emperor trample on the aristocratic families and succeed?

"What about Jin?

"How did the Yu family treat its vassals, and how did the vassals treat the Yu family?

"The victor is always right,

"The victor is always right."

The Regent spread out his hand,

And said:

"Tea."

Two cups of fragrant tea were brought up.

The Regent picked up the teacup, but didn't drink it, instead, he sprinkled it on the ground beside him.

"Using tea instead of wine, first, I pay respects to Yingdu, and to that saying, 'One general's success is built on ten thousand corpses.'"

Meng Shou then picked up his teacup,

And said;

"It's a pity that this minister is old, otherwise, I would really like to be a scribe by Your Highness's side and write the daily records for Your Highness."

"Whether it's darkness or light is not yet clear," the Regent smiled.

Meng Shou shook his head,

And said:

"In the eyes of historians, there is no darkness or light. What they fear most is mediocrity."

"Generally, novelists think that way, right?"

Meng Shou smiled:

"Those who wield the pen are all the same."

……

Zhao Wentong is in great pain right now.

He was originally stationed here, corresponding to that Yan army, which should be the Pingye Duke's department of Yan.

For the first time,

The Chu army can use its cavalry advantage to squeeze the Yan army.

Zhao Wentong cherishes this hard-won opportunity;

How could he have never seen a pig run if he had never eaten pork?

Perhaps he doesn't use cavalry as skillfully as the Yan generals, but he roughly knows how to use it and how to exert the performance of the cavalry. He has been in the army for so many years, and his family has passed down for so long, how could he not know?

Therefore,

Deploying troops to press the formation,

Compressing the cavalry,

Zhao Wentong successfully compressed the Pingye Duke's department of Yan into a county town.

The city wall of the county town is not high, and the area is not large, so it can't be said to be easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But at the beginning, because he was worried that the Yan army would take advantage of his siege to try to break through, Zhao Wentong chose the most stable and steady method, like a maid sweeping the floor, bit by bit, gathering all the dust outside.

Anyway, what Du Gu Mu, that old thing, gave him was the military order to keep an eye on this Yan army and prevent them from running around in their rear.

Since this is the case, then there is no hurry, take your time to tidy up.

At the same time, Zhao Wentong also knew that there were more than ten thousand Qingluan soldiers in this Yan army, almost the same number as the Yan army.

Therefore,

Zhao Wentong also wanted to use the method of step-by-step pressure and daily pressure to divide the strange "Yan Chu" coalition in front of him.

The effect,

Was very obvious.

In recent days, many Chu soldiers who had defected to the opposite side had come over.

Zhao Wentong felt that after some time, when the morale of the Pingye Duke's subordinates was lower, he would be able to try to truly start attacking the city.

At that time, the Yan army in front of him would no longer be a tough bone to gnaw after losing its spirit.

However,

Who would have thought,

Suddenly, a Yan army cavalry actually wrapped up from behind him.

More than 40,000 Jingnan Army cavalry, judging from the military appearance during the march, it can be clearly seen that this is definitely the elite of the Yan army.

Zhao Wentong's troops were scattered a bit, but fortunately, the Yan army's attack allowed his outer sentry riders to notify the headquarters in advance, so Zhao Wentong immediately gathered his troops and withdrew from the encirclement of the Pingye Duke's army.

And the Jingnan Army was also exhausted because of the long-distance raid, so Luo Ling did not directly order an attack. The two sides confronted each other across more than 30 miles.

But in any case, the situation on this battlefield was completely reversed because of the appearance of these 40,000 Jingnan Army cavalry.

The first day was uneventful;

The second day, sentry riders fought;

On the third day, the Yan army, which had recovered, began to consciously move out to compress the Chu army.

And Zhao Wentong had to shrink again in order to avoid being caught in a situation of being attacked from both inside and outside.

There was no large-scale conflict between the two sides, but Zheng Boye's siege was completely lifted.

Roles were reversed,

Now it was Zhao Wentong's turn to curl up in one place, while the Yan army began to be arrogant on the periphery.

Earlier, the Chu soldiers who had defected over this time defected again, and not only that, but they also "brought their families" and brought out a larger group.

As the war continued to the current situation, waves of Yan troops appeared in the heart of Chu. In fact, the morale of the Chu people was the most severely suppressed.

Moreover, with the defection of the Qingluan Army, the Qu clan took the lead. Even the great nobles could surrender. What psychological burden could these Chu soldiers have?

However, surrendering and surrendering back and forth is just a small reaction that will inevitably occur, which does not affect the overall situation.

Unless Nian Yao in Zhennan Pass suddenly slams the table and abandons Chu to join Yan, the rest are really just "small bets for fun."

Finally,

After arranging and perfecting the monitoring of Zhao Wentong's department by the various departments below and guarding against the Chu army that might appear in other directions,

Luo Ling led a team of personal soldiers to Zheng Boye's camp.

The two had had an unpleasantness before, but in fact, no one took it to heart.

Private friendship is private friendship, and fighting is fighting.

If he, Luo Ling, didn't even have this awareness, it would be impossible for the Jingnan King to tolerate him becoming one of the direct generals under his banner.

Furthermore,

Luo Ling also knew how difficult this battle of Pingye Duke was and how many risks he had taken.

The atmosphere in the Yan army is still very high-spirited. Being able to win battles and do what others cannot do will naturally be respected.

Most importantly, Luo Ling also knew that his prince treated Pingye Duke differently from others.

In the past, he wanted to compete with Pingye Duke, which was actually a bit of a desire to win favor.

He was clearly the first to arrive………

It's just that now, thinking about these things is meaningless.

On the second day of his army's arrival, the two sides sent messengers to exchange and communicate their respective situations.

Luo Ling didn't think it was a big deal that he, Pingye Duke, didn't take the initiative to come and see him. He came over on his own initiative.

However,

When Luo Ling arrived at Pingye Duke's camp,

He received shocking news:

On the day after Luo Ling's army arrived, Pingye Duke left the army to Jin Shuke to take care of, and he led dozens of personal guards straight south to find the Jingnan King!

………

Zheng Boye really went, and only brought twenty personal guards, as well as Si Niang and the Sword Saint.

Perhaps,

There really is a kind of feeling in the dark.

Originally, when Luo Ling's army appeared, Zheng Boye breathed a sigh of relief. When he learned that the prince led another army straight to Yingdu, he felt very enjoyable.

This is the prince's style, this is the prince's temper.

Therefore,

That night,

Zheng Boye had a big appetite,

Ate three bowls of noodles and fell asleep early.

Then,

He had a nightmare.

In the dream,

He saw flames, and then he saw a very familiar figure in the flames.

In the dream,

Zheng Fan desperately shouted at the person in the flames, but the person in the flames had no reaction. Several times, Zheng Fan tried to rush into the flames, but even if he was willing to endure that kind of pain, he still couldn't close the distance with that person.

After waking up from the nightmare,

His whole body was wet with cold sweat.

The magic pill floated in front of him.

Obviously, this was not an ordinary nightmare. If it was an ordinary nightmare, the magic pill would not appear. To be precise, since being with the magic pill, the number of times Zheng Boye had nightmares was really very few.

One is that he has seen a lot of fighting scenes, and his resilience is no longer the same.

Second, the magic pill, a kind of evil thing, can really have the effect of fighting poison with poison. If you can overcome the influence of the magic pill, then everything else is really insignificant.

The last time he had a nightmare was a few years ago, after the Jingnan King destroyed his entire family.

After waking up, Zheng Boye sat on the edge of the bed in a daze,

Si Niang brought water,

Zheng Boye didn't drink it.

Xue San invited the Sword Saint to take a look. He was worried that the Chu people were good at witchcraft, so maybe they cast a curse on their master because they saw that they couldn't win on the frontal battlefield.

The Sword Saint didn't know anything about this, but he still took a look.

Then, he didn't see anything.

Zheng Boye sat on the edge of the bed for half the night like he had lost his soul.

Early the next morning,

Zheng Boye suddenly stood up and made a decision.

He was going to Yingdu, he was going to catch up with Tian Wujing's team.

As a commander of an army, this was really an absurd decision.

The reason,

Was just because of a nightmare.

But, what was even more absurd was that no one objected.

Jin Shuke and the other subordinates had no chance to express their opinions, they could only follow all of Zheng Boye's instructions.

And the Demon Kings,

Whether it was Xue San or Si Niang, or Ah Ming and Fan Li, they didn't raise any objections to their master's decision.

Because they knew Tian Wujing's position in their master's heart,

Furthermore,

The Demon Kings had different concepts from ordinary people. To a certain extent, Zheng Fan, their master's aesthetics, was actually consistent with the Demon Kings.

The sentence "At worst, I'll find a place where no one knows me and open an inn" that he often said was not just talk.

Of course, at least the overall situation in this area was settled. Now it was not the Zhao family wanting to swallow them, but the Zhao family was worried about whether they would swallow him back.

Zheng Boye's mission to enter Chu this time had been completed, and the military merits that should have been brushed had already been brushed to overflowing.

Under the premise that it doesn't affect the overall situation,

Take a little risk, be a little willful,

So what?

After working so hard to build a family business, did he want to live a life like a law-abiding miser?

There was also one point that the master didn't say, the Demon Kings didn't say, and the Sword Saint didn't say.

Everyone tacitly didn't say it.

But when mortals reach a certain status, the dreams they have have a different meaning.

For example, in ancient times, the emperor's mother had to have a dream before giving birth to the emperor, which fairy came down or which dragon or giant python came down and got into her belly.

Zheng Boye is now a reserve frontier official. People of this status often have dreams with warning significance. No matter whether they are accurate or not, people often use this as a saying.

On the other hand, if he grew up on "graves" every day, then Zheng Boye himself was surrounded by evil spirits.

People like Zheng Boye, even if they don't cultivate, their fate will be forcibly hardened in the acquired day, otherwise they simply can't withstand this "bad" environment.

Most importantly,

Tian Wujing in Zheng Boye's heart is almost an invincible existence.

Dreaming,

Dreaming that the Jingnan King defeated the Chu army, and even broke Yingdu, is normal, but dreaming of this kind of picture with obvious negative connotations is obviously abnormal.

Since waking up in this world,

There are two people who are really good to him.

One is Sha Tuo Que Shi, but Sha Tuo Que Shi has been sleeping all the time, lying in a coffin all year round. His care is real, stemming from the fact that he kowtowed one more time at the beginning, but there is less warmth.

To Tian Wujing, it is really……… indescribable.

It has been several years since he came to this world, but the feeling of "being alone in a foreign land" is still there.

He actually has a kind of alienation and estrangement from the people of this world and the country of this world.

Only,

Here with Tian Wujing,

That is really a feeling like a brother.

He left as soon as he said,

But this is Chu after all,

Although the Yan army has mastered the advantage in the local battle, this is still the Yan people's home field after all.

Therefore, this kind of "single-handedly breaking through the pass," which is infinitely close to "single-handedly breaking through the pass," sounds very unrestrained, but in reality, it is also dancing on the tip of a knife. If he happens to run into a Chu army and is discovered, it is easy to be surrounded.

He had encountered obstacles, and even the Chu army had chased after him, but Zheng Boye had thrown them off.

Small groups of cavalry do have advantages, and the Sword Saint is still by Zheng Boye's side.

In any case, Zheng Boye, who had always ridiculed himself for having bad luck on the battlefield and let Ah Ming accompany him, was in good luck this time. The "naked" run of the main general actually became a reality.

Yingdu,

Was just ahead.

At this time,

The Sword Saint couldn't help but ask;

"If, something really happens to Tian Wujing, what will you do?"

The Sword Saint knew that it was inappropriate to ask this question at this time.

But on the one hand, he knew that Zheng Fan was not an ordinary person with a fragile heart, so there was no need to deliberately maintain and care at this time;

Secondly,

He really wanted to ask this question, very much.

Masters are lonely and aloof, but it does not mean that masters are completely indifferent and become saints;

It can only be said that,

Their interest threshold is higher.

Obviously, this question has now reached the Sword Saint's threshold. If Zheng Boye is willing to answer, the Sword Saint is even willing to promise that he can come out and hang out for a subsidy next time he goes on an expedition to renovate the house at home.

Zheng Boye didn't cry or make trouble, and his eyes didn't turn red;

After all, the bad news has not yet come, it's just a dream of his own.

He might even fly over and see Tian Wujing, and Tian Wujing will kick him directly!

He's fighting, why is he running around!

Or,

Settle accounts with himself,

Heard that he and his brother-in-law are getting along well under Juyang City, escorting food and drink?

This is of course the scene that Zheng Fan wants to see the most, even if he is kicked into serious injury by Tian Wujing.

At this time,

Faced with the Sword Saint's question,

Zheng Boye answered without hesitation. Obviously, although he kept telling himself that he was worrying too much, he still couldn't help but think about the consequences countless times.

"Then I will build ten Jingguan in Chu to make a grand ritual for Tian Wujing!

"I also want to investigate Du Juan's death, whether it has anything to do with that person!

"I will become a mad dog, and all those who are involved and owe debts will wait to be bitten by me!

"Then,

"It is,

"I will do everything at all costs,

"Send my godson to the dragon chair,

"No matter who is sitting on the dragon chair at that time!"

As soon as he finished speaking,

Just past a hillside,

A group of people immediately fell silent,

Ahead,

Yingdu's vastness appeared,

And at this time, Yingdu,

Was ablaze with fire!

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There will be more before two o'clock in the morning. I will definitely give this plot a result tonight, don't panic!