The tomb of Shenjing.

A huge pine pavilion is like a cover, surrounded by dense shade, the tips of the branches are hung with Lingshuang edges, a long pavilion is built under the pine, there is a chessboard in the center of the long pavilion, there are two men in yellow robes sitting on the left and right of the chessboard, one old and one young, it is the Great Qi Emperor Zhao Bairen and his favorite four princes Zhao Liexian. On one side of them is a new tomb, the tomb is not majestic, on the contrary, it is very inconspicuous, and the tombstone is also written very simply, no name, no title, no name, only four simple words: the tomb of the Ming Concubine.

Zhao Bairen was taking a long test at this time, he was holding a sunspot on the tip of his fingers, and his eyes were staring at the chess moves on the chessboard, but his eyes were focused, and he seemed to be concentrated, but in fact he was already wandering out of the world.

Zhao Liexian was already surprised by this, just waited quietly, took a sip of tea from time to time, and then looked at the surrounding scenery.

"Father, it's been over, my father has always come to this place these days, and it's four or five hours to sit here, although there is no wind and no rain here, but according to the big star official, it's not good for the dragon body to stay for a long time. Zhao Lie waited for a while, and when he saw that Zhao Bairen was still not moving, he finally couldn't bear it anymore and whispered.

Zhao Bairen's eyes moved, and he said, "Big Star Officer, Big Star Official, I haven't seen him for a long time, is his body okay?"

The corners of Zhao Liexian's eyes twitched, and he said, "Father, the Great Star Official...... He was assassinated last month, and he is gone......"

Zhao Bairen was taken aback: "Ah?

Zhao Lie said in a low voice: "Father, this matter is still urged by my father to investigate." ”

Zhao Bairen was puzzled: "Who is the murderer?"

Zhao Lie said first: "It has not been seized yet." ”

Zhao Bairen was furious: "Bastard, more than a month has passed, why hasn't he been arrested and brought to justice! Such a shocking case has occurred in Shenjing, how can the imperial court have any face! Gu Changwei! Gu Changwei! As the commander of the blood guard, he has not been able to close the case so far, don't you feel ashamed?!"

Zhao Liexian sighed lightly and said in a low voice: "Father, the ancient guards have already resigned ten days ago. ”

Zhao Bairen was still angry: "Bastard, if something happens, you want to run! Call him back! Let him find out about this case!"

Zhao Liexian said cautiously and softly: "Father, the ancient guards returned home and left a suicide note, claiming that they had failed the emperor's grace, and committed suicide with guilt the next day. ”

Zhao Bairen's mouth suddenly grew so big that he couldn't close it for a long time, and after a while, his lips trembled slightly and closed, and he slowly closed his eyes, and a trace of tears oozed from the corners of his eyes: "He's gone too?"

Saying that, Zhao Bairen opened his eyes, looked at Concubine Ming's tombstone painfully, and said in a low voice: "Concubine Ming has served me for eighteen years, and the Great Star Officer has served me for sixty-one years, how can they just leave, leaving no love at all, and not talking about old feelings at all?"

Zhao Bairen shed two lines of tears, he covered his heart, and cried in a low voice: "Kill me ...... me"

Zhao Liexian hurriedly shouted in panic: "Imperial Doctor, Imperial Doctor!!"

The imperial doctor not far away heard the sound, he trotted all the way with the small medicine box, rushed to Zhao Bairen's side, touched his pulse, and then nodded to the nervous eunuch on the side, the eunuch immediately took out the medicine bottle he carried with him, and after feeding Zhao Bairen two pills, Zhao Bairen's brows stretched a little, but after such a toss, he was already on the chaise longue on the side, covered with a thick fur, his face was pale, and his lips were foaming.

After about half an hour, there was a hurried sound of horses' hooves outside, and then several people jumped off their horses, and one of them came galloping quickly, and before he could get close, he heard a voice shouting eagerly: "Father, father!

The person who came was Zhao Hanqing, he rushed all the way, and when he rushed to Zhao Bairen's collapse, he knelt down and choked up: "Father, the son is here!

Zhao Lie first gently helped Zhao Bairen wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth on the side, and said with a sneer: "Isn't this the prince of the prison country, how can you have time to come and see your father?"

These words were scathing and mean, and everyone else lowered their heads when they heard it, pretending to be dead and stupid.

Zhao Bairen stared at Zhao Hanqing with cloudy eyes, his fingers trembled slightly, Zhao Hanqing hurriedly kowtowed and defended: "Father, the son came immediately as soon as he received the news. ”

Zhao Lie snorted coldly: "On weekdays, you go to visit your father every day, rain or shine, and now you see that you are going to pass on the throne, so you simply don't come! Hmph, it seems that you are going to cross the river and tear down the bridge!"

Zhao Hanqing was furious, he raised his head suddenly, his eyes were like spears and arrows: "King Ping, what are you talking about!" As he spoke, he kowtowed to Zhao Bairen and said: "Father, it's not that the sons and ministers are unfilial, but that the most important event in the world has happened right now! King Ping, if you don't know the situation, don't criticize indiscriminately and say contradictory! Do you know what has happened in the past two days!!"

Zhao Lie said in a weird way: "How do I know? I'm just a waste prince who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun, and I just accompany my father all day long, how can I know what is going on outside?"

Zhao Hanqing glared at Zhao Lie first angrily, and then said to Zhao Bairen: "Father, there is an urgent report from the southeast, Long Tenghai has led the army to engage the puppet country and the Dijon country, the two sides fought for a day and night, the battle line stretched for more than 100 miles, and both sides suffered heavy losses, each with its own victory or defeat. The next day, Long Tenghai made a surprise attack, and Mingli attacked the Yuexia Pass in the Shanlan Plain, but secretly sent 2,000 monks to bypass the frontal defense line and attack the Blue Mountain granary diagonally behind. ”

Zhao Hanqing spoke very quickly, and his voice was even more revealing of the sound of gold and stone, and the tone made people feel the murderous aura coming from the battlefield thousands of miles away.

Zhao Bairen struggled to do it, and with the support of Zhao Liexian, he sat down on the soft collapse, he took a sip of the hot ginseng soup brought by the eunuch, recovered a little vitality, and then nodded to Zhao Hanqing.

Zhao Hanqing continued: "But the commander of the enemy's coalition forces, Ulala, has already had a heavy army in the granary of the Blue Mountain, and the two thousand monks failed to attack, and the whole army was annihilated!"

"Ah!!" the surrounding eunuchs and palace maids exclaimed in small exclamations, looking at each other.

Zhao Hanqing continued with an ugly face: "Not only that, but the enemy also sent ten cavalry regiments on both flanks, and after cooperating with the artillery regiment to penetrate the two wings from both sides, they bypassed the most powerful Chinese defense line and slammed the rear line of our Chinese army, and then, with the cooperation of the enemy assault troops in the air, the enemy Holy Light Legion, the Shengwei Legion, the Five Thousand Blood Seed Corps, and the Three Thousand Blood Corps jointly broke through the defense line of our Chinese army, and went straight to the camp of the Chinese army commander Long Tenghai!"

Zhao Bairen's eyes widened, and his fingers trembled slightly: "Is the general safe?"

Zhao Hanqing nodded quickly, and said: "Although the enemy army is fierce and cunning, the enemy's actions are expected by the military division Gao Shenghan, and the camp tents of the commanders of our Chinese army are all traps, and the enemy assault troops Holy Light Legion, Shengwei Legion, Five Thousand Blood Seed Legion, and Three Thousand Blood Bloodline Legion are all trapped in the siege of our army. Gao Shenghan surrounded him but did not fight, luring the enemy commander to come to the rescue, but the enemy commander saw through Gao Shenghan's plan and could not hold out, so the general Long Tenghai ordered all the enemy troops to be surrounded and annihilated. Our army has thus gained ...... Pyrrhic victory. ”

Zhao Bairen let out a sigh of relief and muttered, "It's good to win, it's good to win." ”

Zhao Lie first muttered sourly: "Isn't a miserable victory a win?"

Zhao Hanqing didn't seem to hear it, he immediately said: "Although Long Tenghai passed the good news, but also asked for reinforcements, this battle our army hit the enemy's elite hard, killing a total of 150,000 enemies, but our army also lost 2,000 monks, 100,000 soldiers, Long Tenghai urgently asked the imperial court to recruit monks to support, and at the same time send an additional army to coordinate the battle. ”

Zhao Bairen opened his mouth and stammered: "Where did the imperial court give him to make up for the gap of these two thousand monks at this time?

Most of the monks are selfish, for the sake of the sect's interests, they can send monks to fight with the imperial court, and then divide the various interests of the occupied territories, but once they suffer heavy casualties, then they will have to retreat.

After all, it's more important than money!

Zhao Hanqing kowtowed and said: "Father, no matter what the battle is, it is already a good start, if you don't immediately reinforce, the puppet country and Dijon country will fight at home, and the replenishment speed is far better than mine, if you continue to fight like this, the enemy is strong and I am weak, once the war collapses, I am afraid that ...... There are unforeseen disasters!"

There are no fools here, everyone knows that as soon as this war breaks out, all contradictions will have to retreat, and the victory or defeat of this war is the main contradiction, because once this war is lost, it is not as simple as losing power and humiliating the country.

All the contradictions accumulated by Daqi will all erupt!

If the puppet country and the Dijon country lose, it is nothing more than a land reparation, but Daqi loses, and I am afraid that it will ...... It's going to be a change of dynasty again.

They can't afford to lose!

Zhao Liexian lowered his eyes at this time, his eyes were rolling rapidly, and a poisonous plan of killing two birds with one stone suddenly came to mind.