With the help of Hongyu Zhenren, Xiao Ding broke the large array set up by the enemy army and captured the city of Duli in one fell swoop.

Now, there is only one step away from Jiangzhou City. Jiangzhou City is less than 200 miles away from Duli City, and the next step is to bring troops over to attack.

At this time, the strength of the king of Jiaozhou guarding Jiangzhou City was only about 10,000, and most of them were brought by him from Jiaozhou.

Jiangzhou City is different from Jiaozhou City, there are two small cities near Jiaozhou City that can connect with each other, but Jiangzhou City does not, it is a lonely city located between the mountains, and it is not easy to defend it.

Therefore, when the king of Jiaozhou learned that the city of Duli was also occupied by the enemy, he almost did not faint.

Youyangzi and the county commander of Naduli City had already entered Jiangzhou City at this time, and the king of Jiaozhou also knew that the other party would definitely come to attack Jiangzhou next, and he was also urgently discussing the strategy against the enemy with all the civil officials and generals under him. What made several generals a little strange was that the leaders of the Jianghu sect who usually accompanied the King of Jiaozhou did not appear by the side of the King of Jiaozhou today.

After Xiao Ding's side occupied Duli City, he found the tortured and dying pseudo-Niang Gao in the prison of Duli City.

It wasn't that the jailer tortured Gao Jin, but the four or five lewd men in the same cell as him, who were extremely bored because they had been imprisoned for a long time, suddenly saw a sissy Gao Jinnei, and he also had thin skin and tender flesh, so they had bad thoughts about him.

In this era, there are also many perverted people who have the habit of dragon yang and the habit of prostitution.

As a result, Gao Jinnei, the young son of the Taiwei Mansion who was once in the limelight, has suffered a lot in the prison these days, and he has been devastated by those strong men every day, and he has been tortured to the point that he has nothing to love, but he is weak and helpless.

When he was rescued, Gao Xunei had been tortured to the point that he only had one breath left, and the whiplash wounds on his body had not been well treated, and some places had begun to fester, especially the back buttocks, which were destroyed by four or five obscene men every day, and the injuries were even more unbearable.

Xiao Ding thought that Youyangzi would kill this scourge, but he didn't expect to keep him in prison all the time. Although he was rescued now, Xiao Ding still had the heart to kill him with a knife.

However, in the end, Xiao Ding still held back, no matter what, Gao Jinnei is also the son of Taiwei Gao Geyu, if he is killed by the enemy, he still has an excuse to shirk it, if he ordered him to be killed, then after he returns to Beijing, Taiwei Gao will not have to fight with himself!

Xiao Ding didn't want to get into trouble in the power struggle of the imperial court, so he broke off his mind to kill Gao Quannei and ordered his soldiers to go to Lang Zhong to help Gao Quannei treat.

In fact, Xiao Ding's jade pendant space has the good injury medicine that Yue Yurou gave him, but unfortunately he doesn't want to use such a good injury medicine on Gao Xuan's body.

Of course, he still blamed Gao for not obeying his orders and sending troops without authorization, thus burying the 10,000 troops on his side. It hurts to think about it, that's an army of 10,000!

However, even if he told the emperor and dealt with Gao Jinnei in accordance with military regulations, the emperor would not kill Gao Jinnei, at most he would take off his deputy marshal official position according to the charge of dereliction of duty.

After settling Gao Press, Xiao Ding gathered all the generals to the Duli City County Ya Hall to discuss with everyone about attacking Jiangzhou City.

Among these generals, naturally there are also those border generals who have just surrendered.

The outcome of the discussion was surprisingly consistent. There is no need to use any conspiracy to attack Jiangzhou, as long as you send troops directly to fight it.

In the face of absolute strength, you just need to go up and do it. Anyway, the strength of the king of Jiaozhou is not as large as his own side.

Seeing that everyone agreed to send troops directly, Xiao Ding thought about it for a while, and felt that there was nothing bad about this, so he recruited a guide from the city again, personally led nearly 50,000 troops, and drove straight to Jiangzhou City.

At this time, seven or eight days have passed since the day of the attack on the city of Xiaduli, and a few days ago, everyone was busy with some resettlement work after entering the city, and then everyone held a celebration banquet to celebrate for a few days, so after a delay, so many days have passed.

In this large-scale march, Song Yinzi wanted to learn more practical experience, so he also asked to follow Xiao Ding to the front line, but Xiao Ding did not refuse. Anyway, there are a lot of troops on his side, and if the king of Jiaozhou wants to resist, he doesn't have that strength.

Now it is no longer the moment when he first arrived at the front line to support, at that time, he was using 20,000 or 30,000 troops to fight against the two or three hundred thousand troops of the king of Jiaozhou. And now, the two or three hundred thousand troops of the King of Jiaozhou have already been eaten away by himself little by little. The king of Jiaozhou no longer has the strength to compete with himself.

So, under the leadership of a guide who was familiar with the path, nearly 50,000 troops came to camp outside Jiangzhou City.

At this time, it is already on the verge of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15.

Just when Xiao Ding was preparing for the final general attack and directly capturing the king of Jiaozhou, a holy decree suddenly came from the capital, which completely disrupted Xiao Ding's battle plan.

This holy decree was not sent by the old emperor Song Yuanting, but by the new emperor Song Yinding. This Song Yinding is the seventh prince of the current dynasty, that is, among Song Yinzi's many brothers, except for himself, the only remaining seventh brother.

Along with the holy decree, there was also the sad news of the sudden death of the old emperor Song Yuanting.

Xiao Ding was also very shocked when he heard the news at first glance, the old emperor died for no reason, and the seventh prince directly ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne, all of which seemed too sudden and too weird.

Song Yinzi also felt broken, how could his father say that he would die if he died? The main purpose of taking the initiative to ask Ying this time to come out to quell the rebellion against the king of Jiaozhou is to accumulate some merits, so that after he goes back, he can let his father justifiably establish himself as the crown prince, but the counterinsurgency on his side has not yet ended, but the seventh prince directly ascended the throne in Beijing.

risked his life to come out to quell the rebellion, but in the end, he made a wedding dress for others?

The first thing the seventh prince Song Yinding did after ascending the throne was to send a holy decree to Song Yinzi, ordering him to immediately withdraw his troops and stop attacking the king of Jiaozhou.

This made Xiao Ding have to suspect that the ascension to the throne of the seven princes had a great relationship with the king of Jiaozhou.

Song Yinzi and Xiao Ding and others originally thought that the holy decree was sent by the old emperor Song Yuanting, so they all knelt down to receive the decree, and later heard that it was the holy decree issued by the new emperor, and everyone stood up.

Song Yinzi even snatched the holy decree from the hand of the eunuch, threw it on the ground, and stepped on it a few times, and said: "What kind of emperor is he, I don't even recognize him as the emperor, how did he ascend the throne?" ”

The eunuch was so frightened that he trembled and said: "After the death of the old emperor, the Seventh Emperor took charge of the court with the support of Prime Minister Zhao Cheng, Gao Taiwei and others, and grasped the power. On the contrary, there are more ministers who support Prime Minister Zhao and Gao Taiwei. So the Seventh Prince took over the throne as a matter of course. ”

When Song Yinzi heard this, he was even more angry, but he couldn't solve any problem at all just being angry at this time. He then asked, "My father has always been in good health, but how did he die?" ”

The eunuch then replied tremblingly: "One night, after drinking a bowl of bird's nest porridge, the old emperor began to vomit blood in the middle of the night, covering his heart with both hands, saying that he was very distressed, and then invited the imperial doctor to come over, took the pulse of the old emperor, and prescribed medicine, but after taking the medicine, the old emperor's distress did not improve, and the old emperor died early the next morning. ”

Song Yinzi has been following his father since he was a child, how have he ever heard that his father was distressed? Therefore, after listening to the eunuch of the edict, he immediately felt that there must be something wrong with this. Maybe his father was assassinated.

You must know that Song Yinzi has a total of more than ten royal brothers, and in just a few months, there have been accidents one after another, and Wang Niangniang, the queen of the main palace, died without explanation, and I still don't know why she died.

Although Wang Niangniang is not Song Yinzi's mother-in-law, it is still good to take Song Yinzi all the time. Before, Song Yinzi's mother-in-law Concubine Liu got sick for no reason, and Wang Niangniang helped take care of it.

Later, after Xiao Ding came to Zhongzhou, Song Yinzi told Xiao Ding these things, and Xiao Ding helped him analyze that maybe Wang Niangniang's death had something to do with her being the prince's mother-in-law. At that time, the crown prince appointed by the emperor was the eldest prince, and Wang Niangniang was the eldest prince's own mother.

At this time, Song Yinzi also began to suspect that the death of his father was very likely to be problematic.

Now that something happened in Kyoto, it seems that there is no time to attack Jiangzhou Castle at the moment. For the time being, let's let go of this Jiaozhou king.

So Song Yinzi decided to immediately follow the eunuch back to Beijing, but was stopped by Xiao Ding on the side.

"Why didn't Vice Marshal Tian let me go back to Kyoto?" Song Yinzi asked suspiciously.

Xiao Ding said unhurriedly: "King Mu, it's not that I stopped you from letting you return, but even if you return, you can't just follow that group of eunuchs back." ”

"How do you go back?" Song Yinzi was even more confused.

"King Mu Chitose, according to the information brought by these eunuchs, I speculate that there may be something behind your father's death, so if you return alone like this, I guess you may be in danger. Now that your seventh brother has taken control of the imperial court, it will be too easy for him to find a reason to kill you now. Therefore, I advise you to return with troops if you want to go back. Xiao Ding calmly analyzed.

"Returning with troops? And what about here at the front? And even if I bring troops, I won't fight! Song Yinzi frowned and said.

After thinking for a while, Xiao Ding said slowly: "In this way, I will go back with you with some troops, and this place will be handed over to the two brothers Han Qi, Han Qi and Zhongwu to continue to attack Jiangzhou City in the future." ”

After these days of fighting, Xiao Ding has some understanding of the temperament and temperament of the generals. In his opinion, among the more than a dozen generals under him, only the two brothers of the Han family were somewhat resourceful and good at analyzing when fighting. Most of the other generals are more than brave, and their strategy is slightly worse.

Therefore, he decided that after he left here, he would give the command of the army to the Han brothers.

So, Xiao Ding did not delay, and directly summoned the whole battalion to the big tent of the Chinese army. The leaders of the various Jianghu sects also gathered in the big tent.

Xiao Ding and Song Yinzi told the Holy Decree in public, but in fact, when the Holy Decree came, many people were also present at the time, and they also knew some inside information.

Then, Xiao Ding said his plan. He decided to divide half of the troops to be led by himself to protect Song Yinzi and return to Zhongzhou City, and the remaining half of the troops were handed over to the two brothers Han Qi and Han Qi to be in charge, with Han Qi as the main force and Han Qi as the auxiliary. The other generals will obey the command of the Han brothers.

At present, there are about 48,000 soldiers in the battalion, and Xiao Ding plans to take 18,000 and the remaining 20,000 soldiers to continue to attack Jiangzhou City. After the attack on Jiangzhou City, all the generals on the border continued to lead the troops to the border, although the number of troops has been reduced a lot at this time, but it is better than nothing, there are 20,000 to use these 20,000 first, and then send troops to the frontier one after another.

The purpose of these Jianghu sects coming to Jiangzhou was to destroy several evil Jianghu forces such as Tianluomen and Disha Valley. They wiped out the small sects at every turn, and the methods were too bloody, so everyone regarded these sects as public enemies.

Therefore, these sects will continue to stay in Jiangzhou, waiting for Jiangzhou City to be broken, and then they will destroy these evil Jianghu forces.

Song Yinzi returned to Kyoto with Song Yinzi and the ninth princess Song Yinping, after all, her father was dead, and she had to go back to see it.

In addition, Fan Sanpang, Sun Dasheng, and Luo Dafeng were also called by Xiao Ding and returned to Zhongzhou with him.

The new generation of generals of the Yang family, the Yue family, the Luo family, and the Gao family also wanted to go back to Zhongzhou to see the situation in their own families.

Xiao Ding knew that they were thinking about their respective homes, so he didn't stop them, nodded and agreed to take them back together.

In fact, the Han brothers are also very worried about whether their eldest brother Han Jun will be affected in this court coup. However, Xiao Ding has already entrusted the two brothers with important tasks, so it is difficult for them to open their mouths and propose to go back.

Therefore, the remaining generals here on the front line, in addition to the two brothers of the Han family, there are also Lu Changping, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Zhongzhou, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Yuezhou, and the command of Di Wanjun, and the commander of the soldiers and horses of Jiangzhou, surnamed Shen, who is one of the generals who surrendered.

Coupled with the five or six border generals who had just surrendered, it was enough to attack Jiangzhou City.

On the side of the Jianghu sect, Mei Qiuyang and Bai Qianbei still take the lead, and the heads or leaders of other sects and factions assist, and everyone discusses things together.

After the plan for dividing the troops and generals was decided, everyone dispersed.

Early the next morning, everyone was ready, Xiao Ding and the three sisters and brothers of the Yang family, the two brothers of the Yue family, as well as Gao Hongxiu and Luo Sikou, gathered 18,000 troops, protected Song Yinzi and the Ninth Princess, and embarked on the path back to Kyoto, and at the same time did not forget to bring the injured Gao Jinnei with him.

Xiao Ding was mainly worried, leaving Gao Jinnei, he is still in the position of deputy marshal, if he uses his power to make some moths out, then his own army can't help but harm him.

So, before going on the road, I took him with me.