Chapter 129: Mistaken Loss of Military Power

On the way back to Yuzhou, Lan Ziyi did not enter any prefecture and county.

There is no point in it anymore,

The entire river ** has received Luo Yingmin's order not to provide grain and grass to Yuzhou.

Tao Zhutu proposed whether to cross the river and go north again, and ask the northern army for help,

Lan Ziyi vetoed this suggestion, firstly, because it was too far to the north, and secondly, he could not let the Beizhen Army be involved in the affairs of the forbidden army, this is the imperial court system, it is a rule, if he dares to disrupt the ministers of the court, he will tie Lan Ziyi's family to the fire and burn him to death.

Sleeping in the open all the way, cold water and hard food, Lan Ziyi and they finally returned to Yuzhou.

Lan Ziyi's stomach was aching from these bad diets, but the guilt in his chest was stronger than the discomfort in his stomach.

He Lan Ziyi can still eat dry food, what can the forbidden army and people in Yuzhou City do? Cannibalism?

Lan Ziyi really didn't dare to think about these things,

After returning to Yuzhou, he quietly entered the city from the north gate,

When Lan Ziyi entered the city, it was afternoon, and the sky was still very bright, but there was no military horse action outside the city.

"Maybe it's the eldest brother who drove the horse to the east gate, where the mountains are going up and the fodder is good for supplies." Lan Ziyi didn't care.

Lan Ziyi thought that the city was already full of hunger, and he complained, but he didn't expect that after entering the city, it was a different scene.

The ashes of the city have been cleared, and the piles of corpses are gone.

Although the forbidden army and civilians still live in tents, some important buildings have begun to be rebuilt.

But where did so many tents come from? When Lan Ziyi went out of the city, there were no chickens and dogs left in Yuzhou City, and there was nothing left, but now the people in the city actually have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, and there are porridge factories every few places, where did so much food come from?

Lan Ziyi came to a porridge factory cauldron, the porridge was boiled by the officials of Yuzhou Mansion, and they all recognized Lan Ziyi when they fought a few nights ago, and saw Lan Ziyi coming over and hurriedly saluted.

Although it is not a meal, there is still leftover rice in the pot, Lan Ziyi got off the horse and asked for a bowl, the porridge is very thick, not thin at all,

Lan Ziyi asked:

"How many meals a day do you boil this porridge?"

The officials replied:

"Of course, it's three meals a day."

Lan Ziyi was shocked, although there was a fire in the city, but everyone ran in time, there were not many deaths, and there were 100,000 forbidden troops, how could this method of eating food be provided?

Lan Ziyi asked:

"Where's the food?"

Without waiting for the official to answer, Tao Zhutu had already picked up a few grains of raw rice that had been sprinkled on the ground, chewed it and spit it out, and said:

"It tastes like southern rice."

Lan Ziyi asked and began to calculate in his heart, there are very few rice producing areas in the north, and the stocks in various places are pulled from the south, if it is used for military disaster relief, it will definitely not send rice back and forth, and it should be better to send wheat, millet, almost sorghum or even mulberry, now so much rice is not a supply from the north, Xiangyang in the south has been burned to ashes and it is impossible to send it back and forth, the Jiangxia army has passed several batches, it is impossible to have the spare strength to send grain out, and what is eaten now is either sent from the capital or Fengyang Dao,

When the official heard Lan Ziyi's question, he replied:

"If you go back to Weihou, just on the third day of Weihou's departure, there will be Lord Xiong and Lord Reconciliation in the capital who came over with grain and grass."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"Lord Bear? Master Xie? “

The officer replied:

"It's the right attendant of the military department, Xiong Jingzong, Lord Xiong, and the assessment division of the Ministry of Officials, Zhongjie Xuanming, and Master Xuanming."

Lan Ziyi was even more surprised when he heard this, these two people were civil officials in the capital, especially the one who Xie Xuanming, the people from the Ministry of Officials must be Zhang Mingyue's people, they came so early and for so long.

Lan Ziyi couldn't think about it anymore, so he quickly turned over and asked the officer:

"Where are the Forbidden Army?"

The officer replied:

"In the northeast of the city, it's just ......"

Lan Ziyi didn't wait for the official to finish speaking, he whipped and left, followed by Tao Zhutu and the guards of the Jihu Battalion.

The group came to the garrison of the forbidden army, and met many forbidden troops on the way,

None of these forbidden soldiers gave way to Lan Ziyi and saluted, but instead stared at Lan Ziyi with open eyes and pointed fingers, his eyes were full of contempt, and even a little resentment.

Lan Ziyi was shocked to see this scene, could it be ...... Forget it, let's go to the camp first.

Lan Ziyi searched for a long time and finally urged the horse to come to the cavalry garrison of the forbidden army.

The soldiers of the forbidden army had already come back from outside the city to see the trees and were in the middle of the city, and when they saw Lan Ziyi coming, the gate of the village was closed.

Lan Ziyi shouted at the door:

"Open the door!"

The soldiers guarding the camp hurriedly saluted when they saw Lan Ziyi, but when they heard Lan Ziyi's words, they still glanced at each other and did not answer.

Lan Ziyi looked annoyed and said:

"Where are the peaches chasing the tiger and the peach chasing the deer? Let them open the door! ”

At this time, a person with a face came out of the camp, looking at the face of a scholar, but wearing the outfit of a battalion general, and said to Lan Ziyi from a distance:

"General Lan, please come back, this is not the place you should be."

On the side, Tao Zhutu came to Lan Ziyi and said:

"Wei Hou, the situation is not right!"

When Lan Ziyi saw this person and heard this again, his heart sank into the ice cave, did these two civil officials from the capital really take away the military power in his hands?

Holding on to the last glimmer of hope, Lan Ziyi asked:

"Where are the Tiger Chase and the Deer General?"

The man in the camp replied:

"The two Taojia are not officials of the imperial court, and General Wei is not qualified to order people to command the army, and the two of them have been driven out of the camp.

General Wei has been absent for many days, and he has already escaped from the battle, but you have your own martial arts at home, and the subordinate has no ability to catch and kill people as casually as you do.

He also asked General Wei to move to the palace as soon as possible and explain his whereabouts to the two adults in the past few days. “

After saying that, the scholar dressed in the camp turned around and went back to the camp, Lan Ziyi was stuffy in the chest of this goods, standing on the horse and staring at the back of this person and didn't know what to do, fortunately, at this time Li Guangzhong came out of the camp, nodded and bowed when he passed the scholar for a long time, and waited until the scholar left Li Guangzhong came out of the camp and quietly said to Lan Ziyi:

"Wei Hou is back."

Lan Ziyi turned over and dismounted with a blue face, and asked in a low voice:

"What happened?"

On the third day when Wei Hou went out to look for food, Lord Xiong and Lord Reconciliation in the capital escorted grain and grass over, and went to Qi Rongxun's station when he entered the city, and in the middle of the night Xie Xuanming rushed into the camp with the defenders of Jingzhao Mansion who came with him in the capital, and drove the two generals of the Tao family out of the barracks, and replaced them with the head of the military department, and Wei Qionglou's Jihu battalion was also transferred to the garrison around the government office, and directly obeyed the command of Xie Xuanming. “

Lan Ziyi's brows were tangled together when he listened, and asked:

"Xie Xuanming is just a Lang, Xiong Jingzong is a squire and an official of the Ministry of War, why is Xie Xuanming in charge?"

Li Guangzhong replied:

"I only know that this Xie Xuanming seems to be Zhang Shoufu's henchman, and I don't know anything else.

Wei Hou has just entered the city, so let's go to the south of the city to send the Jun Inn to rest and rest. It's not good for me to talk to Wei Hou all the time, Xie Xuanming's people look too closely,

The infantry thought that the guards had killed too many people, so the guards had to be careful. The cavalry is still very convinced of the skills and means of the guard.

I took my leave. “

After saying that, Li Guangzhong hurriedly saluted, turned around and hurriedly entered the camp gate, and just two steps into the door, Li Guangzhong turned back and said:

"The one who escaped from the battle was released."

After saying that, Li Guangzhong buried his head and walked away quickly.

Tao Zhutu stepped forward to say something, but Lan Ziyi stretched out his hand to stop him, and Lan Ziyi said word by word:

"I don't have to be filial to say it!"

Then he got on his horse and greeted:

"Send Jun Inn, go!"

Peach Rabbit followed him on the horse and asked:

"Don't take a break now, Marquis Wei."

Lan Ziyi looked at Tao Zhutu and said:

"Everyone is there, Li Guangzhong gave me the way."

Ignoring the peach chasing rabbit who suddenly came to his senses, Lan Ziyi said to the guards of the Jihu Battalion:

"Go back to the camp, hard work!"

The soldiers clasped their fists and replied:

"I'm ordered to guard the Hou, the Houhou is uneasy, I can't wait!"

Lan Ziyi looked at these men, nodded, and then urged the horse to the south of the city.

A group of horsemen rode in the city and rushed to the dust, and after a while of passers-by, they arrived at the Sending Jun Inn.

Although it is an inn, the fire has burned down half of the building, and the remaining part barely has a few rooms to use, but the window paper has long been turned to ashes, and it is absolutely not windproof at night.

Lan Ziyi urged the horse to stop in front of the inn,

There were a few soldiers of the Jihu Battalion sitting outside the door, and when they saw Lan Ziyi, they all stood up and said happily:

"Wei Hou is back."

Lan Ziyi dismounted and came to the sergeant's side and asked:

"Aren't you stationed in the government, why are you here?"

A sergeant asked:

"Why did Wei Hou know we were here?"

Lan Ziyi replied:

"Li Guangzhong told me."

sergeant says:

"In that case, Wei Hou must know that the forbidden army in the city has a grudge against Wei Hou, and General Wei specially sent us to protect the two masters and two gentlemen of the Tao family."

At this time, the people in the house heard a sound outside the door and came out of the house, and when they saw that it was Lan Ziyi coming back, Tao Zhuhu and Tao Zhulu walked over in two steps, hugged their fists and said:

"My two brothers are ashamed of the trust of the Marquis of Wei, and they were taken away by others, and they are really shameless to see the Marquis of Wei again."

Lan Ziyi dragged the two brothers of the Tao family and said:

"Don't blame the two generals, I trusted me to the big one, and I didn't want to come back with food, Luo Yingmin's villain hates me, and the cities of He** are just perfunctory when they see me."

While several people were talking, the father and son of the Qiu family had already come over, and Lan Ziyi saw Qiu Xiaozhi coming over and was deeply moved, and said:

"Mr. Shame!"

Qiu Xiaozhi hurriedly stepped forward to help Lan Ziyi and said:

"Wei Hou doesn't have to blame himself too much, I didn't expect someone to come to the capital at all."

Qiu Wenruo beckoned:

"Wei Hou has worked hard all the way, don't continue to be outside the door, come into the house."

As he spoke, he let Lan Ziyi into the house,

Lan Ziyi beckoned the soldiers of the Jihu Battalion, who had been guarding him for the past few days, into the house together, and first found a few rooms for a few people to catch up on sleep first.

After settling down and stopping as an entourage, Lan Ziyi came to the house where everyone was discussing.

There was still a lingering smell of smoke and burnt smoke in the room, and there was not much furniture left, and several people found rags to sit on the floor.

After drinking the water handed over by Tao Zhutu, Lan Ziyi asked:

"What kind of characters are this Xiong Jingzong and Xie Xuanming?"

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