Throughout the ages, the world has been happy to praise those heroes who would rather die than give in and have noble character; And the soft bones who see profit and forget righteousness will be scolded by eternity. But until the deadly knife is put on his neck, no one can say whether he has that "heroic courage" in his stomach! The kind of good man who does not change his face with an axe is a rare thing that is unique in ten thousand; If the hero runs around the streets, there is no story to tell!

Therefore, it is human nature for ordinary people to make a living secretly, or to be unable to withstand the huge temptation of profits; It doesn't have to be promoted, but it's not worth spurning.

As the saying goes, "Those who are not of my race will have different hearts." Therefore, from Pang Qingshan's point of view, the Northwest Army first served the Northern Yan court, then rebelled with the King of Qin, and now turned against the enemy in front of the battle. It's just that their combat effectiveness is indeed fierce and abnormal; Acceptance is a matter of receiving, but it is also necessary to be guarded against.

From the perspective of the commander of the First Army, Pang Qingshan's response method was extremely correct: while maintaining the combat effectiveness of his own team at all times, he suppressed the troops in the northwest in a "half-crippled state that could neither starve to death nor be fed".

"The people do not suffer from inequality", although absolute fairness has never existed, it is also the "basic principle" pursued in people's hearts. This principle is the same in the military,

Since you, Pang Qingshan, are not the same as the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Army, then betraying once or twice is also a rebellion, and ten times and eight times is also a rebellion, so let's find a more generous master!

Moreover, if you take 10,000 steps back, these 80,000 soldiers were originally subordinate to the Northwest Army of the Northern Yan Imperial Court; According to the laws of the imperial court, it should be controlled by Zhou Changfeng, who believes in Anhou. The Marquis of Xin'an took advantage of the chaos to rebel out of the court, which is a private matter of your heavenly family; And those of us who are soldiers and fight wars, eat food and get paid, we only know how to follow the military orders of our superiors.

Moreover, as everyone knows, Emperor Tianyou has always been known for his generosity and kindness; How could such an old emperor, after a big victory, still have to be embarrassed to eat the "bitter haha"?

Therefore, after some urgent consultation, these "three family slaves" sent three secret envoys to try to have private contact with Cai Ning, the eldest son of Cai Youxiang. After all, this matter was very important, and Cai Ning did not dare to be self-conscious, so he sent an urgent military information of 800 miles and sent a letter to Emperor Tianyou asking for instructions.

At midnight that day, Cai Ning had just finished washing, put on a medium coat, and went on his last patrol with two guards. Suddenly, there was a commotion from the direction of the north gate of the camp, accompanied by the sound of horses' hooves! Cai Ning took the sword and followed the sound, only to see a Northern Yan official, riding a fast horse, stumbling into his camp......

Looking through the brazier in the camp, I saw that the post soldier on horseback had his eyes straight, his body leaning left and right with the bumps on horseback, and he looked like he had "blown up his heart" by running, and he had already fallen into a semi-coma. Cai Ning was afraid of the "horse stepping on the joint venture", so he immediately threw away the sword, and the whole person flew on the horse, and as soon as his feet rubbed the stirrups, he threw the post soldier off the horse's back; Then he grabbed the horse's mane with one hand, grabbed the horse's neck with the other, rubbed his hands repeatedly, and drank the word "hu" in a low voice......

The horse slowed down slowly under his reassurance; Then he tilted his body and lay on his side on the floor of the barracks, foaming at the mouth and nose......

Cai Ning, who turned over and jumped off the horse in advance, stepped forward to probe the snort of the post soldier, and then took out a letter in the other party's backpack, and instructed the two guards beside him:

"Don't give him water yet, wake up slowly with wet wipes! Let the guy boil some rice soup again, let it cool and go down slowly! ”

The two guards obeyed the order, and Cai Ning returned to the barracks with the letter; He first wiped the floating soil on his body with a half-dry cloth towel, and then opened the cover and took out the cabinet Zhu ......

"This slippery old Wang Fang, with a false title of appeasement, let me handle this matter with full authority...... If you say it, you don't say it, take off your pants and fart! ”

Cai Ning was a little angry after reading it, and just wanted to burn the letter with the help of an oil lamp; But after thinking about it, I reviewed it again......

After calming down, Cai Ning finally saw some clues. There is nothing wrong with this cabinet Zhu Criticism, and the choice of words is quite normal. It's just that the big seal that has been settled in this paragraph is not "Zuo Xiang Wang Fang", nor "Mubei Weng Yin", but "Old Man Fuling"!

The cabinet of the Northern Yan Dynasty consisted of a total of nine people: six Shangshu, two prime ministers, and one emperor, so it was also nicknamed the "Nine Old Dynasty" by the world. But Cai Ning knew in his heart that the so-called "Nine Elders" were not worthy of the name at all; The only people who can really be the masters of the house are the "three elders". Only the three of them are qualified to issue the "Cabinet Zhu Approval".

Zuo Prime Minister Wang Fang, the word list Mubei, one public and one private two big seals, there is nothing that does not matter the "old man Fuling"; and his father Cai Xi, the word list is yang, and the two handprints are so familiar that they can't be more familiar; As for His Majesty's jade seal, it is eight big characters, which are well known and easy to recognize...... So who will this "old man Fu Ling" be? And what is the mystery hidden in this cabinet Zhu Criticism of "saying it is equal to not saying it"?

Just when Cai Ning was puzzled, a breeze suddenly came from the direction of the tent curtain; Cai Xi looked up, only to see a god-headed little soldier, who had just poked the jujube core-shaped head into the tent, looked left and right, and saw that there was no one around, so he glanced at himself:

"Hey, busy?"

Normally, the answer he can get in this way of asking is only twenty strokes of the stick, and it has to be the solid kind; It's just that this person is not a Zhongzhou soldier under Cai Ning, but a Chiwu spy trained by the fourth prince Zhou Chang'an. Since the nature of the work of the two sides is different, the rules and the law must not be confused.

"You kid...... It's a good thing to do! Nobody, come in. ”

"Yes......"

After answering a sentence, this red black spy got into Cai Ning's handsome tent as soon as he was short, and passed His Majesty's instructions to Cai Ning word for word.

It was only at this time that Cai Ning suddenly realized: it turned out that the big seal of the "Old Man Fu Ling" on this side was actually the private seal of the Emperor of Beiyan! The Zhou family of heaven is originally from Jizhou; And Fuling Mountain is the land of the Zhou family's Longxing!

From this point of view, there is some contradiction between the decree transmitted by the Son of Heaven through Chiwu and the central decree issued by the cabinet Zhu Pei; But the two wills are both instructed by the Son of Heaven! For a while, Cai Ning didn't know what to do, so he naturally made it difficult.

In fact, the Son of Heaven could not accept the surrender of 80,000 troops from the northwest, which was a matter of course. In this big war, all the princes fought each other, and millions of people were killed! Wherever the war passed, there was no grass in the prefectures, capitals and counties. All industries are withered and the land is barren; Grain and grass are cut off, and supplies are exhausted......

As things stand, even the North and the South can end the war within a month; But in the coming autumn rainy season, the water level of the Huajiang Yu River will skyrocket; Then there was winter and March, and the weather was cold and frozen, and the land could not be cultivated for food.

The bursting of the embankment of the Yu River, the heavy snow sealing the gate, and the plague that gradually spread from under the city of Hedong will also bring an extremely severe test to the Northern Yan Dynasty and even the Huayu Continent. After time heals all the wounds, there will inevitably be a situation of ten rooms and nine empty rooms, and the population will be drastically reduced.

Therefore, it is not that after the tragic victory of the Northern Yan Dynasty, there is no need for the 80,000 Northwest Army; It's not that Emperor Tianyou is narrow-minded and deliberately embarrassed by this group of rebels who "live in secret, and can't help themselves". It's because of the situation of the Northern Yan Imperial Court in the next few years, it can't afford to raise these 80,000 mouths at all!

Combined with the future situation of the imperial court, and the two slightly contradictory intentions of Emperor Tianyou, Cai Ning finally came to a slightly surprising conclusion:

Although it was said that he wanted to leave half of it, in fact, Emperor Tianyou didn't even want the remaining 40,000 people!

In the early morning of the next day, the Northern Yan Army held a banquet, and the leader of the gang even made a steaming meal of noodles to bid farewell to the three Northwest Army brothers who "came from afar".

Although there is no meat in this so-called "Zhenzi noodles", the taste is far inferior to that of Sanqin's hometown; But since they joined the Liberation Army, it is a luxury to even eat a full meal, and they don't care about these small problems at all. They had a great time to talk with each other, and when they had eaten and drunk enough, they rode on their high-headed horses with oily coats, and set out on their way back to the camp drunk......

Cai Ning's department was stationed outside the ancient capital of Chaoge City on Zhongzhou Road at this time. The terrain is ordinary, but the strategic location is excellent. He and Xiang Qing's two armies, based on the two cities of Zhongzhou Chaoge and Ludong Yangping, along the north bank of the Yu River, pulled out an oblique defensive belt. In this way, Pang Qingshan can be prevented from fleeing southward; It can also prevent Nankang from increasing troops to the north, and cooperate with the army to relieve worries.

And the Relief Army and the Northwest Army, which attempted to withdraw to Nankang, also happened to be "imprisoned" by Cai Ning near Handan, north of Chaoge City. So after the three of them left Chaoge, they went straight to the north; After traveling about 200 miles, you can return to the Qin army camp.

Until the afternoon, these three people and three horses had already stepped into the territory of Jizhou; Seeing that there were less than forty miles to go, the three of them accidentally crashed into a tripwire! Unprepared, the three of them were overturned by the horses, and no one could recover from them! But at this moment, two black-clothed men suddenly burst out of the woods, drew their knives and stepped forward quickly, and without saying a word, they cut the two people who fell behind into two puddles of flesh......

These two men in black move neatly and do not hesitate to kill! Every move and style was cut at the critical point with great accuracy, obviously not intending to leave a living mouth.

After the two men were silent and silent, the two men in black stopped in unison, and at the same time set their eyes on the paralyzed "survivor......

As soon as he saw that the other party was looking at him, he immediately stood up and ran frantically towards his horse with the support of a strong desire to survive......

It's a pity that the slender leg has been completely broken by the tripping horse......