On the night of August 26, Lu Duosun told Yang Gon a crooked reason, that betraying his own people was for the good of the country. Whether the fallacy is justified or not depends on whether the listener is willing to believe it.

Lu Duosun also said that both sides have common expectations and want Xiao Siwen to fall down! As long as Xiao Siwen is still there, he doesn't know when he will liquidate Yang Gon...... Yang Gon had to admit that this was the truth.

"General Yang carefully weighed the trade-offs." Lu Duosun stood up, "If General Yang helps us this time, the imperial court will let you disappear for a while." Xiao Siwen will finish sooner or later, and this is just the beginning. After a while, we have a way to get General Yang to return to Shangjing to resume his duties. ”

"What's the solution?" Yang Gon asked.

Lu Duosun said: "This is a matter for the Privy Council. ”

Yang Gon said quietly: "What if...... I said that if one day I was under siege, as long as your army opened an opening and let me take a few people back, there was no need to hide. ”

Lu Duoxun immediately agreed: "This matter is not difficult, this official will discuss with the generals of the Zhuxu army as soon as possible and leave." ”

Not long after, Yang Ye and Fan Zhongyi returned, Yang Ye said that he had eliminated the officials of the military palace, and asked Yang Gon if he wanted to go to watch. Yang Gon ghost sent the god to say that there was no need......

Later, I learned that Fan Zhongyi went to take a look that night and didn't suspect it at all, because from the beginning, Fan Zhongyi didn't think that the officials of the former camp military government were fake. It was night, the light of the murder site was unclear, the flesh and blood inside were blurred and bloody, and the scene was very terrifying, Fan Zhongyi confirmed that the body was wearing an official uniform.

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On the battlefield west of Pingxingling, Yang Gon and others escaped from the Shura field, and he took a team of men and horses to trek in the mountains for a day, and sure enough, he found a path to cross the mountains. After that, he only encountered some Xu Jun scattered cavalry, probably Gao Yanyu's Wuzhou Army scouts.

They finally returned to Yunzhou.

Xiao Siwen immediately summoned them to meet, and asked with a blushing face: "What happened after the Yanmen Gate?!" ”

Yang Gon fell to the floor at this time, and the armor behind him was full of blood. Yelu Hu'er stepped forward to inspect and hurriedly said, "Quickly find Lang Zhong to save General Yang!" ”

Only then did Yelu Hu'er report to Xiao Siwen: "Gong Xiao, Hedong is completely a trap!" ”

Xiao Siwen was not too surprised, he should have more or less gotten some bad news in the past two days, he just asked anxiously: "Where is Xiao Duli, how are his people?" ”

Yelu Hu'er said: "One hundred or two hundred thousand people of the Xu army are in ambush in the east of the river!" Yang Yebu turned his face when he saw it, the artillery bombarded indiscriminately, and the cavalry rushed to be the first; Dong Zunzhi's forbidden army rushed into my back road. We were forced to go east, and we met Liu Renzhan's Pingzhou army again at Pingxingling, and Gao Yanyu was waiting inside to intercept the ...... in the north of Yanmen Mountain."

Xiao Siwen's fists were clenched, his teeth were clenched, and his eyes were already bloodshot.

There was resentment in Yelu Hu'er's tone, obviously he didn't think that this defeat was the responsibility of the front-line soldiers, "Let's go to the centaurs, it's good that one out of ten can survive!" The last general was fortunate enough to have Yang Gon desperately break through the siege, and he knew the road to Hedong, and he was lucky to come back after all kinds of difficulties......"

Xiao Siwen's body trembled, his sideburns and beard were messed up, he looked haggard, and he stood there without saying a word...... At this point, it's too late to do anything. It is difficult to gather enough troops to compete with the Xu army to rescue, without a month or two.

Xiao Siwen suddenly looked at Fan Zhongyi coldly, Fan Zhongyi noticed it, and knelt on the ground: "Xiao Gong...... Save me! ”

"Put Fan Zhongyi and Yang Gon in custody, and we must not let them leave the Chinese army." Xiao Siwen said coldly.

Yelu Hu'er said: "Yang Gon killed the enemy desperately and was seriously injured, please ask Xiao Gong to save his life first and wait for the court to convict him, is it okay?" ”

Xiao Siwen was annoyed and anxious, and said to Yelu Hu'er: "You are just a defeated general who escaped from the battle." ”

Yelu Hu'er bowed his head, not daring to provoke Xiao Siwen.

Xiao Siwen left Xingyuan and climbed to the southern city of Yunzhou to see. In the distance there was a wilderness, and nothing could be seen.

Standing on the head of the city, as soon as the cool breeze of late autumn blew, Xiao Siwen suddenly felt the coolness of his body, cold to his bone marrow......

For such a big and complete failure, I am afraid that Fan Zhongyi and Yang Gon alone will not be able to bear the responsibility. The greater danger is still to come, and those from Xu Guo and Da Liao are still to come. Siu Siwen had to desperately suppress his unbearable frustration and anger, considering the serious consequences that followed.

He looked up to the sky and sighed, and saw the flag at the head of Yunzhou City "snapping" against the flagpole in the wind.

...... "Smack! The flag of the Chinese army was blown loudly, and Xiao Duli, who was in a daze, suddenly heard a loud noise suddenly real from his ears. He trembled and stared at the terrifying scene in front of him with blood-red eyes.

It's all corpses! The whole land seemed to be filled with dead people, disastrous weapons, and countless crazy living people.

"Bang bang...... more than a dozen people held iron guns at a Liao soldier, and the Liao soldier was splashed with blood all over his body, knelt on the ground, and then threw himself forward, turning into one of countless corpses.

It seemed that two days ago it was still fighting, and I don't know when it turned into a slaughter. Now there are not many Liao soldiers left, and there are still a few over there, who are pressed to the ground desperately by the swarming enemy soldiers, screaming miserably.

Some Liao soldiers clinged to the mountain wall as if they were some wild thing, and from time to time someone shouted and fell down from the stone wall.

Around the hillside where Xiao Luli stood was surrounded by Xu Jun! At this time, a group of people finally came up the mountain.

The soldiers stepped forward with weapons to stop the group of people, Xiao Duli just stood there in a daze, and his voice was already hoarse.

In the air filled with gunsmoke and dust, "bang ......" raised a few clouds of white smoke again, and after a while, a dense group of people gradually approached the top of the mountain, and the soldiers who had just gone down had no movement.

A big man in heavy armor came up with a large group of soldiers who were stubborn and stubborn, and the big man said: "Yang Ye, this general, just put down your weapons!" ”

The only remaining people around Xiao Duli were holding knives and guns, but they were slowly retreating. He himself stepped back in fear and godlessness, and his round red eyes seemed to reflect a sea of blood.

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The night in the capital is still so quiet. Guo Shao, who looked tired, supported his head with his arms and leaned on a table half-asleep.

Suddenly, he saw a strange scene.

The old floor tiles were set on the ground, and the square bricks that came out of the brick kiln were originally very rough, but now the surface has been smoothed a lot, and there is a crack on one of them. There is a wooden strip stuck straight between the tiles, and there are marks of knocking on both sides of the wooden strips, as if a stone or some heavy object has been knocked into the brick joints little by little, but when it is struck, it avoids the pointed end in the middle of the wood. Whoever got this thing seems to have taken a lot of work.

"Bang!" Suddenly, a man rushed straight to that place! The man snorted, his teeth rattling, and he gasped for breath and inhaled with hisses. A puddle of blood soaked from beneath him, and his limbs began to struggle, his fingernails scratching at the blood marks on the stone bricks, and finally he groaned in pain......

Guo Shao shuddered, opened his eyes, and found that the eunuch Wang Zhong was holding a blanket on his body.

Guo Shao stared at Wang Zhong, who hurriedly took a step back and bent down to serve. Only then did Guo Shao discover that there was still a person standing in the dormitory, Xiao Xuan. Her hair was still a little wet, her black hair was marginal, her skin was white and tender, but her ears were red.

"Your Majesty." Wang Zhong followed Guo Shao's gaze and turned his head to look at Xiao Xuan.

Guo Shao then remembered that he grabbed Xiao Xuan's hand in the Wenhua Hall that day, and Wang Zhong was standing behind him.

At this moment, another eunuch came outside the dormitory. Wang Zhong bowed slightly, walked to the door, and muttered something. After a while, Wang Zhong came back again, leaned over and whispered in Guo Shao's ear: "Your Majesty, the Privy Council has just received an urgent report from Hedong. The Liao general Xiao Duli was captured by Yang Ye, and the blood flowed on the battlefield, and the beheadings were not counted, and most of them were the corpses of the Liao army......"

Guo Shao let out a long breath when he heard this, and said, "Last time, I didn't lose a lot of houses in Tokyo, so I picked the best one in the inner city for Yang Ye to keep." I take a name, and if you ask someone to make a plaque, it will be called 'Tianbo Mansion'. ”

Wang Zhong bowed and said, "The slave obeys the order." ”

After Wang Zhong finished speaking, he cautiously withdrew from the dormitory.

On the lampshade hanging on the wall, the delicate picture of a lady is illuminated by the candle flame more and more vividly. There are also many candles lit on the copper lampstand, and the whole palace is reflected in the warm yellow light. Guo Shao looked at Xiao Xuan in the candlelight, the height of a teenage lady and an adult woman is almost the same, but her body will always look very thin.

"Your Majesty......" Xiao Xuan looked up at him, "I heard that the women who served in the Central Plains Palace will never be able to leave the palace again, for the sake of the royal family's face, is it true?" ”

Guo Shao said casually: "Look when, in recent years, there is nothing to pay attention to. ”

Xiao Xuan said timidly: "Can I still see my father?" ”

Only then did Guo Shao understand what Xiao Xuan meant, so he said, "I'll see." He pondered for a moment, then added, "It won't be long." ”

Emperor Chrysostom obviously won't deceive people casually.

Guo Shaomo rubbed the light hair on his head, and said with a long breath: "You go back to your room to sleep, Wang Zhong should still be in the Long Live Hall now, you go out to find him to send you back." ”

Xiao Xuan was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly asked, "Your Majesty, did the concubine say the wrong thing to make you angry?" ”

Guo Shao said gently: "No, don't think about it." If people can say the wrong thing in front of me, I'm even more alone. It's just that I don't want to entangle myself with it...... I'm thinking about something else for a while, and I'm not in a good mood, so I'll talk about it in a few days. ”

Xiao Xuan bowed respectfully and retreated silently. She learned well, but she still didn't like to talk when she bowed.

Guo Shao watched her thin back go out, and sat on the chair steadily, without moving.

The dormitory of the Long Live Palace, the house is tall and big, the bed is also very large, although the furnishings are very luxurious, but it still looks empty, and now only Guo Shao is left to feel like this. For the sake of grace, the emperors even made their sleeping places like this, and they didn't feel safe at all when they slept in a room that was too big.

Guo Shao suddenly felt that everything was very absurd, and he didn't know why. But after sitting for a long, long time, I gradually realized that I had everything, I was in control of everything, and as long as I was careful not to be plotted, I still had a long life to enjoy all this, and my mood gradually improved. The point is that no matter what you do, you are actually in accordance with the law, you will not be judged by anyone, and your fate is completely in your own hands...... Step by step, isn't that what it's for?