On the high hill of Lingzhi Mountain, the mountain wind blowing is getting stronger and colder, and winter is coming.

Wang Xiu looked into the distance and was silent.

Standing beside him, the heavy general Li Tianyan, who was injured in the shoulder, turned pale.

The defeat in the Battle of Xishan had a great impact on the mentality and morale, although it did not hurt the muscles and bones, but it was originally determined to eat a lot of meat, and wanted to abolish the Wuwei Army in one fell swoop and eat that batch of important equipment. The final result was that the Wuwei army did not die, and they scattered more than 200 military horses and more than 30 divine arm bows. And at some cost!

"It wasn't until the premonition that it was wrong to quickly retreat to Lingzhi Mountain, and this king didn't think it through. It is simply impossible for the officers and troops to deploy a new main force, and the information provided to us by Zhu Xiao is generally accurate. All this ...... It's all because of Yangshan white agarwood, Zhao Cheng of Guichi County! ”

Wang Xiu muttered to herself and trembled with anger. It is reasonable not to say that you want to be defeated because of your strength.

However, when the strength was strong and the ambition was bound to win, he did not get the expected profits, and was harassed by the two teams of Bai Agarwood and Zhao Cheng, and withdrew due to excessive caution and wrong assessment of the main force of the Jiangnan East Road Shuaisi entering Chizhou. The price was paid, but the profit was only a quarter of what was expected.

"This is the distress of smart people, and now it seems that it is really sick to think too much."

Wang Xiu sighed, "Why were you blinded by lard at that time, beware of Zhu Xiao betraying us?" ”

"The king doesn't need to blame himself too much...... There's always something wrong with being careful. There are still a long way to go. Li Tianyan comforted.

Wang Xiu is still unwilling, since it is inevitable to break up. Originally, it was supposed to wipe out the entire Wuwei Army, eat more than 200 crossbows and seven or eight hundred war horses in one go, and crush the will of all the officers and soldiers in a short period of time, and then quickly take Chizhou City.

But now because the situation has deteriorated, the officers and soldiers are injured but not dead, so Wang Xiu does not dare to send troops to Chizhou City casually.

First of all, in the Battle of Xishan, the strong combat power of the White Agarwood Department was unusual, and she was in the rear like a nail, ready to stab at any time, and she always felt that there was a thorn in her flesh.

In addition, Zhao Cheng is much more obscene than expected, and the latest news is: Chizhou has officially activated Zhao Cheng and commanded all military forces to suppress bandits.

If it were someone else, it would be too easy to analyze what the officers and soldiers would do. Wang Xiu has every chance to free up his hands to eat the white agarwood department, and then slowly harvest the official army.

But now facing Zhao Cheng, who led a team of dozens of people and personally made Wang Xiu suffer in the Battle of Xishan, he still has a total of more than 2,000 officers and troops in his hands. Such a situation caused Wang Xiu to dare not send troops to Yangshan casually for the time being, nor did he dare to send troops to Chizhou City casually.

"Everything is in the hands of this boy!"

Wang Xiu muttered with a cold face.

Li Tianyan also suggested: "King, delaying too long is not good for us. Sensing the inevitability of war, the king hastened the annexation of the surrounding cottages. Our numbers have also expanded rapidly to more than 6,000. But those people have not joined for a long time, they are not the original brothers, it is okay to fight a good war, if it is a long time, and they can't use more victories and materials to envelop their minds, and still let the officers and troops gain the upper hand, there is a possibility of change? ”

"The king knows this."

Wang Xiu narrowed her eyes. This is indeed the problem of the moment, and it is quite correct to say that the calendar is leaping.

Fortunately, in principle, the Battle of Xishan only did not eat the expected profits, and it was not considered defeated. Therefore, it is still early to "fly separately when the catastrophe of Lingzhi Mountain is coming", as long as there is no obvious defeat in the future, the influence of the military will be within the controllable range.

"However, it is precisely because of such pressure that this king does not dare to send troops easily now, and must move first, Zhao Cheng and Bai Agarwood are the real rivals, and they are the biggest opponents in this king's life."

Wang Xiu said this, which made Li Tianyan feel a little bad, and frowned, but it was inconvenient to say more. Because in fact, there are a lot of cottages in Chizhou that are brave and ruthless in the past, but they are all planted in the hands of Wang Xiu in the end.

"What does Sect Leader Fang say?" Wang Xiu suddenly asked.

The communication between him and Fang La has always been the responsibility of Li Tianyan, and they are old friends. In that year, Li Tianyan killed someone in Qingxi, Muzhou and was wanted, and ran away to Chizhou, because of his strong martial arts, he dared to rush and fight, and then was taken in by Lingzhi Mountain, and Wang Xiu gave it a heavy use.

Since then, there has been a gradual contact and communication between the Manichaeans of Bangyuan Cave and Lingzhi Mountain. Fangla has silver mines, Wang Xiu has copper mines, and it is slowly getting bigger.

Li Tian Yan hugged his fists and said: "Back to the king, the latest news of the secret power of the Fang Sect Leader is that it will take at least five days before he can enter Chizhou to help in the battle. ”

"Good! Let Bai Agarwood, this bitch, be my wife, she doesn't want toast, let her taste the taste of that group of cultists. ”

Wang Xiuhan said, "As long as Fang La restrains or kills the White Agarwood Department as promised, this king will have no worries, and he will personally weigh him on the battlefield Zhao Cheng has a few bones." ”

……

After returning from Yangshan, Zhao Cheng decisively went to Tan Xiaolan to brush up on the points for half an hour.

Because of Zhao Cheng's courage in Xishan, the praise he received, and the expansion of his promotion rights, she was especially in a better mood and liked Zhao Cheng more, so she was very good at points, even if she couldn't even win a miserable victory this time, and without the reward of "suppressing the demon girl", she actually started with 8,000 points.

It's a little cool, but it's even worse than last time, it's really soft legs and feet. After all, the vitality has to be recovered slowly, and it is not long before the last miserable victory.

"And ...... Don't run away, the concubine still has to ......"

Listening to such a voice outside the door, Zhao Qingming was really desperate, this was all burning his eyebrows, this faint official was still like this, and he didn't know how he won the Battle of Xishan?

Even if Zhao Qingming didn't urge Zhao Cheng, he couldn't bear it, he ran with his pants, and he ran too quickly and fell at the door.

Unconscious!

Seeing his embarrassed appearance, Zhao Qingming was depressed for a while, but he quickly helped this funny younger brother up, and said bitterly: "My lord, you can't be like this, hurry up, go back with me to deal with affairs." ”

"Okay, I'll come back tomorrow."

Returning to the "office" together, Zhao Cheng looked at Zhao Qingming with his hat crookedly, "Call me away from bed this big night, you'd better really have something important?" ”

Zhao Qingming hugged his fists and said: "I just came back from Xishan, Zhou En's corpse ...... Got it. ”

Regarding the battlefield cleanup of Xishan, it was actually not so fast, Zhao Cheng not only sent someone from Guichi County to it, but also asked the more careful Zhao Qingming to implement the matter about Zhou En's corpse, which was regarded as the second overseer.

Now it's also a drop in my heart.

Zhou En's sacrifice has been mentally prepared in advance, since it is a war, there will definitely be a price for the dead, so if the body can be found, it will be considered an explanation for this matter.

"Really found it?" Zhao Cheng asked more.

"Found it, and the body has been brought back by my brother and me, I know you care about this matter the most."

Zhao Qingming waved his hand, and the messenger immediately brought the body in and put it on the ground.

Zhao Cheng got up and went over to check, one leg was gone, his head seemed to have been hit by a mace, and his entire cheek was rotten and blurred, but the waist card was still there.

"Who found the body?" Zhao Cheng asked softly.

"Since it is a box army, a commander knows that the adults are looking for him, and he deliberately sent it to me after he found it." That's awful.

Zhao Cheng said with a smile: "Who leaked the news, and the official didn't deliberately name the Xiang Jun to find this corpse?" ”

In this regard, several messengers who participated in the search and rescue in Xishan were together with Zhao Qingming, and after looking at each other, they shook their heads one after another, saying that they had never mentioned this matter.

"Sure enough, there's a problem......

Zhao Cheng's face turned cold, and he hesitated for a while: "Go find Tan Xiaolan and ask her to bring Zhou En's son over to identify the body." ”

At this time, Cai Wenji, who couldn't sleep, walked in again, frowned and said, "Zhao Cheng, I'm afraid it's inappropriate, isn't it cruel enough, you actually want that child to come to his father's bloody corpse?" ”

Zhao Qingming hurriedly followed Cai Wenji's words and said, "My lord, this is indeed a little inappropriate......

"Shut up."

Zhao Cheng turned around and sat down and said, "I'm not a nanny, I'm not obligated to take care of anyone's emotions in this incident, I want the truth." ”

“……”

Even Cai Wenji is inconvenient to provoke him at this time.

Not long after, Tan Xiaolan, who was still coquettish, still brought the child here, and the child was so sad at first that she died, but then she was stunned, crying and screaming, "No, this is not my father." ”

"Don't cry ......"

Zhao Cheng frowned and said, "Doll, you think clearly, identify it carefully and then say, if you are biased in this matter, I will lock you up too." ”

"I won't admit it, it's not my father."

The child was so frightened that he cried and hid behind Tan Xiaolan, afraid of being locked up.

"Is it ......?"

At this time, Cai Wenji also felt that something was wrong with this matter, but for the time being, she hadn't thought more about the key points.

For Zhao Cheng, there is no need to figure out the key points, anyway, this is obviously an accident, and if someone wants to steal the beam and change the pillar to cover up this matter, he must go against them.

This is no longer a simple matter of trying to solve a case or something, and it has nothing to do with Cai You's political correctness.

Even Cai You had to be rigid in this incident, because it meant that there was something very concealed in the team, which was at the moment related to the safety of hundreds of thousands of people in Chizhou. From the perspective of selfishness and self-love, as a commander, fighting with such a team will definitely cause accidents, and these scum will definitely be stabbed in the black knife.

Thinking of the special status and means of the Ying Cheng Bureau during this period, Wang Hao is moving closer to the Ying Cheng Bureau, the deployment of the Wuwei Army seems to have been leaked in advance, and the actions of the Xiang Army are like wiping the ass of the Wuwei Army again, Dong Ping refused to cooperate with the investigation and hid in Wang Hao's mansion, and all kinds of strange incidents emerged one after another.

Thinking about it, Zhao Cheng didn't know the specific inside story, but he vaguely knew what to do, so he immediately turned around and waved his hand, "Tan Xiaolan take the doll away and take care of it." ”

looked at Cai Wenji again and hesitated, "Little lady Cai, is there anything else?" ”

Listening to the tone of this scholar's send-off, Cai Wenji was a little unhappy, "What am I hindering you?" ”

"I'm an official, you're a citizen, you want to hear military secrets now, what's wrong with you talking about me?" Zhao Cheng blinked.

In front of so many people, Cai Wenji He had been so embarrassed, her mouth was crooked, but it was inconvenient to attack, because this scholar was no longer Wuxia Ameng, he initially had the temperament of a handsome minister, and he was a person that Chizhou must rely on now.

And theoretically, now the traitorous father can't care much about him, he is mainly responsible for Huang Wenbing.

"Hmph, let's see, you can't do anything without Miss Ben helping you."

Cai Wenji stomped away angrily, wanting to cry and be embarrassed. She herself is also very strange, why can she always be easily provoked by this scholar.