Chapter 18 • The weight of the black clouds crushing the city

In the Shang study's room, Yan Shu supported his head with his right hand, snickering to himself, and Liu Jian who was standing on the side was puzzled, you must know that during this time, His Majesty had a gloomy face every day, and when did he show such a happy smile.

"Your Majesty is happy in your heart, you must have encountered some happy event, can you tell the slave, so that the slave is also happy for Your Majesty."

Yan Shuyi smiled and told the story of Jinhong being beaten by Changfeng yesterday, thinking about Jinhong's embarrassment yesterday, he actually hugged his stomach and laughed, completely ignoring the majestic image of the emperor, waved his hand at Liu Jian, signaling that he couldn't go on.

Liu Jian is also a smart person, although he was confused when he heard it, but he also guessed that it was not far from ten, probably because Jin Hong entered the palace yesterday to Yan Changfeng as a sparring partner, and happened to meet Yan Changfeng who was reprimanded by the Queen Mother, and he was in a bad mood and had nowhere to vent, at that time Yan Shuyi was comforting on the side, and suddenly saw Jin Hong walking in, Yan Shuyi only felt a cold light flashing in the corner of his eyes, and then saw Yan Changfeng weirdly pull the arc of the corner of his mouth.

"Xiao Hongzi is going to be miserable", Yan Shu said in his heart, pretending not to see Jin Hong who came in, picked up the teacup and moved to a corner on the edge, Jin Hong looked at Yan Shuyi who shrank in the corner suspiciously, scratched his head, and looked at Yan Changfeng again, and was about to ask, but when he saw the familiar smile, a spirit, Jin Hong hurriedly said: "I just remembered that my seventh and eighth aunts are coming today, and I have to go back to greet them." ”

Then he pulled his legs and ran out, but under the coquettish cry of "come back", he shrugged his head and walked back obediently, and the result was, of course, to be a sandbag for a day, dragging heavy steps, and wailing home.

Finally holding back the smile, Yan Shu glanced at Liu Jian next to him, who seemed to be holding back his smile, picked up a piece of music and began to flip through it.

At this time, a palace man hurriedly came to the outside of Shangshufang to report, saying that there was an eight-hundred-mile rush in Xiema Town, and Liu Jian did not dare to slack off, so he hurriedly went out to get it and presented it to Yan Shuyi.

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At this time, the heavy gate of Shema Town had been fastened with a huge latch a few days ago, and the mottled marks on the outside of the gate showed the impact it had suffered, but even though it looked bad, it was still impregnable to hold back the iron hooves of the invaders.

Most of the scouts outside the city have recovered the town, and the scouts who have time to retreat in the future have either died or hid in a hidden place, and outside the town is an iron bucket surrounded by tens of thousands of Humeng iron horsemen.

Hu Meng had been besieging the city for several days, during which he had launched several tentative attacks, but they were all small fights, the head of the town of Shema was solemn, the Yan soldiers standing on the city wall watched nervously every move of the camp outside the city, the chiefs of each team stayed in their own defense area to be responsible for organizing and supervising the Bensh soldiers, and the captains of each team patrolled the city back and forth, conveying the orders from above to the ears of the commanders of each city.

Yan Wuji's left guard scout team because of its functional relationship, so for the time being, did not receive the task of defending the city, but rested in their own camp, a few days ago the last outing to investigate the encounter, still pierced the heart of every scout soldier, the enemy came too fast, too fierce, people were caught off guard, what is even more terrifying is that the enemy's anti-reconnaissance ability has unconsciously reached the point where it can compete with Yan Guo, and the silent total destruction of Shui Zishi is the best evidence of this point of view, And Humeng's tens of thousands of troops drove straight into the area under the responsibility of Shui Zishi.

"Huh" Yan Wuji exhaled a cold breath heavily, as if he wanted to spit out the boredom in his heart, and sat on his seat, and his subordinates sat around the left and right, everyone was silent, and there was a look of relatives on their faces.

After all, it was the team that he brought out with his own hands, although it was said that the soldiers under his command either died or became what the chief, and now the water word is formed by newcomers, but the feelings are still there, and now, including the chief, was completely wiped out without a word, and the heart is somewhat uncomfortable, and not long after he took office, this kind of thing happened, if he didn't keep an extra eye, the Humeng army would attack Shema Town under his nose, if that's the case, Shema Town will definitely not be protected, And he can only apologize with death.

Looking back now, I feel a little afraid, Hu Meng has only fought the autumn wind on a small scale before this time to send troops, and when the Yan army comes to encircle and suppress, they can fight if they can, and if they can't, they will slip away, and with the speed at which they come and go like the wind, it is difficult for the Yan army to launch an effective encirclement and suppression against them.

A thought suddenly flashed in Yan Wuji's mind, and even he was shocked by this thought, in the past, Humeng often had a small group of cavalry break into Yan Realm, loot property, and rob grain and grass, it seemed that it was just a wanderer scattered to fight the autumn wind, and when he met the Yan army, he fled from the wind.

In fact, all of this is a strategic deployment that Hu Meng has planned for a long time, first, to show the enemy weakness and use it to paralyze the Yan country; Second, behind these seemingly unorganized stragglers is very likely to be Hu Meng's scout troops, who disguised themselves as stragglers fighting the autumn wind, but in fact surveyed the military deployment of the Yan army in various regions, the topography of various places, and the reconnaissance rules of the Yan army's scouts.

The brows couldn't help frowning deeply, if this idea is true, then this time the total destruction of the water word is no longer just a strategic mistake, but the entire Great Yan will be in a situation of being passively beaten, as soon as he thinks of this, Yan Wuji has no heart to care about the problem of rectifying the Left Guard Scout Team anymore, but is thinking about whether the top echelons of the empire are even aware of this problem.

Yan Wuji simply ordered a few words: "In the past two days, everyone should not care about the others, as long as there is no new order from Shangfeng, everyone will have a good rest, but because it is now in a state of combat readiness, everyone can only stay in the camp, in case Shangfeng has a temporary order, just like that, disperse." ”

The nine chiefs under his command, you look at me, I look at you, a dazed look, in their minds, since returning to the city, because of the reason why the town of Shema almost fell due to the destruction of the water word, everyone lived tremblingly, and even spoke softly, just for fear that something would happen to affect the nerves of Shangfeng, and find the left guard scout team to settle accounts, today the captain suddenly called a meeting of the chiefs, and they thought that the punishment of Shishangfeng had come down, so everyone came to the captain's tent with a fragile heart and sat down, Just when they were anxious and wanted to ask Lord Du Wei a question, Yan Wuji directly came up with such a sentence, which was also too unexpected for them.

Yan Wuji saw the surprise of these people in his eyes, but smiled a little helplessly: "Why, do you really want me to drag all of you out to beat dozens of military sticks, or demote you to soldiers before you are willing to leave?" ”

"Boss, nothing else?" One person asked cautiously, but it was Guo Tuzhi, who was originally under Yan Wuji's command.

"No, get out."

"Boss, really?" Liu Song wanted to confirm again.

"Lao Tzu counts to three, and whoever asks me to see him here again after that, immediately fifty military sticks." Yan Wuji slapped the table and roared.

The sound of hurried footsteps sounded, and the originally lively tent dispersed in an instant, "Hmph" and let out a soft snort with his nose, Yan Wuji decided to go to Qiu Xin.

Qiu Xin took his own soldiers to patrol all the way along the city wall of Xiema Town, and was standing on the gate tower in the north of the city at this time, looking outward about the enemy's situation, because the north of the city and the west of the city are the defense areas that the right guard is responsible for, so Liu Debiao at this time is explaining next to Qiu Xin, saying that it is more to listen to Qiu Xin's analysis of the enemy situation, and he agrees with the two sentences casually, and then pats his chest to ensure that the city is in the city and people forget about death.

Qiu Xin is a big head for a while, if you fight, Liu Debiao is indeed a rare general, but this platoon of troops, command the army, but not with a body of divine power, fortunately put Liu Zhilan here to be responsible for assisting, after speaking, Qiu Xin summoned Liu Zhilan, who was arranging the defense task, and instructed: "Zhilan, although Biaozi is brave in battle, but there are really deficiencies in the arrangement of troops, so you have to worry more about this, the two city walls in the northwest are not missing, you are great, wait for the enemy to retreat, I have a great credit for you. “

Hearing Qiu Xin's words, Liu Zhilan's eyes suddenly lit up, if he could really make a great contribution in this defensive battle, then the door to his promotion would be opened again, which undoubtedly made him see new hope for his life, who had planned to live like this, glanced at Qiu Xin gratefully, tried to suppress the surging feelings in his heart, and took the order.

"Alas!" Looking at Liu Zhilan's back trembling slightly because of excitement, a sigh exhaled from Qiu Xin's mouth, it is one thing to remember a great achievement, and it is another thing for the court to accept this credit, the original Yanjing Liu family, that is a wealthy family that has to give three points of courtesy no matter who sees it, but the children of the Liu family ended up with a fate that would never be hired.

The reason is that Emperor Hui said in the later period of his reign, in order to weaken the power of the Jin family, Emperor Yan Hui gave the then Great Sima Jin and a Pinglan Jun honorable position, but it was in name only, and it was hollow up, and then the position of the Great Sima was given to the great prince Yan Youchu, and at the same time the left and right two phases were added, Ge Dongsheng of the original Jinhe Department served as the right minister, and the left phase of the head of the ministers was given to Liu Zhilan's grandfather Liu Xian, and the Liu family rose from there. This also planted the seeds of civil strife after the death of Emperor Hui.

I don't know what kind of considerations Emperor Yan Hui had, giving the eldest prince Yan Youchu so much power, but he passed the throne to the second prince Yan Youxu, the hard work of several generations of emperors of Great Yan was beaten back to the prototype in this civil strife, and the Liu family was removed from the imperial court precisely because of the choice of the eldest prince Yan Youchu in this civil strife, and the rapidly rising wealthy family collapsed at a faster speed, and the Liu family was beheaded and exiled to the border within three generations, and Liu Zhilan was unfortunately implicated.

What does Liu Xian's bastard look like? Liu Zhilan sometimes thinks angrily before going to bed at night, if Lao Tzu is glorious, at least he will meet him in the underworld, so that he can pick him up and beat him to vent his inner anger.

At that time, Qiu Xin and his subordinates thought that the village that had been plundered by the Humeng people must have no way to live, but the result was surprising, and even shocked, because the people in the village were actually nine out of ten, and when I asked, I knew that so many people could be saved, all because of this Liu Zhilan's strategy, Qiu Xin, who loved talents, immediately invited Liu Zhilan to become his staff, and the other party readily agreed, since then, the master has been from more than 20 years, Liu Zhilan's ambition Qiu Xin also knows a thing or two, in fact, he also recommended Liu Zhilan to his old boss Yan Hu and the military department behind his back, but in the end, they all fell into the sea, and it was over, the reason, four words "after rebellion".

"I hope this time I can let the old man give him a chance." Qiu Xin muttered to himself, looking up at the black oppression outside the city. And then "Huh! He laughed to himself, as if he was thinking too far ahead.

When Wu Zi was stunned, a personal soldier approached and reported: "Battalion commander, Yan Wuji asks to see." “

Good boy, he didn't look for him, he sent it to the door by himself, it's okay, although he is the son of the old handsome, but as an elder, he has to preach a few words, don't let him his tail, just like this time the water word is completely destroyed, fortunately it didn't make a big mistake, otherwise...... I can't think about it.