After the loss of Yingyang Pass, the Liang army fought several times with the Western Liang and Lower Tang coalition forces, although each had its own victories and defeats, but on the whole, the Liang army was in a disadvantageous situation. Not to mention the loss of troops, even the 12 states in the southeast were all occupied by the enemy, so that the 16 states in the southeast all fell into the hands of Xia Tang and Xiliang.

King Yu finally garrisoned Fengbo City, which was nearly 100 miles away from the nearest city in the Sixteen Prefectures, that is, after garrisoning Fengbo City, the enemy army did not continue to attack, and changed from the original all-out attack to the current strategic defense. The soldiers of the Liang army did not think about why the enemy army stopped the limelight for the time being, and they must now complete the fortifications against Fengbo City as soon as possible.

"General, is there any news from the imperial court?"

It was Shen Yongnian who asked the question, the reason why he asked this is because since the loss of Yingyang Pass, the battle report was transmitted to Emperor Liang, although Emperor Liang did not exempt King Yu from the command of the army, but also scolded King Yu through a handwritten message.

The original scene, let alone Shen Yongnian, even Xuan Shaoning remembers it clearly. The inner supervisor who announced the decree read out Emperor Liang's edict with a serious face, using sharp and mean words, blaming the head of King Yu for all the losses since the war. All the soldiers present were aggrieved by King Yu, and more people felt chilled by the court. Only King Yu's face did not change, he listened quietly, then got up and humbly accepted the edict, and respectfully sent the inner prison away.

Just a few days later, the Emperor's edict arrived, much the same as the first time, and it was basically the same as a second reprimand. As a result, every few days, there will be an inner supervisor holding the emperor's edict to reprimand King Yu, this situation lasted for nearly a month, and finally in the penultimate time, the inner supervisor came in addition to the reprimand and added a content: to remove the treatment of Prince Wuzhu of King Yu, and demote to the king of the county.

There are angry soldiers who plan to get up and reason with the inner supervisor, but King Yu stopped these reckless men with just his eyes, and he still accepted it with a calm face. From then on, everyone will get used to the edicts of the imperial court, and the plan is to go in the left ear and out the right ear, and the right to be an internal supervisor is farting.

But to everyone's surprise, the inner prison did not appear again within the calculated time. Everyone waited for half a month, and the inner eunuch finally came again, this time no longer reprimanded King Yu, but sent a supervisor to King Yu, and at the same time announced a major edict to the whole army: because of the birth of the emperor's grandson, Emperor Liang will pay compensation to all soldiers who died in battle according to the standard of promotion of two levels; All the soldiers who are still alive will be promoted by one level, and they will be promoted according to their performance as appropriate.

The soldiers who were originally quite disappointed in the imperial court now have a good impression of the imperial court, and even the inner prison with the order has a good color, but they still don't want to see the prison army. Who doesn't know that the so-called supervising army is actually the eyeliner that Emperor Liang sent to the army, and has the power to intervene in the strategic arrangement, which is tantamount to putting a shackle on King Yu's exercise of military power.

"His Royal Highness King Yu, please take a step to speak."

"Father-in-law, please!"

"Your Royal Highness, Princess Xiang gave birth to an imperial grandson, this is the first imperial grandson of the saint. The emperor wanted to hold a grand celebration for the emperor's grandson, but in consideration of the fighting on the front line, he decided to change the celebration to the time when the emperor and grandson were full moon. There is a war in the country, and it is inevitable that the celebration will be criticized, and the Holy Lord hopes that His Royal Highness can restrain his subordinates to defend the southeast at the same time, so that the full moon celebration of the emperor and grandson can be successfully completed. ”

"My father has been very sympathetic to the soldiers, all the failures are the mistakes of the palace's strategy, and I ask my father-in-law to go back to my father, the palace will definitely stick to the stormy city, and please rest assured!"

"That's good, it's also difficult for Your Highness, Your Highness's filial piety old slave must return to the Holy Lord."

"There is Father-in-law Lao!"

King Yu sent a small box of generous gifts to the carriage of the inner prison and personally sent them out of the city.

"I'm back in Beijing again!"

Duan Lang stood at the head of the Storm City and pointed to the carriage traveling far away and mocked. Xuan Shaoning reminded: "You can have such a true temperament in front of me, and you have to control your mouth in front of everyone." ”

"Okay, I understand what you're saying. Now that a prison guard has been sent, the general is under surveillance everywhere! ”

"Losing the sixteen states in the southeast, just demoted from a prince to a county king, the emperor is already open to the general. For such a major failure, how can there be an explanation for the court without a scapegoat? How can we explain to the people of the whole country? If you want me to see, our emperor still has selfish intentions for the general. ”

"Yo, Shaoning, I never thought that you were already so sharp when you looked at the problem!"

"After a long time in the military, this will always be learned."

"Didn't you slap me in the face when you said that?"

"Let's make progress together!"

"Brother Xuan! Brother Duan! ”

The two of them turned around and saw Rouge who was trotting all the way, dressed in plain clothes, running, his hair was flicked and flicked, and his cheeks were flushed because of running. In this stormy city, which is almost entirely full of men, rouge is tantamount to a bright and moving scenery.

"Rouge, fortunately, with you, I don't feel alone."

Xuan Shaoning hit Duan Lang's lower abdomen with his elbow as punishment for his nonsense. But Rouge was still at a loss: "Am I not lonely for Brother Duan?" Then I'd love to! ”

"Don't listen to his nonsense." Xuan Shaoning stepped forward to protect Rouge, "What are you looking for us?" ”

"What else could it be? Rice, of course! ”

"It's not time to change guards yet!"

"It's coming soon!"

Rouge turned around and waved his hand towards the inner city, and immediately the soldiers who had changed their guards ran up, smiling and saluting Xuan Shaoning and Duan Lang one by one.

"What is this?"

"You guessed that you would say that the time for the change of guard has not come, so I will help you call all the people who change the guard!"

"Rouge, you're so smart!"

Duan Lang's praise made Rouge very happy, but it made Xuan Shaoning's heart a little sour.

"Captain Xuan, Deputy Lieutenant Duan, you can go with dinner. It's just a little bit away from the time to change the guard, we're all here, and we'll be fine! ”

"That ......" Xuan Shaoning looked up at the sky, and did not reply for a long time, until the knocking sound in the city sounded, he said with a grateful expression: "That's really thank you!" ”

On the way to the dining room, Duan Lang teased: "Shaoning, you really strictly abide by military law, and you can't have such a little deviation." ”

"War is a major event related to the livelihood of the family and the country, and a little mistake is likely to bring devastating results, and we as soldiers naturally have to guard against it."

"Okay, okay, how can you be justified!"

"I think Brother Xuan is reasonable!"

"Hey, rouge, you called the person, but now you are standing on Shaoning's side, I just spoke for you!"

"I don't care, no matter what, I'm on Brother Xuan's side!"

Rouge also made a grimace at Duan Lang, and directly made Duan Lang laugh angrily, and when he was about to slap Xuan Shaoning, his sharp eyes were the first to see the person walking in front of him.

"See General Zhang!"

Duan Lang's voice was loud enough, so loud that Xuan Shaoning and Rouge immediately reacted in the same way even if they didn't see the person clearly.

The person who came was indeed Zhang Hanshan, he walked in front of the three of them with a smile, and he spoke softly.

"There's no need to be polite in private, the time for changing guards has just passed, you guys should go to the dining hall early, filling your stomach is the first thing in life."

"Thank you General Zhang for your kindness!"

"I don't dare to be compassionate, if you want to say compassion, your general is really sympathetic to the soldiers, all the responsibility for the defeat is on his shoulders, you have to live a good life to serve the general!"

"The last general must be loyal to the general!"

Duan Lang stepped on Xuan Shaoning, this guy saw the problem very thoroughly and reacted quickly, but at this moment, he was like a wooden man, and after seeing General Zhang, he didn't reply or continue to salute, Duan Lang had to remind him in his own way.

Zhang Hanshan also noticed that Xuan Shaoning had been staring at him, and he shifted his attention to Xuan Shaoning.

"Have we met?"

"We? Weekend....... The last general "Xuan Shaoning wanted to say: I have seen you, although you have not seen me, but when I saw you, you were a portrait, and at this time it turned out to be a living person.

Xuan Shaoning was hesitant, Duan Lang and Rouge both sweated for him. Zhang Hanshan was not annoyed at all, but continued to ask: "You keep looking at me like this, it makes me think that we have met somewhere, it seems that you should have recognized the wrong person." ”

"Yes, it's the Admiral who admits his mistake! The last general had a friend who looked a little similar to General Zhang, so Fang was rude! ”

"It's okay, it's not for nothing that there are people in the world who look alike."

Zhang Hanshang walked past Xuan Shaoning and deliberately patted him on the shoulder with his hand, until Zhang Hanshan walked far enough, Xuan Shaoning dared to look back.

"That's right, he's exactly like the portrait!"