On the way to the north after leaving the capital, Xuan Shaoning was no longer as reluctant as before, and when he looked back at the mountains and rivers of the capital again, his concern for this city in his heart was almost broken. The academy is gone, the classmates are gone, and even I have lost myself, and even if I was reluctant in the past, it finally became a pile of old papers.

Emotions are like this, but reason is not. Before leaving, Xuan Shaoning knew the cause and effect of this battle from the mouths of Shen Ming and Du Shaoyin: since Huazhou City was washed away by the flood, the capital once again faced a strong foreign enemy, and it was difficult to compete with the Tang Naval Division by relying on the strength of the defenders in the city, but unexpectedly, Yong Wujian did not take advantage of the flood to attack the capital, but put forward his own conditions. This condition is to ask Princess Yunxuan to be married, which directly contributed to Yan Keran taking the initiative to find Yang Zhong and Du Shaoyin, and he begged them to help respectively, as for the reason and the final result, it is naturally different.

Because Yang Zhong lost Huazhou City, once Emperor Liang gave the order, he could not escape the punishment of the national law, even if it was to kill him, no one dared to object. Yan Keran proposed to give Yang Zhong a chance to make meritorious contributions, and the price was to become the main force attacking the Tang Shui Division, and he had full authority to obey Yan Keran's orders.

As for Du Shaoyin and Shen Ming, it is completely for the sake of their classmates, they know some of the past, but the current overheads of the great enemy are temporarily put aside. Du Shaoyin answered in the city, as the last grasp of the failure of the plan, and Shen Ming's kung fu was naturally the best candidate for personal protection.

Xuan Shaoning felt fortunate that Yan Keran did not involve Yun Xuan into this mess in order to gain fame and fortune, so this kiss-off was fake from beginning to end: the princess was fake, the kiss-sending official was fake, and the kiss-sending horse was also fake, and Emperor Liang did not agree to marry the princess to Yongwujian from the beginning.

At the same time, Xuan Shaoning also put forward his own plan according to Yang Zhong's intention to take the initiative to attack: select soldiers with good water quality to sneak into the cabin of the Xia Tang ship at night to make an ambush, waiting to send their relatives and horses to seize control of the ship when there is turmoil.

It was luck that they could win a crushing victory in this battle, after all, the Guangyuan Army was only 10,000 people, and the number of the Lower Tang Naval Division was far exceeded, and their own ships were battlefields, that is, they were fighting at home, not to mention the advantage. The courage of the soldiers of the Guangyuan Army to live to the death is a major key to victory, but what cannot be ignored is the negligence of mediocrity.

"No, if this is the case, it will fail, and Yong Wujian will not be the first-class master of the Tang Dynasty, there must be something greasy in this!" Xuan Shaoning has already made his own judgment, but the most important thing is why Yong Wujian did this? After the battle, he was gone, and returning to China was a possibility, after such a defeat, no matter which country he went back, there must be no good fruit to eat, and besides, people with such a personality must have a lot of enemies. So the question is still this question, what is he doing all this for?

Xuan Shaoning's brain cramped when he thought about it, and he wanted to slap his brain flat, so it was a hundred. Forget it, don't think about this complicated matter for the time being, the carrier pigeon has been released a few days ago, at this time Mobei must have received the news, or return to Mobei earlier, after all, it is the last place where he can stay. As soon as he thought that he would be able to see Rouge when he returned to Mobei, Xuan Shaoning's heart finally felt a little sweet, and if there was anything that could warm Xuan Shaoning's increasingly cold heart in this troubled world, it was only the gentleness of Rouge.

Once they meet again, Rouge will definitely run towards him with a smile, and then shout loudly, "Brother Xuan!" This feeling of being relied on is really good, which Xuan Shaoning has never experienced before, and it is also something he wants to experience in the future.

On the way back to Mobei from the capital, once you leave Huazhou City, you will enter the Central Plains Kyushu controlled by the Tang Dynasty in half a day, yes, Bingzhou and Duzhou have returned to the hands of the Liang people, although the imperial court does not recognize the status and innocence of the Jingyi army, this is at least the Liang people's own business.

In order to keep a low profile, Xuan Shaoning, Duan Lang and Ji Wenhan still restored the clothes they wore when they came: Xuan Shaoning was an old man, Duan Lang was a young woman, and Ji Wenhan acted as the son of the young woman. The three of them walked into Yunzhou City, and casually found an inn to live and rest, the reason why they did not choose the route when they came but chose a detour back to Mobei was due to Xuan Shaoning's considerations, the whereabouts of the three of them had been exposed before anyway, and the main reason for this was Duan Lang's body, it didn't make sense for such a sturdy young man to dress up as a young woman, but after all, women are not easy to arouse suspicion, so they can only make this decision.

The second is that Yunzhou is closer to the southwest, and the battles that have taken place there Xuan Shaoning will never forget in his life, especially Yingyang Pass, it is the loss of this pass that will lead to the fall of the twelve states of the Central Plains and the danger of the capital, Xuan Shaoning is angry, and he wants to take the opportunity to return to Mobei to explore the reality of Yingyang Pass.

"Oh, I'm really starving to death along the way, I'll eat first as a respect!" Duan Lang rolled up his sleeves as he said and planned to feast, Xuan Shaoning said that it was too late, so he picked up the chopsticks and knocked them on the back of Duan Lang's hand, and blamed him in a low voice: "Pay attention to your identity!" ”

Duan Lang was about to refute two sentences at first, but when he saw Xuan Shaoning and Ji Wenhan's eyes looking at him, he immediately understood, he looked down at his dress, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered with his orchid fingers: "Isn't the slave family hungry?" Could it be that my father still doesn't allow the slave family to eat? ”

Ji Wenhan was almost about to laugh, although he was barely used to Duan Lang's young woman's dress along the way, but his behavior was too disobedient. Xuan Shaoning also held back a smile, took out the demeanor of an old man and said: "Women's people should have the appearance of women's people, look at your monkey anxious look, where is it?" Besides, where is there a mother who doesn't care about her children eating first? ”

Duan Lang had to admire Xuan Shaoning's view of details, and hurriedly and carefully picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and put it in Ji Wenhan's dish, then touched his head and persuaded: "Children should eat more, so that their bodies can grow faster!" ”

As soon as the three of them started their chopsticks, they heard the sound of discussion coming from the next table, to the effect that it was about the previous battle of the sailors.

"This battle is really beautiful, it's so relieving to our Liang people!"

"Shhhh Here is the Tang people in charge, you are looking for death! ”

"The reason why we have to live so hard is not because the country is not tough enough, what do you think this is doing?"

"Don't be in a hurry to slander the court, maybe it's the weirdness of the Tang Dynasty!"

"What kind of trick, it must have been done by the imperial court under the pressure of the Tang Dynasty, this is tantamount to self-destruction of the Great Wall!"

"Okay, be quiet, you didn't hear it, don't say it, hurry up and eat the vegetables!"

Then the three of them never heard any more news, but all three of them knew that something must have happened in the capital on their way back to something related to the battle of the sailors.

"It must not be a good thing, otherwise these people would not be so angry." Ji Wenhan said.

"If you want to know what's going on, don't you take the initiative to ask? We're just wasting our time guessing here. ”

"The truth is such a truth, the key is how to find out?"

Facing Xuan Shaoning's inquiry, Duan Lang raised his chin proudly, not to mention, Duan Lang himself looks good, after dressing up like this, his fair face is really a bit of a woman, and she is a woman with good looks.

"Look at me!" Duan Lang got up, then twisted his waist and walked towards the table where Fang Cai was talking, and deliberately fell down when he was about to approach, and sure enough, one of the men took the initiative to help Duan Lang up. In order not to expose himself, Duan Lang buried his head very low, and then apologized vigorously, whispering that he was from Huazhou and was going back to his hometown.

Xuan Shaoning kept staring at Duan Lang, only to see him occasionally raise his head and throw flattering glances at a few men, more often he lowered his head to listen to them, then nodded and shook his head from time to time, and finally continued to sway his waist back to his seat. Xuan Shaoning obviously saw that those men were still a little reluctant to give up on Duan Lang, and kept looking at Duan Lang's back.

"You beauty is not bad!"

"Less poor!" Duan Lang patted Xuan Shaoning with his orchid finger, and then said quietly: "In order to appease the anger of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court put all the responsibility for the battle of the Sailor Division on the Guangyuan Army, saying that they changed the princess without authorization, and then launched a battle against the Lower Tang Navy, so everything was Yang Zhong's own decision. ”

"How could this happen?" After all, Ji Wenhan is a teenager, and he immediately refused to accept it.

"That's how it will be." Xuan Shaoning didn't have many surprises.