Chapter 61: It's Long Overdue
With a heart of sorrow, after the rest was over, Zhao Wuxian politely rejected his sister Ji Huan's suggestion to let him take a nap in the side room until dawn, and once again put on the dried armor, and with Yu Xi, Mucha and the two walked around the lower palace.
The heart of defense is indispensable, and the Zhao family decided not to fight, but what if Fan and Bank of China Erqing pumped their brains and took the initiative to attack? In the past month, Zhao Wuxian, the little butterfly, has been flapping its wings desperately, and history has quietly undergone some changes, and he has to guard against it.
What's more, after taking the soldiers for a few days, Wu Xian knew the difficulty and profundity of this knowledge, and it was rare to have the opportunity to come back, so he had to find an opportunity to observe the elite style of the Zhao clan and the methods of the officers.
The Zhao soldiers who had been assembled all over the city had dispersed, and after Wu Xian persuaded Zhao Ying to withdraw his troops, the lower palace died down and described the matter as a temporary exercise.
Zhao Ying asked the temple to warm wine to reward the grass-roots officers such as the chief and the two Sima, and boiled the ginger soup in the cauldron so that the ordinary Zhao soldiers and the people also drank to keep warm, and the follow-up work was in order, even in the eyes of the later generations, the organizational ability of the lower palace was actually quite good.
And what is unsympathetic is that the people under the Zhao clan were urgently woken up from the couch, and stood in the rain in the middle of the night, and they didn't do anything, so they were dismissed again as if they were playing tricks, without the slightest complaint. After drinking the hot ginger soup boiled in wooden cups, they also wiped their mouths and bowed in the direction of the main hall of the lower palace, and said words of birthday and gratitude to the lord Zhao Ying.
It seems that the Zhao family has been operating here for a hundred years, and it is indeed very popular among the Chinese people.
At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, Zhao Wuxian climbed the tall city wall, and all the Zhao Sima under the military Sima Post Wuzheng expressed their appreciation and praise for his behavior of taking the initiative to come to patrol the night.
Wuxian can also be regarded as a small prestige in the Zhao army, but after the story of his urging his father to stay put, some of the main battle factions within the Zhao clan will probably also regard his behavior as cowardice.
There is no such thing as perfection in the world, and when you make some people like it, you will inevitably make some people hate it.
After half a circle around the city walls, the sun was about to rise, and the most feared night attack never appeared. Zhao Wuxian breathed a sigh of relief, just about to go down, pack up and go back to Chengyi, where there are more important winter planting matters waiting for him to go back to preside.
"Woooooooo
Suddenly, he heard a trumpet of vigilance sounding on the eastern side of the city.
The Zhao soldiers, who were already leaning against the wall and napping, heard the sound of the horn, so they jumped up and picked up their spears, and Zhao Wuxian also rushed to the Dongcheng Tower with two retinues.
In the distance, there were three queues holding banners, but they were playing the banner of the Zhao family's Xuanniao, which should be their own people.
Zhao Wuxian squinted his eyes and looked at it, but it was his three cheap brothers, the three brothers of Uncle Bo Zhong, who were hundreds of people each, and now they were gathered in one place, and they were panting towards the lower palace.
It turned out that last night, after receiving the urgent order of the Tiger Fu in the lower palace, the three uncles were shocked, but they also rarely played the spirit of "brothers are on the wall, and the outside is humiliated", and they each gathered the villagers to prepare to rush to the palace. But after all, the organizational efficiency was not high, and after the queue was sorted out, it was already midnight, and it was raining heavily and the road was slippery, so I had to retreat.
They didn't have the courage and courage of Zhao Wuxian to leave behind a large group of people and horses and gallop to turn the tide, so they didn't hurry until the sky was bright and rainy.
Zhao Wuxian looked at the heavily armed soldiers getting closer and closer, and suddenly felt that this scene had a strong sense of immediacy, so he turned his head and said to Yu Xi: "Xi, do you remember a story I told you?" ”
Yu Xi's eyes lit up, after leaving the lower palace stable, he was entangled in various affairs, and the gentleman had no spare time to tell stories for them. However, those that were previously mentioned, such as Mu Tianzi's westward journey, Yu Xi still remembered it, and he even wondered if he was now mixed with the identity of a countryman, did he want to beg the three elders of the township to become a witch to write his own seal characters and take the time to record the story?
At this time, Zhao Wuxian asked, he looked at the three gentlemen who were sweating profusely and ran to the city to call the door, as well as the panting soldiers under their command, and couldn't help but think of a historical incident that Wuxian said.
He said: "What the Lord is referring to, but is it the story of King Zhou You's Beacon Opera princes in order to win a smile?" ”
"Yes!" Zhao Wuxian and Yu Xi have a very close relationship, and some secret things on weekdays, such as the time when he poisoned Cheng Ji, were handed over to him to do, so that he could rest assured, and it was common to make a joke.
He pointed to his three cheap brothers, and said to himself: "Look at their appearance, do they look like the princes who have been played under the beacon tower?" ”
Yu Xi looked at it, and sure enough, he couldn't help laughing, and Mucha also showed a sincere smile.
King Zhou You is to win a smile from the beauty, and Zhao Wuxian's original intention is also to let Ji Huan always look back and smile by his side and not become a victim of war.
But the essence and result of the two are very different, King Zhou Youwang regarded the major affairs of the military kingdom as child's play, and finally the country was broken, and Bao Xi was also taken away and reduced to a dog's plaything. However, Zhao Wuxian was well aware of the truth that "soldiers, the major affairs of the country, must not be ignored", and he single-handedly prevented the outbreak of a war that was bound to be lost.
But he knew in his heart that this was just delaying time, and after this winter solstice incident, the contradictions of Liuqing had become public, and he wanted to destroy each other more and more. He needs to manage his forces quickly, so that the Zhao clan can turn defeat into victory, so that he can be sure of starting a full-scale war with Fan, Bank of China and other secretaries.
So, after a few hours of travel, the three brothers who were covered in mud and embarrassed called open the city gate. But I saw that Zhao Wuxian, whose armor was wiped clean and had a new brocade belt tied on his swarthy hair, was waiting for work in the city gate cave.
He forced a smile and saluted the three of them, "Three brothers, why is it late?" ”
Zhongxin and Shuqi looked at each other.
Only Bo Lu was stunned for a while, and then returned the salute with a smile: "No shirt, how fast?" ”
Subsequently, Wuxian followed the three brothers to the palace hall to meet Zhao Ying.
Along the way, the three brothers had their own thoughts, and Berlu was relieved to see that the previous war had vanished. And Zhong Xin was depressed that he had been robbed of the limelight and precedent by Zhao Wuxian, and Shu Qi was secretly thinking, thinking about the news that his secret son passed back from Chengyi a few days ago.
After arriving at the main hall, Zhao Ying had already changed out of his military uniform and was dressed in regular clothes. Although the war was not successful, he still reprimanded the three brothers who were late, saying that they came so slowly, if they really fought, I am afraid that they would only have time to collect his body! These words made the three brothers' faces turn red, and Zhongxin Shuqi also hated Wuxian even more.
Strange to say, a month ago, Zhongxin and Shuqi regarded each other as their biggest rivals, but now, there is a faint tendency to join forces against Zhao Wuxian. Because this cousin, who was despised by them in the past, has now become the most powerful opponent in the fight for the position of the prince.
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