(a)

Huangsangyukou. Han army camp.

"Qi Yu is under the commander, and some soldiers came to the Cui family set the garrison under the mountain, about twenty or thirty people, and asked to see him outside the camp gate, and the leader said that he was the eldest son of Dingguo Gong, and said that Dingguo Gong sent him over, and there was a very important military situation to tell. This is the token he brought. The soldier who sent the report presented Yu Wentao with something.

Yu Wentao carefully examined it, and there was no doubt that it was indeed the seal of the king of Han who gave the prince of the country.

Yu Wentao's heart sank: What happened in Zhuang Town? Could it be that the young man is seriously ill?

He said anxiously: "Please, please." ”

(b)

Yu Wentao greeted the eldest brother and the soldiers he brought in front of the camp command post.

Yu Wentao had never seen Jing Yun, nor had he heard of Jing Yun being evicted from the house.

He looked Jing Yun up and down, and felt that the outline on Jing Yun's face was very similar to his father, and it was also somewhat similar to you, so he believed his identity.

Seeing that the eldest brother was dressed in plain clothes, wearing linen and filial piety, Yu Wentao was taken aback.

As soon as he saw Yu Wentao, the eldest brother bowed to the ground and choked up and couldn't speak.

Yu Wentao saw that his face was full of tears, and his mood was even heavier, and he hurriedly said, "Eldest son, please get up quickly." Is something going on in Zhuang Town? Why is the eldest prince dressed like this? Could it be that the young son was seriously ill and had an accident in Qingchuan? ”

The eldest brother shook his head with tears in his eyes and told Yu Wentao: "No." Not a younger brother. It's the father. My father died of his injuries in the early hours of yesterday morning. Before he could finish speaking, he began to sob.

Yu Wentao knew that Dingguo Gong had been in a bad condition since he was injured last time, and he had been visited many times to ask for peace, but he didn't expect to die so soon. He was also very sad for a while.

He accompanied his eldest brother to weep for a while, then comforted his eldest brother and asked about the arrangements for the future.

The eldest brother said that today he has submitted a document to the royal court of Dongcheng and the Huaizhou Mansion. Everything at home has also been arranged, and his uncle Ding Youren will also rush to help take care of the aftermath after hearing the news. Only in matters of military affairs should you ask the commander for instructions.

The eldest brother said that at present, his father has passed away, and the younger brother is recuperating in Qingchuan, and has not yet learned of his father's death. The defense of the Cui Jiaji garrison is currently unattended, and now, the situation is tense, and the army cannot be left without a commander for a day, and before the arrival of Ding Youren's uncle, he can only come and ask the commander to take over temporarily.

The eldest brother said that when his father was dying, he also had a letter to Commander Yu explaining military affairs, the content was important, and he asked Commander Yu to read it immediately.

(c)

Yu Wentao did not doubt it, took the envelope, took out the letter from it and read it, sure enough, it was his father's handwriting, but after reading a few lines, he was not talking about military affairs, but about the affairs of the grange, and the letter was not written to him, and the date was not recent.

At the moment when he was puzzled, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart, and a dagger pierced his body deeply from the back, piercing his heart!

Yu Wentao realized that something had changed in the severe pain, and he instinctively struggled to draw his knife to resist, but his arm did not obey. He saw that his hands had turned black from his fingers to his elbows, and the black qi was still spreading rapidly upward.

That letter, that letter paper is highly poisoned!

When Yu Wentao realized this, he could no longer make any contingency moves.

He looked at his eldest brother with wide eyes, and his face quickly became blurred.

Yu Wentao looked at his eldest brother unwillingly, he never expected that he would die in the hands of the enemy in the end, but would die in the hands of the son of the Duke of Dingguo!

He looked straight at his eldest brother and fell straight down with his back to the sky, slamming into the ground.

The eldest brother squatted down beside him, sneered, and flicked his eyelids with a dagger, closing his dead eyes.

The eldest brother looked at his corpse and said disdainfully: "Go down and wait first, the person you care about so much will come down to look for you soon." ”

(iv)

At the same time as Wen Tao fell, the soldiers brought by the eldest brother took advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders to suddenly attack the soldiers guarding the camp gate, seized the camp gate, and cast a fire signal.

Led by the eldest brother's men, they first passed through a secret path known only to the locals to the Hesse cavalry team that was lying in ambush behind the camp, and took advantage of the confusion of the defenders to break through the camp gate and enter the camp.

Fierce fighting ensued between the two sides in the camp.

The Yukou Han army was caught off guard and lost its command, and fell behind.

Immediately, the cavalry of the Hesse department rushed forward again, and the defenders were outnumbered, and they were hindered by the courage of the eldest brother's soldiers to send a distress signal. The two armies of the Yukou garrison and the Cui Jiaji garrison were in a state of no one in command at the same time, and the Xinhan army led by Fu Tianliang did not know what was happening here and in Zhuangzhen for the time being, and the three armies could no longer cooperate in defense as they did last time.

The Hesse division quickly eliminated the defenders of the pass and captured the pass in one fell swoop.

Immediately, the horse team of the Hesse Department rushed down like a tide, like a stormy wave, and rushed towards Cui Jiaji.

(5)

The eldest brother's henchmen in Zhuangzhen, as agreed before, rose up from the inside, took advantage of the chaos to seize the north gate of Zhuangzhen, and let the Beji cavalry drive straight in, killing the sleeping Zhuangzhen.

As a result, the dangerous scene of fifteen years ago was repeated again.

The people in Zhuang Town had not yet fully awakened in the light of dawn, and the black tide of the Bejima team had already filled the streets and alleys.

Hesse, with the humiliation of being severely defeated last time, ordered the slaughter of all Cui Jiaji as a sign of revenge.

The massacre began, and Beji's horse team rampaged through the town of Zhuang, cutting and shooting wherever they went. The horses and horses passed everywhere, and the blood flowed like a river, and the chickens and dogs were not left.

(f)

When the Hesse horse team rushed in, the aunt began to take revenge on her, as had been agreed beforehand.

At that time, I fainted on my father's funeral hall because of my grief and exhaustion after my father's death, and I was repeatedly persuaded by my family to go back to the small building where I lived and sleep for a while.

My aunt seized this opportunity, and she ordered her confidants, while the family was tired and looking for a place to doze off, quietly locked all the doors and windows of the small building where I lived from the outside, and then began to set fire to the building.

The eldest brother told Hesse that the mansion where the fire had started was his home, and Hesse promised that their men would not attack the mansion.

But after my aunt lit the fire, she knew that the enemy could not be trusted at all. Instead, the murderous soldiers rushed into the largest mansion in the town and began to kill and loot. A group of Begi soldiers murderously rushed into the courtyard where the aunt was grounded.

Under the firelight, chaos suddenly reigned in the mansion. Everywhere there were running figures and screams and screams.

Begi soldiers lit fires everywhere. Wherever they passed, there was a sea of fire.

The white curtain on my father's funeral hall also began to burn.