The Red Lady still looked up to Cao Yue's character, and he did not have any precautions against their master and servant as the Red Lady said, but sent someone to monitor them closely. In order to avoid embarrassment and trouble, Cao Yue also strictly ordered that he must not be discovered by the three masters and servants of the Red Lady, and he sent someone to monitor him, otherwise the person who performed the task would be punished.

The one in charge of this task is, of course, the secret special training team formed by Cao Yue. For the members of the training team, lurking, tracking, and monitoring are skills they must master, and the matter of monitoring the master and servant of the red lady is handed over to them.

Of course, Cao Yue did not do it to peep into their privacy, but to be suspicious of the Red Lady's abnormal behavior, and he was vigilant about it, he always felt that the Red Lady came this time for a special purpose, maybe it was still to spy on the military.

Li Yan had just lost the battle and fled in embarrassment, and it seemed that the red lady who was still in love with Li Yan and was also an important leader of the rebel army could not break off with Li Yan, let alone turn against Li Yan at this time, and come together with him to fight against Jiannu.

In order not to leak the secrets around him and not to be aware of the situation of the Datong Army, Cao Yue must of course be vigilant.

However, the red lady doesn't seem to plan to go everywhere, in the past few days when Cao Yue asked someone to find a house for her, she always found time to meet Cao Yue and ask about the last time the Datong army fought against Jiannu, as well as the confrontation with Li Yan's army this time. The red lady was full of curiosity about Cao Yue's easy victory in these two battles, and went around the bend to inquire about what Cao Yue relied on to defeat the other party and what secret weapons he had.

The red lady is a strong and straightforward person, and the twists and turns in her heart cannot be compared with Cao Yue at all, such a person, doing something contrary to his own nature, saying some insincere words, it is easy for people to see the flaws. Cao Yue also immediately discovered the strangeness of the red lady's words and deeds, but he didn't break it, and "cooperated" with her and told her some scenes of the war, but the core content was not told.

Cao Yue did this, very much to the appetite of the red lady, and later although she moved to the small garden that Cao Yue found for her to live, she would come to Cao Yue every day to talk about things, and even when Cao Yue was in the barracks, she would go to find it. This made Cao Yue more and more convinced that this woman was here to find out about the military situation of the Datong Army, and he took full precautions against her, that is, he didn't let her know the core things, but told her some unimportant things.

The red lady is indeed not a spy, Cao Yue dealt with her like this, she didn't find that this man was suspicious of her, she was just false and wrongful to her, and continued to find various ways to find Cao Yue to inquire about the situation. In contact with Cao Yue, the red lady also further understood the heart of this man who was two years younger than her, further eliminated his prejudices, and admired him more.

At this time, Sun Chuanting, who was ordered by the emperor to go to Datong to work in the army and had a special mission, came to Datong.

Sun Chuanting's prestige is very high, he is also very upright, and many people admire him, and Wei Daben, the prefect of Datong, is one of them.

Cao Yue knew about this historical celebrity before he crossed over, and after coming to Daming, he also hoped that this person could come out to do things, and asked Wang Chengen to speak well in front of the emperor. Seeing that Sun Chuanting was finally released from prison, reinstated to his official position, and ran to Datong, Cao Yue was of course happy. Two people who had a very good impression of Sun Chuanting, and then Zhang An, the eunuch of Datong Town, who hated Sun Chuanting a little, and other officials at all levels, went out of the city to welcome Sun Chuanting.

However, after seeing Sun Chuanting, Cao Yue couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

In his heart, such a person who has left his name in the annals of history always thought that he was very majestic and upright, but he didn't expect that Sun Chuanting was a very obscene-looking little old man, with a height of about 1.7 meters at most, his beard and hair were white, and he looked malnourished.

If it weren't for the official uniform worn by Sun Chuanting and so many entourage, Cao Yue really couldn't believe that this was the famous Sun Chuanting in history, the person who was called "his people died, and the Ming Dynasty also died".

The meeting was naturally a courtesy, Wei Daben, Cao Yue and others greeted them as juniors and subordinates, and Sun Chuanting praised the heroic behavior of the officials of Datong in the process of building slaves and rogues, and said that the officials of Datong were models of the Ming Dynasty. Sun Chuanting did not hide his other view of Cao Yue, and in front of other officials, he praised Cao Yue, saying that Cao Yue was the hope for the future of the Ming army.

Because of his somewhat understanding of Sun Chuanting's role in the late Ming Dynasty, Cao Yue was a little flattered that this obscene old man had such a high opinion of him. And Wei Daben, Zhang An and others also admired Cao Yue's performance during this time, and they were not embarrassed when they heard Sun Chuanting praise Cao Yue so much, and they also echoed a few words, saying that Cao Yue's appointment in Datong was the luck of the people of Datong and the luck of Daming.

After some mutual praise, Cao Yue, Wei Daben, Zhang An and others took Sun Chuanting back to the post house in the city, because Sun Chuanting came to labor on behalf of the imperial court, and the officials of Datong naturally had to receive him with very high courtesy.

Sun Chuanting also announced the court's reward in public as soon as he arrived at the post house. Emperor Chongzhen officially issued an edict, with Cao Yue as the commander of the horse, married the princess Zhu Yujiao of Kunxing to him, and continued to entrust him with important positions, let him lead the army to fight, and share the worries of the court.

Other officials also had different rewards, but one thing was not surprising to Cao Yue, that is, the money and goods rewarded by the imperial court were pitiful, just like sending them to Huazi. Because of his psychological prediction, Cao Yue also took out his own private money to reward meritorious soldiers, and he didn't care too much about it. The imperial court sent such a high-level official to labor the army this time, which was quite unexpected to Cao Yue and surprised him.

Cao Yue originally wanted to make friends with the legendary figure Sun Chuanting, but today this obscene old man came to the labor army and could still get his praise, Cao Yue was a little fluttering. However, after the celebration banquet and reception banquet were dispersed in the evening, when the two talked privately, Cao Yue was suddenly in a bad mood.

When the two talked privately, Sun Chuanting handed over a secret decree of Emperor Chongzhen to Cao Yue, in which Emperor Chongzhen told Cao Yue that the imperial court was ready to take Sun Chuanting as the commander to conquer the Liukou living in Henan, Shaanxi, and Sichuan, and Cao Bianjiao's men and horses would be withdrawn from Liaodong and under the command of Sun Chuanting, and the Datong army was the same, all under the command of Sun Chuanting. This arrangement was not surprising to Cao Yue, after he defeated Li Yan under Datong City, he was guessing that the imperial court would take action against Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, and his Datong army was set to be conscripted.

But what Cao Yue didn't expect was that Emperor Chongzhen's secret decree asked him to hand over the Datong army to Sun Chuanting for command, and he would return to Beijing to serve in the Beijing camp and marry Zhu Yujiao. At the moment when he finished reading the secret decree, Cao Yue's heart swelled with boundless anger.

However, he finally suppressed his anger, and asked Sun Chuanting in a tone as calm as possible: "May I ask Lord Sun, why did the imperial court arrange it like this?" It has only been more than half a year since I took over the post of commander-in-chief of Datong, and the training has improved, so I should hand over the Datong army to other commanders, what does this mean? ”