(First of all, apologies, there was no update yesterday and no leave of absence.) The end of the year is approaching, and there are always such and such things, which are difficult to shirk. I went to Beijing this morning to pick up medicine, and by the way, I left my relatives. I didn't get home until six o'clock in the afternoon, and I hurried to code words after eating. ）

(PS: These days, my mind is full of the plot of the new book, so the code words are a little unsmooth, I try my best to adjust, sorry.) In addition, I would like to say some feelings...... People who have passed the age of thirty should have a deep nostalgia for the time when they were young and frivolous, it was a rebellious era. And in nostalgia, there will always be a man named Huang Jiaju. He's a fighter, and last night he rewatched his funeral and listened to the sea and the sky...... Thirty-year-old me, my old man, burst into tears. ）

Chapter 775: Why Nine Knives to Kill?

Qingzhang

The summer army camp

His eyes kept staring at the map, and Wang Fubao's brows were furrowed. He used charcoal to tap hard near the Zhanghe River, and sat down in a chair to fall into deep thought. Several of his generals stood aside and did not dare to speak, lest they disturb his thoughts. Yan Yunjun chased all the way across the Zhanghe River, and now he is stationed less than two hundred miles away from Qingzhang, if he hadn't transferred the Xia army from Feixiang and Ping'en to help, Xue Wanche might dare to take tens of thousands of horses to Qingzhang City in one go.

"Where is Wang Roar now?"

After a long while, after slowly breathing a sigh of relief, Wang Fubao asked.

"Back to the general, the major general...... I don't know where it is now, because Yan Yunjun has sealed the Zhanghe River, it is difficult for our scouts to go over to find out the news, and the distance is too far, the scouts have more than ten days to come and go, and when the scouts send the news back, the major general has already left with his troops. ”

Su Zhi said softly: "However, the scouts who crossed the river did not find any traces of the battle, maybe the young general is still chasing and killing the remnants of the thousands of Yanyun Army." ”

"It's hard to make a big deal!"

Wang Fubao frowned and scolded, his face was a little ugly: "For the sake of thousands of remnants, I don't respect military orders and don't abide by national laws!" Even if he comes back, I will strip him of his armor and deal with it according to the military laws of Great Xia! What if you kill those thousands of remnants? What is the impact on the outcome of the war? The vision is so low, and the temperament is so sloppy, it is difficult to become a big tool! ”

Su Zhi persuaded: "General...... After all, the young general is young, and when he first leads the troops, it is inevitable that he will easily get into the tip of the horns. If you don't kill the thousands of remnants of the Yanyun Army who lured the enemy, I'm afraid that the young general won't be able to untie this knot in his heart. ”

"Forget it!"

Wang Fubao waved his hand, with a hint of fatigue between his eyebrows: "How does he love it, I just hope that Your Majesty will just ask about this matter...... Su Zhi, you personally arrange for someone to go to Zhaozhou. Asking the imperial court for grain and grass, the imperial court has not sent a single cart of grain since November last year. If this continues, the soldiers will fight hungry! ”

Su Zhi hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but persuade in a low voice: "General, is this matter going to be said later?" ”

"Why?"

Wang Fubao asked.

"General, we just retreated to Qingzhang, and ...... and some men...... At this time, if you send someone to the capital to ask for food, you will inevitably be questioned by those guys in the court. I'm afraid that I will still hold on to this defeat, and I can't say that there will be people who will jump out and make irresponsible remarks. The general also knew that those civil officials had no other ability than to bite people like dogs. ”

"Leave him alone!"

Wang Fubao shook his head and said, "Since Your Majesty handed over the army to me, then I will be responsible for Your Majesty." The fault for the defeat of Wei County in the First World War lies with me, not with the soldiers of the whole army. The adults in the court can force me to hand in my resignation, and I will not complain in the slightest if His Majesty removes me from my military position. But I can't starve my brothers, for it's freezing and I can't eat enough, how can this battle be fought? If you want the soldiers to fight hard, then don't be stingy with the money and food in the treasury! ”

"Whoa!"

Su Zhi responded, it was not good to persuade anything.

"General...... One more thing. ”

Su Zhi glanced at Wang Fubao, hesitated for a moment and said softly: "The lowly family sent some winter clothes and commonly used things to the lowly family, and the lowly asked if there was anything unusual in the capital city...... It seems that many people in the imperial court have recently written to impeach you, the general, saying that you ...... Say you have the intention of rebelling. Reputedly...... It is said that these courtiers who wrote were all members of the empress. ”

"Rebellion?!"

Wang Fubao sneered: "In the past few years, there have been more than ten or twenty people who have sued me for rebellion every year. Those civil officials are uncomfortable all day long, like a pack of dogs raised by His Majesty, feeding them, if they do not do something, they will feel sorry for the meat and bones that Your Majesty has given them! But they didn't have the ability or courage to lead the army to recruit foreign enemies, so they had to bite their own people in the court. ”

"Prosperous times, martial arts in troubled times...... Now that the army of foreign enemies is pressing the border, people who understand the priority will naturally understand, as for those dogs, let them call them. ”

Wang Fubao waved his hand: "Go and ask for food, if someone in the court asks, you let the people who go to ask for food tell them that if the grain is not transported over, I will lead the troops back to defend the state!" ”

"General, I can't say that!"

Su Zhi's face changed: "Or, raise some money and jewelry and send them back to Zhaozhou for some work?" ”

Wang Fubao raised his head violently, his eyes widening. He opened his mouth to scold, but he still didn't scold after all. He leaned back in his chair and nodded slowly, "Send it away...... If you can transport the grain and grass smoothly, send some of them. It's just that...... What the soldiers snatched from the enemy with their lives, they had to send it into the hands of those bastards! There are these moths in the imperial court, and sooner or later something big will happen! ”

"General, let's arrange it."

Everyone knows that Wang Fubao is straightforward, and the most unsightly thing is the face of those civil officials who only know how to be greedy for money. But the logistics and supplies of the army are in the hands of those civilian officials, even if they are angry, what can they do?

At this moment, there was a sudden chaos outside.

"The Major General is back!"

"The Major General is back!"

……

……

Wang Yan's body was trembling all the time, and he couldn't suppress the trembling. In fact, in the past few days and nights, he has been feeling that his body is a little unbearable cold. And compared to the coldness of the body, what made him even more unbearable was the coldness in his heart. Standing at the door of Wang Fubao's big tent, he hung his head, not daring to raise his head to look at Wang Fubao's eyes.

Wang Yan's armor was shattered, and the thick layer of dust on his clothes looked extremely embarrassed, and there was a narrow opening on the armor on his chest, which was split from his shoulder to his lower abdomen, and the iron armor was neatly split. He had a layer of gauze wrapped around his chest, and the blood stains were clear.

His face was also dirty, the gray-black layer on his face, anyone who had been on the battlefield knew what it was, it was the color of blood and dust. There was no sparkle in his eyes, and his proud head hung deeply.

This arrogant and arrogant young general looked not much different from a dead corpse that had lost its life at this time.

He was carrying a human head in his hand, which was so covered in blood that he could barely see his original appearance.

In his other hand was half a knife, one of the nine horizontal knives made of stainless steel that Wang Fubao had given him.

"What's going on?"

Wang Fubao sat behind the table and asked with a gloomy face.

His hands were clenched tightly, and the green tendons on the back of his hands bulged one by one. It looks like the back of the hand is crawling with a small cyan snake, hideous and terrifying.

Plop.

Wang roared and knelt on the ground with his knees weak, and the half of the horizontal knife and the human head in his hand fell to the ground.

"Wang Ge is dead......"

He subconsciously looked at the human head that was still rolling on the ground, and the fear in his eyes was so strong that it made people feel chills in his heart. Seeing these eyes, everyone could vaguely guess that he must have experienced something terrifying. But everyone can't imagine that what can scare the young and frivolous young general like this?

The king trembled and stretched out his hand, picked up the human head on the ground, and held it in his arms.

"All ...... dead"

His voice was hoarse like the sound of a leaky bellows, and his lips were chapped with blood. I don't know if he was so embarrassed that he didn't even drink a sip of water on the way back.

"What did you say?!"

Wang Fubao stood up violently and put his two hands on the table. His eyes widened, perhaps from anger, and his arms began to tremble.

"Say it again!"

Wang Yan slowly raised his head and glanced at Wang Fubao expressionlessly: "It's all dead...... All of them died, 20,000 cavalrymen, and Wang Ge were all dead...... Demons, that's a demon......"

His voice trembled and he spoke incoherently.

"What the hell is going on!"

Wang Fubao walked quickly in front of Wang Roar around the table and kicked Wang Roar to the ground. The furious Wang Fubao raised his foot and stepped on Wang Yan's heart, and blood began to flow out of the wound wrapped in Wang Yan's chest. Blood flowed out from under Wang Fubao's boots, and soon stained the ground red.

"The general is angry!"

Several generals hurriedly stepped forward and tried to persuade them.

"Get out of the way!"

Wang Fubao pushed Su Zhi away, looked down at Wang Yan's eyes, bit his lip and asked, "Tell me again, where did the 20,000 fine horses I gave you go!" ”

Wang Yan looked at the angry Wang Fubao, and suddenly laughed at the hideous expression on Wang Fubao's face, and laughed eerily: "Dead, all of them were killed by that demon." 20,000 cavalry against the 5,000 cavalry of that demon...... Defeated, defeated so easily and easily, and didn't even understand what was going on...... He was defeated. ”

"I was going to win...... Going to win...... Those damn Yan Yunjun think a broken fortress can stop me? When I was about to break through the fortress and slaughter those damn Yan Yun troops, he came...... With five thousand cavalry came...... My 20,000 cavalry could not resist a single assault from him. ”

"Here he is...... He's coming! ”

He laughed like a mad man.

"I'll kill you!"

Wang Fubao pulled out the horizontal knife from his waist and was about to stab Wang Yan's face.

"General! Don't! ”

"The general is angry!"

Su Zhi rushed over and hugged Wang Fubao, and several other generals all fell to one knee.

"I gave you 20,000 fine horses, but you only came back to see me with a dozen people......"

Two lines of tears flowed from Wang Fubao's eyes: "What's the use of me keeping you?!" ”

……

……

The military doctor carefully cut Wang Yan's armor with a knife, and then untied the layers of cloth that were bandaged. A shocking wound immediately appeared in front of everyone's eyes, it was Su Zhi and the others, who had been in battle for a long time, and they couldn't help but open their mouths in surprise when they saw the wound on Wang Yan's chest.

The wound was so long that it almost ran through the entire upper body.

At the wound, the whitish flesh turned to the sides, and the blood flowed out along the wound, washing down the remaining wound medicine on it. The military doctor hurriedly sprinkled the powder to stop bleeding, and almost used up all the wound medicine before he could paste the wound.

"What a vicious knife."

Su Zhi took a breath of cold air and couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

Wang Fubao looked at Wang Yan who was suffering from pain without saying a word, his eyes slowly moved to Wang Yan's wound, and then he frowned, and couldn't help but shake his head: "Even the golden silk armor can't stop it." ”

Everyone knows that His Majesty gave his golden silk soft armor to Wang Fubao before setting out on the expedition. Wang Fubao gave this golden silk armor to Wang Roar again, and Wang Roar has always worn it close to his body on weekdays. Ordinary swords can't break through the golden silk armor at all. Even if the armor-piercing cone is shot on the body, it is difficult to shoot through the golden silk armor.

"Who is it?"

Wang Fubao was silent for a while and asked.

Wang swallowed a mouthful of spit, laughed miserably and shook his head.

"Nine knives...... Can't stop him from stabbing. ”

There was horror in his eyes, as if he was extremely reluctant to recall the fierce battle: "It's just killing...... Why nine knives? ”

He looked at Wang Fubao and muttered, "He said it, and then he broke Wang Ge's neck with a knife, and also broke the eight horizontal knives tied behind Wang Ge...... One more stab, breaking the knife in my hand, and ......."

Wang Yan pointed to his heart: "Here." ”