The early morning is warm and beautiful in this early summer season.

In Wuchang City, there are merchants and farmers who open their doors early and go out of their houses, enjoying the fresh air and warmth on the street. The soldiers of the brigade marched in groups on the streets for morning exercises, and everything was calm, forgetting what had happened nearly three months ago that had shocked the whole city.

The common people can forget, but the Wuchang guards can't forget. Yue Jiheng took over his father's position and became the new governor of Zhengbei, if he is currently the most powerful young son, he will be the only one when Zhao Xian dies. However, he was not very happy, and even had a little resentment towards Zhao Xian, if it wasn't for his whimsical desire to surprise attack Northern Qi, how could it cause the next thing?

Yue Pingyang's death was unexpected by Zhao Xian, but it kicked him the last stumbling block. He felt guilty, but when he got to this point, he couldn't stop.

The faint morning light scattered on the armor blades of the guards of the city walls, exuding a golden glow. All the soldiers held their heads high, guarding the city together, and the hunting 'Liang' character military flag glowed with the slightest new brilliance. It's a pity that now that General Yue is dead, and the An family army is torn apart, even if this military flag is being displayed, the eyes of the soldiers still feel bleak, maybe there is a lack of a backbone.

The soldiers on the city wall walked back and forth, and the colonel led by him held his arms, hid behind the city chop and secretly nibbled on a large cake, happily gossiping with the soldiers patrolling next to him. Which family's fat powder sister is the most delicious, which family's old bustard raises men, and a group of soldiers who listened stretched their necks and pricked up their ears, and did not forget to form a team to cover him. There is no war in peacetime. That's all the fun on this boring wall.

Some soldiers who were not very interested lay on the battlements and looked into the distance, nostalgic for their mother-in-law at home. Gradually, a white spot appeared on the first line of heaven and earth, gradually approaching, it can be seen that it is a silver armor of the Northern Qi general, holding a long plastic, and the feathers on his head are fluttering in the wind, which is actually quite heroic. Without fear, they rushed to the city walls.

The soldier's pupils shrank. The blade in his hand almost fell to the ground, and he hurriedly straightened his helmet and shouted: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

The sound was like thunder, and it was not the first time that Northern Qi had suddenly attacked. The chattering and loitering on the city wall got up one after another, picked up their blades and prepared. The beacon fire was burning again.

The soldier's bow is as full as the moon. Align with the outside of the city. On closer inspection, there were no other troops except for the single gun.

Horses fly. The silver-armored general pulled a white line across the ground, a scene that most of the soldiers felt familiar to them.

When their faces were clear, all the soldiers on the city wall were in an uproar: "General Zhao Xian! He's alive! ”

The archer immediately put down his bow and arrows, although he didn't understand why he was wearing the armor of the Northern Qi, but he was alone, and he was the heir of the Duke of Zhenguo, so it was impossible to rebel against the imperial court.

Xiao Jianjun and Yue Jiheng, who came to inquire, the boss with open eyes, Yue Jiheng's delicate face was distorted, and he said bitterly: "Good Zhao Xian!" You're not dead, Daddy! This guy has nine lives, why are you so confused! ”

Xiao Jianjun also felt sorry for his old partner for many years, but he was still very happy that Zhao Xian came back. Immediately shouted: "Open the city gate and welcome Zhao Xian, the king of Dingbei." ”

Everyone was in an uproar again, and then they remembered that after Zhao Xian's death, the emperor directly named him the king of Dingbei with a wave of his hand, and no one in the court objected. Now that he's back alive, he can't take his life back, right?

The prince with a different surname is the only one in Daliang for a hundred years. Everyone is envious and admired, and the title of An family is really over.

Zhao Xian looked at the familiar people on the city wall, took a breath lightly, and said loudly: "Zhao Xian, the general of the Northern Qi Expedition to the South, is here, and General Yue in the city is willing to come down and talk about it." ”

"What?!" "General Zhengnan?!"

Everyone was stunned for a while, and thought that Zhao Xian had lost his mind and gone crazy, so he didn't do it as a good king of Dingbei, and ran to be the general of Northern Qi's expedition to the south? Not to mention the infamy of the ages, if you are here to persuade you to surrender, we can agree?

Yue Jiheng was angry and angry, and said loudly: "Okay, you Zhao Xian, you actually surrendered to Northern Qi, and you can count the wrong person as the son." He was taken down and taken to Kyoto for trial. ”

Zhao Xian shook his head and chuckled: "Brother Yue, don't you want to know, why did I surrender to Northern Qi?" ”

"Huh?!" Yue Jiheng was slightly stunned with anger, yes! He was in power in Daliang, and even if he arrived in Northern Qi, it was impossible to give him a higher reward, and there was no need to surrender at all. If he temporarily agreed to Northern Qi to get out, it would be understandable. But you're all at the door, and what are you talking about?

He felt that there was something wrong with it, so he hurriedly went down the city wall, opened the city gate and rode out alone. ”

"You're so bold."

Zhao Xian put the horse plastic on the ground, patted the horse slowly in front of him, took out a piece of brocade cloth from his bosom, and raised it to look at the city wall.

At this time, the city wall was already full of soldiers and guards, and many people were mixed in, watching the general who had come back from the dead.

Yue Jiheng frowned: "Zhao Xian, isn't this the golden book of knighthood given to you by Northern Qi, you use it to show off to me?" ”

Zhao Xian exhaled lightly and said loudly: "My An family has been loyal and good for generations, and the first emperor of the Great Liang was very jealous of the An family, and conspired with Fuguotang to suppress the An family, resulting in only Zhao and the old man remaining in the An family. The first emperor of the Great Liang was still not satisfied, and secretly made an edict, instructing the first emperor to beware of the following, and if there is a chance, he will definitely cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. And Emperor Jian Shi lived up to his high expectations, and when I raided the Northern Qi Dynasty with 5,000 soldiers, he issued a blood edict ordering General Yue Pingyang to cut off my back road, so that I could die in a foreign country with all the soldiers. General Yue was loyal, forced to obey the emperor's order, and had to commit suicide to apologize because of guilt, and he was so supportive, but Emperor Jian Shi knew about it, thinking that everything could be returned to dust with General Yue's death. However, I, Zhao Xian, did not die. After the spies of the Northern Qi secret guard learned of this secret edict, they secretly swapped out the authentic handwriting. He also deliberately left my life behind, and handed over this edict and blood edict to me. ”

Quiet, deathly still.

The dark side of the imperial court, most of the officials present knew about it, but none of them dared to discuss it. It's just that they can't believe that the emperor would use this method to deal with his own courtiers. It is understandable that he is suspicious of his self-respect, but General Yue is loyal, and he actually used General Yue's loyalty to make such a thing that forced him to commit suicide! and the 5,000 soldiers, in order to get rid of a suspicious courtier, they let the 5,000 soldiers be used as cannon fodder and die in a foreign land. Isn't the life of a soldier worth mentioning in the eyes of the emperor?

Yue Jiheng shook his head again and again, but he was half-convinced in his heart. His father was conscientious, serious and serious, and he had never been negligent as a Wuchang guard for several years. A simple matter like answering Zhao Xian will never go wrong. But that day, I got drunk and forgot. And think of those days. His father looked solemn and behaved strangely, and called him into the room several times to explain some things, and he thought that his father was going to return to his hometown and pass on the position to him. When he thought that night, his father raised his sword and killed himself. And there was a pile of burned ashes in the room.

Such an association. Yue Jiheng's face suddenly turned bloody, and then the blue tendons on his forehead burst out. If he commits suicide because he is not negligent, he will not be happy in his heart. But he couldn't say anything more, who let it be his father's fault. But now? The imperial court forced his father to death in order to get rid of Zhao Xian, how could he not be angry? His father was loyal, but he ended up like this, and he couldn't even wash away the name of suicide after death.

Zhao Xian held a brocade step, slowly walked under the city wall, beat his chest, and said angrily: "I, Zhao Xian, don't want to be this sinner through the ages, and I don't want to face each other with swords against my former colleagues, but I, Zhao Xian, can't swallow this breath." If one day you go out to fight for the founding emperor, but he has already written a secret edict to stab you in the back, just to get rid of your loyal generals, can you swallow this breath? As courtiers, we regard the founding emperor as a saint, regardless of life and death, away from his wife and children, and strive to protect his world, but what should he do with our flesh and blood? This world belongs to the people, not his Ye family, the hardships of a hundred years of war, all the soldiers know better than me, each of you is worried about facing the foreign land, and you have to worry about the emperor stabbing you in the back, such a mediocre monarch, what good is it? ”

The soldiers on the city wall have anger in their eyes, they are all General Yue's old subordinates, and they admire General Yue from the bottom of their hearts, in order to protect the people of Wuchang from the war, even the life and death of their own sons can not be shared, how can they not accept it?

Especially this blood edict, it was a naked betrayal, what did their loyalty get in exchange? A monarch who treats human life like a mustard, who is far away from their fathers and elders at home, and who swears to defend this person's world?

Most of the soldiers were taken for military service, and of course they were angry when they saw this. And the guards looked left and right, thinking about what to do next.

The meaning of Zhao's gossip is obviously to rebel.

It is very miserable to accidentally stand on the wrong team and be taken the sacrificial flag, and as for being loyal to the monarch and serving the country, they are now very unhappy. An Jia and General Yue are more loyal than them, as a result?

At first, it was just the two descendants of the Ye family who fought for the throne and fought for nearly a hundred years, and they ordinary generals were already annoyed. Besides, the Northern Qi Dynasty was still a family a hundred years ago, and it was not the Tatars who entered the customs to slaughter the Han people, so there was not much psychological resistance. And Zhao Xian didn't say that he wanted them to surrender to Northern Qi, and there was no way to destroy Daliang and become the emperor of Northern Qi, and these little generals were still the future founding heroes.

Now they are only considering the possibility of Zhao Xian's success.

The An family controls nearly seventy percent of the soldiers and horses of Daliang, although Zhao Xian was divided after his death, but the old man An is still alive, his grandson was persecuted by the court and rebelled, can he go to the battlefield to stop him? With a wave of his hand, the appeal is not comparable to ordinary people. Yue Jiheng has nearly thirty percent of the control, and the only thing left is the forbidden army of the imperial court.

In this way, Zhao Xian really has no possibility of failure, as long as Yue Jiheng also agrees to this matter, the end of Daliang will also come.

As for the people, they were also very angry when they heard this. An Jiajun is a protector in the eyes of the people of Daliang, and as for the imperial court, it really has nothing to do except collect taxes and catch strong men. Especially when it was a storyteller, Zhao Xian's joke was spread in the teahouse, what 'resisting the enemy alone outside Jinling City, Wuchang's dangerous plan to solve the siege', etc., etc., on the stage, he is a loyal and courageous red face.

For a while, everyone's eyes at the head of the city were all on Yue Jiheng, looking at what choice this new governor of the northern capital would make.

Yue Jiheng picked up the blue tendons on his forehead, raised his hand to grab the brocade cloth, and unfolded it to take a closer look. Gradually, his eyes were blood-red, and he trembled and said: "My father is loyal, your Ye family treats my father like this......" He roared angrily, his eyes turned black, and he fainted angrily.

Zhao Xianshen held him with his hands, pointed to the sky in advance, looked at the head of the city and shouted angrily: "The first emperor is unkind, don't blame me for being unjust." All the soldiers of Wuchang listened to the order, opened the city gate, prepared for the baggage, and set off on the same day, pointing at Tianluo, and the violator was beheaded. (To be continued......)