arranged for Guo Feng and Chen Zhihong to lead the Baoguo army to return to the Jiaoye Fang station, and implored Lu Chu, who also came to greet him, to boil more ginger syrup water for the **** soldiers to drink, Chen Yingliang himself didn't even have time to change his white robe and armor, and immediately followed Pei Hongce back to the imperial city of the Eastern Capital, and met with Yang Tong, the king of Yue, and Fan Zigai and others who stayed in the Eastern Capital.

The second time he entered the imperial city, and the second time he came to the main hall where he had saved Pei Hongce before, Chen Yingliang was not blocked by the guards of the forbidden army in front of the palace gate like last time, and entered the palace directly with Pei Hongce, and at the same time, Chen Yingliang also took the initiative to untie the shoulder knife very carefully, held it with both hands and handed it to the palace guards, and then entered the palace with Pei Hongce.

As soon as he entered the main hall, Chen Yingliang took a cursory look at the situation in the hall, and found that the situation was similar to the last time, Yang Tong, the nine-year-old king of Yue, sat in the middle, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, the two important ministers of the Eastern Capital, stood and sat at the head of the squad on both sides, and there were four guards of the forbidden army holding a man standing in the hall, just a few more officials of the Eastern Capital whose names Chen Yingliang could not name. Then Chen Yingliang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed Pei Hongce to salute Yang Tong and the others, and said respectfully: "Chen Yingliang, Henan Zanzhi Yamen Record Office, knock to see His Royal Highness King Yue, knock to see all the adults." ”

The man who was escorted by four guards seemed to have an injury on his leg, and his right leg was sitting flat on the floor, and when he heard the voice, he turned around and saw Chen Yingliang, and the man with a muddy and bloody face suddenly screamed like a pig, and shouted with a crying voice like crazy: "White robe army!" Why is the white-robed army here again? His Royal Highness King Yue, Fan stayed behind, General Huangfu, the guilty minister didn't tell a lie, the guilty minister didn't say a word of lie, why did you call the white-robed army again? The guilty minister didn't tell a lie, don't ask the white-robed army to kill me, don't ask them to kill me again, please! ”

"What's wrong?" Chen Yingliang and Pei Hongce were confused, but the man cried even louder, and struggled to crawl forward like a dog with his hands on the ground, as far away from Chen Yingliang as possible, the guards of the forbidden army hurriedly held him down, he struggled desperately, and then simply cried loudly.

"Shut up!" Fan Zigai opened his mouth and roared: "You are still a court official, a dignified Xuanyilang, you are afraid of becoming like this, what will you say?" ”

"I'm not afraid, they're all crazy!" The man's tears and snot gushed together, and he pointed at Chen Yingliang with great excitement and cried: "It's them!" That's them! In front of me, they chopped eight or nine of my own soldiers to pieces, and the intestines and brains flowed out, and blood sprayed all over my body, and I fell to my knees and surrendered, and they also trampled my legs off, and trampled my legs off! They are insane! They're madmen from the underworld! ”

"Shut up! You're crazy! Fan Zigai shouted angrily again, but the man still cried and shouted as if he was mentally ill, desperately begging Fan Zigai to let Chen Yingliang leave, Fan Zigai had no choice but to order the guards of the forbidden army to temporarily set up the man out of the hall, lest he see Chen Yingliang being stimulated.

The man with the broken leg cried and shouted that he was carried out, and Fan Zi Gai Yan gradually showed some smiles on his face, and said to Chen Yingliang with a smile: "Chen Ji room, it seems that the military order you set up in front of the old man was not only fully achieved, but also overfulfilled, so that Xuanyi Lang Yurou, who is quite famous in Daxing City, is afraid of you like this, it is not easy!" This war was fought well and made great contributions to the imperial court! ”

"This battle is all thanks to the emperor and His Royal Highness the King of Yue, and the lord and the general Huangfu have to strategize, and rely on General Liu Changgong Liu to command well, and the soldiers use their lives, so they won by luck, the kid has no size merit, and the left-behind lord praises him, and the kid is really ashamed." Chen Yingliang hurriedly humbled himself.

Hearing Chen Yingliang's words, Fan Zigai, who had an upright personality, frowned slightly, and was quite displeased with Chen Yingliang's slipperyness, and Huangfu Wuyi also coughed and scolded: "Chen Yingliang, how old are you, how did you learn these hypocritical words?" Do you have any credit, we can see clearly on the city walls, and what is the hypocrisy of modesty? It's so slippery at a young age, and you'll have it in the future? ”

Chen Yingliang smiled embarrassedly and didn't dare to say anything, but sighed secretly in his heart, "I can't imagine that these officials in the feudal era can have much better moral character than my former boss, the old immortal director, after solving a big case, if anyone dares not to write his greatest credit on the report, he will keep it and let whoever can't eat and walk around." ”

"Chen Ji Room, how did you train as a soldier?" Yang Tong, who was only nine years old, opened his mouth to resolve the embarrassment for Chen Yingliang, and asked with great curiosity: "You have only trained the soldiers of those two regiments for thirteen days, why did you train them so well?" This king heard that in the small period of rain today, you took two regiments of soldiers, and almost killed the traitor's 3,000 soldiers and horses, if it were not for Fan Liushou and General Huangfu to confirm it personally, this king almost thought that those servants were talking nonsense. ”

"Your Highness, forgive your sins, this is not something that can be explained clearly in a sentence or two." Chen Yingliang said respectfully: "If Your Highness is interested, you might as well come to the camp of the National Army, and the villain will explain to His Highness while directing the army's drills, so that His Highness may be able to understand faster." ”

"Okay, I'll go tomorrow." Yang Tong is a child's nature, and he agreed in one bite, while Fan Zigai coughed and reminded with a straight face: "Your Highness, Your Majesty has a will, you can't go out of the palace without permission, if Your Highness wants to go out of the palace to review the army, you need to be accompanied by the old ministers." ”

Yang Tong, who was completely a puppet, shut up, and Fan Zigai shouted to Chen Yingliang: "Okay, get up, don't kneel, it's still the same sentence, you played well, you are worthy of being a famous general of the previous dynasty, and you really have some ability, but the old man has something very strange, today before you go out of the city, how can you say that you have obtained the consent of the old man, and the reward will be doubled after the victory, and the number of people killed in battle will be tripled, when did the old man promise to give such a reward?" ”

"The left-behind adults forgive their sins, and the villain made up these words to boost morale at the time." Chen Yingliang respectfully pleaded guilty and said frankly: "The villain thinks so, since Yang rebelled, the imperial army has been repeatedly defeated in the field, and the villain leads the **** If he can win the first victory in the field, such a reward will definitely be accepted." If unfortunately defeated....... ”

Speaking of this, Chen Yingliang raised his head and added more frankly: "If the villain is unfortunately defeated, then there will only be two ends, one is to be killed on the battlefield by the rebel army, and the other is to fulfill the military order and be beheaded by the left-behind adults to show the public. ”

Laughter erupted in the hall, Yang Tong and Huangfu Wuyi and others laughed heartily, and Fan Zigai also laughed out loud, and then shouted: "The old man really doesn't want to honor the reward you promised now, see what you kid should do now?" Dare to even fabricate the old man's words, it is simply lawless, and he is so bold! ”

Chen Yingliang continued to put his forehead on the ground, respectfully pleading guilty, but he didn't worry at all - if Fan Zigai still cares about such trivial matters at this time, then Fan Zigai must be really confused. Sure enough, after scolding Chen Yingliang a few more words, Fan Zigai still waved his hand and said, "Get up, for the sake of your two battles and two victories today, the old man will honor the reward you made up." But the old man has a word first, only this time, next time you dare to fabricate a military order, be careful of your head! ”

Chen Yingliang pretended to thank him, and then stood up respectfully, and then Chen Yingliang immediately asked: "Fan Liushou, General Huangfu, what did that Yu Rou recruit just now?" The villain did not have time to report the report, and the villain pursued the rebels and approached Kim Yong City, but did not encounter the main rebel force, so it is impossible to tell whether the main force of the rebels is still in the city. ”

Fan Zigai's face became gloomy again, and Huangfu Wuyi coughed and said weakly: "You guessed it, Yu Rou just confessed that Yang Xuangan felt that the rebel thief had been fighting every day in the past few days, and deliberately increased the intensity of the scout war, indeed to cover up his secret division of troops and sneak attack on our Daxing reinforcements, this rebel had secretly divided his troops in the evening two days ago, and the handsome flag on Kim Yong City was just a little trick to play on us." ”

Chen Yingliang didn't dare to speak up, and he really didn't dare to say anything, in this matter, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi made a big mistake together, and it may also lead to the huge mistake of destroying the entire army of Daxing reinforcements, if this mistake can be recovered, it is fine, if it can't be recovered, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi don't know how big a black pot they have to carry, how much punishment they will receive, at this time, they will open their mouths indiscriminately, and if they don't do well, they will have to be used as a punching bag for Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi.

Sure enough, Fan Zigai really looked up to the sky and sighed: "Shame, there are more than 25,000 defenders in the Eastern Capital, but they don't even know that the enemy's main force is divided under their noses, and they also sent reinforcements that misled Wei Wensheng with the wrong military situation. ”

Chen Yingliang didn't dare to speak even more, Huangfu Wuyi and Pei Hongce and other civil and military forces in the eastern capital didn't dare to say anything, fortunately, Fan Zigai didn't continue on this issue, and after shaking his head, he said to Chen Yingliang again: "The news of the rebel thief's division of troops, the old man has sent ten messengers, and they rushed to Cuihan Road to contact Wei Wensheng, no matter how waste they are, there is always one who can deliver the letter, you only have credit in this matter, the responsibility is ours, you just have to bring good soldiers." ”

Chen Yingliang hurriedly nodded, indicating that he understood, Fan Zigai sighed again, and then he barely squeezed out some smiles, and said: "Okay, now let's talk about your reward, since you came to the Eastern Capital to join the army, you have made some contributions to our Eastern Capital Army, but the previous merits are all suggestions and suggestions, and the old man is inconvenient to ask for a reward for you, today you fought this battle beautifully, with 400 troops to break 3,000 rebels, beheaded more than 1,000, captured the rebel general Yu Rou, and joined forces with Liu Changgong to defeat the rebel reinforcements for a while, hard work and high achievement, If the old man doesn't ask His Royal Highness King Yue for your merits and rewards, he will be embarrassed. ”

"Chen Yingliang, you are worthy of being the great-grandson of the former Zhou famous general Chen Xin, you didn't disgrace him, you are a rare general." Huangfu Wuyi also smiled and said, "How is it?" Do you want to enter the right guard? With His Royal Highness King Yue here, Fan Liushou and I will jointly recommend to you the position of a right military guard to fight the position of Eagle Strike General? ”

Huangfu Wuyi just finished speaking, and without waiting for Chen Yingliang to speak, Fan Zigai immediately took over the conversation and said to Pei Hongce: "Li Guogong, your nephew is a general, don't let him be wasted in your Zanzhi Yamen, cut your love." ”

"Fan stays behind, how dare the lower officials disobey?" Pei Hongce smiled and gave up his hand, pushed Chen Yingliang again, and shouted: "Yingliang, don't you kneel down to thank Fan Liushou and General Huangfu for their joint recommendation?" Not to mention that in the eastern capital, that is, in the imperial court, you are still the first person who can be jointly recommended by them! Let's have fun! ”

Chen Yingliang hesitated, but still knelt down on his knees to Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, kowtowed and said: "Villain Chen Yingliang, thank Fan for the joint recommendation of Fan Liushou and General Huangfu - but, the villain can't accept it!" ”

The smiles of Fan Zigai, Huangfu Wuyi and Pei Hongce froze on their faces, and the eyes of the other Dongdu civilians present widened again, and then Pei Hongce was furious, raised his foot and kicked Chen Yingliang's buttocks, and said angrily: "Little bastard, why are you crazy?" Xiazhen Eagle Strike Lang General is from the sixth grade, Fan Liushou and General Huangfu have given you a lot of face, are you still too low? ”

"Uncle forgives the sin, and the little nephew is grateful for the kindness of Fan Liushou and General Huangfu, so he can't accept their kindness." Chen Yingliang said loudly: "Please uncle, don't forget, my Great Sui decree, a man must be at least twenty-one years old to join the government soldiers, the little nephew is only seventeen years old this year, and he has not yet reached the age where he can join the government soldiers, and the little nephew cannot be promoted for his official position, so that Fan Liushou and General Huangfu take the lead in abolishing the national law!" ”

Pei Hongce was stunned, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi were also stunned, and then they remembered that Chen Yingliang was only seventeen years old now, and he was indeed not qualified to join the Right Guard. After hesitating for a moment, Fan Zigai nodded and said: "You're right, this is a problem, but it doesn't matter, the old man can ask His Royal Highness the King of Yue for extrajudicial mercy and allow you to join the right guard, and the emperor will also come to the table to intercede for you." ”

"Lao Tzu doesn't want to enter the right guard, at least now I don't want to enter the right guard, now I have entered the right guard, even if I become an eagle general, there are still a lot of eagle generals, tiger tooth generals and tiger generals on my head, plus Lao Tzu's current age and qualifications, if you want to climb up a step, it will be more difficult than climbing to the sky, so Lao Tzu will not be this evil!"

Quickly muttered in his heart, Chen Yingliang kowtowed heavily, and said loudly: "Xie Fan stayed behind with good intentions, but the national law is like a mountain, grace cannot be lightly opened, and the grace of heaven is light, and the future is endless. ”

If you change to other important ministers, you have to be angry after listening to Chen Yingliang's words, but what kind of people are Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, both of them are well-known iron-faced selfless, honest and upright, and climbed to today's position by virtue of their real achievements and well-known morality, so after listening to Chen Yingliang's words, not only did they not get angry at Chen Yingliang's refusal to appreciate it, but they also nodded again and again, praising Chen Yingliang for taking the court first in everything he does, and also being more satisfied and appreciative of Chen Yingliang, who is already very optimistic about them.

After nodding secretly, Fan Zigai thought about it again, made a very rare concession, and said: "Okay, since you insist on refusing to accept the kindness of the old man and General Huangfu, then the old man is not reluctant, your age is indeed too young, and the matter of officially entering the office can be said slowly, but if there is a mistake, it must be punished, and meritorious service must also be rewarded, so let's ask His Royal Highness King Yue for some rewards for you as a commendation." ”

Huangfu Wuyi also nodded in agreement, and at that moment Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi knelt down to Yang Tong together, listing all the merits that Chen Yingliang had made in the Great Sui Imperial Court these days, and begged Yang Tong to reward Chen Yingliang as a commendation as the general who stayed in the eastern capital and the right military guard. Nine-year-old Yang Tong was not ambiguous, and decided to reward Chen Yingliang with 300 horses on the spot, Qian Qianguan, and he was quite generous, Chen Yingliang was not ambiguous this time, and immediately kowtowed to Yang Tong to thank him, and thanked Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi, who are currently actually in charge of the Eastern Capital.

"No thanks, you deserve it." Fan Zigai shook his head and said: "Your reward, together with the reward of the **** soldiers, tomorrow the old man will send Lu Chu to your camp, you are also very tired today, discuss one more thing, you can go back and rest." ”

"Please stay behind and command." Chen Yingliang replied respectfully.

"Report the **** team, what are the casualties today?" Fan Zigai asked.

"Twenty-one people were killed, two were seriously wounded, and thirty-five were lightly wounded." Chen Yingliang replied truthfully.

Fan Zigai's white eyebrows were raised, and he exclaimed: "Remarkable, more than 1,300 beheaded, and the casualties are so small, such a record is comparable to the white-robed army of the Southern Dynasty eighty-four years ago!" ”

Chen Yingliang was also a little proud, knowing that although there were many such terrifying casualties in history, it was definitely not much! Then Chen Yingliang habitually humbled and flattered: "Thanks to the praise of the left-behind adults, but the villain is still the same sentence, whether it is equipment or training, the army of the Eastern Capital is actually far above the Yang rebel army, and the villain just lets the soldiers give full play to the advantages of equipment and training, so this credit should be recorded in the court and the adults, and the villain plays a very small role in it." ”

"You don't have to be modest, if there were so many generals in the Eastern Capital City who could do this, then the Eastern Capital Army would have killed the Yang Rebel Army cleanly." Fan Zigai shook his head and asked again: "In a short period of time, how many more elite soldiers can you train?" The strength of your two regiments is too small, and the old man wants you to train more elite soldiers. ”

"As long as you have the guts, it's no problem to hand over all the troops in Luoyang City to me." Chen Yingliang muttered in his heart, but he didn't dare to say such stupid words, after thinking for a while, Chen Yingliang replied: "Two regiments, if the left-behind adults hope that the villain can train some elite soldiers like the national army in a short period of time, the villain is estimated to be two regiments at most, and the villain still has words first, and he must join the recruits within two years of the right guard, the veterans have already been set, and the training will only be half the result." ”

Chen Yingliang's request used a little psychological skills, and then two regiments, then there are only more than 800 people in the national army, giving Fan Zigai a feeling that less than 1,000 people are insignificant, if you want three regiments, then the number of troops in the national army will reach more than 1,000 people, which will make Fan Zigai feel that the number of troops is thousands of hesitation, and the result is just as Chen Yingliang expected, after listening to Chen Yingliang's words, Fan Zigai immediately nodded and said: "Okay, then the old man will let you bring two more regiments, General Huangfu, tomorrow you give Chen Yingliang an official document, Let him choose soldiers at will for each battalion of the right armed guard, and the generals of each battalion must fully cooperate and not make things difficult. ”

Huangfu Wuyi agreed with a smile and said: "Please rest assured that Fan Liushou will not be deliberately difficult, and the generals of the battalions will definitely rush to hope that Chen Yingliang will pick more soldiers from their command, no matter how incompetent and useless they are, they will definitely not think that there are too many elite soldiers under their command." ”

Finalized the resolution to double the size of the Baoguo army, Chen Yingliang said goodbye to Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi and others and returned to the camp to rest, Pei Hongce also left the imperial city with Chen Yingliang, on the way back, Pei Hongce had to be a little angry with Chen Yingliang, complaining: "You stupid boy, Fan Zigai and Huangfu Wuyi jointly recommended you for your official position, what a great honor is this?" What are you doing with so many excuses? Do you think that you are from the sixth grade, your uncle and I are only the fourth grade, and I are only five levels behind, such a good opportunity to enter the ranks, why are you willing to give up? ”

Chen Yingliang only used one sentence to make Pei Hongce's anger come to naught - Chen Yingliang smiled and said: "Uncle, if your other subordinates immediately abandon you and go to others to work for others because others promise high-ranking officials, then what will you think in your heart?" ”

Pei Hongce paused for a while, then he came to his senses, and understood that Chen Yingliang was showing loyalty to himself and was determined to hold his thighs forever, so Pei Hongce quickly turned his anger into joy, patted Chen Yingliang's shoulder and said with a smile: "This is what the virtuous nephew originally meant, uncle understands, you can rest assured, you will not live up to your uncle, and your uncle will not bear you, from the official position of Liupin, you will definitely be able to get it." ”

Chen Yingliang smiled and said in his heart If you find me a position of real power in a local area, I can lead troops and govern at the same time, then I will definitely treat you as my own uncle and filial piety. After saying this sentence in his heart, in fact, Chen Yingliang, who had long felt that his whole body was sore, suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he involuntarily leaned on Pei Hongce's body, Pei Hongce was shocked, and quickly hugged Chen Yingliang, and found that Chen Yingliang's body was hot, and then when he hurriedly touched Chen Yingliang's forehead, he found that Chen Yingliang's forehead was so hot that it could almost be fried eggs.

Don't blame Chen Yingliang for being useless, it's the dead ghost Chen Yingliang who left behind a poor physical foundation, insufficient nutrition during the development period, and days of military work made Chen Yingliang mentally and physically very tired.