Chapter 194: The Controversy at Ningwu Pass
Before, the guard of Guoning Wuguan was Mu Feng, who was Ji Qingchen's eldest brother. But because Mu Feng helped Ji Qingchen get out of the customs and killed the deputy general Xiao Han, so he annoyed the Empress Dowager Xiao, and he was transferred out of Ningwu Pass, and the main general of Ning Wuguan was replaced by Sun Zonghan, the confidant of the Empress Dowager Xiao.
But even so, Ji Qingchen didn't dare to underestimate the city defense of Ningwu Pass.
Because Ningwuguan not only has hundreds of thousands of elite iron cavalry leaving the country, but also the only heavy cavalry Tiefutu in the country, this cavalry was created by Li Yaoshi, the god of war who left the country, and it is the existence of the tiger and leopard cavalry in the country.
Of course, his senior brother was the chief general of Mu Feng's cavalry, but now that Sun Zonghan has been appointed as the general of Ningzhou City, the chief general of Tiefutu has become Sun Zonghan.
However, Ji Qingchen is also very confident that with Sun Zonghan's ability, he has no problem if he wants to lead the Iron Floating Slaughter, but let the Iron Floating Slaughter recognize him, it is estimated that he does not have this ability, and Ji Qingchen thinks that with Sun Zonghan's ability, it is still a question whether he can mobilize this detachment now? Because Sun Zonghan had been staying in Xijing City, where he had left the country, he was just a small general in the North Courtyard, and the court that had left the country didn't pay attention to him at all, and he didn't have much military merit, but now he was reused by the Empress Dowager Xiao and entrusted with important tasks, so it's strange to let the army obey the country!
However, even if he understood this, when he looked at Sun Zonghan after entering Ningwu Pass, Ji Qingchen still cheered up his spirit. Because he unexpectedly found that Sun Zonghan had 30,000 elite horsemen with him when he greeted him this time, and he was also the elite of the Liguo Railway Cavalry, which shows that his prestige has spread to Liguo, and Liguo's attention to him is not trivial.
"Ahead, His Royal Highness the King of Northern Liao?" Sun Zonghan asked loudly, his gaze just swept over Ji Qingchen's face, and he stared closely at the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Dead Soldier Battalion behind Ji Qingchen, because Sun Zonghan found that the more than 3,000 cavalry behind Ji Qingchen were very strong, especially the three thousand Beirong elite cavalry could occasionally become Ji Qingchen's guards, which surprised him very much, but he immediately concealed his surprise.
"Yes, it's this king, I don't know what General Lu Dao is called?" Ji Qingchen asked knowingly, his eyes also fell on Sun Zonghan's body, he looked at Sun Zonghan carefully, and found that the other party was tall, but he was a little thin, but his face was gloomy, which showed that he was a villain with a knife in his smile.
"Sun Zonghan, the general of Ningwu Pass, has seen His Royal Highness the King of Northern Liao!" Sun Zonghan said politely, and suddenly saw that Ji Qingchen was looking at him with a faint smile, he had a feeling of being naked in front of Ji Qingchen, so he immediately changed the topic and said, "Your Highness is entering the customs this time, is you going to go to the capital?" ”
Seeing that Ji Qingchen nodded slightly in agreement, he immediately smiled and said, "Since His Royal Highness left the country, the Queen Mother has missed Her Royal Highness for a long time, and now that Her Royal Highness has returned to the capital again, I am afraid that the Queen Mother will be very happy." ”
"Indeed, this king hasn't seen the Queen Mother for a long time, and he misses it very much, so he wants to go and see it." Ji Qingchen said hypocritically, "However, this king has a long way to go to Beijing, and he will not be able to reach the capital for a while, and he must ask the general to send the news of this king's trip to Beijing to King's Landing City as soon as possible." ”
"Your Highness, please rest assured that this will definitely be done." Sun Zonghan said with a smile, and politely invited Ji Qingchen to the military camp tent in Ningwuguan.
When the guest of honor sat down in the big tent, several generals of the Ningwu Pass garrison in the tent saluted Ji Qingchen, and Ji Qingchen and Sun Zonghan left after a few simple greetings, saying that they were going to rest, Sun Zonghan sent Ji Qingchen out of the big tent with a smile, saying that he would invite Ji Qingchen to the banquet in the evening, and Ji Qingchen was happy to accept the order.
In the evening, Sun Zonghan looked at Ji Qingchen in the big tent, and when the banquet was halfway through, Sun Zonghan proposed to Ji Qingchen that he would dance the sword to help the fun.
As soon as Sun Zonghan opened his mouth to dance the sword to cheer up, Ji Qingchen in the seat guessed his thoughts, but he didn't refuse, so he nodded and agreed.
And when Sun Zonghan saw that Ji Qingchen agreed, a cold smile suddenly appeared on his face.
He gave a few words to his lieutenant, and he saw that the lieutenant had left the tent.
In an instant, the lieutenant general returned to the big tent again, followed by a bearded man with a height of eight feet, and at a glance at the appearance of the big man and the murderous aura exuded from his body, he could be sure that he was a soldier in the army.
As soon as the big man entered the big tent, he drew his sword and began to dance in the big tent to Sun Zonghan and Ji Qingchen's strength.
At this time, I heard the deputy general just now suggest to Ji Qingchen, "This time the king of Northern Liao is going to the capital, but there are many guards around him, they must be the top masters of Dayan, right?" Since it is a sword dance, how can a person contribute to the fun? Why didn't the king of Northern Liao also send a guard to the field to discuss with me from the Han army? ”
This is Sun Zonghan's conspiracy! I want to use the sword dance to invite my own guards, kill them with a sword, and want to give myself a dismount. But in this way, invite your own guards to fight, and then give yourself a dismount. Doesn't that seem like a petty family? Therefore, Ji Qingchen was not ready to deal with Sun Zonghan, so he could politely refuse, "There are a lot of guards around this king, but they are all military soldiers, and they can't dance swords, so they won't be ashamed." ”
He didn't want to provoke the villain Sun Zonghan as soon as he entered the customs. After all, when he returned to Dayan from Shangjing, he still needed to pass through Ningwu Pass. But Sun Zonghan didn't think so, and the deputy general next to him didn't think so, the two had already heard about Ji Qingchen's achievements in Liaozhou, and they had long known Ji Qingchen's brilliant record of destroying Mo Dahan in one battle, Meng Buge in one battle, and Beirong in three battles. Now seeing that Ji Qingchen refused to send the guards with a record record to play, he thought that Ji Qingchen was afraid of the murderous spirit of the big man on the field, and he was afraid that his guards would lose face on the field, so he invited Ji Qingchen to send the guards to play a game, because they also wanted to frustrate Ji Qingchen's sharpness here, and the words were a little unscrupulous.
Ji Qingchen didn't say anything here, but Li Changzheng, Zuo Zongquan and Huang Taiji around him couldn't help it. As soon as he saw the adjutant general beside Sun Zonghan say it, Li Changzheng said loudly, "What's so good about the soldiers, if the general likes to compete so much, I will have a competition with the general, I don't know if General Lu Dao can accept it!" ”
With that, he stared straight at the lieutenant.
The deputy general was stunned, he didn't expect a guard captain next to Ji Qingchen to call him out, and he was immediately furious, it can be seen that Ji Qingchen was silent, and seemed to agree to such a competition, and his general Sun Zonghan had no intention of stopping it, and when he saw the other party's arrogant appearance, he replied loudly, "Why not!" It's just that the sword has no eyes, and when the time comes, the general will be injured in the competition, and I ask His Highness for forgiveness! ”
"It's nature." Ji Qingchen said loudly, since Li Changzheng wanted to stand up for himself, he just didn't want to make a feud with Sun Zonghan, but he didn't want to stop Li Changzheng anymore, so he could only agree.
As soon as Ji Qingchen agreed, the deputy general beside Sun Zonghan said a few words to Sun Zonghan, and then walked to the center of the big tent by himself, staring at Li Changzheng murderously.
He knew that the deputy general who played on the field was not Li Changzheng's opponent, so he didn't bother to tell Li Changzheng anything, so he let Li Changzheng go on the field to compete with Sun Zonghan's lieutenant.
As soon as Li Changzheng walked to the center of the big tent and looked at the deputy general, a strong murderous aura filled the field. Especially the deputy general beside Sun Zonghan, when he saw that Li Changzheng was just the captain of the guard beside Ji Qingchen, he would gladly agree to the invitation. But when Li Changzheng stood in front of him, exuding a strong murderous aura that made him fearful, his heart was full of fear.
Because as Sun Zonghan's deputy general, he followed Sun Zonghan from Xijing City to Ningwuguan, Sun Zonghan was a partial general when he was in Xijing, and his official position as Sun Zonghan's deputy general was naturally not high, and he had not experienced a cruel war, and now he met Li Changzheng who was killed from the pile of dead, and Li Changzheng's murderous aura shocked him.
The adjutant general quietly watched Li Changzheng, and he didn't dare to draw his knife because he was afraid that as soon as he pulled out the knife, Li Changzheng's knife would cut his throat. And Li Changzheng determined the strength of the deputy general as soon as he came on the field, and now seeing that the deputy general did not draw his sword, he didn't bother to pay attention to the deputy general, and said to Ji Qingchen slightly, "Your Highness, I am not equal in force with this general, or not comparable, right?" ”
He had met a bad breed like the deputy general, and he was no longer interested, but as Ji Qingchen's personal guard captain, he was used to dealing with complex situations, so he said this just to save face for the deputy general. As soon as the deputy general heard Li Changzheng's words, he breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately told Sun Zonghan what Li Changzheng said to Ji Qingchen, Sun Zonghan realized that his deputy general was not Li Changzheng's opponent as soon as Li Changzheng came on the field, and he regretted a little that he had just acquiesced to the competition between the two, and now that both of them took the initiative to admit that some of the best were the best, how could he not be happy? He immediately said to Ji Qingchen, "What does His Royal Highness the King of Northern Liao think?" ”
"The wine banquet is precious to harmony, and this king thinks it's better not to compare!" Ji Qingchen said with a smile.
Sun Zonghan smiled and echoed Ji Qingchen. And Li Changzheng and the deputy general on the field got the orders of their own generals, they just showed their demeanor on the field, and they left the field without even pulling out their knives. It ended with this banquet under the control of Ji Qingchen and Sun Zonghan in a joyful atmosphere!
However, after the banquet ended, the departing generals in the big tent were angry at the weakness of the deputy general, and it was only because of Sun Zonghan's face that they did not attack on the spot, and as soon as the banquet was over, they did not agree, and the number of gossips fell on the deputy general, which made the deputy general ashamed.
And Ji Qingchen, who returned to the sleeping tent, has ignored these!
Because, after dawn, he will set off again.
Therefore, the goal of his trip was to leave the country in Shangjing, not in Ningwu Pass, and there was no need to entangle with the defenders of Ningwu Pass!