At dawn, Ji Qingchen and the remaining ten or so remnants of the Yulin Cavalry finally arrived outside Ningzhou City. Before, Guo Lun had already sent scouts to ventilate and report the news, and asked Ningzhou City to send elite cavalry to escort the Ninth Highness, but now that the Nine Highnesses have arrived in Ningzhou City, not to mention that the cavalry requesting escort has not arrived, no one in the city has even come out to greet him.

How can I say that Ji Qingchen is also the ninth highness of Dayan, and he is the son of Emperor Guangwu of the Holy Dayan today, no matter how high the rank of general of Ningzhou is, no matter how great the power is, he should not be so arrogant at this time.

But there was silence in front of the gate of Ningzhou City, and only the soldiers patrolling the city tower came out to talk.

Faced with such an embarrassing situation, not to mention Ji Qingchen himself, even Guo Lun and Yulinqi were dissatisfied with the arrogance of the Ningzhou Army.

Guo Lun glanced sideways at His Royal Highness the Ninth beside him, he couldn't see the expression on His Royal Highness's face clearly, so he could only urge him to step forward and shout to the city tower. He explained to the city for a long time, saying that His Royal Highness Da Yan Jiu had returned to Yan and wanted to enter the city immediately. The guards on the city tower looked at Guo Lun's token again before answering.

In a moment, the city gate of Ningzhou opened with a "creak", and a cavalry of 200 people rushed out of the city gate.

The cavalry galloped quickly, and it was able to rush ten steps in front of Ji Qingchen's team before stopping.

The general who led the troops was a stout man in his thirties with a beard, his gaze coldly swept over the remnant army in front of him, his eyes stopped at Guo Lun's body, and he didn't pay attention to Ji Qingchen who was in tatters on the side, and asked in a cold tone, "You are Guo Lun, Captain Yulinlang in front of the palace?" ”

"Bold, why don't you get off your horse and salute when you see His Royal Highness the Nine?" Guo Lun shouted loudly when the other party was so arrogant.

But the general was unmoved, just stared at Guo Lun coldly. The Ningzhou cavalry behind him saw that the main general was standing upright on horseback, and they didn't pay attention to Guo Lun's reprimand.

The atmosphere suddenly became a little condensed!

Guo Lun saw that the other party ignored him, his face turned red with anger, and he had already held his spear tightly.

"You are Hua Xixiong, the deputy general of Ningzhou City, right?" Suddenly, at this moment, Ye Qingchen had already gotten out of the carriage and asked General Ma.

"Yes, it's General Ben, who are you?" Hua Xixiong asked lightly.

"Xiaguan Honglu Temple Shaoqing, the envoy left the country and returned to Yan, this is His Royal Highness Da Yanjiu who has returned to China." Ye Qingchen moved his gaze to Ji Qingchen.

Following Ye Qingchen's gaze, Hua Xixiong glanced at Ji Qingchen on the horse, and still said tepidly, "Hua Xixiong sees His Royal Highness, because he is in armor, he can't get off his horse and salute, and I ask His Highness to atone for his sins!" ”

Ji Qingchen didn't speak, just smiled faintly and quietly looked at the general in front of him.

After a moment, he urged him to step forward, "General Hua, you are the deputy general of the Ningzhou General's Mansion?" Former commander of the Ningzhou Army? ”

"Yes!" Hua Xixiong replied proudly.

"Just last night, we encountered a surprise attack by the Beirong cavalry three hundred miles away from Ningzhou City, and a hundred Yulin cavalry around us fought to the death, and now there are only more than ten people left, I don't know where the general was at that time?" Ji Qingchen asked in a flat tone.

But there is a majesty in the words that does not allow Hua Xixiong to refuse to answer.

Hua Xixiong was stunned, he didn't expect Ji Qingchen to ask him this question in person, and he didn't know how to answer. After a slight pause, he spoke, "Last night, General Ben was patrolling the city, and His Highness was intercepted and killed, and General Ben deeply regretted it. ”

"Didn't the general receive the messenger sent by Captain Guo?" Ji Qingchen continued to ask.

"I received it in the morning!" Hua Xixiong replied coldly, he didn't dare to face Ji Qingchen's cold gaze anymore.

"Don't say that you didn't receive the messenger's letter, just say that the Beirong cavalry appeared outside Ningzhou City, it is enough to cure your General Huaxi's crimes!" Ji Qingchen roared sharply, "There are as many as five hundred Beirong elite cavalry in the hinterland of Dayan, and it is also to intercept and kill the envoy of Dayan to leave the country, could it be that the scouts of the Ningzhou army are all blind, is it that the 100,000 Ningzhou army is just an ornament, just let the Beirong cavalry gallop on the land of Dayan?" Then the court gave you money, what did the court raise you for? ”

"This-"

"Can the general know that the Beirong cavalry who intercepted and killed the mission last night was the murderer who killed the prince in the battle of Yanmen that year, and the elite of the Beirong Khan with a yellow flag under the tent?" Ji Qingchen asked coldly.

"No—I don't know what to do!" Hua Xixiong was shocked by Ji Qingchen's words, and stammered when he spoke, and the whole person had long since lost his previous arrogance and domineering.

"As the deputy general of the Ningzhou General's Mansion and the former commander of the Ningzhou Army, you don't know anything about the enemy in front of you, you are still worthy of being the general of Dayan and the commander of the 100,000 army?" Ji Qingchen's cold voice revealed a killing intent, "I, Ji Qingchen, the Ninth Emperor Prince of the Great Yan Kingdom, can ignore your General Hua and ignore the messenger sent by Captain Guo, and want to use the hand of the Beirong cavalry to get rid of the person you want to get rid of." However, Ji Qingchen absolutely cannot tolerate a talented and incompetent waste to be the chief general of an army of 100,000 and guard the frontier for the general; It is even more intolerable for a general who can disregard the lives of his comrades for his own selfish desires. ”

"Your Highness-" Hua Xixiong was so shocked by Ji Qingchen's momentum and words that he couldn't sit still, and immediately jumped off the horse and knelt in front of Ji Qingchen's horse, he didn't remember what he said, 'You can't salute with armor on your body', "Hua Xixiong is guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty, I implore Your Highness to open the net!" ”

"In the hinterland of the dignified Dayan, there are the enemy's cavalry, Hua Xixiong, what you have committed is not only the crime of negligence and dereliction of duty, but also the crime of treason in colluding with the Beirong cavalry in a vain attempt to subvert the Great Yan General, what is the use of a traitor like you to keep? A man who is a big swallow in vain! Ji Qingchen roared coldly, "Guo Lun, kill this traitor and avenge the Yulin Rider who died last night!" ”

"No!" Guo Lun took the order.

Thinking of the Yulinlang soldiers who died under the iron hooves of Beirong last night, Guo Lun's heart was furious, and now the culprit was in front of him, Guo Lun heard Ji Qingchen's order, and did not hesitate to rush forward, and the spear stabbed Hua Xixiong's throat.

Hua Xixiong had long been stupid by Ji Qingchen's intimidation, and he couldn't imagine that His Royal Highness the Ninth in front of him would kill him, his head was blank, and he had long forgotten to dodge.

Suddenly, just when Guo Lun's spear was only a foot away from Hua Xixiong's throat, there was a crisp sound of "bell-", and I saw a feather arrow fall steadily on Guo Lun's spear, and the force was so great that Guo Lun's spear was shocked out of the air.

Guo Lun was furious and looked angrily at the person who shot an arrow to save Hua Xixiong in the distance. However, when his eyes touched a general who had already retracted his bow and walked out of Ningzhou City on a horse, his momentum of killing with one blow had weakened by eight points, and he lowered his eyes and did not dare to look at the general immediately.

Ji Qingchen didn't expect that he had already spoken to this point, although there were still people willing to save Hua Xixiong, seeing Guo Lun's expression, he was even more curious about who had such great power and could make Guo Lun, who was flying high and domineering, and did not put anyone in his eyes, lowered his head, and then moved his eyes to the direction of the city gate of Ningzhou, and saw a tiger general who was retracting his bow and arrow, and rode out of the city under the escort of dozens of cyan armored cavalry.

As soon as this tiger general appeared, Hua Xixiong, who had a dead face just now, seemed to have seen a bodhisattva, and he couldn't care about his demeanor, so he ran to the tiger general's horse and cried, "The general save me!" General save me! ”

The tiger general glanced at Hua Xixiong in disgust, urged the horse to stop ten steps in front of Ji Qingchen, and asked in a cold tone, "Captain Guo, who gave you so much power to dare to openly kill the deputy general of the Ningzhou General's Mansion?" ”

"Does the general think that such a waste should not be killed?" Ji Qingchen saw that the other party was not looking at him, so he asked-for-tat.

"You are?" When the tiger general heard Ji Qingchen's rhetorical question, he moved his gaze to him.

"General, he is His Royal Highness the Ninth who has just returned to Yan from leaving the country!" Guo Lun hurriedly replied.

"It turned out to be His Royal Highness the Nine, General Liu Donglou of Ningzhou, see His Highness the Nine!" The tiger general just clasped his fists and saluted, and said lightly.

Liu Dong Building? Hearing this name, Ji Qingchen knew that the general in front of him was the first general of Dayan, Dayan Sharpshooter, and the chief general of the famous blue wolf cavalry of the Ningzhou Army.

He hadn't seen Liu Donglou, and this was the information that his uncle Ye Qingchen told him on the way back to Yan after leaving the country. And he also clearly remembered that his uncle once said that Liu Donglou was the spokesperson of the Liu family of the Eight Great Families of Dayan, and he was a supporter of his second brother Ning Wang Jiping.

No wonder! Ji Qingchen glanced at the domineering tiger general in front of him, and said with a faint smile, "It turns out that you are General Liu of the Great Yan Divine Spear, no wonder the power of the arrow just now will be so strong, and the momentum will be so domineering, worthy of being the Great Yan Spear God, it really deserves its reputation, today Qingchen is an eye-opener!" ”

"Your Highness has won the prize, it's just a small skill of carving insects!" Liu Donglou said modestly, and then he glanced at the deputy general who was already frightened and knelt in front of his horse and begged with fear, and asked, "I don't know what crime General Hua has committed?" Need His Highness to be punished canonically? ”

"Negligence, dereliction of duty, collusion with the enemy chieftain to betray the country, General Liu said, should it be punished?" Ji Qingchen replied lightly.

From the cold arrow just now, he had already seen what Liu Donglou meant, and the other party wanted to protect Hua Xixiong.

Liu Donglou frowned, and glanced at Hua Xixiong coldly.

Hua Xixiong is not his descendant, he doesn't need to offend His Royal Highness Ji Qingchen because of Hua Xixiong. But without a weak and incompetent general like Hua Xixiong, it is impossible for him to have the final say in the current Ningzhou Army. If he doesn't protect it today, if he sends another general to the Ningzhou General's Mansion, I am afraid that he will no longer be able to control the 100,000 troops of Ningzhou as he is now.

And he is the commander of the Ningzhou Army, Ji Qingchen dared to kill the general of the Ningzhou Army in front of so many Ningzhou generals under the city of Ningzhou, which is a provocation to his authority, although Ji Qingchen is the prince of Dayan, but Liu Donglou feels that he can't just lose face under the city of Ningzhou.

After weighing the pros and cons, Liu Donglou changed his humble and kind attitude just now, his eyes were piercing, and he asked in a stern tone, "Does Your Highness have any evidence?" ”

"Beirong's five hundred elite cavalry suddenly appeared three hundred miles outside Ningzhou City, all in order to intercept and kill the envoy of Dayan who left the country, and last night's battle, resulting in the death of one hundred forest cavalry around him. Before, we had already sent a messenger when we left Ningwu Pass, but we have not received a reply from Ningzhou City to this day, and General Huaxiong said that he only saw the messenger's letter today. May I ask General Liu, is this evidence in front of you enough? Ji Qingchen replied with a sneer, "The Ningzhou General's Mansion guards the defense of Ning, Su, and Fen, as the deputy general of the General's Mansion, I don't know anything about this, may I ask General Liu, how do you manage the army?" What if Hua Xixiong really didn't know? Is this the responsibility of the Ningzhou General's Mansion? ”

Liu Donglou stopped talking.

He didn't know the meaning of Ji Qingchen's words. If he defended Hua Xixiong and said that he didn't know the truth, the crime just now would have fallen on the Ningzhou General's Mansion, and the crime just now would be his Liu Donglou, but if he acquiesced, it would be tantamount to admitting that Hua Xixiong knew about it and did not report it, wouldn't this confirm Hua Xixiong's charges of negligence, dereliction of duty, and betrayal of the country?

So how can you protect him?

Liu Donglou's heart trembled, he didn't expect that the nineteen-year-old Nine Emperor Prince in front of him would be so difficult to deal with, and a few words would hit his weakness right at once.

He was a little hesitant, not sure whether to continue to defend Xixiong.

In fact, when the Beirong cavalry appeared in Ningzhou, he had already received news from the scouts, but there was news from King's Landing that the Beirong cavalry seemed to be going to the Nine Emperors who were about to return home. He was King Ning's person, and he was King Ning's confidant general, and as soon as the news of King's Landing arrived, he knew what he should do, so he ignored this cavalry.

"Even if Hua Xixiong commits the major crime of negligence and dereliction of duty, I'm afraid it won't be the turn of His Royal Highness Jiu to make a decision, and then let Guo Lun, the captain of Yulinlang, come to Ming Zhengzheng to be punished, right?" Liu Donglou had already decided to fight with Ji Qingchen to the end, he didn't say that Hua Xixiong had committed the crime of treason, obviously he didn't want to compromise, "Although His Royal Highness is the Ninth Emperor Prince of Dayan, the country has national laws and military regulations, and I also ask Your Highness to be clear about his identity and not to interfere in Ningzhou's military affairs." ”

Ji Qingchen could hear it clearly, Liu Donglou was reminding him that he was just a prince with no power and no power, and he had no power to deal with a general like Hua Xixiong.

Ji Qingchen sneered and asked lightly, "What General Liu means is that Qingchen doesn't have the knife to kill Hua Xixiong yet, right?" ”

Liu Donglou snorted coldly, did not speak, just nodded slightly in acquiescence.

Ji Qingchen smiled, he smiled and slowly raised his saber to Liu Donglou and said word by word, "Then General Liu thinks this knife is worthy of killing Hua Xixiong?" ”

"Wolf Blade—" Liu Donglou was calm enough, and still shouted.

"General Liu has good eyesight, and he completely recognizes that this is the saber of the god of war Li Yaoshi-Wolf Blade!" Ji Qingchen said lightly, "Now, does General Liu think that Qingchen still has the knife to kill Hua Xixiong?" ”

Suddenly, as soon as his words fell, the shadow under his crotch jumped up, only to see his wrist flip, and with the impact of the war horse, he slashed at Hua Xixiong beside Liu Donglou with a knife.

Liu Donglou didn't expect His Royal Highness Nine to make such a move, so he grabbed a spear in a hurry, wanting to stop the wolf blade that cut Hua Xixiong. But the moment his spear collided with the wolf's blade, he heard the sound of metal incessantly, and Liu Donglou only felt a strange force from the spear to his right arm, he only felt that his right arm sank, and then he saw that His Royal Highness Jiu's war knife had slid along the barrel of his spear to the tip of the spear, and slashed at Hua Xixiong's throat.

Liu Donglou suddenly exerted his strength, wanting to use the tip of his spear to provoke the wolf blade that slid towards Hua Xixiong, but he found that His Royal Highness Jiu's arm strength was so strong that he couldn't lift the spear that was suppressed with ten points of strength in his right hand, and he had to be about to hold the gun in both hands, when he felt the gun light, and then there was a scream, and he saw blood gushing, and Hua Xixiong's head rolled to the ground like a ball.

"Your Highness the Nine—" Liu Donglou was furious, and looked at Ji Qingchen angrily with a gun.

Ji Qingchen ignored him, he also put the knife into the sheath, and said with a calm face, "General Liu, this matter Qingchen will naturally explain it to his father when he returns to King's Landing City." It's just that Qingchen wants to tell General Liu a word, please remember your identity, you are the Ningzhou general of Dayan, not someone's captive general; Also, please General Liu must remember that the 100,000 army in Ningzhou is the sharp soldiers of Dayan, not your private army in Liu Donglou! ”

"You-" Liu Donglou didn't expect His Royal Highness Nine to be so angry, his angry face was already filled with a murderous aura, and he was about to refute it, but His Royal Highness Nine had already ridden into Ningzhou City, and only a Xiao Kill back was left, so angry that Liu Donglou could only stare at Ji Qingchen's back with a cold gaze, silent.

"Your Highness, your actions just now seem to be inappropriate!" When Ji Qingchen walked to the city gate cave, he suddenly stepped forward and said a little worriedly.

"Oh——? What does Uncle mean? Ji Qingchen didn't think so, and asked with an indifferent smile.

"Your Highness, you have just returned to Dayan, you should be low-key and forbearing, and one day, after accumulating strength, it is time to show your ambitions, not like now, people have already offended the Liu clan of Ningzhou and offended His Royal Highness King Ning before they arrived in King's Landing." Ye Qingchen explained.

"Uncle, do you think that if Qingchen doesn't offend them, they will let Qingchen go? Since sooner or later they are mortal enemies, why bother to pretend to be false and wronged? Qingchen can ignore this interception, but he can't help but seek justice for the dead Yulin Lang! Ji Qingchen's eyes were in his eyes, and after he finished speaking in a serious tone, he urged the horse to gallop away.

After listening to his nephew's answer, Ye Qingchen was a little stunned!

But when Guo Lun and Yu Linlang, who were following Ji Qingchen, listened to Ji Qingchen's answer, a flash of light suddenly flashed in their eyes!