"General!"

King Ansu put the chess away, stroked his beard happily and smiled: "Lord Duan, Xiao Wang has won again." ”

Duan Fei smiled bitterly: "The prince is superb in chess, and Weichen is willing to bow down." ”

King Ansu said with a smile: "In the past few days, Lord Duan's chess skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and today he has lost several games in a row, but I'm afraid it's not a matter of chess skills, but my heart is not here, right?" Lord Duan is thinking about his wife and children at home? It's been more than half a year since Master Duan left the capital, which is also human nature. ”

Duan Fei smiled bitterly: "Wechen does have something in his heart, but he misses his wife and children at home, Wechen is worried about the frontline war......"

King Ansu sighed and said, "Could it be ...... What's the bad news? ”

Duan Fei shook his head and said, "No, Weichen is just a little worried for no reason. ”

King Ansu sighed again, and said with a smile: "Lord Duan is too worried, presumably Lord Duan doesn't know much about Lord Shen's past, I think that when Lord Shen was in Youjiang, Youjiang was a well-known nest of thieves, and there were many thieves entrenched in five miles outside the city, and any movement in the city could not hide from these thieves, but in this case, Lord Shen still made a surprise move to wipe out the thieves in Youjiang, and it was amazing that many times he didn't need to go out in person, and those Yao people regarded him as a god, and a paper order came out, Although those Yao people are worried about making enemies with him, they don't dare not go, sometimes they encounter the rain mountain road is difficult to travel, they are afraid of missing the meeting time, often risk crossing the rapid running to report to the duty, since ancient times, the only person who can make the Yao thieves attack and kill each other is Lord Shen, Lord Shen is like Zhuge in the hearts of the Yao people, with him out of the horse, Lord Duan is relieved. ”

Duan Fei knew that Shen Xiyi was a famous general in Guangxi, but he didn't know that he had such great magical powers, no wonder the Yao people either fled or surrendered when they encountered him, he was surprised: "Oh? Lord Shen is so powerful? Wechen hasn't heard of it, so the prince might as well tell Wechen about Lord Shen's deeds. ”

King Ansu was obviously very familiar with this famous general from Guangxi, and he ordered someone to remove the chessboard and tell Duan Fei about Shen Xiyi's suppression of thieves back then.

In this way, after a day, King Ansu invited Duan Fei to have a dinner, and when the guests and hosts were happy, Jiang Hui ran in quickly with a somewhat panicked expression, and whispered a few words in Duan Fei's ear, Duan Fei's expression also became serious, and he said to King Ansu: "Lord Wang, please retreat left and right, there is an urgent matter that Weichen wants to discuss with the prince." ”

King Ansu's heart sank, he waved away all the people in the palace, and asked in a deep voice, "Could it be that there is unfavorable news from the front line?" ”

Duan Fei nodded heavily and said: "Lord Wang, the North Route Army attacking Donglanzhou was defeated, Hechi was also lost, General Zhang and General Hu were captured, and now the defeated army has fled to Qingyuan Mansion, and the situation is critical. ”

King Ansu shook his hand and said in surprise: "Yesterday was fine, how could he suddenly lose so quickly and so miserably?" ”

Duan Fei said: "It is said that when General Zhang and they were attacking the city, suddenly a large number of rebels appeared in all directions, General Zhang and they were outnumbered, so they could only fight to break through, and in the process of breaking through, the two generals bravely killed the thieves in the back, so that they were both captured. ”

King Ansu said blankly: "Outnumbered? How can they be outnumbered? They killed all the way from Liuzhou to Donglanzhou, Donglanzhou has also been attacked for so many days, where did so many rebels suddenly come out? ”

Duan Fei said: "Lord Wang, the only explanation now is that the person who is more influential than Cen Meng among the Yao people, and who is likely to support him, has finally made a move. ”

King Ansu woke up to Duan Fei a little, and he was surprised: "You mean Cen Zhang? That's right, he is Cen Meng's father-in-law, when Cen Meng is in danger, it is normal for him to help his son-in-law, Lord Duan, what should we do now? The North Road was defeated, I don't know what the situation of Lord Shen's South Road is? ”

Duan Fei shook his head and said, "There is no unfavorable news for the time being, I hope Lord Shen has the ability to turn the tide...... Lord Wang, it seems that Weichen has to rush to Liuzhou immediately to sit down, if the situation allows, maybe Weichen will go to Qingyuan in person. ”

King Ansu said: "Lord Duan, are you going to Liuzhou?" What about Guilin? There are no extra troops to send in Guilin, Xiao Wang thinks that we should hold Guilin firmly now, and immediately let Zhu Qi send an order to transfer troops from Guangdong to support, so that it is appropriate. ”

Duan Fei shook his head and said, "Although the Northern Route Army was defeated badly, there should be 10,000 people who fled to Qingyuan, right?" If you only care about holding steady, these 10,000 people will really be over, Weichen will not take away a soldier from Guilin, please rest assured, the transfer of troops from Guangdong is only the last resort, the prince must not act rashly, there is this official in Liuzhou, although the prince can rest assured, I may not be as far away as Lord Shen to defend the city, defend the city, or quite good, the Yao people do not have any siege equipment, I am afraid that it is not so easy to break through Liuzhou, as long as it drags on for ten days and a half months, those Yao people themselves will disperse. ”

Seeing that Duan Fei was very sure, King Ansu finally put his mind at ease and said, "Since Lord Duan is sure to defend Liuzhou, then without further ado, Lord Duan should set off as soon as possible." ”

Duan Fei said: "Yes, Lord Wang, although Weichen can't take the soldiers away, but the things that defend the city have to be taken away, when Weichen guards Liuzhou, the prince also has to preside over the overall situation and build more objects to defend the city in Guilin, such as gunpowder and the like, just in case." ”

King Ansu nodded and said, "This king knows, what Lord Duan wants to bring, just bring it." ”

After intense preparations, Duan Fei left Guilin in the early morning of the next day, in addition to the fleet he brought from Wuzhou, there were also many improvised boats and bamboo rafts, which were filled with tools to defend the city, almost emptying more than half of Guilin's garrison inventory.

However, Duan Fei still felt bottomless in his heart, he said a big thing in front of King Ansu, he actually had no concept of defending the city, he only had a short experience of defending the city in Hai'an Town, and now the five thousand Golden Bull Guards were not around, and most of the firearms were taken away, Duan Fei really didn't have much confidence in being able to defend a city.

Fortunately, Zhu Qi, who was promoted to the governor of Liangguang, also followed, with him, Duan Fei's heart was fixed, and even if the city was broken, it would be very easy for him to withdraw to Guilin, unless the Demon Sect Leader personally led a large number of Demon Sect masters to intercept him halfway, who could stop him? Although it was disgraceful to defeat the battle, it had nothing to do with him, when he saw that Liuzhou was surrounded by water on three sides and the city walls were higher than Guilin, Duan Fei's heart became more and more determined.

The news of the defeat at the front had reached Liuzhou, and the people were a little flustered, but when they saw Duan Fei's Qincha banner entering Liuzhou, "Lord Qincha Duan has come to Liuzhou!" The news spread quickly, the people settled down a little, Duan Fei issued many orders in the Liuzhou Mansion one after another, sent Jinyi Wei to the city gate to strictly investigate, ordered people to send the things guarding the city to the city wall, personally inspected the soldiers in Liuzhou City, posted notices to the people to prevent thieves, everything was done in an orderly manner, just when Duan Fei's confidence grew, the South Route Army finally had news that Shen Xiyi was captured, the South Route Army was completely defeated, the Nandanwei was lost again, and the whereabouts of the five thousand Golden Bull Guards were unknown......