Chapter 33: The Strange Woman

It turned out that Mu Ling sent a decree that the Western Dome Army could directly slaughter the cities and towns that had been controlled, and the West Dome Army had shown its might and deterred the Southern Cang.

How could Mu Ting agree, in the face of such a will, he swore to the death and refused to accept the order, and clearly stated that he would never agree to the slaughter of the city.

"Lord Wang, if you don't accept it, you will resist the decree!" The messenger of the guard advised.

"There will be no military orders outside!" Mu Ting was tough and asked the herald guards to take the holy decree back intact.

Although Mu Ting was born warlike, he had never done anything to the old and weak women and children in any war for so many years, let alone ordered the slaughter of the city, which was also the benevolence he swore to himself when he was the prince that he would never lose it.

A few days later, Mu Ling sent someone to remove Mu Ting from the post of commander again, and Feng Huaihua general Xiao Ye came to serve as the general of Zhengnan to replace Mu Ting's post of commander.

However, before Xiao Ye set out on the expedition, he did not deliberately mention the order of slaughtering the city again, Mu Ting knew in his heart that Mu Ling's previous intention to slaughter the city was nothing more than to calculate that he would resist the will and find a reason to replace himself. It's just why Mu Ling suddenly changed people halfway? If he was worried that he would return victoriously, and he had made military achievements and made great achievements, then he should not have assigned himself to Nancang, if it weren't for this reason, could it be that he originally had another ulterior purpose, and he had already succeeded now?

Mu Ting doesn't know, but the matter has come to this, the holy decree has been issued, he doesn't have to struggle, and he doesn't disdain to cling to that little bit of military merit, and the next war will be handed over to Xiao Ye to take over, and he will return to the country to accept the guilt.

In the subsequent war, although the Xiqiong army was still strong and strong under the leadership of Xiao Ye, before Xiao Ye took over, the truce of the West Dome gave Nancang a chance to breathe, and their rebels still resisted hard, coupled with the arrival of Dongzhao's continuous reinforcements, the pressure on the Xiqiong army also doubled.

Seeing that there was no advantage, the Xiqiong army retreated to the foot of a mountain north of Nancang, resting briefly while waiting for the subsequent decision of the war. In the end, Mu Ling ordered a halt to the war, and the war ended with the withdrawal of troops from the Western Dome.

Su Yan also breathed a sigh of relief, not only because Nancang Kingdom had won, but also because he would finally not meet her on this battlefield.

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Mu Yunyi gathered his thoughts from his memories, behind that war, Mu Ling must have secretly had some plans, and now the three soldiers who went to Nancang at that time died one after another by mysterious people, what is the connection with the original war?

Suddenly, she thought of something, "Jiang Han...... Where is Jiang Han now? ”

"Xiaopingguan." As Mu Xiu spoke, he suddenly realized that if the target of that mysterious man was the general who fought against Nancang back then, then this Jiang Han was also a famous general in that battle.

And Jiang Han is not only her father's old department for Mu Yunyi, but also the person who entered the military camp for the first time and taught her the art of actual combat. At the beginning, Mu Yunyi returned to the palace from her master He Yuan, begged the emperor's grandfather to send her to the military camp for training, and even took the initiative to ask her to be under Jiang Han's hands. Because Jiang Han is not only skilled in leading troops, but also upright, he will not be given extra preferential treatment because of his status as the county lord. At the beginning, Mu Yunyi lost due to his reckless impulsiveness in the first battle, Jiang Han took the initiative to ask the emperor and the crown prince for guilt, and even asked for his military rank to be demoted.

Later, after Mu Ting's disappearance, Jiang Han was also reprimanded to garrison Xiaoping Pass.

"I'll take a trip to Xiaopingguan."

"You're alone?" Mu Yunyi was faintly worried in her heart.

"Yes, this matter is strange, don't startle the snake, I am the only one who goes quietly, and no one should find out."

"Okay, be careful."

"When I go out of the city, you don't want to go out alone, although there are many eyeliners in the house, it is safer in the end."

"Okay, I hope it's just a false alarm."

Since his father's disappearance, Mu Yunyi felt that he and the entire people related to Prince Shun's Mansion had fallen into a bottomless quagmire, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't get out, but he was even more powerless, and his situation was getting worse and worse, and now he even had his father's old ministry ......

The Dongzhao royal family has always had the custom of hunting in four seasons, especially the autumn feast, which is the most important, and every year before the autumn harvest, the emperor will personally go to the Chonglin Mountain Bamo Enclosure in the southwest of the Eastern Zhao Dynasty. In addition to the harem concubines and princesses, the others are the sons of the royal family and nobles and important ministers of the court, and it is a supreme honor to be able to follow the emperor to Qiuqiu. And the Autumn Festival is not only a hunting event for the royal magnates, but also a good opportunity to show the Quartet that their country is strong and strong, and there are many martial talents.

The emperor decreed that the autumn was fully responsible for the autumn season, and there were two days to go, and the prince Dongling Yi summoned Su Yan into the palace to confirm for the last time that all the arrangements had been completed. When checking the roster of travelers, Su Yan's gaze stopped when he swept over the words "Princess Anhe", and he pretended to ask casually: "Prince, it seems that I didn't see this Princess Anhe on the roster before......"

"Oh, that's what my father meant, I heard that this Princess An and Princess immediately hunted well, so my father put her on the Qiu Yu roster, saying that she would meet Dongzhao Qiu Qiu."

Su Yan understood when he heard what the emperor meant, not only to let Mu Yunyi see Dongzhao's autumn event, but more importantly, it was better to take her under his nose than to leave her in Shangling City.

In the afternoon, Su Yan came out of the palace, thinking that he would have to travel for a few days this time, so he came to the market to buy some time-honored jujube paste osmanthus cake that his sister liked to eat, but a figure in the crowd caught his attention.

"That's ...... Ruoyao? ”

There was some distance between the two, and Su Yan couldn't really see it at first, but when he saw that the woman was still holding a guqin, he confirmed at a glance that it was Ruoyao.

Su Yan, as a reinforcement, was injured by Mu Yunyi because he saved his subordinate Zuo Chen in that Nancang and Xiqiong, and he was treated by Ruoyao, but the battlefield was chaotic at that time, and Ruoyao hurriedly left to treat other wounded soldiers after treating Su Yan, so Su Yan never had time to thank him in person.

Su Yan walked up quickly, but saw Ruoyao turn a street corner in a hurry, and when Su Yan followed, there was no trace of Ruoyao in the crowd, and after looking around, he still couldn't find her, so he had to give up.

Speaking of this Ruoyao, she is really a strange woman, her "strangeness" is not above her medical skills, but on her legendary life experience and unparalleled guqin skills.

Ruoyao was an orphan, and when she was still an infant, she was found in front of a Taoist temple in Nancang Kingdom. When the Taoist aunts in the Taoist temple found her, Ruoyao, who was still a baby, was lying quietly on a beautifully crafted guqin, wearing a silver lock around her neck, on which the word "Ruoyao" was engraved.