Chapter 616: Trouble Again
Zhao Zhen held the pen in his hand.
"Okay, then now Ben Shuai will pass on the book to General Le Zhong, how to write this order?"
"Dashuai, you ordered him to march overnight, rush to fifty miles outside the capital within three days, and must not attract the attention of the Dajing army, and then launch an attack at the third watch, take the Xisi Gate, and then control the bridges in the city, and prevent the Dajing army from moving troops back and forth."
"Okay, don't hesitate, just do what the old general deployed!"
After Zhao Zhen wrote the order, he sent someone to release the flying pigeons, and the three of them discussed a general battle plan, that is, three days later, Le Zhong entered the city from the Benz River, cut off the bridges, leaving only the Xiaoyan Bridge and the Bazi Bridge, and let them retreat from the north gate, and at the same time, Zhao Zhen, Wei Xing and Yu Yuanxiang divided into three ways, bypassing Chen Liu and attacking the capital, now Zhao Zhen basically has the bottom of his heart, what he is worried about is whether the city can last three days?
Yu Yuanxiang didn't know that Xiong Zhang had arrived in Gale City, he wrote to Xuzhou, asking Xiong Zhang to attack the Dajing army from the east, causing pressure on Wan Yan and Shilan, in fact, this task Xiong Zhang had completed ahead of schedule.
At this time, a guard came in and announced: "Generalissimo Qiqi, Ma Guang and General Cao Bangjie ask to see you." β
Zhao Zhen became angry when he heard these two names.
"These two useless guys, didn't they let them go to Dongting Lake, what are you doing now, do you want to make us lose the battle!"
The guard was embarrassed.
"Generalissimo, do you see them or not?"
"Tell them two to get in!"
"Yes, yesβ"
A moment later, Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie walked into the big tent dejectedly, and when they saw Zhao Zhen, they suddenly fell to their knees and kowtowed desperately.
Zhao Zhen immediately had a headache, and these two guys didn't know what trouble they had caused again.
"What are you doing here?"
Ma Guang's mouth grinned when he heard this, as if he was about to cry.
"Your Highness, Your Highness spare your life, the two of us are in trouble again!"
Cao Bangjie hurriedly pushed Ma Guang away.
"Go, don't talk nonsense, trouble is trouble, don't we also make meritorious contributions."
"Trouble is greater than meritorious service, anyway, the head is going to be gone."
Zhao Zhen only smiled bitterly.
"I said, why did you two go to Dongting Lake for so long, what kind of disasters did you cause and what kind of merit did you make?"
Ma Guang howled twice and spit out.
"Your Highness, there is a man who died, and was killed by our men."
"Who's dead, tell me quickly."
"Yes, it's Zhaoshu, he, he was killed by us."
"What, you killed the fifth brother?"
Zhao Zhen was taken aback, Zhao Shu wanted to kill him, and he originally planned to let him go, but Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie killed him, and he couldn't escape from the charge of killing his brother.
Cao Bangjie kowtowed and explained.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, here's the thing, didn't you let go of your fifth brother and Guo Ziyu and Xie Caijian last month, these guys didn't go to Linjiang at all, but went to Dongting Lake first."
"What are they doing at Dongting Lake?"
"They went to Dongting Lake, found our subordinates and said that His Highness killed the two of us, and said that you will not let go of these deserters, and will deal with them strictly and incite everyone to rebel."
Zhao Zhen was so angry that he clenched his fists, and Zhao Shu was too ignorant, he knew that Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie had collected more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated army on Dongting Lake, and if they were deceived by Zhao Shu, they would indeed cause trouble for themselves.
"And then?"
"Everyone didn't know the truth, believed it, so they followed your fifth brother, they turned the bow of the boat and went south, General Ma and I found a small boat to chase, and only caught up on the third night, after catching up, everyone saw that we were not dead, only to know that your fifth brother and Guo Zihu were liars, so they tied them to the bottom of the lake and sank to the bottom of the lake to feed Wang Ba!"
Zhao Zhen pointed at the two of them, so angry that his nose was crooked.
"You, what do you call Ben Shuai to say, it's just enough to kill Guo Zihu and Xie Caijian, why do you have to kill my fifth brother, and tie him to a stone and throw him into Dongting Lake, this, this is too cruel, teach the world how to say about me!"
Cao Bangjie carefully looked at Zhao Zhen's face to see if he would kill himself.
Ma Guang grinned and shouted.
"Your Highness, don't blame us, Guo Zihu and Xie Caijian were thrown into the lake on the spot, but your fifth brother was accidentally pushed down by the people below."
In fact, there were more than a dozen of Guo Zihuan's party, they were beaten and put into a sack, and Zhaoshu was also put into a sack.
By the time Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie found out that something was wrong, it was too late to send someone to rescue them, because it was dark at that time, and there was no way to salvage them, so they could only look at the lake and sigh.
"What is careless, you, you are clearly deliberate!"
"Your Highness has been wronged, we just want to calm down the anger of the people, but who knows that we can't stop it for a while, and we have caused a big disaster."
"Did you find the body the next day?"
Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie were the first .asxs. head, Ma Guang said: "Of course we looked for it, but we only found the bodies of Guo Ziyu and Xie Caijian the next day, and we didn't find the bodies of Zhao Shu, I'm afraid he has drifted away downstream." β
In fact, Guo Zihu and Xie Caijian were put into a sack and poured a lot of stones, so they could be salvaged when they sank to the bottom of the lake, and Zhaoshu was the prince after all, everyone did not pour stones into his bag, and Ma Guang estimated that his body had already drifted away.
Zhao Zhen looked at Yu Yuanxiang and Wei Xing, wanting to see what their opinions were.
The last time Zhao Shu was in trouble, Yu Yuanxiang was not in Ezhou, he didn't know much about what the five princes did, and seeing what Zhao Zhen meant, he seemed to be interested in protecting Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie, so he smiled slightly.
"The five princes went to Dongting Lake to plot misdeeds, Ma and Cao can stop it in time, and the last general thinks that they can be punished."
"Yes, what General Yu said is reasonable, and the old man agrees!"
Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie were overjoyed when they heard this.
Wei Xing said this because although it was Zhao Zhen's fifth brother who died, this fifth brother didn't treat Zhao Zhen as his own brother, and he wanted to kill Zhao Zhen that day.
Zhao Zhen still waved his hand.
"Alas, I'm so angry, since General Wei and General Yu are talking to you, then you guys get out, and don't appear in front of Ben Shuai in the future!"
When Cao Bangjie heard Zhao Zhen's words, he was immediately deflated again, he couldn't stay, where would he tell them to go in the future? The two of them saw that the eighth master had not spoken, and they both looked at the eighth master with blank eyes.
The eighth master smiled and stood up to hug his fist at Zhao Zhen.
"Handsome and angry, these two guys are in trouble, but didn't they say that they also made a meritorious service, let him tell me what meritorious service he made, right?"
Zhao Zhen rolled his eyes, he didn't want to hear it, but when he saw Wei Xing and Yu Yuanxiang covering their mouths and snickering on the side, knowing that they understood that they were favoring these two guys, he couldn't help but snort.
"Okay, let's talk about it."
Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie were immediately overjoyed.
"Your Royal Highness, the two of us have taken shit luck, didn't General Le defeat the third prince Wan Yan Congfu in Hangzhou Bay, that kid was chased and killed by our militia in Jiangnan all the way, there was no place to escape, and he fled to Dongting Lake with more than 1,000 people, we fought with him and captured him alive!"
"What, you captured Wan Yancongfu alive?"
"Yes, those Dajing soldiers all say that he is the third prince."
"What about Chidhaman?"
"I don't know, that old guy is cunning, he will talk about our big words, and he may have escaped under the guise of telling Hanako."
Zhao Zhen laughed.
"Okay, okay, if you really capture Wan Yan Congfu alive, even if the merits are offset, this commander will even be exempted from your eighty military sticks, where is Wan Yan Congfu?"
Ma Guang immediately became a fluttering eyebrow.
"We sent it to Ezhou and handed it over to Lord Lu, and now Lord Lu is interrogating him, we hurried here, first, to report this matter to His Highness, and second, to follow His Highness to continue to kill the enemy."
"Oh, you're telling the truth?"
Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie were a little embarrassed.
"It's true, we just want to follow His Highness, this battle to fight Wanyan A Shilan, where can we do without us!"
Zhao Zhen glared at the two fiercely.
"No one can't do it, it's just that it doesn't matter if you two don't do it, I warn you for the last time, if you get into trouble again, the new accounts and the old accounts will be settled together!"
What Zhao Zhen meant by this was to agree with the two of them to stay, Ma Guang and Cao Bangjie hurriedly kowtowed to thank him.
"Thank you, Your Highness, for sparing your life, thank you for your forgiveness!"