Chapter 366: The Great Fire
Zhang Jirin's abnormality was noticed by the whole family. It's just that everyone tacitly didn't say it, and after eating, Zhang Jirin said that he would go outside the city to train and disappeared.
"Mei Niang, Ji Rin, this is?" Zhang Li wanted to speak and stopped.
"Mother, don't worry, Ji Rin has nothing to do."
Zhang Jirin's matter will not be explained clearly for a while, and Liu Meiniang simply doesn't say anything, so as not to worry Zhang Li and others.
"But ......"
"Mother, believe me, Ji Rin is fine." Liu Meiniang patted Zhang Li's hand to reassure Zhang Li.
Xiao Jingxuan set up a banquet, Zhang Jilin took Liu Meiniang to go together, this time Xiao Jingxuan did not put on a big banquet, but only invited some famous officials in the court, Liu Meiniang sat next to Zhang Jilin, generous and decent, and talked with the ladies who came and went without pressure. Zhang Jirin didn't speak, just sat on the side and looked at Liu Meiniang.
"Ji Rin, why don't you eat." Seeing that Zhang Jirin didn't pick up chopsticks, Liu Meiniang asked.
"Not hungry." Zhang Jirin shook his head, Xiao Jingxuan picked up a wine glass above the hall and said a few polite words, Zhang Jirin and Xue Wuyi drank a glass of imperial wine alone, and the whole banquet was still boring. Zhang Jirin kept staring at a place and didn't know what to think, Liu Meiniang said several times, but Zhang Jirin didn't react.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Jilin asked.
"The banquet is going to end, let's go back." Liu Meiniang said softly, Zhang Jirin nodded, got up and pulled Liu Meiniang out of the hall.
It was night, and the border between Beirong and Daqi lit up with a raging fire.
"What's going on?" Beijon's soldiers rushed out of their tents.
"General, our grain and grass have been set on fire." The soldiers of Beirong hurried over and said.
"What? Burned out! Whoever did it, who did it! The general of Beijon shouted angrily.
"It's the people of Daqi, it's the army of Daqi, and this is left in front of the granary." A soldier handed over a large Qi sword.
"Great Qi!! It's a big Qi, and he cooperated with us in Beirong on the surface, but he stabbed us behind his back, and it was very good, someone came, and it was sent to Wangcheng urgently for 800 miles. The rest of you, follow me into the military camp of Daqi. General Ben wants to show those big bales. Our Beirong is not a vegetarian, and if we dare to sneak attack, I will make them pay! Beirong's general turned on his horse, his face even more strange in the light of the fire.
"Yes, yes, yes!" The soldiers of Beijon shouted loudly, and the sound resounded through the night sky.
"What's going on up ahead?" The soldiers of Daqi, who were guarding the junction of Beirong and Daqi, also noticed the abnormality.
"Lord Hui, the grain and grass in Beirong seem to be on fire." A spy came back to tell you.
"Grain and grass on fire!" The generals of Daqi looked at each other, it had just rained the day before yesterday. The air here is still humid, and the grain and grass in Beirong are on fire, and I have to say that Beirong is really a little unlucky.
"My lord, I think there's something strange about this." Someone said.
"What do you mean?" The general of Daqi asked, originally everyone was still happy that the grain and grass in Beirong were burned, but when they heard the military advisor say this, everyone was instantly unhappy.
"Beirong's grain and grass were burned, if it wasn't an unintentional mistake, would Beirong's army suspect that it was our people who did it?" The military advisor said the main point of the matter.
"How so? Beirong and Daqi are still in the state of alliance, although Xiling has been taken, but the emperor and Beirong have not announced the termination of cooperation. Naturally, we will not do such a treacherous thing. The generals of Daqi obviously didn't believe that the Beirong people had their brains in water, or their brains were kicked by donkeys, so they suspected that this thing was done by the Daqi people.
"My lord, let's be careful." The military advisor reminded with a frown.
"That's it, the whole army is on alert." The general finally listened to the words of the military advisor, and all the soldiers in the camp got up and were on alert, and sure enough, it didn't take long for the sound of horses' hooves to come from far and near.
"What's going on! Someone from Beijon in front? The general and the military advisor glanced at each other, and both of them saw solemnity in each other's eyes.
"What a villain in Dongqi, he actually used such indiscriminate means to burn our army's grain and grass, today you are either dead or my fire." The general of Beijon stepped forward and shouted and cursed. Viciously staring at the army of Great Qi.
"Mad dogs bite people indiscriminately, when did we burn your grain and grass, do you Beirong like to wronged others like this? Who knows if you accidentally burned it yourself, for fear of being blamed from above, and deliberately framed us. A voice in Daqi's army slammed back mercilessly.
"Dare to quibble, isn't this sword your Daqi's weapon, everyone has stolen money, what else do you have to say!" The general of Beirong threw a sword on the ground, and the soldiers of Daqi knew at a glance that it was indeed the sword of the Daqi army.
"So what? It's ridiculous to say that we burned your grain and grass with a broken sword. "Although the sword is really the sword of Daqi, the generals of Daqi can be sure. They really haven't done anything like that.
"Less quibbling."
The Beirong soldiers didn't listen to the explanation at all, the people of Beirong were fierce, and the people of Daqi met the angry Beirong soldiers, it was really unreasonable for Xiucai to meet the soldiers.
This is how the two armies fought together.
"General, what shall we do?" During the battle, the soldiers of Daqi asked the generals, there were not many soldiers stationed in Daqi on the border of Beirong, not to mention, now Beirong and Daqi are in an alliance state, who would have thought that Beirong would suddenly attack Daqi, the soldiers of Daqi are fighting to the death, compared with the strength of Beirong, the strength of Daqi is indeed a little weak.
"You escort the military division to leave first." The general of Daqi said.
"But the general ......"
"No, it's a military order." The general of Daqi hurriedly interrupted the soldier's words.
"Don't go yet!" Seeing that the soldier remained where he was, the general roared again.
The soldier gave the general a deep look and turned to leave.
The Beirong soldiers were originally angry, all the way like a bamboo, the Great Qi retreated one after another, and finally the Great Qi soldiers on the Beirong border were almost wiped out.
"General, we won." Bursts of cheers rang out from the Beirong army.
"Hmph, clean up here, the head of that general, hang it outside the camp tent for me." Beirong's general said proudly.
"Yes, General."
After the war, the border was full of ruins and broken walls, rivers of blood flowed, the Great Qi army suffered numerous casualties, the banner of Great Qi on the border fell, and the banner of Beirong was erected.
"Report, there's an accident at the border." In the main hall, when the morning court was up, a long voice came.
"Xuan." The eunuch looked at Xiao Jingxuan, and when he saw Xiao Jingxuan nodded, he immediately said in a sharp voice.
"Your Majesty, it's not good, there was an accident at the Beirong border, and our troops guarding the border were all annihilated by the soldiers of Beirong last night." The guards came running in from outside, kneeling on the ground and whispering.
"What!" When this news came out, the entire court became noisy like a fried pot.
"What's going on?"
"Isn't Beijon an alliance with us? How can we kill all the defenders of our border. ”
Everyone looked puzzled.
"What's going on?" Although Xiao Jingxuan's face flashed with shock, he quickly returned to normal.
"A few of our surviving soldiers said that the grain and grass in Beirong were on fire and found our Daqi's weapons on the spot, so they suspect that our people did it!" The soldier who reported the news made it clear what had happened.
"How can it be!" Xiao Jingxuan was obviously angry when he flicked his sleeves, and with a weapon of Daqi, he said that Daqi burned the grain and grass in Beirong, which was a bit too nonsense.
"Zhong Aiqing, what do you think?" Xiao Jingxuan suppressed the anger in his heart and asked everyone's opinions.
"Beijung deceives people too much. In this way, if we Daqi don't fight back, they think our Daqi is easy to bully? Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that our Daqi should send troops as soon as possible to teach Beirong a lesson! A middle-aged man with gray hair said.
"You mean to fight with Beirong?" Xiao Jingxuan looked at the man and asked.
"Yes." The man nodded, in affirmation.
"Fight with Beirong, you lead the troops?" Xiao Jingxuan asked angrily.
"Isn't this the King of Gaoyang, and General Nie......" As soon as he heard that he was asked to lead the troops, the man's face changed suddenly, although he knew some fist and foot kung fu, but he really didn't understand the things of marching and fighting, how could he lead the troops?
"King Gaoyang, General Nie, it's these two people every time, you treat the two of them as iron! What's wrong? Don't need people in southern Xinjiang? Xiao Jingxuan was a little angry, what he hated most was to thank the pedantic and old-fashioned ministers, who spoke better than anyone else on weekdays, and when it was really time to use them, they hid faster than anyone else.
Recently, the matter of the ministers urging Xiao Jingxuan to take a concubine has provoked Xiao Jingxuan, and he knows that Sheji is the first, and he quickly expands the harem to give birth to a dragon son as soon as possible for Daqi, but now that the form of the country is unstable, what can he do if he gives birth to a child, Xiao Jingxuan is very speechless about this.
"Your Majesty is angry," the old minister knew that he had said the wrong thing, and quickly bowed his head and admitted his mistake.
"Since it was they Beirong who made a mistake, why didn't Your Majesty leave a letter, ask the king of Beirong for justice, and ask them what their attitude is." Song Qingshan stood up and said.
"What Lord Song said is reasonable." Several people in the DPRK and China echoed it.
"This ......" Xiao Jingxuan hesitated a little, Song Qingshan's opinion was good, but it shouldn't be so easy to act. If Beirong insisted that it was Daqi's first move, Xiao Jingxuan would have no choice.
"Your Majesty, this is not an appropriate plan." Xue Wuyi, who had not spoken, stood up, Xue Zhongjing looked at Xue Wuyi, and his palms began to sweat. I was afraid that Xue Wuyi would say something wrong. Their father and son will explain to this court today.
"What's wrong?" Xiao Jingxuan asked Xue Wuyi.
"Your Majesty, first of all, we all know the habits of Beirong, if we really send someone to tell them, they will not admit to death, and they will fight a rake, and then we will lose more than we gain."