Chapter Seventy-Three: Mired in the Quagmire

At night, Zhao Chai sat on the bed and looked at the moonlight outside the window and thought about his younger brother. In the past two days, I have always been flustered, as if something important is stuck in my chest, and I am angry in my chest. The soothing soup of the palace maid next to her has been handed over three times, but she still can't sleep at night.

What's wrong with you?

She was thinking about the date when her son Gu Chongwu would ascend the throne, and she felt that there was nothing wrong with it. Maybe it's because I've been tired lately, but for myself, it's great news over the years. The glory of the family is about to come.

"Isn't there any news from Zhao Erze yet?" Zhao Haixun asked.

"Hui Niangniang, it is true that there is no yet. In the morning, another group of people have been sent to urge, and the news may arrive soon. The palace maid's words made her mood gradually clear.

This younger brother has made himself very anxious since he was a child, and he had to work harder than Zhao Yien for half of his official titles back then. Every time he grinds in front of the King of Beiyang, the lines of the smirk are deeper. However, her mother only has these two children, so now she can trust only this brother who is far away.

After thinking about it, Zhao Hai was very distressed, but it could only be so. I hope that in a few days, the wind and rain will be smooth, and my younger brother will be able to return as soon as possible.

However, at this time, Zhao Erze was in a deep quagmire, his beard was covered with ash, and the whole person was like a down-and-out beggar.

If it weren't for the gold and silver robes under the dirty coat, no one would have been able to tell that this was a general from Beiyang.

How did you end up in such a field! How could he ever encounter such a life-threatening juncture! He was indignant, his eyebrows crossed, and there were only two or three soldiers around him to keep him safe. The grizzled faces reminded him of street rats.

has been eating since he was a child, and now he only dares to gnaw on the pies of the restaurant in the hidden places of the streets and alleys. Although he has money on his body, his portrait of his big head has been plastered all over the streets and alleys overnight. He simply did not dare to walk on the street in the daylight.

Originally, I wanted to escape from the city the day before yesterday, but I didn't want to be confused by the prosperity of Daxia.

Alas.

Careless.

It's only to blame for the good wine and good women here. As long as the thin waist of the woman of Daxia is in her hand, it is as beautiful as being in a fairy mirror. It's not that I'm a plaything, it's that the woman's eyes that day have a fairy aura floating in the Mid-Autumn Waves, and she was hooked.

After drinking round after round, he fell on top of the incense and didn't know it, he was still in the dream of the gold and silver treasures, seeing Gu Chongwu suddenly turn into a colorful flying dragon and leap into the air, when he couldn't think about it, he heard his subordinates hurriedly knocking on the door and saying that someone was distributing leaflets, and his head was painted on it.

Stumbling downstairs, pushing the door out of the backyard, the figure running away was more embarrassed than ever. Before he could figure out how he was being hunted down like a court criminal, he fell into a mud pit. The smell of fishy stuff spread all over his face, and his throat wanted to vomit out the delicious food he had eaten last night.

I put a dummy in the room, thinking that I would not be able to find it without three or four days. And how could he have thought that the Zhou family and Lian Wang Jingzheng would find out so quickly, and they still chased after them, a picture of living to see people and dead to see corpses. Don't you think about how much sin you have committed?

originally felt that he couldn't save face, so he chose to run away secretly, who would have wanted to provoke Jing Zheng's anger. How to escape is the first priority now.

Zhao Erze looked back at the soldiers hiding in Tibet, with a tired face, and sighed secretly. Originally, I wanted to go first, and then the soldiers withdrew to Beiyang piecemeal, so that they would be able to sneak away from under the nose of Great Xia. So with only two or three personal soldiers, it was better to rush out at night!

Originally, some soldiers were dissatisfied when they heard that they were going to Great Xia, but they were too angry to speak, so they could only come to Great Xia obediently. When I go back, my military might will be untenable again!

"Hey. While it's dark, let's blacken our faces and rush out. ”

Several soldiers nodded in agreement, grabbed two handfuls of dirt and pasted them on their faces, "We will definitely protect the safety of the general!" The two of them wanted to return home, and one of their wives was already about to give birth, if it weren't for Zhao Erze's insistence on going to Hualou, maybe he would have entered the situation of Beiyang by now.

It's a pity that Zhao Erze walked around the city for a while, looking at the fierce soldiers defending the city and stopped, without the slightest demeanor of a general.

Several people dressed up in disguise, Zhao Erze pulled his beard into a puff, and cut off his mud-stained beard with a knife, and the long and short hairs on his chin looked uneven, as if he had been cut off indiscriminately after being drunk.

The sky gradually turned red, and Zhao Erze and the three of them hid behind the tiled house to observe the upright guards. On the city wall, there is a notice with a red fork drawn on it, and a few big characters below: 100 taels of silver. How many people flocked to the streets and alleys of the city in order to find the man on the yellow paper.

"What, did you find it?"

Zhao Erze crossed a neatly dressed man in front of him, with a golden crown in his hair, majestic, he rode a big red horse, followed by a guard of twenty or thirty people. Compared with the down-and-out Zhao Erze, he looks like a heavenly soldier descending to earth.

Zhao Erze looked at the tall appearance of the man in his heart, and felt a sour feeling in his heart, he was so heroic, and when he returned to Beiyang, he would definitely clean up!

"Not yet, I've already let people out to find it." The soldier replied.

"It is better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go! This is related to the safety of my people in Great Xia! General Beiyang sneaked into Great Xia, and all those who found out that they were not from my Xia or who did not have customs clearance documents were taken away! The safety of Great Xia is on your shoulders, don't slack off! If there is a mistake, it will be dealt with by military law! Jing Zheng's words were sonorous and powerful, his eyes were determined, and he looked like he wanted to fight to the death with Zhao Erze.

The soldiers replied yes. They had already heard that the Beiyang army had sneaked into Great Xia, blended into the crowd, and waited for tens of thousands of troops to besiege Great Xia, and then they would join forces from inside and outside the city. Fortunately, King Lian Jingzheng was wise and captured a person from Beiyang, otherwise Daxia would be in danger.

Yesterday, the city defender really captured a Beiyang soldier, 1510 couldn't tell where he came from, his eyes dodged. How can this great achievement be let go! After being severely punished, he vomited out from the capital city of Chengping, and also admitted that he was lurking in Great Xia under Zhao Erze's command.

Jing Zheng turned around, then dismounted and stood by the city gate, watching the people coming and going. This is related to your own honor and disgrace, where can you easily let go of the fat in your hands!

Zhao Erze looked at the posture and his heart sank. Just heard Jing Zheng's words, he understood his situation. But now people are swords, I am fish and meat, and I can only go as the best policy! When the guards at the gates let their guard down, they set off for the city at a speed.

I want to go back to sleeping in the "kennel" in the shadows of the streets! Zhao Erze gasped, clasped his hands, and turned his head to go back.

Jing Zhengzheng observed the surroundings, and a glance flicked to the corner of the three people.

"Stop!"

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