Chapter 188: Surveillance
It has been four months since the city of Beijing was broken, and in the past four months, the situation can be described as changing rapidly.
Not only did the crown prince, the emperor, and several princes all move to Yuhu City, but many ministers and their families who were lucky enough to escape also flocked to Yuhu City. At present, Yuhu City can be described as the de facto capital of the Great Zhou.
After escaping to the island, Yan Qingge also had the opportunity to enter Yuhu City, a temporary refuge resort, but she herself refused.
Because, she really had no way to face her uncle Le Yi and aunt Gu, or even Yan Xiuyu's brother and sister-in-law.
She is the only one who survived, and even though it is a good thing to live, the taste of living alone is really not very good.
Retracting his thoughts, Yan Qingge set his sights on the big camp not far away.
The banner with the color of the Great Zhou royal family as the background tone of apricot yellow fluttered high, and a huge ink-colored handwriting was written on it: Hou.
When he saw the handwriting, Yan Qingge involuntarily stopped.
She said to Zhou Jiaotou, who was moving forward with a happy face: "Could it be King Jing?" β
Zhou Jiaotou thought about it for a while, his face immediately changed, he stopped walking, he and Yan Qingge glanced at each other, and they both saw disbelief in each other's eyes.
After going through so many things, Yan Qingge gradually understood more about the destruction of the capital city.
Many people have legends that it was King Jing and the second prince who led the northern barbarians into the city.
After the city was broken, I heard that the second prince had also established himself as the new emperor in the capital, and soon after the news came that the emperor and the crown prince were still alive, and the second prince "abdicated" in a gray manner.
All of the above are rumors, and I don't know if it's true or not, but according to what Yan Qingge knew before, such a heartbreaking thing can really be done by the second prince and King Jing's party.
Zhou Jiaotou stopped, obviously also affected by those rumors.
Yan Qingge said softly: "Don't act rashly first, let's wait." β
They simply retreated farther away, and made a detour to a hill not far away, condescendingly, looking at the situation below.
I waited until the afternoon when the sun was in the west, and I saw that the camp came and went, all of them were soldiers wearing the clothes of the Great Zhou soldiers, and their bodies and appearances were all Great Zhou people, and there was nothing abnormal.
Yan Qingge couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling that he was thinking too much - after all, Da Zhou was not surnamed Hou of King Jing's family, maybe this Hou was a general surnamed Hou who had nothing to do with King Jing's Mansion.
At that moment, a tall tent in the center of the line was lifted, and out of the tent came a man who was dressed differently from the othersβit was obviously a woman, and her hairpin ring could be seen glittering in the setting sun from a long distance.
This person's posture and gait are so familiar, even if she can't see her face and clothes clearly, Yan Qingge can recognize it, this is Yan Shuyu.
Yan Qingge's hand clenched suddenly.
When she first met Yan Xiuyu a few days ago, the crown prince was also in the army, and he was accompanied by only a dozen Praetorian Guards and Zhu Liubao, and he didn't bring any women, even his son, who was born not long ago......
Yan Qingge asked Yan Xiuyu, Yan Xiuyu didn't know about it, Yan Qingge thought that those people had been annihilated in the war, and he didn't expect to meet them here.
After Yan Shuyu walked out of the big tent, a man came out behind her.
This man's stature is not short, his body shape and appearance Yan Qingge is very unfamiliar, he stood behind Yan Shuyu, the two didn't know what to say, the man put his hand on Yan Shuyu's shoulder, gently helped her pull her hair together, and his two hands went up and held Yan Shuyu's face.
And the soldiers who came and went around them turned a blind eye to their intimacy, as if they hadn't seen it at all.
Yan Qingge was taken aback.
The man was obviously not the prince, and the actions between the two of them were obviously too intimate, and they could only be done between lovers.
Yan Shuyu has already married into the prince's mansion, as a married woman, she has done such a shameful thing, and she doesn't know how to avoid people, isn't she afraid that the prince will know.
Countless thoughts flashed through her mind, and finally figured it out - Yan Shuyu was not afraid of being seen at all, because the prince would not know! These people are people from her side, not people from the prince's side.
The truth came out, and this team with the banner of waiting for the word was the army of King Jing's Mansion.
Zhou Jiaotou saw that Yan Qingge's face was wrong, and he asked quietly, "Miss Yan, what's wrong with this team?" β
"This straggler is King Jing's team. Friend or foe. Let's go. Yan Qingge calmly glanced at the place where the military tent was erected.
After withdrawing for a distance, Zhou Jiaotou asked puzzledly, "Why does Miss Yan know that it is King Jing's team?" β
Yan Qingge said: "The woman who just came out of the camp tent is my sister-in-law, she entered the palace in Chongyang last year and married the prince as a concubine. β
Yan Qingge said this sentence very vaguely, but he had already made all the problems clear.
Zhou Jiaotou also saw the intimate interaction between the pair of men and women, and he didn't understand what Yan Qingge meant at first, so he almost blurted out and asked the man if Yan Qingge also recognized it, and then he suddenly realized.
The prince has been following Yan Xiuyu's Yan army for more than half a month, and Zhou Jiaotou has seen the prince a lot of times, so he can naturally tell that the man is not the prince.
In this way, many things are self-evident.
Retreating to a safe place, the soldiers who were waiting in place all gathered around, waiting for what Sect Leader Zhou would give next.
Zhou Jiaotou looked at Yan Qingge, cleared his throat, and asked, "What does Miss Yan think we should do next?" β
They came out this time to listen to information, and if they might encounter friendly troops, they could also meet up to exchange some dried meat made from ducks and big fish hunted in the lake for some salt and rice.
But after figuring out that this army belonged to King Jing, things became tricky.
Why did King Jing lead a team here, I'm afraid I am uneasy and kind, although that team looks small, and it is not a well-guarded elite soldier who fights at any time, but King Jing's rebellious heart is known to passers-by. Most of the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty has moved to Yuhu City, and if King Jing has a bad plan, it will be dangerous.
Do they want to go to Jade Lake City to report?
Zhou Jiaotou is really difficult to decide. He is just a head coach with no ideals and ambitions, and he doesn't want to die, but when he faces the righteousness of his family and country, he can't control his enthusiasm and is ready to move. However, Yan Qingge saw things very clearly, and he had a bit of Yan Xiuyu's decisive style of killing.
"Let's not go back yet, just wait here." Yan Qingge always felt that the appearance of this Jing King's team was very abrupt and weird. And who the man who was with Yan Shuyu also made her feel worried.
There were only fifty of them, and it was very easy for them to hide themselves in the vast grasslands and rolling hills. What's more, they brought a lot of dry food with them when they came, and they were able to support them for a long time without raising a fire.
On the afternoon of the third day, Yan Qingge was sitting in the long grass in a daze, wearing a camouflage cloak made of fine grass and a hat made of grass. β
Yan Qingge hurriedly got up and went to see with Zhou Jiaotou.
I saw in the distance, a group of Great Zhou troops were all in their vehicles and horses, waving the banner of Gu, and came to this side.
The surname Gu is also a nobleman with a wide branch of the Great Zhou, and Yan Qingge's aunt Gu came from it. There are more than one or two generals in the Gu clan, and I don't know who is leading the team.
The team was not short, and it brought a lot of carts, a total of about a thousand people, and the situation was that the entire army was moving, and the goal was clear, it was heading towards King Jing's camp.
In the past three days, Yan Qingge would see Yan Shuyu and the strange man going in and out of the same place every evening, but he didn't see King Jing. Gradually, she observed that it seemed that the man was the person in charge of this Jingwang camp.
The man seemed to be very kind to Yan Shuyu, holding her in the palm of his hand and caring for her. But the more this is the case, the more Yan Qingge looks down on Yan Shuyu.
"Miss Yan, what should we do?" Zhou Jiaotou saw that there was really a situation, and his spirit was shocked, and he was even more convinced of Yan Qingge.
"We'll wait and see. According to what we have checked in the past few days, there are only six or seven hundred people in King Jing's camp, but there are more than 1,000 people who have come. If they and King Jing are the same as the raccoon dogs, we will go out and be sheep in the mouth of the tiger. If they are deceived by the people of King Jing's camp, there are not as many people in King Jing's camp as they are, and they will not be able to suffer a loss. Yan Qingge analyzed.
"Okay, just listen to Miss Yan." Zhou Jiaotou said.
The people in King Jing's camp should have known the news of the arrival of this Gu army, and after a short time, they sent out soldiers to guide the way. It was almost dusk, and all the soldiers of the Gu army arrived at King Jing's camp, only to see that they were digging stoves and setting up tents, in an orderly manner, and they looked like they were going to stay here.
At night, the camp of King Jing, which has always been quiet, became lively for the first time, only to see them in the open space in the center of the camp, lighting a raging bonfire, dozens of people sitting around the bonfire, passing wine jars and wine bowls, and a very large animal on the fire also leaned on it, it seems to be a very common bison on the Qingzhou grassland.
Zhou Jiaotou sat next to Yan Qingge, investigated the situation with her, couldn't help swallowing saliva, twitched his nose and said, "it, we have tried to fight this bison, but we can't beat it at all!" The people in this camp of King Jing have the ability! Even bison can be hunted. β
They have been eating dry food and drinking cold water for several days, and their stomachs are very weak, not to mention Zhou Jiaotou, even Yan Qingge is a little greedy.
The banquet below was held until midnight, and the people below were full of wine and food.
Yan Qingge and Zhou Jiaotou monitored these people for a whole day, and when they saw that there was no situation, they went to sleep, leaving only a few people on duty at night still awake.
Sleeping in the mountains and forests, you can't sleep, Yan Qing's fans were confused, and when they heard that there seemed to be movement, they immediately sat up, and just happened to see Zhou Jiaotou not far away, and a carp stood up.
The night is very dark, and there are clouds in the sky today, which obscure the stars tightly, and usually at this time, you can't see your fingers. But today, I can see clearly the two shining eyes of the man in the darkness.
There was a different commotion at the foot of the mountain, Yan Qingge and Zhou Jiaotou looked down in unison, only to see a red light emerging from King Jing's camp, and there was a faint sound of crisp weapons intersecting and noisy.
A soldier on night duty quietly came to Zhou Jiaotou and Yan Qingge's side, and said solemnly: "Zhou Jiaotou, Miss Yan, there is another team of people behind the mountain. β
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