Although it was said that it was almost January, the weather was still a little cold, Wang Xiaolai snuggled under the city tower, tightened his cotton clothes, and couldn't help sneezing.

He opened his mouth and muttered two or three sentences, not knowing what to say, then leaned against the wall and closed his eyes and began to rest.

When he heard a wild bell ringing in his ears, Wang Xiaolai shook his head and opened his eyes.

But I saw an old general coming from a horse at the end of the long street, mighty, wearing a louver armor, wearing a gold-rimmed red tasseled helmet, and a knife hanging horizontally from his waist.

Zhao Yuanche hit the horse before and after, turned over and dismounted, hugged his fist at the empress, pounced, and knelt on one knee: "Minister, Zhao Yuanche, see Your Majesty!" ”

The old general's voice is like a bell, even if he is already in his old age, the momentum of this sentence that can be shouted is still not lost to the young man.

waited until the current empress stepped forward, helped the old general up, and said, "Uncle Zhao, get up, get up." ”

An uncle shouted so that Zhao Yuanche didn't dare to take it seriously, lowered his head, and frowned: "Your Majesty, how can the guilty minister be able to do it, and he will be an uncle." ”

The empress gently patted the back of the old general's hand, sighed and said: "Don't be ashamed of the old general, I have also heard of the deeds of the past, it is not the old general who touches the king, but my father is at fault first, and he is not the old general." ”

Zhao Yuanche took the lead in a daze, and muttered to His Majesty.

The empress smiled: "However, people are great, Emperor Xuan is the first emperor and my father, and I don't have much to say about him, so I can only be here in person to apologize for the old general." ”

On the side, Wang Xiaolai said bluntly in his heart, if he is the emperor, this acting kung fu is more than enough to win an Oscar.

If you dig out your heart this time, whoever you are, you have to kneel down on the spot if you crawl, and you don't hesitate to do it.

And the empress really didn't talk about it, she really picked it up with both hands and worshiped Zhao Yuanche.

At this moment, everyone present was frightened, and they were busy persuading, but the empress glared at her and went back again.

"This is what I owe to the old general, what are you doing? Don't quit yet! ”

After repelling everyone, the empress gave a deep salute to Zhao Yuanche, then straightened up her waist and looked up at Zhao Yuanche.

The old general was already choked up and speechless, and his head was constantly shaking.

The empress looked familiar, took the old general's arm, pointed to the east and said: "Old general, you were originally a Suiyang Shuangbi, and you know more than me, so I won't hide it from you." On the battlefield of the Eastern Capital, Zhao Sui gathered 280,000 people with a total of 18 anti-kings, trying to rebel, under the slogan of the righteous army to seek an explanation for the royal clans in Daxing City. Because of the war in the northwest two places, I can only adopt a policy of shrinking on the eastern front, I can clearly tell you that the defenders from all over the eastern front add up to 170,000, and I will hand them all over to the old general, not to think how the old general will break the enemy, but just beg the old general to stick to the eastern capital, not to let Zhao Suixi go further, and wait for Wuhou Lu Gongyou to pacify Yongzhou, at that time, and then counterattack in one fell swoop. ”

Facing Zhao Yuanche, the empress directly revealed her heart, and she didn't seem to care at all about the anger of one of the Sui Yang Shuangbi who was known for his short temper.

Zhao Yuanche smiled after listening carefully to the empress's words: "Your Majesty, the old minister understands, which is equivalent to saying that the old minister only needs to drag Zhao Sui and the other eighteen-way anti-kings to become a step, right?" ”

The empress nodded: "Well, as long as they are nailed to death in the Eastern Capital, it will be considered a great achievement of the old general." ”

Zhao Yuanche laughed: "Cheng, Your Majesty is old and old, and refuses to give the old minister heavy work to do, the old minister is here, thank you Your Majesty." ”

The empress looked at Zhao Yuanche: "Can the old general have confidence?" ”

Zhao Yuanche slapped his chest and sighed: "If it is said, Your Majesty asked Xiao Lao'er to break the enemy in a month and quell the rebellion in three months, this, Xiao Lao'er really can't guarantee it, but if you say that it is nailed to the Eastern Capital and does not let Zhao Sui make any moves, at this point, Xiao Lao'er still thinks that it is no problem." ”

When the empress heard this, she arched her hand deeply: "Then I thank the old general." ”

Zhao Yuanche smiled, and then suddenly became serious: "In that case, when will the old minister leave." ”

The empress looked up: "Now." ”

Zhao Yuanche nodded, and said to Wang Xiaolai: "Little brother, please bring my horse over." ”

Wang Xiaolai agreed, stood up straight, walked over, and led the horse to him.

Then Zhao Yuanche said and wrote, turned over and got on the horse.

"Old General!" The empress shouted.

Zhao Yuanche looked back: "Your Majesty, what's wrong?" ”

The empress waved her hand, and the two hundred knights waiting next to her slowly walked up.

"I have no one else to send, these two hundred guards are considered to be given by me to the old general."

Zhao Yuanche smiled and said, "Your Majesty is polite." ”

"The situation in the eastern capital is urgent, and the news must not be leaked, so the old general Hugh blames me for acting simply."

Zhao Yuanche shook his head and waved his hand: "Your Majesty, why do you say this, the old minister is not the young descendant, worship the general, it's not that he hasn't been there, don't have so much trouble, Your Majesty, if you can, then the old minister will set off." ”

The empress nodded with a sigh.

Zhao Yuanche turned around and rode away.

At this time, the morning dawn dewed, evenly spread on the old general's frost-like temples white, like the beginning of winter snow falling on the branches, more and more set off the old man's back lonely.

Seeing Zhao Yuanche walk away, the empress took a deep breath, turned around and said, "Go back to the palace." ”

After speaking, he turned around and got on the dragon chariot next to him.

Of course, the driving is naturally Wang Xiaolai's goods.

Daxingcheng will not mention it for the time being, just say that this is on the battlefield of Xiaoyang on the Eastern Front.

On that day, with the help of Annuer, Zhao Sui escaped death, met Hu Hu and Feng Fan on the way, and finally returned to his hometown Yangzhou.

As soon as he arrived home, before he could take a sip of tea, Zhao Sui received the news that the empress had sent the rebellious general Sun Poyu to conquer him in Daxing City.

At that moment, Zhao Sui dared to be lazy, so he immediately sent the letters he had written before leaving to all the kings one by one.

For a time, the kings who had long been dissatisfied with the empress as a daughter but acting as an emperor were provoked by Zhao Sui's words, and at that time, there were other seventeen vassal kings in addition to him who raised their banners to rebel.

These people formed a righteous coalition army, a total of 280,000 coalition troops of the princes of the Eighteen Roads, and marched towards Daxing City.

On the way, under the leadership of Zhao Sui, Yanziji successfully exterminated Sun Poyu's 50,000 rebel army, and attacked countless villages along the way, until it reached the eastern capital of Xiaoyang, and the Suiyang court also received the news and learned of their strength, and hurriedly sent the honest and steady Zhou Jinglian to Xiaoyang to carry out the turtle shrinkage policy.

For all the officials of the imperial court, Zhao Sui has done an investigation, and learned that Zhou Jinglian is not good at anything else, but he has a lot of experience in defense.

The 170,000 hastily assembled troops, most of which were local garrisons, relied on such a rabble, Zhou Jinglian was stunned to stretch the defense line and block the coalition army's pace for more than 20 days.

The coalition army, which had won a hundred battles before, was now blocked under the eastern capital.

Even a few days ago, Zhao Sui hit Zhou Jinglian unconscious through assassination, but the defenders seemed to develop Zhou Jinglian's temper to the end, no matter how you provoked, you just didn't come out to face the battle, do you say angry?

···

In the rebel tent under the eastern capital, Zhao Sui sat in a golden helmet and a red cloak on top of his handsome position, closed his eyes, listened to the music in his ears, and kept patting his hands on his thighs, humming while patting.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and the heavily armed Erhu walked in.

Erhu, who originally had a military intelligence report to Zhao Sui, didn't speak yet, but when he saw Zhao Sui listening to the song with a look of enjoyment, he closed his mouth with interest, and stood there quietly waiting.

After singing a song Yue'er Shuang, Zhao Sui opened his eyes and said with a smile: "The more things I have experienced, the more this king likes this Yue'er Shuang, every time I listen to it, it is an endless aftertaste, in the end, it is Ning Baiyuan, the military god of Suiyang, who can fight and compose music." ”

Looking at Liu Qingqing, the singer brought out from the Guangling Palace, Zhao Sui smiled softly.

Liu Qingqing's face was slightly red, and she didn't dare to answer.

Zhao Sui sighed, and then he noticed Erhu, so he waved his hand and said, "Okay, Miss Liu, let's stop here today, you go down and get busy first." ”