At this moment, Liao Ziling's face softened, and he asked, "What if these people are eyeliner planted next to you and are ready to kill you?" ”

"No!" Sima Hongyan said without hesitation: "Any one of these people is better than me, there are no less than ten ways to kill me, how can I survive to this day?" Besides, the fewer people who want my life must be sent, the better, once you succeed, you can easily disappear, but as soon as eight people come, I don't deserve to use such a big deal, right? ”

Sima Hongyan paused and said, "Actually, there is one thing that is most important, when Master Wu Zhao taught me martial arts, it can be said that he had no reservations and taught him everything. Even when I wanted to learn his housekeeping techniques, he didn't refuse. I thought, isn't this a kind of protection in disguise! ”

Liao Ziling couldn't help but praise: "Well said! Sure enough, the observation is meticulous. But these people weren't necessarily the ones I sent. ”

"These people can only be sent by you!" Sima Hongyan said with great certainty.

Liao Ziling listened to her resolute tone and asked, "Why are you so sure?" ”

Sima Hongyan tilted his head and said with a smile: "Uncle Liao, are you testing me?" All right.

First, these guards used to be my father's personal bodyguards, and you and my father are friends of life and death, so it's normal for you to know them.

Second, my father's death was unclear, and there must have been a lot of conspiracy involved. In order to preserve your strength, I think you will deliberately stay away from the Sima family, but you can't ignore my father's descendants, so sending someone to Sima's mansion to secretly protect it is the best way.

Third, after my father's death, you took over the military power. In the eyes of outsiders, you are the most likely person to harm my father for the sake of power. If my father's descendants, that is, me, regard you as an enemy who does not share the same sky, it is inevitable that you will do foolish things in the future. So, you need to keep an eye on what I'm doing to prevent us from going against each other in the future.

So, I can't think of anyone else who can worry about my safety but you! ”

said something that made Liao Ziling burst into tears. His voice choked up, "Good boy! It's hard to see you understand me so well! You don't know how I've come all these years, all these years? Everyone thinks I killed your father, and everyone thinks I'm cruel and vicious. I, whenever I think of your father, I, my heart is like a knife! ”

Seeing this Uncle Liao's true feelings, Sima Hongyan was also sad, and burst into tears. said: "Uncle Liao, I know. You have been infamous all these years, and you can't avenge my father, you are very bitter in your heart. I—I know! ”

Liao Ziling stopped her tears and sighed: "Child, your father and I are both rough people who can only wield knives and guns, and we are really tired of this struggle for power and profit. But there are many things that I can't help myself, and I can't help myself. If you don't tend to be inflammatory, you will inevitably not be calculated by the wicked. If I am alone, I have nothing to fear, but I can't ignore this big family, I can't think about it! ”

Sima Hongyan wiped her tears and nodded, "I understand!" It is estimated that it is also an expedient measure to marry Yun Han to the eldest prince, right? ”

"Who's to say it isn't!" Liao Ziling slapped his thigh and said angrily: "As soon as I took over the post of general of soldiers and horses, the eldest prince sent someone to propose marriage, and I had to follow." That stupid girl is still happy for this every day, but she doesn't know that the royal family is like a cage, and the king is like a tiger. ”

Sima Hongyan calmed down, approached Liao Ziling, lowered his voice, and said, "Uncle Liao, what did you know about my father's death?" ”

Liao Ziling guessed that Sima Hongyan would definitely find out the truth for her father, so she recalled carefully and thought about the clues she had found in the past few years.

After a while, he whispered: "There are two things you can check." As he spoke, he looked around uneasily, lowered his voice a little lower, and said: "The first thing, your father's death, I have inquired with friends in the rivers and lakes, and later someone told me that it is very likely that he was killed by a kind of insect parasitic in the human body, and this insect is said to have come from the south. ”

Sima Hongyan exclaimed: "South? Do you mean South Exotic? ”

Liao Ziling nodded heavily and said, "Nanyi has many insect Gu witchcraft, it's not strange to have such evil things. If you can find out where this insect came from, you might be able to find out who brought it to Yanling. ”

Indeed, Sima Hongyan nodded.

"Second thing!" Liao Ziling continued: "On the surface, your father may have been assassinated because of the struggle between the DPRK and China. However, I think that your father's biggest enemy is the monarch of Xiyue. ”

"Huh?" Sima Hongyan was taken aback again, and said curiously: "Is there still something about Xiyue here?" ”

Liao Ziling asked rhetorically: "Do you know who the current emperor of Xiyue is?" ”

Sima Hongyan looked dazed and shook his head.

Liao Ziling expected that a deep woman like Sima Hongyan would not know about these national affairs, so he explained to her: "The current emperor of Xiyue is called Xiahou Yan, and he is probably the person who has the deepest hatred for your father in this world. ”

"The deepest hatred?" Sima Hongyan had never heard of it, and asked anxiously, "Why?" ”

"Because apart from him, almost all of the Xiahou clan were killed by your father." Liao Ziling said heavily.

That was nearly sixteen years ago.

Sixteen years ago, the five countries of the Central Plains were in full swing and engaged in constant fighting. At that time, the western Yue State was the most powerful, and it constantly provoked wantonly on the Yanling border, causing disputes. The emperor of Yanling at that time was Yan Rong, who is now the father of Emperor Yan Zhen. He sent Sima Yongcheng to lead 500,000 troops to conquer Western Vietnam.

The whole surname of the Xiyue royal family is Xiahou, and most of them are brave and good at fighting. However, because it is located in the desert and lacks resources, it continues to invade the vast Yanling.

Everyone in the West Yue country grew up on horseback, so the West Vietnamese cavalry was extremely powerful. The Yanling border guard was not an opponent at all, and he lost several battles in a row, so he simply closed the door and hurriedly sent a letter to Kyoto for help.

Sima Yongcheng led his troops day and night to the border pass, and finally arrived on the seventeenth day of the retreat in the border city.

At that time, it was the Xiyue Emperor Xiahou Jian who led the troops in Xiyue, and the purpose of his personal expedition was to capture the sixteen cities of Yanxi in Yanling. It can not only expand the territory of West Vietnam, but also grab a large area of fertile land and resources.

The Yanling border guard has been sleepless for four days and three nights, and the moment he saw the arrival of reinforcements, he spurted blood from his mouth and died of exhaustion at the head of the border pass.

In order to achieve a quick victory, Sima Yongcheng ordered the army not to rest, and the troops were divided into three ways to meet the battle. Taking advantage of the impatience of the West Vietnamese army for a long time, he personally led the Chinese army to the commander camp of the West Vietnamese army.

Because the defenders of the border city were exhausted to death to resist the foreign enemy, all the soldiers fought with grief and anger, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they were caught off guard by Xiyue, so that Xiahou Jian's army was defeated for 30 miles.

After relieving the siege of the city, Sima Yongcheng did not lead the army back to the city, but let the captured prisoners lead the way, marched overnight, and attacked the Western Yue army at night in Tuyin City, thirty miles away.

The battle lasted until dawn, and the Western Vietnamese army was defeated. Xiahou Jian led tens of thousands of remnants of the army and withdrew to the capital of Western Yue.

In the Battle of Tuyin, the elite troops of Western Vietnam were almost wiped out, and from that day on, the Western Yue Kingdom knew Sima Yongcheng.

However, Sima Yongcheng's pursuit was not over, and after resting in Tuyin City for a few days, he ordered the army to set off lightly and went straight to the capital of Xiyue.

Where is this here to solve the siege? This is clearly to destroy Western Vietnam.

Xiahou Jian secretly regretted that he attacked rashly when he did not find out the reality of the border city of Yanling. Later, he was too careless in Tuyin City, which led to a catastrophe. Now that the Yanling army is heading west, where does he still have the strength to compete with it. So he hurriedly sent an envoy to repair the war book, and sent it to Yanling in an urgent manner for 800 miles.

Here Xiahou Jian made another mistake, Yanling and the Western Yue Kingdom were too far away. No matter how fast the horse is, it can't run back and forth in a month, how can it be possible to stop Sima Yongcheng's army who came lightly.

In fact, Xiahou Jian could have handed over the letter of cessation of war to Sima Yongcheng, let him stop the attack first, and then discuss. But because Sima Yongcheng made him suffer defeats and almost destroy the country, he was not angry in his heart, but was willing to seek the near and far.

Just when Xiahou was anxiously waiting for a truce, Sima Yongcheng had already approached the city. Xiahou Jian sent his ministers to chant in the city that he had submitted a letter of cessation of war to Emperor Yanling, but Sima Yongcheng did not believe it at all.

After defending for seven days, Sima Yongcheng broke through the city gate and entered the city capital of Xiyue. After Sima Yongcheng entered the city, he ordered that the people should not be harmed, but the Xiahou royal family should not be killed.