Chapter 754: Hypocrisy
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Wu Peng's seemingly casual words were equivalent to pushing Shangguan Xiu to the opposite side of Yuan Hao. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In terms of position, Yuan Hao, who is a former general, is above Shangguan Xiu, a later general, and Wu Peng wants to step down, so he directly skips Yuan Hao and points to Shangguan Xiu's head, even if Yuan Hao is silent on the surface, he must be uncomfortable in his heart.
I don't know whether Wu Peng named himself to take over his position as a general intentionally or unintentionally, Shangguan Xiu blinked, walked up to Wu Peng with a smile, and said: "The general was captured by the enemy army in order to cover His Majesty, not only is he not guilty, but he also has the merit of saving the driver, how can he be ashamed of the prestige of the general? General Wu really does not have to be arrogant. ā
"Yes, General, what Lord Shangguan said is extremely true, the General must not be presumptuous!" Hearing Shangguan Xiu say this, all the generals present echoed one after another.
If Wu Peng is gone, Shangguan Xiulai will take over the post of general, and no one will be unconvinced, but now that Wu Peng has returned to China unharmed, people still hope that he can continue to serve as a general. Compared with Wu Peng, Shangguan Xiu's qualifications are still too shallow and too young.
Wu Peng sighed with deep feelings, waved his hand again and again, and said with a wry smile: "Through this national war, the old man has also seen through, on the battlefield now, we old bones are becoming more and more powerless, it is better to give way to Shaozhuang, Lord Shangguan is young and promising, far more suitable than me to serve as a general!"
Shangguan Xiu smiled silently, and glanced at Hu Chong next to him. Hu Chong immediately understood, stepped forward, intervened in Wu Peng's salute, and said: "The last general has prepared a banquet in the mansion to catch the wind and wash the dust for the general, and the general and the generals can chat while eating." "The ferryman was scared, and the brother looked at the new Sister Zhang
"Okay, let General Hu bother!"
"The general is polite!"
Dinner. Wu Peng asked curiously, "What happened to the assassination incident just now?"
General Wei Shi Xiao owed his figure and said, "There are two groups of assassins who are ambushed near Ganjia Street, fortunately, Shangguan Da ......."
Before Shi Xiao finished speaking, Wu Peng interrupted: "There are assassins in ambush near Ganjia Street, and they are not a group of assassins, could it be that we haven't done a search beforehand?"
The security at the scene was in charge of the Third Legion, and seeing Wu Peng asking about his head, Hu Chong got up and said: "The last general has someone who carefully searched the houses and buildings on both sides of the street, but the assassin was cunning and evaded the search of our army......"
"The assassin is cunning, I'm afraid this can't be the reason for General Hu's ineffective work, right?" Wu Peng's face instantly sank, and said: "With the guilty body of the old man, if he dies at the gunpoint of the assassin, it will be a hundred, if Princess Jessica has three longs and two shorts, leading to the resumption of conflicts between the two countries, this responsibility, but General Hu can afford it?"
Hu Chong's old face flushed, and he lowered his head and said, "The last general will know his mistake." ā
Everyone present also held their breath, and they didn't dare to breathe.
Wu Peng glanced at everyone, a smile suddenly appeared on his cold expression, and he said with a smile to Shangguan Xiu, who was sitting next to him: "General Hu is a subordinate of Lord Shangguan, the old man was angry for a while, and he blamed General Hu, did he trespass?"
said that he wanted to disarm and return to the field, but it was the general's score, Shangguan Xiu can now understand that Wu Peng has no intention of returning to his hometown at all, and he still wants to continue to sit firmly in his position as a general.
He smiled slightly, and said: "General Wu's words are wrong, as a great general, my Feng army soldiers, who is not General Wu's subordinates, and who is General Wu who cannot be reprimanded? However, the reason why General Hu failed to find the assassin was all my arrangement, just to lure out the assassin hiding in the secret, if General Wu thinks that there is something wrong with this move, just punish me!"
"Oh, what did Lord Shangguan say, even if the old man has the courage to do so, he won't dare to punish Zhenguo Gong! Just now, the old man lost his words, and the old man toasted Zhen Guogong with a glass!" While speaking, Wu Peng picked up his wine glass, raised it to Shangguan Xiu, and said, "Do it first for respect!"
"General Wu, please!" Shangguan Xiu also picked up his wine glass and drank it all.
Don't look at Wu Peng and Shangguan Xiu on the surface of harmony, pushing glasses and changing lamps with each other, talking and laughing, but anyone can see that the undercurrent between the two is turbulent, and the contradiction between the old and the new has been formed.
Shangguan Xiu is undoubtedly a rising star in the army, and he is the best among the young generals of the Feng Country, while the general Wu Peng is a veteran magnate in the army, with high morality and deep roots, and the new man wants to come out, and the old man is unwilling to give way, and the contradiction between this is irreconcilable.
After the meal, Wu Peng did not stay longer in Mulun City, and was escorted by Yuan Hao and Shi Xiao to Xiuyue City in Beijun. Shangguan Xiu stayed in Mulun City temporarily, and he still needed to take a closer look at the stationing and defense of the Third Army in Mulun City, and there were some things that he also needed to explain to Hu Chong.
After Wu Peng and the others left, the rest were Shangguan Xiu's cronies.
In the conference hall, Shangguan Xiu squatted beside the stove and threw the chopped pieces of wood into the fire. Now that the climate has turned colder, even inside the house, the temperature is very low. Hu Chong, Nie Zhen, Jiang Bao and others were sitting or standing in the hall.
Nie Zhen took the lead in slapping the table, stood up, and said angrily: "Lao Hu is a member of the Zhenjun Army, why should he Wu Peng reprimand him in public? He is not reprimanding Lao Hu at all, but slapping Ah Xiu in the face in public!"
Hu Chong grabbed his hair, laughed dryly, and muttered in a low voice: "The Zhenjun Army is also the Feng Army, and the general, as the commander of the whole army, is indeed qualified and has the right to reprimand me." ā
"Yes, he is a general! Wu Peng is borrowing you to beat Ah Xiu, let Ah Xiu know that he is the general and the first person in the army!" Nie Zhen gritted his teeth and said: "I knew that it would be better to ...... it in exchange for such a wolf-hearted thing."
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of Shangguan Xiu turning his head to look at himself, and Nie Zhen swallowed back the words that came to his mouth. He held back for a long time and asked indignantly, "Ah Xiu, aren't you angry at all?"
Shangguan Xiu smiled lightly, threw the last piece of wood into the furnace, stood up, and said: "The coming day is long, just trying to be quick for a while, acting impulsively, is not a wise move. ā
As he spoke, he turned his eyes to Hu Chong and said: "After the truce between the two countries, the Solan city-state is afraid that it will enter an eventful autumn, Lao Hu, you must make all preparations for the war, once the Solan city-state is in trouble, you can immediately send troops to help, if the military situation is urgent, you can send troops directly without going through the ceremony." ā
"Yes, my lord!" Hu Chong's face straightened, stood up, and intervened to give a salute.
"The geographical location of Siollen is very important, that is, a sharp knife buried in the territory of Besa, and it is also the forward springboard for our army to enter the battle in Besa, and the rear base camp must not be lost. "After the armistice, the situation in Besa gradually stabilized, and the next thing for the royal court of Besa to do was to clear it.
The Solan city-state, which has a good relationship with its own side and has vigorously assisted its own side during the war, will undoubtedly become the main target of the Besa royal court, and at that time, it is possible for the Besa royal army to send troops to attack the Solan city-state, and it is also one of the main purposes to install Hu Chong's third army in Mulun City and protect the Solan city-state.
Shangguan Xiu originally thought that the Besa royal court would be the first to attack the Solan city-state, but he was wrong, and the first target of the Besa royal court was not the Solan city-state, but the Jinsk city-state in the Tallinn region.
The city-state of Kinsk was adjacent to Goro, and when the Wind army attacked Goro, the nearby city-state of Kinsk did not send troops to help.
It is not that the Jinsk city-state has a private army, but the lord of the Jinsk city-state, Duke Reina, had to make such an agreement with Shangguan Xiu when he was forced to helpless.
However, the royal court of Besa doesn't care what the relationship between your Duke of Reina and Shangguan Xiu is, in short, the city-state of Jinsk is in a critical moment, and he does not send a single soldier to help Goro, and the city-state of Jinsk is therefore regarded as a thorn in the side of the royal court, a thorn in the flesh, and does not get rid of unhappiness.
On the third day of Shangguan Xiu's stay in Mulun City, he suddenly received a flying pigeon message from the Scorpion Mercenary Team, which did not contain much content, only a few words: Duke Reina died violently, and his eldest son Anthony succeeded to the dukedom.
Seeing this letter, Shangguan Xiu immediately deduced that Duke Reina's death was by no means simple.
Immediately afterward, he worries about Hayley's situation. Ed Rainer's favorite was Hayley, in order to save her, he was willing to be coerced by himself, and did not send a single reinforcement to Goro, now Ed Rainer is dead, Hayley is also equivalent to losing her biggest backer, and Anthony, who succeeded to the throne, may not be able to tolerate this sister.
The city-state of Jinsk is far away near Goro, and Shangguan Xiu can completely ignore the changes that have happened there, but knowing that Hailey is in danger now, and he wants him to sit idly by, he can't do it, and in this matter, he is also responsible, which is equivalent to him single-handedly pushing Hailey into danger.
After thinking about it, Shangguan Xiu finally decided to go to Tallinn in person, if Hailey was okay, he wouldn't have to show up, if Anthony really didn't plan to let Hailey go, Shangguan Xiu would do his best to rescue her from Tallinn and bring her back to the Windy Country.
This time he went deep into Besa to deal with private matters, Shangguan Xiu did not bring anyone, he went alone.
He can change into the appearance of a Bessa, and he can speak the Besa language, and he can move through the territory of Besa without any resistance, and if others can't do it, he will not be able to take it with him, but he will not only not be helpful, but will be a burden.
Shangguan Xiu guessed correctly, the death of the Duke of Reina was indeed man-made, and someone secretly poisoned and murdered him. And it was no one else who murdered Reina, it was his eldest son, Anthony.
The reason why Anthony has such courage is completely because of the support of the royal court of Besa.
The wind army hit Goro, the soldiers approached the city, and the city-state of Kinsk a few miles away did not move, even if because the wind man captured Reyna's most beloved daughter Hayley as a threat, but what he did still caused great dissatisfaction in the royal court, and the ministers advised Peter to impeach Reina, and finally, Peter also accepted the opinion of the ministers and decided to severely punish Reina.
However, the strength of the city-state of Kinsk should not be underestimated, with the current national strength of Besa, unable to bear the losses and risks caused by the civil war, the Minister of the Interior Safron suggested to Peter that he could stir up the internal contradictions of the city-state of Kinsk, support Anthony, who has always been dissatisfied with the status quo and ambitious, to get rid of Ed Rainer, and promised Anthony that as long as he did it, he would let him take over the city-state of Kinsk, and with Anthony's personality, he would definitely accept the conditions of the royal court. Antony plotted to kill his father, even if he took over the city-state of Kins, his position would inevitably be unstable, and the royal court could take advantage of this to make trouble in the future and get rid of Antony, so that the city-state of Kinsk would also fall into the hands of the city-state of Besa, which was conducive to consolidating the dominance of the city-state of Bessa.
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