The envoy sent by Zu Li was none other than his eldest son, Zu Lian.

At this moment, Zu Lian was covered in blood, and at first glance, he had escaped from the vicious battle.

"Subordinates, see Da Sima."

Seeing Yao Yu, Zu Lian knelt on the ground and shouted.

When Wang Xuance heard this, he reminded: "You should call Song Gong." ”

Zu Xuan didn't respond, so he lowered his head, which made Wang Xuance somewhat dissatisfied, and just wanted to attack, he was stopped by Yao Yu.

I saw Yao Yu wave his hand to signal that Wang Xuance didn't need to say much, and then looked at Zu Xuan and asked, "Zu Lian, what's the matter with you?" Why is it so miserable? ”

Zu Jian hugged his fist at him: "Back to Da Sima, as early as the beginning of Shi Le's army, my father judged that Shi Le's target was Qingzhou. Therefore, without asking for instructions, he commanded the troops and horses to go to Qingzhou to support. ”

Yao Yu's heart moved, and he hurriedly asked, "What is the result?" Can Qingzhou have Shile's soldiers and horses? ”

Actually, Yao Yu asked these questions is nonsense, Zu Lian is like this, can there be no Shi Le's soldiers and horses.

No, Yao Yu regretted it after asking.

Qingzhou can't say that there are no soldiers and horses of Shile, it should be said that there are quite a few.

In addition to Shi Hu's 20,000 cavalry, there was also Wang Yang's response army.

As soon as Zu Jian entered Qingzhou, he was stopped by Wang Yang.

The two sides have a big battle in Licheng, and neither of them can help anyone.

But at the critical moment, Zu Yue's grain was discovered by Wang Yang, who led the army to defeat Zu Yue and cut off Zu Yu's grain route.

This time, Zu Ti instantly fell into a passive situation, and was surrounded by Wang Yang.

Zu Ti's several breakthroughs, although they caused huge losses to Wang Yang, but there was no food in the army, and the morale of the soldiers was getting lower and lower.

Zu Ti really had no choice, so he sent his son Zu Lian to break through the bloody battle and come to Yao Yu to report the news.

Upon hearing the news, Yao Yu was taken aback and hurriedly ordered the whole army to move closer to Qingzhou.

It's just that before the order was issued, Wang Xuance stopped him: "My lord, it's not good." Let's go to save Qingzhou, what should Xuchang do? What if Shi Le knew that we had gone to rescue Qingzhou and went all out to take Xuchang? Compared with Qingzhou, Xuchang and Quanyan are more important. ”

Don't look at Wang Xuance who is usually quite a tiger, but this time he got to the point.

No, after Yao Yu pondered for a while, he gritted his teeth and gave an order in the face of Zu Lian's expectant gaze: "Zu Lian, you should immediately set off to Xuzhou now, take my order, and let the second brother send troops to Qingzhou to relieve the siege." On Xuchang's side, Shile's threat is too heavy, if I leave, I'm afraid that Xuchang will not be protected. ”

Zu Jian sighed: "But Da Sima, my father's department has already run out of food, and if it is delayed, the whole army will collapse." ”

Yao Yu took a deep breath: "It's okay, I'll let Brother Bao take a troop to relieve the siege first." Brother Bao, you lead the camp first. Give me the fastest speed to Qingzhou. Got it? ”

Yao Bao agreed, didn't say a word, and turned around.

Seeing this, Zu Jian breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Yao Yu again and again.

The situation was critical, Zu Jian didn't have time to rest, and after reporting to Yao Yuyu, he set off to Xuzhou overnight to find reinforcements.

is that Wang Xuance is very dissatisfied with the matter of rescuing Zu Ti without difficulty.

In his opinion, it was just that Zu Li didn't save Xuchang before, and his son Zu Lian didn't call Song Gong when he saw Yao Yu, which made it clear that he and his own side were not of the same mind. What are you doing to save such people?

The adults were also confused, and they also sent the most elite Wufu battalion over.

In fact, not only Wang Xuance thinks so, but Sun Yi also thinks so.

After Zu Lian left, he hesitated for a while, and said to Yao Yu: "Song Gong, it's not me who slanders others behind my back, it's mainly Zu Li's father and son, not my confidants." I always feel that they will part ways with us in the future and become enemies. Rather than this, it is better to let them fend for themselves..."

Before he finished speaking, Sun Yi hurriedly closed his mouth, because he had already seen Yao Yuzheng looking at him with an unkind expression.

"No one is allowed to mention the matter of the ancestors. Okay, everyone hurry up and rest, and go to Xuchang early tomorrow morning. ”

After speaking, Yao Yu flicked his sleeves and ended the meeting.

This made everyone at the scene look at each other, and said in their hearts what happened to Song Gong.

In fact, what they didn't know was that Yao Yu was also very angry with Zu Li's behavior, and he could also feel Zu Li's estrangement from him.

Needless to say, the reason must be that he connived at hundreds of officials to force Sima Ye to make himself the Duke of Song.

Although Zu Ti was born in a second-rate family, he has incomparable loyalty than other families.

In Zu Ti's thoughts, loyalty and patriotism are necessary, the supreme existence, and the creed of his life.

Yao Yu forced Sima Ye to crown himself as the Duke of the Kingdom, which touched Zu Li's bottom line.

Alienating Yao Yu is also a matter of course. Otherwise, according to Zu Ti's friendship with Yao Yu, how could he explain Xuchang's immobility? Why did you think of asking Yao Yu for help in the most difficult time?

For nothing else, Zu Ti just made up his mind to pay attention, and on the premise of not harming the interests of the imperial court, he tried to draw a clear line with Yao Yu as much as possible.

But what Zu Ti didn't know, his move really hurt Yao Yu's heart.

Yao Yu's feelings for Zu Ti are not ordinary attention, but more admiration.

He worships the incomparable and loyal ancestor in history who dared to go on the Northern Expedition in the face of adversity.

It is precisely for this reason that under Yao Yu's hands, Zu Ti will rise all the way and have his current status.

It is conceivable that under Yao Yu's promotion and decentralization, Zu Li had an estrangement from him, which hurt Yao Yu's heart.

This is just a duke, if he is crowned king in the future, or when he replaces him, what kind of reaction will Zu Ti have?

Yao Yu already had the answer in his heart, but he didn't want to accept it.

After all, if he could choose, Yao Yu didn't want to become an enemy with Zu Li.

It was his tangled and complicated psychology that made Yao Yu's reaction so fierce when everyone said bad things about Zu Li just now.

Ancestors, ancestors, is it possible, will we really become enemies in the future?

Lying down in the bedroom prepared for him by the county order, Yao Yu looked at the top of his head blankly, his expression was in a trance, and he muttered in his mouth.

There was nothing to say all night, and as soon as it was dawn the next day, Yao Yu commanded a battalion of 20,000 Xiao cavalry and quickly marched towards Xuchang.

This rapid march finally arrived outside Xuchang at noon the next day.

When Yao Yu led the army to arrive, Shi Le was attacking Xuchang, and under his various schemes, Quan Yan gradually couldn't resist it.

Wang Xuance saw it and shouted to Yao Yu to ask for battle.

Yao Yu squinted his eyes and looked at it, this Shi Le was indeed as he thought, the offensive looked scary, in fact, he didn't mean to take Xuchang.

Thinking about it, he was also afraid that after taking Xuchang, he would invite himself to a crazy counterattack, so that the gains outweighed the losses.