Since Jinan was besieged last year, but the news could not go south for a long time, the imperial court has added a number of military posts to the north, and Sheng Yong's performance after the first battle of Jiahe River naturally transmitted back to Jinling at a very fast speed.

Finally, after the Battle of Dongchang, the court that had been promoted to peace for a few months once again recalled the fear of being dominated by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in the past two years.

Everyone didn't dare to speak out, first, His Majesty's face was gloomy, and if he stood up at this time and made His Majesty unhappy, it would inevitably outweigh the losses; The second is... The battle report read out by Huang Zicheng is inevitably too weird, what is the time of day? What's the fucking time when the war is going on?

The only happy person is probably Li Jinglong, who is standing in the ranks of his relatives, but his smile is not too obvious, but in the past two months, everyone knows that Li Jinglong is the leader of the peace faction, and now that King Yan has lost the battle, his theory of "King Yan is invincible" is afraid that it will ring in the court for many days.

Compared with the dead silence of the court, the atmosphere of the people is much better, after all, in order to avoid panic among the people, the ministers combined, and the news was not intended to be revealed to the people from the beginning.

As soon as the court meeting dispersed, Li Jinglong swayed and walked out, compared to the downfall when he returned to Beijing after last year's defeat, now he can be regarded as a spring breeze, last year's dog ignored the buns, and now there are sparse officials who come up to salute and talk, of course, these officials are the main battle to negotiate peace, those who want to put Yan Wang Zhu Di to death, how can he give him a good look?

Dealing with the officials he had made friends with all the way, Li Jinglong went out of the palace like this, he did not hold a position in the court, and he naturally wanted to go where he wanted to go after the court dispersed, but before he could think about which Yihe officials to go to discuss important matters today, an old servant approached the carriage of the Cao Guo Mansion:

"Grandpa Guo, Duke Wei is invited."

Xu Huizu? Li Jinglong was a little puzzled, he didn't know how Xu Huizu, who had always looked at him unpleasantly after the first battle of Baigouhe, could find him.

At the beginning of a big defeat, Xu Huizu, who was responsible for the break, ran not as fast as Li Jinglong, after Li Jinglong retreated from Jinan, Ping'an Guo Ying and other generals scattered all over the place, Xu Huizu knew that he could not stop Zhu Di with the strength in his hands, so he handed over the broken army to Ping An Guo Ying They went to fight guerrillas, and he went straight south, preparing to lay out a defense line in Shandong on Zhu Di's way south, who knew that Zhu Di surrounded Jinan tightly, Li Jinglong fled to Xuzhou without looking back, Xu Huizu knew that he could not do anything, so he gritted his teeth and returned to Jinling, was ready to perform the duties of supervising the army and joined Li Jinglong, but who knew that he walked slowly, as soon as the front foot arrived, Li Jinglong tied himself to Beijing with his back foot to ask for guilt, and he was also idle by Zhu Yunwen, and then it was Sheng Yong's story.

In the past few months, Xu Huizu has been looking at Li Jinglong unpleasantly, especially after Li Jinglong began to jump in the court, the two have become enemies, you must know that the Xu and Li families are the biggest generals in the Ming Dynasty, and their friendship in the past is very good, and now they can get to this situation, it is enough to see Xu Huizu's dislike of Li Jinglong.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Jinglong wanted to refuse, but thinking of what happened in the court today, he finally decided to go and see what Xu Huizu had planned, only to see that the old servant led the carriage all the way around, and did not go to Zhongshan Wangfu, but went to the largest restaurant in Jinling.

Li Jinglong walked over locally: "Yo, this is not Wei Guogong, I haven't seen you for a long time... It looks like Wei Guogong is having a good time? How can you get some fortune? ”

Xu Huizu frowned slightly: "Don't be weird with yin and yang. ”

Saying this, Li Jinglong's eyes were even more slanted, he was almost pushed out and cut at the beginning, and he didn't see the Xu family of Shijiao standing up to speak, and he didn't even look at Xu Huizu in the past few months, so he was naturally angry, and immediately turned around and was about to leave: "Wei Guogong doesn't like to listen to it, just say goodbye!" ”

"Wait," Xu Huizu was extremely helpless, "Have you heard about the matter of the imperial study yesterday?" ”

"What's the matter?"

Xu Huizu said quietly: "Jiahe was defeated, Sheng Yong lost his soldiers, and the battle loss was nearly 100,000, Ping An Wu Jie led his troops to help, and heard that Sheng Yong fled all the way back to Dezhou, so he also hurriedly returned to the teacher, His Majesty was furious, and scolded the front-line soldiers at both ends of the head and tail in the imperial study, refused to use their lives, and wasted the court's money and food. ”

Li Jinglong still has the same crooked eyebrows and slanted eyes: "What's the matter with me?" ”

Xu Huizu put down his wine glass, turned around, and stared at Li Jinglong: "You have led soldiers, do you believe the words on Sheng Yong's performance?" ”

"The wind blows up the dust, the eyes can't see, the military orders can't be communicated, and the defeat is great?" Li Jinglong rolled his eyes, "Believe it." ”

Xu Huizu nodded: "Sure enough, I can only fool those nerds in the court... You can understand, it seems that other generals can also figure it out, they don't speak, probably because of those nerds. ”

What are these words? Li Jinglong was stunned and wanted to get angry, but Xu Huizu seemed to be more angry than him, and after being silent for a moment, he slapped the railing fiercely: "Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng are a pair of nerds!" I don't know anything about military affairs at all, Qi Tai is a scholar of the military department, and he is also a literati! These people made up a few military books, and they dared to point fingers and talk about it! Sheng Yong's coarse Spring and Autumn brushwork can also fool them! ”

The more he talked, the more angry he became, and the light and gentle appearance of the past disappeared, replaced by gritted teeth: "This Sheng Yong is a liar!" He said that he fought with Zhu Di for a night, and the second day had become a melee with hand-to-hand combat, and this was not the time for the Yan cavalry to charge, which could be borrowed from the power of the wind, and the two sides had already fought hand-to-hand. If you are defeated, you are defeated, and you dare to talk nonsense, and blow that Yan back into the destiny of heaven to help, but these wastes in the court are not aware of it, it is really unreasonable! ”

Listening to Xu Huizu's angry scolding of Sheng Yong, Li Jinglong was happy, and he put Xu Huizu's sarcasm at him just now: "What are you telling me about this?" ”

"You have also heard the rumors of Jinling these days, I don't know how many Yan rebels have been building momentum among the people all day long, saying that Yan rebel is the true dragon son of heaven, now it's okay, Sheng Yong's letter is on the table, isn't it true to sit on this statement? The imperial court wants to hide this big defeat, can it be hidden? Just now I sent someone to inquire among the people, and sure enough, news has come out, this Jinling, I don't know how many Yan rebels are fueling the trouble! ”

He looked down at the street outside the bar: "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, if you lose a game, you can fight back, if Fang Huangqi and the three of them want to protect Sheng Yong, the royal advance will make a speech, and Sheng Yong will make meritorious contributions, Your Majesty will listen to it, and it will be enough... But Sheng Yong was confused, and actually used such a method to shirk responsibility, and Fang Huang and the others were even more stupid! Sheng Yong dares to say it, and they dare to believe it! Even the auxiliary ministers are helping Yan Rebellion to build momentum, when everyone believes that Yan Rebellion is the life of the real dragon... Hey! ”

Li Jinglong yawned, although he didn't think as deeply as Xu Huizu, but as soon as he heard the battle report, he had a problem, and he had already guessed that Sheng Yong was afraid that he also used the Spring and Autumn brushwork, but... Does this have anything to do with him? He is now a person of King Yan, I wish that King Yan would become more and more courageous and fight to Jinling as soon as possible, what was the first pain in front of Xu Huizu?

"Why don't you hand over a fold to your majesty and say something?"

Seeing that Li Jinglong didn't care at all, Xu Huizu's face was gloomy: "This reason has been told to the ministers, Yan Rebellion's people will definitely not spread the true situation, and they will definitely seize this point and advocate desperately, now it is difficult to recover, at this time, it is useless to make statements, and it will shake the ministers, do you think I will do it?" ”

"Then what exactly does Wei Guogong want to do?"

Xu Huizu's cold gaze flashed, his tall body of Yushu Linfeng leaned forward slightly, and his tone was deep: "Fang Huang and the three of them are the heads of the officials who cut the domain, although I will not agree to negotiate peace, but such a few wastes who have not succeeded enough to do more than anything to steal the temple, in the long run, the court will be in danger!" ”

"I can join forces with you, just knock them down!"

……

On the bank of the Hutuo River, Gu Huai squatted by the river, looked at the fish playing in the water, stretched out his hand and gently touched the water surface, and the sudden ripples carved the appearance of a spring spring.

Zhending City is too big, so big that the Yan army that rushed to the city has no way to besiege the city, and can only camp on the bank of the Hutuo River, and Ping'an and Guo Ying seem to have made up their minds to hold on to the city and dare not fight.

The barracks were too dull, and even loud noises had to be subjected to military law, Gu Huai really didn't like to stay longer, so he took a dozen horsemen out to walk around in the name of inspecting the surroundings, and unconsciously arrived at the battlefield of the bloody battle between Jianwen and Geng Bingwen in the first year.

Wei Laosan on the side was lying on the river drinking water, and Gu Huai frowned for a while, did this guy forget that the river was once stained red with blood? Maybe there are still bones of the Southern soldiers buried in the river, and this guy is not disgusting.

He clapped his hands and stood up, the armor on his body was much lighter after changing back into a green shirt, and the cloth shirt was definitely more comfortable than the iron armor in the spring breeze, but looking at the Zhending City in the distance, he couldn't be happy.

It feels like it's back to two years ago... Ping An Guo Yingtie is determined to be a shrinking turtle, there is really nothing to do with them, Sheng Yong is now abolished, but if he doesn't take Zhending, Dezhou is not easy to fight, the imperial army was scattered at the beginning, and the Zhending army is naturally not a climate, but Wu Jie, the old marquis, has been operating diligently and diligently in Zhending for so long, and it is always a hidden danger to keep it.

It's been three years since Jianwen was built, and my impression is almost nearing the end, why can't I even see any signs of winning? Now that the Yan army has regained the initiative on the battlefield, the imperial court is still the imperial court, and the troops are scattered and recruited, and the Yan army will regain the lost territory after retreating.

How did Zhu Di win?

There were guards who let out cheers, which attracted Gu Huai's heart, Wang Wu carried a rabbit and smiled innocently, skillfully disemboweling by the river, setting up a fire to prepare to roast game, Gu Huai shook his head with a smile: "Leave me a leg." ”

Sure enough, if you eat too much military rations, you will always be hungry for game... But fortunately, after the autumn harvest last year, the dilemma of the Yan army's lack of food has been alleviated a lot, and now it is really besieged, and the grain road is no longer threatened, and the supply is not a problem.

The sky was getting dark, Gu Huai walked towards the bonfire, just walking, he suddenly thought of something, slowly stopped, and looked in the direction of Zhending.

Military rations ... Military rations?