Chapter II: Framing
Seeing the official messenger's method of taking things through the air, Shen Yue understood that the place he had traveled from also had a wonderful spell similar to that described in the novel. But he didn't have anything to be excited about now, and the fear of dealing with it made him sweat, sweat flowed into the wound, and his whole body was in hot pain.
As far as the eye could see, the cell consisted only of hay spread on the ground and broken buckets for defecation. Fortunately, the weather was cool at this time, and the sweat on my body gradually subsided, and although the pain was always there, I could barely bear it.
Shen Yue searched and searched, and finally found a slightly cleaner wall, grabbed some hay and spread it underneath, and slowly sat down against the wall.
He had to think hard about how to appeal in the face of the review, but unfortunately he didn't share any memories of the body's original owner.
He could only analyze the information provided by the official just now. The man said that he was Su Qing's personal guard, or one of the four personal guards who might have heard the three generals plotting to rebel, which is very logical when you think about it.
Since it is such a fatal thing as rebellion, the people who are qualified to be on the scene must be the cronies among the cronies, if it is not a cronies, even if they accidentally hear it, they will be killed.
Han Yuan, the original owner of his body, was at the scene of the rebellion and conspiracy throughout the whole process, and also passed on the general order for Su Qing that led to the annihilation of the entire army. Since he is a cronie among his cronies, he must have made up his mind to follow Su Qing to join the enemy a long time ago, and it is impossible for the enemy not to treat him well.
But why didn't the four personal guards, including Han Won, follow Su Qing in the end? The other three died in the chaos. This shows that the four guards who knew about the rebellion plot were not established. Or won't all four of them become big fools?
In addition, if Su Qing plotted to rebel, it would be impossible for such a big matter to be temporary, and he would definitely settle his family first, and he would never be at the mercy of the imperial court.
All the illogical plots can be connected in series to show that Su Qing, Lu Yi, and Wu Da did not discuss defecting to the enemy at all at that time, and no matter what the three said, what they said must be very normal military affairs. The four guards present were only on normal duty.
Framed! Shen Yue instantly understood the behavior of those officials, they just wanted to put the blame for the annihilation of the entire army on Su Qing and the others. It is easy for them to understand this, Shen Yue, as an archaeologist, has seen many similar conspiracies recorded in history books before.
He analyzed that this was either the political enemy of Su Qing and others or the emperor taking the opportunity to liquidate dissidents, or it was someone else who defected to the enemy and betrayed the country, who tried to put the blame on Su Qing and others to cover himself. No matter what the situation, he is very close to death anyway, and the difficulty of escaping is comparable to taking four bad teammates to turn the tables against the wind in the king.
Shen Yue was concentrating on his self-rescue plan, when he suddenly heard someone coughing, which startled him, and he listened carefully and found that the sound came from next door. It was supposed to be issued by an inmate from another cell.
What Shen Yue needed most now was to learn more from others, so he endured the pain, moved to the wall that was shared with the next door, and asked softly, "Is there anyone next door?" ”
"Damn, that's not nonsense." The man next door coughed a few more times and then said hesitantly, "Although I'm locked up in this place now, I'm still human, right?" ”
Shen Yue hurriedly said, "Who are you?" ”
"Why do you always talk nonsense," said the man next door, a little annoyed, "of course I'm a prisoner like you." ”
Shen Yue really wanted to slap this grandson, thinking: How the hell can I not know that you are a prisoner.
Resisting the urge to beat him, Shen Yue asked helplessly: "I'm asking you your surname, why did you get locked up here?" ”
The man was silent for a while, and then said in a low voice: "I am Meng Jun, a captain under the command of King Xingping, who was framed by this group of dogs for stealing the army's food and salary, and has been locked up here for a year. ”
He paused and then said: "You were like a dumb person before, and I didn't pay attention to me when I talked to you, but today I really don't remember, but took the initiative to talk to me." ”
He paused and continued: "You used to have a hard temper, I used to be locked in the cell next to the torture room below, and I heard that you were beaten seven or eight times, but I gritted my teeth and never confessed my guilt. Hehe, but after all, he confessed according to the meaning of this group of scum, and I don't know how many people will be unjustly killed by them. ”
He sighed, as if talking to himself: "Although I confessed against my will, I was the only one left in the family, and I didn't implicate anyone else." ”
Shen Yue heard him say that he had heard that he had been tortured, and hurriedly asked, "This eldest brother, can you tell me what I said when I was tortured before?" I probably got my head broken and forgot about it. ”
Meng Jun sighed when he heard this and said: "I didn't care too much about it at the time, after all, there are a lot of people who are tortured every day, if you don't shout and scream every time, I may not remember you." ”
He recalled for a while and continued: "They always want you to admit that Su Qing ordered the team to go to the Daiguo ambush circle at that time. But you have always denied it, and the most shouted is, 'The Governor must have been deceived', 'Your Neijingsi is not a good thing', and I can't remember the rest. Oh, by the way, the hardest time they beat you was the first time, and you said, 'Go, Dudu... borrowed soldiers', I didn't hear the name of the borrowed soldier at the time, it seems to be Qingshang County, and it seems to be Qingbei County. As soon as you finished speaking, they pumped you to death, and deliberately activated the soundproof formation inside, which they usually don't bother to use. ”
Shen Yue thought carefully after hearing this: If it was Su Qing who ordered the team to open overnight and go to the enemy encirclement. Why did this won shout "The governor has gone to borrow troops". Could it be that when the team was pulled out, Su Qing was not in the army at all, and someone passed Su Qing's order to mobilize the team?
Judging from Han Won's performance, if Su Qing really committed treason and defected to the enemy, Han Won did not have the need to wash the ground for Su Qing, so he should be telling the truth.
And this brocade guard, oh no, it's called Neijingji here, and they don't allow Han Won to shout "Governor... borrowed troops", indicating that eighty percent of them had been greeted, and the won was not allowed to confess like this. Then Su Qingzhen may have gone somewhere to borrow troops, but that place is a taboo for those who greet them.
After analysis, Shen Yue gradually had some eyebrows in his mind, he felt that Su Qing was likely to discuss the matter of borrowing troops with Lu Yi and Wu Da that night for a certain purpose, and after finalizing it, he went to coordinate, but for some reason he stayed at the borrowing place, and finally someone pretended to pass on Su Qing's order to deceive the army into the encirclement, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army.
From this point of view, the breakthrough of the whole thing is likely to be that Su Qing went to Qingshang County or Qingbei County, where he borrowed troops, and found this place to investigate carefully, and there was a great possibility of turning the tables.
He asked next door again: "Big brother, do you know Su Qing, ah, no, where Su Dudu's army is gathered?" ”
"The kid is very smart, it seems that the key to finding the problem lies in the place where the troops are borrowed, although I don't know the specific assembly place of the army, but in the past, the imperial court fought with the northern Daiguo, and it was through three gatherings: one is to go out of the Fengling Pass to attack the King of Bailou in the west wing of the Daiguo, the second is to go out of the Tiger Pass to directly attack the central force where the Emperor of Daiguo is located, and the third is to go out of Qingmu Pass to attack the Lingyue King in the east wing of Daiguo."
Meng Jun thought for a while, and then said: "The Qingshang County or Qingbei County you shouted out are both border counties in the east, so it is most likely that you will go out of Qingmu Pass to gather troops to attack the Lingyue King. Because Qingbei County is far away from Aoki Pass, and Qingshang County is closer to Aoki Pass, the first emperor directly handed over Aoki Pass to Qingshang County during his reign. ”
He suddenly laughed twice and asked, "Boy, I've also said a lot, I'll ask you a question, where do you think Su Qing will borrow if he borrows soldiers?" ”
Shen Yue pondered for a moment when he heard this, and said, "Qingbei County has the greatest possibility. Meng Jun sighed and asked in surprise: "Why?" It's farther away from the army rallying ground. ”
Shen Yue thought to himself: If I don't understand this thing, I will watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "The Art of War" so many times in vain.
Shen Yue said: "Because it doesn't conform to common sense. According to the description of the eldest brother, Su Dudu should have assembled troops from the eastern front of Aoki Pass, if Su Qing was borrowing troops, it means that either the existing troops are not enough, or the existing direction of sending troops cannot achieve a certain combat goal. It is impossible to have enough troops, the scale of the troops must have been carefully considered, and there is certainly no problem in facing the enemy head-on. The biggest possibility is that Su Dudu wants to outflank the troops facing Daiguo from the back, so he has to go to Qingbei County, because it is far away from the assembly place out of the pass, although I don't know the specific location of this county, but if you want to outflank, only Qingbei County is in a reasonable position. ”
He paused for a moment and said with a dry smile: "I don't have a map at hand, so I can only guess like this." ”
Meng Jun was silent for a while, and sighed: "You are not guessing, boy, you are a talent, alas, the truth is probably not far from what you said." ”
He then laughed at himself again: "It's a pity that you have to die here like me, soldiers can't die on the battlefield, but they die in the hands of this group of young people, and you have to be ridiculed by the old brothers if you are a ghost!" ”