Chapter Twenty-Four: The Return of the Wanderer (5)
That Zhou Wang has always only focused on the development of people's livelihood, and in the early years, he did make some achievements, he saw that the country was singing and dancing, and people and animals were prosperous, so he relaxed the laws of the country and neglected to guard against the people around him. First of all, the Wutian Servant suffered, the Wutian Servant disappeared, and no one could suppress Li Zhiyin. King Zhou Dong also disappeared.
It wasn't until later that Li Zhiyin forced him step by step to hand over the "Crown Diamond", and by that time he had long since stopped putting King Zhou in his eyes, and his ugly face was gradually revealed. By this time, he had woken up from a big dream, but he could no longer control the situation.
King Zhou's mind replayed this scene, and he couldn't help but want to sigh, and felt that he had lost the dignity of an emperor, and said resolutely: "Li Zhiyin's fight made me lose my beloved general Wutian's servant, my new brother, my beloved son You'er, and now I have to lose the queen, causing the people of my Celestial Dynasty to mourn and be displaced, he turned me into a real loner, and I am inseparable from him." The Prime Minister has just been released from the cage, is there a countermeasure?"
As soon as Wu heard him mention Zhou You and the queen, he told him about his expedition with Zhou You, and said: "I think that death is to see the corpse, and Brother Zhou has not seen the corpse so far, I am afraid that it is a rumor." Besides, the queen was in distress the day before yesterday, and she had been rescued for me and my third brother, and now I am going east with my third brother, please rest assured that my third brother's cultivation and wit are above me. β
King Zhou asked who the third brother was, and Wu Gang said: "He is the first leader of the Northern Alliance today, named Chang Ya, and the son of Chang Baishan, the former general of the Tianyang Kingdom. β
King Zhou sighed: "I really didn't expect all of them to be so eloquent after the three heroes. β
Chen couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty, do you know that it's not just my Celestial Empire that is really going to suffer. There will be war throughout the seventh heaven. I don't think we should be alone. It is the best policy to unite all countries and ethnic groups to participate in the war together. β
King Zhou was busy asking what was going on, and Chen couldn't help but say: "The prince of the Wu family has brought a shocking secret, ask him to tell the emperor in detail and listen to it before making a decision." β
Wu Gang told the Sun and Moon Buddha about it, and King Zhou really had never heard of it, so he sat down on the chair. He had always only thought that he was going to face the evil captain Li Zhiyin, but he didn't expect that there was an even more powerful enemy behind Li Zhiyin. This enemy was too strong for him to imagine.
Chen couldn't help but say: "The emperor doesn't need to panic, the minister thinks that it is urgent to draft an edict to inform the world of the conspiracy of the Sun and Moon Buddha, and unite all countries to fight together. β
King Zhou said: "Although the strategy is good, I am afraid that the far water will not be able to save the near fire." Today we received a report of the battle, and we have lost two more cities on the eastern bank. The day is not far off when Li Zhuyin's army will kill Baodu. β
Chen couldn't help but say: "The emperor doesn't have to worry, those cities have actually secretly surrendered to Li Zhuyin." Li Zhuyin is building momentum and deliberately creating a tense atmosphere so that our army will be frightened. β
King Zhou said: "My worries are not superfluous, Lord Chen knows that the commander of the Praetorian Guard has disappeared as early as February, and I think it is the evil thing done by the Eastern Chamber Holy Pavilion. β
An incident happened in Xijingbao before February, and the commander of the Praetorian Guard secretly planned to take his men out of the city to Yinyue Island. I didn't want anyone to tell him, before the incident, the Imperial Guards surrounded his mansion, but this person had a very sensitive nose, and once he felt that the atmosphere was different, he immediately fled.
Chen couldn't help but say: "Then it's up to him to go, it's a danger for such a person to stay in Jingshi." Your Majesty, the commander of the Praetorian Guard now has a ready-made good candidate, why doesn't the emperor use it?"
Saying that, he looked at Wu Gang, Wu Gang got up and said: "Wu Gang is a wanderer, now he takes Zhongzhou as his home, I heard that there is a problem in his hometown, go home and do my best, I just want to be a soldier of the Celestial Empire. If I am asked to take on this heavy responsibility, I am afraid that I will not be able to do it. β
Chen couldn't help but say: "The story of the prince has spread all over the heavenly realm, and if you are brave and strategic, how can you be a vain name? This is the responsibility of protecting the country, everyone is responsible, what is the difference between going into battle to kill the enemy and commanding the enemy? Your great name is a great encouragement to our army and a great deterrent to the enemy, I hope that the prince will not shirk." β
King Zhou shook his head to the ground and said, "Sincerely worship Wu Shilang of Zhongzhou as the general of the Celestial Empire, commanding the Imperial Forest Army and the Praetorian Guard of the Imperial City." β
Wu Gang bowed down and said, "Your Majesty, this can't be helped, I will bear this general." β
Chen couldn't help but say: "Before the battle, the soldiers will build their own momentum and enhance their own aura, and the squire of the military department of the Central Continent came to the Celestial Empire to help in the war, which is an example, and other countries will follow suit, this momentum is immeasurable, Wu Shizi, the war drums have not sounded, you have made a great contribution." β
Wu Gang said in his heart: "It is said that the prime minister can support the boat in his belly, but I didn't expect the prime minister to fight ghosts in his belly, and he has been calculating me, you can't be idle, you must also contribute to the father and son of your Chen family." β
He said: "Your Majesty, Li Zhiyin and the Demon Army will attack Xijing Baodu, only between morning and evening, and we will not fight that unprepared battle." Since the emperor has entrusted me with the important task, he has some plans to say. β
King Zhou said: "Exactly." β
Wu Gang said: "What we are discussing now will be confidential. First, please ask the emperor to crown Governor Chen Zaiji as a general, and the edict will be read by the prime minister himself, asking him to secretly advance the Lianghui Army, and it is better to be a one-day journey away from Xijing Baodu, and deploy defenses on the north and south flanks of Xijing to echo with the royal army of our Beijing Division. Old Chen, I don't know if this can be done?"
Chen couldn't help but say without hesitation: "My father and son of the Chen family are willing to die to serve their lives." β
Wu Gang said: "Very good! Second, we are trying to win over some states, although most of them have been bought by Li Zhiyin, but we vow to deal with him. β
King Zhou said: "How to fight for it?"
Wu Gang said: "Instead of persuasion, it is better to take the initiative." Let's see how I submit them. He said this firmly and forcefully, and it sounded very uplifting.
King Zhou shouted: "Good!"
On the second day, an edict came out from the palace: Wu Gang, the son of the Wutian servant - the Zhongzhou horse and the squire of the military department, the black spirit god of war, took over as the commander of the Imperial Forest Army and the Praetorian Guard.
When the officers and men of the two armies heard the news, they cheered and cheered.
Wu Gang rode the Black Spirit Flame Monarch to inspect, and when all the soldiers saw that he was more powerful and domineering than the legend, they couldn't help but mention the spirit of the twelve, and heard that he was willing to sacrifice his life for his soldiers, and they admired him even more. For a while, they were willing to die for him.
Wu Gang has been rolling in the mud since he was a child, mingling with the inferior people, so he gets along with the soldiers wherever he goes.
He saw that the deployment everywhere was very rigorous, and it was very similar to the arrangement of troops in the "Tawang Testament", although there were still some deficiencies, and there was always no big problem, so he admired it very much and asked whose method it was.
Someone told him that this was the deputy commander Zhang Guangji's platoon, and Wu Gang wanted to see him when he heard it.
A sergeant stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, Deputy Commander Zhang has been worried since he got up in the morning, and he didn't know why, he just told us to strictly guard the city, so he went." β
The other said: "Could it be that he has not been promoted to the orthodox leader and is depressed?"
Another in the army said: "Don't talk nonsense, don't we know what Deputy Commander Zhang is like? He never fights for utilitarianism and is not greedy for fame, which time did he not take the lead?"
Someone chimed in: "Exactly, Deputy Commander Zhang once swore to live and die with Xijing, and I was the first to disbelieve that he was narrow-minded." β
I don't know who said: "Look at Deputy Commander Zhang, he cares for us every day, and it is we who should care about him." β
A group of non-commissioned officers who were not on duty spontaneously went to the military headquarters to pay a visit.
Wu Gang thought: "My new orthodox leader does not seem to have as much prestige as this deputy commander Zhang, and it seems that there is a little rejection of me in his words, it seems that I am just a legend in their eyes, and there is no unbreakable faith between me and them. β
Thinking about it like this, he had the idea of resigning as the commander, and thought: "There are talents like Zhang Guangji in the army, why can't the emperor find out, no wonder Li Zhiyin is getting bigger and bigger." With Deputy Commander Zhang, how can I rob people of their future. I have come all the way to serve the country, and if I don't become this commander, why should I be a sergeant who fought bloody battles under Zhang Guangji?"
He was about to lose his original ambition for a while, and suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he fled with Damu Gandharan, and Master Mu said to himself: "You are gifted with abilities, as long as you force practice, one day your martial arts will be successful, needless to say." When you have time, you have to think more about how you can become a hero. What do you want the three brothers of the Wutian Servant to do so majesticly in the Seventh Heaven and respond to them on this continent?"
Song Gang said, "Wit?"
Gandharan said, "Wrong. β
Song Gang said, "Brave?"
Gandharan said, "Wrong. You think about it, think about it and tell me again, go back to sleep. β
Later, when he was in Beicheng, Damu Gandharan told SΓΉ that he wanted to ??? -- There is someone in my heart.
The four words "someone in his heart" have benefited him immensely in his life.
I thought to myself: "I am still the great commander at this moment, and the matter of the deputy commander is my business, and it is time for me to appease him." β
Thinking of this, he followed those sergeants from a distance and walked towards Zhang Guangji's residence.
I saw that the sergeants entered the house, and came out after a while, but they probably didn't see Zhang Guangji.
He thought, "Since Deputy Commander Zhang is not here, then I don't have to go in." β
He walked all the way back, passed a remote place, and suddenly saw a figure stumbling into a dilapidated ancestral hall.
He followed behind, and saw that the man was dressed as a scholar and his figure was a little weak. I saw him walk to the front of the hall, put a letter on the desk, and respectfully kowtow three times to the portrait in the hall.
Wu Gang saw that the portrait was painted by King Zhou, and thought: "This scholar dared to come to take the exam, but he encountered a shortage of soldiers and horses, and he was exiled in Xijing and couldn't go home." He touched that he still had some money on him, and was about to go in to persuade him to go home as soon as possible to avoid the war. (To be continued......)