Inside the tent, the air was silent.

There was only the sound of Zhu Yuheng's gradually thickening breathing, which was holding two tokens.

"Switch to Li Zhengyan and fight for another wave of ......"

He muttered to himself and swallowed.

Zhao Ru glanced at the night outside the tent with a panicked face, turned around and urged:

"Most of the 1,500 soldiers and horses brought out by the eldest prince were originally from Hongzhou, and they surrendered with the governor and the prince, and they were easy to bring back to Hongzhou City."

Lowering his voice and saying this, the lame man stopped talking, and looked out of the tent again with worried eyes.

Zhu Yuheng reacted, walked to put down the tent curtain, tried to maintain a calm tone, commanded the secret guards outside, and then returned, and hurriedly pulled Zhao Rushi to the depths of the tent, behind the private curtain.

His mouth was a little dry, his hand clutched his father's beloved jade ring, and his voice was hoarse and asked:

"I really want to switch...... Don't you want Xunyang City, such a good opportunity, you really want to vote, why don't you give the city to my father......"

Zhao Ru shook his head, and his tone was regretful:

"The situation on the governor's side is different, in Xunyang City, there are many people and mixed eyes, and there are obstructive female history eyeliners, the news cannot be hidden, and most of the soldiers who formed the former army are from Jiangzhou and the southeast Yang and Huai, and it is difficult to rebel.

"Li Zhengyan and Yunmeng Yuenu made too much noise this time, and the matter was urgent, so the governor had no choice but to take his personal guards to run with him, and the governor only cared about the son here, and the special order will rush to inform him, for fear that the son would delay the window period.

"The official ship of Xunyang was burned, a tragedy occurred in the Xunyang Palace, and the governor disappeared again, I can't say that Jiangzhou City has reacted now, at the latest at noon tomorrow, the counties of Jiangzhou will receive the news, and the female history supervisor will definitely come with the order to take away the eldest prince Yufu, there is roughly half a day left!

"What the governor means is that the eldest prince will go to Hongzhou to surrender first, join Cai Qin for rectification, and then take advantage of the chaos to see if he can try to take Jiangzhou, or wait for Li Zhengyan and the governor to bring the main force to gather, and then think about it in the long run.

"By the way, before the last general left, the governor hurriedly said to himself, Li Gong destroyed the Xunyang Palace, and framed the imperial court and the Wei family, which was stealing Kuang Fu's righteousness, and he may not necessarily take Jiangzhou, but may have to cross the river and lead the army north...... I don't know what that means. ”

Zhao Ru's tone was slightly puzzled.

Zhu Yuheng, who lowered his head and pondered, couldn't help but move his eyes, and opened his mouth to speak, but before he could speak, Zhao Ru shook his head, and patted the back of Zhu Yuheng's hand holding the jade ring and felt hat with his palm, and said worriedly:

"It's almost dawn, the eldest prince prepares quickly, and there are still important things to deal with in the end, and the concubines of the governor and some loyal guards must be transferred away, just like the last rebellion, the eldest prince, let's see you in Hongzhou City!"

The lame man did not linger long, bypassed the night patrol soldiers, walked a little bit and left, and disappeared into the dark night in a hurry.

From sending a message to tell Zhu Yuheng to leaving in a hurry, the time did not exceed a quarter of an hour.

came in a hurry, went in a hurry, did not delay a quarter of an hour, and did not give the latter a chance to ask more.

At the door of the Chinese army's big tent that was guarded, only Zhu Yuheng was left with some six gods and no owner.

Some cronies came running around, squeezing their eyebrows and telling them that the delicate little lady had been waiting in the tent for a long time, but she was quickly sent away by Zhu Yuheng.

At this moment, where is he still interested in finding a little lady to change autumn clothes.

The news of the urgency brought by Ah Father Xin Zhao Ru, as well as the two hot mountain-like tokens in his hand, made Zhu Yuheng uneasy.

"How could something so big happen all of a sudden...... Really...... Li Zhengyan has a sword...... It's like a picture scroll...... Wait a minute! ”

He put his hands behind his back, wandered in place, and said to himself:

"Is that Peach Blossom Spring painting actually a Ding Sword? I heard Yue Ziang drunken mention it once, saying that it was a picture of the peach blossom source, and I didn't study it in detail at the time, and it is estimated that Yue Ziang didn't know the details, but I didn't expect it to hide so deeply, no wonder Li Zhengyan dared to rebel......

"There are also Yunmeng female cultivators, Li Zhengyan, Wei Shaoqi, and Du Shuqing, they seem to have indeed changed their route from Longcheng at the beginning, and they first went to Yunmengze, which is called playing, and then went to Hongzhou City...... Connected, all connected...... I see...... And so it was. ”

Thinking about this, Zhu Yuheng, who had a close relationship with the anti-thief Yue Ziang and Du Shuqing, soaked his shirt in cold sweat,

The night breeze blew cold, but his tense heartstrings suddenly relaxed a little.

Now, at least not completely unfounded, people sometimes just need a reason to convince themselves.

Zhu Yuheng licked his dry lips, and Zhao Ruye's words faintly echoed in his ears.

"Father said that Li Gong didn't have to take Jiangzhou...... Or cross the river and go north...... Could it be that Kuang Fu's army will no longer continue to advance eastward along the Yangtze River, and will be empty in the southeast, and will not seek to occupy Jinling and divide the river?

"Instead, like another feasible path analyzed by my father that night, he directly crossed the river and went north, marched forward with great fanfare, went straight to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and made a gesture of smashing the Yellow Dragon, signaling to the people of the world Kuang's ambition to restore and rescue cadres, leading responses from all directions, and disturbing Hebei and Shandong......

"Father once said that the dispute between the north and the south, he must choose the north, Li Zhengyan's move must be in line with his father's wishes, plus there is no Xunyang Palace, Kuang Fujun can wantonly raise the banner of revenge, so he said that he would go to Luoyang King Qin to protect the only remaining King of Gaozong's bloodline, so that he added a picturesque sword......

"It seems that Father is not only coerced by Li Zhengyan, but may also be moved, too, after all, Kuang Fujun's upper limit is better, it is indeed better than condescending to others and eating Wei's leftovers, if it can be done......"

Zhu Yuheng lowered his head and muttered, his face was a little dark for a while.

After a while, the young man in armor slowly stopped, and turned his head to look at the water clock leaky pot in the corner.

It's almost dawn.

……

After the lame man left the forward garrison on the outskirts of Fushui County, he held his chin in his hand, took off a bronze mask, and calmly tucked it into his sleeve.

His expression was no longer the anxious look he had in front of Zhu Yuheng.

Ouyang Rong lowered his head and looked at his feet.

This kind of walking outside the eight-character pace that the six relatives don't recognize is the result of a long time of careful study on the way he came.

The mirage mask can only camouflage its appearance, and its walking habits cannot be completely restored, so Ouyang Rong imitated it carefully.

Strange, I'm used to it, and this outside eight characters seems to be a little reversed, what's going on......

Ouyang Rong shook his head speechlessly.

After a while, he wore the stars and the moon to a reed field by the river.

Climb aboard a hidden boat and sail down the river back to Jiangzhou.

Ouyang Rong hurried back non-stop, on the river, he looked up at the white belly of the fish in the sky.

From asking for leave to walk into the palace with the qin in his arms, to returning now, a total of one day and two nights were consumed.

Right now, with the way of others, he has succeeded in his conspiracy, and he can actually go back slowly.

The reason why I didn't stop returning for a moment was because I kept my promise:

Today, the former army of Jiangzhou went on the expedition, and Ouyang Rong said that he would personally send Zhu Lingxu on the road.

Returning to the cabin, he checked the merit value, and that day he laid out his sword in the restaurant on the street side of Longcheng, met the conditions of the ceremony, and after collecting Zhao Ru is fake body, he consumed 1,500 merits.

Now there are more than 3,600 merits left in the merit tower.

Ouyang Rong bowed his head slightly.

When I meet my old friend Zhu Lingxu, I won't need the Ding Sword and the Purple Mist of Merit, and I can save a fortune.

There was nothing to say all the way, and finally, I arrived at Xunyang City before noon.

Just like before he left, the huge Xunyang City was calm and calm.

On the streets, peddlers and pawns, merchants and monks go their own way,

The defenders on duty at the head of the west city changed their guards as usual.

Everything is as usual, where is there any aftermath of the turmoil of the Ding Sword slaughtering the Xunyang Palace.

Before Ouyang Rong entered the city, he put on his mask again and turned into a young woman with extremely thin lips.

This is the fake body of the female worker who was sacrificed by Liu Zi'an and left in the mask when he was in Dragon City, and Ouyang Rong is now proficient in using it.

Sure enough, there are only zero and countless times for women's clothing

Reluctantly, he bought a piece of pancake on the side of the street, and waited in a certain alley while silently nibbling on the cake.

In a few moments, the luxury convoy of Princess Wei Mei passed through the market, and was going out with the palace maids to buy in the East Market.

The figure of a thin-lipped woman blends in.

returned to Xunyang Palace.

In Xunyang City, there is peace.

It wasn't until the afternoon that a hundred thousand urgent front-line news began to spread to Xunyang City through various channels......

Inside the Jiangzhou lobby.

Zhu Lingxu was the first to receive the news.

Early this morning, Zhu Yuheng led 1,500 forward troops to defect and return to Cai Qinjun in Hongzhou.

Looking at the latest military information in his hand, an old face was a little confused.

The first reaction was to make absurd jokes.

"How is it possible, it's ridiculous! If it's fake, it must be fake, quickly go and catch the messenger and clean it up from top to bottom, there are traitors who are anti-thieves mixed in, and fake the military information! ”

He sneered, threw away the military papers, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of tea.

The officer next to him looked embarrassed, stammered a little, and provided more detailed testimony statements.

Zhu Lingxu still shook his head and sneered.

At this time, a guard suddenly trotted in, leaned into Zhu Lingxu's ear, and lowered his voice:

"Governor, General Zhao died, on the way back to report on his work, it happened at noon yesterday...... ...... on the streets of Longcheng County"

Zhu Lingxu's palm was unstable, and the teacup fell to the ground.

Crackling——!

The audience was silent, and the officers looked sideways.

Zhu Lingxu looked at the fragments of the teacup, suddenly raised his head, and said to the guard who reported the news:

"General Zhao was killed, go to tell Wang Tingshi and Ouyang Changshi, this is a matter of their authority, even though the commander is sad and indignant, but where his position is, he must focus on military affairs."

After speaking, he bent down to pick up the military intelligence document that he had just dropped on the ground, looked down and looked at it again, and after a moment of silence, he smiled faintly and calmly said to the generals in the lobby:

"This Cai Qin is very powerful, military intelligence fraud, but he really thinks he can deceive Ben Shuai? Oh, don't panic, today's arrangement is the same, and the afternoon will go on the expedition as usual.

"I don't know if I think about it, when will this news come badly, but today, it's too coincidental, isn't it just to disturb the hearts of our army, lead the imperial court to suspect the general, delay the expedition, and fight for their reinforcements?

"Hehe, just like our 8,000 soldiers and horses are known as 100,000 kings, Cai Qin and others also played the trick of going to the army to fight, but they are small tricks."

Zhu Ling pursed his lips and shook his head:

"That's it, come on, go and call the female historians, Ben Shuai is waiting for her here, there are some things that have to be explained clearly, otherwise the army's heart will be unstable."

Zhu Ling raised his head and said awe-inspiringly.

The soldiers looked at each other and said that they would retreat.

Zhu Lingxu was indifferent, watching their backs leave one after another, patiently drinking tea and waiting.

After a stick of incense, a barracks scribe ran into the lobby in small steps, ready to report on military affairs, but his expression was stunned.

I saw that the lobby was empty, and I couldn't help but look around blankly.

What about the Steward?

A quarter of an hour later.

At the back door of Zhu Lingxu's new house, the door opened, and the housekeeper watched a beautiful concubine who was favored by the old man go out in a carriage to go on an autumn outing.

The carriage was very low-key, traveling alone, driving through the market and driving in the direction of the West City Gate.

In the car, there is a burly "beautiful concubine" wearing a black gauze hat.

The owner of the hat bowed his head stiffly, and on his knees, there was a fist the size of a sandbag.

The burly body, hidden in the woman's clothes, trembled and trembled.

Could it be that Yuheng's old state germinated, and he died without repentance and defected to Li Zhengyan...... Impossible, Yuheng can't betray me, it's impossible......

"Zhao Ru died yesterday, Yu Heng rebelled this morning, it's too coincidental, there must be a connection."

Zhu Lingxuan was shocked and suspicious, and a voice squeezed out of his mouth:

"Yuheng won't betray me, it can only be that someone fakes the news, maybe it's pretending to be Zhao Ruyi's mouth, but why is Yuheng gullible?!

"It's over, it's all over...... Yuheng mistook me...... Yuheng mistook me! ”

Zhu Lingxu trembled, and his old face under the hat was sad and haggard.

The incident was urgent, and he had insight into the crisis, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he slipped out as soon as possible, changed into this woman's clothes and escaped.

The carriage was a little bumpy, driving towards the West City Gate, and Zhu Ling's heart in the car was beating extremely fast, as if he was about to jump out of his chest.

This is both panic and nervousness, and the anger of renunciation.

As the former army commander, before the Jiangzhou Road marching commander arrived, he was in full charge of the counterinsurgency military affairs at the front, but the eldest son who led the forward army defected halfway!

This is simply an unheard of example in the thousands of wars that have taken place in the Great Zhou Dynasty and even in the Great Qian, since the founding of the People's Republic of China!

The elderly empress who was sitting alone at the highest place in the Luoyang court must have been furious when she found out.

The two kings of the Wei family who recommended him were deeply implicated, so no matter how innocent Zhu Lingxu explained, even if he severed the father-son relationship with Zhu Yuheng, it was useless.

Having no excuse.

So if you don't run now, when? At present, only the Kuang Fu army in the southwest can barely accept him.

Zhu Ling was sweating profusely, his mouth was dry, he carefully lifted the curtain, glanced out of the car, and looked at the Xicheng gate that was getting bigger and bigger in the field of vision in front of him, and he was about to pass by with a slight sigh of relief and put down the curtain.

But in the next moment, a curious and kind voice came from the city above:

"Mr. Zhu, where is this going by car?"

I saw that a weak-crowned young man who happened to be on duty in the city defense slowly walked down the city with a waist sword in his hand, and there was a crowd of people eating melons behind him:

"In broad daylight, what is Mr. Zhu doing in women's clothes, is there a quirk of women's clothing? Coincidentally, I also have a friend who also has this personal habit, and I have the opportunity to introduce him to Mr. Zhu.

"However, when is the women's clothing bad, it's strange, didn't you lead the army to the expedition in the afternoon, Lord Zhu didn't prepare for military affairs well, how could he change clothes and leave alone?"

Speaking of this, Ouyang Rong, who walked down the city with a sword, said with some admiration:

"Wait, do you want to defeat Hongzhou with your bare hands and one person? Well, probably not. ”

He looked around and asked in an inquiring tone:

"Could it be that Cai Qin of Hongzhou has surrendered, so the chief manager does not bring a soldier and a soldier, and goes out alone, well, have you received any news from the front?"

Zhu Ling's body stiffened, and he slowly lifted the curtain, and immediately met Ouyang Rong's calm gaze, as well as the strange eyes cast by Xie Lingjiang, Yan Liulang, Chen You and others from his retinue.

Even if he has been a domestic slave with the third surname a few times, Zhu Lingxu, who is still calm, instantly surged with blood and blood, and his face turned red.

It's like the pork liver that has just passed through the market, and the pork dealer has put it on the cutting board for others to slaughter.

(End of chapter)