Beijing.

Zhang Can's mood is like the gloomy sky at the moment.

He looked at Xue Zongkai, who was kneeling on the ground and pleading guilty, and he was already angry in his heart.

"Waste, waste! With more than 10,000 people from the Shenji Battalion and the Fifth Army Battalion, he went to attack a small Qinghe shop, but he was attacked by the Tatar Suddenly Chi, and he was defeated and returned, who knew that he was also stolen by Xu He's Long Xiangwei, and this Xue Zongkai was embarrassed to come back! ”

Cai Long's face on the side was also very unsightly, and if he hit Qinghe Shop, he would be able to save countless Tatar captives and people, and he could also harvest a large number of gold, silver and jewelry stolen by the other party.

If these captives and civilians were saved by themselves, would they not be grateful to them in the future?

This is the prestige capital of Zhang Can's ascension to the throne in the future.

There are also those gold, silver and jewelry, they can use this money to buy courtiers, especially officials, and when the Tatars leave, it is not impossible to persuade them to enter.

However, all of this was messed up by this person at the bottom of the order.

Cai Long, like Zhang Can, really wanted to cut this waste with a knife.

But now is the time to employ people, although Xue Zongkai is the one of the prisoners, but after all, he is the clan of the Xue family of the Marquis of Shanyang, if he is moved, what do the Marquis of Shanyang and the nobles think?

That's right, Xue Zongkai and the Xue family don't move around often.

But at this kind of sensitive time, every step he takes and every word he says will be stared at by the government and the opposition, who knows if dealing with Xue Zongkai will allow people with ulterior motives to seize the loophole and sow discord?

Cai Long saw that Zhang Can still had an expression of wanting to kill Xue Zongkai, and he hurriedly spoke: "Xue Tongzhi, what happened after leaving the city, you can tell the prison country well, the prison country knows that the state affairs are difficult, and he will not do anything to you." ”

When Zhang Can heard this, he turned his head to look at Cai Long angrily.

Who knew that Cai Long glanced at Zhang Can lightly, and Zhang Can turned his head with hatred, which was regarded as acquiescing to the other party's statement.

Xue Zongkai knelt on the ground, and said with a cloak: "Yesterday, I led my troops out of the city and went straight to Qinghedian along the official road. ”

"But the sentry reported that there were no Tatars on this road, and there were only more than 1,000 soldiers in Qinghedian, who knew that when we were about to arrive at Qinghedian, suddenly the sentinel came to report that there were Tatar cavalry in Yuhe in the east."

Cai Long was surprised when he heard this: "Didn't you already send someone to investigate?" How? Didn't find any of these people? ”

Xue Zongkai said embarrassedly: "Your Majesty later guessed that these Tatars should have been hiding on the east bank of the Jade River all along, and only when we arrived near Qinghedian did they cut off the back road. ”

The Yuhe River is about thirty miles away from the official road, and the other party is on the east bank, so he has to cross the river first, and then attack, more than thirty miles apart, and it is indeed out of the regular sentinel range, Cai Long did not ask again, but signaled Xue Zongkai to continue.

Xue Zongkai said: "I saw that there were Tatars on the back road, so I ordered the five military camps to intercept it, and the brigade of men and horses was ready to attack Qinghedian, as long as Qinghedian was taken, and then arranged in Qinghedian, even those two thousand cavalry could not help us." ”

Cai Long nodded, although Qinghedian is a small market town, it is surrounded by several mountains, and it is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.

"But who knew that when we entered Qinghedian, we found out that something was wrong, I don't know when, more than 1,000 soldiers turned into more than 4,000, these people took the fire guns and bows and arrows seized from the surrounding guards, relying on the favorable terrain, blocked us in the place of the cliff gap for a while, and the Shenji Battalion brought by the lowly people, many people were all shot to death before they even hit the fire rope!"

When Zhang Can heard this, he couldn't hold it anymore, and pointed at Xue Zongkai angrily: "Why are you embarrassed to say such things?" said it was a thousand, but suddenly it became four or five thousand; People are firecrackers, and the Shenji Battalion you took with you is the most elite firearm soldier in Great Wei, and you actually told me that others shot you all over the place, and you haven't even hit the fire rope yet? What did you grow up eating? ”

questioned repeatedly, although what was said was the truth, but obviously, Xue Zongkai's face couldn't hold it, his face turned the color of pig liver, and his expression was angry.

Seeing this, Cai Long hurriedly reassured: "Zong Kai, don't blame His Highness for being angry, you fought really hard in this battle." ”

Xue Zongkai said aggrievedly: "Master Hou, I can't help it, there is a chasing soldier behind, our people can't stop it for a long time, the soldiers of Qinghedian, we have been visiting for a few days, obviously there are more than 1,000 people, I don't know when so many people suddenly came." And the leader seems to be very familiar with the tactics of our Great Wei......"

"Humph! Why is it that the same soldiers and horses of the Great Wei, you were defeated, but Xu He's Long Xiangwei was able to go down with one blow, not only to gather and annihilate the soldiers of Qinghedian, but also to drive the Tatars away. ”

Speaking of this, Xue Zongkai was even more aggrieved: "From the beginning of the morning, he was attacked from the front and back, and he barely supported until the afternoon, the soldiers and horses on both sides were damaged, and the horsepower and manpower were consumed a lot. ”

"But at this moment, Long Xiangwei didn't know where to get out, and made a detour to the north of Qinghedian to directly dig out the hearts of the Qinghedian soldiers, and suddenly let the four or five thousand people flee."

"I thought they would help clean up the Tatars, but I asked for them a few times, but they never gave me a reply. I can only lead my troops south and fight the Tatars again. ”

"But who knows, when I was entangled with the Tatars, Long Xiangwei rested, and there was another rush to kill, the Tatars fought for a day, and they were rushed by Long Xiangwei like this, and they fled to the east by that sudden red!"

"Long Xiangwei !!!!" When Zhang Can heard this, his teeth were itched.

Cai Long frowned and said, "Then you didn't go to the Qinghe store after that?" ”、

Speaking of this, Xue Zongkai almost fainted: "Go, how can you not go, I fought for life and death for a day, lost more than 2,000 people but were stolen by Long Xiangwei, I went to negotiate with the other party, saying that I was ordered by the prison country to recapture the population and property captured by the Tatars, but the other party ......"

Zhang Can glared at Xue Zongkai and said viciously, "What's wrong with them? ”

Xue Zongkai said indignantly: "The leader of the other party is a man surnamed Zhou, it seems that his name is Zhou Bi, he is a person brought by Xu Juma from the coastal defense camp, he told me that Qinghedian was taken by them, and without Xu Juma's order, the rest of the people are not allowed to enter Qinghedian!" ”

"Good, good! All right!!!! Zhang Can suddenly burst out laughing like crazy, "What a good brother-in-law for me!" ”

Cai Long frowned and said to Zhang Can: "There is news from Tongzhou that the horses defeated the Tatars twice in the Zhangjiawan area, so that the Tatars left two thousand corpses, and later drove away the Tatars in Tongzhou, and the autumn grain of the imperial court was a lot. ”

"The previous Ma Lanyu, the current Qinghe store, that's all the credit of the horse!"

"Your Highness, the others have not made an inch, and Xu Juma shined when the Tatars entered the customs this time, this is a troublesome matter!"

The so-called trouble is just that Zhang Can killed his brother, the abolished prince Zhang Yan, but he didn't have any credit for it, and Xu He let Zhang Can convince the world of his unsuccessful exploits......

Just when the three of them were at a loss, someone suddenly rushed in.

Zhang Can saw that the originally gloomy face of the person who came forcibly pulled out a smile: "Gonggong Chen, what's wrong?" Why are you sweating? ”