The imperial chariot of the emperor of the Xia State continued to move south from Jiudingzhou, and entered the northern part of Pingsheng Prefecture, a large county called Jinkang, where many wounded soldiers retreated from the front line, because Su Chen entered the city, the county seat that originally belonged to the Qi State, and the streets and alleys of all sizes had been blocked the night before, and the people were not allowed to leave the house.

The second floor of the attic of the street he passed was occupied by the men of Pei Min's embroidery division to guard against possible assassinations.

After all, sacrificing a few people to assassinate the opponent's emperor or commander at the expense of the other party's emperor or commander will always be earned, and in the process of going south, the embroidery division successfully prevented more than ten premeditated assassinations, and most of the assassins' identities were from the rivers and lakes of the Qi country, and there were also palace masters sent by the court.

The sound of wheels turning, the heavy footsteps of the Tiger Guard Battalion soldiers, mixed with the sound of the empty streets.

Through the door curtain, Su Chen and Jia Xu sat in the carriage, watching the deserted scene.

"After the destruction of the Qi country, it is also necessary to step up the unification of writing, roads, wheels, and languages...... Only by thoroughly accepting Huaxia can they be regarded as people of Huaxia."

Jia Xu put his hands in his sleeves, quietly listening to the emperor's words, with a gentle smile on his face, only Su Chen understood how many lives were contained behind this gentle smile.

After a while, across the street, there was a sound of fighting, and then it was silenced, Pei Min came over with a sword: "Your Majesty, several Qi State assassins who want to assassinate have been intercepted and killed by the people of the Embroidery Division. ”

"I know, continue to spread and investigate, even if the people in the rivers and lakes are hiding in the people's homes, they are still easy to identify."

Su Chen commanded through the curtain, listening to Pei Min's footsteps in the distance, Jia Xu on the side raised his eyelids with a serious but calm face: "This is the seventeenth assassination, and the assassinations are becoming more and more frequent." ”

"The more this happens, the more it shows that they are no longer capable of turning the tide of the war."

Jia Xu nodded with a smile: "Li Jing is handsome Lu Bu, Xiang Yu is the vanguard, Zhao Yun and Dong Zhuo are the main forces of the Chinese army. ”

“…… Well. Su Chen sat on the tiger skin chair, pressed the armrest, the corners of his mouth hooked a little arc, and then said: "It's useless, I'm not just Li Jing here, and Hou Junji is useless, there are too many commanders in the Tang Dynasty." ”

A group of prisoners who had just been captured from a corner of the city in front were pulled to the side of the street by the soldiers of the Youyan Army, and when they saw the Imperial Rim coming from a distance, one of them spat at the carriage.

On the side of the chariot that came over, Xu Chu approached the crowd expressionlessly, and dragged out the spitting Qi Guo Elementary School just now, the other party twisted his body to resist, and bumped into Xu Chu with all his strength, but he was rebounded by the force, and he was pushed to the ground, and he still scolded in his mouth: "Xia Guo dog thief, don't die well!" ”

The expressions of the captives around him were frightened, and some of their comrades shouted at him in Qi Guohua: "Shut up, you want to kill us!" ”

Yu Yuan came over here, paused for a while, Su Chen opened the corner of the curtain, looked at the Qi soldiers on the ground with cold eyes, raised his finger, raised his finger slightly, and conveyed his voice to Xu Chu indifferently.

"Kill him."

Xu Chu snorted, lifted up the Qi national soldier, and threw it to the two armor soldiers who stepped forward, "Disturb the royal driver, insult the Son of Heaven, and kill!" ”

When the scolding soldier was taken away, he was still spitting, and then the sound disappeared into the nearby alley, and when he came out again, his body was separated and he was taken to the outskirts for burial by the messenger of the forbidden street.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry with them." Jia Xu was afraid that the scene just now would make Su Chen unhappy, so he was relieved: "Throughout the ages, there have been such stubborn and stubborn people who have obstructed them. ”

"I'm not angry, on the contrary, I'm sorry for that soldier, and I'm sorry for this Qi country, first Zhao Chengguang is such a loyal old minister, and then such a general, but for such a court, this way south, casually look through the account books to know that this Qi country, it's time to get weak."

While Su Chen sighed, the imperial chariot drove across this long street, and the first stop was the wounded barracks near the south gate of the city, where he met the wounded soldiers and saw if the medicine was enough and the food could be eaten.

He also asked Wu Zixun to say hello in advance and keep quiet, so as not to hide from him, the emperor, in order to save face.

The imperial chariot stopped nearby, and the soldiers standing guard were quickly replaced by the armor soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion and the people of the embroidery department, Su Chen opened the curtain door and came out, and walked into the gate with Jia Xu.

The air was faintly smelling of blood and herbs, and the moans of the wounded soldiers came from the big tents everywhere, and the wounded of the two armies of Xiliang and Youyan gathered here, and some people were seriously injured and lying on the mat and groaning and wailing over the parts injured by the knife soldiers.

There are also soldiers who are less injured or who are almost healed and brag and fart with other comrades.

"I was a little wronged by this knife wound, where did I know that the guy didn't follow common sense, his companions ran away, and he dared to fight back, but he didn't pay attention to it, and was stabbed by the other party, at that time my intestines were half cut out, thinking that the second child in the family was still missing an acre of land, I gritted my teeth and stuffed the intestines back, chased after the guy and chopped it over, cutting off his left ear."

“…… Your luck is not bad, I am Youyan Army, I was unlucky a few days ago, I was about to rush to the city, and my butt was cut by the knife of the bastard below, and it hurt so much that I fell from the ladder and broke my leg. ”

"Haha, it must be that the recruit didn't hold the knife well, and when he climbed up, the knife cut your ass!"

Su Chen and Jia Xu listened outside for a while, with smiles on their faces, listening to the soldiers talking like this, they were really cordial, and their hearts were also comfortable.

"It seems that the living conditions of the wounded soldiers are good, as for the seriously injured, they must not be lazy after they go back, they are all my heroes, they should be promoted, don't pity the land for me, instead of giving the land to those families for nothing, it is better to let my soldiers take more to support their families."

The two walked around the wounded barracks again, and the generals and colonels of the camp rushed over to accompany them when they heard the news, and the wounded soldiers in the tent also heard the movement at this moment, and the lightly injured people rushed outside to salute Su Chen, who walked through the wounded barracks.

This movement made the armor soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion quite nervous, and wanted to drive them back, but they were reprimanded by Su Chen.

"You all go back to me! Anyone can kill me, but they won't! ”

This sentence made the surrounding soldiers stunned for a moment, and then they smirked one by one, and the dense figures held their respective weapons, or hung their arms, or limped out, bowed down and saluted the emperor who was guarded, and then swarmed over, and surrounded the armor soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion, like personal soldiers, escorting Su Chen all the way until they left the gate, and they dispersed.

On the way out of the wounded barracks, Su Chen leaned on the tiger skin chair, thinking about the feeling of being supported by a group of wounded soldiers just now, and his heart was warm and a little sad for some reason.

"Spread my will, let Li Jing on the front line speed up the attack, and take the capital of Qi as soon as possible."

Wu Zixun received the order outside the car, skillfully turned over the horse, galloped forward, summoned the commander, dictated the order of the Son of Heaven, and the latter only listened to it once and remembered it in his heart, turned around and beat the horse away.

By the time the Son of Heaven entered the central part of Pingsheng Prefecture and then conveyed it to Huiyin County as quickly as possible, the pace of war had already begun.

The two armies and horses, which had rested for a few days, quietly operated under Li Jing's orders.

Xiang Yu, Lu Bu's cavalry, and Li Wei's heavy cavalry were also made the final preparations.

In addition to the casualties of the Xirong cavalry that day's assault on Pingyang County, there were more than 30,000 cavalry, which were divided into three cavalry teams at this time, each led by a 10,000-cavalry commander, waiting for further orders from the supreme commander Li Jing.

(End of chapter)