"Your Majesty-" Luo Chuan's call came from behind her, and she said softly, "Your Majesty, I am willing to wait until Your Majesty is willing to touch me!" Lu Ji did not look back, but replied: "I thank you for saying such a thing, if you regret it after tonight, I will not blame you." After saying that, he continued to walk out of the dormitory.

In the early morning of the second day, Xu Yin hurriedly entered the imperial study with the battle report ahead, intending to present it first, but as soon as he entered the door, he saw Lu Ji holding his head with one hand, pressing the fold with the other, his eyes slightly closed, wearing a red-trimmed black dragon pattern brocade robe, and he was in low spirits. He hurriedly and gently handed over the battle report and called softly: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

Lu Ji was softly aroused by him, rubbed his confused eyes, stretched his waist slightly, and saw that it was Xu Yin, and hurriedly asked, "Hmm, what's wrong?"

Xu Yin hurriedly reported: "The battle report from the front, the Yan army and the Qi army fought fiercely along the river, and the Qi army was surrounded by the Yan army, and there was a risk that the whole army would be annihilated. ”

When Lu Ji heard this, he was very surprised, and sighed: "This Qi country is also a southern power, why did it fall into the encirclement after a short battle?"

Xu Yin replied: "Although the Qi country is strong in the south and rich on the one hand, its domestic culture is peaceful and martial, and the discipline of the Qi army is sloppy, while the Yan army in the north is mostly bloody iron cavalry day and night, brave and good at fighting. The defeat of the Qi army is also a matter of common sense, and Your Majesty does not need to be surprised. ”

Lu Ji nodded, and then asked solemnly: "Then the prime minister thinks that if I fight between the Qing army and the Yan army, what will be the outcome or defeat?"

Xu Yin saluted Lu Ji and said: "The minister does not dare to say anything, if my Qing army meets the Yan army, I am afraid that it will be more defeated and less victorious, the iron cavalry of the Yan army is famous all over the world, its war horses are mostly northern fierce horses, and its soldiers are mostly northern barbarians, the war horses of our Qing army are not fine, although the soldiers have expanded, but most of them are recruits, and it is difficult to have a chance of winning." ”

Lu Ji sighed and said, "What the prime minister said is to the point, if I want to rise in the Qing Kingdom, I must have a strong iron horse as support!"

Xu Yin stepped forward and said: "I heard that the land of Liangzhou is prolific and good, but it is controlled by Zhao Xiu, the prime minister of Ji, and his people sit in Liangzhou, but they don't want to support the clan, calm the war, and recover the world, but they only know how to indulge in pleasure, in order to be happy in the twilight years, it is a pity that this large number of excellent war horses!

"When the Ji clan fought in the south and the north, the world was pinched into a mess, which can be described as a hero!" Lu Ji remembered the past, and couldn't help but sigh, and then said, "I heard that the descendants of the later generations are not good, and there are many talents to govern the world, after the death of the Ji family, the Ji family world immediately collapsed, and the leaders of the various tribes have become independent, cut the land and become the hero, and the Ji family succumbed to the cool land, which led to the troubled times and my Qing Dynasty." To say that this Ji family world has come to the twilight of the day, no one can afford to recover it, but after all, the Ji family is still the nominal co-owner of the world, if we force them aggressively and occupy the land, we will inevitably attract criticism from the world!"

Xu Yin hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, as you said, the Ji family has reached the twilight of life, you must not abandon it for the sake of a false name!"

Lu Ji interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said, "This is the future, and the top priority now is this civil unrest!"

Xu Yin asked, "Does Your Majesty have eyebrows?"

Lu Ji frowned and said, "I do have some eyebrows, I recently caught a few Jin people lurking in the territory and learned that they were involved in this matter. I'm wondering if the Jin people have infiltrated our country?"

When Xu Yin heard this, he was also extremely surprised, and said in a lost voice: "Oh my God! If that's the case, then wouldn't my Daqing Dynasty be like a sword hanging over my head, and every move is under the control of the Jin people, and it will be chaotic for the Jin people at any time!"

Lu Ji walked the dragon chair, walked to Xu Yin's side, and said: "After the battle of Fanyang, the Jin people suffered heavy casualties and destroyed all the important weapons of the country, and they have always been obsessed with our Qing Dynasty, and we must do everything possible to destroy our national strength! I must not allow the Jin people to destroy the Qing Dynasty. ”

Xu Yin nodded solemnly and said, "Your Majesty rest assured, the minister will order the whole city to search and arrest, once the Jin people are found, they will be killed!"

"Slow-" Lu Ji immediately stopped him and said, "Capture the thief first, capture the king first, and all the soldiers and horses in the city will not move, so as not to startle the snake, I will wait for the thief leader to appear, and then kill them all!"

Xu Yin nodded, looked Lu Ji up and down again, and asked, "Your Majesty was napping in the imperial study today, did you not sleep well last night?"

Lu Ji smiled at him and said, "It's nothing, it's just that it's too late!"

Xu Yin was concerned about Lu Ji, and then bowed and retired.

After Lu Ji saw Xu Yin leaving, he immediately called Kang Chao and asked, "I ordered you to secretly spy on the Wang family's every move, is there any situation?"

Kang Chao shook his head and said, "Everything is normal in the Wang family, even that Ning Yu Gongzi has only been reciting poems for many days, and he has revealed something abnormal, but there is one thing that feels strange. ”

Lu Ji stepped forward and asked, "What do you think is strange?"

Kang Chao hurriedly replied: "That Ning Gongzi hasn't been to the restaurant for the past few days, and often stays in his study, and stays for half a day or all day. ”

Lu Ji shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "What's wrong with this, a scholar, you don't hear anything outside the window, and you only read the books of sages and sages, this is not abnormal, you continue to observe secretly, don't leak the news, understand?"

When Kang Chao walked out of the imperial study, Lu Ji quietly looked into the distance, and said categorically: "Ning Yu, I will definitely find evidence of your rebellion, and I will definitely make your death clear!" After speaking, he slammed the desk hard.

This is a few hundred miles along the Great River, and here, the Yan army and the Qi army have just started a fierce battle. The Qi army was besieged by the Yan army, running out of ammunition and food, and the soldiers were exhausted, or they were napping weakly by the military tent, or covering their wounds on the ground*, and sometimes they would cause a desperate fight because of some food, and the big tent of the Qi army was also in a mess, and the general of the Qi army, Wang Fen, was covered with blood, pressed his sword, and looked at the dejected generals on both sides without saying a word.

A general suddenly whispered: "General, since the imperial court can't save us, we might as well ask the Qing army for help, the Qing army is less than twenty miles away from us, as long as they are willing to send troops, we will be saved." ”

Wang Fen heard this, and said with a wry smile: "The Yan army has already formed an alliance with the Qing army, not to mention that we have run out of ammunition and food, what can we use in exchange for the Qing army to send troops to help?"

At this time, Wang Meng, the deputy general beside him, suggested: "General, isn't Wang Yu, the general of the Qing Kingdom, your childhood friend? ”

Wang Fen listened to it, felt that there was some truth, and was worried that he hadn't seen each other for many years, afraid that the relationship between the two had already been indifferent, so he just said: "Maybe you can try, but it won't work or not, and I don't dare to guarantee it!"

Wang Meng stepped forward and hugged his fists and said: "General, it is better to have hope than nothing, now the situation is urgent, please don't hesitate, just write, the last general will send someone to deliver the message in person." ”

Wang Fen nodded, and immediately wrote a letter asking for help, and asked Wang Meng to send a cronie general to escort him personally, break through the Yan army's defense line, and ask Wang Yu for help.

At this time, Wang Yu was stationed on the riverside from Qingzhou to prevent the Yan army from sneaking attack. At this time, he was reading the book of war in the camp, took off his armor, wore a white tight-fitting suit, wrapped a black turban around his head, and stared at the book with deep eyes, meticulous. Just as he was concentrating, the armor came in with a letter in his hand and reported: "General, your old man Wang Fen has written you a letter. ”

As soon as Wang Yu heard the word "Wang Fen", he hurriedly put down the military book in his hand, hurriedly took the letter handed by the soldier, and opened it to see that it was indeed Wang Fen's handwritten letter:

The eldest brother is like meeting, the foolish brother worships! Since childhood, I haven't seen him for many years, the foolish brother misses his brother all the time, thinks about it, and hopes that one day, he can see his brother again! However, the foolish brother's fate is troubled, ups and downs for several years, now hundreds of thousands of Yan troops are rushing towards me, the foolish brother knows that the limit is coming, it is difficult to see the brother again, so let people write a letter to show his affection, although the foolish brother is under the nine springs, I also wish the brother a long life, everything is fine!

After reading it, Wang Yu was already in tears, put down the letter heavily, sighed, and said to the soldier: "Wang Fen is my old friend, and now he is in trouble with life and death, I must not stand idly by, you immediately gather all the generals, I will lead the army to rescue." ”

Although the armor was a little unwilling, he could only go down and do it with a "whoosh".

Not long after the soldiers went down, the generals entered the big tent one after another, and Li Zhong took the lead in asking: "General, you summoned me to wait for the account to deliberate, did something happen?"

Wang Yu said: "The Qi army is surrounded, ask our army for help, thinking of the feelings of the neighbors, I plan to send troops to relieve the siege." ”

When Li Zhong and the others heard this, they looked at each other in disbelief. Zhang Shun stood up and asked, "General, Qingyan has already formed an alliance, how can our army be untrustworthy and capricious?

Wang Yu looked at him, sneered, pointed at Zhang Shun, and said, "Whether it is Your Majesty's will or not is not important, in this camp, General Ben still has the right to be arbitrary." ”

Zhang Shun hugged his fists and said: "General, since Your Majesty has not issued a will, and this move is contrary to the foundation of my Qing Dynasty's faithfulness, it will be difficult to obey my orders!"

Wang Yu slapped the desk and scolded: "The military order is like a mountain, don't you understand? As a general, if you don't listen to the words of the commander, it is a serious crime. Zhang Shun was a little unconvinced, glared at Wang Yu fiercely, and shouted loudly: "General, you are so arrogant and arbitrary, and you take the official weapon of the state as your personal affection, you will harm my Qing Dynasty, and Your Majesty will not spare you!"

Seeing the situation, Li Zhong hurriedly stepped forward to intercede and said: "General, although General Zhang is reckless, there is some truth in what he said, and the last general also asks the general if he can explain the reason for sending troops!"

When Wang Yu saw it, he couldn't get angry, waved his hand, asked Zhang Shun to take him down, and said to Li Zhong: "Ben will explain the reason when the time comes, but at this time, it is not convenient for me to explain anything, but you can rest assured, I, Wang Yu, am by no means a fake public and private person, you can rest assured in this section!" Everyone could only remain silent when they saw the general say this. Wang Yu immediately ordered all the generals to lead their troops and horses, go their own way, and relieve the siege of the Qi army.

And this matter was quickly written down by the generals in the army and forwarded to Lu Ji. Lu Ji was studying the war of Yan Qi with Xu Yin, Wang Ze, Tong Duolun and other important ministers at this time, Xu Yin looked at the map of the continuous defeat of the Qi army, and said: "Looking at the current situation of the Qi army, it is defeated and retreated, first defeated in Jiangbei, and now it is besieged Jiangcheng, and the Yan army is like a bamboo, all the way through the pass, Qi is afraid that there will be a catastrophe!"

Wang Ze shook his head and said: "The prime minister's words are wrong, the prime minister just saw the war on the map, but ignored the geographical advantages, the territory of Qi is vast, the people are prosperous, although the combat power is not as good as the Yan country, but once the people are united, the Yan people may not be able to destroy Qi, I expect that the Qi country will not perish, but will only end up defeated but not dead." ”

Tong Duolun listened quietly to the discussion between the two, but sat upright without saying a word. Lu Ji looked at him and asked with a smile: "Why didn't the teacher speak, could it be that there was something wrong?"

Tong Duolun made a gesture and said with a smile: "What the two adults said has their own merits, and the old minister listened to it and felt that they were all justified. The old minister was stupid and didn't dare to speculate, so he could only listen to it. ”

Lu Ji looked at the three of them, and he knew a little bit about the twists and turns in his heart, Wang Ze and Xu Yin were-for-tat, but Tong Duolun was wise and self-protecting, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, and secretly sighed that the party struggle was complicated. Just thinking about these things, the armor soldier held the secret submission in the army and handed it to him. Lu Ji unfolded the secret presentation and looked at it, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, his expression was grim, he threw the song fold on the ground, and said loudly: "Wang Yu misled the country and trapped my Qing country in a state of no return!"

Xu Yin looked puzzled, hurriedly lowered his body slightly, and carefully picked up the secret submission on the ground, and the other two came over to read the secret submission. After reading it, the three of them were shocked.

Xu Yin took the fold, walked to Lu Ji's side, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, Wang Yu's move will inevitably cause the Yan Kingdom to fight against each other and bring disaster to the Qing Dynasty. The ministers ask Your Majesty to immediately remove all military power from Wang Yu and strictly order the Qing army to return to the camp!"

Lu Ji looked helpless, gritted his teeth and said to Xu Yin: "What's the use of withdrawing him now? From here to Qingzhou, it will take a day to move quickly, maybe now the two armies have already fought, and now I have no choice, if Yan Qing really starts a war, then I have to wait for the war to end and then take off Wang Yu's head!"

Tong Duolun, who was still watching the twists and turns, suddenly looked happy and said, "Your Majesty, the general's move is not a mistake for the country!"

"It's all at this time, are you still speaking for him?" Lu Ji almost choked, and then said, "Now that we have no faith in the first place, the Yan army will inevitably turn against us, how is this not a misguided move to the country?"

Tong Duolun handed the secret submission to Lu Ji again, and said: "Although the minister does not know the soldiers, he has also stayed in the army for a while, if the general really intends to assist the Qi country, the sooner the better, it should be to go straight into the encirclement of the Yan army and break through its weak points, while the general is the opposite, attacking the most heavily defended place of the Yan army." This section of the taboo of soldiers, ordinary soldiers still know, the general has always known the soldiers, and he will never know it, I expect that the general's intention is not to relieve the siege, but to be elsewhere. ”

Lu Ji took the secret submission and looked at it again, and suddenly understood a little, he was still in the secret submission, observed the map for a while, turned around, and said to the ministers: "I understand! Wang Yu's intention is to draw out a large number of Yan troops in Linjiang, so as to take advantage of the situation to take Linjiang." ”

Xu Yin saluted Lu Ji and said, "Your Majesty Shengming, you can see the clues at a glance, but if our army takes advantage of the situation to seize Linjiang, won't it anger the Yan army even more?"

Lu Ji waved his hand and said with a smile: "No, no, once we take Linjiang, we will directly guard the grain route of the Yan army and master the lifeblood of the Yan army.

"What if Yan Jun comes to ask?" Xu Yin continued.

Lu Ji said: "If Yan Jun comes to question, I will tell them that all this is Wang Yu's will, disobeying my will, I have repeatedly ordered him, but he has turned a deaf ear and turned a deaf ear! Wang Yu has already made up an excuse for me, and I will naturally use it." He was relieved in his heart, Wang Yu has always been cold and unkind, he only has the word profit in his eyes, and it is impossible to do useless things for a childhood playmate. Now seeing that he pretended to break the siege, intending to be in Linjiang, it can be regarded as his personality.