Chapter 786: The Situation Is Grim
After the proclamation official read out the holy decree, the people present were extremely surprised, the holy decree said that Xiao Lin and the heroes should return to Beijing as soon as possible, there are important matters to discuss, and the emperor specially selected Li Zhun and Li Yan to enter Beijing, because of his outstanding performance this time, the emperor will be entrusted with important tasks. As a deputy general, being able to get the emperor's personal recruitment is not available in the entire Great Jin Dynasty, but it is a supreme glory. In this way, Xiaolin and they stayed in Wang Daolin's military camp for three days, and then everyone said goodbye to each other and really prepared to return to Beijing. At the time of separation, the handsome Wang Daolin's voice was choked, and the military advisor Zhuge Yuanying was also sad and wept. This moved everyone present. In this way, everyone said goodbye in tears.
After many days of trekking, Xiaolin and his family finally came to the capital on this day. Seeing the gate of the capital, and then thinking about the scene when he went, Xiao Lin couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, this time it can be said that he died nine times, two of the three brothers of the Fang family stayed there forever, and Master Linhui was seriously injured, and now he has not recovered. And so many soldiers died. Xiao Lin looked back and saw Dong Wuxue, and his heart couldn't help but be sad, they were originally three brothers, the uncle and the second master both sacrificed their lives for themselves, only the third master Dong Wuxue was alone, and now he is working hard for himself. Suddenly, the city gate was opened, and Prime Minister Xie An led civil and military officials to greet Xiaolin on behalf of the emperor. Xiao Lin and the heroes hurriedly knelt on the ground, and Xiao Lin said: "What virtue do we have, how dare we bother the prime minister to greet him." Xie An hurriedly stepped forward and hugged him with his hand: "All heroes, please hurry up." The emperor is waiting for you in the Golden Palace, come with me quickly. After speaking, everyone followed Xie An to the Eight Treasures Golden Palace to see the emperor.
Sima Zao is very worried these days, and bad news has come from the front line one after another. First of all, two of the three marshals were fiercely attacked by the Great Qin State, and one of them was forced to retreat to Jiangnan. Only Wang Daolin was still stationed in place, but he was facing the pressure of 250,000 from the other side, and it was a matter of time before he retreated, but this time Xiao Lin burned his military rations, preventing them from advancing forward, and once they had all the food and grass ready, they would quickly move south. However, this time Xiaolin and they found a military wizard Li Zhun in the process of burning grain and grass, Xie An boldly suggested to him that Li Zhun be promoted to marshal beyond the specifications, and let him lead the newly recruited 80,000 people to face Fu Jian head-on, and the other three roads were contained around. To be honest, he was still hesitating, putting his entire family's life on a little-known young man, and he was really a little uneasy. He planned to see this Li Zhun in person. When he received a report that Xiaolin and the others had arrived at the city gate, he asked the prime minister to lead hundreds of civil and military officials to meet them.
Xie An led everyone to the Golden Palace, picked up his clothes and knelt down and kowtowed: "I'll wait to see my emperor, long live." Sima Zao hurriedly clasped his hands and said in his mouth: "Everyone Aiqing, don't be polite." Bestow the seat. "When everyone is seated, Emperor Sima Zao sits back on the dragon chair. Then he said: "All Aiqing went out this time and won a complete victory, which greatly boosted morale and extinguished the prestige of the enemy, I am deeply relieved, thank you for your hard work." The crowd was polite again. Later, the emperor inquired in detail about what happened, felt sorry for the two brothers of the Fang family who had died, and sent the imperial doctor to visit Master Linhui. Then he asked, "Who is Li Zhun?"
Li Zhun, who was in the back, quickly knelt down and said, "Weichen is." Sima Zao looked at it. I saw that Li Zhun was five feet tall, with a thin waist and a thin back, red lips and white teeth, and a dignified appearance. I was very happy in my heart. So he said: "You led 5,000 men and horses to meet the Zhongqing family this time, and it can be said to be a miracle that you interspersed between hundreds of thousands of enemies' men and horses." I hope you will continue to share your worries for the country and me. Just this sentence brought tears down Li Zhun's words. He hurriedly kowtowed upwards and said, "The last general is willing to do whatever it takes for His Majesty." Sima Zao nodded and said, "Hurry up and get even." After he finished speaking, Li Zhun stood up and returned to his seat. Sima Zao rewarded the meritorious personnel again, and finally gave a banquet to entertain all the heroes in the celebration building.
The next day, there was unfavorable news that Marshal Xie Xuan had suffered heavy losses a few days ago. It turned out that in the past few months, Xie Xuansuo led the army all the way through the passes, recovered dozens of state capitals, and wiped out nearly 50,000 Great Qin troops. Who would have thought that a few days ago, he suffered a big loss and lost thousands of people, which angered Xie Xuan and his soldiers, and everyone wanted to take revenge. On this day, someone came to report that there was a Qin army on our left, moving towards us. Xie Xuan hurriedly asked, "How many people are there?" The person who came said, "There are five or six thousand people." "When everyone heard this, they asked to play. Xie Xuan also felt that it was a good opportunity, so he said, "Everyone come with me." So he led his generals out of the camp quietly, and came to a wooded place, and behold, in the cover of the jungle, about six or seven thousand men and horses, each with torches, marching with difficulty on the winding mountain road.
Everyone was overjoyed when they saw it. They watched for a while longer, and hurried back to the camp. Then Xie Xuan personally led 20,000 horses, quietly opened the gate, and quickly moved towards this Great Qin people, they wrapped the horses' hooves in cloth, afraid of making a sound to scare away these Great Qin soldiers, and when there were still four or five hundred meters away from these people, Xie Xuan gave an order, and everyone killed them like a tide. Seeing this, the Great Qin people were not flustered, they picked up their blades one after another, just like Xie Xuan and they killed. When these people approached, Xiao Lin found that only one of the three of these Great Qin people was holding a torch, and everyone was prepared. This surprised him, and he felt bad, so he hurriedly ordered: "The rear team becomes the front team, withdraw." "It was not easy to withdraw, and I saw a cannon fire on the hill on the left, and ambushes were everywhere. Then there was a cannon shot on the hill on the right, and ambushes erupted. The marching soldiers then lunged at them.
Suddenly Xie Xuan fell into the encirclement on three sides, he led the generals to rush out desperately to kill, but at this time, everywhere was the people of Daqin, thanks to the 20,000 horses left behind to rush in desperately, this tore a small opening, Xie Xuan and they escaped, and when they returned to the barracks, the number of people had been counted, and nearly 20,000 horses were lost in this battle. With so many people lost, Xie Xuan didn't dare to hide it, so he hurriedly wrote a chapter to report the matter to Sima Zao. Sima Zao was taken aback when he saw it, if Xie Xuan was defeated, my Jiangshan Sheji would be in danger. So he hurriedly called Xie An over to discuss countermeasures.
Xie An was also surprised when he heard it. He quickly knelt down and said, "The minister is guilty" Sima Zao waved his hand and said: "What is the prime minister's crime? Victory or defeat is common sense in soldiers." Then Sima Zao made a bold decision. Xie An was clever when he heard this, did I stop the emperor from doing this?