In the Prince's Mansion of Peking, Zhu Gaochi looked angry and had just been helped down from the sedan chair by several people. He stared at the prince's concubine Zhang who came up to him: "You are so brave!"

"Why do you have to be so arrogant? Let me say something slowly." After being scolded, Zhang was not afraid, and his tone was neither soft nor hard, which made Zhu Gaochi difficult for a moment.

She said to the servants around her again: "You go down."

"Yes." Everyone bent their knees one after another.

Zhang came forward to support Zhu Gaochi's arm. Zhu Gaochi shook his arm angrily, but did not take it off, and said, "What are you doing in charge of the government affairs? It is natural for Tan Yuan's son to kill someone to pay for his life! You plead for him privately, and betray the law so favoritism. If the father knows, can we spare us?"

Zhu Gaochi paused slightly and continued to curse: "Tan Yuan was a bloodthirsty person during his lifetime. In Cangzhou, his father asked him to take care of thousands of prisoners. The father had already said in person that he wanted to dismiss the prisoners' soldiers home, but he killed them all overnight! I see that his son has a virtue and takes human life at any time, and keeping it is also a disaster!"

"The prince is right, please calm down first." Zhang rubbed his hands on his back without defending, making the prince's anger as if it was on cotton.

Zhu Gaochi was still unsatisfied and said in a low voice: "You know that although I am in Peking, I am cautious, afraid of something going wrong! You are so good that you didn't even say hello and found someone to pick up Tan Yuan's son..."

"Isn't it because I'm afraid that the prince is difficult to do, so I didn't tell you?" Zhang said quietly, "The prince cannot come forward in this matter, but I'm fine... I am a woman, and I have no knowledge at all, but I can't erase the face between the woman, so I agreed to Tan Yuan's widow and save her son. The father would never be as knowledgeable as the mother's family? If the father really wants to scold me, I will go to the mother's wife to cry for grievances!"

When Zhu Gaochi heard this, he stared at him and was stunned.

Seeing that Zhu Gaochi was silent, Zhang said in a low voice: "Although Tan Yuan was dead, he died for his father on the battlefield. The Tan family left a lot of friendship in front of his father and the generals. Tan Yuan's widow and Zhu Neng's wife are also in close contact with him...

More importantly, his brother Tan Qing is still alive and is in the army of his father. Not long ago, the prince saw that in the newspaper... Tan Qing attacked the official army's supplies in the Battle of Feihe and made great contributions."

Zhu Gaochi continued to remain silent, but no longer blamed Zhang.

After a while, he sighed: "The young man who was just killed by Tan Yuan's unfilial son is really wronged. The old wife and wife of the miserable are young, and they are watching their enemies continue to be arrogant and domineering. How can they not resent?"

Zhang smiled coldly and said, "There are always grievances in this world. If you don't call it a grievance of the miserable master who is nothing, can you not get along with the Tan family?"

Zhu Gaochi walked into the hall silently without saying a word.

...

In the Northern Army camp on the Sui River front, Tan Qing was standing under the Yan King with the generals in the tent of the central army.

Tan Qing is a big man with a stinky face, and looks very similar to his dead brother Tan Yuan.

Today, the tent was in a state of depression, and many people lowered their heads and said nothing. Some generals already made suggestions: The morale of the generals in the army was depressed, please cross the Yellow River north and retreat to preserve their strength.

Since October, the Northern Army has fought in Feihe, Suishui River, and Qimeishan in succession, and has never gained a chance. The recent battle in Qimeishan can be said to be defeated, but fortunately the main force ran fast. During this period, several generals including Chen Wen, Wang Zhen, Li Bin of the Northern Army died, and tens of thousands of casualties were killed and tens of thousands of soldiers!

This situation made the generals very depressed.

At this time, the Yellow River did not go to the sea from Shandong, but went south from Xuzhou, merged into the Huai River, and then entered the sea. Therefore, many people's proposal was to cross the Yellow River north first!

The King of Yan finally spoke: "Those who advocate crossing the river (Yellow River) stand to the left, and those who do not cross the river stand to the right!"

The son of King Yan, Zhu Gaoxu, stood to the right without saying a word... Seeing this, Tan Qing understood that the King Yan did not want to retreat to cross the river.

Because King Gaoyang has always followed the leader of the King of Yan, he must have figured out the meaning of King Yan for a long time, so he was so decisive and without hesitation. No wonder Tan Qing often heard generals say that the person who was the most loyal to King Yan was the second son of King Yan.

At this moment, Zhu Neng also stood to the right and stood with Gao Yang King.

Tan Qing was a little hesitant. He wanted to cross the river in his heart... This time it seemed that he was not good at getting a military command. After so many generals died, he could not help but feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

Sure enough, many people stood to the left, only those who were guarded by King Yan, such as Qiu Fu and Zhang Fu, stood towards King Gaoyang. Everyone seemed to be the same as Tan Qing's opinion. The place where King Gaoyang stood was the meaning of King Yan.

In difficult times, only the direct lineage of the Yan Prince's Mansion guards was the most determined, after all, those people had no way out.

At this moment, Dazui Zhuneng faced the main general on the left and shouted: "In the past, Emperor Gaozu of Han was defeated nine out of ten battles, and finally won the world with one battle! Now we have great victories all the way, and there are only a small setback in Qimeishan. Should we retreat immediately and return?"

After hearing this, Tan Qing thought that the Tan family and the Zhu family were in good relationships and had close contacts. At critical moments, Zhu Neng could not look down on him! He took a difficult step and walked to Zhu Neng's side.

At this time, Qiu Fu also agreed with Zhu Neng.

The King of Yan suddenly kicked over the chopping board and said furiously: "Since you have followed me to raise an army to recuperate, you will be virtuous if you fail! If you cannot defeat the official army, you will be harmed by treacherous officials in the court sooner or later! At this time, the timid will be too late and die faster."

After hearing this, many generals buried their heads and walked silently to the right.

Seeing this, the King of Yan stopped his anger and said, "You will return to the camp and strictly control the soldiers and kill the runaways! I will then rectify the troops and find an opportunity to destroy Xu Huizu!"

"As for order!" Everyone answered with their fists.

...And on the south bank of Sui River, Xu Huizu was chatting and laughing with Ping'an and He Fu in the big tent.

He Fu looked grateful: "Fortunately, Duke Wei arrived in time, otherwise our official army would suffer a great loss if the battle between Qimeishan!"

Ping'an said, "General He made sense, but we can't blame him. We are fewer people than Yan Ni, and we don't have many cavalry, and we are passive everywhere. To be honest, I came all the way from Shandong, and the battle became more and more aggrieved!"

"Hey...Brother Ping!" He Fu winked.

Xu Huizu smiled and said disrespectfully: "General Ping is right! I heard Sheng Yong talk about you, saying that you are good at using cavalry, but General Ping still has rules and regulations for using infantry, so he can't find any big mistakes, which is considered good."

He Fu compliments Xu Huizu many times.

Xu Huizu said again: "The battle between Qimeishan is not worth mentioning, there is nothing to brag about. What about Li Bin and Wang Zhen, are all unknown people. I haven't met my nephew Gao Xu yet...

I want to discuss with you, and in two days I will lead the army across the river and find the Yan army to fight again! At that time, the King of Yan would definitely send Gao Xu to come, and I happened to try his own way."

He Fu suddenly whispered: "There are some detailed works by the court in the army. Duke of Wei should not always raise the King of Yang. I am too talkative, please don't mind it."

"Ha!" Xu Huizu laughed and shook his head, "It's okay, it's okay."

Xu Huizu said again: "There are countless capable people in our generation, but in our generation, few of them are the ones I like. Today, only the King of Yan and his son, I want to compete!"

At this moment, someone suddenly shouted outside the tent: "The imperial edict has arrived!"

After hearing this, the three of them looked at each other and stood up one after another to welcome the account. He Fu hurriedly said, "Let someone let the inner minister go into the gate." After that, he walked out again.

They soon met the people from the palace, the current one was the eunuch Wu Zhong and Xu Huizu.

Wu Zhong dismounted, stopped the vest soldiers accompanying him, and clasped his fists and said, "Generals, let's go inside?"

"Please! Eunuch Wu, please!" He Fu said.

The group returned to the tent, and Eunuch Wu did not read the imperial edict, and directly handed it to Xu Huizu with both hands. Xu Huizu bowed and took it and immediately opened it to look.

He Fu and Ping'an also received a letter, so they scraped the paint seal and circulated it one after another.

After seeing it, Ping An said, "What does it mean? We have to wait for reinforcements from various provinces to arrive... Didn't the Duke of Wei just lead reinforcements?"

Wu Zhong was about to speak, but when he turned around, he saw that Xu Huizu's face turned red, so he stopped talking.

Ping An frowned and asked again: "Duke of Wei, what is the will of the emperor?"

Xu Huizu sighed deeply and said, "I will lead my army back to the court immediately."

For a moment, no one spoke in the tent, and he was silent for a long time, and the atmosphere was very strange. Ping An walked back and forth around the ground, looking at Wu Zhong and said, "It must be someone who slanders! Eunuch Wu, who came up with this idea in front of the emperor?"

Wu Zhong said: "We don't know! General Ping, don't be anxious first. The emperor is unable to sleep and eat day and night, and he always cares about the soldiers in front of him. The emperor has issued an order to urge the soldiers and horses of various provinces to cross the river to reinforce you as soon as the troops arrive at the capital."

Ping'an said annoyedly: "When will we wait? I said half a year ago that a large army came to help. Now, except for General He, there is only Duke of Wei, who is going back soon?"

Wu Zhong said: "General Ping waits for a few more months, and there will be soldiers who will continue to cross the river..."

He Fu grabbed Ping'an and clasped his fists to Wu Zhong and said, "General Ping also wanted to share his worries for the emperor and contribute to the court. He was a little anxious. Wu Gonghai was a little bit too much. When he returned to the court, he was mute and said nothing!"

Wu Zhong nodded and said, "What our family understands. Oh, it's just that our family feels uncomfortable when they see the emperor getting thinner and thinner!"

On the contrary, Xu Huizu didn't say a word, his face flushed, which was very terrifying. Wu Zhong was paying attention to him from time to time, and finally reminded softly: "Duke of Wei must obey the imperial edict?"

Xu Huizu finally spoke, "I am loyal to the court, how can I not obey the imperial edict? But please ask Eunuch Wu to ask me if I can fight another battle? After the battle, I will immediately lead my army back to the court."

Wu Zhong frowned and said, "Why don't Mr. Xu understand? You are holding the last bit of financial resources in the Jingying camp. The emperor is worried that there will be any mistakes!"

Xu Huizu endured it for so long and didn't say anything, but was thinking of a solution. At this moment, he was furious: "The official who told the idea will destroy Yan Ni, and sooner or later the entire court will make mistakes!"
Chapter completed!