Chapter 381

When the people came to the gate, they didn't see any soldiers on duty at the head of the city. The gate was also open. Only three or five people were left to guard the gate. Only after Jiang Ziya asked, did they learn from those people that the soldiers on duty at the gate went out of the city to fight Zhang Guifang without authorization!

Hearing the speech, Lu Zhi couldn't help but look angry: "who is the general guarding the city gate today?! why dare to lead troops out of the city without my command!"

The generals couldn't help looking at Shenbo. He usually arranged the matter of guarding the city gate.

Lu Zhi also turned to look at himself with the people. Shenbo's face changed slightly and said in a voice, "report to the marshal, the man on duty at this gate today... Is his highness Qian."

"Uncle Qian?!" When Ji Fa heard the speech, he couldn't help asking.

His highness Qian in Shenbo's mouth is Ji Shuqian, the twelfth son of Ji Chang and the brother of Ji Fa. Because he is good at martial arts, he has also practiced good martial arts. Now he is Xiqi anti Shang, and Ji Shuqian naturally joined the army as a general.

Ji Fa frowned and turned to look at Lu Zhi's expression. Lu Zhi's face was as heavy as water. It was obvious that he was very dissatisfied with Ji Shuqian's unauthorized behavior. He expected Ji Shuqian to return later. I'm afraid a meal of military staff would be inevitable.

After thinking about it, he didn't say a word. He just thought that when Ji Shuqian returned and Lu Zhi punished him, if he used a heavy punishment, he would plead for him. After all, he is his own brother. Can't Lu Zhi really cut off his own brother?

However, when Ji Shuqian came back, he had no need to plead for him.

A roar of horse hoofs came from outside the city gate, and then a defeated soldier who had lost his armor rushed into the city and shouted to close the city gate quickly to avoid the invasion of the enemy.

Lu Zhi looked around and saw that there were only a dozen people left in the routed army. There was a headless body on the horse of the local general.

"What's going on! What the hell happened?!" Lu Zhi shouted and asked.

"Ah! Marshal!"

The defeated soldiers suddenly changed their faces when they saw Lu Zhi. Then the leading general turned over and jumped down from his horse and knelt down in the tunnel: "marshal, Prime Minister and his highness King Wu, you are finally here!"

"Your Highness Qian, he... He died for his country!"

Lu Zhi looked a little cold and shouted, "look up to me! What's going on? Tell me exactly why you look like defeat, and why only you wait for a few people to return to the city!"

The general didn't dare to raise his head, but bowed to the ground and said with a cry: "previously, the pioneer of Zhang Guifang's department called Fenglin and invited him to fight under the city. His highness Qian was angry, so he led us out of the city to fight and wanted to kill the Liao."

"Who knows, the wind forest has a magic skill, which can spit black smoke from its mouth. There is a red bead hidden in the black smoke. At once, his highness Qian was beaten down and caught up with a stick. Our army was defeated in an instant..."

"The wind forest finally cut off his highness Qian's head and wanted to bring it back to ask for merit. At the end, he fought to death and only took back his Highness's body... Please forgive me!"

Lu Zhi couldn't help but turn his head and look at the headless body on the horse's back. The look on his face was instantly gloomy.

Jiang Ziya and others also turned pale one after another, and Ji Fa had screamed and cried out. While wailing, he rushed at Ji Shuqian's body.

"Uncle Qian, my brother! Why did you go for brother first?! how did you tell brother Wei to explain to his mother?! my brother..."

Hearing the bad news, everyone looked ugly. Lu Zhi also suppressed his anger and asked, "are you the only dozen people who escaped back? What about the others?"

The general looked momentarily stagnant, but he didn't answer. Until Lu Zhi asked again, he said, "we robbed his highness Qian's body and just wanted to bring his highness back to Xiqi as soon as possible and send back the news. We were in a hurry, but we didn't pay attention to others..."

Lu Zhi looked fierce and couldn't suppress his anger.

"How brave! As your highness Qian's deputy general, you failed to protect the Lord. Later, you fled and abandoned your robe... Come on! Drag this man down to our commander and behead him! All the others will be put in prison and wait to be released!"

"Marshal, spare your life! The last general just wants to bring back the news and your Highness's body as soon as possible..."

Lu Zhi didn't want to pay attention to this person at all, so he directly asked someone to drag him down, and then ordered him to say.

"Nezha, Huang Feihu, listen to the order! My commander orders you two to lead 1000 people each to go out of the city to meet our trapped soldiers in Xiqi. My commander will personally lead the army to fight for you in the rear."

"I will obey!"

"Yes, marshal!"

After Nezha and Huang Feihu picked up the trapped soldiers outside the city and returned to the city, an accident and riot calmed down.

But Ji Fa's side started to make trouble again.

He just sent Ji Shuqian's body back to the palace. His heartbroken old mother cried and scolded him. Finally, she asked him to go to the Zhang Guifang camp to take Ji Shuqian's head back. Otherwise, if Ji Shuqian can't be buried completely, she will go with her son!

In desperation, Ji Fa had to respond perfunctorily, then immediately returned and told Lu Zhi about it.

Lu Zhi glanced at Ji Fa and knew what he thought. He just wanted Lu Zhi to be the villain and refuse the old lady.

However, considering that Ji is a son of man, it is really bad, and she can't refuse her mother's request. Lu Zhi can only come.

"Your Highness King Wu, sending troops at the moment is a foolish move to defeat generals at the expense of soldiers. I can't order it."

"And with all due respect, Ji Shuqian violated the military regulations when he attacked without respecting the commander's order. Later, his defeat and death reduced the morale of our three armed forces. If I didn't blame him, it was for the sake of his martyrs."

Ji Fa didn't say anything more when he heard the speech. He just sighed and turned away.

After all, he also knows that sending troops at the moment is undoubtedly a very stupid thing. If he hadn't been forced by his old mother, he wouldn't have come to look for Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi now refuses. He has an explanation from his old mother, so he won't be embarrassed any more.

It's night. Lu Zhi and others are making plans in the account.

Because Huang Feihu used to be an official in Chaoge and was in charge of the army and horses in the world, Jiang Ziya asked him if he knew something about this person's skills.

Huang Feihu replied, "Zhang Guifang is also famous in the dynasty songs, and in the early years, he also worked as a duty under the end general, and the end general also knows some of his deeds and skills."

"Zhang Guifang doesn't have to say that he is capable of unifying the army. Otherwise, the grand master chaogewen won't appoint him as the commander-in-chief to attack Xiqi."

"Another thing to note is that Zhang Guifang is not only proficient in martial arts, but also has a strange skill. The skill called 'call the name and fall off the horse' is called by him. On the contrary, all those who are called by him immediately lose their mind and fall off the horse and get caught. Therefore, we must guard against this skill."

Jiang Ziya was shocked when he heard the speech and said, "is there such a strange skill in the world? In that case, how should we deal with his name calling and horse falling skill?"

Then he couldn't help looking at Lu Zhi: "what does the marshal think of this? May he recognize what kind of secret skill this is?"

Lu Zhi said dismissively, "I don't know, but judging from its appearance, it's just a kind of heretical art that captivates the heart and distracts people's souls. It's not the right method of the Xuanmen. As long as the three souls are stable enough or there are treasures to protect the spirits, the art of calling names and falling horses will be useless."

When Lu Zhi said this, Jiang Ziya immediately felt that Zhang Guifang's secret skill seemed not so invincible.

Jiang Ziya said with a smile, "if you say so, Zhang Guifang's secret skill can only show its power to ordinary people, but it's useless to us."

Lu Zhi glanced at him. After thinking about it, he decided to save face for the younger martial brother.

I just hope that Zhang Guifang can also give Jiang Ziya face and don't deal with him with the technique of calling names and falling off the horse. Otherwise, Jiang Ziya's cultivation that can't be touched by the fairies in both places will be thrown off the horse by Zhang Guifang at that time, but it will be a real shame.

Lu Zhi said, "it's better to be careful, but Nezha is the incarnation of lotus. His soul has been matched with the lotus body. He is the enemy of Zhang Guifang. If Zhang Guifang comes, Nezha will go to war and catch him."