C352 sow discord

Yue Pengju and Hua Rong knelt on the mound, tears flowing like the rain. Yue Pengju said with a heavy heart: "War is very difficult, the reason why the soldiers' remains could not be returned to their homes for burial was also because Yue Pengju was incompetent!"

Hua Rong was also very saddened, seeing that his husband had been working hard these past few days, his normally handsome and handsome husband had become more and more haggard, he forcefully suppressed his own grief and quietly helped him up.

When everyone reached Yingshui, it was ten days. After resting for two days, they decided to set off on the fourteenth day. The route they would take was the Zhu Xian Town. Their goal was to completely expel the Golden Army that had retreated to the open seal. This time, the open seal was the last target of the expedition to the north. As long as the Golden Man was chased away from here, the two rivers could truly be reclaimed and the shame of the Zhao clan's tomb could be reaped. The entire army felt their blood boil as they eagerly awaited the arrival of this moment.

The continuous battles exhausted everyone's physical and mental energy to the maximum. Other than normal work, Yue Pengju and his wife only needed to rest for two consecutive days. On the third day, Yue Pengju woke up to train in the morning and saw that her wife had already prepared some porridge. This was the first time since the war that she had cooked some food herself.

He looked at his wife's haggard face and said gently, "Sister Shi Qi, these past few days have been really hard on you. You don't have to work so hard anymore."

Hua Rong smiled sweetly, and gently pulled his hand to the side of the table to sit down: "Pengju, I'm happy to do these things. You need to eat more before you have the energy. "

Yue Pengju sat down and consecutively drank three big bowls of porridge. He had to admit that the food his wife cooked was indeed much more appetizing than the food he would eat in the army.

Just as he was about to speak a few sweet words to his wife, he heard the ruckus outside, and the personal guards were unable to stop him. Two women ran in and knelt down while bawling: "Yue Xiang Gong, you have to avenge Servant."

So it turned out that the two were Wang Gui's wife and her cousin. Wang Gui's wife and Han Qing's wife were cousins. The two of them had come to Ying Shui with a small portion of their troops. Wang's disease's hair was in disarray, and his face was green and purple. Naturally, this was for Wang Gui's new concubinage, and due to receiving Wang Gui's pampered care, he became more and more unreasonable. When she cried and complained to her cousin, he naturally helped her cousin, and the two of them came together to complain to Yue Pengju.

Although Yue Pengju was the commander, how could he deal with the army general's Housework? He was simply at a loss for what to do. He looked at his wife, only to see that Hua Rong had already walked over to help the Wang's disease up, smiling.

Hua Rong naturally thought back to last year's night, the day before Yue Pengju "took in a concubine", when the Wang's disease cried, and inwardly sighed about his pain as a woman. A husband taking in a concubine was not something she could interfere with and not use Jealousy s. How could a husband and wife truly be impartial? From the view of an outsider, the three wives and four concubines were also in joy together. Who would know of the turbulent flows within? Fortunately, he had met a good man and was a monogamous man. But how many men like this existed in this world?

However, no matter what others did, outsiders could only persuade them and had no right to interfere. Hua Rong could only gather Wang Gui's wife and concubine together to advise against the situation and temporarily suppress the situation.

On this day, Wang Gui, Zhang Xian and the other generals came to discuss about military matters. After the military affairs were over, Yue Pengju left him alone and said, "I have fought together with Grand Commandant Wang for over a decade, and our relationship is like that of brothers. Therefore, he was not afraid to say a few words of consolation today. When a man was alive, the most depressing things were the few trials of the wine, sex, and wealth. The famous general of Sichuan Shan, Wu Xiang Gong was a hero, but in his middle age, he was infatuated with the beauties of Chengdu. He had thousands of concubines stocked up on him, and he took pills, to the point where he died young and early in his forties. For example, the Han Xiang Gong was a first class hero, but because he took over Huyan Tong's wife, Huyan Tong committed suicide and no one under his command was able to fight against him. 'Wife who has lost his virginity cannot be abandoned … '

Wang Gui's face alternated between red and white, so he naturally knew what the marshal's words meant. Although he didn't dare to refute, he disagreed in his heart. With a man alive, it was only natural for him to love beautiful women. Otherwise, what was so fun about risking his life to fight to the death against a noble wife? He did not agree with the Commander's wife's simple life. Hearing Yue Pengju's words, he felt even more disgusted.

Yue Pengju knew what he was thinking, everyone had their own aspirations, and could not discuss over family matters, so he did not say anymore, sighing secretly, causing Wang Gui to withdraw.

That evening, Li Ruoxu rushed back to the army.

When he took out the edict from Zhao Deji's hand, he was naturally still ambiguous. He mentioned two things: firstly, he had to withdraw his troops twenty days ago, and secondly, Yue Pengju and the others had to return to Lian An for an audience.

Zhu Fei, Yu Peng, Zhang Ya Fu and the other aides had all read the edict, although they had already guessed the result, they were still deeply disappointed. It had only been a few days, how could he take down open seal?

Seeing the disappointment on everyone's faces, Li Ruoxu said emotionally: "The contributions from the north should not be destroyed in the first place, lower official will voluntarily take on the crime of coercing an edict."

Yue Pengju was greatly grateful and was touched at the same time. He cupped his hands and bowed deeply: "Since that's the case, Yue Army will set out immediately.

With that order, the Yue Army immediately set off and advanced towards the Zhu Xian Town.

Along the way, Yue Pengju saw that his wife was preoccupied, but he did not have the time to ask her. After helping her husband eat and sleep, Yue Pengju asked her: "Sister Shi Qi, why are you so worried?"

Hua Rong said in a low voice, "Your Majesty already had a suspicion. Now that Qin Gui was on the road, it was unknown how many slanderous words he had come up with. Although Li Ruoxu has voluntarily accepted the crime of coercing an imperial edict, how should the emperor investigate this matter in the future? "

Yue Pengju had already made up his mind to go for broke, so he said: "Morale is unbeatable, we have the confidence and conditions to win against the Fourth Prince this time. Furthermore, I have already decided that after taking back open seal, I will resign and return to seclusion. "

Hua Rong had nothing to say, she just wanted the Emperor to be wary of him, and say that sshe was a general whose achievements were greater than his, and that he could not escape. If Peng Quan did not have a single soldier and became a farmer, then he should at least put down his guessing of slaughtering sabers, right?

However, his heart was still uneasy. He couldn't sleep at all after tossing and turning the night over and over.

As for Jin Wushu, he retreated back to the Longde's palace. The continuous rain for a few days depressed his heart, every day drunk, deeply frustrated.

On this day, he woke up from his drinking and woke up early. He gathered Tu Hesu,, and the others to discuss. Everyone was at a loss as to what to do about the military issue. None of them said a word. Jin Wushu said angrily: "Quickly give us some advice, whoever has a good idea, this prince will reward you handsomely."

Only then did Zhang Tonggu slowly say, "I heard that the nine kings' imperial government was at odds with each other. The nine king were all perverted and lecherous, Qin Gui agreed. If Fourth Prince were to make a decision himself, for both sides to negotiate and relax the terms of the negotiation, Song Fang will definitely kill Yue Pengju. "

Jin Wushu remembered that he had only given Qin Gui secret letters back then, and had never made any official documents before. There was no harm in changing his strategy today, and using the order of an official large sum of money to deliver the decree, he would probably be able to intimidate Zhao Deji even more.

immediately wrote and dictated it to him. With the words "Great Golden Imperial Protector, Field Marshal, State of Yue King to the Nine Kings of Jiangnan", he still addressed the Song Kingdom as "Jiangnan" and the Emperor as "Nine Kings". Between the lines, the arrogance of the Emperor of Da Song could be seen clearly.

After Zhang Tonggu left, he was still restless. The open seal was now the last stronghold of the invasion. He was leading the Jinguo's 120,000 strong army to the south. Although the political enemies in the imperial court had almost all been eliminated, for the sake of the political road in the future, what face would he have if he went back after a complete defeat?

He was born with a strong personality and he had a strong self-esteem. He could not bear to be chased back to the Song Kingdom by Yue Pengju and had him forcefully deploy himself to discuss ways to defeat the enemy day and night. No matter what, he had to fight back with all his might.

Zhang Tonggu had been whipping him day and night as he rushed to Lin An, but when he was about thirty miles away from Lian City, he encountered an attack by an army. It turned out that Huai Xi, Han Zhongliang, had been ordered to report for the mission at the palace. Han Zhongliang was guarding Huai Xi with outstanding achievements, so he was naturally unwilling to negotiate. He hoped that after entering the capital, he could persuade the Emperor to join forces with Yue Pengju and completely expel the captives. Just as he was about to capture Zhang Tonggu, he was stopped by the Song Jun sent by the Prime Minister. After fighting to the death, Han Zhongliang did not dare to go against the imperial government, and could only let his efforts go to waste.

Zhang Tonggu narrowly escaped death, he was grateful to Qin Gui and immediately followed him to see Zhao Deji.

When Zhao Deji saw the seal of Fourth Prince's personal handwriting, he was overjoyed and did not care about the term "despicable" in the slightest. What truly made him happy were that Jin Wushu had agreed to three conditions in his letter: return of Song Huizong's catalpa palace, return of Wei Xian Fei to him, return of two rivers to him, and reduce Song Kingdom's tribute and currency.

The first two conditions were common, but the third one was as good as dropping a pie from the sky. Zhao Deji was overjoyed, but he was still skeptical, "Since the Fourth Prince wants to return the two rivers, why don't they leave?"

Qin Gui immediately said: "Fourth Prince is fierce but unscrupulous. Yue Pengju's twenty thousand troops were still able to defeat him, it can be seen that the Jinguo's power is declining, there are already no more forces that can pose a threat to our Da Song. Now that he had been forced to retreat and defend the open seal, he naturally could not defend the two rivers. After the successive victories of the Wang Shi, it would be better to show kindness and magnanimity. Since ancient times, the destiny of the nation has not been war, but peace. But now, Yue Pengju is arrogant and fierce, and actually sent out troops in violation of the rules … "

The successive victories of Shunchang, Yan City, Ying Shui, and the others. Zhao Deji was already convinced that his half of the mountain was already very safe. Following that, they felt even more furious and fearful than before at Yue Pengju's disobedience. "This Li Ruoxu, he actually went as far as to shoulder the crime of forcing the army on his own, he has been tasked by us …"

"Yue Pengju has always been a clean and honest man. He will make friends with scholars at different times of the day, and if martial artists collude with scholars, it will become a disaster."

Qin Gui had already said it out loud, but it was right in the eyes of Zhao Deji. Even a famous "loyal man" like Li Ruoxu was willing to force himself on Yue Pengju, to take responsibility for his own crimes. He couldn't even publicly punish him. Otherwise, how could he stop the world from talking? Li Ruoshui's martyrdom was still there!

His anger towards Yue Pengju deepened as he asked Qin Gui: "If you want to stop Yue Pengju from retreating, what should be done?"

At this time, Qin Gui completely grasped the emperor's intentions, and said: "If he wants to withdraw, Mo Rui will first cut off his rations."

Zhao Deji said: "The rations can be used slowly, but Yue Army cannot let his army run out of rations even after a continuous battle."

Qin Gui was overjoyed, of course he wouldn't say that he had already secretly stopped the Yue Army's food, but he also justifiably got rid of the crime of coercing an edict.