Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 282 - The Battle of Zhuozhou City

Yang Jing's family lived near Qingshui Hutong, very close to Yan Wang's Mansion, Zhen Wu had suspected more than once that there were secret passages in Yan Wang's Mansion and Yang Jing's house.

Otherwise, Yang Jing couldn't always appear beside Zhu Di suddenly and unexpectedly.

In Zhen Wu's eyes, Yang Jing was miraculous and mysterious.

There are not many Yang Jing family members, so the overall appearance is very quiet. After Zhen Wu slammed the door knocker, only an old servant opened the door, poked his head out and asked Zhen Wu suspiciously.

Zhen Wuliang revealed his identity, and the old servant opened all the doors.

The furnishings in Yang Jing's house are very simple and unadorned.

If someone who doesn't know the inside story, sees such a house and furnishings, they definitely can't imagine the power that Yang Jing possesses, it's so terrifying that even Zhen Wu dare not look down upon it.

After the old servant led Zhen Wu into the main hall, he poured tea for Zhen Wu and left. Zhen Wu didn't care, thinking that Yang Jing would come out soon, but Yang Jing didn't know what business he was busy with. It was enough to forgive Zhen Wu for most of the time, so he came over to entertain the guests with an apologetic face.

Zhen Wu angrily shook the empty teacup, expressing in this way that Yang Jing kept him waiting for too long.

Yang Jing apologized repeatedly to Zhen Wu: "I'm sorry, I was really busy just now, so I couldn't come here immediately. I thought Uncle Yang would accompany Brother Zhen, but I didn't expect to leave Brother Zhen here alone. Brother Zhen, don't complain. The main reason is that my family has rarely had visitors, and the family really doesn't know how to treat guests, so it's not intentional negligence of Brother Zhen."

In fact, Zhen Wu was not surprised. He knew Yang Jing's work, and many things needed to be dealt with in a timely manner, and the relationship between the two of them would not be the cause of this matter.

Although the two seem to have little friendship from outsiders, the real situation is well known between the two, and they have dealt with each other many times without being known.

Of course, Zhu Di must have known all this.

Zhen Wu waved his hand, and said familiarly: "If you were really offended, I would have left long ago, so why wait for you."

Hearing what Zhen Wu said, Yang Jing knew that Zhen Wu didn't care, so he relaxed a little, sat beside Zhen Wu with a smile, and asked, "General You is a busy person, why do you have time to come to me?"

Zhen Wu grinned: "To tell you the truth, I don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so I need your help with something."

"Oh?"

Yang Jing glanced at Zhen Wu suspiciously, and then his face slowly became solemn: "With your current status, what can't be done, and you still need to ask me for help?"

"What are you thinking?"

Zhen Wu gave Yang Jing an angry look, and laughed and scolded: "Do you fucking think I, Zhen Wu, don't know how to measure? Don't worry, it's not something to embarrass you."

The words fell.

Yang Jing was obviously relieved.

The nature of his work is quite special, many things that don't matter to others, he will cross the line with a slight movement, which makes him have to be cautious.

"Then you didn't say it straight at the beginning, but beat around the bush with me."

Yang Jing complained to Zhen Wu, and then said directly: "Okay, if you have anything to say, just tell me, but let me make an agreement with you first, if I can help you, if I can't, don't blame me for not being friendly, and you don't What kind of begging words."

Zhen Wu nodded with a smile and said: "It's really not an embarrassment, I just want to ask you if you have a detailed battle report on the battle of Zhuozhou City. I want to borrow it to have a look. You should also understand Li Si. I have always valued people more. , but I didn’t expect to be in Zhuozhou like this, which made me always want to see the specific situation of Zhuozhou city at that time.”

After Zhen Wu finished speaking, he looked at Yang Jing.

He originally thought that Yang Jing would happily agree.

Unexpectedly, Yang Jing's complexion became serious more quickly as he could see it with the naked eye.

Zhen Wu frowned, not knowing why, he couldn't help but asked in a deep voice: "Could it be that the battle in Zhuozhou City, I am not qualified to know about it as a right general? If you talk about this with me, I Zhen Wu will not admit it, or His Highness is not interested in this matter." A gag order was issued?"

Yang Jing shook his head, indicating that it wasn't what Zhen Wu thought, but he looked at Zhen Wu and wanted to speak a few times, but in the end he didn't know why, so he held back until a slight anger appeared on Zhen Wu's face. , Yang Jing finally gritted his teeth and said: "To be honest, after listening to my brother's persuasion, you should stop watching."

Zhen Wu's frown deepened.

Since he is qualified to watch, but Yang Jing said so, the problem can only be on the battle report.

However, what could be wrong with the battle report, even serious enough for Yang Jing to mention him, it is best not to watch it?
Zhen Wu quickly thought of a possibility.

"Li Rang?" Zhen Wu looked straight at Yang Jing, his lips moved slightly, and said the name deeply.

Yang Jing froze for a moment. He didn't expect Zhen Wu to think of the reason so quickly. He sighed and said, "Since you guessed it, I won't say more. I'll get the battle report for you. You can read it yourself." After finishing, Yang Jing got up and walked out.

Zhen Wu looked at Yang Jing's back, and his heart suddenly surged. In the empty room, his complexion began to become more and more serious, even a little sinister.

However, when Yang Jing got the battle report, Zhen Wu's face naturally changed back to a sunny look, and he took the battle report and read it pretending to be relaxed.

On the ninth day of October, Li Jinglong's army arrived at the city of Zhuozhou.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, the army besieged from all sides. Li Si guarded the south gate, while Li Rang asked for orders to guard the north gate. Under Li Si's reasonable deployment, all the soldiers in Zhuozhou City fought bloody battles for three days and repelled Li Jinglong's army several times. , The north city gate was broken from the inside, and Li Rang led all the defenders of the north city gate to break out.

Li Jinglong's army swarmed in from the north city gate, and the other three guards were under attack from inside and outside, and none of them survived.

According to Yang Jing's secret report, since Li Jinglong's army entered the city, Li Si and his soldiers tried to break out of the siege several times, but they were beaten back several times. In the end, they gradually lost the enemy and had to retreat to Lianhua Lane. The two sides fought until In the middle of the night, Li Si led all the soldiers and still no one surrendered. The Yan army was victorious.

After the incident, Li Jinglong went to Lianhua Lane and stood there for a long time, lamenting the blood flow in this battle, and collected the corpses of the defenders who died in the battle of Zhuozhou City, and buried them on a hillside five miles away from Zhuozhou City. There were more than [-] corpses in total.

After Zhen Wu read it, he didn't know when the battle report was crumpled. His eyes were red, and he couldn't hide it anymore. The murderous aura began to spread wave after wave.

He gritted his teeth, and said to Yang Jing with overwhelming anger: "You, Yang Jing, have also fought for a lifetime. I don't believe you can't see the doubts. Why did the north city gate break from the inside? Why didn’t the Sanmen respond before the battle? Was it because no one informed them? Or was it because of something? Why didn’t you check it out? Or did you, Yang Jing, bully the weak and be afraid of the strong, afraid of his shitty status as a county horse? Let me tell you, You are not afraid of me, my mother is also a county horse, I will not let my people die in such a ignorant way, just because the gatekeeper is not good, I dare to take his head."

Yang Jing smiled bitterly, and stepped forward to comfort Zhen Wu: "Don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, sit down if you have something to say, and let's talk slowly."

"Do not impulse?"

Zhen Wu was still furious, and his eyes were bloodshot with anger: "Damn it, don't be impulsive. Li Si retreated to Lianhua Lane with a lone army. There will be no reinforcements, and he will rest until he dies. Do you know what kind of belief they report? You don’t feel sorry for such a soldier, but I can’t breathe because of the pain.”

"Zhen Wu!"

Looking at Zhen Wu's appearance, Yang Jing couldn't help but scolded loudly. Then, he smiled wryly again, and explained to Zhen Wu with a sigh: "Your Highness didn't let you investigate."

Zhen Wu was stunned for a moment.

"How come?" Zhen Wu muttered, he didn't believe that Zhu Di was someone who could hide sand in his eyes, and based on his understanding of Zhu Di, Zhu Di loved loyal and brave generals.

Yang Jing explained again: "It's true, otherwise I wouldn't have investigated this matter."

"Why?" Zhen Wu asked incomprehensibly.

Yang Jing sighed and said: "When the prince was guarding Beiping City, Li Junma contributed a lot. Although I heard Shizi mention it later, Li Junma might have to work hard under the strict guard of the prince, but in fact Li Junma Ma did make great contributions, and then led troops out of the city to join forces with you to defeat Qu Neng, and was seriously injured. His injuries have not fully healed yet. In such a situation, how could His Highness still ask people to investigate? What's more, His Highness also said Well, Li Junma may have led troops to fight for the first time, so some negligence is inevitable, but now that we are in such a good situation, there is no need to make people panic inside."

Now that Yan Jun is united as one, if Li Rang is really found out to have any problems, then the internal trust may be damaged because of this, and it is understandable for Zhu Di not to let the investigation go on.

But Zhen Wu didn't agree with this point, because there was a way to avoid this point, as long as Li Rang was found to have a problem, he could solve it secretly, or solve it under another name, which could avoid the possibility of internal trust being destroyed.

In the final analysis, these rhetoric are all excuses for Zhu Di to save Li Rang.

Zhen Wu said unwillingly: "It's ridiculous to be seriously injured. Who knows if it was intentional. Could it be that he committed a crime and killed a loyal soldier, and in the end he made some contributions at random, so it can be offset? How unfair it is, how unfair it is to the more than [-] soldiers who died in battle."

Yang Jing glanced at Zhen Wu, and said in a deep voice: "I don't know if it's fair or not, but I know the identity of the county horse, and I do have privileges, so that merit and demerit can be offset."

The identity of the county horse!
privilege!

Zhen Wu was stunned again. In the past few years, he had enjoyed the privilege of the county horse, and he enjoyed it with peace of mind, which made him gradually forget that this is an unfair world.

But in this world, he enjoys it with peace of mind, and there is no reason to disagree with Li Rang's enjoyment.

Is it too much for him, Li Rang, to take credit for the mistakes he made before?

I am afraid that many people will say nothing too much.

But every time Zhen Wu thought that Li Rang's son died because of Li Rang, and his wife, children and widowed mother were brought into such a miserable situation, Zhen Wu couldn't help but get angry.

Seeing this, Yang Jing sighed faintly, and added a bombshell to Zhen Wu again: "There was a message from the capital two days ago that because of Li Rang's bloody battle against the city, and because of His Royal Highness, the emperor has vented his anger on you." On Li Rang, he killed Li Rang's whole family in a fit of rage."

Zhen Wu was slightly startled.

Yang Jing patted Zhen Wu's shoulder, and then said: "Think about it, in this case, no matter whether you are right or not, Li Rang killed his whole family in order to defend the city, which is enough to make people feel sympathetic. If you still hold on to Li Rang's small mistakes and want to kill him, and you are so stubborn, how will His Highness think of you, and how will the whole army think of you? Don't forget, Princess Yong'an and Princess Yongning are still sisters Ladies and gentlemen, if you really do that, will Princess Yongan complain and be sad because of Princess Yongning? Will the son and King Gaoyang complain to you because of this?"

Speaking of this, Yang Jing sighed, and persuaded again earnestly: "Even if you are fighting for your future, but the trust you have built with His Highness for many years, and the relationship with Princess Yong'an for many years, do you really want to have a rift because of this matter? I don’t talk about whether it’s worth it or not, but living people always have to move forward.”

Zhen Wu fell silent.

His whole head suddenly became a mess like a mess, and he found that his angrily vowed to be the master for Li Si at the beginning, began to become less firm, which made him even more flustered for a while. , He was so flustered that he didn't know how he left Yang Jing's house in the end.

It's just that after arriving at his home, Zhen Wu suffocated himself in the martial arts hall, and shed tears unwillingly.

He found that he was not as stalwart and fair as he thought.

He is selfish.

Li Rang was seriously injured in the bloody battle to defend the city, and his family members were mutilated, and he built a golden body for himself. This golden body radiated light, as if letting him stand in the light.

If anyone wants to attack him, he must first hurt himself before hurting others.

That light is the most scorching.

Even Zhen Wu had to back down three steps.

At this moment, Li Rang was at home.

Li Rang, who had been lying on the hospital bed for a long time, was finally able to get out of bed. He looked at Yong Ning, who was always by his side and never left him, and smiled sadly.

He held Yongning's hand, and said in a distressing way: "From now on, I will only have you."

Yongning sobbed slightly, nodded hurriedly and said: "There is still me, there is me, Yongning will always be with your husband, Yongning will be better and better to your husband, and will never let anyone hurt you again."

Li Rang nodded, and looked at Yongning more and more tenderly, but when people didn't notice, he exuded gloom.

How could he be so calm when his whole family was dead? !

But he had no choice.

Yongning sobbed and continued: "We won't lead soldiers into battle anymore. Look at this time, I was scared to death. Let's live our lives at home, okay?"

Li Rang shook his head and said, "I'm not afraid of this kind of injury, not to mention that I want to help our father, and I also want to save face for you, so that the world can also know that the man you marry is no worse than the eldest sister. I know you always like to compare with the eldest sister." , I couldn’t intervene before, but after I can, I want to make you happy.”

After hearing this, Yongning was so moved that he cried even harder.

She only felt that her man was close to her from the bottom of her heart. She used to really envy her eldest sister for marrying well, but now she can proudly say that her man is not bad at all.

……

Yan Wang Mansion, Yang Jing has appeared in Zhu Di's study at this moment.

After Zhu Di heard Yang Jing's report, he waved his hands irritably. One eldest son-in-law and one second son-in-law, what else could he do? Want to clean up Li Rang?

Li let the whole family die because of him.

He didn't clean up like this.

I can only feel sorry for Li Si.

Zhu Di thought for a while, and said to Yang Jing: "You go and tell Zhen Wu later, just tell him what I said, let him let it go, don't make trouble for me, as for Li Si, I will remember his credit, and I will give it to him in the future If Zhen Wu is angry with his son, let him hold it back for me, and I will still be full of anger and have no place to vent it."

After Yang Jing responded, he backed away, and then he took a detour to Zhen's mansion, and passed Zhu Di's words to Zhen Wu. After hearing this, Zhen Wu just nodded in response, without making any other expressions.

He looked at Zhen Wu's appearance, sighed, and then left without further words.

Those [-] soldiers and [-] families are really not important in many cases, and he also feels it is a pity, but so what?
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