late night song

Chapter 190
Fan Yueqing took office not long ago. He was a low-key person and was polite and condescending to the Xirong generals. Even at the morning military meeting to discuss the frontline war, he either remained silent or followed the trend and made no achievements. This made the Xirong generals very disdainful.

At the same time, in terms of running the army, he adhered to the golden mean. In addition to city defense, the daily training in Chenmao was changed to opening fields and planting wheat quinoa.

In order to preserve Hehe's military power, Qi Yijue had to ask Fan Yueqing to keep a low profile. Fan Yueqing was very obedient to various orders from Yuquan Palace, and Qi Yijue was very satisfied with this.

But he was as cautious as ever. In the name of praying for hundreds of children, he detained the children and grandchildren of various civil and military officials' families in the palace, including Fan Yueqing's youngest son and eldest grandson. Fan Yuan was willing to follow him in order to protect his younger brother and nephew. Enter the palace together.

Fortunately, a few days ago, the news of the loyal and heroic daughter throwing herself into the lake in anger spread throughout Hehe.Under the arrangements of various embroidered messengers, the assembled red hairpin female troops entered the city one after another under the guise of being sold slaves, and were bought back in the morning market by merchants, red houses, and military chefs arranged in advance. There were also a few who went awry and were taken back by the uninformed official residence.

In this regard, Fan Yuan discussed with Gu Yuchu and turned these accidents into a plan, secretly arranging the red hairpin female army to follow the hostage into the palace, firstly to protect the child's safety, and secondly, to protect Anhe and the powerful minister.

Gu Yuchu had lived in the palace for a long time and was very familiar with the terrain. She drew the map in advance and handed it over to Fan Yuan. When the time came to correct the chaos, one of them was outside the palace and the other was inside the palace. They just matched the inside and the outside, and walked through the abandoned corner gate of Yuquan Palace. Breakout.

After that, Qiongzhou City was still full of flowers and busy with traffic, but what lingered in the hearts of the clan members and nobles was a gloom that could not be dissipated.

The peaceful days did not last long. One month later, after receiving a secret letter from General Xirong, Queen Kuosang wrote an edict in her own hand, requesting Qi Jinjue to immediately allocate [-] He troops as the vanguard to support Dongqi's war.

Qi Jinjue was extremely worried, but if he refused, Kou Sang would definitely suspect his ulterior motives. How could he preserve the current results and use Xirong to defeat Dong Qi for himself and win the throne.

But this vanguard force sounds nice, but in fact it is just a pre-war barrier for the Xirong Iron Army to force open the city gate. If allowed, these [-] troops may never come back, so what about your long-term plan?

Fan Yueqing went to the palace to discuss countermeasures with Qi Yijue, but the queen personally ordered that there was no way around it. After weighing the two, Qi Yijue had to abandon this sharp sword and ordered Fan Yueqing to lead [-] veterans within three days, and five The new troops recruited by Wan Gang rushed to the front line. In this way, they could be regarded as retaining part of their strength.

General Fan received the military order and remained silent, begging Qi Yijue to allow him to see his youngest son and eldest grandson again.

In the corridor connecting the north and south palace buildings, Fan Yuan led two children who were only five or six years old to meet his father and grandfather. However, someone was watching, and Fan Yueqing did not do much other than telling the children to be obedient. He said something and then went straight out of the palace.

Action must be taken within three days, otherwise there will be no chance.

In order to prevent any changes, Qi Jinjue's spies were watching Fan's house all day long, and they would know clearly even if a fly flew in and out.

Fan Yueqing was on duty as usual, with nothing strange at all.But on the eve of the army's departure, the red-haired female soldier who was bought back by the military camp cook, with the secret help of the messenger in rusty clothes, added the prepared croton flour into the flour to be fermented.

Early the next morning, most of the Xirong soldiers and a small number of Hehe recruits were attacked and suffered from vomiting and diarrhea.

When the troops were about to be launched at the gate of Qijinjue City, Fan Yueqing gave an order, and He and his troops immediately fired thousands of arrows, marking the beginning of the resistance.However, the crossbowmen Qi Jinjue had arranged in advance on the city wall also counterattacked at the same time, covering his hurried retreat.

At the same time, the remaining [-] elite soldiers of Hehe and the Hongchai female army led by Gu Yuchu also divided their efforts and cooperated. Some of them went straight to the Qiongzhou military camp where Xirong was stationed, and some of them sneaked into the palace to rescue the families of detained officials.

Of course, just like the crossbowmen who had been placed on the city gate in advance, Qi Jinjue was not unprepared. He quietly moved the children the night before the incident. Although Gu Yuchu and his entourage successfully entered the palace, they failed. All the people in the palace were killed when they arrived.

That night, the blood in Qiongzhou City dyed the first green shoots red. Although Fan Yueqing and others temporarily controlled the situation, as long as they could not find the kidnapped children, he would not be able to gather the morale of the army and the trust of the officials. , Fortunately, he finally captured Qi Jinjue, so he was not completely clueless.

Qi Jinjue was imprisoned in the prison of the military camp and interrogated for a long time. From the beginning to the end, he only asked to see Gu Yuchu and refused to say a word other than that.

Fan Yueqing had no choice but to find Gu Yuchu and ask her to find a set of clues.

The cell was dark, and Qi Jinjue was locked on an iron chair. His face was pale, and it was obvious that he had been struggling a lot. When he saw Gu Yuchu come in, he raised his head with some difficulty and smiled at her.

"Prince Ning." Gu Yuchu said expressionlessly.

"Gu Yuchu, long time no see."

"There is no such thing as seeing or not seeing each other between you and me."

"Still as inhumane as ever, but I still like it very much." Although he was embarrassed, he still joked. "Prince Ning is really in a good mood. He is so quick to talk in such a situation."

"It's just joy in suffering. I'm really happy to see you again."

"Does it feel good to be whipped? If you don't want to suffer any more physical pain, tell the whereabouts of those children quickly." Gu Yuchu didn't want to talk nonsense with him anymore. She pressed hard on his wound where blood had barely coagulated, and Qi Yijue groaned. With a cry, his eyebrows and eyes were pulled together in pain.

"Come here, I will tell you only one person." He said weakly.

Gu Yuchu was half convinced, he actually did it so quickly?But in order to find out the news about the children as soon as possible, she didn't have time to think too much, so she leaned forward slightly, but Qi Jinjue spoke so softly that she couldn't hear anything clearly.

"Don't play tricks with me." She frowned and stabbed his bloody wound again.

"It's really not gentle at all. I say what I say." Qi Jinjue gritted his teeth and breathed heavily, "Please come closer."

Gu Yuchu took another half step forward and put his ear close to his lips.

"If I had told him, I might not have survived." He laughed evilly.

"What do you want?" Gu Yuchu straightened his body and retreated to his original position, looking at him sideways with disgust on his face.

"I want you to get me out."

"Haha, are you crazy or do you think I'm a fool? Why should I save you?" she sneered.

"You don't care about the children of those clan members, but what about the lives of those red-haired female soldiers?"

"What do you mean?"

"Three days later at noon, if I do not appear safely in Mu Pavilion outside the city, then the first person to die will be Fan Yueqing's daughter, and every other hour from now on, the Hongchai female soldiers will be killed. In addition, since I was arrested, all the children have been cut off from water and rice. If you delay for one day, they will all starve to death, hahahahahaha." Qi Yijue laughed like crazy.

"You are despicable and sinister!"

"I advise you to find a way to rescue me as soon as possible, otherwise they will all have to be buried with me!"

Gu Yuchu angrily slapped him twice, and then put a dagger to his throat, threatening him.

"You don't have to wait for them, I can kill you right now! Are you going to say it or not?"

"If you can't bear to see the corpses of hundreds of children and Fan Yueqing betraying the whole army, then take action."

"You!" Gu Yuchu was furious. Seeing that Qi Yijue didn't flinch at all, he suddenly withdrew the dagger, not daring to confront this lunatic again.

Qi Jinjue looked at her with a tired but proud face. This woman's ridiculous kindness was the key to his success.

Gu Yuchu immediately left the prison and asked General Fan to expand the search area from inside the city to outside the city, especially the caves or villages near Mu Ting.

But after a full day's search, nothing was found. Under this dragnet, where were the children hidden?

If it is true as Qi Jinjue said, no one will take action when the time comes, Hehe's army will naturally break into civil strife and be defeated, and there will be no possibility of recovery of Hehe's country. All of these will do no good to the war in the east.

(End of this chapter)