Three days after Zhong Ming's message.

A young general of the Pingnan Army came to the post house in Jincheng with an expressionless face, knocked on Li Xin's door, and the young general's face was calm: "Li Jian military envoy, the general has an order, and he will start attacking Deyang County tomorrow, and the military envoy and others will go out with the army tomorrow, and describe the war along the way." ”

Li Xin nodded indifferently: "I know." ”

The young general silently turned around, left Li Xin's room, and turned back to inform the Jinshi from the Imperial Observatory that he had gone.

Wang Mo kept following behind Li Xin, and after the young general left, Wang Mo said in a low voice: "Captain Li, Pingnanhou is going to beat the remnants of the Li family?" ”

Li Xin turned around and returned to the room, lowered his head and took a sip of tea, squinted his eyes and said: "Whether he fights or not, it's not up to us to decide, the specific situation will be known when the army takes a look tomorrow." ”

Speaking of this, Li Xin smiled at Wang Mo: "Tomorrow, it is very likely that the remnants of the Li family will come to kill me, and then it will all depend on Brother Wang's protection." ”

Wang Mo said in a deep voice: "Captain Li rest assured, since Your Majesty has ordered it to come down, if our brothers don't die, Captain Li will be fine." ”

Li Xin shook his head and said: "Needless to say, the lives of several of us are already tied together, if Brother Wang, you die, I will definitely not survive." ”

Southern Xinjiang is too dangerous.

Originally, Li Xin thought that the Marquis of Pingnan would give some face to the Son of Chengde, but after arriving in Jincheng, he couldn't help but put himself under house arrest, and only after three or four days did he send someone to tell him to go to the battlefield to supervise the army.

I'm a prison envoy! The right to know about any military!

But in the past three or four days, he was locked up in the post house and couldn't move, and he could be said to know nothing about the movements of the Pingnan Army and the hostile situation of the Li family.

It wasn't until he was about to set out for the expedition that Li Shen asked people to come over and say hello to him lightly.

For three or four days, even if Li Shen sat with the remnants of Southern Xinjiang and drank tea, Li Xin would not be able to see it.

But there is no way, the situation is stronger than people, Li Xin can no longer come to this place with Li Shen, or with the Pingnan army.

Wang Mo also took a deep breath.

"Do your best, let it be the destiny of heaven."

The two of them were discussing tomorrow's affairs when there was a sudden knock at the door.

Li Xin sat without moving, Wang Mo pressed his right hand on the handle of the knife, and slowly opened the door with his left hand.

There was a scholar in the clothes of a scholar standing at the door, who was crying with a sad face, and bent down to Li Xin and said, "This colleague, save me!" ”

It was the Jinshi who was born in the Imperial Observatory.

His surname is Xue Mingzichuan, he is a Jinshi in Chengde's fifteenth year before he was examined, but he only ranked third, and he made up for more than two years in Beijing.

This time, His Majesty selected someone from the Imperial Historical Observatory, and he was thrown to the south by the chief.

Li Xin stood up, squinted his eyes, and smiled at the tall and thin scholar: "This lord, why do you say this? ”

The superintendent of the imperial history is the official of the seventh grade, and Li Xin is the same as him in terms of grade.

Xue Zichuan smiled bitterly: "After the Marquis of Pingnan arrived in Jincheng, he couldn't help but lock us up here, and he didn't take His Majesty's will in his eyes at all...... If you are in trouble, we are the envoys of the prison sent by His Majesty, and there is no way to live. ”

Speaking of this, the supervising imperial historian looked up at the tall Wang Mo, and said with some embarrassment: "The lower officials have no choice, so they are here to ask for a way to live!" ”

This scholar-born imperial historian looks down on military attaches like Li Xin and Wang Mo, so he hasn't spoken to Li Xin for so long, and now he feels that a catastrophe is coming, so he came to ask for help.

Li Xin's eyes rolled, and he smiled at this imperial history and said: "This imperial history, I would like to remind you below, if you want to live, don't say anything like disobedience." ”

Li Xin's voice lowered: "At least in southern Xinjiang, you can't say it." ”

If they can get lucky enough to return to Beijing, they will inevitably report something to the Chengde Emperor, but there are some things that Li Xin is inconvenient to say, and he doesn't dare to say it, but he can use the mouth of this imperial history to say it to the Chengde Emperor.

Xue Zichuan hurriedly stopped, bent over and said, "It's the lower official who lost his words." ”

Li Xin squinted his eyes and smiled like a big-tailed fox.

"May I ask the name of Lord Goshi?"

Xue Zichuan hurriedly bowed his head: "Don't give your surname Xue, Xue Zichuan." ”

"Well, under Li Xin, next to him is Brother Wang, who is the internal guard."

Li Xin stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said in a deep voice: "What is the internal guard, Lord Xue should know it, right?" ”

In fact, ordinary internal guards, that is, responsible for guarding the palace gate, or patrolling the palace, Xue Zichuan also knew this in his heart, but he was so frightened by Li Xin, he suddenly thought of Wang Mo as the Son of Heaven's close attendant.

In fact, Wang Mo is indeed a close attendant of the Son of Heaven, and it can be regarded as Li Xin's crooked attack.

"Next...... Xia Guan knew that he had seen Lord Wang. ”

Xue Zichuan hurriedly bowed his hand to Wang Mo.

Li Xin's face was serious: "Tomorrow is coming, Lord Xue must follow us closely, don't get separated." ”

Xue Zichuan was frightened by Li Xinyun's misty words, and he nodded again and again: "Xiaguan must follow the two adults!" ”

Li Xin nodded with satisfaction.

If they can return to the capital safely, this Xue Zichuan is the best candidate for Li Xin to test the waters.

………………

Early the next morning, someone from the Pingnan Army came to the post house, and took Li Xin and the Jinshi of the Yushitai to the army, at this time the Pingnan Army had been fully equipped, I don't know how many people were lined up at the gate of Jincheng City, a middle-aged man who was not very tall appeared in front of Li Xin and Xue Zichuan with a smile, and smiled at Li Xin: "The two supervising envoys, the last general is Cheng Ping, the deputy general of the Pingnan Army, on the order of the general, this campaign protects the two supervising envoys along the way, and introduces the battle situation with the two supervising military envoys." ”

There is more than one deputy general in the Pingnan Army, Li Zhijie's righteous son Li Yan is one, and this Cheng Ping is another.

The deputy general of the Pingnan Army is much higher than Li Xin and Xue Zichuan, the two seventh-rank officials, and the reason why he calls himself the last general is because Li Xin and the two of them are the military envoys of the Son of Heaven, and in a sense, they represent the Son of Heaven.

Li Xin bent over and clenched his fists at Cheng Ping, and said in a deep voice: "It's troublesome General Cheng." ”

Cheng Ping said with a smile: "No trouble, no trouble, everyone is doing things for Your Majesty, the two of you are ordered by Your Majesty to write about the military, Cheng naturally wants to make the two accounts clear, otherwise when you arrive in the capital, Your Majesty will also blame the two for not remembering the military situation in detail, right?" ”

Xue Zichuan was still a little trembling and didn't dare to speak.

Li Xin's face remained unchanged and smiled at Cheng Ping.

"In this way, there is General Lao Cheng."

Cheng Ping turned over his horse and pointed in the direction in which the army was heading.

"Two prison envoys, please see, along this direction, in two days at most, we will be able to reach Deyang County!"