The first battle of the Ningzhou Army was fought very beautifully.

As a general, Li Shuo not only predicted in advance that the forbidden army might attack the camp, but also made an almost perfect response, and in just a few hours, he defeated the entire two forbidden troops of the left camp of the Zhichong Mansion!

You must know that when Li Xin and Ye Ming led the troops to the west together and crossed the Motianling Ridge to attack Jiangyou Pass, they also brought the forbidden army three Zhichong Mansions, and the quality of the two Zhichong Mansions in the left camp of the forbidden army was better than the Western Expeditionary Army he brought back then.

In this case, the two folding mansions are shattered at the touch of a button, which is naturally inseparable from the credit of firearms, but it is inseparable from Li Shuo's calm response, after this battle, I dare not say anything else, at least all the Hanzhou army, including Mu Ying, there is no gossip to talk about.

After the Ningzhou army finished this battle, it did not advance to the capital, but rested on the spot, on the one hand, to wait for Li Xin's next order, on the other hand, to clean up the results of this battle, and to wait and see the next move in the capital.

The attitude of the capital towards the southwest army has always been conservative, and it is foreseeable that after this "temptation", the imperial court may be firm in the idea of defending the city, and will not send troops out of the city to confront the southwest army again.

The whole two Zhichong Mansions were torn apart by the Southwest Army in one night!

When the Xianbei Department invaded the border of the Great Jin Dynasty last year, it took almost half a year to grind open the Jimen Pass, and at the same time, the Xianbei people themselves also paid a heavy price, and the Southwest Army knocked out a quarter of the combat power equivalent to the Zhenbei Army in one night, not to mention anything else, just by virtue of this battle, Ningzhou General Li Shuo is enough to become a famous general in the world, no matter whether it is notoriety or good name in the history books in the future, it is a sure thing to leave a name in history.

After this battle, the atmosphere of panic in the capital has become more and more intense, and many dignitaries have begun to try all kinds of ways to escape the capital.

Even the courtiers in the court, after seeing this situation, had some fear in their hearts, worried that they didn't know when, the southwest thieves would enter the capital, and the country would change hands.

Some of the wall grasses have begun to think of self-preservation, or are ready to surrender at any time to the thieves outside the city, and the smarter officials have already made a private appointment to Ningling Marquis Ye Lan and began to show favor to this Ye Marquis.

However, in Weiyang Palace, there is still no news coming out.

A small group of people standing at the peak of the power of the Great Jin Dynasty, from the Zaifu in Shangshutai to Jiuqing in the court, have entered the palace more than once to meet the Son of Heaven, but the Son of Heaven has always been in one sentence, instructing the old general to be fully responsible for guarding the city, and the Son of Heaven himself, not only did not take an idea in this matter, but instead devoted himself to the general as a prison, and often did not stay in Weiyang Palace for several days.

Several prime ministers of Shangshutai more or less know a little bit about the reason why the Son of Heaven is soaked in the general prison every day, but even if they know, these Zaifu still don't quite understand, in their opinion, what they need to do now is to negotiate with the southwest army as much as possible, not to get the southwest firearms out at this moment.

Even if the Son of Heaven can really figure it out, it will be a little too late in time.

Therefore, several Zaifu entered the palace one after another and asked the Son of Heaven to send envoys to negotiate with the southwest thieves, but the Son of Heaven never paid attention to it.

It's not that Yuan Zhao Tianzi has backbone, but as early as ten days ago, he had already sent Ye Lan to see Li Xin, and Li Xin's request, Yuan Zhao Tianzi had no way to agree, so there was no need to continue talking.

However, under the repeated letters of several Zaifu, the Son of Heaven still agreed to send envoys out of the city to negotiate, but he did not expect anything from this, and still wanted to get the same firearm from the southwest.

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On the other side of Luzhou City, General Li, who was dressed in black, sat on the edge of a big man's bed, seeing the big man slowly wake up, Li Xin also breathed a sigh of relief, he smiled dumbly: "The old brother finally woke up, if something happens to you, I will see my nephews in your family in the future, and I won't be able to talk to them." ”

The one who woke up slowly was naturally Hou Jingde.

Hou Jingde has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his body is strong, which may only be inferior to Ye Mao's fierce general brother, it stands to reason that he is unlikely to faint for so long, but after all, he is old, and he was exploded by the thunder at close range, and the huge impact directly stunned him.

At this time, he was not only shocked, because the distance between the thunder and the sky was too close, and he also had a lot of external injuries on his body by pottery shards, but at this time they had all been bandaged with a white cloth.

After he woke up, he first looked left and right, and then saw the appearance of the person sitting next to his bed, Hou Jingde struggled to sit up, but he was in severe pain all over his body, frowned, and then lay down again.

Seeing this, Li Xin shook his head at him and said, "My brother's bones are a little displaced, and there are many external injuries on his body. ”

The average life expectancy in this era is only forty or fifty years old, and someone like Hou Jingde's age can already be regarded as an old man, if he is an old man of the same age as him, if he is hit like this, it is estimated that one life will be eight or nine out of ten, that is, Hou Jingde should be old and strong, otherwise he will lose half his life if he does not die this time.

Hou Jingde looked left and right several times before confirming where he was, he lay on the bed, looked at Li Xin deeply, and said with a wry smile: "The last time I saw Brother Li, it was during the Taikang period, but I didn't expect you and my brother to meet again, and it turned out to be this situation." ”

Li Xin shook his head a little helplessly: "I knew that it was the elder brother who led the troops, and the younger brother had to tell his subordinates not to hurt you no matter what." ”

He pulled Hou Jingde's sleeve and said with emotion: "Back then, the old people of Yulinwei, I'm afraid only the old brother and me are left." ”

Hou Jingde can only lie down now, his whole body hurts when he moves, he moves his body, he forcibly holds back the pain on his body, and his face sweats.

He sighed as well.

"Back then...... Or Brother Li, you took Yu Linwei's brothers to participate in the palace change, after the matter was completed, most of Yu Linwei's brothers came out of Yu Linwei and became officials, at that time, Yu Linwei's brothers all recognized Brother Li You, the big guy thought that in the future in the court, there is Brother Li You take care of it, we are rough people from Yu Linwei, maybe we can also get a future, but I didn't expect that in just over ten years, things have become what they are now. ”

Speaking of this, Hou Jingde shook his head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Now I understand that your brother Li's ambition is far more than the leader of the Yulin Wei family, you want too much." ”

Li Xin shook his head slightly.

"Brother, if there is a way for me to live in the capital, I am still in the capital, happily being my Jing'an Hou, why would I take a family old and young to do this kind of headless business?"

"People are forced out."

General Li said with emotion: "When I was on an errand under my elder brother, how could I have imagined that there would be today? ”

Hou Jingde was silent for a while, and then asked, "What are you going to do with me?" ”

Li Xin shook his head slightly.

"Brother, rest assured that you are here to recuperate, and when your injuries are healed, I will send someone to send you back, from beginning to end, you have never seen me, and you will not bear the charge of colluding with thieves."

Hou Jingde glanced at Li Xin silently and sighed slowly.

"Brother Li, I led the troops out of the city, and it was only a matter of loyalty to the king, you ......"

Li Xin smiled freely.

"My brother can't help himself, and this matter has nothing to do with you."

(End of chapter)