"How did you see that Wang Er has a problem?" When Jiang Lang left, Mu Hanzhang walked to the side of Jing Shao and asked, "How can you suddenly think of checking a bookkeeping clerk for a good reason.
Jing Shao reached out to hold people tightly in his arms, one hand wrapped around the waist, one hand pen to the father to write peace fold: "Today I saw his eyes flickering, they got suspicious." Jing Shao blurted out, in fact, he did not see Wang Er's face, the king will not admit that he is in order to the coveted Wang Fei's traitor to death to do so!
The body in the arms with a faint fragrance of medicine, Jing Shao originally did not like the taste of this medicine, but stained in his own princess, and his own breath mixed together, but unexpectedly good smell, can not help but bury their noses in the material of the clothes to make a sniff.
Mu Hanyang was tickled by him, so she broke away from his embrace and sat to the side: "You're going to report the Southeast King's dissension to Father?"
"Uh-huh." Jing Shao for can't eat tofu feel quite dissatisfied, not to mention that although his own princess is sitting next to him, but that angle if he reaches out to take it will not be able to write the word, only to give up, honestly hurry to finish writing the folders.
"You mention in passing the merits of Hao Da Dao and the valor of the Shu army." Mu Hanzhang glanced at what Jing Shao had written and reminded him out loud.
"Shu army?" Jing Shao turned his head to look at him in confusion, Hao Dazhu's merit and origin should be mentioned, he was still counting on his father to hurry up and give Hao Dazhu the title of general, but what's the matter with the Shu army? They are just following Hao Dagger in the war, they are no different from Xiang Army and Qian Army, why should they be specially brought up.
Mu Hanzhang smiled, "Has Your Highness forgotten that the Shu Army was still in Dianzang a while ago following the Grand Prince to fight the Southern Barbarians."
The Shu army was then deployed to rescue the Grand Prince. After Jing Rong was rescued, he led the Shu army to attack the southern barbarians, with little success. When the southwestern dispute began, Emperor Hongzheng transferred the Shu army back to follow Jing Shao to fight for the southwestern fiefdom, leaving only the troops of the east-conquering generals that were previously assigned to the grand prince to continue to give him a toss.
Jing Shao smiled and frowned in thought, if he praised the bravery of the Shu army, Emperor Hongzheng would recall that the Shu army had no success in the hands of the Grand Prince, and the two comparisons were immediately distinguishable.
"Junqing ...... is lucky that you did not marry someone else!" After a moment of silence, Jing Shao slowly said.
Mu Hanzhang shook his head and sighed lightly, "Even if I married someone else, I would never help him with all my heart like this." In this world, if you favor me and trust me like this, I'm afraid it's hard to have a second person. He didn't say the last sentence, just quietly looked at Jing Shao, saw him gradually grinning, couldn't help but reach out and pinch his cheeks.
"That's natural, there's no one more handsome than me amongst the royal family." Jing Shao said smugly.
Mu Hanzhang was instantly amused by him, pursing her lips and laughing softly, "That's true, amongst the royal family, there is no one with a thicker skin than you."
The two men fought and fooled around finally finished the peace fold, the left guard then came to return with the results of the interrogation.
Wang Er could not withstand the interrogation and soon confessed all. The person who contacted him was a minor official in the capital, who gave him money and only asked him to hand out the total amount of grain used by the army every day, and not to care about the rest.
"Since when?" Jing Shao asked.
"From the outskirts of the capital Wang Er became a clerk on the contact, just then did not pass the news out, from the border of Shu." The left guard answered very detailed, the military interrogation has always been responsible for him, so ask to what extent he knows best.
By handing out the number of daily rations used, one can judge the number of soldiers in the camp, Jing Shao frowned, no wonder the bow and horse soldiers came to make a surprise attack that day, that is, they were sure that the army was not in the camp, and that they had a good chance of winning by killing him.
"That little official," Mu Hanzhang slowly rubbed the onyx paperweight on Jing Shao's desk, "is thought to be the hidden stake that the Southwest King has placed in the capital." The one who began to pay attention to the army's movements from before the army's departure should be the Southwest King.
"Wang Er did not know the man's name, and there was someone else who contacted him after arriving in the southwest," the left guard presented a letter up, "This is a message note that Wang Er did not have time to hand out today."
The note, which was only neatly written, contained a few numbers, and was wrapped very tightly in a sheet of greaseproof paper.
Mu Hanzhang pinched the note and looked at it for a moment, took a piece of paper, put up his pen and wrote down a few words, which were generally the same as Wang Er's, except that the number on it was nearly three times larger: "This is counting the number of Shu troops when they were there."
Jing Shao took the note and looked at it, and instantly understood what his own princess meant. Let the other side mistakenly think that the Shu army returned to camp, ambush in the vicinity of the Southwest army or Southeast army will not dare to act rashly, they pull out of camp tomorrow, the chances of encountering an ambush will be greatly reduced.
The left guard looked at the note in his hand surprised, originally he kept Wang Er a life, is afraid that the king wants to use him to deliver false news to the outside, how could he expect that the military master has such a great skill: "The king, that Wang Er how to dispose of?"
Jing Shao frowned, "Kill him and keep it quiet for now." Although he would love to clubbed the coveted military master, no, collaborator and traitor to the country to death in front of the entire army, he could not make a sound if he wanted to deliver a message under the guise of Wang Er's name.
The next day to pull out of camp, afraid of the road bumps, Jing Shao let Jiang Lang to the bottom of the carriage added another quilt.
From the victory pass deep into the southwest hinterland, all the way unexpectedly unimpeded. Must be yesterday's note played a role, Hao Dabao's vanguard has hit the clouds near the city, the Southwest Army since there is no energy to come back to cope with the futile increase in the army, it is estimated that they have been back to help.
Seeing that there were no obstacles on the road, Jing Shao got into the military division's carriage, leaving Little Black to follow the carriage around in boredom.
The little tiger was lying on the carriage window looking out, curious about Xiao Hei outside the carriage, staring at people without looking, seeing Xiao Hei only stifling walking and ignoring it, it stretched its paw towards Xiao Hei. Xiao Hei glanced at the furry mass by the window and sprayed hot air at it.
"Meow~" the little tiger cub was startled and rolled into a ball and dropped, falling onto the soft quilt with a shrill yelp.
"Yo, you can even learn to purr like a cat," Jing Shao marveled, grabbing Little Yellow over and tugging on his ears, "Purr again."
"Woohoo!" The little tiger was not happy to see Jing Shao and shook his head to keep him from touching his ears.
Mu Hanzhang smiled and touched the floppy round ears, "Why don't you go out, what's it like to stay in the carriage?"
"The military division has not yet recovered from its injuries, this king loves his talent, so naturally he has to take care of the military division in the carriage." Jing Shao lay down on the big soft pillow, and came over to his own Wangfei's side to roguishly say.
"If you act like this, what will the army think?" Mu Hanzhang sighed helplessly, the Right Guard had blatantly asked that day, it must have been Jing Shao who had done something when he didn't know.
"Let them think what they want." Jing Shao said indifferently, calculating in his mind how to let the crowd know that the military division was his Wangfei, so as to break certain people's thoughts. Since finding out that Wang Er had hidden Jun Qing's portrait, Jing Shao realized how high his Wang Consort was in the military nowadays, even a spy like that couldn't help but admire her, wouldn't the others be even more so? There was an immediate sense of crisis that his treasure had been discovered by someone else and that he did not know that it belonged exclusively to him.
Mu Hanzhang glared at him and took the little tiger into his arms and closed his eyes to sleep.
The tiger cub squirmed in his master's arms, pressing the shapely chin with the fleshy pads of his retracted paw-hooks and rubbing the top of his round head against that.
"Haha ......" Mu Hanzhang was tickled by the rubbing and looked down at it.
The tiger cub pampered generally belly up to the sky, rushed to the master of the fine call, because the voice is too shrill, "wow" turned into "meow ah"!
Jing Shao couldn't look away and went over to pick up the little tiger cub and throw it into the corner of the carriage, rubbing himself over to hog the spot next to Jun Qing.
Mu Hanzhang looked at his childish behavior and couldn't help but laugh out softly, reaching out and touching the top of his hair, "If you don't want to go out then you can sleep for a while, it will be hard to have a peaceful sleep when you arrive at Cloud City in the evening."
Jing Shao was so comforted by the slender and warm hands that he couldn't help but squint his eyes, burying his face in the chest of the person next to him and wrapping his arms around that strong and narrow waist, "Then you sleep with me."
"I'm not right here, where else can I go?" Mu Hanyang smiled, also slid down a bit, and he pillowed on a bolster, in this journey of war can actually be this quiet nap, but also really steal the life of half a day of leisure.
Along the way without any obstruction, scattered weapons, corpses are not much, must be Hao Dagger all the way down also do not forget to clean up the battlefield reason. The news said that Hao Dagger broke the tiger's tooth and crane's beak, bypassed the two passes and broke the pass in one fell swoop, and joined Zhao Meng and then fought on without stopping. The Southwest Army did not expect the victory of the pass will be lost within a few days, and was in a mess, routed along the way.
The southwestern fiefdom was not that big, and not much far past the Shengjing Pass was the main city, Cloud City.
By the time they arrived near Cloud City, Hao Dabao was surprisingly already attacking the city with his men.
The reason why Cloud City was named for this is because of its special terrain, rising up out of the ground, much higher than its surroundings, standing outside the high city walls and looking at it, it was truly as if it was built on the clouds.
It was late in the day, and the army had just returned to camp, so Zhao Meng was the first to run over when he saw his own troops.
Seeing this, Hao Da Dao explained that the soldiers had disbanded themselves, and he himself dismounted to meet them.
"Warlord, Warlord, those three pouches you gave are so useful! It's truly divine, I, Old Zhao, am truly impressed!" Zhao Meng didn't see the king, so he ran straight towards the military division's carriage and stood outside it shouting loudly.
The curtains were lifted, and it was surprisingly their Lord Commander who stepped out first!
Jing Shao in the car holding the fragrant and soft body of his own Wangfei sleep, get off the car to move the limbs, turn to help the people in the car. The hand that had been glistening and slender handed out, was held by him, and slowly stepped out of the snow-clad, jade-crowned military division, as well as the hairy tiger in the military division's arms.
Zhao Meng was stunned for a moment and laughed, "I said why I didn't see Your Highness, but he was actually lazing around in the military division's carriage."
"Farewell, General Zhao." Mu Hanzhang greeted Zhao Meng.
Afraid that he would jump off the carriage and pull the wound again, Jing Shao picked up the little tiger and threw it to Jiang Lang to hold, reaching out to carry his own princess down.
"Your Highness!" Mu Hanyang was momentarily off guard and was hugged by him, she immediately turned red, in front of so many people, even if others knew they were husband and wife it would be difficult to be embarrassed, not to mention that in the eyes of these people they were only the relationship between the military division and the commander-in-chief, this kind of behavior was really too rude!
"You have injuries on your body, don't move!" Jing Shao said without changing his face, carefully putting the person down.
When Zhao Meng heard this, he immediately forgot about the ambiguous situation he had just seen and asked anxiously, "I heard that the camp was attacked, but was the military master injured?"
Mu Hanzhang pursed her lips, glared at the person who was obviously doing it on purpose, and laughed lightly, "It doesn't matter, it's just a small injury."
"Haha, it does not matter on the line, my old Zhao this time also hung a lot of color, men, the body has to have a few scars in order to be manly!" Zhao Meng laughed out loud and was about to go to pat the shoulder of the military division, was Jing Shao quick to catch the wrist.
Hao Da Dao cold eyes looked at the noisy several people, this time out of the war, the king's full trust, the master of the army's ingenuity, really let him admire, just, these two people that ambiguous, let him really some can't look at the eyes. But other people's private affairs he is also lazy to tube, convergence of the emotions in the eyes, went forward to salute.
Jing Shao looked at the Hao Dabao, secretly nodded his head, and then looked at Zhao Meng, who was clutched by his own wrist, and could not help but have some teeth, explaining that all the people packed up properly to the center tent collection. In accordance with the merits and demerits of this attack on Shengjing Pass, reward and punish the merits and demerits.
Hao big knife this time made a big achievement, and his valor and good fighting all the army has witnessed, Jing Shao directly with him to mention the general. The commander-in-chief outside, life and death appointments and dismissals have great power, as for the general's rank is to wait for the emperor to determine.
The crowd had no objections to this, and Hao Da Dao knelt down to receive the general's uniform.
"Haha, brother Hao is brave and fierce, he really deserves to be a general!" Zhao Meng also admired Hao Dazhu and happily matched fists with the rising Hao Dazhu.
"Don't be happy first," Jing Shao looked coldly at Zhao Meng who was foolishly happy, "Zhao Meng was impulsive and disregarded the overall situation, nearly causing the cavalry to be completely wiped out, he can't be a general, and he was demoted to the rank of Zhonglang General."
Zhao Meng sniffed and cried as he knelt down to receive his punishment, "The last general is guilty and receives his punishment."
Will be a cadre of small generals to reward and punish down, Jing Shao Fang spread out the map and the crowd to discuss the plan to attack the city.
"This Cloud City only has two gates, front and back, and the last general ordered people to guard the back gate to prevent the Southwest King from escaping." Hao Dabao pointed at the map and said, "It's just that the terrain of this Cloud City is too high, the gates are really not good to approach, moreover, the last general found out that the walls of Cloud City are very solid."
"This Cloud City was built at the time of the founding of the country, and the Great Ancestor, as a sign of favor, used rice soup and mud to build a high wall that was unbreakable." Mu Hanzhang heard this and frowned as he remembered the records he had read in the history books.
"Rice soup and mud!" Zhao Meng was astonished, rice soup and mud would make the mud and ash several times thicker, and the wall built would really be a bronze wall, unbreakable.
"I see," Hao Dabao nodded, "The Military Master is truly knowledgeable."
Jing Shao hooked his lips, pointing at the abbreviated map of Cloud City, his long and slender index finger pointing to the west side of the back door, "One ten feet to the west is not rice soup or mud."
The crowd sniffed and looked over, astonished.
"How does the king know that it's not rice soup and mud?" Zhao Meng couldn't help but ask.
Jing Shao glanced at him and didn't answer, "Tomorrow the soldiers will attack the city in two ways, Zhao Meng will be the vanguard to attack the main gate, and Hao Da Dao will lead the troops to attack the back door."
"Yes!" The crowd led the way.
Jing Shao stretched his back and followed his own princess towards the military division tent.
"You're not going back to the king's tent?" Mu Hanzhang stopped to look at him.
"This king still has some things to discuss with the military division." Jing Shao said without changing his face.
"What is it?" Mu Hanzhang glared at him, was this person afraid that others wouldn't know that he was not having an affair with the military division?
"Don't you want to know what's going on on the west side of the gates?" Jing Shao smiled and padded over.
Mu Hanzhang sidestepped, "Raising a tiger is overcrowding, a man as wise and martial as the Great Ancestor would naturally leave a backstroke for future generations. This kind of royal secret catalogue, it's not uncommon for Your Highness to know about it." After saying this, he turned around and left.
Jing Shao scratched his head, in fact, this is really not what the royal secret catalogue, the great-grandfather is left this hand, but is estimated to think that the Southwest King in the beginning of the dynasty may be rebellious to do so, the Southwest King of the peaceful generation, the great-grandfather even forgot to tell this to the descendants. In the last life, because the soldiers who carried the huge wood were shot one, the direction of the attack on the city was biased, and only crookedly shattered the city wall.
Raised his head and looked at the moon that was already as thin as a crooked hook, in his last life, attacking Shengjingguan wasted him a few months, and now in less than a month, he has already struck Yuncheng, and this kind of leaping feeling has no one to share with, it's really lonely. So raised his feet back to the king's tent, wrote a letter to his brother, and when the lights went out in the camp, he slipped out of the king's tent and touched the tent of the military division.
"Woohoo!" Little Yellow, who was sleeping on the side of the bed, had his tail pressed down by the sudden pounce, and immediately jumped up, baring his teeth and snarling at Jing Shao, only to have his head popped in the process.
Mu Hanzhang sighed helplessly and moved inward to the bed to make room for him, Jing Shao immediately took off his outerwear and burrowed into the quilt in a beautiful manner.
"Can't you sleep in your own tent for a night?" Mu Hanzhang looked at him sideways.
"It's not safe to sleep on your own," Jing Shao squeezed toward the warm body, "and there's no telling if there's another assassin."
Little yellow was occupied bed very dissatisfied, tugging Jing Shao's collar pulling half a day, but the tiger is small, can not be gripped off the bed, but was Jing Shao carrying the neck thrown to the footrest. The small yellow and reluctant to climb up the bed, nestled in the chest of Jing Shao, resulting in Jing Shao was ghost pressure bed, woke up several times at night.
The next day, Zhao Meng and Hao Dazhou led an attack on the city, the southwest army sent people out to fight. Zhao Meng and the other side of the general fighting, playing a match, both sides of the soldiers rushed up to go up to the melee, the southwest army to defend the city, see them quickly attacked to the city gate on the rapid return to the city, by means of which is a burst of rolling stones falling from the sky, by means of the terrain of the Yuncheng killing power is very great. Zhao Meng had to lead his troops back.
And Hao Da Dao encountered few situations where he had difficulty approaching the city gates, not to mention attacking the city walls.
After a full day of unsuccessful fighting, the army returned to camp to fight again in the next day.
"Hey, I heard that last night the king lodged in the military division tent again." A patrolling junior soldier whispered to another.
"Aigoo, I've been checking the king's tent from time to time since that time when the assassin came out, and the king basically hasn't slept in the king's tent." Another junior soldier said quietly.
"What nonsense na!" The Right Guard gave a slap from one of the men from behind.
The punched soldier scowled and dared not say another word, and honestly continued his patrol.
"Hey, what's going on between the King and the Military Counselor?" Zhao Meng, who had come over to look for the Right Guard to chat with, walked out and couldn't help but ask when he saw this.
"I don't know." The Right Guard looked at the ground in distress, remembering what the Warlord had said, and couldn't help but wince.
"Doesn't His Majesty dislike men? Didn't he make a fuss for a while when the Emperor told him to take a male wife?" Zhao Meng was curious.
Hao Da Dao, who came over to find them to share the jerky, couldn't help but frown when he heard this, "Are you saying that the king already has a wife, and a male wife at that?"
"Yeah, you don't know?" Zhao Meng hemmed and hawed, thinking that there was finally something that Hao Dazhou didn't know, "Wangfei is the side child of Marquis Beiwei, of noble birth, and I've heard that she's still famous amongst the capital's talented people."
The wife is hostage in the capital, but the king has done this kind of meticulous thing, it is ......
Hao Da Dao put down the jerky and turned around.
Mu Hanzhang was sitting alone by the river, watching the little tiger catching bugs and playing in the grass, when he heard footsteps and thought it was Jing Shao, but he unexpectedly saw Hao Dazhou with a black face.