Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2326 It Turns Out to be Hidden Here 22.0

While Lu Shengyuan was still in the camp wondering what kind of person Song Qiyun was, the young prince he was thinking about had already returned to the Duke's Mansion and was preparing to set off for Xijing City the next day.

"Brother, sister, even if Xiaoyun made a mistake, you shouldn't send him back to Xijing City!" Xia Jiu and Shen Jiu were also very puzzled when they received the news. "In theory, this is not a big mistake, and it's not Xiaoyun's fault alone."

"That's right!" Shen Jiu nodded. "If we really want to be serious, it's not too much for Old Lu to punish him for delaying the fighter plane this time." He looked at Shen Haolin, then at Xue Ruitian. "Brother and Brother Xiaotian should have seen it very clearly on the observation deck during the day. If we had followed Xiaoyun's suggestion and outflanked earlier, the misalignment could have been avoided. There is a misalignment problem, but it can still be remedied during the entire exercise. However, the last chance to remedy it was missed by Old Lu."

"Is what Jiu'er said true?" Shen Cha looked at Shen Haolin, then at Xue Ruitian. Seeing the two nod, she frowned, "But why didn't you tell me when we were reviewing the game just now?"

"It's already this result, what's the use of talking about it? This..." Shen Haolin spread his hands, "General Lu is usually cautious in his words and deeds, and he is even more cautious about the new formation. Given his personality, I'm not surprised that he would make such a decision."

"But brother will agree with Xiaoyun, right?" Shen Cha thought for a moment, looked at Shen Haolin, and then looked at Xue Ruitian who seemed to be thinking about something, "Do you know something? Does General Lu have any unspeakable secrets?"

"It's true that there is something unspeakable." Shen Haolin smiled, looked at Shen Cha, then looked at his brothers who were looking at him, and sighed softly, "Xiao Yun, he quarrels with you a lot every day, right?"

"Not a lot, but whenever I get a little radical, he'll pour cold water on me." Song Qiyun sighed, "I'm not surprised at all that he chose to do this today, but this time is different from the past, he seems to be a little tougher. And," he recalled, "from the very beginning of the formation drill, his mood was a little off."

"You're not feeling right?" Xue Ruitian frowned slightly and exchanged glances with Shen Haolin. "What's wrong with you?"

"He was very nervous and excited. He was shaking all over. I've never seen him like this before." Song Qiyun looked at Shen Haolin. "It was really strange. I thought he was not feeling well, but when I asked him, he said everything was fine."

"We were careless." Xue Ruitian touched his chin and looked at Shen Haolin. "This formation is a bit similar to the one back then. Maybe..."

"So, I suggested that we select elite soldiers to practice the formation, so he doesn't have to follow." Shen Haolin nodded. "I thought he should have let it go after so many years, but I didn't expect that he still kept it in his heart and this knot in his heart has not been untied."

"Brother? Brother Xiaotian?" Shen Cha looked at the two of them, "What does this mean?"

"You are young and don't know what happened back then. Besides, it is forbidden to mention this incident in the main camp, especially in the rear army. Not to mention you, even the generals who were one or two years younger than General Lu, and even General Lu's deputy generals, don't know about it." Xue Ruitian sighed, "Haolin and I know about it because we entered the vanguard camp at the beginning. Uncle Shen and father told us about Old Lu before we went into battle for the first time, so that we could learn from it."

“Xiao Yun, you think General Lu is suppressing you and denying you, so you are unhappy, right?”

"Is not it?"

"No." Xue Ruitian shook his head gently. "When he was young, he was the same as you. Lu Shengyuan, when he first joined the army, was in the Vanguard Battalion. In just half a year, he went from a rookie to an elite member of the Vanguard Battalion. If it weren't for that accident, I'm afraid he would be the commander of the Vanguard Battalion now."

"The accident you are talking about is not..." Shen Cha frowned, looked at the two of them, and said, "Dragon Canyon?" "You know?"

"No!" Shen Cha shook her head gently. "I only know that if my father hadn't come to our aid in time, half of the Vanguard Battalion would have been killed in Dragon Canyon. But I don't know exactly what happened. I asked the master, and I also asked Yan Bo and my master, but they all kept silent. So..." She looked at the two people, "What happened in that battle? Is it related to General Lu?"

"Yeah!" Xue Ruitian nodded, "When Old Lu was young, he was similar to Xiaoyun, brave, courageous, and very radical." He looked at Song Qiyun, "However, if you really calculate it carefully, you are a world away from Lu Shengyuan back then."

"What does this mean?"

"You at least know how to be careful, but Lu Shengyuan is not like that at all. He fights with a completely life-threatening attitude. He once said that as long as he can see, he will not allow any Liao or Jin people to stand, hold a knife, or breathe. Similarly, he will not allow any Jin or Liao people to escape from his knife."

"So..." Not only Song Qiyun, but also Shen Cha couldn't believe it. "So powerful? General Lu? How is it possible?"

"What father and Uncle Shen said can't be false, right?" Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Haolin, who nodded. He continued, "At that time, we didn't believe it either, so we checked the files and saw in the military merit book that during the years he was in the vanguard camp, he was always ranked first and no one could surpass him."

"But." Shen Cha was puzzled, "How did he become like this? To be honest, when I first saw him as a child, I thought he was a military advisor. From his appearance to his temperament, he doesn't look like a general at all."

"He was in his fifth year in the Vanguard Battalion. At that time, he had been promoted to captain. If he made more achievements in the war, he could be promoted to deputy general. But at this most critical moment, he met with an accident."

"Battle of Dragon Canyon?"

"That's right!" Xue Ruitian nodded. "In the Battle of Longxia Gorge, the Liao people sent out 3,000 vanguards to attack the vanguard camp. Lu Shengyuan led his brothers to follow the vanguard camp to fight the Liao people. The Liao people pretended to be defeated and fled into Longxia Gorge. Lu Shengyuan ignored the orders from his superiors and led dozens of his men to chase into Longxia Gorge. As a result, he was trapped in the formation by the Liao people. When Uncle Shen arrived with reinforcements, he wiped out the Liao people's vanguard camp. Originally, they thought that Lu Shengyuan's troops who had broken in before had been wiped out, but when they were cleaning up the battlefield, they found him dying."

"He's the only one who survived?"

Seeing Xue Ruitian nod, Shen Cha sighed heavily. She could now understand why Lu Shengyuan had become such a person. Because of his wrong decision and his impulsiveness, all his brothers died. He was a sinner and he was the one who should die.

"He..." She looked at Xue Ruitian, "will he die to atone for his sins after waking up?"

"That's right!" Xue Ruitian sighed heavily. "He thought about it several times and wanted to use his own life to make amends for his dead brothers. He made such a fuss that Uncle Shen beat him with fifty military sticks. After the beating, he told him that since he knew it was his fault, he had to live for the brothers who died because of him. From that moment on, his life no longer belonged to him."