with words in mind

Chapter 188 The Battle of Tianming 1
Mangzhou military camp, inside the tent of the appeasement envoy.

Qi Ming urged Yan Mo to take a rest, but he saw that the other party's eyes were steady, staring at him as he stepped forward
"Aifei?!" He pretended to hide behind, and said with a slight smile, "This is a military camp, so the military discipline must not be messed up~" After saying that, he was about to reach out and hug him, but he was gently pushed by the other party! !Fall back into the army bed! ! !
Yan Mo's expression remained unchanged, he stepped forward, unbuttoned the man's armor, and peeled off layer after layer of skirts until he saw only a light-colored scar on the man's strong chest
".All good?"

".Mmm~" Qi Ming stared at the other party, the um sounded nice, and his smile was still there!
Yan Mo repeatedly confirmed that the wound had healed and that no black iron sword's aura was left behind, so he was relieved and quickly got off the bed.
"Aifei just let it go?" Qi Ming didn't close his breasts to resist the cold, raised his cheeks slightly, and pulled the hanging belt around the other's waist with a smile, preventing Yan Mo from leaving the military bed
"This is a military camp, and military discipline must not be messed up!" Yan Mo replied coldly, rolling his eyelids!

"This king is just pulling a sash, how did you mess up the military discipline?" Qi Ming asked jokingly, recalling those staring eyes this morning. He could see that the other party was also thinking about the same thing at this moment.
The fox that descended like a god is really impressive, faced with the timely rescue of the other party, Yan Mo, who was once again moved, suppressed the quiet movement in his body, and punched the other party's abdominal muscles: "Don't think about anything serious! !"

"Cough cough." Qi Ming didn't feel any pain, and coughed twice with a smile, "In order to support you, this king has been running around all night, and it's also my concubine who hasn't slept for a few days. Can I have the heart to treat me like this?"

"!" As they got closer, Yan Mo did see the black and blue eyes of the man, quickly withdrew his fists, pulled his belt back and stood up, "You are the one who needs rest more!!"

"The northern line is cold, and this king needs someone to warm the bed." Qi Ming took Yan Mo's right hand and gently moved it around, hugging him into his arms! !
The two fingers flickered quickly, and the afterimage was rushing!Losing restraint, Yan Mo got up very calmly, pulled the quilt over the man's body, and said: "Sleep!"

The Qi Ming who was tapped: "."

It has been two hours since the end of the Mangzhou East and South Gate battles, and 18 reinforcements finally arrived at their destination.Bai Dajiao ordered 22 of them to be stationed in Lingzhou, and the [-] soldiers who had originally defended Lingzhou were included in the first batch of reinforcements. In this way, the first batch of [-] and the second batch of [-] were allocated to Liu Jie and Qin Mu respectively. Under the leadership of Xie, plus the original remaining [-] soldiers, there are a total of [-] troops in Mangzhou City.

Lu Jiu was ordered to accompany 18 reinforcements, so he had just arrived in Mangzhou.After entering the camp, he finally found the tent of the pacifier!
"Subordinate Lu Jiu, please see the master!"

What responded to him was a moment of silence. He waited for a while, his eyes rolled around, thinking that the prince finally saw the princess, and the tent might be a beautiful scene at this moment. This is a difficult situation!Should he continue to wait?Let's make sure and wait. After thinking about it, he has already put his ear on the tight tent, wanting to know what's going on inside. Unexpectedly, a call came from behind him!It was he who called!With a guilty conscience, he couldn't help cursing, sure enough!Do not do things with a bad conscience! !He turned his head stiffly. When he saw that he was not a prince, he felt relieved! !

"Thousands of traces!"

"Lu Jiu, what are you doing?" Qian Su who came to guard looked at him suspiciously.

"Haha." Lu Jiu laughed loudly, and yelled, "I'm looking for the prince."

Qiansu: "My lord is resting in the tent."

Lu Jiu rolled her eyes: "Where is the princess?" Could it be there too?

Qiansu: "The princess is in the camp of the wounded."

Inside the camp of the wounded, Qi Yun took care of Feng Zhi, Gao's guards and a group of wounded white-clothed disciples were being treated by the military doctor.Led by Xiao Bing, Lu Jiu entered the camp and went straight to Yan Mo.

"Princess." Lu Jiu saluted, "Your subordinate has something important to report, please take a moment to speak."

Yan Mo looked up: "Lu Jiu? Something important?!"

"Ah! That's right!" Qi Yun saw Lu Jiu and remembered what happened in Yingzhou City, and shouted, "Master, look at my memory! I also have something to report!!"

In a corner outside the camp, Qi Yun told the ins and outs of the unacceptable soldiers in Yingzhou City, and especially named Tonghe City as very suspicious!
Then, Lu Jiu reported softly: "The subordinates marched with 18 reinforcements and found that there are many strange things in the army! The biggest problem is the military rations!!"

Yan Mo: "That's the rations for the soldiers! Who is so bold to tamper with the rations?!"

"The subordinates followed all the way, and found that several carts of military rations were mixed with chaff! It was substandard!! That's why" Lu Jiu continued to blame, "The subordinates have not found out who is responsible."

During the battle between the east and south city gates, Yan Mo had to let Shuo Yi go first in order to end the war. In fact, she had a lot of questions to ask!The Longevity Gate and the black hand behind the scenes are all stalks in her heart. Unexpectedly, there will be a wave of ups and downs, and there will be problems with the food and grass brought by the 18 reinforcements!

"This matter is so important that General Bai must know!" Yan Mo frowned and said, "If there is a shortage of military rations, our army of 30 to [-] people will be defeated without Beishuo's action!!" Go to the main command camp alone!
Connecting the sky, far away in Kyoto, the streets and yards are still bustling and warm. The summer is over, and some sweet-scented osmanthus flowers that like to bloom early have already emerged slightly, and they can’t wait to bloom buds to announce the success to the palace. With a sigh of relief, he was busy until the evening before leaving the court.At this moment, the emperor ate two mouthfuls of white porridge, and sat upright in the Hall of Qinzheng to discuss the follow-up matters with the Minister of War.

Emperor: "Shen Shangshu, the front line needs supplies. You have to collect oil bombs, weapons, food and grass within two days and send them to the front line!"

"Your Majesty." Shen Xionghao saluted, "I have prepared oil bombs, weapons, food and grass, and I can set off at any time. But. Right now, there is a shortage of personnel inside and outside Beijing. Who should escort this batch of military supplies?"

"!" The crown prince stood aside quietly. Hearing this, he felt that the opportunity was coming, and hurriedly saluted, "Father! My son is willing to put on armor and go to battle! Personally escort this batch of military funds!!"

"No!" The emperor said briefly, but with a firm tone, "You are the crown prince! You must stay in the palace!"

"Father!" The prince wanted to say something, but the emperor stopped him!
"Being busy for a few days, Jin'er, go back to the East Palace and rest!" The emperor's words were gentle, but his tone was not persuasive, but an order.

The prince wanted to speak again.
"Shangshu Shen!" The emperor directly passed his son and said to the Minister of the Ministry of War, "I leave the selection of candidates to you, and this batch of military funds must go out tomorrow!"

".Yes!" No matter how helpless Shen Xionghao was, he had to agree! !

After the minister of the Ministry of War saluted and withdrew, the emperor saw that the crown prince was still standing in the hall and refused to leave. He felt a little distressed, and stepped forward two steps: "Jin'er, you are different from Ming'er. I don't trust your martial arts. It's a battlefield. I don't want to"

"The battlefield." The prince lowered his eyes and said sadly, "Ten years ago, my ministers were just so many guards who came out of another battlefield. They all died for my ministers."

"." The emperor twitched in his heart, frowned and said, "Old things, are you still blaming me?"

"I don't dare!" The prince lowered his eyebrows and immediately knelt down to salute, with a blunt tone!

Feeling that his son was angry with him, the emperor became even more angry: "I am protecting you! Why are you?"

"Your Majesty—" At this time, Mangzhou's detailed military report finally arrived, because the informant passed out after arriving at the military platform, so it was the prime minister who was running now! "Your Majesty! The military newspaper is here!!"

"!" The emperor signaled the palace servants to quickly support the prime minister and hand over the sealed military report!Take it apart and look at it, it is the battle of the east and south gates of Mangzhou and the recovery of Lingzhou, as well as the food and grass problem among the 18 reinforcements! !

Bang!The emperor threw the hard-shell military newspaper!Knock over a vase and smash it to pieces! ! !
"It's okay to have a vegetarian meal in the corpse! The national crisis is imminent! Think about your own pockets!! Those who are suspected of embezzling military pay! Let me find out!!!"

The prince got up and took a look at the military newspaper on the ground. After learning the details, he glanced at the worried prime minister with a calm expression, and asked for orders again: "Father! The frontline soldiers are in urgent need of food, grass and military supplies! Please let your ministers escort you there!! "

"Prime Minister!" the emperor passed the crown prince and said, "Notify Shen Aiqing to thoroughly investigate the military pay account! Find out the moth! Prepare another [-] carts of food and grass tomorrow morning, and send them to the northern line together!!"

"!" The prime minister thought about it carefully. Although he didn't see the content of the military newspaper, he could guess that something went wrong with the grain and grass on the northern line. !

Seeing that the man had left, the emperor squeezed the space between his brows and was about to go out. The disobedient son could not be seen for nothing!

"Father!" The prince strode forward, knelt down and said in a clear voice, "Please let my ministers escort this batch of military supplies! Make sure they can be completely delivered to the hands of the soldiers!!!"

The emperor's footsteps did not stop, but still went out
The prince lowered his eyes, pondered for a moment, and said sadly with tears in his eyes, "What difficulties and dangers, my younger brother charged forward and stood in front of him! Is this the elder brother you want to be?" After a moment of silence, he continued to ask, " The soldiers on the front line fought bloody battles. I wear brocade clothes in the palace, eat jade food, and enjoy it peacefully. Is this the prince heir of the minister?"

"." Hearing the previous sentence, the emperor had already stopped!He slightly turned his head to look at the eldest son who was kneeling behind him, and was silent for a long time. Then he left the Qinzheng Hall alone, leaving the prince alone to kneel in the cold hall, with a lonely back, only the emptiness of a room for company
Outside the palace, under the rays of the sun, a looming cloud in the sky could not catch up with the one in front, and it got farther and farther away
As night fell, in a corner of the capital, the small bridge was still flowing, and the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers were slightly blooming. A figure in black robe stood on the bridge, looking at the stars in the sky.
"My lord." Hiding under the black hood and cloak, Yun Shikang saluted, "Lingzhou has recovered, 18 reinforcements have arrived, and the remaining 12 reinforcements are on their way. In the battle of Mangzhou, both sides suffered losses. Shuo withdrew his troops for the time being and returned to the boundary of Mount Mang."

"I have given them such a superior opportunity, but this is the result!" the black-robed nobleman said quietly without moving his body.

"One more thing." Yun Shikang continued, "There is a problem with the food and grass of the 30 reinforcements, and it is not our people who did it."

"Hmph!" The black-robed nobleman chuckled, "Moths are everywhere, more or less."

"." Yun Shikang said after a breath of silence, "The crown prince asks for orders today, and wants to escort the food and grass to the northern line. Next, what is your lord's plan?"

"." The nobleman in black robe said after a moment of silence, "Naturally, we will continue to support the prince. Neither Beishuo can win nor our army win too easily! The seeds have already been planted, let them germinate themselves! The two armies are at war. , How can you give up if you don't have a life and death?!"

"Yes." Yun Shikang lowered his head, then raised his head again and said, "It's just that, King Yi'an went to the northern line, which always makes me a little uneasy."

The black-robed nobleman lowered his eyeliner, squinted behind him and said, "Shouldn't King Yi'an die on the battlefield?"

"You don't dare to speak rashly." Yun Shikang's tone was slightly gentle, "A few days ago, I checked the armory and found that a set of armor previously customized by His Majesty was missing."

The nobleman in black robe was slightly surprised: "Armor customized by the emperor?"

Yun Shikang: "It was built by His Majesty on the day of King Yi'an's coming-of-age ceremony, and it was kept in the armory."

"... Hey. Father and son in the end." The black-robed nobleman sighed, "The emperor is still reluctant to part with this smart second child! It's just a set of armor, how much can it do? Anyone who stands in the way of our great cause can be killed!!" In the last sentence, his The sound is like a sharp dagger!

Yun Shikang raised his eyes and said with a smile, "Yes!"

Hong Shangshu's mansion.

Hong Ge is very old, even though everyone in the palace is very busy, he can go back to the mansion earlier to rest, waiting for his son to return, he can't help but look at the empty courtyard.
After a while, a servant finally shouted: "Lord Hong returns to the mansion—"

Hong Du walked into the room with heavy steps, greeted his father well, and then sat down to eat.

"Hurry up! Bring up all the warm dishes!!" Hong Ge ordered, and took a small sweet-scented osmanthus flower perched on his son's shoulder, "Why are you back so late today?"

Hong Du didn't care much, and brushed off the little sweet-scented osmanthus that was left on his body: "Father, have you been waiting for a long time? Come, my son will serve you a bowl of soup. It's an extraordinary time! From now on, don't wait for your son, eat it yourself~"

"All the female relatives have returned to their hometowns, and you and I are left in the house. It's not deserted to eat for the father alone!" Hong Ge is always a person who distinguishes between public and private. In private, he returned to being an ordinary father
"It's my son's negligence!" Hong Du said with a smile, "Come on, my son will give you some food, eat more!"

"What do you want to eat tomorrow? Let the kitchen prepare it for father." Hong Ge took the rice bowl and said.

"I'm afraid my son won't be able to come back tomorrow." Hong Du also served himself a bowl of rice and said, "There is a problem with the military rations on the northern front. His Majesty ordered a thorough investigation of the military pay accounts, and my son has to help."

Old Hong Ge: "That's a matter for the Ministry of War"

Hong Du: "In an extraordinary period, the Ministry of Rites has few affairs, and my son took the initiative to petition for help. His Majesty knows that his son is good at arithmetic, so it is accurate."

"." Hong Ge said nothing, and gave his son a bowl full of vegetables.
Although it was the same night sky, the city of Mangzhou was completely dark, with neither stars nor moon.In the barracks, the generals who had been rehabilitated successively began to take turns to replace their posts. They moved in an orderly manner and recuperated. Unfortunately, tonight, there was still a commotion in the camp!General Su Jun was in a daze for a few days because of his previous serious injuries, but he couldn't make it through in the end!Along with him, there was also Captain Bao, who died of death! !
Bai Dajiao, Qi Ming, and Yan Mo saw the general for the last time alone, and the three of them walked out of the camp with deathly gray faces.
(End of this chapter)