Jinghong Tower

After Feng Xieying learned about this from Dong Gua, she immediately sent someone to investigate quietly.

It is true that a woman ran away with a baby girl, but that woman was not Aunt Xiu.

Feng Jieying set up a scheme to trap Aunt Xiu and two men living in the city.

Aunt Xiu was willing to die, but the two men all confessed under severe punishment. They were the ones sent by Zheng Xuan to pick up Aunt Xiu.

When the news was sent to Jinyang, He Ran had already sent Zhong Yi out.

Moreover, Feng Xueying blocked the news, and everything from arrest to interrogation was carried out in secret. Even the information to He Ran was sent in the form of a secret letter. Therefore, Zheng Xuan has not received the news so far, otherwise he would have vomited blood. .

After the King of Jin sent Zheng Xuan to plot to assassinate He Ran, he finally felt better.

The killers he has sent out over the years have rarely missed, and occasionally they will continue to attack and will never give up until they achieve their goals.

So now in the eyes of King Jin, He Ran is already a dead person.

The King of Jin ordered Fu Yansheng to rest where he was for three days, and three days later he launched another fierce attack.

In order to mobilize morale, the King of Jin issued an order that the heads of Lu Pingye and Meng Wangsheng were each worth a thousand gold. If they were seriously injured, they would be given five hundred gold. The head of Lu Pingnan, the Marquis of Wu'an, was worth two thousand gold. Even if Lu Pingnan was only slightly injured, the head would be worth two thousand gold. Give five hundred gold.

The soldiers were excited, but they were only excited for a while and then calmed down.

Who are these three people? How could their heads be cut off so easily?

The scouts reported the information they had learned to Meng Wangsheng. Meng Wangsheng was a little regretful and said that the King of Jin was stingy, which seemed to be true.

If he gave more, he might cut himself and ask someone to exchange money.

Brothers Lu Pingnan and Lu Pingye also felt that King Jin was underpaying them, and their heads were far more valuable than this amount.

King Jin is too stingy.

King Jin didn't know it yet, but because of this incident, his reputation as a stingy person was confirmed.

But on the second night when the Jin army was resting, something happened in the camp.

The grain carts of the Jin army were burned. The grain carts were originally separated into one cart and one cart. However, when the soldiers ran to put out the fire, they discovered that the grain carts had been tied together at some point. The fire snakes swept through the grain carts. On the other side, the place where the army was stationed was still some distance from the water source. Therefore, although the fire was extinguished in the end, more than forty grain trucks were still burned, and most of the Jin army's food losses were lost!
Setting fires and tying up grain carts were impossible if there were no moles.

The King of Jin was furious and immediately sent people to investigate, but only a dozen soldiers were missing. Whether these people fled out of fear of crime after setting fire, or did not want to fight and became deserters, it was impossible to find out.

As long as there is a war, food and grass are important materials, and there is almost no hoarding. How much is raised will be sent to the front line. Moreover, even now, even food and grass are transported, but water from afar cannot quench the thirst of the people nearby.

The Jin soldiers were panic-stricken, but at this moment, the Zhuozhou Army launched an attack.

They did not wait for the Jin army to attack the city again, they took the initiative to attack.

The Zhuozhou army suffered a minor defeat in this battle.

However, before the Jin army could take a breather, the Zhuozhou army launched another attack the next day, and the Zhuozhou army suffered another minor defeat in this battle.

That night, a loud roar suddenly came from the Jin army camp.

Someone planted gunpowder in the Jin camp and killed five people.

Although there were only five people, this incident happened in the Jin army camp. Those five people were not stabbed to death, but killed by bombs. It is said that he was on patrol and was killed when he stepped on something while walking.

Who is so bold as to plant gunpowder in the camp?
This is more terrifying than a stabbing.

People were panicked for a while, and even Fu Yansheng had the idea of ​​​​retreating.

Fu Yansheng's two legitimate sons had a deep relationship with their mother, and they had already thought about leaving when they learned of their mother's death.

Now things are happening one after another in the camp, and even if the battle is won, the situation is still gloomy and gloomy.

They found their father and told him that they were going back to Jinyang to honor their mother.

Fu Yansheng naturally disagreed, but his sons said to him: "While we are still alive, please let us observe filial piety for our mother. If we die, there will be no one left to observe filial piety."

Voiceover: If we also die, there will be no one to keep filial piety after your death.

In the past, they would never have dared to say such treasonous words in front of their father, but now they suddenly no longer feared it.

The father is away from home all year round and has a concubine by his side, while the mother stays at home to serve her parents-in-law and take care of the children. They all grew up with their mother. The father just remembered that they had grown up and asked them to serve in the army.

My mother worked hard for half her life, and now she died for my father.

Fu Yansheng looked at them and for the first time did not scold them. He just waved his hand for them to retreat.

An hour later, the two young masters rushed out of the military camp on horseback. The guards saw that it was them and did not dare to stop them.

After Fu Yansheng heard about it, he sent people to chase them, but they only shot and killed the two young masters' entourage, but failed to bring them back.

Although Fu Yansheng repeatedly stated that he did not know about this matter, from then on, there was an additional layer of estrangement between King Jin and him.

During dinner that day, the news that Marshal Fu's two sons had gone to join Ran's army quietly spread among the soldiers.

After Fu Yansheng heard about it, he asked someone to investigate who was spreading the rumor, but how could this be considered spreading rumors? After all, when the two Mr. Fu rushed out of the camp, many people saw it.

Fu Yansheng had to kill two people to serve as a warning to others.

However, the rumors still did not subside. Instead, they became more and more evil. They even began to believe that Mrs. Chuanfu was not dead, but was treated as a guest of honor by He Ran and married to him. Even He Ran now calls Fu Yansheng brother-in-law.

In the past few days, Yuan Gang was like a fish in water. He was the one who set the fire, he was the one who buried the gunpowder sent by Meng Wangsheng, and he was the one who spread the current rumors about Fu Yansheng.

The next day, the Zhuozhou Army attacked again, and this time the Jin Army was defeated!
The Zhuozhou army chased the Jin army again, and the Jin army retreated for nearly a hundred miles, and its morale was greatly reduced.

Fu Yansheng had no choice but to persuade the King of Jin to temporarily abandon Zhuozhou and attack Baoding Prefecture.

In fact, they were supposed to attack Baoding Prefecture, but the King of Jin was in a hurry to go to Beijing and only recovered a few counties near Baoding before going to attack Zhuozhou.

What King Jin wanted was the palace in the capital, and he wanted to sit on that chair as soon as possible.

Now that Zhuozhou has been unable to be conquered, it is better to settle in Baoding Prefecture and rest before making plans.

In the past, King Jin would not have objected to Fu Yansheng's proposal, but it was different now.

King Jin was already suspicious of Fu Yansheng. He was a suspicious person to begin with. How could he still face the rumors with an ordinary mind after hearing those rumors?