Golden branches around the East Palace

Chapter 297 Veteran
Huangfuyan ordered Liu Mobai to look for the veteran who used to follow An Jingcheng, but Liu Mobai really found one.His name is Zhao Fan. He is in his 40s and is two years younger than An Jingcheng. He was An Jingcheng's right-hand man when An Jingcheng was ordered to attack Northern Mongolia.Later, after An Jingcheng repelled Beimeng and was ordered to leave Beiguan, for some reason, he did not promote this confidant general, but directly demoted him from his post, and punished him to serve as a small soldier in the army. hundreds of households.

Because time has passed for a long time, many people don't know this person at all. Liu Yubai also found out that there is such a person who has been in the Beiguan Army after he inquired about the people who followed An Jingcheng to attack Beiguan. middle.

So Liu Yubai invited him back.After asking clearly, I realized that it was not An Jingcheng who wanted to demote him back then, but he asked for it himself.

An Jingcheng has always been like a brother to Zhao Fan. At that time, An Jingcheng knew that the emperor could not rest assured of him.So he asked Zhao Fan whether he planned to lie dormant and wait for the opportunity, or whether he planned to make a fortune.At that time, An Jingcheng gave Zhao Fan a choice, but even An Jingcheng was surprised that Zhao Fan would choose to hibernate.Although An Jingcheng had told him under the circumstances at the time that he might never have a chance, Zhao Fan still made that choice.

But fortunately, Zhao Fan's choice at that time, because these years, the fate of those generals who followed An Jingcheng was really not very good.The lucky ones were just dismissed, and many unfortunately were directly found excuses and charged with crimes.There is really not much An Jingcheng can do, and it is impossible to protect everyone. Sometimes, it depends on how some people choose.So no matter what kind of psychology Zhao Fan had in his choice at the time, at least he survived safely.He was not affected at all when the emperor purged An Jingcheng's forces in the army in various names in disguise.

Many veterans who followed the war earlier actually knew Zhao Fan, but Zhao Fan is just a small family now, even if Gao Fa used to be An Jingcheng's confidant general, it would not be of any benefit to them. Jingcheng was deeply in the heart at the beginning, and he naturally admired Zhao Fan, let alone report him.

Huangfuyan would not directly reuse Zhao Fan just because he was An Jingcheng's former confidant general, but gave him a chance.

Huangfu Yan first transferred [-] soldiers from Zhang He, promoted Zhao Fan to be a general, and then gave him a month to take the [-] soldiers to the camp outside Hancheng to meet the enemy.Beiguan's army is now stationed near Lushan, [-] miles away from Hancheng. After passing Lushan, Fangcheng was just occupied. Luo Cheng retreated to Hancheng, but the army still stayed near Lushan.Northern Mongolia has just occupied Fangcheng, and it will not launch a large-scale battle for a while, but there are still sneak attacks or provocations from time to time.The Beiguan army has been forced to retreat again and again.

Zhang He didn't dare to disobey Huangfu Yan's order at all, he could only wait for orders in silence, the left and right emperors were far away in the capital, the emperor didn't know what he had done, he had better save his life first.

But the ten thousand troops that Huangfuyan gave to Zhao Fan only said to let him meet the enemy, but he didn't have any other requirements, it just depends on how far Zhao Fan can do it.

(End of this chapter)