Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 27
After half a month of hard training, Ye Chen was summoned by Cao Bin to serve as his personal guard.

On this day, Ye Chen and a group of soldiers escorted Cao Bin to the Central Army to discuss matters.

Ye Chen, Wang Chao and more than ten personal soldiers waited outside the imperial tent together with other generals' personal soldiers.

This was Ye Chen's first visit to the Chinese army, and he thought that in the big tent in front of him was Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty who was well known even in later generations.A little curious in my heart, I stretched my head and looked at the entrance of the imperial tent, wishing to see the emperor's claws.

At this moment, a young general led two soldiers and escorted a stern-looking young man in black to the outside of the imperial tent, and whispered to a little yellow gate guarding the imperial tent: "Please report to Your Majesty, Guo Wuwei, the prime minister of the Northern Han Dynasty, sent someone to send a letter to His Majesty."

As soon as Xiao Huangmen heard this, he went in to report, and not long after, the young man in black was brought into the imperial tent.

Ye Chen witnessed this scene and heard the conversation, especially the name "Guo Wuwei", his expression changed, and his mind raced rapidly.

"Guo Wuwei and Nasi Luoyi must already know that I am in the Great Song Army."

"Guo Wuwei asked someone to send a letter to Zhao Kuangyin at this time. Eight out of ten, he wanted to join the Song Dynasty and help the Song army cooperate with the outside world to capture Jinyang City."

"If this happens, Guo Wuwei will definitely get a high position in the Song Dynasty, and I am just a small lieutenant. If he is against me, I am afraid it will be quite easy. And from that day on for Tian Xing Yupei and Yu Daoxiang, Si Luo Judging from the desperate situation, he will definitely not give up the Heavenly Star Jade Pendant. Besides, he has seen me before, so it is not difficult to find me."

Ye Chen had a lot of thoughts in his mind, and when he came to the above judgments, he couldn't help but look a little ugly, took a deep breath, and began to think about countermeasures.

However, when Cao Bin came out and took them away after the discussion in the imperial tent was over, he still didn't think of any way to prevent this from happening.

What can he do?Unless the messenger sent by Guo Wuwei is killed, it will be difficult for Guo Wuwei to know Zhao Kuangyin's reply.

However, he was just a small lieutenant and Cao Bin's personal soldier. He was always in Cao Bin's sight, and it was impossible for him to leave secretly. What's more, he didn't have a pass token, and he couldn't leave the camp.Even if he got out of the camp by chance, he didn't know where the messenger was.

Cao Bin, who was riding ahead, reined in his horse and stopped suddenly, and everyone followed him and stopped quickly.

Cao Bin turned around and glanced at Ye Chen, and said, "Ye Chen! This commander heard from Wang Chao that you have been training very hard recently, and I will arrange a task for you to test your training effect by the way."

Hearing this, Ye Chen came back to his senses, immediately cupped his fists and said, "Please show me, Commander."

"Now you take the pass token given to you by the commander, and go to the rocky mountain in the west alone to inquire about the military situation. Return to the camp before dawn tomorrow morning. Well... no matter what happens, you must first ensure your own safety." Cao Bin has a deep meaning Said.

After finishing speaking, Cao Bin threw a token over, and took people away without waiting for Ye Chen to say anything.

Ye Chen put away the token, glanced at the back of Cao Bin and his party, and felt a little puzzled.

But the military order has been issued, and it is his first travel mission.Ye Chen paid much attention to it, restrained his mind, turned his horse's head, and ran towards the west of the camp.

At this point, it was evening.It was getting dark.

Holding Cao Bin's token all the way, Ye Chen walked through the West Daying camp and came to the vicinity of Luanshigang in the west without any hindrance.

As he came all the way, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the mission Cao Bin assigned him this time was a bit strange.

Not to mention that Luanshigang is near the West Daying Camp, it is quite far from the Beida Camp, and it is not within its defense zone at all.In addition, the Song army besieged the city for many days, and the nearby trees had already been cut down to build siege equipment such as ladders and trebuchets. Get out the stone, and dig down a few feet deep.

This makes the dwarf mountain even shorter, and there is almost no vegetation at all. In the direction of the Song Dynasty military camp, it is clear at a glance from the sentry tower, and there is no way to hide people.

In other words, it was a joke for Ye Chen to come here to inquire about the military situation.

But Ye Chen considered that Cao Bin would never make such an ultra-low-level mistake. After thinking for a while, he hid in a stone pit on the top of a short mountain, and meticulously took out the bow and arrow, and began to carefully observe the surroundings.

I thought that maybe there would be Northern Han spies here to spy on the Song army camp.

As a result, not long after he climbed into the stone pit, someone really came.

However, the visitors did not come from outside, but from the direction of Da Song Xi Daying, a group of three people.

In the distance, the sun has already set, leaving only a little blood-red white belly, and the sky is very dark.Even with Ye Chen's eyesight, he couldn't see the faces of the three of them clearly. He could only infer from the clothes of the three of them that the one in front was wearing night clothes, and the two behind were Song soldiers in armor.

Ye Chen looked at the black figure in night clothes in front of him, at first he felt a little familiar, but then his body shook, he took a long breath, and muttered to himself: "It turned out to be him, the messenger sent by Guo Wuwei."

Immediately after he reacted, his heart was shocked.

"Cao Bin sent me here. Sure enough, the drunkard didn't mean to drink. He asked me to kill Guo Wuwei's messenger. And he knew that I wanted to kill Guo Wuwei's messenger. Why did he help me? Why did he want to kill Guo Wuwei's messenger? Do things that are not good for the Song Army." While Ye Chen understood, he also had new doubts.

After the two Song soldiers sent the messenger to Luanshigang, they turned and left.Ye Chen carefully crawled out of the stone pit, holding a bow and arrow, and quietly followed behind the messenger.

Luanshigang is about three miles away from Xidaying.However, the latent outpost of Xidaying in this direction is only 500 meters away from Luanshigang.If there was a fight, in the dead of night, and the screams of the messenger before he died, he would definitely be discovered by the sentinels of the Great Song Dynasty.

As an excellent sniper, Ye Chen naturally has no shortage of patience.

During the Northern Daying of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Pu, the prime minister, came to guard and drank tea and played chess with Cao Bin in the commander's tent.

"Brother Cao! What do you think of Guo Wuwei?" Zhao Pu dropped a sunspot, took a sip of tea, and said suddenly.

"I know that the first assistant is going to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing. Guo Wu put him as an official in Song Dynasty. He alone is nothing, at most a treacherous minister. As long as he is not in your and my position, he will It won't do much harm to me, Da Song. It's just...haha! As soon as this white piece falls, Lord Shoufu will take away a dozen black pieces." Cao Bin suddenly found a good move in the middle of speaking.

Zhao Pu didn't take it seriously, smiled slightly, and said, "It doesn't matter if you have more than ten sons, you can't beat me."

Speaking of this, he looked serious, and said: "Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, since the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms struggled for hegemony, in the past 50 years, the land of China has been full of chaos and endless wars. No country can rule the world. War. On the surface, there are various historical and objective reasons. But in fact, a large part of the reason is that there are a few powerful forces secretly fueling the flames for their own selfishness, and even secretly playing with the royal families of various countries to actually control the countries. "

"Brother Cao once led troops to destroy Western Shu. He must have known that the ruler of Western Shu was obsessed with the Maitreya cult. He even worshiped the Maitreya leader as his teacher. Let the government fall into the hands of the heretics, make the country not a country, the name is not worth living, the generals do not think about war, and the soldiers do not train soldiers, so my country is easily destroyed by the Song Dynasty."

"The Northern Han Dynasty has also been controlled by Guo Wuwei for more than ten years, but Guo Wuwei is said to be a disciple of Zhang Wumeng, the head teacher of the Taiping sect, the largest Taoist sect in the north. And the old man also heard that Zhang Wumeng and Zhang Wumeng The Khitan royal family is inextricably linked. The Khitan emperor was seriously ill some time ago, which caused turmoil in the country. It is rumored that because he believed in Zhang Wumeng's Taiping religion, he did not take medicine when he was sick, but ate the medicine made by Zhang Wumeng. The elixir caused delays in treatment. Moreover, the elixir seems to be addictive, Zhang Wumeng is said to be trying to control the Khitan emperor, but was discovered by Khitan Empress Xiao and drove Zhang Wumeng out of the palace."

"The Nanhan Kingdom in the south is even worse. As far as this old man knows, its emperor has probably become the puppet of that Taiyi leader Chen Jingyuan."

"Now this Guo Wuwei is relying on my Great Song Dynasty, and wants to join forces with my Great Song Dynasty to break through Jinyang City. With the character of an official family, Guo Wuwei will definitely be named a high-ranking official. And these demon ways can best confuse the king and deceive the people. Disturb the government and disturb the common people. Of course, the officials and families will not be affected by it, but...everything happens, we must not sit idly by."

After Zhao Pu said this in one breath, he finally expressed his purpose.

Cao Bin nodded, expressing his deep conviction, and said: "What Lord Shoufu said is very true. If Guo Wuwei really successfully surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty, I will try my best to give advice to the officials and try to let Guo Wuwei be an official. It won't be too high. And afterwards, we will try our best to suppress this monster."

Zhao Pu achieved his goal, so he stopped talking, only to realize that just now he was only focused on talking and didn't concentrate on playing chess, so he was already at a disadvantage.At the moment, I started to concentrate on playing chess, trying to recover the disadvantage.But it was too late, and finally lost to Cao Bin.

Cao Bin won Zhao Pu for the first time in Go, and he was in a good mood. Zhao Pu refused to accept it and wanted to play another game, but Cao Bin stopped playing Go. It is not easy to win Zhao Pu in one game.

(End of this chapter)