Moreover, during the encirclement and suppression of Yu Nanqing, the traitors sent false information to the main force several times. The major general, commander, deputy commander, and vanguard of the Dragon Cavalry went to provide support in batches, but they were all defeated one by one by the enemy with several times the strength.

Lu Cezhong was the first to notice something amiss. He ordered a retreat before entering the enemy's encirclement, and instead made a detour through several islands to reach the enemy's headquarters in order to support Yu Nanqing.

Meanwhile, Yu Nanqing's army had been cut off from the main force for more than three months.

On the very day that Lü Cezhong went to provide support, a sudden gale arose at sea, and thick fog rolled in.

They were not good at naval warfare to begin with, and now, with such terrible weather, it was no exception that he engaged in a fierce battle with the navy of the Eastern Kingdom at sea that day.

Lü Cezhong was lucky; during the intermittent stalemate with the enemy, he accidentally joined forces with Yu Nanqing's army. Yu Nanqing had already noticed something was amiss, but he was too caught up in the battle to break free.

In the end, Yu Nanqing and Lü Cezhong led the remaining troops to fight their way out, but were defeated and returned home.

They thought that everything would be fine once they returned to the army, but little did they know that the Dragon Cavalry's headquarters had been wiped out by the Eastern Kingdom's navy during the months they were fighting the enemy!

His dragon cavalry were either dead or wounded; wherever his gaze fell, there was a sea of ​​corpses.

The remaining defeated Dragon Cavalry had already retreated to the front lines, but neither Yu Nanqing nor Lü Cezhong knew where they had retreated to.

Just as Yu Nanqing could not believe it, the enemy troops from the Eastern Kingdom, who were lying in ambush in the Dragon Cavalry camp, suddenly surged up from all directions.

Yu Nanqing and Lü Cezhong fought their way back with the remaining troops. It was at this moment that Yu Nanqing was struck hard in the lower back.

In that instant, Yu Nanqing felt all the nerves in her lumbar spine snap, and she lost consciousness in the blink of an eye.

By the time Lü Cezhong realized something was wrong, it was too late. Seeing Yu Nanqing about to collapse to the ground, he was filled with resentment and fury. With one hand he grabbed Yu Nanqing and with the other he cut the traitor in half!

That's how Yu Nanqing became paralyzed.

There is more than one traitor within the Dragon Cavalry.

Yu Nanqing didn't even know when they started to betray each other. They had fought so many battles together and were brothers who had entrusted their lives to each other.

Lü Cezhong eventually brought Yu Nanqing back to the remnant camp.

But at this moment, someone actually insisted that it was Lü Cezhong who injured the prince and that Lü Cezhong had also betrayed the military's information.

Moreover, not only are there witnesses and physical evidence, but the person who framed them also spread rumors that Lü Cezhong was an internal traitor while Yu Nanqing and Lü Cezhong were away.

Moreover, what is most puzzling is that not long after Yu Nanqing escaped from the enemy, a military supervisor from the imperial court had already appeared in the military camp.

The military supervisor was sent by Emperor Yuanhe, and his first words were that he had come to investigate the matter of the traitor.

The journey from the capital to the border of the Eastern Kingdom takes at least four or five months by carriage, while Yu Nanqing has only been out of contact with the army for three months. In other words, before he even went to war with the Eastern Kingdom, this military supervisor had already set off from the court!

Lu Cezhong was utterly speechless. He wished he could kill those shameless scoundrels who had framed him, but if he did, he would truly become the one who destroyed the evidence.

Unexpectedly, without him lifting a finger, Yu Nanqing, lying in his hospital bed, used his last breath to kill the traitor who framed Lü Cezhong!

Upon seeing Yu Nanqing kill someone right before his eyes, Lü Cezhong did not hesitate at all. He immediately raised his knife and beheaded the witness, and destroyed all the physical evidence.

Upon seeing this, the military supervisor turned to flee, but Lü Cezhong swiftly cleaved him in two.

In this way, there would be no way to verify the facts since the person is dead.

Neither eyewitnesses nor physical evidence remain.

As long as Yu Nanqing does not admit it, no one can punish Lü Cezhong.

Yu Nanqing didn't mention this to anyone because he couldn't admit that he destroyed the 'evidence,' even though he knew it was all fake. At the time, those false pieces of evidence were enough to sentence Lü Cezhong to death.

At the time, he simply didn't have the energy to investigate.

Lu Cezhong was imprisoned entirely because all the witnesses and physical evidence had been destroyed, and someone needed to take the blame.

Lü Cezhong voluntarily went to prison, but he did not admit to any of the crimes that Emperor Yuanhe had accused him of.

Emperor Yuanhe wanted to force a confession through torture, but Lü Cezhong was the commander-in-chief of the Dragon Cavalry and had never been afraid of such tortures, so Emperor Yuanhe had no way to deal with him.

In the end, Emperor Yuanhe had to resort to both soft and hard tactics, forcing him to see Yu Nanqing's miserable state and promising that if he confessed, he would restore Yu Nanqing's rightful honor.

Lu Cezhong isn't a three-year-old child; he's not so easily fooled.

This led to the situation we see today.

Yu Nanqing seemed to have spent a lot of energy recalling this matter, and by the end, his face had turned pale.

He raised his hand to rub his temples, looking exhausted. Su Wanyan leaned over and carefully helped him lie down: "Don't think about it, get some rest."

Yu Nanqing suddenly grabbed her hand, his eyes showing a vulnerability he had never seen before: "I was in a panic at the time. I didn't know how to prove General Lü's innocence, so I killed all those people..."

"I understand." Su Wanyan let him hold her hand, and gently patted his chest through the blanket with her other hand: "Killing them was the right thing to do, you did a good job."

Upon hearing this, Yu Nanqing felt a sudden sense of relief, and her eyes slowly closed wearily.

Su Wanyan looked at Yu Nanqing's sleeping face, her small hand still gently coaxing him, while the large hand holding her showed no sign of letting go.

She breathed a slight sigh of relief; it would be a lie to say she wasn't feeling heavy-hearted.

From Yu Nanqing's self-narration, she could tell that Yu Nanqing already vaguely knew who was the mastermind behind this, but he had no way to investigate and had no further means to do so.

After learning about this from Yu Nanqing, Su Wanyan went to Wang Zhang again and asked him about the whole story.

Wang Zhang originally didn't want to talk about it, but after Su Wanyan made it clear that his master had already told her everything, Wang Zhang stopped hiding it.

The troops sent to provide support in batches were all ambushed. The routes were clearly planned in advance, and only a few people knew about them, but the information was leaked.

After the squad sent to provide support was wiped out, the enemy forces began to gather together and besiege the Dragon Cavalry's main camp.

Wang Zhang, along with some of Yu Nanqing's confidants, fought the enemy for several days and nights. However, due to the overwhelming disparity in troop strength, the Dragon Cavalry had no choice but to retreat to Zhangzhou, far from the battlefield.

Wang Zhang's right arm was also severed by the enemy at that time.

After retreating to Zhangzhou, the generals who had gone to provide support gradually fled back. They probably only realized there was a traitor in the army after falling into a trap, and they all fled back to expose the traitor to the public.