Chapter 643 He accepted such a rare gift

Chen Tai opened his mouth, unsure whether to express envy or compromise, and finally said, "If Father were to lead the troops into battle, he would inevitably have to confront the Xu family."

"If the two sides become enemies, I'm worried that Yoona and his mother will..."

"Won't."

Chen Nianhe said with a smile: "Who do you think Xu Yu's wife is?"

Xu Yu is a cruel and ruthless person, and is definitely not a good person.

But Sangzhixia is different.

Chen Nianhe has a sharp and experienced eye, and his judgment of people is never wrong.

If he hadn't trusted Sang Zhixia, he would never have sent Chen Yun to the Xu family.

With Sang Zhixia around, Chen Yun and his mother couldn't possibly make any mistakes.

Chen Tai had never met Sang Zhixia, but he had heard Chen Nianhe mention her more than once. He felt relieved for a moment and asked softly, "What if father really encountered the rebels led by Xu Yu after he went to war? Then..."

"What are your plans, father?"

Chen Nianhe glanced at Chen Tai with a half-smile in his eyes: "What do you think?"

"I……"

Chen Tai hesitated and said, "I dare not speculate what father is thinking."

Chen Nianhe looked at his silent son and couldn't help sighing in his heart.

In his early years, he was only concerned with guarding the border, and his only son was forced to grow up surrounded by women.

By the time he realized that something was wrong, Chen Tai's temper was already beyond repair.

Lack of decisiveness and courage.

Weak courage, prone to hesitation.

The sharpness in his bones is not even comparable to that little girl Sang Zhixia.

Fortunately, the grandson does not look like his father.

Otherwise, the Chen family would really have no hope of having descendants.

Chen Nianhe suppressed the complicated emotions surging in his heart, rubbed his fingertips and said slowly: "I will send you away before we go to the battle."

Chen Tai was shocked: "Father means..."

"Shhh."

Chen Nianhe signaled Chen Tai to be silent, and said coldly to Chen Tai's trembling pupils: "Ten years of drinking ice can hardly cool a hot blood. That's all written in books to fool people."

"Your father and I are just an ordinary person. I don't have such a big heart."

Although the imperial court has always issued a clear order that when military generals go out to fight, their families are not allowed to leave Kyoto.

But so what?

Emperor Yongshun wanted him to obey the imperial order and go to war, so this exception had to be made for him.

otherwise……

Chen Nianhe sneered subtly, "Then let's die together."

"I don't mind if the entire Chen family perishes in Kyoto. Together with the king of a fallen nation, we can earn a good reputation for loyalty and righteousness, and leave our names in history."

"But some people don't necessarily want to be the king of a fallen country."

As long as Emperor Yongshun is unwilling to give in, that will be the Chen family's chance to completely escape from this mess.

Chen Nianhe has plenty of patience to wait.

Chen Nianhe had a very accurate grasp of Emperor Yongshun's thoughts, because news came from the palace that afternoon. Emperor Yongshun sympathized with General Chen's old age and frailty and was not suitable for going out to fight, so he selected Qiu Zheng as the General Dingnan and led an army of 100,000 to quell the rebellion that day.

Chen Nianhe smiled and didn't respond, remaining calm and composed.

Qiu Zheng went to fight against Xu Yu with a force of 100,000 soldiers and horses forcibly mobilized by Emperor Yongshun.

Moreover, among the 100,000 soldiers, the deputy general Liang Ren, whose status was second only to Qiu Zheng, seemed to have no connection with anyone. He was just a young general promoted from an ordinary family.

But a shrewd fox like Chen Nianhe had long known that the late Marquis of Jiaxing had made an indelible contribution to Liang Ren's promotion to his current position.

However, Marquis Jiaxing did not want people to know that he had any connection with Liang Ren. He was afraid that the involvement of the Xu family would bury Liang Ren's talents and cause Liang Ren to be criticized, so he deliberately concealed it.

In that case...

Do you hope that Xu Yu will leave the so-called General Dingnan’s body intact because of their childhood acquaintance?

When the name of General Dingnan spread to Huizhou, thousands of miles away, Xu Yu's eyebrows raised with interest.

"Qiu Zheng? General Dingnan?"

"Vice General Liang Ren?"

"Are you sure this is the name of the person coming?"

Rong Chang, the messenger, uttered a bewildered "Ah!" and said in a serious tone, "To answer the General of Chariots and Cavalry, they are indeed Qiu Zheng and Liang Ren."

"According to the information sent back by the spies, Qiu Zheng is leading a hundred thousand troops and heading straight for Huizhou. If nothing unexpected happens, we should be the ones fighting against Qiu Zheng."

Xu Yu still holds the title of General of Chariots and Cavalry, but the number of soldiers and horses under his command far exceeds that of a General of Chariots and Cavalry.

However, the gap between 50,000 and 100,000 is huge, and this shortage of troops is like a chasm that is difficult to make up.

In addition, Qiu Zheng was the first army sent by Kyoto to suppress the rebellion, and they were coming with great momentum. Xu Yu wanted to defend Huizhou from being taken back, so the next battle would be difficult to fight.

Everyone in the tent looked solemn. Xu Yu paused but then smiled.

"If the person's surname is Chen, then perhaps we need to consider it a little more."

"Qiu Zheng's words..."

"Oh."

He was just a former companion of Prince Lu, a lackey who was neither good at literature nor martial arts, and gained the trust of Emperor Yongshun only by flattering him. How could such a person lead an army of 100,000?

Xu Yu commented bluntly, "It seems that Emperor Yongshun really has no one left to use."

They've brought out all these people to deploy their troops, fearing they'll lose too slowly?

Lu Xin caught the sarcasm in Xu Yu's words, paused, and whispered, "From what I hear, the General of Chariots and Cavalry knows Qiu Zheng?"

"know."

Xu Yu said subtly, "We are old acquaintances."

After all, back in the Imperial College, Qiu Zheng was beaten by him eight or eighteen times, right?

If it weren't for the fact that General Dingnan's reputation was too famous today, Xu Yu probably wouldn't have even remembered that there was such a despicable thing.

But if it was Qiu Zheng who came...

Xu Yu rubbed his fingertips and smiled faintly, saying delicately, "Then we can win this battle more beautifully."

In Huizhou City, which was about to face an encirclement by 100,000 troops from the imperial court, there was no tension at all about the tough battle to defend the city. The whole city was peaceful and the people in the city did not even feel too nervous.

On the day when the Lingnan troops broke through the city wall, the people in the city were indeed terrified for a long time, fearing that they would lose their entire families' lives.

However, the army entering the city did not cause any chaos.

Huizhou was occupied by the Lingnan troops for eight days. The people in the city changed a lot, from being afraid and hiding at the beginning to just passing by hurriedly now.

Lu Xin, who was following behind Xu Yu, couldn't help but sigh, "Thanks to the iron rule set by the general at the beginning, otherwise after we captured Huizhou, the trouble we had garrisoning would have been much greater than it is today."

On the first day Xu Yu led the troops, he emphasized that wherever the troops passed, they were not allowed to break into civilians' homes, nor were they allowed to burn, kill, or rob the civilians' belongings.

This is actually different from what many soldiers know.

Anyone who has experienced war knows that once the enemy enters the city, the first thing they do is to wantonly kill civilians in order to enhance their terrifying momentum.

At first, some people were dissatisfied and openly violated the ban issued by Xu Yu.

Xu Yu’s choice was: to kill the general in front of the battle.

The more than 30 people who were ordered to be beheaded by Xu Yu were separated from their heads and bodies, becoming the bloody shadow that ensured that the iron order would not be violated, but also invisibly helped their army avoid a lot of trouble.

At least the people in the captured cities were safe, and no one spontaneously wanted to resist and expel the army.

After they settled in Huizhou, apart from being looked at more often by the people, they did not encounter any obstruction or trouble at all.

Xu Yu said calmly: "Strong soldiers and powerful horses are to protect the people, not to harm them."

"To massacre innocent, unarmed civilians is the act of beasts, not of a righteous army."

He was regarded as the leader of the rebels by the world, but he still had the blood and blood that he inherited from the Xu family for a hundred years, and he disdained to do such a stupid thing that would harm the people.

As for the army that came to quell the rebellion...

That's another matter.

The two armies are facing each other, Qiu Zheng deserves to die...

A cold look flashed across Xu Yu's eyes. He picked up a little kid who had nearly fallen because of running too fast, handed him to the old woman who was trembling and saying thank you. He said casually, "Pass on my military order. You will lead 30,000 men to garrison Huizhou. Rongchang will select 20,000 swift men. Follow me tonight."

Lu Xin was stunned for a moment and whispered, "General, Qiu Zheng has brought a full 100,000 soldiers and horses, and you only took 20,000 to fight them. Will it be..."

"No problem."

Xu Yu said strangely, "Twenty thousand is too much of a compliment to him."

"Besides, by the time we come back, it probably won't be 20,000 anymore."

Apart from Qiu Zheng's head, weren't most of the rest of the soldiers and horses brought to reinforce him?

It's like sending someone's head thousands of miles away.

He accepted such a rare gift.