Upon hearing this news, Zhu Yu pursed his lips, while Lu Xiaoyun gave a cold smirk.
It is impossible for the State of Chen to send an entire army not to attack Shengjing City, but instead to disguise themselves as refugees to deal with the 30,000 troops of the Xishan Military Camp.
There's absolutely no need for that.
Therefore, they were either private soldiers raised by Zhu Heng.
Or perhaps it was arranged by the old emperor on purpose.
His purpose in doing this was simply to legitimately transfer the 150,000-strong Xishan Military Camp away, so that the Northern Army, which had once again rendered great service, could be stationed in the capital.
This will also let the civil and military officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty see that the Xishan Military Camp can't even defeat refugees, so how can it protect the imperial city? This will shut them up.
If that's the case, then the old emperor's actions were truly despicable.
Inside a private residence, Ren Yushan had just knelt down when the man in black who had seen him before personally poured him a cup of tea and pushed it in front of him.
Ren Yushan quickly straightened up and respectfully accepted the gift: "Thank you, my lord. As you instructed, those people have been safely transferred."
The man in black chuckled lightly: "I naturally trust Prime Minister Ren to do things. The Fifth Prince never imagined that while he sent the Duke of Zhenguo and Qi Shaocheng to conduct a massive search inside and outside Shengjing City, they were actually all hiding in your residence. As soon as the city's defenses were relaxed, they left Shengjing City in batches."
Ren Yushan's expression was extremely solemn: "However, my lord, we spent a lot of money to buy weapons from the Chen Kingdom this time. Our people used these weapons to assassinate the emperor, which angered the emperor, who then sent the Northern Army to attack the Chen Kingdom. If the people of the Chen Kingdom find out that we used them, won't they expose us?"
The man in black chuckled lightly: "Prime Minister Ren, there's no need to worry. Even if they knew that I was the Second Prince of the Great Zhou when I bought the weapons, selling weapons privately is a crime punishable by the extermination of nine generations of one's family. He wouldn't dare to say it out loud."
The Lu family army has made too many contributions; the dog emperor will never allow them to make any more.
The Northern Army is now nominally the emperor's own people.
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