Inside the tent, maps of the barrier and the city were placed on the shelves.
Xiao Feng and General Ji both knew that Cheng You could not hide forever. Even if the city had enough food and money for him to hide for a month or so, he would not hide forever.
While the two were discussing how to break the deadlock, Wei Xian arrived.
When Xiao Feng heard the secret signal from An Xi, he paused in his conversation with General Ji.
Xiao Feng looked at General Ji and stopped talking. His eyes made General Ji feel a little puzzled.
"Does the General recognize this?"
Xiao Feng took out the hairpin given to Wan Jinlan by the Queen Mother from his sleeve.
General Ji reached out to take it, looked at it for a while, and gradually remembered something. When he looked at Xiao Feng again, his eyes were full of suspicion.
"Who are you? How did you get this thing?"
General Ji recalled the time when the Empress Dowager brought the Current Emperor back to Kyoto from Tanzhou. He was just a soldier, secretly following his superiors to round up two people for unknown reasons. The mission failed, but he narrowly escaped death. The Empress Dowager was merciful and spared his life. He had escaped death, but could not return home. When he secretly returned to his hometown, he discovered that his family had been nearly killed by those who wanted to silence them. It was the Empress Dowager's men who saved his parents. Although the Empress Dowager was also looking for evidence, she ultimately saved his parents. Later, he simply escorted the Empress Dowager back to Kyoto and became her bodyguard. Later, when the Current Emperor ascended the throne, she became the Empress Dowager. He first joined the Imperial City Guard and later went to Liangzhou.
General Ji had served as the Empress Dowager's bodyguard, and he certainly remembered the hairpin, as he often stood behind her and watched her. From captain to fourth-rank general, he had received rewards from the Empress Dowager every time he was promoted.
General Ji's eyes were filled with complex emotions as he recalled the past. When he heard about the Empress Dowager's passing, he had also sat in his study until midnight.
Ji Lao believed that he had deep feelings for the Empress Dowager, but he did not know that women were most sensitive to emotions in this regard. The Empress Dowager knew his feelings for her, and although she supported Emperor Jian'an to ascend the throne, it did not mean that she would not cultivate her own power in case of emergency.
Xiao Feng didn't know the relationship between the Empress Dowager and General Ji. At this moment, he stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the map with a calm expression. His aura was no longer restrained. Compared with his previous elegant and dignified but reserved appearance, his aura now had a bit more edge, and the demeanor of a noble family was fully revealed.
General Ji suddenly realized, Song Yi? The Queen Mother's maternal family was the Song family. He had heard that the King of Qi had disappeared after being exiled by the current emperor, and it turned out that he had ended up in Liangzhou.
"I greet the King of Qi."
General Ji felt complicated and bowed respectfully.
Xiao Feng reached out and helped him up, "Now that the King of Qi is gone, please stand up, General."
"Your Highness has been kind to me. If Your Highness does not abandon me, I will serve you faithfully until death."
Not for the love he had never expressed before, but to repay the Queen Mother's kindness, General Ji had no choice but to surrender to Xiao Feng.
General Ji could see that Xiao Feng was no mediocre person. He was a talented general and had handled many cases in the court before. A man with both civil and military skills would surely accomplish great things in time.
"Your Highness, I remember you were only four years old. Why do you look like this now?"
It is said that the King of Qi was handsome and had a handsome face, but why did he now look like a weathered middle-aged man, no different from the local soldiers in Liangzhou?
Xiao Feng simply said: "It has been slightly modified, it's just a shell, don't worry about it." Once he has control over the situation in Liangzhou and has properly dealt with the affairs of the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, there will be no need to do this.
Xiao Feng was a mysophobe, and since his exile, he had worked hard to overcome it. Even after showering, he would put on a layer of makeup. On the grasslands, two days and two nights without sleep was normal. He could endure being covered in blood and having no means to clean it up, but he could endure it all.
Without waiting for General Ji to ask again, Xiao Feng said, "We will rebel at three o'clock tonight and attack Zhanhe City at night."
General Ji was stunned when he heard this, "Your Highness, the city gate is strong. A night attack is a waste of effort. We can't kill Cheng You by surprise."
Xiao Feng smiled, "General, please listen to me..."
Xiao Feng's plan was simple: to make a feint to the east and attack in the west, taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to coordinate internal and external attacks.
The night attack on the city gate was just to attract Cheng You's attention. He had seen the power of gunpowder. It could blow up the hilltop, so it would definitely blow up the city gate. He had muskets and gunpowder, so he could rush in from the west of the city while the city gate in front attracted firepower, and kill Cheng You by surprise with the help of the inside and outside forces.
Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night. Xiao Feng and General Ji worked out a complete strategy. After cooking at three o'clock in the morning, they split their troops into two groups.
In the mountain village of Qingyuan County, Wan Jinlan injured her waist, which restricted her movements and forced her to only play with her little niece every day.
Xia Feng and Wan Zhijing sent back the letters one after another. Tonight was Xiao Minghuan's unlucky day, and Wan Jinlan even ate an extra bowl of rice in the evening.
When Wan Zhijing is away, Fang Biqiu always feels uneasy.
"Don't worry, sister-in-law. My brother is a counselor and will not go to the battlefield in person. Nothing will go wrong easily."
Fang Biqiu patted the child gently and said, "He has multiple knife and arrow wounds on his body. Even if he is a counselor, he may not be completely safe."
Fang Biqiu's words reminded Wan Jinlan of the injuries on Xiao Feng's body. She felt that compared to her sister-in-law's nervousness about her brother, she seemed to be too confident in Xiao Feng.
Wan Jinlan thought that it would be easy for the Li brothers to capture Xiao Minghuan, but he didn't expect that Xiao Minghuan, who was too afraid of death, didn't wear his own armor that represented his status when he heard that there was chaos in the camp. Instead, he stripped the armor off his personal guards and let the personal guards wear his armor to die.
Sensing that things were not going well, he mixed in and rolled into the pile of dead bodies, pretending to be dead.
As Xia Feng expected, after General Qu of Yongzhou noticed the movement in the camp, he did not send anyone to rescue, but chose to keep his troops in place and watch from afar.
Blending into the pile of dead bodies and pretending to be dead was also unsuccessful, because there were soldiers using long spears to stab the corpses to ensure that the enemy soldiers were completely dead. Those who were still alive would become prisoners of war.
Xiao Minghuan's heart was beating fast. He had a wound on his waist and his face was deliberately covered with blood. He knew he couldn't escape at this moment, so Xiao Minghuan simply hid behind a stone slope and put on the armor of a dead Liangzhou soldier.
In this way, Xiao Minghuan successfully disguised himself as a soldier from Liangzhou and was able to save his life again in this disaster.
Xiao Minghuan's personal guards were captured alive as Xiao Minghuan. The personal guards were loyal and did not reveal their identities for a while.
Li Yue and Li Yanfeng were fighting, and Li Yanfeng, the yellow bird, had the upper hand today. Li Yue was also shot by a hidden arrow by Li Yanfeng's men, and was hit in the left arm. He was then chased by Li Yanfeng's men.
After all, Wan Zhijing was not the kind of heartless person who would take people's lives at will, so he brought a team of people to rescue Li Yue.
The two brothers could not kill each other in public. If others knew about it, how could they sit on the position of the lord of Liangzhou?
Therefore, Li Yanfeng couldn't go too far. Since his goal for the day had been achieved, Li Yanfeng proudly escorted the "Third Prince" back to Jianwu City, preparing to wait for Xiao Feng and General Ji's triumphant return so that he could invite all the people of Liangzhou to watch the Third Prince's "Beheading Banquet" together to show off his power.
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