"General, shouldn't we wait for Lieutenant General Zack?" A personal soldier beside him looked behind him worriedly and said, if Lieutenant General Zack had not resisted just now, they would have become prisoners by now.
Jabar slapped him on the head. "What are you waiting for, idiot? There are so many pursuers behind us. Why don't we hurry back to gather the remaining troops and retreat? Instead of wasting time here, are we waiting for Tian Ling's army to arrive and wipe us out?"
He took a deep breath, realizing his words were a bit off, and added, "It's not that I'm afraid of death. It's simply that the people in the camp are our last hope for Western Liao. Lieutenant General Zak is doing this for the sake of justice, risking his own life to buy us time. If we can't successfully lead the team to retreat, we'll be betraying his kindness."
At the moment, he still needs the protection of these personal soldiers, so it is not advisable to provoke them. He should say some soft words to appease them first, and then settle accounts with them when he is safe.
Zhao Yiming specially led a large army to chase after them. Jabar was so scared that he didn't even have time to ask the soldiers to pack up their things. He fled in a hurry with the remaining Western Liao army. A large amount of supplies were left behind. Zhao Yiming naturally asked the soldiers to take them all away without any hesitation.
Fighting against four countries at the same time, even if Tianling is a big country and even if it has profitable businesses like Liuli, the national treasury will not be able to bear it. Naturally, they will save as much as possible when they are away from home.
After looting the Western Liao camp, Zhao Yiming and Zhou Haoqun took over and then led the army to pursue Jabar deep into the Western Liao Kingdom.
Zhou Haoqun was also busy. After leading his troops back to the city, he immediately arranged for his deputy general to personally escort Xiao Qingyan back to Beijing.
But even though the escorts were all carefully selected experts, accidents still occurred on the way.
Just over ten miles out of Xijing Pass, a group of people suddenly rushed out from both sides of the road. Without saying a word, Idiot got entangled with the deputy general's men.
A group of people entangled the deputy general and the soldiers in charge of escorting the prisoners, while several others took the opportunity to rush towards the prison van.
But in just a few strokes, he chopped the sturdy prison cart into pieces and successfully escaped with Xiao Qingyan into the woods nearby.
As soon as Xiao Qingyan left, the group immediately fled in all directions and disappeared in a moment.
Two days later, in a dilapidated temple east of Xijing Pass, a beautiful woman in white was changing the medicine for Xiao Qingyan's wound with a look of heartache on her face.
The woman looked frail and unable to take care of herself, but her words were filled with viciousness and resentment. "That bastard from the Chaoyang family actually hurt you so badly again. Now that he's gone to war, let his two children pay for it! When I return to the capital, I will personally capture those two little bastards and avenge you."
The woman didn't know that her every word and action was being seen by the secret guards disguised as subordinates. She said many dirty words without any scruples, saying that Zhao Yiming's family would pay the price.
After hearing this, the secret guard wanted to kill her on the spot, but thinking of the subsequent plan, he had to endure it for the time being.
After following the mother and daughter for another ten days or so, and collecting evidence, the secret guard immediately notified Zhou Haoqun, who had been lying in ambush in the dark, to close the net.
They were still a little confused until both mother and daughter entered the prison van. The beautiful woman said in disbelief, "How could it be? I planned it so thoroughly, how could you catch us so quickly?"
In order to avoid exposing their whereabouts, they did not take official roads or enter towns during this period. They walked on unknown paths in the wilderness the entire time. Even a large-scale mountain search would not have been possible to find them so quickly.
"If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for being so vicious that you didn't even spare a child of just a few months old. Even God can't stand it." The disguised secret guard stopped pretending and said angrily.
"It's you, Jiang Qing. When did you betray?" The beautiful woman pointed at the secret guard in disbelief.
The secret guard sneered and raised his hand to remove the disguise on his face bit by bit, "Poisonous woman, open your eyes and see clearly who I am."
The beautiful woman looked at "Jiang Qing" who was gradually turning into another person, and the shock on her face was beyond words. When she thought that this person had replaced Jiang Qing and stayed by her side without her knowing when, she felt despair. It was over, all over.
On the day Xiao Qingyan and his mother were arrested, the capital was also busy.
Lord Pei, the Minister of the Dali Temple, and Duke Anguo, the Minister of Justice, jointly led troops to surround the Left Prime Minister's Mansion.
In the Left Prime Minister's Mansion, everyone from an eighty-year-old woman to a three-year-old child, including the maids and servants in the mansion, were thrown into prison.
The technical staff of the Ministry of Justice spent a whole day searching the Left Prime Minister's Mansion and finally successfully seized three secret vaults and two secret rooms.
The secret vault is filled with gold, silver, treasures, and calligraphy and paintings by famous artists. Any item taken out is priceless, and the total value is equivalent to two-thirds of the national treasury during its heyday.
Hidden in the secret room are the fields, shops, various industries of the Left Prime Minister's Mansion in various places, as well as evidence of collusion with Prince Wenxuan.
It was not until Xiao Qingyan and his mother were successfully escorted back to the capital that everyone realized that the so-called illegitimate son of Prince Wenxuan, Xiao Qingyan, was actually the son of the second daughter of the Left Prime Minister's Mansion and Prince Wenxuan.
Everyone then remembered that the second daughter of the Left Prime Minister's Mansion was once rumored to have had an affair with someone at a palace banquet. She would rather be sent to the Temple of Regret and repent for the rest of her life than reveal the identity of her adulterer.
It turned out that the adulterer was actually King Wenxuan, and what was even more unexpected was that the two not only gave birth to a child, but also planned to usurp the throne. Even the left prime minister, who was known for his integrity, was involved.
With the fall of the Left Prime Minister's Mansion, the case of Prince Wenxuan's rebellion came to an end.
The good news is that with the money copied from the Left Prime Minister's Mansion, the national treasury got a temporary respite, and the supplies sent by the court to the border became more and more abundant.
There was a frequent report of victory from the border. In addition to Zhao Yiming, who had led his troops to attack the Western Liao and captured two cities in succession, Tian Mingwu, who was also responsible for fighting against the Western Liao, had also begun to attack the interior of the Western Liao. He and Zhao Yiming were surrounded and attacked the capital of the Western Liao at full speed.
The Beiming Kingdom, which was under the charge of the Wu family, has withdrawn its troops. Currently, Wu Hongyi is leading his troops to attack their first city. With the help of bombs, the gate of Beiming City is almost vulnerable, and the city was easily captured.
The soldiers in the Southern Region were also frightened by the power of the bomb and almost abandoned their weapons and fled back.
Only Mu Chenke was a little slow, but that was because the Chen family had lost the city when they were stationed there before. As a result, after he rushed to the border, he could only recapture the lost city as quickly as possible before he could turn around and deal with the Dongyi Kingdom.
The day before Xiao Qingyan and his mother were beheaded, Tian An personally went to the cell to meet the rumored second daughter of the Left Prime Minister.
"I heard that you want to make our whole family die miserably?" Tian An stood outside the cell and looked coldly at the dusty woman in the prison.
"Are you the Tian An?" The woman had never seen Tian An before. It took her a moment to figure out who was standing in front of her.
Tian An nodded, and when she rushed over, he raised his hand and sprinkled a handful of powder at her: "Since you want people to die so badly, then you can have a taste of this first!"
"ah……"
Ignoring the woman's cries of pain in the cell, Tian An walked out of the prison with an expressionless face.
A dragon has a reverse scale, if you touch it, you will die. She can calmly deal with how others deal with her and Zhao Yiming, but if they set their sights on the child, don't blame her for making her suffer before her death.
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