"Let's not talk about that," Zhao Jiu shook his head quickly. "I know myself well. All I can do in this battle is to sit under the dragon banner of the northern peak of Bagong Mountain to boost morale. The battle still needs Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun, and Wang De to fight... But Zhengfu!"
"I am here!"
"What I said the other night was just to please myself, but it caused you trouble."
"I don't deserve it!"
"But I'm speaking from the heart... Listen to me." Zhao Jiu suddenly added, "I know what you all thought afterwards. You all thought I was retreating to advance. By saying that kind of big words, I meant to force the officials to recognize my bottom line of defending the Huai River... But, that was really what I said from the bottom of my heart."
"Your Majesty!" Yang Yizhong was extremely helpless.
"Zhengfu, think about it... You should have seen clearly after following me for a few months. I am really afraid of death and I really don't dare to end my life!" Several eunuchs nearby poked their heads out from the back door, but then retracted them. Zhao Jiu ignored them and continued to speak frankly. "And the humiliation of being a heavy fool, is it something a person can accept? So if I really lose this time, I sincerely ask you to end my life for me! This is not a request from a monarch to a minister, but a private plea from me to you, Yang Zhengfu! You don't have to agree to leave an excuse, just remember it in your heart for the sake of the four words "national hatred and family hatred"!"
Yang Yizhong remained silent.
"From today on, don't stay up late in the imperial tent." Zhao Jiu said with all his strength. "Because we don't know when the war will start, and the Jin army is so powerful. When it comes to last, everyone will have to go to the battlefield. There is no need for a great general like you to be idle... You must recuperate and gather your strength in advance."
"Yes!" Under the light, Yang Yizhong responded reluctantly.
The night passed in silence, and in a blink of an eye it was morning.
At the Jin camp in Huaibei, Shi Wenbin, who had finally survived the night, probably felt that he had completed his mission of "spending the night", so he hurried out of the tent and prepared to return to the rear camp to take care of things. However, as soon as the fourth prince of the Jin Kingdom came out of the central army tent, he was stunned in front of the tent door... It turned out that overnight, dozens of Song surrendered people from the east and west routes of the capital who accompanied the Jin army, that is, Shi Wenbin's rear camp partners, and those former colleagues who were usually jealous and sarcastic, had all been beheaded!
At this time, there were dozens of heads of different shapes, all hung on both sides of the general platform in front of the central military tent, and they were faintly frozen.
Hearing the noise, several soldiers on duty in the central army, who still smelled of blood, all of whom were Jurchens, Xis, Khitans and the like, turned around and saw that it was Shi Wenbin who had been tied up and whipped the day before but escaped today. They began to point and talk to him for fun.
But this time, General Shi fell to the ground, speechless, but he did not cry.
Ps: No, I’ve been too busy these days at the end of the year, I have to adjust quickly... I can’t be in this semi-exhausted state during the new book period... I can’t even get excited, no wonder my collection is not increasing.
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