However, Wang Yan, who had promised well before, rode a tall horse, surrounded by countless Eight Character Army soldiers, and took his close aides such as General Xiao Fan, and crossed Yuetai and went to Qingcheng without changing his expression. From beginning to end, he did not even glance at the roadside.
Now, tens of thousands of people from both armies knew about it immediately. Yue Pengju came to apologize eagerly, but ended up humiliating himself.
"Brother!" Zhang Xian was dumbfounded, watching Wang Yan riding past without looking away. It took him half a minute to realize what was happening, but his face flushed and he could no longer endure it. "This guy is humiliating you!"
"I know."
Yue Fei stood by the road with his hands clasped together and sighed, but he just glanced at the continuous Eight Character Army in front of him. These Eight Character Army passing by here also stared at the group of people on the road with strange expressions, as if they realized something.
"How can you still endure this?" Zhang Xian was so angry that he would have almost drawn his sword if it weren't for the strict military discipline.
In fact, Zhang Xian had no choice but to do so. That was the style of the Song army. It was common for armies under different organizations to fight each other because of quarrels. If there was a disagreement, the commander of one side would chop down the commander of the other side, and the commander of the other side would kill the military supervisor of this side. These were all common things.
In another time and space, Wang De once refused to accept Han Shizhong's leadership and directly chopped down the deputy general sent by Han Shizhong. Although he was imprisoned for this, nothing happened in the end.
The most crucial point is that at this moment, as Yue Fei publicly invited Wang Yan to drink and apologize, and then Wang Yan publicly humiliated Yue Fei, if Yue Pengju did not fight back, then I am afraid that based on the military atmosphere of that year, everyone would speculate that the responsibility for that case was Yue Fei's.
Otherwise, why can you swallow this breath? !
"So what if I can't bear it?" Yue Fei finally turned around and asked. "Chop him down? We're about to go to war, and we start a civil war first? And we're going to implicate General Fu?"
Fu Xuan was originally extremely embarrassed, but when he saw Yue Fei like this, he was angry that Wang Yan even humiliated him, but at the same time he was grateful to Yue Fei for saving his face, so he bowed repeatedly.
Zhang Xian was speechless, but still a little angry. He stamped his feet and said, "Brother, you are now the governor, not his subordinate. Why do you still tolerate him?"
Fu Xuan could only sigh upon hearing this.
Yue Fei laughed instead of getting angry when he heard this: "If I were still a minor general, do you believe that Wang Taiwei would personally dismount and comfort me? It is precisely because I am now the pacification envoy that he has gone to such great lengths to humiliate me! As for General Fu, he is just an innocent victim."
Zhang Xian was confused for a moment, but Fu Xuan understood a little and then shook his head repeatedly.
Yue Fei sighed quietly, "Wang Taiwei is a man of good family background and high talent. He is just like Guan Yu, arrogant to his superiors but lenient to his subordinates... That's why he gave me a way out when I was so resistant to him that day. It's also why he treated Fu Tongzhi sincerely when he went to him before. But now I am the governor, almost on an equal footing with him, which has aroused his arrogance, so what happened today happened."
Zhang Xian thought about it again and again, but he was still angry: "Just let it go like this?"
"The war is about to begin. If you keep making trouble, I will deal with you first!" Yue Fei's face suddenly changed.
Zhang Xian was helpless.
Having said that, although Yue Fei endured such humiliation in a way that he swallowed his pride, since such an incident had happened, it would be a bad idea for him to continue to stay on the roadside as an exhibition.
Zhang Xian returned to the small town of Yuetai, where he ate and drank behind closed doors out of spite, while Yue Fei and Fu Xuan immediately mounted their horses and headed for the city of Tokyo.
In the afternoon, when the two had just entered the city, Commander Li Kui was already waiting there and took the initiative to report: "Pacify the city! I heard that the 'One Zhang Qing' from Captain Ma's family entered the city from the South Gate this morning. He first went to visit the governor Zong, and now he is probably going to see the deputy governor Du!"
Yue Fei was delighted, but nervous at the same time. He gave up his original plan to visit Zong Ze and galloped directly on the wide road in the empty city, leading Fu Xuan and Li Kui to the Kaifeng government office where Du Chong lived.
When he walked to the government office, as luck would have it, he bumped head-on into a middle-aged woman wearing an iron belt, about 28 or 29 years old, and it was none other than the 'One Zhang Qing' Madam Ma!
"Sister-in-law!"
Upon seeing this, Yue Fei immediately dismounted and bowed respectfully to the woman. Fu Xuan and Li Kui also dismounted and saluted.
In fact, if Ma Gao, a young and handsome man and senior commander of the Tokyo Garrison who was highly regarded by Zong Ze, was present, Yue Fei might not need such courtesy, and even Fu Xuan might not need to perform the ceremony, but Mrs. Ma herself was an exception.
This is because although Madam Ma is just a woman, she is born with great strength, which can be seen from her nickname... Yi Zhang Qing refers to a giant python with great strength. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of Taoism, among the thirty-six leaders of Song Jiang's bandits, there was one called Zhang Heng, whose nickname was also Yi Zhang Qing... From this we can see that Madam Ma's strength and kung fu are truly amazing.
In fact, Mrs. Ma herself often wore armor and wielded weapons, riding horses into battle with her husband, and was considered a brave general of the Tokyo Garrison.
However, although everyone knew that Mrs. Ma was the second-in-command of Ma Gao's army and was in fact a general in the Tokyo Garrison, according to the rules of that time, it was impossible to include her in the official military roster. So Mrs. Ma had no title or position and could only rise and fall with her husband Ma Gao.
So no matter how high the official position Yue Fei held, as long as he did not get rid of his current identity as a pure military man and became a husband, he would not be able to control the other party when he saw her. He could only follow the customs of the underworld and call her sister-in-law and be respectful to her.
And to be honest, Yizhangqing did take good care of him in the past.
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