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Thousands of miles away in Dingzhou, the situation on the front line changed rapidly.

Due to Yan Xiaoyi's previous night attack, Qin Hao's team transporting food and grass was almost completely destroyed along the way. Gaoyang was short of food and grass and was besieged by the Northern Qi army.

At the same time, other armies of Northern Qi were also actively engaging Dingzhou's army. Qin Ming really couldn't send suitable personnel to rescue Gao Yang. In the end, he could only let Qin Hao lead his 8,000 soldiers to rescue Gao Yang from danger.

Qin Hao led 8,000 soldiers and attacked day and night, killing the Northern Qi general Chu Xiong at the foot of Gaoyang City, thus relieving the danger of Gaoyang City.

After this battle, Cao Yong, the defender of Gaoyang City, became good friends with Qin Hao.

Afterwards, Northern Qi sent heavy troops to besiege Gaoyang many times, but was repelled several times by Qin Hao and Cao Yong, suffering heavy casualties. This also caused the entire Dingzhou battle situation to tilt in favor of the Qing Kingdom.

As for the other two border armies, Qing Kingdom also won victory after victory thanks to the intelligence sent by Yan Bingyun.

Northern Qi was originally less powerful than Qing, and successive defeats made Northern Qi fall into panic. Finally, with the arrival of winter, the Qing army stopped its attack in the heavy snow, and Northern Qi finally got a chance to catch its breath.

The top leaders of Northern Qi knew very well that they could not defeat Qing by force, so they decided to send envoys to Qing to seek peace.

Looking out from the top of Gaoyang City, the sky and earth were covered in snow. Cao Yong leaned against the parapet and sighed, "Brother Qin, you and I have made great contributions this time. The decree of reward will arrive soon. I don't know when we will be able to drink and chat happily again."

According to the contributions of Qin Hao and Cao Yong this time, he will be promoted at least one level, and Qin Hao may even be transferred back to the capital. After all, he originally came here to gild his rank.

"There will always be a chance, live well." Qin Hao patted Cao Yong's shoulder.

Just as Cao Yong said, the decree of reward arrived in Gaoyang three days later.

Cao Yong was promoted to a higher rank and still served in Dingzhou, while Qin Hao was given the title of General Yunhui and transferred to garrison in Cangzhou with 50,000 troops. Although both were promoted to a higher rank, the meanings were completely different, which made Cao Yong drool with envy.

Before New Year's Eve, the Northern Qi delegation finally arrived in the capital and engaged in a verbal battle with officials from the Honglu Temple of Qing State. Fan Xian was among them. He was recommended by his future father-in-law Lin Ruofu to take credit for the work. He knew nothing about negotiations and could only watch the fun from the sidelines. Fortunately, the officials from the Honglu Temple were very powerful and suppressed the Northern Qi delegation.

However, as the situation became stalemate, someone hurriedly presented a note to the Northern Qi delegation and whispered a few words to him. When the Northern Qi delegation saw it, they immediately smiled and told Xin Qiwu that they would never compromise on their conditions. They also handed the note to Xin Qiwu and asked him to go back and think about it and verify the authenticity of the news.

Xin Qiwu took the note and looked at it, and immediately knew it was bad.

On the other hand, Emperor Qing also received a secret report from Northern Qi. The identity of Northern Qi spy Yan Bingyun was leaked. He was captured personally by Shen Zhong, the leader of Northern Qi's Embroidered Uniform Guard. Northern Qi used him as a bargaining chip, not only demanding that Qing return the occupied territory and prisoners of war, but also pay pensions to their dead soldiers. Most importantly, they wanted to exchange Sean and Si Lili for Yan Bingyun.

Sean can be said to be the Chen Pingping of the Northern Qi Dynasty. He was once as famous as Chen Pingping. At that time, Chen Pingping led the Black Cavalry on a thousand-mile raid and only captured him at the cost of his legs.

But this battle was also thanks to Yan Bingyun's intelligence gathering and transmission of secret reports. What's more, he is Yan Ruohai's biological son.

Chen Pingping knew that the other conditions were false, and what Beiqi really wanted was Xiao En and Si Lili. Yan Ruohai decisively refused to exchange territory for his son upon hearing the news, but Chen Pingping said that there was only one person who could make this decision, and that was Emperor Qing.

As expected, Emperor Qing agreed to let the Inspection Institute release the people, but the bottom line was that the conquered territory would never be returned, and the rest was negotiable, but Yan Bingyun must come back alive. Yan Ruohai was grateful to hear the decree.

The following negotiations became even more intense. The envoys from both sides rolled up their robes and sleeves, engaged in a verbal battle, and almost came to blows. Only Fan Xian, who was watching the excitement from the sidelines, was drowsy and looked so leisurely.

Half a day later, the negotiation came to an end. Emperor Qing was satisfied with the result and decided to hold a night banquet in the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests for the emperor and his ministers to celebrate together, and invited the envoys from Northern Qi and Dongyi to accompany them.

On the night of the banquet at the Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the eldest princess and Guo Youzhi sang the same tune, cooperating with Zhuang Mohan in questioning Fan Xian's poetic talent.

As a result, Fan Xian wrote hundreds of poems while drunk, shocking everyone.

But all this was just Fan Xian's plan. He pretended to be drunk in front of everyone, but his real intention was to sneak into the Queen Mother's bedroom late at night and put the key back.

On the way to return the key, he unexpectedly learned that the eldest princess had colluded with Northern Qi and sold Yan Bingyun.

The next day, many leaflets appeared in the streets of the capital. On the papers were written neatly about condemning Princess Li Yunrui for treason and secretly trading with Northern Qi. Public opinion was in an uproar and everyone in the Inspection Institute was in a state of panic.

After Emperor Qing learned about this, he called the eldest princess and Chen Pingping to confront each other. In the end, the eldest princess threw Guo Youzhi out to take the blame, thinking that she had escaped punishment, and she also mocked Chen Pingping.

But soon, Princess Li Yunrui understood what it meant that old people are more experienced. Chen Pingping used Yan Ruohai to test out the traitor Zhu Ge in the Inspection Institute, thus proving that Li Yunrui had extended her hand into the Inspection Institute, which undoubtedly touched Emperor Qing's reverse scale.

So the eldest princess Li Yunrui was driven out of the capital, away from the power center of Qing Kingdom.

Fan Xian originally thought that after Li Yunrui left, he could take a breath, quietly wait to marry Lin Wan'er, and live his own life. However, Emperor Qing gave him a task and asked him to lead an envoy to Northern Qi to exchange Yan Bingyun.

Fan Xian was naturally unhappy at first, but Emperor Qing threatened him with his marriage to Lin Wan'er, so Fan Xian had no choice but to take on this hot potato.

Afterwards, Fan Xian took Sean all the way north.

Cangzhou Camp.

"General, there is someone outside the camp who wants to see you. He says he is from the capital."

Qin Hao's heart moved. Judging from the news from Si Lili, Fan Xian should be arriving in Cangzhou soon.

"please come in."

"Yes."

Soon, the personal guards came in with a man in black.

"Meet General Qin."

"Teng Zijing." After Qin Hao dismissed his personal soldiers, he said with a smile, "Sit down. Did Fan Xian ask you to come?"

Teng Zijing didn't hesitate to sit down in the seat where Qin Hao had taken action. He leaned over and whispered, "Fan Xian has a letter. Let me give it to you."

Qin Hao took it and looked at it. Just as he expected, Fan Xian and his party were less than a hundred miles away from Cangzhou.

In the letter, Fan Xian also talked about Sean, asking if this was the person Qin Hao had mentioned before, and also asked Qin Hao to help escort the delegation north.

Closing the envelope, Qin Hao said to Teng Zijing, "Go back and tell Fan Xian that as long as he reaches Cangzhou, I will ensure that he is safe."

"Thank you, General Qin."

Teng Zijing hurried back to report, and told Fan Xian what happened after seeing him.

Fan Xian's tense expression gradually relaxed. Wang Qinian, who was standing beside him, asked curiously, "Sir, you seem to trust General Qin very much?"

"What? Shouldn't I trust him?" Fan Xian asked back.

Wang Qinian smiled awkwardly: "That's not the case, it's just that Master rarely seems to trust anyone this much on weekdays."

"Wang Qinian, look at what you said. Don't I trust you?"

"Trust, trust. Thank you so much, Mr. Wang, for your trust."

Fan Xian stepped forward and patted Wang Qinian on the shoulder: "Since I trust you so much, I have something for you to do now. You won't let me down, right?"

"Sir, you know me, I'm rather lazy. If it's something important..." Wang Qinian's face froze.

"It's very important. You are indispensable. Go to the prison van and help me keep an eye on Sean."

"what?"

Two days later, when Fan Xian was leading the delegation and was less than ten miles away from Cangzhou, a group of cavalry suddenly rushed out and blocked the delegation. The leader was a burly man, holding a black gold spear, and looked like a ninth-rank master.

"Who are you? How dare you block the Qing Kingdom delegation's path?" Fan Xian's heart skipped a beat.

"Stop talking nonsense, open the prisoner van, and release the prisoners. I will spare your lives, but if you resist, I will kill you without mercy!"

"Are you Uesugi Tiger?"

Shang Shanhu snorted coldly: "Boy, don't be so smart, let him go quickly, or I will kill you on the spot!"

Fan Xian's eyes rolled. "The one imprisoned in this prisoner car is the great devil Sean. The people of Qing hate him to the core. Now, the only one in Northern Qi who wants to save him is his adopted son Shangshan Hu. It just so happens that Shangshan Hu is a ninth-rank master just like you."

"I've heard that the Northern Qi general Shang Shanhu is a famous hero, but I didn't expect him to be such a coward. It seems that the rumors are not credible."

Uesugi Tora's eyes widened in anger, and he directly pulled off his veil: "Humph, since you have guessed my identity, none of your envoys will survive today, kill them!"

After hearing Uesugi Tora's order, the cavalry behind him immediately took an attacking stance and were about to kill the delegation. Suddenly, Uesugi Tora's face changed and he turned to look behind him.

While Fan Xian was puzzled, his ears suddenly moved. He squatted down and put his hands on the ground. He felt a violent vibration and his originally nervous expression gradually turned into pride.

Soon, black dots appeared in everyone's sight on the distant slope.

The civil servants of the delegation burst into laughter upon seeing this.

"Haha, it's our Qing Kingdom cavalry!"

"Qing Kingdom's military flag, our reinforcements have arrived!"

Shangshan Hu looked at the red flag with black characters on the slope with a sullen face. The deputy general behind him rode forward to remind him: "General, it's the Cangzhou army, at least 500 cavalry."

"Hu'er, let's go. As long as there is green mountain, there will be no shortage of firewood. I won't die for the time being."

Although Sean couldn't see the situation outside in the prison van, he could feel that the situation was developing in a direction that was unfavorable to him.

"Don't worry, foster father. I will definitely rescue you today. I will kill anyone who stops me!"

After so many years, when he heard Sean's voice again, Uesugi Tiger, a man of iron will, almost had red eyes and cried out loud.

However, at this moment, an untimely voice came.

"Oh? Really? That depends on whether you have the ability."

The moment Qin Hao's figure appeared, Shangshan Hu's face suddenly turned pale. He could feel that the fluctuations of true energy emanating from the young man in front of him were even stronger than his.

Sean's face in the prison van also changed. Although he had been imprisoned in the dungeon of the procuratorate for twenty years, his martial arts skills had not been abolished. The sudden appearance of this true energy was no less powerful than that of his martial arts skills at his peak.

"Old Qin, you're punctual." Fan Xian greeted Qin Hao as if no one was around.

Qin Hao nodded, then looked at Shang Shanhu with a half-smile: "The Northern Qi general brought his men across the border without saying hello and came to our Qing Kingdom to stop the envoys from going north. Isn't he too disrespectful to the Qing Kingdom's border troops?"

Uesugi Tiger tightened the spear in his hand and said through gritted teeth: "Today, I only want to rescue my foster father."

"Sean is the hostage exchanged for Yan Bingyun. He will naturally be returned to Northern Qi. Why should the general be in such a hurry?" Fan Xian walked to Qin Hao and spoke to Shang Shanhu earnestly.

Sean in the prison car suddenly said, "I wonder who the expert is that came from outside? Could it be Qin Ye, the head of the Qin family? He doesn't sound like that."

"Senior Xiao, there is no need to test me. My name is Qin Hao. Although my last name is Qin, I am not from the Qin family. My father is now the Minister of the Ministry of Justice."

Qin Hao's answer made Sean fall into a brief silence, and then he sighed softly.

"Qing Kingdom is indeed prosperous and has produced many talented people. It has only been a few years since another peak ninth-rank person was born."

"Hu'er, go now. You won't be able to take advantage of this person. Don't give up your life in vain."

Shang Shan Hu's eyes were red, and he clenched the spear in his hand and pointed it at Fan Xian: "Boy, listen carefully, take good care of my foster father. If you dare to humiliate him in the slightest, I will kill you when you arrive in Northern Qi."

"You threatened the mastermind of Qing Kingdom in front of its border troops. Shangshan Hu, do you not want to leave Qing Kingdom anymore?" Qin Hao shook the spear in his hand and knocked Shangshan Hu's black gold spear aside.

A hint of surprise flashed across Uesugi Tora's face. It seemed that no force was used this time, but in fact it was a clever move that made him almost lose his weapon.

"Hmph, we'll meet on the battlefield someday and then we'll compete to see who's better!" Uesugi Tora left after saying these harsh words.

Qin Hao kicked his horse and followed.

Shangshanhu's expression changed: "General Qin, what does this mean?"

"It's nothing. The general of Northern Qi is visiting my Qing Kingdom. My Qing Kingdom's border troops must at least escort him out of the country with courtesy, so as not to be disrespectful." Qin Hao said lightly.

Uesugi Tora snorted coldly and said nothing more, but remained secretly alert.

However, along the way, Qin Hao did not make any unusual movements until he sent Uesugi Tiger and his party beyond the border.

"Wait a minute, General."

Shang Shanhu tightened his spear when he heard this: "General Qin, do you have any other advice?"

"General, don't you want to save your adoptive father?" Qin Hao looked at him with a smile.

"Hmph, if it weren't for you today, I would have rescued my foster father by now." Uesugi said angrily, his body trembling.

Qin Hao shook his head: "This is the territory of Qing. If you rescue Xiao En, how will Qing save its reputation?"

"Humph."

"The general is in a difficult situation in Northern Qi right now. I'm afraid he is unable to rescue Sean. I can help you."

Uesugi Tora sneered: "Why are you helping me?" (End of this chapter)