The King of Liang, the feudal lords outside the town, and the generals inside

On the second day of March, when Cen An arrived at the Northwest Army Camp, Yan Xun took him into the tent of the Central Army under the hatred eyes of the generals, and calmly handed over to him.

Cen An sat in front of Yan Xun's handsome case, fiddled with the tokens, arrows and maps on the table for a while, looked up and glanced at the gritted teeth and gloomy generals below, and then said to Yan Xun with a smile: "General Yan You have a good command of the army, you see, all your soldiers know the rules so well."

Yan Xunke returned a polite smile and said, "Now they are your soldiers."

"Oh!" Cen An waved his hand, "Don't say that, General Yan, I'm under a lot of pressure! If I remember correctly, you have never lost a battle since you led the army. I really hope that I won't disappoint the emperor."

"Of course, this is your duty."

"Speaking of this." Cen An said, "I'm about to lead my troops south to wipe out King Liang's rebel army, and accomplish what General Yan you...don't want to do. Does the General have any good strategies to control the enemy?"

Yan Xun's expression froze for a moment, and soon he laughed again, with a hint of sympathy and sarcasm, "There is no good idea, but there is a suggestion."

"Oh?" Cen An raised his eyebrows, and made a gesture of letting go, "Please enlighten me."

"Do you know what the general fears the most?"

Cen An shook his head.

Yan Xundao: "Repeated battles and victories."

Of course, Cen An didn't understand this sentence.Life is often like this, when you understand it, it's too late.

Yan Xun's military power was handed over to Cen An, but he was still a general, and he was not officially charged with any crime. The emperor sent three thousand armored soldiers to escort him back to Beijing, but the leader Yan Xun had never met.

That person came up to meet him from a distance, knelt down and cupped his hands and said, "Little brother pays homage to elder brother."

Yan Xun looked at him suspiciously.

He raised his head and said with a smile: "My younger brother, Shen Xiu, is the fifth son of the prime minister. Before his father passed away, Duke Yong Ming adopted his younger brother as his adopted son."

"...Ah, you are the prime minister's youngest son. Get up quickly." Yan Xun helped him up and said, "Don't be restrained, Yan Zun and I have never been so polite."

Shen Xiu saw Lian Jiazi's body, straight and well-proportioned, handsome and energetic, with a happy look on his face all the time, like a young monk in a monastery with the natural courage of a newborn calf.

"The emperor asked you to take me back to Beijing?" Yan Xun asked.

Shen Xiu shook his head, "The emperor said, come here to listen to elder brother's orders, don't talk too much."

"Quite confused?"

Shen Xiu almost blurted out the question that he had held back for a long time, but quickly held back, "The emperor said, don't talk too much."

He said so on his lips, but in his eager eyes, there were four big characters "tell me quickly".

Yan Xun couldn't help laughing, and said, "Well, don't talk too much."

Shen Xiu lowered his head in disappointment.

The two lieutenants brought by Cen An are his confidantes, one is Xu Ti and the other is Wang Ping.After Yan Xun left, Cen An "greeted" with the generals half intimidating and half coaxing, and then let them go.Xu Ti immediately moved to Cen An's side and said, "General, why did you let Yan Xun go away like this? Don't you send someone on the way..."

Cen An shook his head, "Yan Xun is not easy to deal with, and the three thousand iron armor escorting him was hand-picked by the emperor, so we can't kill him. Anyway, he is going back to Beijing. He has no military power. Someone will take care of him. We don't need to worry about it." .Moreover, look at these generals here, which one is not staring at me like a black-eyed chicken, wishing to come up and tear me up now, but they have concerns. If something happened to Yan Xun, I guess they would Don't care about anything."

Wang Pingdao: "Since they are all dissatisfied, they will definitely not serve wholeheartedly. How can the general lead his troops to quell the chaos?"

Cen An sneered and said, "Just now I've said all the good and bad things, and if I don't listen, I just gave me a reason to take care of them. If you don't want to part with Yan Xun, why don't you go down and stay with him."

He thought for a while, and then said, "Did Yan Xun bring anything with him when he left?"

Xu Ti said: "Only his horse and weapons. Oh, and a lamb."

Cen An: "?"

The sky is bright, and the wilderness is silent. If you listen carefully, you will hear the sound of dewdrops dripping, and the occasional birdsong. This little life awakens the sleeping earth.

A group of more than ten people rode on horses, holding their breath, as if they were quietly waiting for something.The leader was a woman in appearance, wearing a dark green cloak, with a light ink-colored veil fluttering on the hood, making it impossible to see her face clearly.

Not far away, there was a sound of horseshoes from far to near, and the leading woman raised her head slightly, saw the person coming through the light veil, and waved to him.

She lifted the veil, revealing a slightly pale face, "Is the journey safe?"

Yan Xun reined in the rein and let out a sigh of relief, "Nothing happened. Sis, what's going on?"

Yan Fu motioned for Yan Xun to follow, turned the horse's head and led him back, "This side is ready. Dad is now in the Weiyan Palace, and everything is fine with him. After waiting for you for so long, the emperor will let you go. How is it, what wronged you?"

Yan Xun said with a smile: "Who else can wrong me?"

Yan Fu nodded and said, "That's good, we have to hurry up. It's just that the hundreds of thousands of troops are handed over to Cen An like this, and I'm always worried."

"The emperor's arrangement is naturally reasonable."

Yan Fu said: "It's one thing to be reasonable, but it's better for the emperor to let me know in advance. Back then when he put daddy in prison, it really scared me, and you were framed. I didn't expect him to let daddy go quietly. Asking him to bring the queen to Weiyan and entrust the Yan family with such a heavy responsibility of life and death, it shows that he still trusts us very much."

Yan Xundao: "Prisoning my father, putting the empress under house arrest, and taking back my military power are all the means used by the emperor to confuse the enemies, making them think that they have succeeded and separated the emperor, the Yan family, and Weiyan, so they can relax their vigilance. Now It appears to have worked out well.”

"But there is one thing I don't understand." Yan Fu said, "If the military power is handed over to Cen An, he will lead the troops south, but he is an idiot general, and he is so unpopular, he will definitely be defeated. Then King Liang's... ...Won't the rebel army be able to attack Shangjing unimpeded all the way?"

When she said the word "rebel", her voice was very soft and fast, and she almost passed it vaguely, but Yan Xun's heart still shook violently.He took a deep breath and said with deep meaning: "Of course the emperor knows that Cen An can't win with troops, otherwise why would he send him here?"

"You mean, the emperor deliberately wanted Liang Wang to enter Shangjing?" Yan Fu's eyes widened.

Yan Xun rarely showed a sincere smile, his eyes were deep, his smile was full of tenderness and pity, and he said firmly: "He is not trying to rebel, I know."

Yan Fu remained silent.From other people's point of view, Yan Xun is a bit too protective.Bai Yu had already raised troops to occupy Sichuan and Shuzhou and captured Jizhou. He also said that he did not intend to rebel, just like opening his eyes and saying that it is not yet dawn when the sun is burning at noon.

After a while, she sighed, "You really love him." Then she asked, "If, I mean, if King Liang really wanted to rebel, what would you do?"

"I will not help him, nor will I stop him. If he fails, I will take him away to a place where no one can find us. If he succeeds, I will return to the field and disarm, and stay away from the court."

Yan Fu was silent for a moment, and finally just let out a soft sigh.

The word "love" is very harmful.

Shen Xiu escorted Yan Xun all the way to Weiyan with [-] iron armors, and only then did he know what the emperor meant by "don't talk too much".The empress who was under "house arrest" returned to her mother country in good order, sitting next to her emperor brother, with a radiant demeanor; Yan Jun, the Duke of Yongming who "fleeed in fear of crime", was also sitting in the guest seat, beside his son-in-law, Wei Yanbing Yu Ze, the eldest son of Marshal Ma's family.

What's more, when Yan Xun followed the inner eunuch into the palace, he was not surprised at all when he saw all this, but he just calmly and naturally saluted King Weiyan, as if he had returned to the Great Zhou Dynasty Hall.

The Lord of Weiyan smiled and said: "General Yan! I have admired your name for a long time. General Huwei really lives up to his reputation. Come here and give me a seat."

Yan Xun thanked him and sat beside Yan Jun.The father and son broke up unhappily. They haven't seen each other for a long time, and they seem to be quite unfamiliar.

The Lord of Weiyan Kingdom said: "Speaking of it, I and the Great General's father and son are also a family. If the family doesn't talk about two families, I will get straight to the point. Weiyan and Dazhou have been related for many years, so I will naturally help with this."

After coming out of the palace, it was already dark, Yu Ze said: "The food in the house is ready, father-in-law, please get into the carriage." He helped Yan Jun into the first carriage, and whispered to Yan Xun: "Cheng Rui , you come with me."

He shared a carriage with Yan Xun, and as soon as he sat down firmly, he asked, "Is King Liang really going to rebel?"

Yan Xun said briefly: "He won't."

Yu Ze didn't seem to be very persistent about this question, he waved his hand, and said casually: "You say yes. I have something to ask you, for various reasons, you must agree!"

Yan Xun became wary and looked at Yu Ze suspiciously, "Brother-in-law, what did you do to my sister?"

Yu Ze patted his arm, his eyes widened, "Why don't you wish me well."

"My brother-in-law is always like this." Yan Xun said, "What's the matter? So serious."

"That's right. A while ago your sister brought home a girl. She said her name was Ruan Jiyue and she was pregnant with Rong Ling's child, but Rong Ling didn't recognize her and didn't care about her. She had to come to your sister. Old Taishan said that since Rong Ling doesn't care, it's better to give this child to our husband and wife—you know, we only have two daughters, your sister can't have another child, we all hope that Ruan Jiyue can give birth to a boy, and I don't have to take concubines anymore. But you My sister loves you so much, she said that you and King Liang have no children, so it would be better for you."

Yan Xun was stunned when he heard it, and before he recovered, Yu Ze grabbed his arm and said earnestly, "Brother-in-law, I beg you, if it's a girl, you can take it away, if it's a boy, leave it to me." Me. OK?"

After a while, Yan Xun said, "How could Ruan Jiyue be pregnant with Rong Ling's child? He obviously..." Yan Xun stopped at this point. After all, thinking about it, it didn't seem strange, and it wasn't Tang Jinzhi who was pregnant with Yan Zun's child. .

Yu Ze shook him, "Is it okay?"

"I can do whatever I want, just listen to my father and sister." Yan Xun said, "But, is Ruan Jiyue willing?"

Hearing what he said, Yu Ze breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "She is an unmarried girl, what else can she do? Someone willing to have this child is the best ending for her, otherwise she Life is ruined."

Thinking of Yan Zun, Yan Xun felt a headache, "How can I have such a younger brother?"