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The only people who could sit with the prince were the commanders in the barracks, and of course Li Jin who was just picked up by Su Xingyi today to drive the ducks to the shelves.

During the banquet, there were only three commanders of the five-way army who had come here so aggressively and arrogantly. At this moment, there were only three left. One death and one injury were also a great deterrent to them.

Jiang Heng took the initiative to speak, broke the silence on the table, and asked a few words about what happened in Beiliao.

Su Yangjiao looked at the people around him, his expression turned cold instantly, and he said, "Thank you Commander Jiang for your concern, I was not injured in Beiliao."

Jiang Heng was taken aback for a moment, and said "Oh".

The atmosphere during the banquet began to cool down again.

Everyone knows that Emperor Jiang's order was for the army to attack Jingguo, but now, Prince Jingguo is sitting in the barracks in a stately manner, and even had dinner with them.

Everyone has heard about this Crown Prince of Jingguo for a long time, and sometimes they secretly raised their eyes to take a look, and saw that the empress dowager's eyes were cold and unkind, and only when he looked at the fourth prince did his eyes shine.

Such people are like gods in the sky, they cannot be reached or touched, they can only be worshiped on the altar table, but they dare not profane.

However, Prince Jingguo added vegetables to the fourth prince's bowl from time to time, scooped up the soup himself, and finally had to cool it down before sending it to the fourth prince's hand.

It's like a god falling into the mortal world.

Everyone had their own thoughts on such a meal.

After the meal was full, Su Yangjiao put down the bowl and chopsticks, glanced around with that sinister look, and said slowly: "All the generals here, Yangjiao should call you senior."

The three commanders looked at each other, how could they dare to answer the senior, they all bowed their hands and saluted: "Don't dare."

Su Yangjiao smiled coldly, and said, "Why don't the three commanders dare? Cui Fen is not the only one who acts without authorization in the army?"

Su Yangjiao raised his voice, looked at Su Xingyi, and then said: "I know how dissatisfied you are in your hearts. The army has traveled thousands of miles, but it has been more than a month outside this pass. Now that I am coming back, I am so dissatisfied. Bringing a prince from Jing Kingdom, you are too afraid to say anything, but you must be unhappy in your heart, right?"

The fourth prince actually made the words so clear that the three of them didn't know how to respond, they could only hang their heads.

"This king never wanted to attack Jingguo from the very beginning, so staying here is a way to slow down the troops. Do you all understand?"

Su Yangjiao looked at his fingers. After running around for a few days, several calluses were worn on the belly of his fingers. He raised his head suddenly and said, "Beiliao was what this king wanted to attack from the beginning."

Several people raised their heads in panic, their faces full of disbelief.

"Actually, Father also wants to attack the royal court of the Northern Liao Dynasty. The Jing Kingdom and our Jiang Kingdom have been separated from Jialing Pass for more than a hundred years. They are of the same family, but the Northern Liao Dynasty is different. They intend to tear open the door from Jialing Pass and go south in one fell swoop. Know.

If the Beiliao people pass through Jialing Pass, we will have no danger to defend. Dajiang's land is like a flat river, under the iron hooves of the Beiliao people, we will have no power to resist. "

The words of the fourth prince turned out to be a deception from the previous imperial decree. The chief generals looked at each other, neither daring to believe it nor not daring to disbelieve it.

It is not unbelievable to say that this kind of blindness has not existed since ancient times, but even the chief general kept it hidden.

The next moment, Jiang Heng's voice sounded, "Generals, what the fourth prince said is true. Before I left the city, His Majesty also told me this. Only the three of us know about it. Now we only have an alliance with Jingguo. Let's fight against the Northern Liao with all our strength, once the Northern Liao is eliminated, our Dajiang country will be safe for a hundred years."

The rest of the people dispersed, and Su Xingyi was the only one left in the huge main tent, still sitting there without saying a word.

Su Yangjiao didn't speak, just looked at him.

The candles in the tent flickered, casting light and shadows on the feet of the two people, stretching obliquely.

"Fourth brother, you and I both know that Emperor Father never gave orders to attack Beiliao." Su Xingyi's eyes turned red, and he couldn't figure out how his elder brother, whom he held dear to his heart, would falsely preach the imperial decree.

What kind of crime is this, Su Xingyi knows very well.

"Xingyi, the fourth brother said that he would help you get that supreme position, do you remember?"

Su Yangjiao put his hands together his sleeves, looked at half an inch of sky outside the tent, and his voice was a bit ethereal.

"Now, this opportunity has come."

Su Xingyi said: "Fourth Brother, what are you talking about?"

Su Yangjiao chuckled, turned his head to look at him, and said: "We have been away from Beijing for several months, have you ever received a letter from Shengjing City? Every time you and I send back military reports to Shengjing during the march, do you have one? Did you hear back?"

Su Xingyi's heart trembled. He had never thought about this question carefully before. It was only because he was far away from Shengjing City and he was still moving that he didn't respond.

"I guess, the city of Shengjing is not peaceful at this time, it's just that some people blocked the news in order not to arouse your vigilance, knowing that by the time we realize something is wrong and return to Shengjing, it may be too late."

Su Yangjie's voice was very soft, but he beat Su Xingyi's heart tightly.

"Fourth brother, you said Beijing is in chaos, and you already guessed it, why did you tell me today?"

Su Yangjiao glanced at Su Xingyi lightly from the corner of his eye, "Fifth brother, I only guessed it when I was in Nanxun's barracks these few days. Before we came back, Nanxun killed a general. He told My reason was that I didn't listen to the military order. At first I thought that this person had a lot of words about the relationship between me and Nan Xun, which made him unhappy. Later, I overheard their military newspaper, saying that it was Sheng Jingcheng. There has been no news report for a few days, and it seems that there is something wrong, so I think about it all."

"Today, I am not falsely preaching the imperial father's will. Back then, the imperial father only said that you and I would lead the army to march to the north. Now that the Northern Liao royal court has declined, we will work together with Jingguo to expel the Northern Liao from the Tianshan Mountains. Isn't that right? No future troubles? What's wrong?"

Su Yangjiao approached step by step, the halo of the candlelight changed on his handsome face, and that unfathomable smile made him a little incomprehensible.

Su Xingyi has a straight temper, with the body and mind of a military general, in his world, he can only charge forward and fight for the country. Having a pure heart is the most rare thing.

"Xingyi, father knows that Nan Xun is the wife I'm marrying, but he insists on forcing me to attack Jingguo. He knows that I have no intention of being on the throne, but he insists on making me the crown prince. Just to avoid his strong desire, don't you understand?"

"So, I asked you once, do you want that supreme position? If you want, I will help you get it."

After a while, Su Xingyi looked up at him and asked, "Fourth brother, I don't understand you anymore, but I believe in you. No matter what you do, I will support you."

"Actually, fourth brother, I know why you don't want to attack Jingguo. The people near Jialing Pass have been in contact with Jingguo for more than a hundred years and intermarried with each other. If a war breaks out, it will be a human tragedy. This war cannot be fought."

He paused, with a smile in his voice, "In order to keep Jiang Guo's fortune alive and the stability of northern Xinjiang, the Northern Liao Dynasty must be destroyed."

The faint words are loud and powerful.

Su Xingyi came out of the main hall and saw Wei Nanxun standing at the door. He approached with a smile on his lips and said, "Brother Nanxun, can you please accompany me for a walk?"

Then Wei Nanxun's voice sounded, "Of course."

Su Yangjiao watched the two of them disappear under the starry sky of the night, and their figures merged into the moonlight grassland.

Su Xingyi asked his subordinate soldiers to lead two horses over, one of which was the one that Wei Nan rode when he found it, and the two lifted their robes and jumped onto the horses, raised the reins and drove slowly towards the outside of the barracks.

The summer in the northwest is always darker than other places. After a supper, the night fell and the cool wind picked up suddenly. The two horses walked side by side, and the hanging moon illuminated them. Long dark shadows.

"Brother Nanxun, how about our match?"

Wei Nanxun asked, "How do you compare?"

"Brother Nan Xun's eyes are completely healed?"

Wei Nanxun nodded, glanced at Su Xingyi, and said, "I am a few years older than you, and I have been trained in the army since I was a child. It is not fair for you to compete in martial arts."

Holding his whip, he pointed to a dwarf tree on a hill in the distance, and said, "Let's race horses, and finish with that tree, okay?"

Su Xingyi pinched the whip in his hand and asked with a smile, "Okay."

After finishing speaking, he pursed his lips tightly, raised the whip and whipped it down fiercely, the horse neighed long and galloped out like an arrow leaving the string.

Wei Nanxun followed closely behind and also raised the reins. In the silence of the grassland, only the vibration of the horse's hooves could be heard.

Across the hills, seeing the tree getting closer, Su Xingyi only felt a gust of wind around him, and a black shadow rushed over quickly.

"Fifth Prince, I won." Wei Nanxun pulled the reins, turned the horse's head, and looked at Su Xingyi.

"Brother Nanxun, I want to ask you, what do you like about my fourth brother?"

The two slowly jumped off their horses and walked on the grassland where they could not see the edge at a glance. The night wind brought the fragrance of green grass and living soil.

"In the eyes of many people, my fourth brother is useless, acting absurdly, and without dignity. When you came to Jiangguo, he tried to force you. Later, he gave you poison and finally married you back to the mansion. , don't you hate? He humiliated you like this."

Su Xingyi asked what was in his heart, and it was also the thing he was most worried about.

Wei Nanxun raised his eyes to look at the Milky Way in the sky, and said with a smile: "Yes, as you said, I hated him once, and wished I could have his skin cramped, but the second day after I entered the mansion, he went to the imperial physician. Heal me, at that time I thought he was pretending to heal and then poisoned me, but he really asked the doctor to heal me."

"Later, he also wanted to play a good show of heroes saving the beauty. I didn't expect that group of people really wanted to kill me. The moment the blade stabbed at me, he was the one who stood in front of me. At that time, I was thinking , if this person wants to harm me, why is he willing to block the knife for me? And that time, when the Beiliao people came, he once again stood in front of Chunhua's whip to protect me, can you imagine? Yours Fourth brother, I can pinch his waist with one hand.

But in order to protect me, he stood in front of me several times, fifth prince, you have experienced fighting on the battlefield, how many soldiers would really stand in front of you to protect your life? "

Su Xingyi knew very well in his heart that under the comparison of strength and weakness, only subordinates who felt loyal and brave would risk their lives to protect each other.

"Jie'er, you look at him as if he doesn't care about anything, but if he decides to do something, he will do it even if he tries his best. In the competition with the Beiliao students, he didn't want to lose. He didn't want to lose. He can go to study without sleep for several days and nights, and all he does is to protect me. If there is no fourth brother of yours, how can I, the proton of the enemy country, live so comfortably in Jiang country? How can I hate him?"

"He protects me with his life, how can I live up to his wishes?"

Su Xingyi didn't know these things at all, because he was in southern Xinjiang at that time, and perhaps it was precisely because he had never been involved in the past between them that he felt that this emotion was so unreal, so unreal that it scared him.

afraid of what?

Fearing that such an excellent and perfect person who is almost a god is only new to his fourth brother for a while, but his fourth brother is empty of sincerity, and finally the novelty passes, and it ends in a tragic end.

Su Xingyi stopped, and the night wind poured into his robe, flying wantonly.

The wind brought Wei Nanxun's voice: "Jie'er is the only love in my life, and I will cherish him and love him all my life."

Wei Nanxun stood there, looked at the Yinghuo military camp in the distance, and said with a slight smile: "The fifth prince can't trust Wei so much?"

"Of course it's not that I can't believe it, it's just...just, I," Su Xingyi paused, he didn't know how to say it.

Wei Nanxun said: "I will protect them for the rest of their lives."

Su Xingyi: "They?"

Wei Nan smiled and said nothing, pointed to the distance and said: "Let's go back, Ke'er will be worried, no matter where we are in the future, I will give him the best."

This sentence seemed to remind Su Xingyi that he felt that the two of them would not stay long when they returned to Shengjing, and as they walked back, they couldn't help but ask, "Brother Nanxun, where will you go in the future? Are you going back to Jingguo?"

Wei Nanxun smiled and said: "It depends on your fourth brother, I will accompany him wherever he wants to go."

Su Xingyi was even more puzzled when he heard this, and he asked, "You are the crown prince of Jingguo now, won't you go back to Jingguo sooner or later?"

"Prince, sages can live here."

These words made Su Xingyi break out in a cold sweat. Could it be that these two people are planning to give up their respective supreme power?

After he calmed down and thought about it carefully, Su Xingyi realized that while speaking, he had fallen into Wei Nanxun's net unknowingly, and was led to think by him, as if he had said everything, and then Nothing seemed to be said.

What kind of thoughtfulness does such a person have?

Wei Nanxun said with a smile: "Fifth Prince, please rest assured and hand over your brother to me."

When the two of them walked outside the barracks, Su Xingyi suddenly turned his head and said, "Brother Nanxun, I haven't thanked you for saving my fourth brother from Beiliao."

However, under the flowing moonlight, Su Xingyi saw an extremely terrifying expression flash across Wei Nanxun's side face.

Such sharp and cold eyes make people feel chills.

"He's courting death."

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At night, a sudden gust of wind swept across the entire land, and the wind poured down with heavy rain.

A fixed frame was added to the curtain of the big tent. When the strong wind blew past, the wooden frame snapped with a bang, and the wind instantly poured into the big tent, blowing out the lamps and candles, and the big tent was plunged into darkness .

Su Yangjiao walked to the door with his hands, the cold rain fell heavily into the account, and the wind shook the tent, feeling as if he would be blown into the sky at any moment.

Wei Nanxun came over from behind, opened his arms to embrace Su Yangjiao, and said, "I scared you, didn't I?"

Su Yangjiao pointed to the swaying curtain, Wei Nanxun had no choice but to let go of his arms, squatted down and took a stronger wooden frame on the curtain to block the storm outside.

He turned his head and lit the candle again. Under the dim candlelight, the eyes of the two touched each other softly.

Su Yangjiao looked at him, breathed lightly, and opened his pale mouth slightly: "Nan Xun, I told Xing Yi that preparations will start early tomorrow morning, and the day after tomorrow he will lead the Southern Army to chase the remnants of the Northern Liao Army. "

Wei Nanxun hummed, and said, "I'll go with him."

Su Yangjiao raised his head, and the two looked at each other for a long time. His eyes were filled with tears unconsciously, and he said slowly: "Okay."

At this moment, the outside of the tent suddenly turned white, and after a while, thunder rolled down.

He asked, "Jie'er, can you hug me? I'm afraid."

The rain outside became heavier, torrential, and a flash of lightning suddenly struck, Wei Nanxun said again: "Jie'er, hug me."

The tone this time was a bit softer than last time.

Su Yangjiao returned to the bed and asked, "Aren't you here yet?"

After speaking, he saw him open his arms.

Wei Nanxun quickly got on the bed, and threw himself into his arms. The faint smell of cedar in his breath rushed towards Su Yangjiao, and Su Yangjiao got a little closer.

"Nan Xun afraid of thunder?"

The way he curled up in his arms was very much like the big orange cat in Huawu Mansion, docile and obedient. He lowered his head, rubbed Su Yangjiao's neck, and said, "On the day my mother passed away, she gave birth to a big cat. I was terrified of thunder and rain, and I have been terrified of thunder ever since."

A layer of ripples in Su Yangjiao's heart was slowly pushed away, he hugged Wei Nanxun even tighter, without making a sound, just cuddling each other for a long time.

The sound of the rain was rushing, and the breath of the two of them was entwined in the wetness.

After a while, the rain weakened, and Su Yangjiao asked: "What about before? What if you encountered a thunderstorm on the battlefield? Are you afraid?"

He gently flicked Wei Nanxun's hair bun with his fingers, stroked the back of his head to the back of his spine, opened the back collar, touched the scars on his body, and gently stroked those scars to soothe his emotions.

Wei Nanxun said: "There are also many storms on the grassland. Sometimes there will be thunder and thunder on the marching road, but I am the chief general, how can I show fear? Every time at this time, I will call those officers Call me to my tent and discuss the method of combat, so that I can keep them with me."

After all, so many years have passed, and being afraid has become a habit.

Su Yangjiao put his arms around his neck and said: "Then you rest, I will accompany you."

He smiled at him and kissed his forehead lightly.

It wasn't until late at night that the rain gradually stopped that Wei Nanxun could sleep peacefully.

Su Yang was in his arms, raised his head, his eyes swept over his face over and over again.

The wind and frost in the northwest left traces of determination on his face, sharpening his eyebrows and eyes, and the coldness of the grassland and snow-capped mountains made him always cold and dull, like ice that could not be melted.

Even though he was already in a dream, those eyebrows were still tightly furrowed, as if always carrying an inaccessible chill.

Looking down, he fell into Wei Nanxun's skirts, those irregular scars were his growth experiences.

He is Jingguo's chasing general, the prince of Jingguo who terrifies the people of Northern Liao.

Wei Nanxun's breath gently brushed the ends of his hair, and he was extremely proud to have such a man.

With a slight movement, Su Yangjie felt the arm around his waist tightening, bringing them closer, so close that he could hear the other's heartbeat.

Wei Nanxun suddenly said, "Aren't you asleep yet?"

Su Yangjiao reached out to hold his cheek, kissed him on the lips, and said, "I'm going to sleep now."

They leaned on each other, Su Yangjiao held him in his arms, and gradually closed his eyes.

In the northwest of Jiang State, the war started.

Da Jiang sent troops to the royal court of the Northern Liao Dynasty, on the grounds that his seventh prince had sneaked into the Jiang country's border and forcibly abducted him.

Su Yangjiao sits in the barracks, like a needle that stabilizes the sea, and makes every soldier who participated in the battle feel very excited.

Weibei City was the closest to the war, and Su Yangjiao also took on the important task of stabilizing the people in the city. He went back and forth between the military camp and Weibei City every day to communicate with the generals defending the city.

The situation in the city is stable, and the supply in the rear is sufficient. Northern Liao has already been hit hard by Jing Guo, and this rematch is already vulnerable.

Different from before, Dajiang and Beiliao started a war, everyone was full of spirits and people's aspirations. For so many years, Beiliao people have repeatedly invaded Weibei City in times of famine, causing the people to suffer unspeakably.

Now that the army finally arrived, and being reported by them for so many years of backlog, I naturally support it in my heart.

The Northern Liao army retreated again and again, and they had already pushed to the edge of the Ula grassland. If they retreated again, they would be in the Chidi Desert, the Gobi desert with thousands of miles of yellow sand.

The nine sons of the Beiliao Emperor were all seriously injured or killed on the battlefield. They were defeated and fled all the way west.

In September, the Jiang soldiers returned in triumph, Beiliao surrendered, and handed over the most fertile Ula grassland. Since then, they have never set foot in it again.

In October, Su Yangjiao and Su Xingyi set off to return to Shengjing City first. They received a secret letter saying that there was a change in Shengjing. At this moment, Su Yangjiao's lower abdomen was already slightly protruding, but he was thin and thin, hidden in a loose coat. Between the robes, it is not obvious.

In November, the first few people arrived in Shengjing City.

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