My country is dead again [Rebirth]

"Where is the military amulet in the prince's hand?" Xu Zishen walked into Minzhou's government office with a sullen face. The Jiangbei family had already celebrated Minzhou's great victory here for two days and two nights, leaving everything else to him, the emperor. "Let Lu Jin bring the soldier talisman!"

Frightened by his murderous aura, the officials of the prefectural government hurriedly obediently agreed, and went down to find Lu Jin, Minister of the Household Department.

Not long after, the official came back again, and said inexplicably, "Master Lu is drunk, soldier talisman... soldier talisman..."

Before he finished speaking, Xu Zishen had already pushed him away and looked for it by himself. When he arrived at the Yan Hall, the room was full of alcohol, and Lu Jin and his gang were so drunk that they slurred their speech and were still cursing the old officials in Pingdu. Self-satisfied, he said he wanted them to look good this time, Xu Zishen didn't care about 21, he went up and kicked Lu Jin, pointed the knife at his neck, and said: "Bring the soldier talisman, the capital camp is empty, do you want to die?"

Lu Jin opened his eyes in a daze and saw a knife. He yelled in fright, and scrambled back two steps, saying, "What are you doing, Your Majesty?"

The others were also taken aback by the movement. They were half sober and glared at Xu Zishen angrily.

"I still want to ask what you are doing?" Xu Zishen has been busy outside for two days, when the Jiangbei family suddenly entered Minzhou, all his battle plans were disrupted, and now Wuzhou has missed the best time to strengthen the city defense Dianzhou's attack time was not going well. After he finished handling the general affairs, he asked the whole story clearly, and reorganized the [-] soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp that no one was in charge of when he entered Minzhou City. He was very proud, thinking that he had really done a great deed that was praised by thousands of people.

"Your Majesty, don't be impulsive..." Lu Jin swallowed directly at the knife, vaguely remembering that Xu Zishen was talking about the military talisman, and hurriedly said, "The military talisman is in the box on the table!"

Xu Zishen asked the sergeant behind him to fetch it. After seeing that it was indeed the soldier talisman, he withdrew his knife and said, "Your goal has been achieved. Take the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp back to Beijing quickly. Don't mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Beijing camp at will. , so as not to give Dayu an opportunity to take advantage of it. Then pass on my order, and the crown prince is not allowed to leave the East Palace until I return to Beijing."

No one from the Jiangbei clan spoke, but they didn't refute. They didn't know how to fight in the first place, and they didn't want to continue to fight with the Beijing camp. This time, they knew about Song Qingge's movements in advance. Next time, they won't have such good luck.

Besides, their goals have indeed been achieved. To coerce the prince, fight back against the emperor, defeat the arrogance of the old officials in Pingdu, and gain a reputation for themselves, which can be called complete.

"Where is Song Qingge?" Xu Zishen didn't want to spend any more time with this group of people, so he asked again before leaving.

Lu Jin said, "We have to take the person away."

"What's the use of you taking them away?" Xu Zishen sneered, "Let Song Qingge lead the troops for you?"

"Of course he is still useful." Lu Jin drank the hangover soup brought by his servants, "What is His Majesty keeping him for?"

"People must stay, don't be distracted." Xu Zishen didn't want to talk to him any more, and planned to send someone to find Song Qingge himself, "The person you bought...Hua Yangjiao, right? This person has an impure mind. If you betray Dayu, you won't betray you tomorrow? Be smart and kill him, I will not allow this person to appear in Dazhao's court."

Lu Jin was so angry that he glanced at the soldiers outside the house and dared not speak. They planned to persuade Xu Zishen to fight Wuzhou, but Xu Zishen was still so stupid that he insisted on coming to Minzhou to fight with them and gave it to him for nothing. Don't even want to break into Wuzhou.

"Song Qingge may be half-dead, so you can keep it if you want." Lu Jin said indifferently, "I don't know if your majesty plans to go to Wuzhou next or..."

"This is my business and has nothing to do with you." Xu Zishen frowned and walked out, "Don't be too complacent, don't think this trick is so clever, I didn't think about going to Wuzhou at first, that position could have been If you go to Wuzhou, you can go to Minzhou, and you can raid the rear at any time. If you insist on tricking Song Qingge into Minzhou, you will not be able to enter Wuzhou, and your follow-up plans will be messed up. You can do it yourself."

After all, he recruited a few soldiers to find Song Qingge, and followed him himself.

They turned around a few places, and questioned some members of the Jiangbei family threateningly, and finally learned that Song Qingge was locked in a dungeon.

When Xu Zishen rushed down, he heard a sharp cry, and the soldiers behind him pulled out their bows and arrows and shouted, "Be careful, Your Majesty!"

In the darkness, a peregrine falcon hovered in mid-air, its dark brown eyes looked at the door sharply, and it seemed that it would pounce towards the door at any time. There was a strong smell of blood in the wet ground. The peregrine falcon waited for a while to see if they were still alive. The movement, stimulated by the bloody smell, let out a cry, and the gray-blue wings flew over quickly. Their eyes looked over, and there was a person locked with iron chains on the torture rack. The peregrine falcon folded its wings and hooked the person's legs On the shoulder, the sharp beak pecked down, tore off a piece of flesh, and swallowed it into the stomach in a few strokes.

The person on the torture rack with his head hanging down was already unconscious, and a piece of flesh was torn off his shoulder, he just trembled subconsciously, and a muffled groan escaped from his throat.

The people at the door were disgusted by this scene. Xu Zishen drew out his knife and walked down. The peregrine falcon felt the danger and gave up its prey, and rushed towards them again. The piercing scream of the peregrine falcon shook everyone's eardrums, and the next moment the peregrine falcon fell straight to the ground, with its broken wing falling beside him, twitching twice on the ground and completely motionless.

Xu Zishen walked up a few steps and looked at Song Qingge's situation. Most of the wounds on his body were from the battlefield. He might have been seriously injured and half unconscious. It was so ferocious that Song Qingge's body was torn off strips of flesh, from shoulders to legs, blood was still bubbling out.

A lieutenant came over and carried Song Qingge on his back, took him out, and immediately called the military doctor. Xu Zishen glanced at the people guarding the dungeon, and coldly ordered the soldiers who followed him: "Don't leave alive."

After seeing it, the military doctor said that it was all flesh wounds, and he passed out because he was exhausted. Presumably, he had fought hard and hadn't had food or water for two days and two nights.

Xu Zishen found two military servicemen to stay with him to take care of Song Qingge, and then sent soldiers to guard the door, not allowing the Jiangbei family to take anyone out, and went to busy with other things by himself.

Song Qingge woke up a day later. In a day's time, Xu Zishen had already prepared the next step of the battle plan. He was going to leave Minzhou and transfer to Wuzhou. Judging from Shen Ci's meaning, he should also come to Wuzhou next and take over Song Qingge's stay. The army under the command, the two faced off for the first time this year in Wuzhou.

The Jiangbei family had already set off for Beijing in the afternoon, and the state government became quiet again. Xu Zishen and the deputy general had finished talking about sending troops to Wuzhou tomorrow, and opened the door to see Song Qingge sitting on the bed with his left leg bent and leaning against the wall, with his left hand resting on his lap , the spirit is fair, the face is still very pale, and the lips are bloodless. The soldiers at the door tied a piece of iron chain on his left ankle, and the other end was locked in the wall, which restricted his range of movement, probably around the bed. within a few feet.

When Song Qingge heard someone coming in, he looked up, and when he saw that it was him, he looked back silently.

"Drinking?" Xu Zishen lifted up the small altar of wine in his hand, and sat down by the bed without seeing the foreign place, "Burning knives, don't you often drink in Beijiang?"

"Aren't you going to Wuzhou tomorrow?" Song Qingge said indifferently, "Do you like to drink before going out?"

"Don't you also drink before you go to the northern border?" Xu Zishen smiled, "I remember you drank with your father when you were a teenager."

"Is the injury not healed, don't drink." Song Qingge rolled his eyes, "You came to me just to drink? Then you can go."

Xu Zishen looked at him quietly for a while, the conversation before them was like a pair of old friends who knew each other well, but in fact they had known each other for many years, and they had dealt with each other a lot in the court before. It's bad, they used to appreciate and admire each other, it can be said that they are friends of gentlemen.

But a few years later, they only met on the battlefield, and they were enemies who wanted to kill each other.

"Do you want to know what's going on in Dayu?" Seeing Song Qingge looking over calmly, Xu Zishen said slowly, "Your lieutenant returned to Wuzhou with his troops, and Shen Ci was in Dianzhou. But he should also come to Wuzhou. The Jiangbei family released news that you rebelled and had a connection with Hua Yangjiao for a long time. Jingzhong asked your emperor to thoroughly investigate the case. Xie Ruzhuo was good to the Song family and wanted to suppress the matter. Pei Yuankai sent troops to the border of Wanyang and put pressure on Anhuai. Sun Bingde got angry with Pei Yuankai again. Xie Ruzhuo took Song Qinglai into custody. Your younger brother is also very bloody, which made me admire. I heard that the Ministry of Criminal Justice and the Dali Temple interrogated the Song family for a long time, tortured him until he was breathless, did not ask anything, and now he has nothing to say. Xie Ruzhuo went again We found Wu Xianrong, restrained Pei Yuankai, and stabilized the situation, but the most difficult thing now should be finding you and Hua Yangjiao."

Song Qingge heard Xu Zishen finish everything briefly, with a calm expression on his face, but Xu Zishen saw that his hands were shaking when he heard that Song Qinglai was not well, Xu Zishen continued the previous words and added: "Your brother is fine, You are still alive. In Dongchang, is the governor on good terms with him? You can protect your brother in Dongchang, and your emperor is also on the side of the Song family, so nothing will happen to you. .”

Hearing that Song Qingge let go of his clenched hands, Xu Zishen opened the altar of wine, took a sip by himself, and suddenly said, "Ting Yan, you have worked hard these years, right? Have you ever hated the court?"

Song Qingge was still very young when he took over the Song family. At that time Xu Zishen had already become famous on the battlefield. The age difference between the two was exactly ten years. Many years ago, Xu Zishen went to Wanyang, met Song Qingge, and talked with him about the art of war. He also looked at the marching route map he drew, and said to his father very bluntly, your son is not talented enough, he is not expected to be a general, so forget it.

Old General Song sighed, shook his head and said nothing, that sigh meant that he himself knew that Song Qingge was not the best successor, but the Song family had no choice.

At that time, Song Qingge also heard it, and did not speak. He lowered his eyes and walked away in silence. Then that night, 17-year-old Song Qingge was ordered to intercept a Beidi cavalry. They miscalculated the route of the Beidi people, and Song Qingge was trapped with 2000 people. After two hours, when the reinforcements came, the Beidi cavalry were unable to move forward. Song Qingge was hit by more than a dozen arrows, and his life was almost over.

The soldiers of the Song family were in turmoil for a day, and Song Qingge survived because of his fate. As soon as he woke up, he knelt down in front of his father and said, "Father, I may not succeed in the battlefield, but as long as I have breath, I will protect you." The Song family will not let the Song family fall, let alone let Beidi people take a step further into Dayu."

What happened at that time made Xu Zishen fully realize what kind of person Song Qingge is. Maybe he is not an extremely talented general, but he will still become an excellent general, even more worthy of respect than the unparalleled famous general like Pei Yuankai. admire.

For a person who is not suitable for the battlefield to temper himself into a sharp knife and leave his own name on the battlefield, it requires not only countless efforts, but also a ruthless determination that will never turn back.

Song Qingge didn't know that he was not a general. When he was very young, he actually liked reading more. When his mother was there, he also said that his eyebrows and eyes were like a scholar. Maybe he should be a civil servant, but he can't. He has to be a general.

He went to the battlefield for the first time at the age of 13, almost never returned to the battlefield at the age of 17, and took over the burden of the Song family at the age of 24. After so many years, the word "difficult" is not enough to describe everything, and he also feels tired , want to unload the burden, want to do something he likes, but how can he do that.

It would be fine if the imperial court strives for success, but the imperial court is in ruins, and everything has to be figured out by themselves. Xu Zishen asked him if he hated it?

He thought, maybe everyone in Northern Xinjiang hated it. Who didn't scold the court in the most difficult time?

"Are you persuading me to really rebel?" Song Qingge laughed, "Brother Jin, you have your persistence, and I have mine. No one is right or wrong, and there is no need to comfort each other. I don't want the Song family's My reputation is ruined by me, and there are many soldiers in Wanyang who are still loyal to Dayu. I don’t want to feel sorry for them. Seriously, the imperial court is sorry for us. If you choose to mutiny, I don’t think you did anything wrong What, I might not be able to survive in that situation anymore, so forget it. But if you want to persuade me to follow you, you don’t have to. For the sake of our friendship for many years, you might as well kill me and fulfill me loyalty."

Xu Zishen seemed to have guessed his answer a long time ago, took another sip of wine, and said: "On the battlefield, I said that I only admired Pei Yuankai, and now I add Shen Ci, but under the battlefield, I rarely Ting Yan is one of the people who will look up to you. I apologize for what I said back then, it is a blessing for the Song family to have you."

Song Qingge shook his head with a faint smile, and said in silence, "Thank you for saving me."

The deputy general outside the room called out, Xu Zishen stood up and said, "I really didn't want to humiliate you like that, nor did I want to kill you, it was Lu Jin and the others who did it, but I can't let you go now, the Jiangbei family is still staring at me, I don't want to fight on the front line, and there is another fire in Beijing, so you should stay in Minzhou for the time being."

Song Qingge closed his eyes and stopped talking, Xu Zishen hurried out the door, went to the army center with the lieutenant general, and prepared to leave Minzhou at dawn.

In the silent summer night, there was only the sound of cicadas. The Jiangbei army fell asleep in the barracks in Minzhou. Xu Zishen and the lieutenant discussed the tactics again, rested in the state office, and waited for the departure at dawn.

As soon as Yinshi arrived, the chirping of cicadas seemed to be stopped by a sudden loud noise, and the gate of the state government burst open, and a column of cavalry rushed in.

The sergeants guarding the state government didn't know where this group of people came from, and before they could react, the column of cavalry charged straight past, cutting off the heads of several soldiers with a fierce blade.

The state government office was not too big, so they quickly locked on to a room where the guards were guarding the door. The leader waved his hand and signaled his subordinates to enter the room. When they turned around, they saw Xu Zishen approaching with a knife.

"You are Xu Zishen? Emperor Dazhao?" The man on the horse smiled and turned the knife in his hand, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

Xu Zishen didn't know him. Seeing them heading straight to Song Qingge's place, he guessed that they were here to save someone, so he frowned and said, "The one from Shen Ci?"

The man turned around and saw Song Qingge brought out by his subordinates, whistled, and said a series of words in Xu Zishen's incomprehensible words. The group led Song Qingge and started a surprise attack. The momentum was so strong that the Jiangbei army even retreated a few steps. .

Xu Zishen reacted and said in disbelief, "From Beidi?"

Zhabusu was the last one, looked at Xu Zishen, returned to the Central Plains Mandarin, and said with a smile: "If you won't let me go, then fight with me."

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