Biography of Concubine Shujia

Chapter 112

On the 24rd of the first month of the 23th year of Xijia, Guanju Palace.

"Okay, okay, okay! It's no loss that he is a good man from Daliang!" The emperor said excitedly holding the battle report.

"Is it the battle situation in the northwest?" The queen stretched out her hand and handed the emperor a bowl of ginseng chicken soup, "Drink it while it's hot. You've been busy for a long time, are you hungry?"

"The Northwest Army has won." The emperor put down the battle report, and took the small bowl from the queen's hand, "The queen is more careful. My cousin's soup has always been delicious. After all these years, it still tastes the same."

"Okay, why are you still feeling sad?" The queen said in confusion.

"The queen will understand after reading the battle report." The emperor motioned the queen to read it while drinking the soup.

The queen didn't have so many worries, she directly reached for the battle report booklet and read it.It was General Lu who submitted the note, which explained in detail the deployment and personnel arrangements since the expedition.The last stats of the book are even more shocking.

At the beginning of October in the 23rd year of Xijia, Hedu led 3 cavalry to march eastward from the Kunsang grassland, go down the Nameya River, and aggressively invade the northwest border.

In this situation, Emperor Rui decided to send troops. On the third day of October, General Lu led 3 elite soldiers from the Xiaoqi Battalion to the front line. They arrived in the northwest in early December and joined the 3 troops stationed on the northwest border. attack.

More than 2 people on the east road, led by General Mu Xinyin, crossed the Sangda Mountains to the west, and went out of the Helun River to carry out a diversionary flank attack; Crossing the desert, they joined forces at the Yanu River and headed northward, cutting off the road for the Kunsang army to escape westward to Kodonu; Lu Yueqi attacked in an attempt to annihilate the Hedu army in the area of ​​the Ana Nua River.

In mid-December, the Central Route Army left the fortress.In late December, they continued to cross the desert and march northward via Kotu Londo, gradually approaching the enemy.When Hedu saw that the prince came with his elite troops, and heard that the West Route Army had crossed the Yanu River and was in danger of being flanked, he fled westward overnight with his troops.

On December 23, the West Route Army arrived at Zhaomogansang on the upper reaches of the Yanu River, and camped 15 kilometers away from the Hedu Army.In view of the long-distance journey of the Eastern Route Army and the exhaustion and hunger, Mu Xinyin decided to adopt the policy of waiting for work and setting up an ambush to attack. One part was lined up against the mountains in the east, and the other part was deployed along the Helun River in the west. The main force of the cavalry was hidden in the woods. In the middle; the third prince led the infantry in the middle, guarding the top of the mountain.

After the battle began, the Eastern Army first challenged with 400 cavalry to lure the Hedu army into ambush.As expected, Hedu led his troops to attack in an attempt to capture the hills controlled by the Eastern Route Army.

The third prince led his troops to defend against danger, and the two sides fought fiercely for a day, regardless of the outcome.At this time, General Mu Xinyin commanded one part of the Fuqi division along the river to detour the enemy's formation, the other to attack his family members behind the formation, and the central part guarding the hilltop also called out to attack.

Hedu's army was in chaos, and fled northward. The third, fourth, and fifth princes pursued at night for 15 kilometers, captured tens of thousands of people, and surrendered 5000 people. The cavalry fled west.

Nearly 3 people were lost in this battle, and a total of 16 generals died in the battle.

After this battle, Hedu Khan was severely injured and retreated to the west of the Kunsang grassland.He sent envoys to seek peace and was willing to surrender to Daliang.General Lu couldn't make a choice, so he had to write to the court, asking His Majesty the Emperor to show him.

"This is too tragic. Of the more than 6 troops, only about half are left." The queen put down the battle report and sighed, "It's also thanks to General Xiaomu who made a quick decision and cooperated well with Yao'er and the others. Speaking of which , This General Mu is the Commander Mu who sent the eldest princess to marry? I have always wanted to ask the emperor, when did he become a member of the royal family?"

"The empress should know about him. His original master was concubine Shu." At this point, the emperor no longer needed to hide the truth from the empress.And he really needs the queen's help right now.

"People around sister Jia?" The queen frowned, "When did my sister get involved with someone in the royal family?"

"The queen read his name, don't you understand?"

"Xin Yin?" The queen was startled, "Xin Yin?! It's the little Xinzi next to my sister who left the palace. He belongs to your majesty."

"He was originally a member of the royal family. After taking the secret medicine, he worked as a servant in the palace. I saw that he was clever, so I assigned him to the girl, but it made the two of them fall in love. It is more effective than the words of my serious master. Such a talent is overqualified in the palace, so I decided to send him to the northwest."

"So that's how it is." The empress rolled her eyes, "What does the emperor want to ask of me?"

"Why did my cousin say that?" The emperor was a little helpless, and the empress was sometimes too smart, which made him a little uncomfortable.Fortunately, most of the time, the queen sees through and doesn't tell the truth.

"I have seen things like secret medicine in other places before. I know roughly what they are used for. The emperor so generously let me know about your power in the inner palace, isn't it just to make me reciprocate , help me a little bit?"

"There is indeed something difficult, and I don't know what to do. I want to ask my cousin for advice." The emperor picked up the booklet, looked at the list of sacrificed generals, and pointed to the name for a long time and said to the queen, "This is not easy. Nah."

"It's from the Du family? Which room is it from?" The queen took the notebook and asked after looking at it.

"The only son in the third house, from Du Xianyu's family." The emperor had a headache, "It was Zhen and Concubine Shu who guaranteed in front of Du Xianyu that his son would be fine."

"On the battlefield, the sword has no eyes, so I can't blame the emperor. You don't have to worry, sister Jia is not an unreasonable person, so I won't blame you."

"It would be great if that's the case." The emperor handed another secret book to the queen, "Look at the battle report sent back by Xin Yin. Xiao Si is really brave, and the Liu family has really long hands."

The queen didn't say a word, she took the secret copy that the emperor handed her and looked at it.The excerpt was written by Xin Yin, and the excerpt described in detail the story of the loss of tens of thousands of people.

On that day, Hedu led his troops to flee north, and the third, fourth, and fifth princes led 1000 cavalry in pursuit by night. They pursued for 15 kilometers and captured and wiped out tens of thousands of people.

To continue the pursuit, Lu met Hedu's family member, Ning'an Yanshi.

The Ning'an Yan family is also the eldest princess, and she brought more than a thousand remnants of the Hedu tribe. After seeing the younger brothers, she called for help, saying that she didn't want to go back to the Kunsang grassland, and was willing to help the younger brothers, using herself as a bait to lure them. He all came out.

The third prince was vigilant, recalling what his mother and concubine had said at the beginning, he decided to lead the troops back immediately, did not intend to continue the pursuit, and ignored the eldest princess' call for help.

The fifth prince hesitated, seeing his elder sister crying for help, his heart softened; but he also felt that it was inappropriate for the elder sister to appear on the battlefield and help her mother's family deal with her husband's family.

Seeing that the third prince was about to withdraw, the fifth prince hesitated. Before the expedition, his concubine mother and Rong Yi said, don't stand out in everything, you can never go wrong with the third brother.

The third prince turned his head for the last time, saw the question in the fifth prince's eyes, pulled the reins, and the fifth prince's horse was pulled back.

The two brothers looked at each other and quickly retreated.The subordinates behind them also followed closely.

Only the fourth prince stood still, seemingly moved by the eldest princess' plea for help.

The fourth prince decided to continue the pursuit. He didn't really believe what the eldest princess said, but he thought that as long as the eldest princess was around, it would not be difficult to threaten or lure Hedu out.

If he can annihilate Hedu, then his credit will be the first.

The fourth prince rode forward, holding the whip, and looked at his elder sister.He was not yet ten years old when the eldest princess got married, so he didn't care about this imperial sister.Seeing her so pitiful in the chaos, she felt a little bit teasing.

He held the horsewhip, and handed one end to the eldest princess, "Mr. Ning An, please, you are the eldest sister of this prince, we can discuss things carefully, there is no need to be like this."

The eldest princess raised her head and said to the fourth prince with tears in her eyes, "Thank you fourth brother for still willing to believe in me, otherwise I really have no way out."

"Elder Sister, get up." The Fourth Prince wanted to hand over the whip again.

The kneeling eldest princess tightly grasped the whip with her hands. After a while, the fourth prince was shocked to find that his whip was entangled and his horse was sinking.He was held by the princess with a whip and couldn't move, and the horse also went crazy.

"You!" The fourth prince was anxious, "Bitch! How dare you harm me?!"

The eldest princess raised her head, she didn't seem to be cute at all, her gaze was like a blade scraping across the fourth prince's face, "I hate people calling me a bitch the most. Speaking of which, you are all bitches." You little slut from a human!"

After saying this, the burly man behind the eldest princess grabbed the horsewhip that the eldest princess was holding, and with all his strength, the fourth prince was thrown out with his horse and man.

The sound of "Boom" came, and the fourth prince rolled on the ground, and saw his subordinates fall into a big pit.

The third prince and the others in the distance looked back after hearing the noise, but they could no longer see the fourth prince and his subordinates.

Instead, the big princess on the edge of the deep pit sneered wantonly, that smile was dazzling in the sun, and the big princess' voice was as sharp and penetrating as before she got married, "Mu Yunlan's son, that's all, hahahaha."

The third prince galloped all the way with the fifth prince, and met his sixth uncle Du Ziyun on the way, and Du Ziyun was sent by Du Zitian to meet him.

Seeing that the third prince and fifth prince were safe, he was relieved at first.Immediately afterwards, he asked the fourth prince.The third prince, Mu Yunyao, had his own selfish intentions, so he didn't tell the whereabouts of the fourth prince, but kept urging Du Ziyun to take them back to join the army.

When Du Ziyun was young, he followed his father in Nanluo, and he had never seen anything dangerous. Later, he stayed in the Gyeonggi Daying for several years, so he naturally knew about the third prince's little thoughts.

First, the nephew was worried about himself and didn't want to put himself in danger, and second, he wanted to take this opportunity to get rid of the fourth prince.

"Fourth brother, fourth brother was ambushed by the eldest sister. We don't know what happened to him, General Du, will you save him?" The fifth prince suddenly said, his voice trembling slightly, as if he was still afraid of the danger just now .

The third prince's expression changed immediately, he was such a white-eyed wolf, he just saved his life, but in turn he was about to bite their nephew and uncle.

Du Ziyun originally felt that his nephew's actions were unethical, so he was not surprised to hear the fifth prince's provocation and aggression.

"I'm going to meet the fourth prince now. The two princes can find the way by turning around in the direction I came from. Brother Weichen, meet the two on the mountain. General Mu is here, the two princes go back quickly."

Du Ziyun pulled the reins, ready to rescue the fourth prince.

"Sixth uncle!" The third prince cried out, "The fourth brother was ambushed by my elder sister's people. Uncle is short of manpower, so it's better not to act rashly."

"You take the fifth prince back, uncle doesn't need you to worry. After returning to the camp, you can inform General Mu and your third uncle of the situation here. Let them send someone to respond."

"I'll stay and accompany my uncle, fifth brother, report back to the camp." The third prince always felt that something was wrong, he was worried about the only uncle in the third room.

"Go! Don't follow your uncle to distract me!" Du Ziyun lashed the third prince's horse with a whip, and the horse rushed forward in fright. After the third prince grabbed the rein and controlled the horse, Du Ziyun had already led the people away.

"Third Brother, what should we do now?" Fifth Prince asked as if I listened to you.

"I don't know!" The third prince waved his whip angrily.

"Third brother, younger brother didn't do it on purpose, younger brother is afraid of fourth brother..." The fifth prince said softly, "General Du is more experienced than us, and he will definitely be able to rescue fourth brother."

The third prince glared at the fifth prince and pulled the reins, "Let's go back to the camp!"

When the third prince and others return to the camp, they can report the news to Du Zitian and Xin Yin.Du Zitian was furious, and immediately wanted to find the fourth prince and his sixth brother.

Xin Yin stopped him and asked him to control the two armies in the east and the middle, and personally took some elites from the Xiaoqi battalion to look for the fourth prince and Du Ziyun.

General Lu of the West Route Army intercepted the Eldest Princess and Hedu, but the Eldest Princess held the fourth prince hostage, General Lu did not dare to act rashly, and let Hedu lead the remaining troops to flee north.By the time Xin Yin arrived at Yanu River, it was already too late, and Hedu Khan escaped successfully.

The eldest princess was captured, and most of the remnants following the eldest princess died in the battle.The fourth prince only suffered some flesh injuries, but Du Ziyun was nowhere to be seen.

The fourth prince was in a coma before and didn't know what happened. The eldest princess insisted that Du Ziyun had already been killed by them.Xin Yin was furious, imprisoned the princess, and kept looking for Du Ziyun on the grassland.He is the one who knows the emperor's layout best, and also the one who understands Du Ziyun's importance the most.His men were about to dig three feet into the ground, but they still failed.

Hedu returned to Kunsang, sent a letter to be willing to submit to Daliang, and expressed his willingness to make peace with the eldest princess.General Lu was already sorting out the battle report to the imperial court. After Xin Yin searched again to no avail, he had no choice but to write a secret report and report it to the emperor truthfully.

The queen came back from Xin Yin's narration, showing a look of unbearable, "Concubine Shu's brother, the emperor will build a clothes tomb, please follow it up."

"That's what it should be. Let's make him a Viscount of Heroes. The Du family has made great contributions in the Northwest this time. Du Zitian, I will send him to the Ministry of War. Du Xianyu, who is in charge of raising food and grass, will be promoted to the Minister of the Household Department, and will be a gift to the crown prince." Master."

"The emperor is planning to use the Du family again?" The queen asked softly, "Since we still want to use the Du family, sister Jia, the emperor has decided how to change his life?"

"Concubine Shu's younger brother went to Fengcheng with Lao Ba and Xiao Er. For her younger brother, she dared not be disobedient." The emperor thought for a long time before letting go.

"Does the emperor have to rely on threats to talk to sister Jia?" The queen cleaned up the soup bowl, turned and left.

The moment she closed the door, she turned her back to the emperor and said, "I'm not worth it for Sister Jia. Since the emperor already has a substitute, you should go find Zhen Wanyi. She will naturally make you happy. Shu Concubine, I can't help you, and I'm not willing to help you. Your Majesty, please go back."

(End of this chapter)