nycdaug Chapter 436: Knife
Chapter 436: Knife
Emperor Yuan suddenly stood up and asked in surprise, "What?"
The imperial guard knelt on one knee and said hurriedly, "Your Majesty, the urgent report says that General Feng was trapped by the enemy while leading his troops in pursuit and was accidentally captured.
Now, Military Advisor Xiao is in charge of the army, temporarily stabilizing the situation. However, General Feng's arrest has shaken the army's morale and has led to successive defeats."
The entire court was in an uproar, with everyone talking about it.
Jiang Yueyang felt a tightness in his heart. The commander of an army was captured, and the morale of the army was unstable. If this continued for a long time, the battle situation would be worrying.
The Minister of War stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, we must rescue General Feng as soon as possible, otherwise we will suffer heavy losses in this battle!"
Emperor Yuan frowned and paced back and forth. "The enemy will surely keep General Feng under strict guard. How can we rescue him?"
At this time, General Qiu stepped forward and asked, "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead the troops to the front line and try to rescue General Feng."
"Distant water cannot quench a nearby fire." Xie Beixiao stepped forward, "Your Majesty, please immediately send General Lu to lead the troops to support the front line!"
Upon hearing this, Emperor Yuan did not hesitate at all and immediately said, "Pass on my decree. Order Lu Yunting and Zhang Zhiyuan (General Zhang) to immediately lead 50,000 Cangwu troops to provide support. Make sure to rescue General Feng and capture the Eastern Turks in one fell swoop!"
"promise!"
Afterwards, the imperial guards left the hall to deliver an urgent report eight hundred miles away. Today's morning court session ended here because of the arrest of General Feng.
Jiang Yueyang was worried and secretly prayed that Lu Yunting would be safe and return soon.
At this time, on the other side far away, General Zhang had already engaged in a fight with the former Lu family army soldiers, now the Cangwu army soldiers.
Inside the tent, General Xiao Zhang was arm wrestling with a burly, dark-skinned soldier.
General Xiao Zhang's forehead was bulging with veins, sweat was dripping, and his whole face was exerting force!
The soldiers opposite him had smiles on their faces and looked as steady as a rock.
The soldiers standing by and watching started to jeer, "Haha, General Zhang, just give up! With your skinny arms and legs, there's no way you can defeat our strongman!"
"General Zhang, it's not shameful to lose to our strongman. If you can't do it, just give up."
"give up."
Zhang Zhiyuan gritted his teeth and replied, "Get lost! I've never given up here! Even if I lose, I'll fight with all my might!"
"Come on, General!" someone cheered him on.
"Big Black Bull, let General Zhang see what you can do!"
"That's right, Big Black Bull, hurry up and finish it, your wife will call you home for dinner later."
The Cangwu Army has been stationed at the border for many years, and many soldiers have married and had children here. Da Hei Niu is one of them.
Hearing the words "go home for dinner", Big Black Bull said "OK". Then, he began to exert his strength.
Zhang Zhiyuan immediately felt a strong force pushing his hand down. If he had not stabilized it in time, he would have been defeated in an instant.
But even though he used all his strength, his hand still tilted little by little.
"Big Black Bull, are you not capable of this?"
As soon as the man finished speaking, there was a thud and Zhang Zhiyuan's hand was pressed on the table.
"Oh! I win!"
"Big Black Bull is indeed our strongman!"
"Big Black Bull is amazing! You are the first person to defeat General Zhang!"
Don't be fooled by Big Black Bull's big body and rough appearance, he is actually a very shy person.
At this moment, I couldn't help blushing when everyone praised me.
At this moment, a soldier opened the tent curtain and shouted, "Big Black Bull, your wife wants you to come home for dinner."
"Wow~ It's great to have a wife. She will call you home for dinner on time!" everyone cheered.
"When can I get married?"
"I also want to get married, why is there no girl interested in me?"
"That's right, I'm no less good-looking than Big Black Bull."
Just like that, amid the crowd's jeers, Big Black Bull scratched his head and walked out of the tent embarrassedly.
Zhang Zhiyuan asked, "Do you all want to get married?"
"Don't you want to?" Several soldiers asked in unison.
"I am married."
As soon as Zhang Zhiyuan finished speaking, the soldiers present stared at him with resentment.
"Haha~" Zhang Zhiyuan realized that he had said the wrong thing and smiled awkwardly, "Don't worry, I will definitely find a way to help you all get married."
"A few years ago, General Gao and others said the same thing..." The tone was as if they were saying, look, have we got wives?
"I'm different from them!" Zhang Zhiyuan patted his chest and promised, "My wife will be here soon. I'll ask her to find a wife for you in the nearby villages. I'll definitely help you find one!"
"Really?" The soldiers' eyes suddenly lit up.
Hearing this, Zhang Zhiyuan was about to respond with a "Really?" Unexpectedly, the soldier in front of him asked again: "Is the general's wife really coming here?"
Zhang Zhiyuan was stunned. He thought they were asking if he could really help them find wives?
The result was to ask his wife if she was really coming...
Facing everyone's gazes, Zhang Zhiyuan nodded and said, "Really, my wife and I just got married not long ago, and she doesn't want to be separated from me for a long time. She will be here in two months."
When the soldiers heard this, they cheered.
"Great!"
"General Zhang, could you ask your wife to bring some girls over? Like maids or something like that?"
"I want to be frugal."
"I'm not picky, as long as she's a kind-hearted woman."
"It's OK for me and the divorced one to take care of the baby."
"..."
Everyone talked about their desire to get married, and Zhang Zhiyuan realized how low the demands of men in the army would be in order to get married.
Zhang Zhiyuan was really afraid that they would suddenly say, "Men can do it too!"
***
In the residence of Magistrate Wang in Mei County, Qizhou, Qin Shi lay pale on the bed, his chest wrapped in a blood-stained bandage.
Yesterday near dusk, they encountered a group of robbers outside the county town.
There were more than fifty "bandits" in that group, all of them were highly skilled in martial arts and were out to kill people.
On the way back to Beijing, Qin Shi and his group encountered five ambushes, and yesterday was the most dangerous one.
Qin Shi was stabbed in the chest, and Constable Cui Yuan and Constable Wang were also seriously injured while trying to protect him.
Originally, there were more than one hundred officers and soldiers escorting them back to Beijing, but now there are less than thirty left.
Cui Yuan stood by the bed and asked weakly, "Doctor, how is our master now?"
Yesterday, after they broke through the siege of the "mountain bandits" and entered the city, they moved directly into the residence of County Magistrate Wang. The knife on Qin Shi's chest was pulled out, but he remained unconscious.
The doctor withdrew his pulse-feeding hand and replied, "Although your master's wound didn't hit a vital part, he lost too much blood and fell into a coma. I can't guarantee whether he will wake up."
Upon hearing this, Cui Yuan immediately grabbed the doctor's hand and pleaded urgently, "Doctor, please save our master. He is so young, he can't die like this."
"Don't get excited. I'll do my best!" The doctor patted his hand to comfort him. "I'll prescribe some medicine for him to drink and see if it helps."
"Doctor, please prescribe the medicine. As long as it can wake our master up, it doesn't matter how expensive the herbs are!"
The doctor nodded and said, "Your injuries are not light. It's best to stay in bed and rest now."
"No." Cui Yuan shook his head. "I have to stay with the master every step of the way. Someone wants to harm him."
Hearing this, the doctor said nothing more and went out to prescribe medicine.