My father is Jiajing

Chapter 166 The Unlucky Scapegoat
It is another time when the sun sets and the sky is filled with colorful clouds.

Zhu Zaigui stretched his body and looked at the vast grassland scenery outside the Gubeikou Great Wall. He sighed and said, "I never thought that such a unique scenery could be seen in a place so close to the capital. No wonder the courts from ancient times to the present have built the Great Wall along this line. Beyond this line is the grassland where there is not enough rain to support crops."

Huang Jin and Teng Xiang followed behind Zhu Zaigui and looked at the scenery in the distance. This was the first time for the two of them to see the scenery of the grassland outside the Great Wall of the capital, which was indeed a different experience.

Especially the feeling of vastness that connects the sky and the earth, which makes people feel as if they are in a trance and have a sense of the vastness and loneliness of the world.

Zhu Zaigui looked at the scenery for a while, and suddenly laughed at Huang Jin, "Your Excellency is so brave, which surprised me. Your Majesty is lucky to have a master like you protecting him."

When Huang Jin heard Zhu Zaigui praising him for his bravery, he couldn't help but smile excitedly, "You are too kind, Marshal. I don't know why this happened. Maybe I was inspired by your courage, so I am so brave."

Zhu Zaigui laughed again, "You are too modest, eunuch. You have such a brave spirit, which must be the result of your long-term training. I have no other abilities except that I am a little bit lucky. This is all due to the blessing of your majesty."

Zhu Zaigui finally pushed the credit onto Emperor Jiajing. Zhu Zaigui was very clear about his position. He knew that even if some credits were his own, he had to emphasize the role of leadership, otherwise he would not go far on this path.

Especially in a dangerous relationship like that between an emperor and his son, where they can replace each other, one must be extremely careful. Zhu Zaigui did not want to set a new record of a father being suspicious of his son in the Ming Dynasty, where fathers were kind and sons were filial.

You must know that throughout the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, there were 16 emperors, but no emperor had ever killed his own son because of a power struggle.

Now that Zhu Zaigui has made such a big fuss, he cannot truly understand the true feelings of Emperor Jiajing towards his children, so he should be more cautious.

What if this old fellow becomes insane while cultivating immortality or becoming a demon, and even loses his humanity? Wouldn’t my situation be dangerous then?

Although what he was doing now was for the sake of the country, the fact that a prince was in charge of the military was an original sin that could not be corrected. This original sin became even more obvious after the death of Crown Prince Zhuangjing.

Therefore, the more critical the moment, the more Zhu Zaigui could not get carried away. He could only be more cautious and careful, so that he could become transparent again and harmless to people and animals.

Otherwise, God knows whether the jealousy and sense of crisis arising in the emperor's heart would cost him his life.

"Okay, let's go back. This is a rare night of good sleep for us. I don't know what Andada's mood is at this moment."

Zhu Zaigui looked at the scenery in the distance again, and finally suddenly remembered Anda's mood.

After hearing what Zhu Zaigui said, Huang Jin and Teng Xiang couldn't help but smile happily on their faces and burst into laughter.

Obviously, both of them had the same expectation about Andada's current mood, and they both thought that Andada should be very "surprised" at this moment.

In fact, Anda was really very "surprised" this time. He even screamed with "surprise" and looked as crazy as a prairie wolf that was about to go crazy.

"This is too much! This is too much! This Khan must pay with blood for the debt!"

After Anda returned to Shixiaying, he looked at the mess in the Shixiaying camp. His heart was bleeding and he fell into madness.

He was extremely angry and blamed himself. If he had retained some rationality before leaving the camp and not been blinded by the hatred in front of him, and left 10,000 or 20,000 people to guard the camp, he would not have encountered such a disaster.

At the same time, Andatsu was also very shocked. He really couldn't understand the mindset of the Ming army who attacked his rear camp. Could it be that they really had no plans left and really knew for sure that his rear camp was an empty camp with few soldiers?

This is really too scary. If it were him, without a sufficient number of troops to support him, he would hesitate and not dare to charge directly into such a large camp.

Because Anda knew very well that if the attack on the camp failed and the hidden forces in the camp exceeded the forces for the sneak attack, the consequences would be serious.

However, the Ming army that launched a surprise attack on his rear camp seemed to have done it without any hesitation. At this moment, Andada couldn't help but waver in his heart. Could it be that there really was a traitor on his side who leaked the information?
So who could be this traitor?
Just as Anda was thinking about this question with a gloomy face, his adopted son Tuotuo came over and said, "Great Khan, the casualties in the camp have been counted. All the tents have been burned, and the cattle and sheep with the army have been scattered around. Only one in ten survived. There are nearly 5,000 dead and wounded soldiers in the camp. And..."

Tuotuo hesitated for a moment.

Anda looked at Tuotuo's hesitant expression and asked, "What else?"

Tuotuo replied: "Guruger has also been found. His head is missing and his body was found at the edge of the camp, 200 steps away from his tent."

After hearing the news of Guruge's death, Anda seemed to have aged several years in an instant. He thought that the worst outcome would be being captured. At that time, he could just bargain with the Ming Dynasty and get Guruge back.

But he never expected that Guruge was dead, and even his head was missing. It is easy to imagine how big a blow this was to Anda.

"Take me to see it."

Anda took a deep breath and tried hard to control his emotions. He wanted to go and see his son for the last time in person.

Tuotuo hurriedly stopped him, worried that Alda would not be able to bear the blow of losing his son. Tuotuo repeatedly said, "The Khan has something more important!"

Anda stopped and stared at Tuotuo with red eyes hiding tears, "Is there anything else?!"

Tuotuo said quickly: "Yingke didn't find it. I suspect we fell into Yingke's trap. His surrender to the Khan was a planned plan from the beginning. Otherwise, we wouldn't have attacked from the Pigeon Cave. Without the Pigeon Cave, we wouldn't have passed through Huangyugou. Without passing through Huangyugou, we wouldn't have been tricked by the Ming army."

"So, I suspect that all the crises we are facing now are due to Yingke's betrayal. The Duoyan tribe has never really submitted to our Tumed tribe! They are still the same as before, traitors who abandoned the glory of Genghis Khan and were willing to be running dogs of the Ming Dynasty!"

As soon as Tuotuo's words came out, whether it was Anda himself, or the other leaders and generals around Anda, they all focused their hatred on Yingke and his Duoyan tribe.

At this moment, they all wanted to kill Yingke, destroy the Duoyan tribe, and avenge the dead warriors!
Anda's breathing became heavy involuntarily. Tuotuo's words made sense. It seemed that he had fallen into Yingke's trap from the very beginning. Now thinking about it, the ambush in Huangyugou seemed to be Yingke's self-torture trick.

He led the Doyan cavalry and rushed to the front. Although there were many casualties, he did not suffer much damage. Instead, he stayed in the Shixiaying camp as a wounded soldier.

Now that I think about it, Yingke really is like the traitor who betrayed them, otherwise the subsequent questions would be impossible to explain.

"I will destroy Duoyan! I will kill all their men and turn their women and children into slaves, only then can I dispel the hatred in my heart!"

As soon as Anda made such hateful remarks, other tribal leaders and generals around him responded excitedly, as if they could really make up for their losses and soothe their psychological trauma by slaughtering and destroying the Duoyan tribe.

Under such circumstances, it is foreseeable how miserable the fate of the Doyan tribe will be in the near future.

From this we can see how dark the future will be for the unlucky Yingke who has been captured. Such a heavy blame has been put on his head so inexplicably. He is such an unlucky kid.

(End of this chapter)