Help! I just woke up and was stabbed by a big kid

This group of Jing's troops were the ones that secretly left Wuzhou and came to Ganzhou to support Qin Zhaoyue.

They had been lying in ambush in the woods outside Ganzhou City five days ago, just waiting for action.

Sheng Sheng thought that the Donglin guards were poisoned, the Xidi people attacked in the middle of the night, and the Jing army had not arrived yet. Qin Zhaoyue would be at a loss and fight hastily. However, he did not expect that all this was Qin Zhaoyue's strategy to take advantage of the situation and lure the snake out of its hole!

The goal of the Western Di chief general Wuhan was not to capture Ganzhou.

He could see clearly from the battle circle behind. Qin Zhaoyue broke out of the encirclement, and two brave teams emerged from nowhere. In an instant, the deliberately maintained balance of the battle was broken, and the Xidi cavalry retreated step by step, losing many people.

Wuhan gritted his teeth and roared, and the soldiers on one side sounded the retreat, and the Xidi cavalry line began to retreat.

Qin Zhaoyue and the Jing family father and son were both on the field. The purpose of their battle was not to repel the Western Di, but to find out the evildoers in the Ganzhou army. The Western Di people intended to retreat, so they naturally would not pursue them.

Soon, among the entire Ganzhou army, most of the confused and rebellious soldiers were killed. Sheng Sheng, who had a broken leg, was also captured alive and tied up on a horse.

There are also several of his subordinates and a deputy general who had already been placed in the Donglin Guard.

Sheng Sheng felt desperate.

Almost all of their people were arrested.

How did Qin Zhaoyue know this? Seeing that the Jing army had a clear goal and moved quickly, it was definitely not a temporary arrangement. I'm afraid they had been lying in ambush for a long time.

Qin Zhaoyue wiped his face with a handkerchief, the blood in his eyes still not fading. He turned to look at Sheng Sheng, smiled that creepy smile again, and drove his horse closer.

"You guys are really cautious, as you waited so long outside the city before taking action." Qin Zhaoyue said.

"Your Highness, what are you talking about? Why are you tying me up on the horse?" Sheng Sheng pretended to be ignorant and cried out loudly.

"It doesn't matter if you don't admit it. There are so many people here." Qin Zhaoyue looked around and found many of them alive: "There must be one who is willing to speak."

Sheng Sheng's heart skipped a beat.

Before Qin Zhaoyue issued the next order, a messenger came hurriedly.

"Your Highness, the Fifth Prince is leading his men from the direction of Ganzhou!"

"Oh?" Qin Zhaoyue's face turned serious. "Then he came at an unfortunate time. Who did he bring with him?"

"From a distance, it looks like the Fifth Prince's personal guards, only about 10 to 20 people," said the messenger.

Qin Zhaoyue frowned.

This made it difficult to understand what Qin Zhaochen meant. His first reaction was that Qin Zhaochen had received some news in the Ganzhou camp and had hurried out to support Sheng Sheng. But he only brought a dozen people with him...

What can such a small number of people do? And they came from the main road in a swaggering manner.

Qin Zhaoyue's expression was gloomy. He raised his hand and said, "Crossbowmen, get ready."

The cavalry archers lined up again, raised their bows and arrows, and pointed them towards the direction of Ganzhou City.

Qin Zhaoyue waited quietly in the formation.

A group of figures gradually appeared on the blood-soaked loess slope.

Qin Zhaochen looked anxious and rode his horse as fast as he could towards the battlefield. After all, he was young, and his face turned pale when he saw the corpses everywhere, but he still stubbornly moved forward; Li Mo followed closely behind.

He first saw a row of drawn bows, and immediately reined in his horse and stopped. But when he saw Qin Zhaoyue in the formation, he immediately became happy and rode closer again.

"Brother!" he shouted from afar.

Qin Zhaoyue raised his hand again, and the cavalry archers put away their arrows and no longer faced Qin Zhaochen with their swords drawn.

Qin Zhaochen came closer and looked around. He was a little surprised to see several people tied up. Then he saw the army with different attire and Jing's flags fluttering, and he understood.

He said, "It turns out that my elder brother has been prepared for this. It seems that I have been worrying for nothing."

It was a step too late after all.

"What?" Qin Zhaoyue raised his eyebrows. This time he was sure that it was Mu You's doing. He didn't trust the fifth brother born by Concubine Mu.

Qin Zhaochen replied: "On the way, a deputy general named Pao Zhihui disappeared. Do you remember him, big brother?"

"Yeah." Qin Zhaoyue nodded.

"This man said some extremely treasonous words to me. I didn't take it seriously at first, but when I arrived at the Ganzhou camp, several generals came to visit me in the middle of the night and said similar things. But my eldest brother had already gone to war, so I was furious and ordered people to arrest those generals and investigate the spies in the Ganzhou camp..."

Qin Zhaochen paused for a moment and said, "In the end, I found out that my elder brother's hasty departure for the battle was a conspiracy. They wanted to harm the prince. Unfortunately, I captured the generals and could not convince the others, so I had to take such a small number of people with me."

He seemed to be truly relieved: "It turns out that my elder brother is more scheming than me. He actually saw that this battle was a conspiracy a long time ago! In this way, I can rest assured."

Qin Zhaoyue stared at him and didn't say anything.

After a while, he said, "So that's how it is. But I have already repelled the Xidi cavalry. These people are the ones who took the opportunity to rebel. Let's go back to the camp first and make a decision later."

Qin Zhaochen naturally had no objection. No matter what the result was, he had already made a gesture to save the prince. If Qin Zhaoyue had not intended to kill him, nothing would have happened.

……

Qin Zhaoyue has not yet lifted the control over Ganzhou City. The streets are empty and any spies would be able to quickly discover it.

The Jing army and Gu Xu went to the Ganzhou camp in the south of the city. The Wumen army did not have enough manpower, so Gu Xu did not take anyone with him and all of them stayed in the general's mansion to investigate the matter of Yin Shun.

With the prince's token, Jing's army entered the Ganzhou camp.

The military camp was in chaos. Jing Yuanshou asked carefully and found out that the generals who stayed in the main camp had mysteriously disappeared. The camp was leaderless and the leaders of the various teams were present so there was no chaos. Jing Yuanshou was a general of the Jing army after all. He took out the prince's token, took over his duties temporarily, and quickly calmed down the chaos in the camp.

Gu Xu stopped a soldier and asked him about Gu Yue's whereabouts.

The soldier asked, "Are you talking about the friends that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince brought with him?"

"Yes." said Gu Xu.

"A few days ago, the Donglin Guards suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. This person said that the food was poisonous and asked everyone to investigate carefully." The soldier replied, "But I heard that the deputy general above discussed with the military doctor and thought that this person was very suspicious. It seems that he was placed under house arrest."

Gu Xu's expression suddenly changed: "Where is the house arrest?"

"It's in the tent assigned by the prince. After all, he is a distinguished guest..." The soldier saw that his face was not good and was a little confused for a moment. He pointed to the row of tents on the east side of the camp and said, "It should be over there. Why don't you go and ask?"

Gu Xu turned and left.

He came to the easternmost row of tents, stopped people and asked again, and got an accurate answer.

The soldiers guarding the tent door have withdrawn.

Gu Xu pulled open the curtain, and the tent was empty. There was a plate of food on the small table, which was a little dry. He bent over and smelled it, and smelled a familiar bitter smell.

After dehydration, the poison precipitates from the food and appears as a layer of white frost on the surface of the meat.

Gu Xu felt dizzy and held onto the corner of the table.