Chapter 1262 Surprise
The funeral in the Chu Mansion lasted for seventy-seven forty-nine days. It started in July and continued until the end of August. It was not until the beginning of September that Zeng's coffin was sent to Baoxiang Temple and the monks from the temple were invited. The scriptures were read for seven days.
On September 9th, the Double Ninth Festival, Xia Zihan, Chu Jingqi, Xia Shiming, and Chu Yuexi escorted Zeng's coffin to Yian City in the south of the Yangtze River.
During this period, the emperor also invited Chu Jingqi and Chu Yuexi to the palace to explain the affairs of the Northwest.
It turned out that when Chu Jingqi received the letter that Zeng was critically ill, the war in the Northwest had already reached its final stage.
Originally, the Zhao family retreated to Poyang City. That place was more difficult to attack and defend than Shengjin City. Moreover, the wooden bridge leading to Poyang City was broken. The only road into Poyang City was destroyed, and there was also a passage under the cliff. Before arriving in Poyang City, this gave Chu Jingqi and the others a headache for several days.
Fortunately, the width between the two bridges was not large, so they were within the shooting range, and the trees on both sides of the wooden bridge were lush and lush. Chu Jingqi used his superb crossbow shooting ability to put a rope on a tree trunk on the opposite side of the bridge.
Chu Jingqi and Ao Tianchen were very good at qinggong. They stepped on the rope and flew to the other side of the bridge. At the same time, they brought several ropes as thick as arms to the opposite side and tied them to the tree trunks on the opposite side. The ropes The other end is tied to the tree trunk here.
Immediately afterwards, the hundreds of secret guards who followed them flew over with a few ropes, tied them to the tree poles on the opposite side, and built a dense rope bridge directly between the two cliffs.
Then, a dozen secret guards with good dexterity skills crossed the rope bridge with ropes, and gradually built a network bridge on the originally straight rope bridge.
Immediately afterwards, the people following behind each brought a thick wooden board with holes as big as fists on the four sides of the wooden board. They laid the wooden board on the rope network bridge and used thin holes as thick as a finger. The rope passed through the holes on the wooden board and tied the wooden board directly to the thick rope to prevent the board from moving when stepping on it and falling.
After laying down a layer of thick wooden boards, a solid rope plank bridge was built.
Perhaps, it was also the Zhao family who deserved the misfortune.
As luck would have it, on the second day after the wooden bridge was built, Chu Jingqi unexpectedly received a flying pigeon letter from Dongfangyi.
After seeing the letter, Chu Jingqi realized that Senior Brother Dongfang Yi and his party had actually come to the Northwest and were resting in Poyang City.
Poyang City is the largest gathering place for merchants in the northwest, and it is also a place where Senior Brother and Dongfang Yi often travel. After they set off from the capital, they did not return to Sun City immediately. Instead, they took some detours and came to Poyang City first. , to see if he could find anything good. Unexpectedly, not long after entering Poyang City, Poyang City was closed, and the merchants who happened to be in the city were also banned from leaving.
Of course, Dongfang Yi and several people all have special skills, and a city gate cannot trap them. It is easy for them to leave if they want to.
However, when they heard that Poyang City was occupied by the Zhao family and that the imperial court sent Chu Jingqi to attack the Zhao family, they settled down in Poyang City without any hurry.
Because they often travel to and from Poyang City to purchase goods, the Dongfang family has a place to stay in Poyang City, a shop, and a house specifically for their masters to live in.
They would send people outside every day to inquire about the war situation between Chu Jingqi and the Zhao family. When they learned that the Zhao family had retreated to Poyang City and Chu Jingqi and his army were outside Poyang City, Dongfang Yi wrote a letter to Chu Jingqi. letter.
He also kindly asked Chu Jingqi if he wanted to help.
"It's great. I can coordinate inside and outside. Of course I need their help." After Chu Yuexi saw Dongfang Yi's letter, she jumped three feet high with joy.
"Although we used trickery to kill many dead soldiers of the Zhao family last time, the Zhao family's strength was only half reduced. Dongfang Yi and their group have few people. If they rashly intervene in the war, I'm afraid it will bring danger to them, unless..." Ao Tianchen looked at Chu Jingqi and said, "Surprise the thief and capture the king first."
"The heroes are slightly the same."
The two of them had a tacit understanding and looked at each other with a smile. There are spies in Poyang City. This may be something that the Zhao family never dreamed of. What they didn't expect was that someone dared to put poison in the Zhao family's food, which fascinated everyone in the Zhao family.
Therefore, when the most important masters of the Zhao family, the eldest, second, and eldest young masters, were captured by the tricks of the four senior brothers Dongfang Yi, the Zhao family was in chaos.
After receiving the news, Chu Jingqi and Ao Tianchen immediately sent troops to attack Poyang City.
They personally led the troops across the rope plank bridge and arrived at the foot of Poyang City. With little effort, the city gate was opened by a few soldiers bribed by Dongfang Yi who took advantage of the chaos.
Dasheng's army rushed into Poyang City with overwhelming force, but the Zhao family had just woken up from the drug, their bodies were still limp, and they had no strength to respond to the enemy.
Just like they took Shengjincheng, Chu Jingqi and Ao Tianchen took Poyang City without much effort. This time, they also captured everyone in the Zhao family.
Le Ying, who was hiding in Poyang City, was also caught by Chu Fei inadvertently.
Therefore, this time, with the help of Dongfang Yi and others, Chu Jingqi and others were lucky and achieved fruitful results.
But before a group of people had time to celebrate, Chu Jingqi and Chu Yuexi received a letter that Zeng was critically ill, and they also received an imperial edict from the emperor.
After leaving the finishing work of Poyang City to Ao Tianchen, the two mounted their horses and hurried back with a dozen guards.
But this time, our luck seemed to be bad. On the third day of the journey, it rained heavily, and a mountain road was closed due to a landslide.
The two of them had to take a detour in the rain, and because of the rain, the road was not easy to walk, so they were delayed a lot of time on the way. Otherwise, they would have arrived in the capital long ago.
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After the emperor learned about the war situation and knew that both of them had completed the tasks he had assigned, he generously gave them a holiday and asked them to send Zeng's coffin to Yian City in the south of the Yangtze River to be buried with the old Chuge. Being together can be regarded as fulfilling Zeng's last wish.
Chu Yuexi said sadly, "Your Majesty, I want to apply for Ding You."
"I will consider it as appropriate."
In one word, Chu Yuexi was dismissed.
On September 9th, several people supported Zeng's coffin and set off for Yi'an City.
Chu Yuexi took the initiative to leave the matter of the funeral procession to Xia Shiming. Firstly, Xia Shiming was the elder and also the son-in-law of the Zeng family. As the saying goes, if one son-in-law and half son, Xia Shiming is also half of the Zeng family. Son, this heir should give way to the virtuous.
The second is that Chu Yuexi is inexperienced and picky about many things. He doesn't understand many things. Instead of asking Xia Shiming every time he encounters something unclear, it would be better to let Xia Shiming take care of things directly while he just learns from the side. , just help.
(End of chapter)