Chapter 197: Conversation of black and white

"Your Highness, Bei Yi has not made up any stories." Shi Miyuan glanced at Meng Yan deeply and whispered, "Maybe in a few days, all what Bei Yi said will become reality. However, it is of course not Your Highness's Guards Army, but Meng Hu's Western Army that went to the Wanli Miracle to attack Xijing.

"What do you mean?" Meng Yan suddenly changed his expression and said sternly, "Are you telling it seriously?"

Shi Miyuan nodded with a serious expression and said, "Yes, the matter is so low that he can no longer hide his highness."

As he said that, Shi Miyuan told Meng Yan what he knew. After hearing this, Meng Yan couldn't believe his ears and asked, "Mr. Miyuan, is this true? The Western Legion really captured Xijing? Meng Hu really captured Qiu Fengjin, the emperor of the Mingyue Empire?"

Shi Miyuan replied with great certainty: "It's true!"

Meng Yan's face changed again and again, and finally came to his senses from the huge shock. He asked sternly: "Mr. Miyuan, Xiao Wang doesn't know these things at all, how did you know? And why didn't you report to Xiao Wang earlier for such a big thing, instead of hiding them until now? What's your intention?"

When asked about this, Meng Yan looked bad. It seemed that he had become suspicious of Shi Miyuan.

Originally, Shi Miyuan was just a senior aide, but he knew so many things. Meng Yan, as the highest commander of the Western Expedition Army, was kept in the dark? Is this normal? What channel did Shi Miyuan get the news from? Does this mean that Shi Miyuan had secretly communicated with the Mingyue Empire? All of this made Meng Yan unsuspecting.

However, after hearing Meng Yan's question, Shi Miyuan felt relieved, because Meng Yan could express his suspicion in person, which means that there was no big problem. If Meng Yan didn't ask a word about this, the problem would be serious, which means that Meng Yan had completely lost trust in Shi Miyuan.

Meeting Meng Yan's slightly angry eyes, Shi Miyuan said calmly: "After failing to attack Hu Xiao Pass, His Highness was seriously injured and unconscious for more than ten days. When the army withdrew from Hu Xiao Pass, our scouts team happened to catch a messenger from the Mingyue Empire Army. So I learned that the Western Legion captured Xijing and captured the Emperor Qiu Fengjin of the Mingyue Empire."

"So that's how it is."

Meng Yan nodded and asked dissatisfiedly, "Then why didn't you report it immediately after Xiao Wang woke up, but kept it still hiding it?"

"Oh." Shi Miyuan suddenly sighed lightly and said, "It's helpless for Bei Zhi to do this."

"What can you do if you can do anything?" Meng Yan asked with a frown, "What do you mean?"

Shi Miyuan said awe: "As the teacher and confidant of Your Highness, you naturally have to consider your Highness's future. If you fail to the Western Expedition, your Highness's situation is already in danger, but this is the only opportunity for Your Highness to save the situation. As long as you do it properly, the historical crime of defeating Qingzhou will be borne by Meng Hu, and Your Highness can become a hero that everyone admires!"

Meng Yan said in a speechless voice: "A hero that thousands of people admire?"

Shi Miyuan said again: "It is precisely because of the serious matter that Bei Zhi took the initiative to suppress the news. Even the scout team who intercepted the news was secretly executed with the Mingyue messenger! In addition, Bei Zhi did not report to His Highness immediately, and was worried that His Highness would not be able to calm down and showed his voice in front of Pu Sanzhi, Lu Chengwu and others."

Meng Yan had already roughly understood Meng Yan's meaning and said in a narrow voice: "Sir, is it to let me rob Meng Hu of his military achievements?"

Shi Miyuan said: "Yes, putting the responsibility for the destruction of the middle army on Meng Hu's head, saying that he secretly colluded with the Mingyue Empire to sell the interests of the empire, which was a traitor! If you find a way to take Qiu Fengjin from the Western Legion, your highness can avoid the crime of the destruction of the middle army, and you can also transform into an imperial hero who captured Xijing and captured Qiu Fengjin!"

Meng Yan frowned and said, "I'm afraid this is not easy, right? After all, there are too many people who know the truth."

Shi Miyuan smiled coldly and asked gloomyly: "Your Highness, who knows the truth?"

Meng Yan responded without hesitation: "I will not talk about the imperial soldiers who have died in battle. Even the more than 20,000 imperial soldiers who survive now know that Xiao Wang did not lead them to fight thousands of miles and capture Xijing? When they return to China, will Xiao Wang become a laughing stock in the world?"

"Then let them die!" Shi Miyuan said coldly, "The dead will not reveal the truth."

"What did you say?" Meng Yan changed his mind, "Execute more than 20,000 surviving imperial soldiers!?"

"Yes, I will execute them secretly!" Shi Miyuan said coldly, "Everything, including Pu Sanzhi and Lu Chengwu, will be executed. The fewer people know the truth of this matter, the better."

Meng Yan frowned and said, "The surviving imperial soldier Xiao Wang can be executed, but what about the Mingyue Empire Army, who also knows the truth?"

Shi Miyuan said coldly: "How can you believe the enemy's words? Even if there are any remarks that are not conducive to Your Highness being passed back to the country, it is also a rumor. The people of the empire and the noble officials in the capital will not be confused by these rumors. Even if there are still life-threatening soldiers of the empire returning to their country and secretly telling the truth, that is, spreading rumors. They are the rebels who surrender to the enemy and treason. Your Highness can immediately order them to be arrested and executed!"

"this……"

Meng Yan couldn't help but breathe a breath of air when he heard this. Although Shi Miyuan's plan sounded a bit whimsical, he thought about it carefully but had no chance of success. The key is to prevent the truth from being leaked from within, so all the surviving guards were executed. As for the Mingyue Empire Army, who also knew the truth, they would ignore it.

Seeing Meng Yan seemingly moved, a cold smile appeared on the corner of Shi Miyuan's mouth.

In fact, things are far less simple than Meng Yan thought, and Shi Miyuan thought much deeper and farther than Meng Yan thought!

The Tiger Legion captured Xijing and captured Qiu Fengjin, the emperor of the Mingyue Empire, and it was very important to take over this credit. It was very difficult for Meng Yan to take over this credit. Even if he could hide it for a while, he would definitely not be able to hide it for a lifetime! Because the upper-level figures of the Glorious Empire were not all idiots, they had many channels to obtain information, so they could not only believe Meng Yan's words.

But it doesn't matter, because Shi Miyuan didn't think about hiding it for a lifetime, he just wanted to hide it for a while.

As long as the imperial soldiers who participated in the Western Expedition "most of them shut up", Shi Miyuan would be sure to mislead the public opinion of the empire. The Mingyue Empire is unlikely to come forward to expose Shi Miyuan's lies. After all, this is not a glorious thing. As for whether Meng Hu's Western Legion would have fish that mislead the net? What kind of sound would these fish that mislead the net make? That would be irrelevant, because Meng Yan had already ascended the throne at that time, and the remnants of the Western Legion might have long become "rebels".

Then, even if King Mengke of Yan finally knew the truth, what could he do? Mengke could still drive Meng Yan off the throne? Not to mention whether Mengke had this determination or not, even if Mengke had the determination to establish a new king, Shi Miyuan would never let Mengke get his wish. As long as Mengyan ascends to the throne, Mengke will be the first target Shi Miyuan will be cut off!

As for other ministers and people, who dares to spread remarks that are not conducive to the new emperor? Whoever dares to spread rumors is a rebellion!

Therefore, the most important thing now is to try every means to make the fact that "Meng Yan led his army to capture Xijing and captured Qiu Fengjin" a fait accompliment!

There are two key issues that must be handled well: First, we must not let the remnants of the Western Expedition have too much contact with the imperial reinforcements that are about to arrive in Kawabara, so as not to leak the truth from the inside; second, we must find ways to deal with Meng Hu's Western Legion and seize the fruits of victory from the Western Legion.

Of course, after all, if the Western Legion was destroyed under the encirclement and blockade of the Mingyue Imperial Army, there would be nothing much to say, and the dreams of Shi Miyuan and Meng Yan would be shattered. However, Shi Miyuan believes that this possibility is not great. For some reason, Shi Miyuan is very confident in Meng Hu now.

After thinking for a while, Meng Yan asked Shi Miyuan again: "But sir, how should we do this? And we don't know where Meng Hu's Western Legion is now?"

Shi Miyuan said: "Your Highness, let me leave this matter to Huyi."

Tongtian River, Bharat Bay.

When the fleet of the Tiger Legion entered Balak Bay in Qingzhou, it finally encountered Xiao Chengdong's Mingyue Naval Legion halfway. The Tiger Legion repeated the same trick and pushed the captured women, children, young and old onto the deck to resist the fire arrows of the Naval Legion. Because of fear of accidentally hurting the people, the Naval Legion had to give up the fire arrow attack and was forced to choose to fight the battle.

As Qiu Yutang expected, Xiao Chengdong's naval army suffered a great loss in the battle between the boarding battle. Not only did he fail to seize the warships of the Tiger Legion, but he even fought back by the Tiger Legion and took away two warships!

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable, Xiao Chengdong had to use his last killing move - a condemnation ghost to sank the enemy ship!

Speaking of which, Xiao Chengdong's naval army is a real dragon in the water. They are all very water-like. As long as they sink the warships taken by the Tiger Legion and force them into the river, these tiger and wolf men on the land will immediately become fish and shrimps in the water. At that time, the soldiers of the naval army will be able to deal with them as much as they want.

At Xiao Chengdong's order, hundreds of elite naval army soldiers with axes jumped into the turbid Tongtian River like dumplings. After floating out of the water, they took a deep breath, and then plunged into the bottom of the river and swam towards the naval warship carried by the Tiger Legion not far away.

Hexi Canyon.

The first and third divisions of Li Yu's eastern legion and the first and third divisions of the Imperial Guards had already reached eighty miles west of Hayuan. Seeing that it was getting late, Li Yu discussed with the two division commanders of the Imperial Guards, Hei Mao and Changfeng, and decided to camp on the spot and rush to Kawahara tomorrow to join the Western Expedition Army.

In fact, until this time, Li Yu, Hei Zhu, Changfeng and others did not know that Meng Yan's Western Expedition had failed.

The flooding Dayue Lake water swept across the entire Qingzhou Plain. Except for Meng Yan, Shi Miyuan, Pu Sanzhi and the more than 20,000 remaining troops from the Fifth Division of the Guards, the other 100,000 middle-range troops and Chongshan's northern legion have all been buried in the belly of fish, including the Northern Governor Chongshan, as well as generals such as Han Feng, Lin Tu, Yu Longyun, and Teng Qingyun.

After the flood flooded, Meng Yan's only 20,000 remaining soldiers cut off all contact with the outside world. Until they fled to Kawabara yesterday, they had never made any contact with the outside world! So until now, no one in the entire Guangxi Empire knew that Meng Yan's Western Expedition Army had been defeated.

However, Li Yu, Black Spear, and Changfeng still vaguely felt that the Western Expedition Army seemed to have failed.

This matter is easily verified from the negative side. If the Western Expedition Army had won one after another, it would have been a long time ago. However, the facts are just the opposite. The Western Expedition Army was invisible. This can only show one thing, that is, something happened to the Western Expedition Army, and it may even have been wiped out.

It was late at night and Li Yu sent someone to invite the two commanders of the Imperial Guards, Black Spear and Changfeng, to his central army tent.

After Black Spear and Changfeng entered the tent, they found that in addition to the Eastern Governor Li Yu, there were two young people in the tent. One of them looked seventy-sixth-sighted to Li Yu, so he was Li Yu's only son Li Ju. The other young man was Yue Meng, the rising star in the army that burned 100,000 galaxy barbarian cavalry in Hulu Valley.

Since the burning of Hulu Valley, Yue Meng has become famous in the military circle of the Guanghui Empire because he is a regular military academy student who graduated from the Royal Military Academy. His influence in the army has even been catching up with Meng Hu! Li Yu, Li Ju and his son are particularly valued by Yue Meng. Whenever there is a major military conference, Yue Meng will inevitably be invited to attend the conference.

Seeing Heijiu and Changfeng, Li Ju and Yue Meng clasped their fists with their right hands and bowed slightly.

Li Yu just nodded to the black spear, Changfeng nodded gently, and said in a stern manner: "Please sit down, two generals."

After Black Spear and Changfeng sat down, Li Yu said in a solemn tone: "General Black Spear, General Changfeng, I just received a fast horse reward. There seemed to be an imperial army stationed in Kawahara City in front. However, it is strange that the other party prohibited our scouts from approaching and had no response to the contact signals sent by our scouts. I felt that this was a bit unusual, so I wanted to hear the opinions of the two generals."

Black Spear turned his head and exchanged glances with Changfeng, who was sitting at the bottom, and asked in a deep voice: "Can the Governor be sure that the army stationed in Kawahara City is the Imperial Army?"

"Well..." Li Yu frowned, "I'm really not sure."

Changfeng said solemnly: "Governor General, since this matter is suspicious, I think our army should not advance rashly, so as not to fall into the trap of the Mingyue Empire Army. You must know that there has always been no shortage of famous generals in the Mingyue Empire Army. Whether it is Situ Rui or Qiu Yutang, they are all tricks and difficult to deal with."

Heijiu also said: "Yes, it has been a long time since the Western Expedition army lost news. No one can tell what the battle has turned out to be. It is true that humble officials think it is safe to be careful."

"Report..."

As soon as the black spear finished speaking, a servant suddenly came into the tent and reported, "Sir, there is someone outside the gate who claims to be an aide in front of the Second Prince's tent, and he insists on meeting with the Governor."

"Oh?" Li Yu couldn't help but look slightly moved when he heard this, and said, "The staff in front of the Second Highness's tent?"

The black spear, Changfeng, Li Ju and Yue Meng on both sides also changed slightly. They just said that there was no news about Meng Yan's Western Expedition Army. Unexpectedly, Meng Yan's former staff came to the door. Could it be that there was news about the Western Expedition Army?

"Please!" Li Yu stood up without any hesitation, "Please invite him in now!"

The servant agreed to take the order, and within a short while, he led a man in a black robe into the tent. The eyes of Li Yu and the other five fell on the man in black robe. The man in black robe reached out to remove his hood, then slowly raised his head, and said to Li Yu with a smile: "Du Li, I haven't seen him for half a year. Do you still remember me?"

"Huh?" Li Yu couldn't help but exclaim, "Mr. Miyuan!?"

Although the black spear, Changfeng, Li Ju and Yue Meng next to him were not very familiar with Shi Miyuan, he recognized Shi Miyuan after careful look, and he couldn't help but change his face. He thought that the second highness's chief aide had appeared, but the result of the Western Expedition was still very secretive. There seemed to be only one explanation, that is, it had failed, and it was a crushing defeat!

Li Yu took a deep breath and asked anxiously: "Mr. Miyuan, why are you here late at night? Where is Your Highness? Where is Your Highness's army now? And how far has the battle of the Western Expedition reached? Did our army lose or win? Why has there been no definite news yet..."

"well."

Shi Miyuan sighed and waved his hand to stop Li Yu from continuing to ask questions, and then said in a heavy tone, "It's hard to describe it."

"Come."

Li Yu said anxiously, "Give Mr. Miyuan a seat, Li Ju, go to the kitchen immediately, ask the chef to boil water, and make a pot of ginseng tea for Mr. Miyuan!"

"yes!"

Li Ju clasped his fists and took the order.

A servant brought a chair, and Li Yusu asked Shi Miyuan to sit down.

Shi Miyuan sighed again and said in a low voice: "Duke Li, and all the generals, this matter has to be talked about from the beginning. Starting from the time when Kawahara divided the troops. I believe Duke Li should also know the force configuration of the Western Expedition Army when Kawahara was divided?"

"Know."

Li Yu nodded and said, "The Second Highness led the guards, the three major legions in the northwest and southwest as the middle army. After Qua, he went straight to Hu Xiao Pass. Meng Hu's western legion was the northern wing and Chongshan's northern legion was the southern wing. However, considering that most of the western legion were recruits, and he had to face the local legion of the north of the Mingyue Empire alone, Yun, Ding and Shuo, Chongshan drew the Fourth Cavalry Division from his northern legion to Meng Hu's command. This should be the case?"

Shi Miyuan waved his hand and said, "No, this is just an illusion. This is my suggestion. The second highman finally adopted a suspicious plan. In order to deceive the Mingyue Empire Army and achieve unexpected results, I urged your highman not to report the real division plan to the Ministry of War and the King of Yan, so Li Du didn't know the truth."

"Oh?" Li Yu said in surprise, "The truth about Kawahara's division of troops is not what the military newspaper said?"

"Of course not."

Shi Miyuan said solemnly, "The real situation is that the middle army attacking Hu Xiao Pass is composed of three major corpses in the west, northwest and southwest. The highest commander of the middle army is Meng Hu. Zheng Chongguang and Leyu are divided into the second and third commanders. Chongshan's northern army is the southern wing, and His Highness's guard army is the northern wing. Because His Highness is not worried about Meng Hu leading the army alone, he ordered me to stay in Meng Hu's army, nominally as a counselor, but in fact, it is to secretly monitor Meng Hu."
To be continued...