Episode 19 plot introduction

In order to monopolize military power, Xie Yanfang finally reached out to the front line.He had an affair with Shuo Mo, set up an ambush at Xinggu Pass, and secretly influenced Liang Qiang's troop deployment.Zhong Changrong was besieged when he was ordered to assist, but Liang Qiang delayed rescue because he received the wrong military order, causing Zhong Changrong to be seriously injured.After learning about it, Xie Yanlai led his troops to rush for reinforcements, only to find that the enemy troops were already waiting on the road they must pass.The Shuomo army attacked from the front and back, and the formation of Dachu's reinforcements was torn apart. Xie Yanlai could only lead his men to break through.

This battle was extremely fierce.Xie Yanlai originally wanted to rescue Zhong Changrong and then join forces to guard the outskirts of Wangcheng, but the enemy seemed to know every step of his plan in advance.The grain road was cut off, the messengers were intercepted, and several beacons lost their sound at the same time.Xie Yanlai realized that there must be internal support in the army, but it was too late to rearrange his defenses.In order to preserve the remaining army, he ordered a group of troops to escort the wounded to retreat, and he led his own troops to break up the rear.Zhong Changrong was unconscious when he was rescued, and Wangcheng lost its most critical external barrier.

News of Wangcheng's fall reached the capital, and the Chu Dynasty immediately realized something was wrong.She was too familiar with Xie Yanlai's behavior. If someone hadn't handed him a knife from inside, he would not have made consecutive mistakes in the same place.The Chu Dynasty was not frightened by the defeat, but quickly blocked military reports, first banning Deng Yi who might have colluded with Liang Qiang.Deng Yi was furious, thinking that the Chu Dynasty was taking an opportunity to liquidate the Taifu's mansion.However, the Chu Dynasty only showed him a few intercepted secret letters. The words used in the letters were very similar to those of the old Taifu Mansion, which was enough to show that someone was using his network of disciples to disrupt the front line.

Xiao Xun also took advantage of the chaos to take action.He burned down the Taifu's mansion, created chaos in the capital, and then rescued Deng Yi through a secret passage, trying to bring the banned veteran back to his camp.At first, Deng Yi didn't want to be used by Xiao Xun anymore, but the situation no longer allowed him to weigh it slowly.Xiao Xun combined Wangcheng's fall, Xie Yanlai's trick, and the Chu Dynasty's ban on the Taifu's Mansion into one set of rhetoric, inducing Deng Yi to believe that only by returning to Xiaonan could he maintain his final retreat.

When the Chu Dynasty traced the secret passage, Xiao Xun and Deng Yi had already escaped from the capital.She did not immediately send troops to pursue blindly, but first stabilized the palace city and the Imperial Guard.Xiao Yu was protected in the inner palace, while Xie Yanfang acted like a frightened minister and asked for help in quelling the chaos.Chu Chao looked at Xie Yanfang's posture and had deeper suspicions in his heart: Wangcheng was lost, Deng Yi fled, and Xiao Xun returned to Xiaonan. These things happened so smoothly, as if someone deliberately pushed the chess pieces to where they should go one by one.She decided not to expose Xie Yanfang for the time being and let him continue acting.

When Xie Yanlai withdrew from Xinggu Pass, the morale of the army was low.Wangcheng was once a place they fought to defend, but now it was lost again, and many soldiers found it difficult to accept it.Xie Yanlai did not scold the defeated soldiers. He only asked people to treat the wounded first, and then recorded the defeat item by item.He wanted to know where every military order came from, at what point it was changed, and why Liang Qiang was so delayed in rescuing her.After Zhong Changrong woke up, he only said one sentence: The military order is wrong.It was these four words that allowed Xie Yan to confirm that she was not defeated by Shuo Mo, but by the person who handed the knife from behind.

After the Chu Dynasty banned Deng Yi, the court immediately divided into two factions.Some people think that she used the defeat to eliminate dissidents, while others support a thorough investigation of the Taifu Mansion.Xiao Yu did not back down in the palace. For the first time, he clearly stood on the side of the Chu Dynasty and ordered all military-related documents to be reviewed by the Imperial Guard.Xie Yanfang looked at the changes in the young emperor and became more alert.The child who needed his support in the past is now learning to speak on his own around Chu Chao.If it drags on any longer, the auxiliary government situation that he has worked so hard to manage will be disintegrated bit by bit.