Chapter 158:

The message brought by Min Qiu made Xue Ziqin lead 5,000 people back to the capital, but Xue Ziqin brought far more than 5,000 people.
He took two-thirds of them with him, leaving only three thousand people in the camp.
Just staying at the border, this person is completely sufficient.
In other words, the Emperor did not know how many troops the Northern Army had.
Many soldiers were recruited by Xue Changfeng later, and the reported numbers are very inaccurate.
For example, the Xue family ’s personal soldiers are a group of people who did not exist in the court.
"Min Qiu, sing a song to listen to it?" Xue Ziqin rode boringly and suddenly turned to Min Qiudao.
Min Qiuben also looked at the scenery in a daze, and couldn't help hearing Xue Ziqin making such unreasonable demands. He turned his head and tried to find a joke on Xue Ziqin's face, but unfortunately Xue Ziqin looked at himself with great anticipation.
Min Qiu turned his face back again, as if he had not heard it.
"Hello, did you hear me?" Xue Ziqin was not easy to fool. He took the horse whip and poked Min Qiu on him. Xue Changfeng told them to return to the capital with great momentum, but he couldn't always take so many horses into the city. No matter what, he could only march in the suburbs, so Xue Ziqin slowed down his journey, especially on the official road, deliberately. Go slower so that more people will know about the Northern Army's return to the capital.
Therefore, the more time I had to rush, the more bored Xue Ziqin became. Min Qiu was a little talker and wouldn't gossip. Xue Ziqin didn't know what to talk about. This was the idea that let Min Qiu sing a song to listen.
Several soldiers who were close also heard this, and quickly followed the coax: "Yeah, Deputy Min will sing a song to listen."
Min Qiu glared at him, but the soldier was relying on Xue Ziqin's head. He was not afraid and laughed at him.
Hiding is impossible, and Min Qiu turned back and said to Xue Ziqin: "General ... I can't sing."
"Can't you sing?" Xue Ziqin raised an eyebrow, his expression uncomfortable. They have been on the road for more than ten days, and if they go as they have in the past, I am afraid they are all in Xiangcheng now. This really miserable Xue Zi.
Min Qiu thought for a while and could only shake his head: "I really wouldn't."
"... Tu." Xue Ziqin sulked uncomfortably, and Min Qiu looked at his disgusted expression, and followed upsetly: "Or do you sing one?"
"Alright, General sing one!"
"agree!"
The soldiers behind were one by one as if they were not afraid of death. They picked up Min Qiu's words and immediately changed their positions. Xue Ziqin turned his head slightly, Dan Feng's eyes narrowed, his eyes swept over them, and the scene cooled down. The soldiers coughed a few times and chatted about others, only when nothing happened just now.
Xue Ziqin looked at Min Qiu again, and Min Qiu didn't know which bird in the sky was fascinated.
"How far is it?" Xue Ziqin said, "I feel like I can reach Yan Hangu."
"Every time I go to the official road, I slow down. It must be slower. It is estimated that there are still two days to go." Seeing Xue Ziqin actively changed the subject, Min Qiu was willing to answer.
But when the answer was answered, Xue Ziqin was even more displeased. He has always done things neatly and hates his mother-in-law most. Now, for Xue Changfeng's phrase "very powerful", he hastened to walk like a walk, which is really upsetting Xue Ziqin.
It was hard to wait until I could return to the capital, but I had to spend more than ten days on the road.
Min Qiu looked at his expression and secretly thought about it. Xue Ziqin wasn't bored. When he used to ambush his opponent in battle, he hadn't seen him restless for three or four days. He asked tentatively, "Who is the general rushing to see?"
"See who?" Xue Ziqin asked instead.
"... See General." Looking at Xue Ziqin's complexion, Min Qiu swallowed the name approaching his mouth again and replaced it with Xue Changfeng.
Speaking of this, Xue Ziqin added the last sentence: "The old man is no longer a general. Don't be wrong in front of outsiders."
"The end will know."
Xue Ziqin was resentful in his heart.
When Min Qiu mentioned these things, he couldn't help but think of Guo Linchong's tragic death, and how Xue Changfeng borrowed Guo Linchong's body and took it back to his life. If for the sake of the overall situation, Xue Ziqin certainly understands Xue Changfeng's approach; it is in his feelings, but it is unacceptable.
The two had no time to speak, and after a long time Xue Ziqin spoke again: "Guo Linchong's corpse ..."
Xue Ziqin's melancholy was not concealed, and Min Qiu said cautiously: "After the palace was disposed of, the generals quietly sent people to be buried."
"Oh, so." Xue Ziqin said indifferently. Instead he raised his hand and shouted loudly: "Stop, rest for half an hour."
Min Qiu immediately turned his horse and conveyed the news. The team of 7,000 people pulled the elders, Xue Ziqin got off the horse, and the soldiers immediately took Bailiu to the road to graze. Min Qiu came back a long time later, watching Xue Ziqin sitting against the tree, he also passed and sat beside him .
The general and the lieutenant are resting here, and the general will naturally go back so as not to disturb.
Min Qiu picked up his portable kettle and poured it, then handed it to Xue Ziqin. Xue Ziqin was accustomed to take it, and took a sip. Min Qiudao: "If the general is annoyed, it doesn't matter if he starts to return quickly."
"Ok?"
"It was loud enough along the way, it is estimated that Wang Du had already received the news." Min Qiu said bluntly, "Since the general wants to go back early, then go back early."
"Do you know that nostalgia is more timid?" Xue Ziqin asked suddenly.
Min Qiu was a big man in the barracks every day, even if it was so delicate that he was called Mama Min, he did not expect Xue Ziqin to suddenly say such words. He asked honestly: "The general still has homesickness?"
"No," Xue Ziqin handed him the kettle back. "I'm afraid Guo Lin hates me."
Min Qiu immediately understood that Xue Ziqin was afraid to visit Guo Linchong.
That day, Jiang also told Xue Ziqin, yes
"He" killed Guo Linchong. If this is the case, Guo Linchong must have hated him before he died.
"General, he will not blame you." Min Qiu said.
Xue Ziqin looked up at him and didn't understand the meaning.
Min Qiu went on his own and said: "If you die in the hands of the general, at least I have no complaints."
"why?"
"Anyway, that's what it means." Min Qiu said vaguely.
Xue Ziqin did not ask any more questions, but the guilt in his heart did not subside. Guo Linchong's death was still vivid, and Xue Ziqin had dreamed of him for a long time.
"Is the general ready?"
"what?"
"The general is finally on the side of the three princes."
"I know." Xue Ziqin said, "As long as the three princes die, they will have to support Jier."
"What does the general mean?"
"If there is no better way, then it can only be removed." Xue Ziqin said indifferently, he had no blood relationship with the Xue family, not to mention the three princes who had only seen several faces when they were intertwined. For him, it is like a stranger.
"Why?" Min Qiu sighed, a little helplessly.
"what do you mean?"
"Why should the general do this for him? After all, he is just using the general's power." Min Qiudao.
This has been suffocated in Min Qiu's heart for a long time, and now he suddenly spoke out, and he was somewhat calm and happy in his heart. If Xue Ziqin wanted to be an emperor, of course Min Qiu was obliged to follow him.
But when I think of Xue Ziqin's all sorts of things, I don't hesitate to look back at Xue Changfeng for the sake of such a person. Even though Min Qiu never mentioned it on the face, he still felt worthless.
Xue Ziqin certainly knew who he was talking about. He has been with Min Qiu for many years, and some words don't need to be concealed at all. If Min Qiufei wants to ask a reason-"I like him, he wants to be an emperor, I will let him be an emperor." Xue Ziqin admitted.
After hearing this, Min Qiu gave him a meaningful look and said nothing more. He got up from the ground, patted the dust and mud, and turned to feed the horse.
In fact, why do n’t the deputy personally do such a thing as feeding horses, just like Xue Ziqin ’s Bai Liu, there will always be soldiers to take the initiative to feed.
Half an hour soon passed, Xue Ziqin took the lead on the horse, and Chong Minqiu said: "Go and explain to the back, hurry up."
"Yes."
After Xue Ziqin made this decision, the 7,000-person team might have been two days away, and arrived within a day. In the middle of the day, seven thousand people had all arrived at the outskirts of the capital of the capital. It was really as powerful as Xue Changfeng had explained.
Xue Ziqin arranged for the people, and the south and north cabinets were stationed with more than 3,000 people, and he himself brought Min Qiu and more than 100 people into the city.
In the middle of the night, the gates had been closed for a long time, and there was no war outside. The kings were naturally safer. The patrol soldiers on the tower were dozing off. Suddenly they heard the sound of horseshoes, and all of them were frightened.
Xue Ziqin stood under the tower and shouted, "Open the door!"
The patrol squad leader looked at this posture, and was a little dazed. It took a long time to shout from the tower: "The gate is closed, who is making a noise?"
"Laozi is Xue Ziqin, and now open the door to the generals of the northern army!"
The captain was so frightened when he heard it. But he had no right to open the city gate in the middle of the night. The Xue family's prestige is of course no one knows, no one knows, he can only quickly send the people to call Xiangcheng Taishou over.
"General Xue is a little restless!"
Xue Ziqin immediately got angry, and said to Min Qiu: "Either directly knock the door open."
Min Qiu made him cry, "General, this is the king capital."
"What happened to the king? Isn't that what the old man meant? The momentum is huge."
"... Besides, we have no plans to siege, now there is no shortage of available."
"Come on," Xue Ziqin shouted again towards the tower: "I will give you a joss stick time, don't blame me for not breaking open."
Xiangcheng Taishou holds this position, it seems to have a very high status, but in fact, at the feet of the emperor, all the court officials live here. Anyone who comes here may be several orders of magnitude larger than his official.
Someone came to report in the middle of the night that the Northern Army demanded that the city gate be opened. The Xiangcheng Taishou was so scared that he didn't even put on his clothes.
Xue Ziqin was so restless that he kept staring at the tower, and he saw Xiangcheng Taishou once he got upstairs.
"Torch to me." Xue Ziqin said suddenly.
Min Qiu did not know what he planned to do, and subconsciously passed it to him. I saw that Xue Ziqin rubbed his arrow on the torch, and the arrow was burned, and Xue Ziqin fired an arrow and shot at the tower.
Taishou Xiangcheng was asking what happened, and he heard an arrow whine. The official hat on his head was shot by the arrow, nailed directly to the wall, and burned.
"Hurry up and open the door for Lao Tzu."
"General Xue, open the city gate in the middle of the night ... General Xue can have a decree?" He boldly reached out his head and looked down, crying with a sad face.
Xue Ziqin was too lazy to talk nonsense, as usual, another arrow was put on the bow, pointed at the head of Xiangcheng Taishou and said, "Can't you open it?"
"Come here, open the city gate!" Xiangcheng Taishou shouted fearfully and anxiously.
Xue Ziqin closed his bow and waited for the heavy city gate to be opened. More than a hundred people drove the horse straight to Xue Mansion.