The Era of Generals

Chapter 198   Unspeakable Silence

City Lord's Mansion.

After ordering Meng Yang and others to wait outside, Chen Ze followed the guards into the city lord's mansion.

This is already the third time, and Chen Ze is quite familiar with the road. Soon, the two stopped in front of the meeting hall.

When they were far away, Chen Ze could hear that the hall was very lively, there were hearty laughs and flattering flattery.

After winning the battle, everyone is in a good mood, which is understandable.

But when Chen Ze appeared at the entrance of the meeting hall, there was a sudden cessation of rain, and the sudden silence in the meeting hall stunned Chen Ze for a moment.

What do you mean?

Before he could figure it out, loud laughter suddenly came from the suddenly stagnant meeting hall, and a person stood up from the first guest seat and walked towards him quickly.

"Brother Chen, you are back!"

The person who greeted him was Zongbing Luo, the other person who had spoken well of him besides Mr. Hua.

Chen Ze smiled, let him hold his hand, and walked into the meeting hall together.

Zheng Yuanyun, who sat first in the middle of the hall, cupped his hands, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "Your Excellency, I was chased and retreated by Zhu Yan's army at the time, so I had to take a detour. Please forgive me for coming back late."

Compared with Chen Ze's calmness, Zheng Yuanyun's expression was a bit complicated.

Especially when Chen Ze mentioned the battle situation ten days ago, the corners of his eyes trembled imperceptibly.

Those in the meeting hall were those generals from before. These people were the highest-ranking advisers and military generals in the entire Anluo province. Many people had ridiculed and disdained Chen Ze when he proposed the plan.

But looking at Chen Ze at this time, the mood of the generals is more complicated than that of Zheng Yuanyun.

This little plotter...

"Just come back, go and sit down."

Zheng Yuanyun concealed his emotions well, and moved his chin to the side.

This is the first time Chen Ze has been allowed to sit down since entering the City Lord's Mansion three times. However, at the position shown by Zheng Yuanyun, next to the empty chair, Elder Hua is casually sipping fine wine.

Behind Mr. Hua, Mr. Jing and the fat shopkeeper were smiling at him.

sit there?

It seems that with the help of Hua Lao several times, Zheng Yuanyun has already regarded him as a person of Hua Lao's side, and the seat arranged for him is naturally next to Hua Lao.

Fine.

Chen Ze felt helpless, he hadn't figured out whether he should join the team, but Zheng Yuanyun directly helped him decide.

But it was only a little tangled up, so he didn't refuse. After thanking Zheng Yuanyun, he calmly sat on the chair that was farther in front than the governor-level general.

Again there was silence.

Including Zheng Yuanyun, when Chen Ze sat down, he no longer had the interest to speak. Everyone sat with their heads down in their seats, looking at their eyes, nose, nose, nose and heart, as if they were in meditation in a temple. old monk.

In this unspeakable silence, even Luo Zongbing, who was also sitting down, began to become a little unnatural, and his brows furrowed unconsciously.

After waiting for a while, Chen Ze saw that no one was talking, and the bustling din just now seemed to be just his own auditory hallucinations. After thinking about it for a while, he understood why.

After all, his military rank was too low.

All of these people present were high-ranking generals, and many of them were even city lords of a certain city. When they reached their level, one could imagine the arrogance in their hearts.

But this time, they all lost.

Lost to a little strategist.

Although Bo'an City won the final victory in the battle with the Zhuyan Empire, everyone present knew in their hearts who this victory belonged to.

It wasn't me, nor the city lord, nor Hua Lao, the former general of Qingyang, but Chen Ze.

At this time, thinking of Chen Ze's eloquent talk in this meeting hall before the war, but how much he despised this strategy proposed by the counselor in his heart, all the generals felt a little bit of burning pain on their faces.

They can still sit here intact and chat and laugh. It should be thanks to Chen Ze, but the problem is that Chen Ze's military rank is too low.

It was so low that I instinctively wanted to forget the biggest contributor to this victory, so as to appease my severely damaged self-esteem.

How can I forget?

Chen Ze just sat there so calmly, with an indifferent face, as if the matter here had nothing to do with him, not even the slightest bit of excitement or complacency.

"snort!"

Suddenly, a cold snort of disdain sounded in the silent council hall.

It was Mr. Hua who finally put down his wine glass, a gleam flashed across his drooping eyes, he didn't know whether they were open or closed, and he swept everyone present one by one, and said disdainfully: "I think you are going back as you live."

"Why, can't you lose face?"

"Then you didn't have to follow Xiao Chen's plan back then!"

"After getting the benefits of others, I feel embarrassed again. Why, it's hard to say that shit is delicious?"

The latter sentence is a little difficult to be elegant, so that Zheng Yuanyun couldn't hold back, and said with a wry smile: "Hua Lao, that's not what you said."

"None of us denied Brother Chen's great achievements. They were just amazed at how wise Brother Chen was at such a young age, so they couldn't help but be amazed."

They used this sentence very cleverly, and they pulled themselves out of the ranks of delicious shit, but the rest of the generals all looked at each other in blank dismay, and because of Hua Lao's status, they couldn't make a sound for a while.

However, this silence seems to further confirm what Hua Lao said, what is so delicious...

So, do you want to say something?

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, but they were secretly looking at Zheng Yuanyun from the corner of their eyes.

Is it really like Hua Lao said that he can't save face?

There may be some reasons for this, but most of them are still on Zheng Yuanyun.

In this incident, Zheng Yuanyun is the real commander in Anluo Province, and all the generals and soldiers should listen to his orders.

But in fact, what did Zheng Yuanyun do?

Did nothing.

In the first half of the war, he had been defending Bo'an City, but the opponent had no intention of attacking the city at all, so Zheng Yuanyun's strategy of defending did not receive any effect, it was just a confrontation between the two armies.

Then there is the second half.

The second half was Chen Ze's home court. From the moment he returned to Bo'an City, although Zheng Yuanyun was still in charge of the control on the surface, everyone who knew the inside story knew in their hearts that it really influenced the victory of this war. The key to the negative lies in Chen Ze.

So what would Zheng Yuanyun think?

As soon as Chen Ze came in, Zheng Yuanyun's expression was a little unnatural, and everyone noticed these small details.

So congratulate Chen Ze or compliment Chen Ze?

This was undoubtedly a slap in the face of Zheng Yuanyun in front of him!

Who can sit in this position without some eyesight?