The Era of Generals

Chapter 564 - Handle

Five years ago, Hua Lao, who was loyal to the Qingyang royal family, was shocked to hear that his own emperor had committed a personal risk, and was besieged by Bai Lie's enemy army.

The situation is at stake!

In order to rescue the emperor as soon as possible, Hua Lao had no time to gather troops and horses, so he only led his cronies and entourage, and rushed to the battlefield from Qingfeng City thousands of miles away.

But who knows, the original plan was to gather as many troops as possible along the way, so as to have a large number of troops to fight after arriving at the location, but the result was... Hua Lao was galloping all the way, and all the cities along the way were covered with various The reason is that Hua Lao was not allowed to replenish his troops.

In this way, until Hua Lao came to the periphery of Bai Lie's enemy army, what he had in his hand was only his own cronies.

At that time, Hua Lao had already noticed that something was wrong, but the situation was urgent, and he didn't bother to investigate at all. He could only find a way to solve the danger of the emperor being trapped.

Therefore, in desperation, the only choice Hua Lao could make was to go deep alone, relying on the little troops he had on hand to contain the Bailie Empire.

It was later proved that Mr. Hua did indeed do this, but because of this, his loss was extremely heavy.

Nine out of ten of the tens of thousands of cronies died in the territory of the Bailie Empire, and only a few hundred people were able to return.

How tragic?

But in the end, the result of Hua Lao's fighting with his life, in the celebration party afterward, he was regarded as a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and his contribution in the Bailie Empire was completely denied.

But what is strange is that Hua Lao, who was questioned, did not give any explanation at that time, but let the other generals ridicule him, and even made the decision to retire in the end, which is even more reminiscent. He thinks that Mr. Hua was told what was on his mind, so he made such a choice under shame.

It has to be said that according to the information collected by Chen Ze afterwards, there were indeed many people who speculated about Hua Lao's retirement incident at that time.

And this is also a point that Chen Ze is very puzzled about.

At that time, Hua Lao paid a huge price to rescue the trapped situation, and even his own cronies and followers were killed or injured.

At that time, as a general who is sympathetic to his subordinates, shouldn't Mr. Hua be more justified at that time, so as to return the glory to his dead brothers?

But he didn't do that. Instead, he chose not to say a word, allowing others to pour dirty water on him.

This is very abnormal. After Chen Ze didn't understand at first, he also thought of a reason.

That is... Mr. Hua must have been under some kind of coercion at the beginning, otherwise he would never have made such an abnormal move.

It was precisely because of being coerced that Hua Lao did not speak from the beginning to the end, nor did he defend himself or his dead brothers.

This is the only explanation, otherwise it doesn't make sense at all, why he has made great contributions, obviously just experienced a bloody battle, and obviously can send someone to do some simple investigations to prove his innocence, but he has nothing Do and say nothing.

Whether it was ridicule from outsiders or ignorance from his own people, Hua Lao remained silent and did not give any response.

Thinking of this, combined with Hua Lao's sudden mention of five years ago, Chen Ze immediately thought of it.

"Could it be..."

He opened his mouth slowly, looking at Elder Hua with a slight hesitation on his face.

But the following sentence after that sentence was delayed.

This is Chen Ze's caution.

Before, it was because he was too preconceived, so many things were not said by Mr. Hua himself, but his own reasoning.

After all, he is not omnipotent, but his reasoning can only be feasible if he has some accurate information.

Before that, Mr. Hua was influencing Chen Ze's judgment intentionally or unintentionally, causing him to be led astray bit by bit under his preconceptions, and finally made the judgment that Mr. Hua wanted him to make.

So this time, Chen Ze didn't take the initiative to speak. Even if he guessed something, he still needed Mr. Hua to say it himself, and then go through this process to make an accurate judgment.

Instead of being guided step by step by Hua Lao as before, falling into the opponent's pit.

This is why Chen Ze believed too much in Hualao before.

To be honest, when I first met Mr. Hua, because of the assessment questions given by Mr. Hua, and after Chen Ze answered, Mr. Hua did not agree on the surface, but the sadness in his tone was clearly evident by Chen Ze. feel it.

From then on, Chen Ze believed that Mr. Hua was the same kind of person as him.

Then, Mr. Hua gave him a special task, which seemed to be a narrow escape, but it was a further test for him. The reason why he did this was to find a suitable general for Meng Yang and others, so that they would no longer stay in the Moldy in the Bo'an barracks.

Being able to think about his subordinates in this way, in Chen Ze's heart, he didn't think that Mr. Hua would be a duplicity, so he had more trust in him.

After that, it was Elder Hua's devotion to Chen Ze.

In Bo'an City Lord's Mansion, when everyone was not optimistic about Chen Ze, and even Luo Zongbing remained neutral, only Hua Lao stood up and was willing to protect his life, which made Zheng Yuanyun agree to Chen Ze's proposal. suggestion.

Use your life!

It was the second time when Chen Ze returned to Bo'an City and saw Elder Hua, and it was the second time that Fang Fang was willing to risk his life for him!

Regardless of whether Mr. Hua saw that Chen Ze's plan was promising, no one would be willing to risk his life for a show, right?

The battlefield is changing rapidly, who dares to say that victory is undefeated?

What if there is a chance, life will be gone?

After this battle, Chen Ze's trust in Mr. Hua became stronger. That's why he didn't hesitate to ask Guo Zi to come back and ask Chen Ze for support when he was suppressed by Zheng Yuanyun in Nantes Province and his power was weakening. .

At that time, he never thought that Hua Lao would refuse.

And that's exactly what happened.

If there is anyone in this world that Chen Ze truly trusts, apart from his subordinates who have passed the general assessment, there is only Hua Lao.

Even Luo Zongbing, because he has always had reservations about Chen Ze, his trust level is still lower than that of Hua Lao.

Who would have thought that Hua Lao, whom Chen Ze trusted with all his heart, ended up doing so many things behind his back.

However, although Chen Ze was puzzled, he was not too angry.

After all, Elder Hua just deceived him and asked him to do useless work for a few days. At least for now, there is no loss to him, so he can calmly wait for Elder Hua to answer his doubts.

Seeing Chen Ze's words fell silent after half a sentence, Mr. Hua smiled bitterly, and sighed: "It's just what you think, I have the handle in the other party's hands."