Chapter 645: Does he believe that outsider, or does he believe us mother and son!

Recently, the Great Luo and Tian Ce have been in a full-scale war. As a party secretly supporting Tuoba Zhen, he has undertaken heavy logistical support tasks.

He needs to coordinate a large amount of military equipment and food transport, and even more, he needs to pay attention to the progress of the war on the front line at all times, evaluating the value and risk of Tuoba Zhen's move.

Originally, seeing that Tuoba Zhen could fight back and forth with He Lan Xuan of the Northern Dragon Clan, and even have a slight upper hand, Andrei felt that this investment might be worth it.

But the war progressed slowly, the expected breakthrough was long in coming, and the huge investment was like a clay ox entering the sea, which made Andrei begin to feel anxious and dissatisfied. After discussing for a long time with his confidant military advisor Vasily, he still had no good strategy, and returned to his mansion exhausted in body and mind.

However, just after returning home, before he had time to unload his exhaustion, he saw Xie Ergai kneeling in the hall in a miserable state, and his wife Yekaterina, who was winking at him from the side.

Seeing his father, Xie Ergai immediately repeated his old trick, crying and complaining, repeating the excuse he had already made up, desperately exaggerating Tuoba Zhen's "squeezing out" and "framing," shaping himself into an innocent victim.

But how could Andrei Dagong Andrei be so easily fooled? He was also a fierce general who had fought on the battlefield when he was young, and had rich military experience.

He listened patiently to his son finish, and the more he listened, the gloomier his face became.

From Xie Ergai's evasive and minimizing narrative, he keenly captured the key information: unauthorized change of reconnaissance route, rash attack on non-primary targets, being easily lured into an ambush... This was clearly a typical case of greed for merit and rash advance, and improper command!

Andrei understood Tuoba Zhen's person. Although arrogant and conceited, he was by no means a mediocre person in military affairs, and it was even more impossible for him to deliberately harm a detachment that came to help in such a critical moment; this did not make sense.

The greatest possibility was that this incompetent son of his was eager to prove himself, and as a result, ran headlong into a trap carefully laid by Tian Ce, and almost lost all his capital!

"Enough!" Andrei slapped the table violently, making the cups and saucers on the table clatter.

He glared at Xie Ergai, his eyes filled with disappointment and anger: "You waste! Idiot! You still dare to quibble here! Do you really think your father is a fool?! Tuoba Zhen may be arrogant, but he will never cut off his own arm!"

"It was clearly your own incompetence, greed for merit and rash advance, that buried twenty thousand elites! You have truly lost all the face of my Andrei family! How can I stand in the court in the future? How can I face the Emperor and other Grand Dukes?!"

Seeing her husband so angry, Lady Yekaterina hurriedly stepped forward to persuade: "Husband, calm your anger. Gai'er is still young, it is inevitable..."

"Shut up!" Andrei was in the middle of his anger and waved his hand unceremoniously, pushing his wife away. "Woman's benevolence! This is war! Not playing house! Twenty thousand lives, countless military supplies, were buried because of his stupidity and arrogance! And you still speak for him?!"

He pointed at Xie Ergai and said sternly: "From today on, get back to your room. Without my order, you are not allowed to take half a step out! Reflect on your sins! If you dare to act without authorization again, I will break your legs!"

Although there was no more severe military law punishment immediately, the house arrest and merciless reprimand already indicated Andrei's attitude.

He even felt a sense of desolation and vigilance in his heart, and began to seriously consider that perhaps he should really change his heir. Although Xie Ergai's younger brother was younger, he seemed more steady and sensible than this eldest son.

Xie Ergai knelt on the ground, head bowed, listening to his father's thunderous reprimand and final decision, his teeth biting his lips hard, almost biting them until they bled.

His father's distrust and complete negation were like ice water poured on his head, but they did not extinguish the flame in his heart. Instead, it was like adding boiling oil, making the ambition and desire for power ignited by his master burn more distortedly and crazily.

In the days of being grounded, his mother, Lady Yekaterina, often came to visit him secretly, persuading him softly: "Gai'er, don't be too stubborn. Your father is in the middle of his anger. After a few days, when his anger subsides, mother will plead for you again, and you will go and admit your mistake properly. After all, you are blood relatives, you are the eldest son, he will not really give you up."