When Li Jilong heard this holy decree, it was really like five thunderbolts, and he immediately stayed on the spot, not expecting to come back from a big victory and be demoted. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info And it's so miserable, not only is he not allowed to lead the troops, he doesn't even have general authority, and he is completely idle at home.

After Li Jilong thanked the emperor for his grace, he stood up in despair and took the holy decree. When Yang Xianmao saw him like this, he stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, the eldest brother is so talented and strategic, and the imperial court is the time to employ people, the emperor is just a momentary anger, and you will reuse the eldest brother after you are angry." When we meet with the saint, I will also intercede for my eldest brother. ”

Li Jilong smiled bitterly, nodded, and stepped aside, he wanted to see how the emperor dealt with Yang Xianmao, but the eunuch who passed the decree just nodded to Yang Xianmao and said, "Please Lord Yang and our family into the palace to face the saint, General Li, you don't need it." ”

Yang Xianmao didn't know what the emperor would do with him after he walked in. After all, it was he Yang Xianmao who played a key role in this battle, and it was he who insisted on deciding to change the formation. The emperor dealt with Li Jilong so harshly, he didn't know how he would be dealt with.

However, Yang Xianmao was not so flustered when he was nervous, because he had a hole card in his heart, that is, the emperor must use himself, because he has a skill that others do not have, and this ability is very important to the emperor's royal family, that is, his gold creation surgery.

Li Jilong can be demoted, because he has other generals to use, but if Yang Xianmao is dealt with too ruthlessly, and Yang Xianmao picks his son, then he will not have a doctor who can replace Yang Xianmao to treat other diseases that are too incurable, such as Mrs. Chen Guo's illness.

Therefore, Yang Xianmao believes that although the emperor will vent his dissatisfaction, he will not punish him too harshly.

Therefore, after entering the palace, Yang Xianmao saw Song Taizong sitting behind a few cases with a gloomy face, and he was holding the chapter to read it, so he didn't look at him at all.

Yang Xianmao knew that the emperor was giving himself a dismount.

So, Yang Xianmao didn't speak, just stood sideways and waited.

After a long time, Song Taizong seemed to be talking to Yang Xianmao, and seemed to be talking to himself: "The Liao army was unwilling to fail, and attacked in a big way, raising 60,000 troops to attack Xinzhou and Guannan ......."

Speaking of this, Song Taizu seemed to suddenly find him below, put the fold in his hand on the table, put down the red pen, and asked in a cold voice: "Yang Xianmao, are you guilty?"

Yang Xianmao hurriedly bowed down and said: "Weichen is guilty, and Weichen is willing to accept any punishment from the emperor." ”

Yang Xianmao had already estimated that the emperor just wanted to vent his anger, so he simply did not make a distinction and explained, and directly admitted his guilt.

Sure enough, although Song Taizong's face was still tense, his tone had eased a little: "You are very interesting." I ask you, where is your sin?"

Yang Xianmao had already made up his mind not to shirk, what should he do, bowed down and said: "Wei Chen changed the eight formations granted by the Holy Lord to two formations without authorization, and offered a plan to surrender, delaying time, and damaging the prestige of my Celestial Empire, so please ask the emperor to give him a sin." ”

Seeing that he bluntly confessed his sins again, Song Taizong's face softened slightly, and he snorted in his nostrils, and said: "You are too bold, you actually dare to change the formation diagram I gave without authorization, can't my eight formation diagram break the enemy? I'm afraid that it may not be! Why do you have to change it into two formations? Could it be that you Yang Xianmao has more experience in leading troops to fight than me? I'm afraid it may not be!"

Of course, Yang Xianmao would not argue with him about the reason for the change of formation at that time, because the result had already proved that his change of formation was correct, but at this time, he definitely couldn't be too competitive, and he had to let the emperor have a step down.

So Yang Xianmao's head hung lower, and he arched his hand and said, "Weichen is guilty." Weichen does not understand the art of war, has not led troops, can not deeply understand the subtle changes of the emperor's eight formations, has not been able to control and master well, plus has not gone through a big war, suddenly saw the Liao army is so powerful, so a moment of panic, always feel that after the troops are scattered, it is easy to be broken by the Liao army, so he is good at making claims, and the scattered forces are concentrated in order to form a fist. Now that I think about it, it's really ridiculous, the eight array diagrams to which Long Live belongs, the changes are subtle, but Wei Chen has not been able to deeply comprehend it. If you adhere to the emperor's eight formations, you will definitely be able to annihilate the Liao army, not just defeat it. Therefore, Weichen felt deeply guilty and implored the emperor to punish him. ”

Song Taizong's face softened even more, he snorted again, paused for a moment, and said a little stupidly: "My Eight Array Diagram comes from Zhuge Kongming's Bagua Array, and there are several changes in it, even if the Liao army is interspersed with encirclement, there are countermeasures. These methods of dealing with them are written on the formation map, but you don't read them carefully, change the formation without authorization, and live up to my good intentions, and your crimes can be punished. ”

Hearing this, Yang Xianmao chuckled in his heart, but then Song Taizong continued: "However, you can be regarded as a winner, especially you, who went to Liaoying alone to surrender, win time, and take the lead in killing the enemy. You and Li Hanqiong and the two of you were in the two armies, forgetting life and death, bravely killing the enemy, killing dozens of generals of the Liao army, leading the army to defeat the Liao army, and beheading tens of thousands, which can be regarded as a small achievement. Li Hanqiong didn't support you in the change of formation, so he commended him. If others will be punished, they will not be punished. However, Li Jilong, as a prison soldier, failed to adhere to my formation and must be punished. ”

Only then did Yang Xianmao understand why Li Hanqiong was rewarded this time and Li Jilong was punished, but the other generals ignored it and neither rewarded nor punished.

It seems that the result of changing the emperor's formation is even more serious than he originally thought, but he doesn't know what the emperor will do with him.

Song Taizong stood up, walked in front of him with his hands behind his back, looked at Yang Xianmao who was standing bowed and said: "You went to the Liao army alone to send a letter to win time, although the fraud will damage the national prestige of our Celestial Empire, but after all, the soldiers are not tired of cheating, and this can not be investigated." You dared to take risks alone and go deep into the tiger's den, but this courage was something I didn't expect, I didn't expect you to have such courage at such a young age, which I still appreciate. ”

When Yang Xianmao heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said: "Weichen also remembered that the emperor took the lead in the battle of the Gaoliang River in Youzhou, regardless of his personal safety, and went to the front line to command the battle, and faced the fearless heroism shown by the Liao army. Every time Wei Chen thinks of this incident, he feels full of pride, even if the Liao army is in Longtan Tiger's Den, Wei Chen is going to go. Weichen's courage is all because of the emperor's heroic righteousness to encourage Weichen. ”

In the battle of the Gaoliang River, Song Taizong actually did not have any fearless heroic acts. It's just that as an emperor, he was able to command the battle on the front line in person, which is commendable.

The battle of the Gaoliang River in Youzhou was actually a pain in Song Taizong's heart, it was a big defeat, but Yang Xianmao praised him for personally leading the army to fight and his heroic and fearless spirit, which put gold on his face and made him feel that he was really a little heroic at that time. After all, throughout the ages, there have not been many emperors who dared to personally lead troops to fight against the enemy.

So Song Taizong showed a smile on the corner of his mouth and said: "You are not bad, this time, I heard that you seriously injured the Liao army general Yelu Xiuge again, and also injured the Liao army commander Han Kuangsi, which is very good." In addition, you did not eat, drink or sleep for more than ten consecutive days, treated the wounded soldiers, saved the lives of two or three hundred soldiers, and left many brave generals who could fight for my Great Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as meritorious. ”

"Wechen is just responsible. Weichen changed the formation map granted by the emperor without authorization, and the credit was not worth the crime, even if there was such a little credit, it was gone. ”

Song Taizong snorted heavily: "You have self-knowledge." That's right, none of the merits you have made are enough to offset your sins, because you are a prisoner, just like Li Jilong. The duty of the overseer is to maintain the resolute execution of my formation. And at this point, both of you are derelict in your duties, and it is a serious dereliction of duty, especially you, the change of formation is mainly your idea. So your merits cannot be compensated for your sins, and you must be punished. - Tell me, what do you want me to do with you?"

When Yang Xianmao heard this, he thought to himself, Song Taizong was afraid that he would have to punish himself like Li Jilong, and maybe he would be punished more harshly. It seems that the formation map is very important in his heart, and the main purpose of sending the prison army is to carry out his combat intentions, and the two prison troops sent have failed to do so. Especially himself, because the duty entrusted to him by the emperor was to supervise the supervising army Li Jilong, and he not only did not supervise him to fulfill the formation map, but strongly advocated changing the formation, which seriously violated the emperor's combat intentions and would definitely be severely punished.

Yang Xianmao felt a little disheartened, and finally won a big battle, not only did he not get a reward, but he also had to be punished. I hope the emperor will not regret canonizing Han Xue'e. As long as there is this edict, even if you are punished, you will still gain something.

So Yang Xianmao said with a bitter face: "As long as the emperor is willing to canonize Han Xue'e, the wife of Weichen, then Weichen is willing to accept any kind of punishment." ”

Song Taizong snorted again and said: "I have clear rewards and punishments, and the condition for you to canonize that woman is that you go to the north with the army to meet the Liao army and treat the soldiers." If you have done this, of course I will not break my promise and will canonize the woman of yours, but as a prisoner, it is a serious dereliction of duty for you to change my formation without authorization, and all your merits are not enough to offset this dereliction of duty, and you must be punished. I ask you, what kind of punishment do you want to receive?"

Yang Xianmao originally wanted to say that it would be punished and relegated, just like Li Jilong. But when the words came to his lips, he suddenly remembered that when he came in just now, he heard Song Taizong inexplicably saying to himself, - the Liao army sent troops to prepare to attack Xinzhou and Guannan, to avenge the battle of Mancheng. -- There is really no need for Song Taizong to say such a military situation in front of him, and he didn't look at himself when he said it just now, and it seems that he didn't tell himself about it, so why did he say it again?

The reason why the emperor can become the emperor is that he is a human spirit, and he must have something extraordinary, especially a person like Song Taizong who uses strategy to obtain the throne, and he is also a human spirit among human spirits, he will never come up with such a paragraph for no reason, there must be his intentions.

And now Song Taizong asked Yang Xianmao twice what kind of punishment he wanted to receive, maybe he was hinting at something, because if Song Taizong really wanted to punish Yang Xianmao, the direct punishment would be over, and there was no need to ask for his opinion. And now asking for his opinion, maybe he wants him to take the initiative to say it, and he wants Yang Xianmao to say it, it may be something that Song Taizong himself is inconvenient to ask for.