Chapter 121 Bitter Stalemate (2nd Update)
What Emperor Taizong did in the previous dynasty, everyone in the world knows, Zhou Sui compared him to Zhou Yi, and his intention is very obvious. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Seeing Zhou Ji coming, the two tacitly revealed Zhou Yi's affairs without discussing it, and only talked about Zhou Ji's affairs. The topic change is so clever and natural, where can Zhou Ji hear anything wrong?
However, after Zhou Ji left, the two did not advance Emperor Taizong, but just looked at each other deeply for a long time, and their faces showed a bit of determination.
Zhou Ji and Fu Tianyu said a few more words, and then they both went to Mrs. Shen's side, and together with Zhou Shao and Shen Qingying, who had been with them all the time, they talked to Mrs. Shen to relieve their boredom.
Zhou Daozhao looked at his sons from a distance, his face was expressionless, but he really looked like a bystander who had nothing to do with himself.
Unlike Zhou Xuan's bitterness of being ambitious and difficult to pay, Wu Chengsi was crisscrossing the battlefield at this time, very wanton and happy.
At the beginning of the battle between Yan and Yu, he was only a halberd commander, and now that the war is about to end, Wu Chengsi actually relied on his martial arts strategy to accumulate military merits along the way, and finally achieved the position of deputy commander of the vanguard battalion.
Wu Chengsi is young, and he is from the background of the royal family and nobles, such a person is taboo to be promoted too quickly, but his talent in military affairs is obvious to all. Even if his promotion is not all based on military merits, there are also a lot of favors in it, but there is no objection in the army to Wu Chengsi's sudden appearance.
Wu Chengsi, who was the commander of the deputy capital, became more and more courageous, led three thousand iron cavalry as the vanguard, and repeatedly disrupted the enemy's formation, making the Yan army all the way like a bamboo, not only defeated the Yu country, but also defeated several small countries along the way that had not been attached for many years, and went straight to the capital of Yu State.
Wu Yue heard the succession of good news, and then the letters of several countries that were attached, and his heart became more and more happy. He sent people to send many rewards to the palace of King Lian, and twice rewarded the soldiers who fought on the battlefield, which made the morale of the army inspired. The soldiers who did not like to fight swore allegiance one after another, and their emotions were very high, as if fighting had suddenly become an interesting thing.
When Queen Qian heard about this, she had other thoughts.
Since Qian Huijun got married, the Qian family can be regarded as a young man, and there is no daughter of the right age to be on top. There are two suitable girls, not to mention their appearance and character, both of which have been painstakingly adjusted by the clan, but they are too young - the older one has just passed the age of the golden hairpin, and the other is only in his early tens.
This is also the reason why Queen Qian has not moved Yangyun for a long time.
Although the Qian family has now overpowered the Wei family, but when it comes to the power in the court, the Wei family is not much worse than her, the reason why Queen Qian has so many people available to her, and she can suppress Yanhuang Wuyue to the death, is actually because of the light of the prince. She had never mentioned it, but she knew it.
If Queen Qian couldn't hold her breath and was in a hurry to get rid of Yangyun now, regardless of whether Wu Chengsu rebounded or not, she would break the largest arm of the Qian family at that time, and only said that Wei Liangdi, who had a son in the East Palace, she would not be able to cope with it.
Wu Chengsu is bound to turn against her for the sake of Yangyun, and when the prince is no longer biased towards the Qian family, how many people in the court will no longer favor the queen. And Wu Yue wished that they would fall, if the Wei clan intervened at the right time and invited Li Wei Liangdi as his step-concubine, nine times out of ten they would succeed - how could the Qian clan have the ability to deal with these many forces?
It is very likely that Queen Qian will not be able to control the situation, so she can only give the power she has gained to Wei.
Instead of bothering to fight the deep-rooted Wei family, it is better to raise the helpless Yangyun first, and after two or three years, the second daughter of the Qian family will grow up, and when she reaches the age of discussing relatives, she can easily pull out the thorn of Yangyun. At that time, there were school-age women in the clan, even if Wu Chengsu was no longer partial to his mother's family, he would not turn his face in public, Queen Qian wanted to support her mother's family and set up the daughter of the Qian family as the crown princess, but there was still more than half of the chances of winning.
However, when she heard the repeated good news in the field, Queen Qian had other plans.
She was secretly glad at first.
Fortunately, Jiang Hua had already informed her of the news, and Wu Chengsu did not set Wu Chengsi for Yangyun's sister, but Wu Yue came out and set a worthless Wu Chengxun, which greatly weakened the support that Yangyun might get, so that he would not be connected to his own flesh when he pulled out the thorns in the future.
After thinking about it, Queen Qian actually saw another way out.
Wu Chengsi's future is limitless, if he can catch this person in his hands, the Qian family is bound to grow stronger, whether it is to set up a prince and a concubine in the future, or to compete with others for other things, the Qian family's chances of winning will be much greater.
Queen Qian was overjoyed: This is an infinite blessing.
After calming down, Queen Qian first determined that there were no women of the right age in the Wei family to compete with, and then compared the ages of the second daughter of the Qian family and Wu Chengsi, and finally made a plan, wanting to give the older Qian Huiwen to Wu Chengsi, and wait for two or three years to get married, and the younger Qian Mengxian raised it for two more years, and turned back to the position of Yangyun.
However, half a month later, Linshui City suddenly heard other news.
The Yan army has broken through most of the Yu Kingdom, and only the national capital and the two nearby cities are left to attack for a long time. A battle that was originally in sight of victory, but because of Emperor Yu's timidity, it was drowned, and it suddenly became a stalemate.
It turned out that Emperor Yu was afraid of death, so he raised soldiers in the left side of the capital river and the two cities near the national capital early in the morning. There are 100,000 soldiers in Hezuo City, and there are 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses in each of the two nearby cities, and the grain and grass in the city are enough to support two or three months. Although the Yan army has more than 200,000, it is tired from the more than a month of battle, where can it still have the strength to attack the city?
The assault failed for three days, and even gunpowder could not break through the city gate, and everyone was inevitably discouraged.
Seeing that the soldiers had no fighting spirit, King Hui ordered the troops to retreat and camp for fifty miles, on the one hand, to prevent someone from raiding, cut off the retreat of the Yan army, and facilitate the acceptance of subsequent grain and grass supplies, on the other hand, it also formed a siege of the three cities, but it would not retreat too far, causing the troops to disperse.
The grain and grass of the Yan army can still support January, and the escort of grain and grass is not fast, so there is a saying that "the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first". If any further supplies come, it will take forty or fifty days to arrive.
It's too late!
Even Wu Yue was a little discouraged when he heard this, but Wu Chengsi refused to admit defeat.
He carefully analyzed the topography of the three cities and found that the three cities stood on their feet. The northernmost is the left of the Yudu River, close to the lofty mountains in the north. To the west is the vast Baishui River, and to the east and south are broad lands, which are where the Yan army is stationed today. Wu Chengsi looked at the map repeatedly, barely eating or sleeping for two days, and suddenly had an idea.
He reported his tactics to King Hui, and after discussion among the generals, he received the support of almost all of them.
The Yan army did not attack the city for ten days, but only made more than 100 huge kites, and carefully distributed and processed the remaining gunpowder.
On the 10th day, the Yan army sent 10,000 infantry and 800 cavalry to attack the east gate of Hezuo City, and the rest of the troops lined up behind. The neighboring two cities really only sent a small group of people to support, and the total was only more than 5,000 people, and they were easily strangled.
There were also 500 archers and 10 bed crossbows, which were only a hundred steps away from the city on the left side of the river, and only attacked the east gate, ignoring the others. (To be continued.) )