Chapter Twenty-Four: Xiao Liang's Scheme
Su You slowly combed Yuan Yu's hair bun, Yuan Yu is as elegant as jade, does not pick up the carved bundle, even if it is not a hairpin bun, it is not beautiful in the mess.
It's just that when she said that Beihai Wang Yuanhao returned to Beijing, she was a little worried.
It is only rumored that on that day, Yuan Hao entered the palace to face the saint, and the next thing was that (Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang) His Majesty sent the victorious general Chen Qingzhi to lead 7,000 fine cavalry to assist the king of Beihai to go north.
In the court hall of the Southern Liang, the ministers of civil and military affairs stood on one side and arranged in order above the court of the Southern Liang. Most of the Wenchen are red on the right, the military generals are on the left, and the general Chen Qingzhi is in the second row, and the temples are about six out of fifty.
Since Xiao Yan ascended the throne, Wu has Fan Yun, Wen has Shen about the three of them as brothers of the opposite sex, and now these two have both passed away, and the longest one who has accompanied Xiao Yan all the way to the battle is none other than Chen Qingzhi, and Chen Jiansun, the attendant of the Great Interior, shouted a sentence in the main hall, "Welcome the Lord of Wei (King of Beihai) to the Hajj"
There was this shout in the hall, and Yuanhao, the king of Beihai, was already wearing the clothes of the Southern Dynasty, and he should follow the title of Lord Wei given by the Southern Emperor to become a minister of Southern Liang.
"Lord Wei, please come here" The shouts in the hall spread to the outside of the hall, and the inner servants outside the hall respectfully walked towards Yuan Hao, and introduced him from the outermost stone pillar of the main hall to the inner court.
Yuan Hao followed the chamberlain to the steps unhurriedly, and at the same time he was ready to return to the Northern Wei Dynasty to be a unique master. As he stepped forward, his figure gradually appeared in the red wall of the Zhu Pavilion. The waiter gradually retreated to the side, and Yuan Hao walked straight to the Nanliang court hall with the door wide open
When he arrived at the court, Emperor Liang sat on the golden throne with a little kindness, and the courtiers of the two halls stood on their sides, and he stood alone in the middle about three meters in the middle. "Yuan Hao greets the Southern Emperor," he said, and he saluted with his armrest.
"Lord Wei is exempt" Xiao Yan looked at him, in fact, the purpose of Yuan Hao's trip, how could he not know that the power of the imperial court in the Northern Wei Dynasty has gradually declined since the Six Towns Uprising, and the princes of all parties have risen together, if it weren't for Er Zhurong who launched the Heyin Revolution and set up a new lord, I am afraid that the Northern Wei Dynasty would have already fallen into the chaotic war of the kings.
Originally, the Northern Wei Dynasty still had Ge Rong and Er Zhurong to confront each other, and he arranged such a good game of chess, just to let Ge Rong and Er Zhurong fight. No matter which side won in the end, for the Northern Wei Dynasty, it only plunged this dying dynasty deeper and deeper. Originally, he didn't have to be in such a hurry, but not long ago, the Southern Liang scout came to report that Zhu Rong had eliminated Ge Rong in Hebei.
Since Ge Rong was destroyed, the Yuan clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty will gradually complete under the support of Er Zhurong and restore the former majesty. This point, how can Xiao Yan tolerate it, the Northern Wei Dynasty is strong, and for him, it is an old enemy. Originally, he also planned to spread the secret chess pieces he arranged within the generals of the Northern Wei Dynasty one by one, so that the Northern Wei Dynasty would be chaotic without a fight. But now, all plans are gone.
Previously, Chen Qingzhi had also analyzed with him that Ge Rong had failed, and if he wanted to make the north chaotic without a fight, he could only let the emperor and Er Zhurong get out of line. "Your Majesty, you think, now that Ge Rong has been abolished, it is better for us to add another fire to Chang'an City, so that this fire will burn a little more vigorously." Chen Qingzhi helped Emperor Liang in the back garden and said.
"Aiqing has a conscience," Xiao Yan looked at Chen Qingzhi and suddenly smiled. Presumably he already knew Chen Qingzhi's plan.
"It's time to let the tiger go." As he spoke, the two glanced at each other in unison.
"Over there in Chang'an, Chen Jiansun," Xiao Yan called out to the old eunuch walking behind him.
"The old slave is here," Chen Jiansun stood aside
"Presumably that one, he has also been silent for a long time, if you go to give him a word, it will definitely stop Er Zhurong, since the fire of the Northern Court can't lower the temperature, we will add another firewood to him" Chen Jiansun still stayed in place, and Chen Qingzhi helped Xiao Yan to walk away before the words fell
A few days later, the court really responded to the sentence, "What does Lord Wei mean by this?" Xiao Yan asked Yuan Hao knowingly.
"There are many disasters in the north, Yuan Hao has come here, has been harassing your country for a long time, thanks to the grace of King Liang, canonized the Lord of Wei to wait for him, and originally wanted to stay here to repay the kindness of King Liang. However, last night, the foundation of the ancestors of the sudden dream was weakened, and the founding of the first Taizu Silicon Niuchuan was passed to Emperor Xiaowen, and the foundation of the ancestors was moved to Luoyang. Strive to become a big country in the north, but the descendants of the future generations will not be governed, fearing that they will lose their ancestral inheritance, and there are hungry wolves in the north to bully everyone. Yuan Hao said, his angry eyes suddenly knelt on the ground, and he looked impassioned.
"Lord Wei, what is this" Emperor Liang saw the scene, immediately stood up from the emperor's throne, stretched out his hand and angrily reprimanded, "What are you doing in a daze, don't you hurry up to help Lord Wei" As soon as Emperor Liang said this, all the ministers immediately hurriedly walked over to support Yuan Hao, but Yuan Hao seemed to be iron-hearted, knelt on the ground with one leg and refused to get up, and he showed his eyes to the ministers he had bought in advance.
"Your Majesty, what Lord Wei said is very true, if I send troops to Nanliang, I can just do the right thing for the world. Give the world justice. ”
Emperor Wu of Liang, Xiao Yan, saw that Yuan Hao was unmoved, and could only step down from the throne, "Aiqing, what does this mean?"
"Hao, ask Emperor Liang to help me recapture the country" Yuan Hao still knelt in place and did not move.
Seeing this, Xiao Yan didn't say much, but twisted his beard thoughtfully and walked a few steps thoughtfully, "If I send troops to wish you, what is the benefit." In addition, in recent years, there have been floods in our southern Liang, and there have been many wars around the border, and the population is sparse, and I have a truce agreement with the northern country.
"If the public helps me, when I wave my troops in Luoyang, I will share the world with King Liang." Yuan Hao said with a serious face.
"Okay" Hearing Yuan Hao say this, Xiao Yan agreed to "Chen Qingzhi"
"The minister is here" Chen Qingzhi came out of the ranks, hooking his hands and facing Xiao Yan
"Chen Qingzhi led seven thousand elite cavalry to assist the King of Beihai to seize the hegemony of Wang Zun" said, Xiao Yan took out his special token, "Take this token, Ziyun can dispatch soldiers and generals at will, such as I come in person"
Xiao Yan said solemnly, the tassel of the token was shaking, but what he saw was the court, the power of the country.
Chen Qingzhi and Yuan Hao's army left Jiankang City the next day, and the army of Hao Hao Tang Tang directly attacked the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty, along the way, the troops led by Chen Qingzhi were invincible, and the castle guarded by the children of the Yuan clan was vulnerable. The army of the Southern Liang drove straight down, and the momentum was like a bamboo along the way.
"Report, Liang Jun Macheng, 70,000 troops drove straight here"
"Report, Yueyang was bloodbathed, and the enemy army continued to advance"
In the next half month, the "newspaper ......" has been hearing the news of the loss of the land in various places.
"King Taiyuan, send troops!" He Batyue could no longer sit still, wandering left and right in the tent
"Wait, wait," Er Zhurong said unhurriedly, although everyone said that the armor had been put on, but there was no order to respond
"If the general is afraid, I will go first, and when I slaughter Chen Qingzhi's old boy, the general will not have to shrink into the tent and dare not come out, for fear of losing his reputation" He Bayue rushed out recklessly, and he had only defended and not attacked for more than a month, the city was scattered, the people were displaced, and the war was a hunting ground for the princes and kings to dominate the group, or a colosseum for slaughtering the people.
Although Er Zhurong stopped him, He Bayue had already walked out angrily.
The next day...... The enemy army has entered Xinyang, and has now divided into two wings to approach Xinye and Miyang respectively, and Nanyang is in danger."
"General, we can't wait, Nanyang is the last line of defense, if Nanyang is lost, the Liang thief will go straight to Luoyang, and then the Northern Wei will be in danger!"
Despite the urgency of the war, Er Zhurong still ignored Yuan Tianmu's critical policy since he heard about it.
"Can you not walk over and walk over, my eyes hurt in a panic" Next to the hillside where the forest was stationed, the anxious hot uncle He Bayue was angry because of Er Zhurong's waiting strategy. And Yu Wentai, who was sitting quietly on the grass, was particularly calm.
"Can I not be in a hurry? If this continues, the country will be destroyed, and what are we going to fight, it is better to disarm and return to the field and go home. If you have no martial arts, you can't seek the welfare of the people in this troubled world."
"Sometimes, I often ask myself, whether you are a king or a loser. Rise and fall, glory and disgrace, this is the game of those in power, but who cares about the price of this game. The city is broken, the people are displaced, it is the survival of the fittest between the state and the state, whether the war is a hunting ground for the princes and kings to dominate the group, or a colosseum for slaughtering the people. Human nature, everyone is selfish. If you can't assist a benevolent monarch, what is the use of fame and fortune" Yu Wentai was very emotional about this troubled world where everyone was chasing fame and fortune, and was angry at this inhumane world.
"You kid, I don't see it, you're not very old, but you have a big heart." He Bayue couldn't help but look at Yu Wentai, a hairy child who was only fifteen or sixteen beside him, and he felt that this child would be a great talent in the future.
"That is, the prince will have a kind of Xiangning, rather than holding his fate in the hands of others, it is better to hold it tightly in his own hands. People's lives, my mother gave them, God can't control them, my life is up to me, not God."
"It's up to me to do it," he applauded, and he showed his face. Er Zhuyan stood not far away, and before she could see clearly what He Bayue and Yu Wentai were discussing, she walked out from behind the big tree next to the hillside.
"Eldest Miss" He Bayue looked at Er Zhuyan who was dressed in men's clothes, and was a little suspicious.
"Big brother doesn't have to be polite, let's call me Mu Qing!" Er Zhuyan is accustomed to a white scarf, a fan, a bun is very high, wearing a purple scarf, and a heavy hair flows straight down from the left. Struggling like a breeze, the fan pendant bell rings. If it weren't for the way she dressed in men's clothes, maybe no one would have believed that she would be a girl.
Looking at her in front of him, obviously standing here, He Bayue felt that it was not very real, "You are not a newcomer to Chang'an, why are you here" He looked at him suspiciously.
"Chang'an Fengyue, Luoping is flashy, Mu Qing is not used to it, simply send love to the landscape, proud of the west, why not be happy" The breeze gently blew the fan and salled the sound, looking at the two standing people, Yuwentai stared at the two of them word by word and suddenly touched his head and questioned.
"So, you didn't marry the emperor" After hearing Er Zhuyan say this, he grabbed Er Zhuyan's arms excitedly.
Suddenly, seeing He Bayue's reaction with such joy, just as Tonger Zhu Yan was surprised, she and her fan shook suddenly.
"Big brother, you" Er Zhuyan was suddenly shocked, she looked at this burly man with a red face and a thick neck tremblingly, and only felt that the wind in the air was embarrassing. She had never liked to be close to people, but she was a little shy to see that Hobatyue, who had always regarded her as her brother, was so excited.
"That, big brother, you let go first," she looked at He Batyue's hand holding his shoulder with a little embarrassment.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I" He Batyue's face suddenly turned even redder and clearer. Er Zhuyan wanted to explain two sentences to make him not think about it, but he was embarrassed and speechless. I can only change the subject
"Miss, no, how could the son appear here" Yu Wentai looked at the male power rivers and lakes that should have been raised in the deep palace with some surprise and couldn't see the court outside.
After tying his wound, Er Zhuyan put her index finger to her mouth slightly mysteriously and gently shushed "It's a secret"
Yuwentai said: "Could it be that you really didn't marry Your Majesty" After speaking, he himself was shocked, is it really the same as what He Batyue said just now?
Seeing Yu Wentai say this, Er Zhuyan didn't ask anything, she looked left and right for a while, looking at the leaves in the southeast and trembling slightly, presumably He Bayue had already come.
Er Zhuyan chuckled and said, "Children, but you shouldn't care about adults!" ”
Yu Wentai pouted and said, "I'm not a child."
"Who should I be so arrogant, it turns out to be Kurose, who has grown so big. No wonder, in the year of the dancing elephant, no wonder, there is such a bold ambition" is still the same as usual, he likes to touch Yuwentai's hair, Yuwentai may have been used to free-range since he was a child, lack of care, Er Zhuyan will often take advantage of the time to ponder him, trim his messy hair bun for him and retie it for him.
Maybe the parties may not know it yet, but Yu Wentai, who was sitting on the side watching the play, saw it clearly, and he said very clearly in his heart, "Lao Yue likes the eldest lady, but the eldest lady doesn't seem to like Lao Yue"
"Uncle Rough, didn't you say that you were going to take me to catch a hare in a while, just right, big," he said, he glanced at Er Zhuyan, who was dressed as a man, and could only change his words, "Mu Qing Gongzi is also here, or let's go together, and let us see Zhuge Gongzi's magic skills by the way."
Just now, with Yuwentai's proposal, alleviating everyone's embarrassment, Er Zhuyan rode his brown-red dream weaving horse, and rushed to the front with a dragonfly-like pace, if you want to say light work, nothing else dares to compliment, Er Zhuyan has learned art, light skills are good, first a small test of the knife, and then across the mountain like a cow Ling Bo micro step through the power of flowers and trees to shuttle freely in the forest, if not on horseback, she may have more room to play.
He Bayue's black Luo Yun rode a horse and did not show weakness at all, chasing after him with flying flowers and moons, only Yuwentai was left, his other kung fu was full of tiger traces, only the horse kung fu could be one enemy hundred, if it wasn't for the wind last time he was injured, he wouldn't have chased with an ordinary horse, these two people came and went freely as if they were nothing, but it was bitter for Yuwentai, and he could only move forward like a gibbon hooking a leather whip back and forth and hooking the trees.
Sure enough, in the depths of the jungle, there were indeed many hares, and He Bayue caught two of them very easily, Er Zhuyan looked a little bored, "Why hasn't Kurose followed yet?"
"You don't understand, Kurose has great attainments in other aspects, but this light skill is almost there" During the conversation, He Bayue didn't pay much attention to it, after all, Er Zhuyan's identity was placed here, he was just a guest of their family, and Miss Gao Pan was delusional. What's more, during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the friendship between the doors was precious, and the lintel was quite right. Although Er Zhuyan is as broad-minded as a man, after all, where is the fact that girls are placed.
"Then I'll go look for him" Thinking of what happened just now, although Er Zhuyan didn't take it to heart, after all, she felt a little embarrassed. Thinking about it carefully, she has a deep friendship with He Bayue, and it must be just a surprise to see her.
Before He Bayue could react, Er Zhuyan had already ridden his horse and whipped, leaving him with only a back. When he went back to look for Yuwentai, he saw that the reddish-brown horses were still there, but the people were gone.
According to her experience of walking the rivers and lakes for so many years, this kind of sign, the surrounding grass and trees are intact and there is no sign of fighting, presumably people should be not far away.
Er Zhuyan looked around, and sure enough, on the big tree overhead, she heard the rustle of deliberately floating leaves. I saw Yu Wentai, a young man in black, lying on the tree chasing something. "Caught" I saw that he suddenly let out a loud noise, and then there was a wailing howl "Ah~~"
At this moment, Er Zhuyan didn't think much about it, just slapped her hand at the saddle, and the horns stretched out from the horse's pedals, and with the force of the horse's back, the whole person rose into the air, and at the moment when Yuwentai was about to fall, she caught him in the air.
Then, I saw her gently twist the vertical strip next to the tree with her hand, like a rope, she caressed Yuwentai's waist, and when Yuwentai opened his eyes in fright, the two of them had slowly descended from the air.
"I'm afraid of heights and climb so high, don't die." Er Zhuyan pushed him away angrily, patted his clothes, and tried to smooth them out.
"Falling, at most the butt hurts for two days, you can't let the fledgling lose its mother!" Yu Wentai was a little stubborn and Erzhu Yan talked against him, and then he hid his hand that was rubbing the skin when he climbed the tree.
Er Zhuyan seemed to see this, and the angry voice gradually laughed, "Is there anything wrong with your hands?"
"No," he said, and Yuwentai glanced at his bleeding hand.
He didn't want to say anything, Er Zhuyan didn't know what to say, looking at him so stubborn, she suddenly felt that Yuwentai's angry appearance was very funny, and he didn't care whether he wanted to or not, Er Zhuyan grabbed him, took out a small bottle of blue and white porcelain white flour from his waist and poured it into his hand.
"It hurts" Yu Wentai's face twitched a little and retracted his hand, and Er Zhuyan dragged it over without looking at it
"Be careful next time you know it hurts"
The army of the Southern Liang broke the temporary stability of the northern cities, and the first to suffer was the townspeople who crossed the two borders. Sure enough, Huoqiu Town, without any defense, under Chen Qingzhi's fierce attack, within three days, the water in the city dried up, and the town guards had no choice but to surrender.
After the Liang army rode iron, the wolf smoke curled, and the town was in a mess. Zhen Shou thought that as long as he led the city to surrender, he would avoid the disaster of flying, victory and defeat were impermanent, what he wanted to do was to seek a living life for the people in the city, but who would have expected that these Liang generals rushed into the town of Huoqiu, killed them with red eyes, burned and plundered, and made the people add to the disaster.
The people fled one after another without hurry, some officers and soldiers rushed into the people's houses as soon as they entered the city, eager to take away all the valuable things in the people's homes, and some saw the young and beautiful women on the street**, Huo Qiu was like hell, and the war was like a flower on the other side with a mark of death, and they approached them in blood red.
At this moment, a woman who lived by the river was kicked out of her room, and she shouted: "Official, please, our family has no more food"