Chapter 282: Expedition, Sacrifice Flag

Yu Zhiqian left Chang'an three times, the first time was to Dengzhou for disaster relief, the second time was to Shannan Province to treat the plague, and the third time was to run out secretly.

The first time, Yu Zhiqian traveled as a prince, and because it was a disaster relief, everything was simple, and there were not many soldiers beside him.

The second time was even more hurried, and before he was fully prepared, he hurriedly went on the road, and as for the third time, there were not many people who knew that Yu Zhiqian had left Chang'an City.

This is the fourth time that Yu Zhiqian has left Chang'an City, and it is also the most solemn.

On January 20, the snow in Chang'an City had not yet melted, but it was bustling outside the east gate of Chang'an.

Yu Zhiqian reached various consensus with his father two days ago, and finally Yu Zhiqian successfully abdicated, and his son Yu Bo, a baby less than three years old, successfully ascended the throne, and the wife emperor is Yu Zhiqian's father, who is responsible for supervising the country, and Yu Zhiqian, who has now become the emperor, led the army to Goguryeo.

In less than five years, Yu Zhiqian has completed a triple jump in identity, from the crown prince to the emperor, and then to the emperor, if his son is not very reliable like himself, maybe Yu Zhiqian can be promoted to another level like his father and become the emperor.

What is the title of the wife, no one has been able to answer so far, after all, history has recorded so far, there has never been such a situation, there have been one or two Zen positions, and generally the old emperor is old, but when the old emperor was strong, Zen gave Yu Zhiqian, and Yu Zhiqian retreated bravely when he was young and strong to give up his baby child, there has never been such a thing in history.

Therefore, the title of Mrs. Emperor appeared in the Yutang Empire, and even the historians were thinking about how to give Mrs. the title of Emperor, as for the officials of the Ministry of Rites, they had already looked at the sky with a confused face, and they were muttering in their mouths, not in accordance with the number of etiquette, not in accordance with the number of etiquette!

Everyone knows that it is not polite, and the throne is regarded as a child's play.

Yu Zhiqian still cares a little about the opinions of the people in the world, after all, this is the country of the old Yu family, Yu Zhiqian has no intention of inheriting everything, but at least there are six, seven or eight hundred years or something, so secretly he has also sent people to investigate in Chang'an City.

As a result, the people did not pay attention to the emperor's Zen position at all, for the people, to be able to eat enough, to dress warmly, more important than anything else, now the people of Chang'an City have meat to eat during the New Year, there are new clothes to wear, who is the emperor is not very important to them, as long as the emperor does not rob them of the meat and rice in the bowl.

Of course, if someone wants to rebel now, it is basically impossible, because rebellion is equivalent to smashing the people's jobs.

At the east gate of Chang'an City, at nine o'clock in the morning, the sun was already hanging in the sky to blow away the cold of the night, and the temperature began to slowly rise.

Every two meters or so on Suzaku Avenue stood a sergeant, armed with a spear and wearing armor, standing majestically on both sides, while the people were discussing in a low voice behind these sergeants.

"Did you hear that? The Emperor wants to recruit in person! ”

"You know, otherwise, what are you doing here today? Don't you just want to see the heroic appearance of the emperor! ”

"Where is that Goguryeo? Is it necessary to make such a big move? ”

The geographical knowledge of the current people is really not as good as that of children who will be a few years old in the future, and most of the people have lived in one place all their lives, and they don't know where it is except for the county seat, let alone a foreign country like Goguryeo.

"It seems to be in the north, I don't know, I haven't heard anyone mention it!"

Hearing this person speak, an old man beside him immediately laughed and looked at the middle-aged man: "Don't you have a brain if you don't read?" How can you be in the north, in the north, why not start from the north gate but from the east gate? ”

The old man didn't know where Goguryeo was, but he still had some life experience, and when he heard the old man's words, everyone nodded and felt that it made sense. ”

"Cut!"

“……”

The people talked a lot, and Yu Zhiqian also left slowly from the palace gate in a six-horse carriage from the palace at this time, still holding his daughter in his hand, as for the current emperor Yu Bo's little classmate, he looked at Yu Zhiqian with his eyes and hugged Yu Zhiqian's thigh tightly with his hand.

Yu Bo hugged Yu Zhiqian's thigh in a small dragon robe, and looked at Yu Zhiqian: "Father, the son wants to hug!" ”

Yu Zhiqian glared at Yu Bo: "You are now the emperor, if you want to call yourself me, don't you know about it?" ”

"Hug!"

"You're a big kid!"

"Hug!"

Looking at Yu Bo and wanting to hug, Yu Zhiqian couldn't help but rub his head, hugged Yu Bo, and looked at his father in the carriage: "Father, Bo'er will be handed over to you, I will end the battle and return to Chang'an as soon as possible!" ”

Hearing Yu Zhiqian's words, the old emperor nodded, looked at Yu Zhiqian, thought for a while, and finally let out a long sigh: "Qian'er, the battlefield is different from other places, after arriving at the battlefield, you must pay attention to protecting yourself, you know?" ”

Yu Zhiqian nodded after hearing this: "Father, I know!" ”

"Remember, this war, even if we lose, we can come back, but if you are in any danger, we will really lose, and I was not going to let you go ......"

The old emperor began to chatter, Yu Zhiqian listened with a smile, the current old emperor did not talk to Yu Zhiqian as the old emperor, but spoke from the perspective of his father, and his words revealed a strong concern, and finally took out a small purse from his pocket and handed it to Yu Zhiqian: "This is the peace charm sewn for you by the queen mother, you carry it with you, and the weather over there in Goguryeo......"

Yu Zhiqian kept nodding and listening, when the carriage entered Suzaku Street, Yu Zhiqian couldn't hear what the emperor said at all, and the surrounding people immediately cheered victoriously after seeing the emperor's chariot.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

“……”

In addition to Wan Sheng, there are also people who shout Long live the emperor, etc., the Yutang Empire has the heaviest military merits, and every common person is ready to go into battle to kill the enemy and serve the country, but although there are some small frictions on the border of the Yutang Empire, it is also the Yutang Empire that presses the enemy on the ground and rubs back and forth and rubs again, so many people cannot join the army to serve the country.

But those who are fortunate enough to serve as soldiers at the border pass almost all have military merits, especially when Su Dingfang destroyed more than a dozen small countries in the first two years and returned victorious, almost all the soldiers became rich, so that more people are eager to join the army!

With such a big movement in Chang'an City, in addition to the locals of Chang'an City, many Hu people also saw this grand occasion, and some Hu people also came to both sides of the road early to wait, wanting to see what the legendary emperor of the Yutang Empire looked like, including Marco Polo.

Of course, Marco Polo had already seen Yu Zhiqian, but he still rushed over early to take a look at this grand occasion!

Marco Polo was standing in the crowd, and it was fine at first, but when Yu Zhiqian's car passed by, and the people burst into cheers, Marco Polo felt like a flat boat floating in the ocean, and the shouts around him were like monstrous waves, almost overturning his small boat.

Marco Polo looked at the people around him who were screaming hard, and suddenly had a feeling, is this what the people of the legendary powerful country look like?

In Marco Polo's hometown, fighting is a very terrifying thing, if there is a leader on the expedition, the people will hide as much as possible to avoid being arrested as a strong man, but in Chang'an City, the people are rushing to see them off, and some people even keep shouting that they want to join the army and go on the expedition together.

Marco Polo clearly saw that the eyes of these people looking at these soldiers were reverence and longing, and even some women holding children kept saying in the ears of the children that they must go to the border in the future to make meritorious contributions.

"Luckily, my hometown is far enough away! There will be no such horror in the face of such a terrible country! ”

Marco Polo comforted himself with a word, but soon let out a long sigh, his hometown was still trampled by war.

Unlike Marco Polo, the Hu people of the surrounding countries were more afraid, they watched Yu Zhiqian's black horse in front of him, all knelt on the ground and began to pray, these forbidden soldiers were stained with the blood of these aliens.

The forbidden army of the Yutang Empire is not a good thing, the imperial forbidden army is not fixed, but there is a rotation, every rotation will go around the border, take some alien swords, all the forbidden army is an elite division that has really seen blood.

These grassland aliens drove the army of the Yutang Empire out, and the hearts of the Hu people were raised, and they were now very worried about who the Yutang Empire was targeting.

"Where are the forces of the Celestial Empire conquering this time? Is it still a small country in the South? ”

A foreign race from the grassland asked in a low voice, they were very worried about their tribe and country, and they were afraid that they would receive news that their tribe had been wiped out by the Yutang Empire when they returned to the grassland.

"I don't know, but it shouldn't be on the grassland, after all, this time I went from the east gate, and I remember that every time I went to the grassland, I went from the north gate!"

"It's not good to go to the grassland!"

“……”

The Yu Tang Empire did not do a very good job of secrecy against Goguryeo this time, or Yu Zhiqian was not even prepared to keep it secret, after all, Goguryeo regarded Yu Tang as an imaginary enemy every day, and the new city on the border was in a state of combat readiness every day, and it was impossible to sneak attack, and the mobilization of the army could not be concealed, and the speed of the army could not catch up with the spies.

Therefore, Yu Zhiqian very simply did not hide anything, let Goguryeo prepare himself, and directly kill Goguryeo in a dignified manner, so as not to destroy any moths in the future.

Yu Zhiqian's car drove out of the east gate in turn, and outside the east city gate, 30,000 troops were assembled in the open space outside the city, and all of them were wearing black armor, standing on the ground, and at a glance, they couldn't see their heads at all. Ten thousand people are nowhere to be seen, let alone 30,000.

When Yu Zhiqian walked out of the car with Yu Bo in his arms, 30,000 soldiers knelt directly on one knee in unison: "Participate in Your Majesty, Participate in the Emperor, Participate in the Emperor!" ”

Yu Bo looked at the soldiers kneeling in front of him, he was not afraid, but stared at these soldiers with great interest, which Yu Zhiqian was very satisfied with, and his son would not be a soft egg no matter what he said in the future.

"Excuse me!"

Yu Zhiqian said softly, and Cheng Biting Jin immediately gave his hand: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

30,000 people immediately got up and stood, their movements were very neat, these soldiers were all Longyou Guard plus the forbidden army, which was regarded as Yu Zhiqian's escort for this personal expedition, the front army had already set off, in addition to the 100,000 troops were rushing towards Liaodong, this time to Goguryeo, Yu Zhiqian brought a total of 150,000 troops.

In addition, there are more than 300,000 people to provide support for the 150,000 army, thanks to Yu Zhiqian's invention of a tricycle and other tools, otherwise, the transportation capacity has been greatly improved, and in the past, farmers could send grain to the front line, which could have two-thirds of the consumption, but now it is less than one-third.

In addition, since the granaries in various places are full, there is no need to requisition grain from all over the country, and it is enough to prepare grain and grass nearby.

Yu Zhiqian slowly walked up to the platform, glanced at the soldiers below, and said slowly: "Goguryeo, I have the ability to conquer the vassal country, but the previous dynasty has not paid tribute for thirteen years, and I have deceived my vassal kingdom Silla and Baekje ......."

There must be a reason to go on the expedition, and it is not possible to be nameless, Yu Zhiqian told the crimes committed by Goguryeo one by one, and the emotions of all the soldiers below were slowly mobilized.

"Wan Sheng!"

When Yu Zhiqian finished reading the text, the soldiers below immediately shouted the slogan of victory.

"Stepping on Goguryeo, sweeping away the ministers!"

"Stepping on Goguryeo, sweeping away the ministers!"

Yu Zhiqian was very satisfied with the morale below, and said with a deep breath: "Sacrifice the flag!" ”

After speaking, a few people sent a few Goguryeo people, these are the Goguryeo spies captured by Yu Zhiqian, Goguryeo has been guarding against the Yutang Empire all these years, so there are many Goguryeo spies in the Yutang Empire, inquiring about the intelligence of the Yutang Empire, and it is even said that there is a strategy for the Yutang Empire in the Goguryeo royal family, once the Yutang Empire is weak, Goguryeo will ......

Several executioners came to the stage with large knives in hand, and cut off the heads of several Goguryeo spies in a uniform manner, this head is very different from ordinary head cutting, there is absolute particularity, first of all, what is called the sacrificial flag, that is, to sacrifice my flag with the blood of the enemy, so when cutting off the head, we must ensure that the blood is sprayed on the flag.

These Goguryeo spies had all been dealt with before this, and their bodies were tied in several places to ensure that blood would splash when their heads were finally cut off.

Yu Zhiqian didn't look at the sacrificial flag, this way is a bit cruel, but the sacrificial flag can indeed greatly boost morale, and what surprised Yu Zhiqian even more is that after the sacrificial flag ended, the originally gloomy weather suddenly began to clear up.

"God bless the Empire!"