Chapter 421: Caught off guard
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In fact, the little emperor still didn't want Pei Qing to leave, because as soon as Pei Qing left, his hope of returning to Luoyang would be completely ruined, and he would completely become Cao Cao's puppet from then on, but he didn't have a way to do it, as long as he opened his mouth to let Pei Qing enter the city, not only Hu Meiren couldn't keep it, but he also had no personal safety guarantee.
After Pei Qing left, the little emperor said to Sima Yi: "Sima Gong, I have already done what you asked, do you want to return Hu Meiren to me now?" ”
saw Sima Yi say lightly: "Although Pei Qing retreated, who knows if he will come back?" Therefore, Hu Meiren can't return it to His Majesty for the time being, besides, although His Majesty is young, he must also stay away from women and take care of the Holy Body, which is the blessing of the community. ”
Sima Yi's words are obvious, in fact, he refuses to return Hu Meiren, although the little emperor is not satisfied, but there is no way but to helplessly "return to the palace".
Sima Yi was very happy after Pei Qing led the army away, and at the same time secretly despised Pei Qing, such a powerful strength was easy to leave because of the little emperor's words, this is really stupid, in fact, think about it, since Pei Qing is under the banner of respecting the Son of Heaven, now the Son of Heaven said to his face that he should withdraw from the army, if he doesn't listen, then won't the reputation he has worked so hard to build up for many years be destroyed? Who will believe him then?
"Hehe, Pei Qing's career originated from the king, but in the end, he was also bound by the king, and when he saw that victory was in sight, he could only retreat in disgrace, which is called Cheng Ye Xiao He defeated Xiao He."
Sima Yi's heart was full of emotion, to tell the truth, Pei Qing was under the city before, his heart was still very nervous, for fear that Pei Qing would disrespect the king's order and insist on attacking the city, and at that time he was really not good at doing it to the Son of Heaven, because if he did, he would definitely die, and no one could save him.
Fortunately, now that Pei Qing has left, this can be regarded as a fortunate thing, so Sima Yi wiped the sweat from his palms, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, slowly left the city, and went to the mansion to rest for a while.
However, as soon as he returned to the mansion, he suddenly heard a deafening roar in the distance, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and asked what happened?
At this time, I saw Sima Yi's fourth brother Sima Kui running over panting, and said to him: "Second brother, it's not good, Pei Qing." Pei Qing is back again, and now he is struggling to attack the city, our sergeants are defenseless, now that the outer city has been breached, the army has entered the city, it is too late, let's go quickly. ”
"What, what? Coming back so soon? And it came so suddenly, it caught people off guard, I usually conceited my intelligence, but I didn't even think of this. Sima Yi was shocked when he heard this, and when he was in a panic, he immediately prepared to lead the army into the palace and kidnap the Han Emperor in order to protect himself.
However, when he came to the palace gate, he found that the palace was in chaos, and the little emperor had already disappeared, and after inquiry, he learned that it was Xi Xi and Hua Xin who joined forces to enter the palace and told the emperor about the matter, and escaped from the palace to see Pei Qing with the emperor.
When Sima Yi heard this, he immediately sighed in his heart, it seems that they really can't hold on, even the person who was once guilty chose to betray, so I really don't know how many people have also chosen to betray? In this case, even if he resisted, it was meaningless, and Sima Yi also knew that Pei Qing didn't need him, so even if he surrendered, it was meaningless, so he had to take his family and subordinates to escape from Yecheng in the chaos and go to Changshan Country.
In fact, Sima Yi really can't be blamed for this matter, he didn't think that Lu Meng's strength was too strong, and the two characteristics of surprise attack and ghost conspiracy worked at the same time, even the top military advisors like Zhuge Liang or Guo Jia couldn't see through it, not to mention that Sima Yi's intelligence was actually inferior to Guo Jia and Zhuge Liang? So this caused Sima Yi to have no expectation of Pei Qing's killing of the horse pistol.
At the same time that Sima Yi got the news that Pei Qing had come back, Xi Wei also got the news, in fact, at that time, Xi Yi had the same idea as Sima Yi, and avoided disaster by holding the Son of Heaven hostage, but at this time, his deputy Zhong Xin persuaded him to support the Son of Heaven to go out of the palace to see Pei Qing: "Although I made a mistake before, who can be a sage if I am not a sage?" I believe that as long as it is corrected, he will still be a famous man who is loyal to the monarch and the country, but if he is wrong again and again, can he resist Pei Gong's 100,000 army just by holding the benefits of the Son of Heaven hostage? Among the pros and cons, please think twice. ”
Xi Xi listened to Hua Xin's words and pondered for a moment, and always felt that Hua Xin's words were right, so he agreed, and just arrived outside the palace gate, but saw Shang Shu Ling Xun Yu and his clan brother, Xun Di, the captain of the shooting sound, broke in with his private soldiers and subordinates, and the slogan was to protect the Son of Heaven.
When Xun Yu saw Xi Xian, he immediately ordered Xun Di and the soldiers to kill the thief, but fortunately, Hua Xin stepped forward to explain, Xun Yu changed his words and thanked him, and everyone entered the palace to support the Son of Heaven.
It turned out that Xun Yu had been loyal to Cao Cao, but later when he heard that Cao Cao did not hesitate to hold the Son of Heaven hostage to force Pei Qing to withdraw from the army, his heart was suddenly displeased, so he wrote to fight hard, suggesting that Cao Cao should not humiliate the Son of Heaven so much, so as not to incur a greater disaster, but was reprimanded by Cao Cao and ridiculed by Sima Yi, and later Pei Qing withdrew from the army, Sima Yi still did not keep his promise to return Hu Meiren, but asked to continue to control the Son of Heaven, which made Xun Yu extremely disappointed in Cao Cao, and secretly regretted that he chose Cao Cao instead of Pei Gong.
So after some thought, Xun Yu decided to abandon Cao Cao, protect the Son of Heaven, and be a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.
The little emperor was very happy when he heard about this, he saw that Hu Meiren also returned to his side, and knew that these people were now sincerely obedient, so he immediately readily agreed to leave the palace, and went out of the palace gate under the escort of Xun Yu, Xun Di, Xi Xi and Hua Xin, and went to meet Pei Qing's army.
Not long after, the little emperor saw Pei Qing's army, and after he revealed his identity as the Son of Heaven, he was respectfully led to Pei Qing's side by the soldiers.
After seeing Pei Qing, the little emperor was finally relieved, he immediately pointed out Cao Cao's murder of the concubine and coerced the Son of Heaven's various disobedient actions, and officially ordered Pei Qing to go all out to crusade against the traitor Cao Cao, and issued an edict to worship Pei Qing as the prime minister, the general, and awarded the preferential treatment of praise and worship, not entering the court, and going to the palace with a sword.
In fact, Pei Qing no longer looks down on such privileges, but he still has to pretend to be very grateful to the little emperor on the surface, and at the same time order all military horses to attack Cao Cao immediately.
At the same time, Pei Qing sent Xu Rong to lead 5,000 soldiers to escort the emperor back to Luoyang, while he himself led a large army to continue the march into Changshan State.
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