Chapter 15 Holding oneself as a hostage
"Phew! Shut up! Lu Xiangsheng, you are untrustworthy! Such nonsense can be spoken! In my opinion, the Xingtian Thief and you must take advantage of this opportunity to attack the Jingshi first, and Hugh is going to lie to me and wait! I, Zhou, will never believe your nonsense! When Zhou Yuji heard this, he didn't wait for Lu Xiangsheng to finish speaking, so he immediately jumped up, pointed at Lu Xiangsheng and scolded.
Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said: "General Zhou, it's not too late to listen to Lu's words, if General Zhou still doesn't believe it at that time, then Lu is here, if you want to kill or let you dispose of it!" ”
Zhou Yuji held back his anger and nodded, "Okay!" I'll let you finish! Your nonsense is just a three-year-old child, but don't think of lying to me Zhou Yuji! Say! After that, Zhou will send you on the road! The axemen waits! ”
After hearing this, Lu Xiangsheng sat down on the chair calmly, and continued to ask Zhou Yuji: "It's okay!" General Zhou, Lu also wants to ask you, at the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, do you know what the Xingtian Army did? ”
Zhou Yuji was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "I know!" So what? ”
"Then please ask General Zhou to tell Lu that when the Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian learned that Jiannu broke through the pass and wreaked havoc in Gyeonggi, he could completely watch from the wall, and even gloat, of course, with the situation at that time, the imperial army was focused on the matter of Jiannu's entry, he could take this opportunity to expand his territory, but why did he bother thanklessly to personally lead the heroes under his command to the north, not to take the land of Jingfu, but to fight to the death against the Jiannu army?" Lu Xiangsheng suddenly asked Zhou Yuji.
Zhou Yuji opened his mouth and replied, "This ...... This one...... That Xiao Xingtian is just putting on a show! Its purpose is nothing more than to buy hearts and minds! How can this be? Zhou Yuji was obviously unprepared, and his answer was very far-fetched, but his mouth was still hard.
"Huh! Lu saw that General Zhou's heart was empty! Because General Zhou has no way to answer this matter! This can only be used as a pretext! Good! If it's according to what you said, the Great and Middle Saint can be completely pretentious! Why bother to attack more with less, lead the troops to Julu first, and rescue me Lu and more than a thousand Xuan soldiers? You must know that at that time, more than 40,000 Gao Qiqian mercenaries were near Julu, but they couldn't help Lu and thousands of Xuan soldiers who were surrounded by them! And Lu has killed a lot of mutant soldiers before, and he is their mortal enemy, how to explain this?
Is it really just like what General Zhou said, just trying to sell fame and reputation? You must know the ferocity of the Jiannu Army, everyone in the world knows and everyone knows, in order to save us Ming soldiers, the heroes of the Xingtian Army are lone and in danger, and a large number of heroes are killed! And afterwards, the heroes of the Xingtian Army defeated Jiannu in the land of Jingfu in a row, and rescued countless Ming people from Jiannu, but what was the attitude of the imperial court at that time? It's just that if you want to keep your strength, you'd rather sit back and watch countless subjects be harmed by Jiannu and sit idly by! However, the heroes of the Xingtian Army, who have nothing to do with it, have thwarted the fierce flames of Jiannu in Jingfu and other places, paid the lives of countless heroes, and rescued countless people of the Ming Dynasty!
General Zhou was also in the capital at the time, do you still need me Lu to tell you again about these things? ”
Zhou Yuji was speechless when asked by Lu Xiangsheng this time, the situation at that time was indeed like this, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of their Beijing camp stayed in the Beijing Division, Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian really made them not allowed to fight in the Jiannu Tartar Wave, they could only stare dryly and watch Jiannu bypass the Beijing Division and go south, but they could not send troops to intercept it, of course, many Beijing soldiers at that time were secretly happy about this, including some of his generals who also had this idea, as for the Jiannu scourge of the Ming people, no one cared about this kind of thing at all!
Afterwards, Jiannu wreaked havoc in Shandong, and when he wanted to return to the outside of the pass, he was ordered to intercept the Jiannu army, but it was only a small victory, but it did not save how many people of the Ming Dynasty, and in the end he was also afraid because of the lack of troops, and he sat back and watched Jiannu escort hundreds of thousands of captured Ming people, leisurely out of the customs, such things in his opinion, it was really a shame to throw it into the crotch, but it was the Xingtian Army that was in the land of Jingfu at that time, and fought several big victories in a row, beheading thousands of Jiannu, He also used Jiannu's head to build a super-large Jingguan, which scared Jiannu into not daring to fight with him, and Zhou Yuji could be said to be quite impressed by Xingtianjun at that time.
"This ...... This ......" Zhou Yuji didn't know how to answer this time.
"Tell General Zhou the truth! Although it is true that the Xingtian Army is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, the heroes of the Xingtian Army always believe that we are all the remnants of the Han Dynasty, we are all Han people, and we are enemies between us, but this can only be regarded as a fight between brothers in the family, but for Jiannu, they are the common enemies of our Han people! This is the reason why they risked their lives to go north and fight to the death against Jiannu in the first place!
And this time I waited for the pass to come to the front, it was not at all to break through the pass to fight the Beijing Division, the housework was not too late to say afterwards, now the Guanning is critical, once the Jiannu army breaks through the pass, then for the people of the Ming Dynasty, it is another catastrophe, so I waited a few days ago to receive the holy decree of the saint, ordering us to enter the customs, immediately bypassing the Jingshi and rushing to the Shanhaiguan area, if Wu Xiang is unwilling to fight to resist the Jiannu entry into the customs, then we will go up to the top and block the Jiannu army from the customs, so that it is not allowed to enter the customs!
As for the Ming Dynasty, Lu doesn't want to evaluate it anymore, which is right and which is wrong, and his descendants will comment on it! But in short, there is one thing, you General Zhou must admit that the Ming Dynasty was orthodox before, but it was unable to resist the outside world, and the people could not be kept peaceful internally, and finally ended up at the point where it is now.
So Lu is willing to risk his life to come and borrow the road from General Zhou, now although you and I are both enemies and us, but in dealing with Jiannu, we should share the same hatred, as our saint said, the national disaster is at the head, how can we sit idly by! You Zhou Yuji is also a Han Chinese, can't you do it and want to watch Jiannu take this opportunity to break through and enter the Jingshi, so that the Jingshi teachers and students will be miserable, so that the Chinese Han people will fall into the situation of the Liao and Song dynasties again?
Nowadays, you and I are both Han people, when we cooperate with each other to resist foreign insults outside the border, instead of fighting each other, killing each other here, if in this place, any soldier on both sides of the death will make the Jiannu laugh to death, isn't this just in the heart of the Jiannu Tartars? I also hope that General Zhou can open the door, let me and other Dazhong soldiers pass the customs and go to Shanhaiguan to resist the Jiannu army, Lu is willing to salute General Zhou here! After saying that, Lu Xiangsheng stood up, hugged his fists and bowed deeply to Zhou Yuji, and everyone couldn't help but be a little moved.
You must know that Lu Xiangsheng is a civil servant, the Ming Dynasty has always emphasized literature and light on martial arts, and Lu Xiangsheng's identity is very high, when he was an official in the Ming Dynasty, only the military generals saw him to give him a gift, and it was his turn to give salutes to them, but recently, although Lu Xiangsheng's identity has changed to a person from the Xingtian Army, the weight of his gift is still very heavy.
Zhou Yuji listened to Lu Xiangsheng's words, and at the same time, there were huge waves in his heart, all kinds of thoughts fought each other in his mind, after listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, he was very willing to believe that what Lu Xiangsheng said was true, because in the treatment of Jiannu, he Zhou Yuji had also seen with his own eyes how Jiannu dealt with their Ming people. After Jiannu Tartar entered the customs, it can be said that he burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, and he knew very well that Zhou Yuji was very clear.
In the treatment of the Xingtian Army and the Jiannu side, Zhou Yuji has also heard many times that the Xingtian thief and thief chief Xiao Tianjian has a benevolent name, and treats the people even more like a son, so the people of the world are eager to follow him to rebel against the court, and he has rarely heard of the Xingtian Army's burning and looting of ordinary people, so the lesser of the two powers, if the Ming Dynasty is really irreparable, he would rather let the Xingtian thieves rule in this world, and it is better to let those Jiannu Tartars rule the world!
Therefore, Zhou Yuji's mind at this moment can be said to be like a fierce ideological struggle in his mind, and the hall suddenly fell silent for a while.
As soon as Lu Xiangsheng bowed to the ground, he bent over and didn't get up, just waiting for Zhou Yuji to speak.
Zhou Yuji waited for a while before he suddenly asked, "Then Lu Xiangsheng, let me ask you, how can I believe that what you say is the truth?" How can you be sure that what you say is true? If you are here to deceive me, won't it make me become an unfaithful and unrighteous person? ”
Lu Xiangsheng straightened up and replied loudly: "Lu Mou guarantees his life with his net worth, everything he said today is true, and there is no coaxing you at all!" And this time Lu came here, he didn't plan to go back to the Dazhong army at all, if General Zhou didn't believe it, Lu was willing to stay in General Zhou's army as a hostage, if General Zhou found that what Lu said was false, he could cut Lu at any time! Isn't this enough to prove that what Lu said is true? ”
Zhou Yuji stood up and walked back and forth in the hall a few times, suddenly turned his head and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Okay! Then Zhou will believe your Lu Xiangsheng's words once today, but you Lu Xiangsheng must also remember that if what you said is a lie to me, then Zhou will never let you go! Since you criminal thieves have the consciousness of insulting the outside of the pass, then I Zhou is not a timid person, Zhou is also willing to lead the troops to follow you to Shanhaiguan, if you can't stop the Tartars, then the general will lead the troops to the top, the big deal is to die in Shanhaiguan, die in the hands of the Tartars, it is better than dying in the hands of the Han people!
Come on, serve Lord Lu, put on your clothes, open the gate, and let the thieves pass through! ……”
(Today, thanks to the tips from friends in the third circle!) )