Chapter 628: The Battle of Haihuai Twenty
The next day, three pieces of news shocked the entire Xia Dynasty, the first was that Zhenguo Gong sent troops to raid the garrison of the battle guards and broke two cities in a row, the second was the scandal of Prince Xia Yuanlan who personally opened the city to meet the enemy army and persuaded the surrender of four million war guards despite Lu Jianxing's opposition, and the third was the story of Ling Xia delaying the victory of Qiankun with 100,000 soldiers, successfully transferring the main force and finally getting out safely.
In the Golden Sky Palace!
Emperor Xia Yuanyou looked at Qiu Luobei and his courtiers with a gloomy face, the imperial court had received a warning letter from Ling Xia before, and later learned that Yingtian sent troops to raid the three major military garrisons of the Battle Guards, but no one thought that Xia Yuanlan would be stupid enough to personally open the city to meet the enemy, and persuade the four million Battle Guards to surrender as the prince of the royal family, resulting in a collapse on the front line.
After receiving the report, Xia Yuanyou was angry and imprisoned Xia Yuanlan's concubines, children, family members, confidants, and immediate family members, in addition to taking back the territory that the first emperor had rewarded Xia Yuanlan, cutting off Xia Yuanlan's status as the prince of the royal family, kicking him out of the royal family tree, removing the royal family from his relatives and bloodline, and also listing Xia Yuanlan as an unforgivable sinner in the imperial court.
"The royal bloodline, my biological brother, should have been generous to the country, but Xia Yuanlan was greedy for life and afraid of death, because of his ignorance and weakness, the last line of defense of the imperial court was breached, and the rebels captured four million soldiers of our army without blood, and even caused the enemy army to enter the city and raid Xixiu Province and Mohai Province, so that our soldiers fell into the dangerous situation of being attacked by the enemy on their backs, Xia Yuanlan mistook me for Daxia."
After scolding, Xia Yuanyou threw down a pile of secret folds and reports, and said in a sad and angry tone: "I just received a secret report from the front, because of Xia Yuanlan, Ying Sheji and Hou Junyao passed through the border defense area of the two provinces unimpeded, and Ying Sheji led a corps to attack Xixiu Province, but fortunately, Si Qikong and Nangong Xiongba and other commanders arranged it properly, so they escaped the crisis of being attacked from front to back.
Ling Xia's side is also considered to be in danger, Win Qiankun lied that on the day of the passage, Ling Xia saw through his conspiracy, and launched an attack before Win Qiankun started, the battle guard annihilated more than 1 million enemies at the cost of 300,000, and drove away Hou Junyao to lead the troops to transfer before attacking Mohai Province, in this battle, our army was captured 4 million, 1.2 million killed, and the loss of troops reached one-third. ”
"Emperor Qiqi, Weichen feels that in this battle, in addition to Xia Yuanlan's surrender to the enemy and persuasion to surrender, which led to the defeat of our army, Ling Xia should also bear the unshirkable responsibility." It was Qiu Luobei who spoke, he glanced at Xia Yuanyou, and Shi Liyu reported: "The Mohai Province where Ling Xia is stationed originally had more than five million troops, but he transferred three million soldiers before the battle began, and dividing troops before the war is a taboo.
Ling Xia won the battle of Qiankun and 3 million enemy troops with 2 million soldiers and horses, and finally abandoned the city before leaving, causing the city of Mohai Province to fall into the hands of the Purple Turban Army. ”
"Spread my will, and the official of the North in the autumn will be demoted to three levels and fined for three years." After giving the order, Xia Yuanyou glanced at Qiu Luobei with deep eyes, looking at Qiu Luobei's stunned expression, he said lightly: "Do you know why I punished you?" At this time of crisis, you don't think about the way to resolve it, you dare to be jealous, try to suppress Ling Xia, and even more cunning to confuse you, really deserve to die?
At present, the court is employing people, I will not hold you accountable for the time being, and after this crisis is over, I will come back to you to settle accounts. I already know what Ling Xia and the commanders are doing from the front line, and now the top priority is how to turn things around, Ling Xia and the soldiers in Si Qi's empty hands will be the last family of the imperial court, and at this juncture, no one is allowed to interfere with the military affairs of the front line. ”