"Lu Guogong planted it?" Li Xiao couldn't help frowning.

He remembered the old demon king-like Cheng Biting Jin, this old man was old but very good, especially for them young juniors. Perhaps it was the reason why he was born in the Shu landlord and later remarried the daughter of the Cui clan in Qinghe, this old general who has been a horse all his life, has seen many things thoroughly.

Whether it is a child of Xun Qi or a child of a poor family, he can look at it at a glance.

At least, Li Xiao can have today, and Cheng Yanjin has helped a lot.

The relationship between Li Cheng's family is also quite good. Hearing that Cheng Yanjin had an accident, he hurriedly asked.

Previously, the emperor was already dissatisfied with the indiscriminate killing and slashing of the western expeditionary army led by Cheng Yanjin in Tuguhun, and recently issued an edict ordering Li Daozong and Xue Wanche to replace Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie as the chief and deputy marshals.

But Chang'an is far away from Qinghai, and Li Xue Er also has a lot of things to do before leaving Beijing, and the result is that when the two are still on the road, Qinghai is still temporarily led by Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie, and the matter is before this handover.

Li Daozong has not yet arrived, and the battle on the front line is still ongoing.

In November, Cheng Biting Jin led the army to attack, encountered 20,000 cavalry of the Tubo army, the deputy marshal Su Dingfang personally led the front army of 5,000 cavalry to meet the impact, defeated the Tubo, the Tang army chased 20 miles, killed more than 3,000 people, captured the war horses and equipment, all over the mountains and fields, invincible.

It can be said that this was a rare victory, and after Cheng Biting Jin entered Qinghai, it was also the first real victory.

But this is when something went wrong.

Guo Beifeng, the former commander of the army, was jealous of Su Dingfang's merits, so he said to Cheng Yanjin that although the battle was won, the Tang army also had casualties, so don't pursue it, you should form a phalanx by yourself, move forward slowly and cautiously, and fight when the enemy comes, this side is a foolproof strategy.

There is nothing wrong with his suggestion, but after all, he is only a sub-manager, and the final decision should be made by the two commanders, Cheng Yanjin and Su Dingfang.

After deliberation, Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie decided that they should take advantage of the situation to pursue and annihilate this defeated army of Tubo in one fell swoop.

Seeing that Cheng Yanjin and the others did not agree with his strategy, Guo Zhifeng did something very out of the ordinary. He declared to the generals in the handsome tent that when the emperor issued an order to change the commander in Chang'an, he also had a secret decree for him.

said that before Li Daozong and Xue Wanche arrived in the army, let Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie hand over the general power to him, and the whole army was under his command.

At this time, the will of Chang'an's change of commander was to arrive early, but Li Xue had not yet arrived, and Cheng Su had not yet been able to return to Beijing. But at this time, Guo Zhifeng made such a come, and Cheng Biting Jin really believed the result.

Ignoring Su Lie's opposition, Cheng Yanjin handed over military power to Guo Beifeng.

Guo Beifeng is the son of Guo Xiaoke, a famous general in the early Tang Dynasty, Guo Xiaoke was actually born in the Wagang Army back then, and he had a good relationship with Cheng Yanjin. Later, Guo Xiaoke guarded the Western Regions and was the first protector of Anxi, and later died in the Western Regions. Guo Beifeng has been guarding the Western Regions, and after defeating the Western Turks this time, he followed Cheng Yanjin to conquer Tuyuhun and was the head of the former army.

Cheng Yanjin still believed in him, and did not doubt the authenticity of the secret he declared.

After Guo Beifeng took over the military power, he changed the military order.

It was a cold winter, the Tang sergeant rode a horse all day long, the wind was severe in winter, wearing heavy armor and walking slowly, the grain and grass gradually failed, and the plateau conditions were bad, and the people and horses died of frostbite one after another.

Su Lie also persuaded Cheng to bite the gold again, saying that the purpose of our division is to annihilate the enemy, at this time, we will sit back and defend ourselves, the enemy will be defeated, so cowardly, how can we make meritorious service? Although the emperor has changed the commander, but the new commander has not arrived, you are still the commander, how can you secretly edict the former army commander to give orders at this time? There must be fraud in it, please order Guo Beifeng to be arrested, and the Emperor Fei Song will find out, or he will deal with it after Li Shuai arrives.

However, Cheng Yanjin shook his head and rejected Su Lie's suggestion because of the emperor's attitude of changing commanders. He didn't have the slightest doubt about the truth of this secret decree!

Under the leadership of Guo Beifeng, the Tang army marched slowly on the vast Qinghai Plateau.

They were a dazed but arduous march, with thousands of casualties along the way. In December, the army reached a city under the control of Tuyuhun New Khan, and the city of thousands of Tuyuhun people opened the city gate and surrendered, but after Guo Beifeng led his army into the city, he issued an order to slaughter the city.

The thousands of Tuyuhun people who had already descended to the Tang Dynasty were slaughtered in the whole city.

And the reason why Guo Beifeng slaughtered the city was that after we left, these people would definitely rebel again, and they might even attack us from behind, so it was better to kill them all and take away their food and grass to reward the soldiers and stabilize the morale of the army.

Su Dingfang thought it was inappropriate, he was originally questioned for killing too many people before, and now he slaughtered the city again, then the crime will be added to the crime.

He said that we had come to rebel for the country, and that we would become thieves by doing so.

But Guo Zhifeng didn't listen, and still ordered the slaughter of the city.

The soldiers slaughtered thousands of Tuyuhun people in the city, and they didn't let any of them go. Afterwards, he gave his wealth to the whole army, and gave Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie the largest share. Su Lie refused to accept it, but Cheng Yanjin accepted it.

Soon after, Li Daozong and Xue Wanche led thousands of reinforcements to finally arrive and handed over military power.

At this time, the whole army knew that Guo Beifeng's so-called secret decree was not at all in vain, and he was falsely spreading the secret decree and seizing military power privately.

This is a big problem.

Guo Beifeng was locked and taken to Chang'an for questioning, but Cheng Yanjin and Su Lie were also not exempt from responsibility. So after the handover, it was also sent back to Chang'an.

Now the emperor and the prime ministers of the political hall are very angry, not to mention that Cheng Biting Jin was asked for killing people indiscriminately before, but this time he handed over the military power to Guo Zhifeng in a daze, causing the Tang army to first miss the opportunity to chase and kill the defeated army, and then to surrender and slaughter the city, which is a big crime.

Now there are officials of the Imperial History Observatory who are impeached, and they want to discuss the capital crimes of Cheng Biting Jin, Su Lie, and Guo Beifeng.

"Cheng Suguo and the three have arrived in Qizhou and are about to enter Beijing." The eldest grandson Wuji said to Li Xiao, "I heard that the opinion of the political affairs hall Guo is to be sealed and the edict should be killed, and Cheng Biting Jin will not stay, kill and reduce profits, and reduce his death and remove officials." Su Lie did not receive any property, but he was also guilty of dereliction of duty and was demoted to three levels. ”

"That old horseman, he is almost seventy years old, I can't imagine that this is still too late, and he is also the hero of Lingyan Pavilion back then, which really humiliates me." Eldest Sun Wuji shook his head and said.

Li Xiao breathed a sigh of relief.

It's just that I'm not afraid of being exempt from death and removing officials, Cheng Biting Jin's qualifications are there after all, although they are not as famous as Li Ji and Li Daozong, but they are also good at fighting, and they are so old, they are like mascots, even if they make mistakes in their duties this time, after being punished, it is estimated that they will be exempted from punishment in a short time.

It's that this Guo Beifeng is really powerful, but Li Xiao thought about it and felt that Guo Beifeng should not have the ability to dare to seize power, and he guessed in his heart that there would really be such a secret decree, but since Guo Beifeng messed up in the end, then he must be responsible for it in the end.

And if he really just took the blame, then he would definitely not really be executed.

With Cheng biting Jin's old spicy, will he really be easily seized by Guo Beifeng, a general? Or a junior? It must be that Guo Zhifeng showed some kind of credentials, such as secret decrees and the like.

But since Cheng Yanjin didn't say anything, he must also be taking the blame for the emperor.

A few days later, Guo and the three were escorted to Chang'an.

On the same day, an edict was issued.

Guo Zhifeng was supposed to die, but in the end, he was only dismissed from his post and disposed of as the people. Cheng Yanjin was originally exempted from death and seized office, but in the end, he was demoted to the history of Qizhou Thorn. The history of Qizhou is a very important location, Qizhou is in the west of Chang'an, and it has always been important.

Su Lie was originally a third-level degraded official, but then the emperor used Su Lie's contribution to the Western Turks, worshiped Su Lie as the general of the Zuo Shence Army, sealed the Duke of the State, and awarded his son Su Qingjie as the Duke of Wuyi County.