Chapter 339: Ordered in Danger
At this critical juncture, there are still these two loyal ministers who can stand up and take on this important responsibility, Li Ping'er and Princess Xiaoxiang feel very relieved.
"Okay, now I will order you to go to Dingjun Mountain in Western Xia, which used to be the place where the former king trained his troops, and it is also the place where he buried his secrets. I have kept this secret for more than 30 years, when the first king expanded the territory and came to Dingjun Mountain, thinking that in the future, if the descendants have nothing to do or incompetent, they will lose the foundation of the ancestors, so they are determined to retrain the strongest army in Western Xia and stay in Dingjun Mountain for a long time. In order to prevent those who had bad intentions from attacking this army after learning of the news, he sealed off all the land within a hundred miles of Dingjun Mountain to prevent others from entering. You must have heard of the forbidden land of Western Xia before, but you must not have thought that there was one of the strongest armies in the history of Western Xia hidden here. ”
"Imperial grandmother, I also remember that there is such a thing, no wonder when the imperial grandfather founded the Great Western Xia Kingdom, I heard that the brothers who were born and died with him at that time have mysteriously disappeared, and there are many fewer elites in the army. There are rumors that it is because the imperial grandfather is jealous of the virtuous, so he killed all these people, it turns out that the imperial grandfather has the reputation of unloading the mill and killing the donkey for so many years, just to protect this matter that he hid the army in Dingjun Mountain. I used to think about why so much of the territory of Western Xia around Dingjun Mountain was not well used but abandoned all year round, and the original reason was here. Princess Xiaoxiang also suddenly realized.
"That's right, your imperial grandfather is the greatest king in the history of Western Xia, and you should be very proud to be his descendant. Now that Western Xia is in danger of survival, this army is a good time for you to overthrow their puppet regime. Li Pinger analyzed.
"But how can I get in, Queen Mother? I'm afraid I'm going to be killed by their arrows before I even go in, how can they listen to what I say? "Rewarding Wu Sheng said worriedly.
At this time, Li Ping'er turned around and bowed to the Buddha statue, and took down the tablet of the ancestor Li Mingde from the spirit tablet in front of her. A gold medal was drawn from the mezzanine of the tablet, with five large characters written on the front side of the Western Xia Loyal and Brave Army, and a golden dragon carved on the reverse side, with a miniature version of the jade seal used by the former king.
"Reward the general, this is the gold medal used by the former king to command the loyal and brave army of the Western Xia, it represents the military talisman that can call this loyal army specially used to clear the civil strife and calm the eight directions, as long as you take this gold medal to enter as if the first king of the Western Xia is here in person, no one will have any doubts about you, and will immediately rush to the rescue. You can't entrust someone to do this, you have to go there yourself and go alone, can you complete the task? Li Ping'er said solemnly.
This kind of trust is a great incentive for Wusheng, of course he is willing to die for the sake of Xixia, so he knelt down again and solemnly swore to complete this task, Li Ping'er was relieved to hand over the gold medal to Wusheng. In order not to delay the time, the soldiers were fast, and before they could announce what task they were going to do, Wu Sheng rode his fastest horse out of the back door of the harem, sparing the royal hunting ground and Langshan and escaped. By the time someone informed Concubine Wan that someone at the back gate of the harem had escaped on horseback and then went to chase after Wusheng, he had already ridden his war horse and disappeared into the vast land of Western Xia.
At this time, there was still no one left to do anything, and he waited anxiously beside him. The princess guessed that the Empress Dowager might want him to go to Mongolia to bring back several envoys from Western Xia, and if possible, it would be best for Mongolia to send troops to help Western Xia quell the civil strife. This is also a difficult task, first, there are many checkpoints to go in the middle of the border from the imperial palace to Mongolia, and when the reward Wenli goes out, the fine seals and others will definitely let the border pass layer by layer and will not let people mix out at will, this is the first difficulty. Second, the Mongolian side still doesn't know how the talks with the envoys of Western Xia are, if the two sides don't reach a consensus, just get Lu Xiaoyu and them back, Li Ping'er also feels that the effect is not very big, at best, a few more people can figure out a way. Third, after all, Xian Wenli is a civil official, and it is indeed difficult for a strong man to entrust him with such a difficult task, but the two tasks are equally arduous, and now is not the time to consider who to let go where.
Does Reward Wenli know what is at stake, but although he is a weak scholar, he is not afraid of the task he is about to face. On the contrary, he comforted the Queen Mother and the Princess: "The Queen Mother and Her Royal Highness the Princess, don't have any doubts, now that the situation is critical, leave this task to me to do." Although I am not as capable as my brother in the battle to defeat the enemy, I have wisdom, and I believe that I can successfully reach Mongolia through stratagem, and even if I do, I will climb there and live up to your expectations. ”
With the words of rewarding Wenli, the Queen Mother didn't want to have too many doubts, and she took out a map that had been treasured for many years, which was left by the former king Li Mingde when he built the border pass of the Western Xia Kingdom. It turned out that there were secret passages hidden under each border pass, and you could escape directly from the Western Xia Kingdom with the help of the bottom. This is also Li Mingde's creation of a way for his children and grandchildren to escape if they are invaded by foreign tribes one day. I have to say that the first king is really the most elocutive, strategic and far-sighted king in the history of Western Xia. He also broke his heart for these children and grandchildren who were not angry.
"How can Grandpa Huang think so thoughtfully, I am going to be moved to cry." Princess Xiaoxiang couldn't help but leave tears of excitement.
"Yes, he is such a person, it is easy to fight the country and it is difficult to defend the country, he is afraid that you descendants will not be able to guard the country well, so he left such a hand. You must live up to his expectations and prosper Xixia well. ”
"It's me who embarrassed the emperor's grandfather, I'm really a sinner in Western Xia." Princess Xiaoxiang cried and said.
"Your Royal Highness Princess, don't say that, now that you are like this, I think it was all planned by Xi Fengren, Gonggong Chang, and Concubine Wan and Yang Guards in the harem. They have long had this rebellious heart, princess, how could you have thought that they would come to this point. Leave this matter to me, even if I die, I will spread the news to Mongolia, so that the envoys will know the situation on the Western Xia side. Xiang Wenli said firmly.
Now is the time for suspicious people not to use people, the princess hastily wrote a letter about the situation on the Western Xia side and hoped that the Mongols would send troops to help, stamped it and told it to Xian Wenli, and also gave him the dragon and phoenix jade pendant he wore with him, and came on behalf of himself.
Xian Wenli bowed to the princess and the queen mother twice, and quietly left the harem in order to hide people's eyes and ears, and changed into eunuch clothes.