Chapter 821: Party War
"Uncle Bao can be miserable by Lao Cheng this time!" By the Huangqu River, Ma Ye held a fishing rod in one hand and a small teapot in the other, shaking his head and sighing while tasting tea.
"General Qin should have thought of this result before he went, and General Cheng opened such a killing spree, I am afraid that he also got His Majesty's consent behind his back, and anyone with a little vision in the court can see it, otherwise there would not be only a few officials who don't know the severity of this matter and are arguing about it." Li Xiu also said with the same smile at this time.
As soon as Li Xiu's words fell, he suddenly saw the fish float on the river surface shaking violently, which made him happy, but he didn't immediately lift the rod, because this was the bait fish being tempted, and when the fish float suddenly sank down, Li Xiu lifted the fishing rod with a shake of his hand, and then felt that his hand sank, and then a big carp with a length of one foot rolled out of the water.
"Haha~, it's off to a good start, I caught a big golden carp as soon as I came up, it seems that today's harvest must be good!" Li Xiu looked at this big carp jumping in the sun, and laughed loudly at the moment, this carp is not only big, but also the scales are yellow, like gold under the sun, such a carp is called the golden carp, whether it is delicious or not is secondary, the key is a good sign.
"I'm in a bad mood, I can't even take the fish in the river!" Ma Ye saw Li Xiu take the lead, and he couldn't help but roll his eyes at the moment.
It's no wonder that Ma Ye didn't have the heart to fish, because Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin, who rushed to the southwest to quell the rebellion some time ago, finally came to the news that Tuoba Chici rebelled with 60,000 troops after defeating the five states of the party, known as 100,000, and when Qin Qiong and they had not yet arrived, Tuoba Chici led the 100,000 party army to attack Nanhuizhou, and as a result, Zheng Yuan, the governor of Nanhui Prefecture, was defeated, so he had to tighten the defense line, move the people in the state to Nanhui City, and resist the attack of the party with the help of the city wall.
Nanhui Prefecture is located in the southwest, and it was originally a military town of the Tang Dynasty, but in the early years of Zhenguan, Zheng Yuanchou recruited party members to belong to the Tang Dynasty, so he set up five party states on the periphery of Nanhuizhou, with the barrier of these five states, Nanhui Prefecture did not have to face the threat of the southwest, so that the security of the state increased greatly, for which Zheng Yuanchou was also rewarded by the imperial court, but the troops stationed in Nanhui Prefecture were also partially reduced, after all, the early years of Zhenguan were when Li Shimin was ready to destroy the Turks. In this way, financial and material resources are saved.
However, Zheng Yuanchou did not expect that the party members he recruited would rebel when Li Yuan died, and at this time, the strength of Nanhuizhou was only 10,000, and most of them were temporarily recruited.
Among the party members, only the Tuoba Department really wanted to rebel, and the other party members were also coerced by the Tuoba Department, and their combat effectiveness was not very strong, so Zheng Yuanchou actually relied on a temporary recruitment of 10,000 troops to defend Nanhui City, and finally when the food in the city was exhausted, he finally looked forward to the reinforcements of Qin Qiong and Cheng Yanjin.
Under the city of Nanhui, Qin Qiong charged head-on with 5,000 cavalry, and chiseled through the party's military formation in one fell swoop, and then Cheng Biting Jin led 10,000 elites to take advantage of the chaos to kill, and at the same time, Zheng Yuanchou in Nanhui City also seized the opportunity to open the city gate and lead the defenders in the city to kill, as a result, under the attack from three sides, the 60,000 party army was killed in a fiasco, especially Cheng Biting Jin carried out a non-stop pursuit of the fleeing party people for three days and three nights, making the escape of the party people full of corpses.
Although the party members were defeated, Tuoba Chici was not caught, and Cheng Yanjin was far from completing Li Shimin's instructions to him, if he wanted to calm the anger of the Tang Emperor, he had to use the blood of more party members.
It is precisely because of this that after defeating the Dangxiang people, Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong only took a short rest, and then waved their troops into the five states of the party, although the five states of the party have been attached to the Tang Dynasty before, but the customs have not changed, and there is no big city in the five states, it is just one tribal alliance after another, some tribes belong to the same clan, close to each other, and some are enemies for generations, fighting with each other, and the situation of the grassland people is almost the same.
Cheng Biting Jin came to kill people this time, so after entering the five states of the party, all the tribes that had participated in the Tuoba Chici rebellion before were all brutally slaughtered by him, although Qin Qiong was a military general, but he was benevolent, and he also persuaded the process of biting Jin's subordinates to be merciful, after all, there were more than 300,000 party members, although there were many people involved in the rebellion, but there were also many people who were innocent.
But then I don't know what Cheng Biting Jin and Qin Qiong said, in the end, Qin Qiong simply led the cavalry to walk behind to clean up the mess, and no longer cared about Cheng Biting Jin's actions in front, as a result, Cheng Biting Jin had no constraints, and in front of him was killing people with rolling heads and rivers of blood, countless party tribes were slaughtered, and many of them did not participate in the rebellion, but if they resisted a little in the face of the Tang army, they would be ordered to exterminate by Cheng Biting Jin, and for this reason, how many party members died under the Tang saber?
"Lao Cheng is happy to kill this time, but poor Uncle Bao still has to bear this infamy with him, maybe how it will be written in the history books in the future?" Ma Ye lifted the rod at this time, and found that the bait had been eaten by small fish, so he had no choice but to hang another one, and threw it into the river and said again.
"You can rest assured, this time it is the party members who take the initiative to rebel, and our Datang is also the same enemy, even if General Cheng kills more, the historian will at most use the Spring and Autumn penmanship to pass by, after all, our Datang is famous, and the historian does not dare to record some disgraceful things!" Li Xiu said with a smile at this time, Li Xiu's biggest advantage is that he is familiar with the history of later generations, for which he has also contacted many historians, and he also has some profound insights into the records of historical books.
"That's the best, Shubao has been benevolent and righteous all his life, I'm really afraid that he will not be able to protect his old age and be corrupted by Lao Cheng, but speaking of which, Shubao and I are so old, and the previous destruction of the Turks has finally fulfilled one of his wishes, but I am afraid it will be difficult for Goguryeo to have another chance!" Ma Ye nodded with satisfaction at first, but when Goguryeo was mentioned, his face also showed a gloomy look.
Qin Qiong has two wishes in his life, one is to destroy the Turks who have the hatred of killing his father, and the other is to attack Goguryeo and clean up the bones of those old brothers who died in Goguryeo in the former Sui.
Seeing the lonely expression on Ma Ye's face when he mentioned Goguryeo, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh secretly, Ma Ye and Qin Qiong had both participated in the battle of Goguryeo in the Three Expeditions, but because of the civil strife in the former Sui and Yang Guang's great achievements, they were all defeated in the three battles.
However, just as Li Xiu was about to open his mouth to comfort Ma Ye, he suddenly saw a guard in the house hurriedly running over and saying loudly: "Master! Big...... It's a big deal, the second son is in a big disaster! ”