Chapter 542: Defeat in the Water

"Back to His Royal Highness, it has been seven years and nine months since the official entered the Worship Division, and by August, it will be a full eight years!" Saying these words, Tang Miao's face showed a trace of bitterness uncontrollably, eight years, how many eight years can there be in life? Others can enter the state as a four-grade ministry official even if they are a county magistrate for eight years, but he Tang Miao, not only did he not move his position up, but even the power in his hands did not increase by half a point.

The bitterness in Tang Miao's heart, how could Zhao Yougong not know? If you don't know this, you won't have the confidence to persuade Tang Miao, "Lord Tang, are you having a good time?" ”

"Happy? Not at all, but a little depressed. What His Highness wants to say, Tang knows very well, and His Royal Highness doesn't have to say it, Tang is loyal to the Lord in this life, and he will never be that kind of petty person. ”

"Hehe, Lord Tang is naturally smart, so this king doesn't say much, Lord Tang must be loyal to the official family, and this king will not dissuade him. It's just that, I want to ask, is Lord Tang like this, and any of his talents are wasted in the hands of the faint king? How does this king compare with the official family, compared to the Tang people, is this king worthy of the loyalty of the Tang family? ”

Tang Miao's face was calm, and there was no joy or anger. If he ran into Zhao Ji and Zhao Yougong at the same time when he had no owner, he would definitely choose Zhao Yougong, but now, he has already made a choice, and loyal ministers do not serve the two masters, which is the truth of the ages.

"His Royal Highness is outstanding, even the first emperor is not as good, but Tang has a certain heart, why force each other? What's more, how did His Royal Highness know that the official family would be rewarded for his merits, perhaps, it was just that Tang was too mediocre in the past and did not do anything big. ”

"Haha Tang Miao, this king is not afraid to sue you, you can't settle in the capital. Take charge of the core. That's because the officials don't like you. It's not because you don't take too little credit. You think you have a strong ability to investigate and trace cases, but so what, in the eyes of the officials, your abilities are just small skills of carving insects, no matter how much you make contributions, the officials will still not look at you differently. ”

Listening to Zhao Yougong's slightly sarcastic words, Tang Miao's face was moved, and he bit his mouth. Hehe said, "Your Highness, how can you know that the official's family will be so unbearable?" ”

"You don't believe me?" Zhao Yougong stared at Tang Miao's face, as if he had touched Zhao Ji, Tang Miao shook his head firmly.

"If Lord Tang doesn't believe it, we might as well gamble" As he spoke, Zhao Yougong put an iron box on the table, and then pushed it in front of Tang Miao. Tang Miao opened the iron box, his face changed and changed, it turned out to be the key, "Your Highness." What do you mean by that? ”

"It doesn't mean anything else, it's just to give this key to Lord Tang. Lord Tang might as well take the key back to the capital and see how the official family reacts. If the official family keeps you useful, then when the king looks away, but if the official family still turns a blind eye to you, let Lord Tang know that this king has been waiting for Lord Tang to come. ”

Zhao Yougong spoke earnestly, and said no more, just drank slowly. Tang Miao's heart was like a storm, and she looked at the key a little blankly. This key is related to the treasure of Dayan Kingdom, is Zhao Yougong really willing to give it? One Tang Miao, one key, which is more important, fools can make a choice. But in everyone's opinion, if it is far more important than Tang Miao, but His Royal Highness Zhao gave the key away, the purpose is just to verify the personality of today's official family. Of course, Tang Miao didn't know that this was a fake key, and Zhao Yougong was not afraid that Tang Miao would know the truth in the future, because in Tang Miao's heart, what was important was not this key, but the attitude of the official family, as long as Tang Miao knew what the official family was, even if it was fake, what could Tang Miao say?

"Your Highness, do you really want to be Song Yu's official?"

"Why not? In the heart of this king, if he can exchange the key for Lord Tang's heart, he is very willing. It's just that I hope Lord Tang doesn't forget jì, the official family doesn't need you, but this king loves Lord Tang's talent! ”

Tang Miao got up and put the iron box in his sleeve, and then saluted respectfully, "Your Highness's mind, Tang admires, if the official family does not use Tang in the future, Tang will serve His Highness!" ”

Tang Miao was free and easy, and after saluting, he turned around and left, he was in a hurry to return to Bianjing, and he was also anxious to make his final choice. And Zhao Yougong smiled at the corner of his mouth, no matter what the result was, he had nothing to lose, if Zhao Ji reused Tang Miao, he Zhao would just lose a fake key, but if Zhao Ji still didn't take Tang Miao seriously, then the gain would be great.

Sent Tang Miao away, stayed on the island for another day, and on May 21, Zhao Yougong led people to leave Shamen Island with Niu Gao, and hurried to Chaoyanggu County. Originally, I wanted to stay on Shamen Island to see how Li Bao tossed the water division, but the day before yesterday, the imperial court sent troops to Liangshan, and there was a great battle against Liangshan Shuibo, so Zhao Yougong had to hurry back to Yanggu.

rushed back to Yanggu, naturally he didn't participate in the war, he just wanted to see the excitement.

Yanggu County Ya, the Cheshire Lord rarely lost his mind and stayed in the house to write and paint, and Sanniang also fell into a leisure. There were a few stones in his hand, looking at them over and over, and he didn't know what Sanniang was looking at. There was a sound of footsteps behind him, looking back at the handsome and extraordinary man, Sanniang smiled at the corner of her mouth, got up and bowed, "Your Highness." ”

came to the front, took Sanniang's hand, and smiled softly, "Sanniang, it's been so long, and you don't even shout an official?" Beware that this king wants you to live better than die tonight."

Zhao Yougong seemed to deliberately bite the two words tonight very hard, making Sanniang's face red, and she pursed her mouth for a long time before she called out "official" in a low voice.

I didn't want to tease Sanniang, Zhao Yougong patted the back of her hand and snorted behind her, "Sanniang, this king brought you back a person, I think you will be very happy after seeing it." ”

"Who?"

"Look for yourself" Get out of the way, Sanniang looked at the door, a man walked quickly, didn't take two steps, tears were already raining. Sanniang didn't know what it was like, it was like a boulder that had been pressed for many years had been removed, and there was a feeling that a dying person had found a life-saving straw. Sanniang was a little stunned, like she was stupid, and after a long time, she ran over and hugged the man tightly, "Brother, brother"

Ah Jiu and Murong Yanda can see but don't want to see, while Sanniang and Hu Cheng want to see but can't, different circumstances, the same result. The warm breeze is gentle. The cry was heartbreaking.

Zhao Yougong didn't want to disturb Sanniang and Hu Cheng who led people away. Hu Cheng is still alive, and he came to Sanniang's side again, presumably Sanniang can open her heart knot in the future.

This night, Sanniang turned into spring water, melted the man, this night, the spring breeze is far away, and summer is approaching.

May 24 of the fourth year of Xuanhe. The imperial court took Zhang Shuye as the general, and the three-way army marched to Liangshan Shuibo. Although he intended to let the Liangshan thieves and the Dingguo army eat dogs, the imperial court couldn't consume it after all, the grain and grass could not continue, and the imperial court could not supply it. Zhang Shuye personally commanded the soldiers and horses in the middle road, and took Hu Yanzhuo as the vanguard general, Hu Yanzhuo lived up to expectations and defeated the Liangshan soldiers and horses outside Fan County. Maybe he was carried away by the victory. Zhang Shuye thought that Liangshan was defeated by the Dingguo army first, and then defeated by Hu Yanzhuo. It is no longer a climate, and after entering Yuncheng, I can't wait to mobilize boats and boats from various counties to make every effort to capture Liangshan Shui Village.

Zhang Shuye was too careless, although Hu Yanzhuo made two thousand chain horses with reference to the elite cavalry of the Dingguo Army, but these cavalry armor was bulky, and he didn't know that the elite cavalry of the Dingguo Army had lost its flexibility. After years of training, the cavalry of the Dingguo Army can assemble or spread out in a short period of time, but the chain of horses that can be called out can't do it. Now Uncle Zhang is in a hurry to capture Liangshan, leaving Huyanzhuo's cavalry to dock in Lize County, Puzhou, which gives Liangshan an opportunity to take advantage of. Although Song Jiang did not ask someone to ask Xu Ning to teach the hook and sickle as in history, he learned enough lessons when the Keding National Army was engaged in the battle, and Wu Yong made a plan the night before Zhang Shuye's army captured Shuizhai. With Hua Rong as the vanguard out of the western water village and attacked Leize County, Hu Yanzhuo did not suspect that there was fraud, and led people to kill, that Hua Rong pretended to be defeated and led Hu Yanzhuo's cavalry to flee to the Huaiyang Forest in the east of the county. The soil quality of this poplar forest is very special, the dead leaves are very thick, the ground is uneven, and the trees are close together, which is really not suitable for cavalry fighting.

Liangshan people have been operating Jingdong Road for nearly ten years, and they are naturally very familiar with the terrain everywhere, but Hu Yanzhuo is much more unfamiliar. When he chased Huaiyang Forest, in order to kill these thieves, Hu Yanzhuo, who had always been cautious, made a big mistake, he asked his cavalry to remove the iron locks and disperse into Huaiyang Forest, which completely fell into the trap set by Wu Yong. The soil in the poplar forest was so soft that the horses couldn't run if they wanted to, and the heavy iron armor of the cavalry made the speed even slower. What is the most lethal chain horse? Not yet the speed, impact, and formation? Without these, the cavalry will become a hard and solid king's eight shells.

Since entering the Huaiyang Forest, Hu Yanzhuo already felt that something was wrong, he shouted for everyone to withdraw quickly, but it was still a little late, Hua Rong and Qin Ming killed from the left and right, and many ropes were stretched up from the dead leaves, and suddenly the war horse fell to the ground, and the officers and soldiers were in chaos. The ironclad heavy cavalry fell to the ground, and it was really slaughtered. After two hours, Hua Rong and Qin Ming lived up to expectations and completely defeated Hu Yanzhuo's cavalry, Hua Rong was waiting to capture Hu Yanzhuo alive, which was also specially told by Brother Song and Wu Junshi, who would have thought, this Hu Yanzhuo is very capable, the double whip is powerful and powerful, that is, Hua Rong and Qin Ming joined forces, and they failed to take him down for a while.

Hu Yanzhuo had already seen Hua Rong and Qin Ming's thoughts, he didn't want to fall into the hands of thieves, the tiger roared, smashed Hua Rong back with a single whip, and the steel whip in his left hand poked Qin Ming's chest, and his chest was also wide open, this is a typical lose-lose play. Now that Qin Ming and the others have the advantage, how can they fight for their lives with Hu Yanzhuo, almost instinctively, Qin Ming's body shrank back, and the war horse retreated two steps wildly. Taking advantage of this gap, Hu Yanzhuo turned his horse and left, and escaped from the Huaiyang Forest in a blink of an eye. Hua Rong and Qin Ming were naturally in hot pursuit, but they didn't seem to be in a hurry, they just kept a relative distance from Hu Yanzhuo.

Hu Yanzhuo was so anxious that seeing that Leize County was in front of him, he suddenly reined in his horse, turned his horse's head and ran towards the north. Hu Yanzhuo was very uneasy in his heart, if there was an ambush in front of him, then he would flee to Leize County, wouldn't he have thrown himself into the net? I also have to say that Hu Yan is scorching, if he runs two miles further, he will really fall into Tang Long's ambush circle. Hu Yanzhuo's beating of horses to the north was much beyond Hua Rong and Qin Ming's expectations, but at this time, it was too late for the two of them to speed up, and they watched Hu Yanzhuo pass through Fan County and enter the Yunzhou boundary.

Just when Huyanzhuo's army was defeated in Lize County, Zhang Shuye's army was also hit hard in Liangshan Shuibo, and the white strips in the waves and the Ruan family brothers led the water ghosts to chisel through the bottom of the boat, most of those officers and soldiers were landlubbers, which were the opponents of the Liangshan people and horses who fell into the water, and after a fierce fight, they were beaten to the ground. Under the desperate protection of the deputy general, Zhang Shuye escaped back to Fan County in a small boat. Since then, Zhang Shuye's 30,000 army has suffered more than 6,000 casualties, more than 19,000 people have been captured, and the rest have fled, and the imperial army has finally suffered a great defeat.

The imperial court was defeated in Liangshan, Zhang Shuye fled to the Daimyo's Mansion after hiding in Fan County at night, and Hu Yanzhuo also fled to Yanggu County in a wolf. Hu Yanzhuo could go to the Daimyo's Mansion, but he didn't go, he followed Uncle Zhang during this time, but he saw the face of the imperial court clearly, just Liangshan thieves, but the imperial court was defeated again and again, is the thief too powerful? Of course it can't be, no matter how powerful the thieves are, they are not a rabble? As a descendant of the Huyan family, Hu Yanzhuo doesn't want to fall into the prestige of his ancestors, since the court is incompetent, why can't he submit to His Royal Highness King Qin? Hu Yanzhuo is not a pedantic person, which is also the biggest difference between him and Hu Yanqing. (To be continued......)