Chapter 195: Situ Gong lobbied to enter Tongguan (1)
The yellow-robed man laughed, "Your Majesty's provocation has begun, and he is already at the end of his power, what is Your Majesty eager to arrest him?" It is better to leave it to fend for itself, and it is also a merit to open the net. Don't Your Majesty know that a gentleman is in the world, there is no suitability, there is no Mo, and righteousness is comparable. ”
Yu Wentai was in a trance by him. He seemed to be able to understand the meaning of this yellow-robed man, but he seemed to not understand. Yuwentai just wanted to ask how to get out, but the man laughed and walked to the back of the hall. His followers departed in a crowd. The strange thing is that so many people walked in the direction of the corner of the back of the hall, as if there was really a door to go out in the corner of the back of the hall.
Sure enough, the group disappeared one by one, as if they had really gone out of the temple gate.
This surprised Yuwentai because he didn't see any exits, and he didn't see any temple gates. Isn't this going to be trapped here and die?
At this time, I suddenly saw a boy in black walk in. By the time Yuwentai found him, the boy in black had already walked in front of him. The boy's expression was respectful and solemn. What made Yu Wentai feel strange was that this boy's appearance was very familiar, and he felt very close.
The boy did not speak, but he bowed to him.
"Xiao Lang doesn't have to be polite, dare to ask Xiao Lang where this source is?" Yuwentai also asked with a pleasant face.
The boy in black looked frightened, and quickly bowed back, and pointed to each other with his hands, and then motioned for Yuwentai to go with him.
Yu Wentai understood what he meant, and was overjoyed, and followed the black-clothed boy to the back of the hall.
The more you walked ahead, the more golden light flashed. The boy in black suddenly stopped and turned around, looking at Yu Wentai reluctantly.
Yu Wentai also has a sense of reluctance to this boy in his heart. The boy said goodbye, Yuwentai just wanted to ask him a few more words, but suddenly felt dizzy by the golden light, and then he didn't know anything.
Gao Yang raised his hand to brush away Gao Cheng's hand that was holding his bun. His hands were weak and weak, as cold as ice, and the cold air passed through his skin and directly into Gao Cheng's body.
Gao Cheng watched as his younger brother stood up, his movements wandering like a ghost and disappearing into the shadows in the corner of the tomb.
In the entire burial chamber, only Gao Cheng was left alive. There is also the body of Yuan Zhonghua lying motionless on the stone table. The stone coffin on the coffin bed was surprisingly large, Gao Cheng had never noticed such a thing, not even seen it. He never thought that a **** would die, let alone a **** would see that Yuan Zhonghua was dead.
He carefully remembered why he was in this dark crypt chamber. Although it was all just happening, the memories were mutilated and blurred.
He originally came to Luoyang with hatred and ambition to capture Yuwentai, but how could he have thought that he would end up dead? Suddenly it occurred to him, what happened to Yu Wentai after he was kicked by him?
Gao Cheng knelt down and sat down in front of Yuan Zhonghua's body. He thought that one day he would be a powerful minister of the powerful Great Wei, just like his father, but he never thought that there would be a day when everything would be empty.
At the beginning, I don't know if his father was out of attachment or out of use, so he married Yuan Zhonghua, the daughter of King Yuan of Qinghe. Yuan Zhonghua was therefore given the title of Princess Feng Yi and became his concubine. She was only five years old at the time, and he became a lieutenant at the age of twelve.
She grew up around him. He remembered that day, she was sleepy before the ceremony was completed. Later, when she fell asleep, he carried her to the couch, and Yuan Zhonghua was still a child at that time. He was very strict with her, and if she didn't obey, he would beat her.
Maybe he had been ignoring her all along, and didn't treat her as a wife at first. How could his wife be a five-year-old? He didn't think about whether the person in his heart was her, and whether he really put her in his heart? He even had the idea of stopping his wife and marrying another one.
But today I saw her lying here coldly, unable to move or speak, just smiling as if she was asleep, and never moving again. Suddenly, there was a great pain in his heart. It turned out that he didn't care about her, or even cared about her a lot.
Gao Cheng couldn't help but kneel up like his younger brother just now, stretched out his arms to hold Yuan Zhonghua's body, and lowered his head to carefully examine Yuan Zhonghua's face in the dark. She already looks like a statue or a jade carving, she is not really Yuan Zhonghua anymore. The shell of life is no longer her.
He suddenly realized in his heart, and his heart was full of peace. Even this eerie tomb suddenly shone brightly, appearing quiet and full of peace. Could this be a hallucination he generated?
"Son."
Suddenly, an amiable voice sounded above him. Gao Cheng raised his head in surprise and actually saw Tianzhu Monk Bodhidharma standing in front of him. Bodhidharma was surrounded by golden light and looked at him with a smile on his face.
"Master?" Gao Cheng was surprised and delighted. "Is the master here to ferry me?"
"Only those who cross by themselves can cross. Of course, I'm not here to settle accounts with you. Bodhidharma laughed.
Gao Cheng remembered that in Jiankang, when he crossed the wall and entered the palace of the beam room, he was like this when he first met this old urchin who never behaved. I was even more happy in my heart, and I felt that the master made people want to be close, and it made people feel a sense of steadfastness and stability that they had never felt before.
Gao Cheng also laughed mischievously, "Could it be that Uncle Cui didn't take good care of his master?" ”
"Idiot, you promised me to build a temple in the dense forest of Shaomu Mountain, and the temple was built, but you never came." Bodhidharma looked at Gao Cheng and smiled like a child.
Gao Cheng remembered that when he was in Jiankang, he promised to invite Bodhidharma to cross the river and build a temple in the dense forest of Shaomu Mountain to make offerings, and later Cui Jishu also told him about the process of this matter. But he never thought about it seriously, and he never even thought that he would visit his master in the newly built temple.
"It's the disciple who forgot." As he spoke, he suddenly remembered Yuan Zhonghua's corpse again, and stared down. "Master, take care, the disciple doesn't go out." blurted out the words, but I didn't even think about it. Because of this, this is what he thinks most at the moment.
He didn't love her when he was alive, how could he leave her here alone when he died.
Bodhidharma was not in a hurry or angry, still smiling, just shaking his head and leaving.
Gao Cheng sat down on his knees again and looked at Yuan Zhonghua's body.
"Idiot, idiot." Bodhidharma, who was already far away, suddenly turned around and said with a smile, when he looked up, something glittering with golden light flew quickly, hitting Gao Cheng's forehead.
Gao Cheng was hit and fell to the ground unconscious.
Yuwentai opened his eyes in the dazzling sunlight and found that he had fallen to the ground and was in great pain in his abdomen. But what made him very sensitive and aware was that there was a wind blowing through him, which was the sound of heaven and earth. His eyelids were very heavy and sluggish, and he felt very heavy when he wanted to get up, as if he had been tired for a long time.
Finally, there is a clear sense of vision in both eyes. He could already recognize it the moment he looked at it, and it turned out that he was still on the mountain. There was only no one around, and the green fields of the mountains were undulating, and in the distance there was a hill of a distinctly different shape. There are many ancient mounds in the north, is this another mausoleum?
"Lord!"
"Prime Minister!"
Shouts rang out one after another. The sound of horses' hooves, footsteps, and human voices became noisy. Yu Wentai had already heard someone running to him, and then he was helped up by two people. When I looked up, it was Yu Jin and Li Bi.
"The lord is easy to find, but fortunately it's fine." Yu Jin was surprised and comforted.
"It's good that the lord has nothing to do, although Dongkou came to attack the camp as the lord expected last night, but things changed suddenly, not only the lord, I heard that the general was also lost. The lord might as well pack up his men and horses immediately, and return to the customs first before making a decision. "Li Bi's personality is the same as Yu Jin's, and he is also a resolute person.
Hearing that Gao Cheng was also lost, Yuwentai was horrified. He didn't know if he had been a real person last night, or if he had dreamed. But if I looked closely at the situation, I felt that my ambition suddenly rose again. Although he was kicked by Gao Cheng in the middle and still had a huge pain in his abdomen, he immediately reversed his mood and decided to follow what Li Bi said, enter Tongguan first and then make plans.
Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly saw the hill in the distance and asked the two casually, "Where is that hill?" ”
Yu Jin was a native of Luoyang here, and immediately replied after a glance, "The mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty." ”
Yu Wentai was shocked when he heard this, and then took a deep look at the hill, didn't speak again, turned around and ordered someone to lead the horse, and went with Yu Jin, Li Bi and others to pack up the horses.
Gao Cheng opened his eyes with a splitting headache.
The birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, the breeze is warm and the sun is warm, the grass is green, and there is no one around. Xia Zhiye, this place is so quiet, it washes away the irritability in people's hearts. He endured his headache and slowly got up from the grass. In front of him was a tall hill, and this deliberate hill made him understand at once that this was the enclosure of a mausoleum.
The grass in front of the mound is thick, but a few flowers have grown at some point. One of them is a crimson branch, with a long flower branch, swaying in the breeze, and a bee butterfly hovering in between. The joy and the silence of life are combined here to create a particularly pleasing scenery. Think about last night's experience, it seems real, not like a dream. But now that he came out, is Yuan Zhonghua sick?
"Shizi!"
"General!"
Suddenly, I heard someone shouting. After a look, it was Chen Yuankang and Hou He, who brought someone to find it.
"Why is the prince here?" Although Chen Yuankang is a stable person, he can't hide his overjoyed look at this time.
"General, Yuwen Black Otter has withdrawn." Hou He stared at Gao Cheng carefully.
"Since this is the case, I will order someone to send a letter to the Governor of Dadu and the Duke of Puyang County, and order him to immediately lead his troops to gather with me and go to Tongguan to fight a decisive battle with Yuwen Black Otter." Gao Cheng commanded decisively.
"Shizi, Yuwen Black Otter did not expect that King Gao and Shizi were carefully arranged and attacked quickly, he had neither troops nor food and grass, and he must have led his troops back to the west. The prince can hold the Tongguan outside, after all, the Yuwen black otter can only take the cangsu for emergency use will not last long, compared to the wheat harvest and then nothing, it is a good opportunity, can be beaten, the black otter will be defeated, the son can take Chang'an again. Chen Yuankang felt that Gao Cheng's decision was too hasty, he always felt that now was not the best time for a decisive battle, so he could only offer advice first, hoping to let the general speak slowly.
"Tell Murong Shaozong to wait for my order, and when I capture Tongguan, let him cross the river and take Chang'an." Gao Cheng commanded again.
Chen Yuankang was afraid of Hou He's side, and it was inconvenient to analyze too much with the prince at this time, so he just responded first.
Gao Cheng endured his headache, glanced at the tomb and asked, "Whose grave is this?" ”
Chen Yuankang replied respectfully, "The tomb of Emperor Sejong Xuanwu is also. ”
The grandfather of Yuan Zhonghua, the princess and princess Feng Yi, Qinghe Wenwen Wang Yuanyi, is the half-brother of Emperor Xuanwu of Sejong and the son of Emperor Xiaowen. Gao Cheng suddenly remembered the experience last night, as if the scene of Yuan Zhonghua's body lying on the stone table was right in front of him.
"Shizi ......" Chen Yuankang saw that his face was gloomy, staring at the mausoleum, not knowing what he was thinking.
Gao Cheng heard the call a few times, glanced at Chen Yuankang, and asked a little unnaturally, "Is there any news from Yecheng?" ”
Chen Yuankang was also stunned by this question. The people of Yecheng didn't know that the prince had been diverted to Luoyang halfway to attack Yuwentai, how could there be news sent here? Besides, there is nothing to send news. He then asked, "What does the prince have to ask?" ”
Gao Cheng looked at Chen Yuankang and stopped talking. He always wondered if what he had experienced last night was real or a dream. If it were a dream, he would not believe it, the things he had experienced were vivid, and that feeling still frightened him. But if it is true, how could Emperor Yuan Shanjian and his younger brother Gao Yang all come from Yecheng to Luoyang? Or meet in the tombs? The most important thing is how is his princess, Princess Feng Yi, Yuan Zhonghua, now?
These words are not suitable to say here, nor are they suitable to say to anyone, Gao Cheng can only order to pack up the people and horses, and then go out of Luoyang to Tongguan.
Tongguan is well-deserved as the world's first dangerous pass. In the west of Luoyang and the east of Chang'an, it is the key to the town of Sanqin and the throat to Chang'an. To the north of Tongguan is Weishui and Luoshui, which will go down in the Yellow River. There are Qinling Mountains in the south of Tongguan, there is Huashan Mountain in the west, the surrounding peaks are connected, the woods are deep and the forests are deep, the valley is deep, the sheep intestine path only accommodates one car and one person, and the apes are worried about climbing in the desperate place.
Yu Wentai and Yu Jin, Li Bi and others led troops from Luoyang into the pass and joined forces with Zhao Gui, a hussar general stationed in Tongguan. The Western Wei Dynasty had no soldiers and no food, and was stationed in Tongguan. In the Eastern Wei Dynasty, there were more than 100,000 people of Murong Shaozong stationed at Pujin Pass, waiting to cross the river. Tens of thousands of troops of the great general Gao Cheng are rushing from Luoyang to Tongguan, and they will come to the city at any time. More than 30,000 people of Gao Aocao and Hou Jing were also ordered to join the general Gao Cheng, just waiting for the joint army to conquer Tongguan, and then with Murong Shaozong, who crossed the river and went straight to Chang'an, two forces of rapid advance, straight into the hinterland of Guanzhong to wipe out the Western Wei in one fell swoop.
The Yuwentai garrison camped and could not hold out at Tongguan. Although he had taken the risk of going to Shaanzhou to get cangsu despite the slight national strength and lack of food, it did not mean that he was a person who had no plans to advance. It was really because of the situation that I had to take this risk. However, today, the situation has changed again, and it is not a matter that can be decided in a single sentence whether you want to go or stay, and whether you want to fight or withdraw.