Chapter Eighty-Five: Guilty
After Ma Long and Tang Bin heard Yang Ke's words, they began to be silent. Yang Ke continued www.biquge.info "Yesterday, I dreamed of my teacher, and his old man's words were like an enlightenment, which made me have to face and think about a question, why do we want to fight, why do we want to lead thousands of soldiers away from their homeland and relatives, and come to this bitter cold place to throw their heads and spill blood, isn't it just to stop the war with war? But if the problem can be solved without bloodshed, why should there be war? Therefore, I would rather take the risk myself in exchange for the quelling of the Xiongnu rebellion, even if it fails, it is only my personal responsibility, compared to risking tens of millions of lives, it is clear which is more important. I don't want to exchange the lives of my subordinates for my own false name, the good fighter is not the highest state of the general, and it is also the good person who conforms to the heavenly way and the people's hearts. β
Ma Long was moved: "The princes of the court and the central government, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, but there are a few people who can really have the world in their hearts, consider the people's weal and woe, and be sympathetic to the soldiers. β
"Count me in, I'll advance and retreat with Gongzi and the general." Tang Bin's tone was gentle, but his demeanor was very firm.
"General, the enemy shoots out a letter of arrows." Ma Long's pro-army under the tent walked in with a long arrow with an arrow folded off, and a layer of silk cloth was tied to the arrow, Ma Long took it, unwrapped the silk thread that bound the silk cloth, untied the silk book and took a look, hesitated for a moment, and handed it to Yang Ke.
Yang Ke took it and took a look, and there were a few words on it: "Brother Xiu Lie, farewell to the stone, brother is quite concerned, I heard that my brother led the army to attack, and invited me to get together tomorrow in the stone city to discuss the plan. β
Tang Bin took a closer look and asked his soldiers, "Did the arrows come from the city?" β
The soldiers shook their heads: "Just now the Huns rode to the front of our army and said to the patrol guards, there is a letter from the Huns to the supervising army, he immediately waited for a reply, no matter what the result is, tell him, and he will go back to hand in the order." β
Yang Ke said to his soldiers: "You tell the messenger that tomorrow I will wait for him in front of the camp and take me into Lishi City." Don't miss the appointment. The soldiers thought they had heard it wrong and were hesitating, but Ma Long and Tang Bin opened their mouths together to stop it: "No, absolutely not." β
Ma Long persuaded: "The son of a daughter, you can't sit down, the Huns have a jackal heart, how can you have credibility at all, you are a heavy responsibility, how can you take such a risk, I depend on you for anything else, brother, just this one, no matter what." β
Tang Bin said: "The general is reasonable, how can Gongzi take such a big risk, I am willing to go on a trip on behalf of Gongzi." β
Yang Ke shook his head: "This is Liu Yuan's cross-horse and bending his bow to test my sincerity and my influence in the army, if I go, the matter of surrender will be fifty percent certain, if I don't go, I will lose the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for peace talks, Liu Yuan will not trust me again in the future, and we will really be the result of endless fighting with the Hunsγγγγγ β
"What if Liu Yuan takes you as a hostage?" Malone asked.
"Others may do this, Liu Yuan will definitely not, he himself has the experience of protonization, military affairs, how could he change his original intention because of a mere hostage." Yang Ke said calmly.
Tang Bin didn't persuade, but asked coldly: "Childe, you said that you are fifty percent sure, what is the variable of fifty percent?" β
"On our side, the three brothers are working together, but Liu Yuan on the Huns' side may not be able to be arbitrary, otherwise he would not have invited me to enter the city late at night, obviously to hide people's eyes. So, the other fifty percent of what I'm talking about depends on whether he can get his subordinates to obey orders. Yang Ke replied.
"Childe, please forgive me for saying bluntly, if his subordinates mutinied, would he take you hostage, or would Liu Yuan kill you so that he could give an explanation to his subordinates in order to appease the anger of the public."
"With my understanding of Liu Yuan, although he is ambitious, but not reckless, this time the Xiongnu raised the banner to rebel, with Liu Yuan's intelligence and strategy, it is impossible not to see that the time is not ripe, just because of the instigation of the vassal king to raise troops in a hurry, there must be a snobbery within the Xiongnu that Liu Yuan had to temporarily retreat. Therefore, Liu Yuan came to me, firstly, to be an interview to test my sincerity, and secondly, to ask me to help him solve that snobbery. Liu Yuan can truly unify the Huns, this kind of thing killing two birds with one stone, of course he will do it sincerely. Yang Ke glanced at Tang Bin and then said: "Brother Confucianism, I understand what you mean, you want to warn me that the snobbery around Liu Yuan will pose a threat to me at any time, but it doesn't matter, since this obstacle can't be bypassed, you might as well make up your mind to go deep into the tiger's den and seek skin with the tiger, with Liu Yuan as an ally, we are actually sure to win." β
Yang Ke once again showed his decisiveness in killing, and turned his head and instructed the pro-soldier: "You go quickly and pass my message to the Xiongnu messenger." β
The pro-army did not hesitate any longer this time, but turned around and walked out of the tent of the Chinese army and replied to the messenger.
Ma Long pointed at Yang Ke with a smile, and sighed helplessly: "You, looking at your tepid temperament, are actually more stubborn than anyone else in your bonesγγγγγ β
Yang Ke also smiled faintly: "I will write a few letters later, and I will bother the general to send someone back to Luoyang for me." β
Malone agreed: "I personally instructed someone to do it." β
Yang Ke opened the letters sent by Zhang Chang one by one under the lamp, although these letters have been on the desk for many days, but he is too busy with military affairs to open them. Tomorrow will go deep into the tiger's den, Yang Ke remembered these letters.
The first half of the Empress Dowager Yang Zhi's letter was written on official affairs, and the second half was written on family affairs, and there was nothing major about it, just a running account, which was enough to see that the henchmen who stayed to assist her were very effective, and handled state affairs smoothly and steadily, and there was no chaos. In the end, he only said that Zhang Chang visited many famous doctors to treat his father, and his father's health has improved slightly, everything is fine at home, don't read it, etc.
Zhang Hua's letter was sprinkled with thousands of words, and it can be seen that he chose the military affairs and government affairs of Wen Yang and other cadres, and made some explanations, just like Yang Ke's guess, it was also safe and sound. It's just that in the end, he left a paragraph lightly, which seemed to be advising Yang Ke, as a nobleman, to take charge of government affairs behind the scenes, and he has made the cultural relics of the Manchu Dynasty look sideways, and he can't easily take charge of the army, otherwise, he will be like his elder "Sanyang", the husband is not guilty, he is guilty, and he will give people a handle, and the best way is not to lead the army after retiring.