Chapter Seventy-Eight: Assassination of Zhang Jingda
Some people may think that if an emperor wants to replace a general under him, there is no need to engage in assassination.
Just send a holy decree to announce who is up and who is down, and it's over?
That's a matter of political wisdom.
Changing generals is a very dangerous thing at any time, especially after losing the battle and being trapped, at this time you suddenly have to change generals, what do you make other soldiers think?
Could it be that the emperor used the wrong people before?
Won't the new generals have to carry out a purge?
In the course of a war, a temporary change of generals usually leads to very serious consequences, and the unstable morale of the entire army will definitely happen, and the consequences will be serious, and the whole army will even collapse immediately.
Most importantly, do you really think you can trade for Zhang Jingda?
This unit is a descendant of Zhang Jingda's troops for many years, as soon as you announce the change, do you guess Zhang Jingda will really obediently hand over power and give up the position of coach? Too young, too simple, if I were Zhang Jingda, I would definitely say, since your emperor doesn't want me anymore, then I will simply surrender Shi Jingyao with the team.
As a result, this main army suddenly defected in all its parts, and who bore the consequences?
Therefore, in this sinister situation, the emperor suddenly wanted to assassinate Zhang Jingda, at least in Gao Xingzhou's opinion, it was not strange at all, and it was a good move.
Gao Xingzhou has long been displeased with Zhang Jingda, who is grinding and chirping, before he and Fu Yanqing went to protect Zhang Jingda, mainly because they were afraid that after Yang Guangyuan seized power, he would immediately surrender Shi Jingjiao, and at that time, he Gao Xingzhou fell into the hands of the Khitans, I am afraid it will be more troublesome.
It's just that the emperor wants to send someone to kill Zhang Jingda, who will he send? Could it be those two little eunuchs?
Gao Xingzhou glanced back, and happened to meet the little eunuch named Lu Min, who looked at him and nodded firmly.
Well, whether you succeed or not, I'll arrange to seize power.
Since the emperor dared to hand over this army to me to lead, it was because he remembered the friendship between everyone who worked together in the past, and labor and capital are about to develop!
Where is Gao Xingzhou's reasoning to push.
Having made up his mind, Gao Xingzhou brought the scroll in his hand close to the torch, and the scroll burned, and it burned to ashes in a blink of an eye.
Walking up to the Zuo Lang general who was guarding the door, Gao Xingzhou whispered a few words to him. Gao Xingzhou is the actual army commander and the head of security in the recruitment camp, and this Zuo Lang General is actually his own man.
Then he turned to the two little eunuchs, Lu Min and Shan Wu, and said:
"You come with me."
According to the regulations, the other cavalry of the secret investigation department were blocked from the door, and only two small eunuchs were allowed to enter.
Gao Xingzhou whispered a few words to the two pro-soldiers behind him, and after driving them away, he personally led the two little eunuchs to the Chinese military tent.
The lights in the Chinese military tent were bright, and except for a few pro-soldiers standing around Zhang Jingda on both sides, only a few military giants were arguing around the map hanging on the wall.
"If we break through in the direction of Tuanbai Valley, at least 20,000 foot soldiers will be arranged to block the Khitan cavalry, will we abandon these 20,000 foot soldiers? Even if the others run away, will the emperor let you go? ”
"In fact, the Khitans bypassed the position of these 20,000 foot soldiers, and it was only half an hour, and they couldn't stop it at all."
"The best way is to find an opportunity to fight the Khitans!"
"Our army also launched an attack on the Khitan Left Battalion the day before yesterday, but it didn't work, and thousands of people died."
"General Gao, it's just in time, you come to comment."
Gao Xingzhou ignored them, just looked up at Zhang Jingda, and said calmly:
"Recruit the envoy, someone in the palace has come to pass on the secret decree."
Then he dodged out of the way, revealing the two small eunuchs behind him.
The two little eunuchs had already taken off the outer layer of cavalry combat uniforms outside the tent, revealing the eunuch formal clothes inside, wearing a dark blue robe with wide sleeves and a wide cloth belt around their waists, and their figures looked extremely thin, and they looked like the underage little eunuchs who had just been recruited in the palace.
One of them was holding a small, long wooden box in both hands.
"According to the emperor's decree, Lu Min Danwu, the attendant of Yanying Palace, came to deliver the secret decree to Taiyuan on all sides, and asked Lord Zhang. Zhang Jingda took the order! ”
The little eunuch with particularly delicate eyebrows had a child's voice, a straight face, and said the elder sentence in one breath, with the style of a little adult, which made people feel a little funny.
However, Zhang Jingda, who was sitting on the Taishi's chair, did not laugh, he guessed that the emperor had issued a secret decree at this time, and he must have scolded him. I had to sigh, and then spoke:
"Everyone, wait a minute, I'll go in and take a message."
Then he led the two little eunuchs, turned around and walked to the inner room behind the big tent.
There are many compartments in the big tent, and the one just now is the meeting hall, and if you walk twenty or thirty meters inside, you will arrive at Lord Zhang's private study.
The study area separated by this heavy curtain is not small, about 30 square meters, which is equivalent to the size of an ordinary room in a three-star hotel in later generations. There were two guards with knives standing in the study, and there were also two guards who came in with Master Zhang just now.
There were a total of seven people at the scene, in addition to Lord Zhang and two little eunuchs, there were also four guards with knives from Lord Zhang.
At this time, no one thought to search the bodies of the two little eunuchs.
After all, these two people are skinny underage eunuchs at first glance, and they don't hold weapons, how much of a threat can they have?
There were four guards with knives guarding Lord Zhang in the room. The guards with knives who can stand here and do the "four-sided recruitment", the martial arts themselves are also extremely high, where do ordinary little thieves dare to be presumptuous here?
The most important thing is that Zhang Jingda himself is also a martial arts master!
This is not surprising, Zhang Jingda is known as a scholar, but he just said that his career is mainly based on the civil and official system.
Zhang Jingda in the civil official system, the highest once achieved the "inspection of the Ministry of Works", which is equivalent to the direct boss of the Ministry of Industry, and can be said to be powerful in the court. Later, because of various coincidences, he took on a military position.
Zhang Jingda's family itself is a Jiangmen family, he has followed his father to practice martial arts since he was a child, with strong arm strength and a handsome body. In addition, his appearance is very high, although he is middle-aged, he is still handsome and upright, his every move is resolute and powerful, and he is very masculine, even in the 21st century, standing with Wu Xiubo, he will kill Uncle Xiubo in an instant, without any suspense.
As we said earlier, in ancient times, as an official, appearance was very, very, very important.
Zhang Jingda's status today is mainly due to his personal charm in appearance and temperament, which gives him a great advantage in officialdom.
Appearance is innate, and temperament is acquired.
Zhang Jingda was born in Daizhou, in his early years in Wutai Mountain to learn art, one hand "Eight Immortals Swordsmanship" practiced to be superb, hands are divided into yin and yang, hidden gossip, internal and external shape, the end is fast, slow, rigid and soft are suitable, lethality and forced value at the same time.
With the foundation of martial arts, the elegant and strong swordsmanship master temperament is also brought to daily life. At this time, although the battle situation was not good and Uncle Zhang was in a bad mood, the ubiquitous charm of the uncle still made the little girl Lu Min'er who had just fallen in love with her be teased.
A girl's heart full of hormones jumped up, bang, bang, bang, and her heart was so entangled.
"Uncle's walking posture is so delicious, I feel that his whole body is glowing."
"What a warm-hearted uncle, I really want to jump into his arms and let him hold him like this for the rest of his life."
"Kill? Can't be killed! Kill? Can't be killed! Alas, I really can't do it, alas, what should I do? ”
"Ah, uncle's every move, stepping on the nine palaces, secretly combining gossip, rhythmic wind and clouds, echoing the rhythm of heaven and earth, so table-shaped, I love it to death! I'm really getting drunk! ”
turned his head to look, but saw that the little Shan Wu next to him had already suffocated red, obviously finding Lu Min'er there to be a nymphomaniac, this kid was really angry.
As soon as Lu Min'er saw Shan Wu, she immediately sobered up a lot, and General Zhao's long horse face with a weird yin and yang spirit also appeared in her mind, so she had to suppress the surging tide in her heart and concentrate on carrying out the task.
"There's no way, let's mess around here again, when that kid goes to the adult to complain, won't I be able to eat and walk around, little lady? Hmph, when you go back, you must beat him up and kick him from the top of the mountain all the way to the bottom of the mountain! Kick into the river! ”
Seeing that Uncle Zhang symbolically patted the dust on his body, knelt down on his knees in front of Lu Min'er, Lu Min'er also quickly knelt down, handed over the small wooden box with both hands, held it high above his head, and shouted in his mouth: "Zhang Jingda takes the order." ”
At this time, Shan Wu, another little eunuch who had been standing on the side with his sleeves and his head down, suddenly opened his arms, and a small crossbow the size of a pistol in one hand was aimed at the two guards with knives on both sides, and with two soft sounds, two small iron arrows shot into the throats of the two people.
At the same time, one of Lu Min'er's hands, the fingers quickly opened the small wooden box, and a small pale green dagger was already in her small hand.
The next moment, her whole body jumped into the air, holding a dagger like lightning, and stabbed at Zhang Jingda's throat less than a meter away!