Chapter 378: Death Battle
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was scolded as a "rebel", this is undoubtedly a very serious crime, Cao Ying's angry reprimand, only scared Cao Pi to the point that his liver and gall were broken, and the beads of sweat on his forehead were brushed, rolling down like raindrops. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"The father was asleep at the beginning, and the sons asked the world's famous doctors to treat their fathers, but those useless doctors said that the father and the emperor would wake up indefinitely, and the sons were heartbroken. It's just that at that time, the foreign enemy was pressing, the Great Wei was ownerless, the people were scattered, and the ministers were also forced by the ministers and the situation, and they had to ...... ......"
Cao Pi didn't dare to say the words "self-established as the emperor", and stammered for a long time, so he had to lie on the ground and choke up: "What the sons and daughters do is all for the sake of the country laid down by the father, and I hope that the father will see it." β
Looking at his crying and embarrassed son on the ground, Cao Ying's iron-like face finally eased up.
Although Cao Pi succeeded to the throne as emperor without his death, which made Cao Ying feel very annoyed, when he calmed down and thought about it, he also knew very well that under the situation of internal and external troubles at that time, Cao Pi's actions could not be said to be wrong.
What really disappointed and angry Cao Ying was actually Cao Pi's incompetence.
"Regardless of your crime of claiming to be the emperor without authorization, then you have lost your troops and generals, so that the land has been lost, the mountains and rivers are broken, I am a brilliant Great Wei State, hundreds of thousands of soldiers, many people and a wide land, far better than Liu Sun and the two thieves, but you have fallen to such a point now, what crime should you be guilty of?"
Cao Pi hurriedly cried again: "Liu and Sun are as cunning as tigers and wolves, and their sons are not talented, and they have repeatedly been hit by their annihilation, which is really damaging to the prestige of their father. But as my father said, my Great Wei has a large number of people and a strong national strength, and when the sons and daughters were supposed to rely on their strong national strength to work hard and counterattack foreign enemies, they chose to build two Xiao walls with Ziwen and Zi, and the sons were really, really ...... Alasβ"
Cao Pi showed pity again, and after a few sad and choked words, he put all the blame on his two younger brothers.
This trick is naturally effective, and Cao Ying's expression is a little less angry at the son in front of him, but he slaps the case and says hatefully: "Those two bastard boys are really disappointed and disappointed." β
Cao Pi saw that the object of Cao Ying's anger had shifted, and took the opportunity to say: "Father, the sons and daughters thought that Zijian and Ziwen were also bewitched by those annihilators, and they made such a big rebellious act after a while. What's more, Ziwen has been killed by Liu Bei, so his father will forgive him, as for Zijian, if he still has a filial piety, if he knows that his father has woken up, he should go to Yedu to confess his guilt to his father. β
Cao Pi pretended to be a tolerant brother at this time, but after sobering up, although Cao Pi's body was still suffering from illness, his brain was still very clear, and he would not let him go because of Cao Pi's clever words.
Cao Ying's originally relaxed face suddenly became solemn again, and he waved his hand and shouted: "Come on, put the prince in the prison." β
Cao Pi thought that he had fooled his father, but when he heard Cao Ying's words, he was suddenly frightened and scattered, and exclaimed: "Father, there is nothing wrong with the son, I hope my father will be gracious, gracious." β
Cao Ying snorted coldly: "Don't think that by putting the blame on your younger brother and enemy, you will be able to escape responsibility, I tell you, no matter what others do, as the king of a country, you will be able to rule the country into such a predicament, this is your greatest sin!" You don't have to quibble anymore, and wake me up in prison. β
"Father, father, spare your life......"
Cao Ying turned his head, and Lai had to look at this crying and useless son again, and Cao Pi was ruthlessly dragged away by a dry feather forest armor under Xu Yi's order.
After putting Cao Pi in prison, Cao Ying ordered Chen Qun and other ministers who supported Cao Pi to be summoned.
Most of the ministers followed Cao Pi to Jingcheng to conquer Cao Zhang, and many of them died in the battle of Jingcheng, like Chen Qun, Sima Yi and other generations were in a hurry, and they escaped by luck, and escaped with Cao Pi and returned to Yedu.
None of these cunning ministers expected that the Emperor, who had been asleep for two years and was not much different from a dead man in their eyes, would miraculously come back to life.
Like Chen Qun's generation, they were all supporters who actively supported Cao Pi at the beginning, but now that Cao Pi has been put in prison, they all thought that Cao Pi would hold them accountable, so they all came with trepidation.
Cao Ying glanced at the grizzled ministers, and his grim and cold face suddenly burst into laughter, and the laughter was full of sarcasm and wildness.
The ministers were stunned at this moment, looking at each other one by one, not knowing what the founding monarch who had regained the power of the empire thought in his heart.
The laughter gradually subsided, Cao Ying raised his hand and pointed at the ministers, and sneered: "You are all the best people in the world, don't you know that victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, isn't it just that you lost to Liu Bei, what's the big deal, why are you so depressed one by one, as if my Great Wei has already perished, aren't you afraid to make our enemies laugh?" β
Instead of blaming them, Cao Ying was using irony to encourage their low morale in disguise.
The ministers were surprised and delighted in their hearts, and Chen Qun was the first to come out and say: "The ministers are incompetent, and they failed to repel the enemy thieves for the country, but fortunately, Your Majesty woke up, so that they could save the ministers and the people of Great Wei in fire and water, this is God bless my Great Wei." β
"God bless Great Wei! Long live our emperor! β
Under the leadership of Chen Qun, Wei Chen, who was originally described as ragged and hanging, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, suddenly cheered up, waved his fists and shouted in unison.
In the main hall, the atmosphere that was originally lifeless seemed to suddenly have a little vitality.
Cao Ying stroked his beard and smiled, his expression was full of confidence and calmness, and he said loudly: "Liu Bei took advantage of the time when I was asleep, I have won some battles in the past few years, but now that I have woken up, Liu Bei's good words have come to an end, it is time to teach him a good lesson, and let this big-eared thief even take the right to seek justice, what are your best strategies to break the enemy?" β
Chen Qun hurriedly said: "Now Liu Bei is leading more than 100,000 troops to the south, and the target is obviously the center of my Great Wei, Yedu, and the minister thinks that the first thing to do now is to organize the defense of Yedu, and then counterattack unscrupulously." β
Wang Lang sighed: "That's right, but now that my country's elite division is gone, there are only 20,000 soldiers available in Yedu, how can it resist Liu Bei's army of hundreds of thousands of tigers and wolves." β
At this time, Sima Yi also said: "Your Majesty, Liu Bei is menacing, and now Hebei is in chaos, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Ye to defend it." The minister thought that it was better to move the capital to Luoyang first to avoid the enemy's edge, and then reorganize the army, and take advantage of Liu Bei's unstable foothold to counterattack Hebei. β
The latter two both advocated moving the capital, and Chen Qun hurriedly said: "Your Majesty must not move the capital, Ye is in the middle of Hebei, and it is also the center of the Great Wei Kingdom." Once the capital is moved, the morale of the people will be greatly shaken. Moreover, once the capital is moved, it is equivalent to ceding the entire rich Hebei to Liu Bei, with Liu Bei's hero, according to this rich capital, we will reorganize the army in the future, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to counterattack Hebei. Back then, with Yuan Shao's incompetence, His Majesty also had a hard time getting Hebei from a hundred battles, not to mention Liu Bei, who was ten times better than Yuan Shao, Your Majesty, this strategy is absolutely undesirable. β
Chen Qun's bitter statement obviously took into account the overall situation. In fact, even if Chen Qun didn't say this, Cao Ying would never give up Ye Du to Liu Bei, because he knew very well what the fall of Yanjing meant for a country.
Bang!
Cao Ying slapped the case and said excitedly: "I have decided that I will never move the capital, and I will deal a heavy blow to that big-eared thief under the capital of Ye." β
As soon as Cao Ying said this, those ministers who advocated moving the capital did not dare to say more, and they could only bow their heads and sigh secretly.
As for Chen Qun and others, although they advocated sticking to Yedu, there was no better way than to recruit Ding Fu to fill the army and strengthen the city defense to prepare to defend it.
Looking around at the ministers, Cao Ying finally set his eyes on Jia Xu, this minister known as the "poisoner", until now, he is still calm and indifferent, as if the current danger faced by the Great Wei State has nothing to do with him at all.
Cao Ying suddenly remembered that since the Battle of Chibi, this "no question or answer" strategist has actually put forward a lot of sincere advice, and it has been proved that his predictions are accurate in the end, but he rarely uses them.
Cao Ying's heart was filled with remorse, and he said: "Wenhe, when the national disaster is at hand, don't you have no good plan?" β
Jia Xu was silent for a moment, and said lightly: "There is a strategy to break the enemy, but the minister has a strategy, but it needs to take risks, but I don't know if Your Majesty dares to use it." β
Hearing that Jia Ci had a plan, Cao Ying was overjoyed and asked urgently: "It turns out that Wenhe has a good plan, why don't you come quickly." β
Jia Xu then said his plan unhurriedly, and everyone was surprised when they heard it, obviously surprised by the danger of Jia Xu's strategy.
After weighing and muttering for a long time, Cao Ying clenched his fists and slammed the shore and said resolutely: "Okay, according to Wenhe's plan, I will fight to the death with that big-eared thief outside this capital city." β
β¦β¦β¦β¦ Ten days later, after breaking through Feixiang, Liu Bei led the high-morale Han army and finally arrived in Yedu.
Standing on the hill, looking at the majestic Yedu City like a mountain, the color of emotion appeared on the face.
This Yedu city is very familiar to Liu Bei, when he was defeated by Cao Ying in Xuzhou and desperate to Yecheng, Yuan Shao once led the Hebei Zhuxiong to meet him thirty miles out of Yecheng.
When he was in that famous minister in the world, Liu Bei imagined more than once that if this great city and the rich land of Hebei were in his own hands, it would be easy to calm the world and restore the Han family.
After confirming Yuan Shao's incompetence, Liu Bei had to leave Yecheng decisively. For decades, he never forgot the bustle of the city, dreaming of one day revisiting the old place.
Today, his dream has finally come true.
took a deep breath and said secretly in his heart: "Yecheng, Yecheng, I, Liu Bei, are finally back." β
(To be continued)