Chapter 3 The Great Changes in Xijing
The corpse of the young emperor Fu Xie hung high above the emperor's throne, the green jade armrest pierced out from the chest and abdomen, the blood stains on the bright yellow robe condensed into purple and black, and a large pool of black blood was also condensed on the white marble steps. Concubine Shu's intuition grabbed herself in great horror, her throat and eyes tightened, as if a huge force was pressing on her chest, she was out of breath, her face was pale, her eyes were open, hollow, and there was no trace of brilliance.
Gu Shida picked up the steps and walked up the white marble steps, pulled the body of the young emperor off the green jade handrail, threw it to the front of the steps, and commanded left and right: "Invite the officials in the city to eat it together, I want to taste the imperial dragon meat is really different from ordinary people?" He added, "Don't worry about Zhang Wen, let him taste what his proud disciple is like." Glancing at Concubine Shu, who was overly frightened and had a fiasco, she felt that she was extremely beautiful and moving before, her eyes were distracted, and she had a little color, so she waved and let her be pulled out of the hall.
Gu Shida turned around and looked at the emperor's seat, carved from green jade, and the whole body was finely carved with various ornaments such as dragon and Xiuyun, with a bright luster.
Gu Shida sat down slowly, stretched out his hand to lightly touch the sticky coagulated blood on the left armrest, stretched it into his mouth, sucked it, and closed his eyes contentedly, but he didn't know whether to feel the slight smell of coagulation or enjoy the noble taste of the emperor's throne.
After opening his eyes, Gu Shida walked down the jade steps and returned to Lintoe Palace, asking people to send Concubine Shu into the dormitory.
Gu Shida carefully looked at Concubine Shu's immaculate appearance, and secretly felt that the creation was wonderful, and there was such a stunner.
Concubine Shu seemed to be overly frightened, Gu Shida reached out to hug her, but she didn't know how to avoid it, and when she got into Gu Shida's arms, she was suddenly startled, and her hand pushed out, but she couldn't get out. Gu Shida was about to tear off Concubine Shu's clothes, only to feel a pain in his chest, clamped her throat and stretched it out, but when he looked down, he saw Concubine Shu holding a jasper hairpin and stabbing it into her body for half a minute, and blood seeped out along the jasper hairpin. It turned out that Concubine Shu was struggling to take the jasper hairpin into her hand, and while Gu Shida was unprepared, she stabbed it into her chest.
Gu Shida clamped Concubine Shu's throat, lifted it up, looked at her Yurong who was gradually losing blood, and said coldly: "You are much more useful than that waste young emperor, and you actually let me show blood." Then he heard the crisp sound of the throat cracking, Concubine Shu's head hung down as if it was broken, Gu Shida threw her on the wide sandalwood bed, covered it with a brocade quilt, and then closed the door and walked out of the dormitory.
Not long after Zhang Wen returned to the house, Gu Shida led a team of elite soldiers to come to get people, Zhang Wen was shocked, thinking that the edict of King Qin had been taken out of Xijing by Li Sixun, and he was not afraid that Gu Shida would take his surname, even if he defended the house, he could not stop the Suchuan soldiers from attacking, so he drank the retreat general, opened the door of the house, looked at the more than 100 longbows pointing at him calmly, and asked: "What is the matter, you want to bind me to see Shi Dagong?" ”
Riding in the distance, the sound of hooves was very urgent, and everyone was still looking at each other, but it was the kind of middle-aged man who reported Zhang Wen's whereabouts to Gu Shida. The middle-aged man galloped in front of Zhang Wen, turned over and dismounted, saluted Zhang Wen, and said, "Gu Shuai has invited Lord Si Li and the generals in the city to the Lintoe Palace for a night banquet. ”
First took people, and then changed to a banquet, Zhang Wen carefully looked at the faces of the people who came, and wanted to see some clues from them, but the faces of the people who came were dry, and the eyes did not leak the slightest information.
"Gu Shuai is invited, Wen doesn't dare to resign, Wen goes back to the house to bathe and change clothes, and then comes."
"Ordinary night banquets, no need to be redundant, I'll wait for Lord Guards."
Even the guards were not allowed to take him, Zhang Wen did know that something big had happened, but he didn't know what had happened, which made Gu Shida so wary of himself; Secretly thought to himself: Could it be that the matter of King Qin's edict was leaked, and he felt that the arrangement was very secret, and it was impossible for Gu Shida to detect it. I couldn't think about it, and the general secretly exchanged a look, and then went to the Lintoe Palace with the people.
Zhang Wen saw that the middle-aged man in the gray and white cloth shirt had an ordinary appearance, and the divine light in his eyes was hidden, only the yellow and turbid light remained, but the breath was heavy and long, but he was a master of cultivation and entering the innate realm.
Zhang Wen has been attached to Gu Shida for several months, but he has never seen such a number one person in the Suchuan soldiers, so he was slightly surprised and said: "Wen is clumsy, I don't know the name of my brother?" ”
The middle-aged man smiled slightly and said, "Lord Si Li is in charge of Xijing's defense, have you ever heard of Gu Kai's name?" ”
Gu's chief sentinel in Guanzhong.
Before Gu Shida entered Xijing, Zhang Wen was in charge of the defense of Xijing as a lieutenant of the Si Li, and he naturally heard his name for a long time as the chief sentinel of the Suchuan Gu clan in Qinzhou County, but the general outpost of each power in each county was the highest secret, although Zhang Wen knew his name, he did not know what his person looked like.
Now Gu Kaikai sees him with his true face, but it is not that Gu Shida trusts him, but that he no longer has the opportunity to contact the outside world.
Even if Gu Kai's cultivation is higher than himself, he is extremely limited, but the soldiers who are surrounded by him on the left and right do not have a chance to escape. Even if he can escape, the family that stays in Sili Mansion will face an extremely tragic fate.
When he arrived at Linzhi Palace, Zhang Wen saw that Gu Shida was not the only one who invited him, most of the officials in Xijing City were invited here, and compared to them, he was more like he was escorted over.
Zhang Wen confused Gu Shida's arrangement, and thought: Just wait and see.
The main hall of the Lintoe Palace is very wide, everyone sits down, Gu Shi Dacai and Suchuan will come out, in addition to the northern land Hou Jiye, there are two other captains will Guan Qiu Rong and Gu Conghuang.
Zhang Wen stepped forward to salute and said, "The ministers have a night banquet, and you can ask the young emperor to give a speech." ”
Gu Shida looked at Zhang Wen coldly, only to see that his heart was furious.
Gu Shida snorted coldly, and said in an urn voice: "You teach a good erector, you dare to use words to attack me." ”
Zhang Wen was shocked, and then quieted down, although he didn't know why the young emperor angered Gu Shida, but it was this that he could explain why Gu Shida asked people to come to the door to get people, and then Gu Kai came to invite, probably because others persuaded Gu Shida.
Zhang Wen apologized for his sins and said, "The young emperor is shallow, and Gu Shuai is big. ”
Gu Shida's eyes were shining, and he immediately hid and invited everyone to sit down; Everyone did not doubt him, and the wine, meat and food went up one after another, and everyone invited each other to eat. At the end of the banquet, Gu Shida slowly stood up from the table, looked around at everyone, laughed, and asked, "How do you think this meat meal is different from usual?" ”
Gu Shida invited people to a night banquet, and the meat dishes were mostly replaced by human flesh, and everyone knew it, but they didn't dare to say anything, and they barely swallowed it, and they didn't vomit until they were in the house. When I first eaten, I already felt strange, knowing that Gu Shida took human flesh as a dish again, seeing Gu Shida standing up and laughing wildly and asking, everyone was ashamed, and they couldn't say anything, but they never expected that the human flesh they ate would be cut from the young emperor.
Gu Shida and the general Su Chuan retreated to a corner, where there was a corner gate, and everyone had noticed something unusual, but they didn't dare to move. Gu Shida looked at Zhang Wen fixedly, and said: "Old man Zhang Wen, I want me to treat you well, but you think that others will come to occupy Xijing and intercept me on my way back, so why?" ”
Zhang Wen knew that the secret edict had been leaked, and asked urgently: "Where is the young emperor?" ”
Gu Shida looked up to the sky and laughed, Or, stopped laughing, and said, "The young emperor is in the womb of you and me." After that, he and the generals of Suchuan withdrew from the corner gate, and only the guards were left to seal the corner gate.
The ministers of Xijing were frightened, at a loss, and squeezed out of the hall, just opened the door of the palace, but saw like locusts flying arrows, pounced and drilled into the **. More than a dozen people rolled down the steps, and they hurriedly retreated into the temple.
Zhang Wen stood in place and muttered to himself: "The Fu family is finished, the Fu family is finished, I'm sorry for the emperor." He pulled his fingers into his mouth, opened his mouth and vomited, picked up the vomited thing with both hands, and sobbed: "Young Emperor, Wen is a failure to you." Walking everywhere, others pulled each other, struggled out, stood outside the palace gate, unconsciously drilled into the body, raised his hand high, and shouted bitterly: "Young Emperor, Wen has a negative Fu family." With that, he planted his head down the stone steps.
The surrender officials stubbornly defended the main hall of the Lintoe Palace, Gu Shida saw that he could not attack for a long time, so he let people throw himself into the fire hall, the night was dry and the wind was urgent, and the Lintoe Palace was not in a sea of fire in a short time, nearly 100 people in the palace rushed to rush in, but it was a strong bow and crossbow shooting, few people could rush into the archer array, but they died in the hands of the master of the Suchuan army.
That night, more than 120 former Xijing officials who were invited to the banquet were slaughtered.
The great flames rising from the palace were about to ignite, and the entire palace city was plunged into a dark red eerie atmosphere; In the dormitory of the Lintoe Palace, there is a woman who seems to be sleeping.
However, the massacre in Xijing City had just begun, and the Suchuan army stationed outside the city was mobilized overnight to strengthen the nearby city gates, and Hou Himeno personally organized nearly 20,000 soldiers to bravely capture the disciples of the family in the city.
Xijing is where the Han court is located, the place where the family gathers, Gu Shi Dawei Xijing is broken for several months, most of the families in the city have not had time to withdraw from the city, more than 200,000 people in Xijing, 100,000 displaced people, including nearly 100,000 children of the family, family members, and family servants. The Suchuan soldiers first slaughtered the children of the search family, and later, they did not distinguish between civilians and clans, and raised butcher knives when they saw people.
The disciples of the family have a deep house to resist, but they are unorganized, in a hurry, the war equipment is not prepared, and they are not the opponents of the stubborn tiger and wolf soldiers, and the slaughter is carried out in the third day, and the Suchuan soldiers have not encountered a little decent resistance in the city.
The news that the young emperor, Zhang Wen and other ministers were slaughtered by Gu Shida gradually spread outside the city.
Li Sixun stood on a single peak outside Xijing City, looking at Xijing City, which made the sky reddish even if it was white, his expression was indifferent, and he stood with his hands in his hands, Wu Shaoxian stood on his side, and said: "All the brothers have withdrawn from Xijing City in advance, and the lord expected that it was really accurate, and an edict from King Qin forced Gu Shida to kill on a large scale. Xun Shuai Deqin Wang Zhao has secretly sent troops from Xiayi, all the way to Liyang in the northeast and west of the west, and all the way to Lantian in the southeast. Gu Shida is bound to withdraw from Qinzhou before the Qinzhou family reacts violently, and at that time, our army can go straight to Xijing and replace it. ”
Li Sixun nodded slightly, and said: "The Suchuan soldiers retreated to Qinzhou, along the Weishui east to Chencang, to the south of the Sanguan to Hanzhong, and continue to the west to return to Tianshui, Shaoxian, which road do you think Gu Shida will take?" ”
"Gu Shida is good at attacking but not good at defending, but he is resolute and ruthless, and does not drag mud and water, Shaoxian thought that Gu Shida would return to Tianshui from Anyi Pass, not only that, but Shaoxian also thought that Gu Shida would also shrink the forces of Hanzhong to Luoyang."
"Oh, Shaoxian thinks that Rong Yanmen can make a breakthrough on the Chengdu-Chongqing battlefield in the near future?"
Hanzhong is a long and narrow area sandwiched between the Qinling Mountains and Daba Mountain, if Rong Yanmen can quickly control the entire territory of Chengdu and Chongqing, then he can send troops from Jianmen to cross Daba Mountain into Hanzhong, intercepting the return route of Gu's soldiers and horses in Hanzhong; The soldiers and horses of Qinzhou were also able to send troops from Sanguan to cross the Qinling Mountains and enter Hanzhong, intercepting the return route of the Gu clan's soldiers and horses in Hanzhong.
"Isn't that what the lord thinks?"
Li Sixun shook his head and said: "Di Xiang did not have the edict of King Qin, so he could not quickly invite the forces of the Qinzhou family to form a rebellious army. Gu Shida didn't know the details, so he would naturally leave the city in a hurry, and when he found that the Qinzhou family did not have the edict of King Qin in his hands, most of them would not be in a hurry to withdraw from Qinzhou. ”
"The Suchuan soldiers and the rebellious forces of Qinzhou are entangled in the western border, our army occupies Xijing, the attendance of Wang Zhao, the return of all heroes, can Gushi Dayan not withdraw from Qinzhou?"
"At this time, it is inappropriate to talk more, it is better to seize Xijing first and then discuss other matters."
The news of the collapse of the young emperor reached Jiangning, which was the third day of Xu Ruyu's newborn son Yulin, Xu Ruyu was inviting Yue Shiheng, the envoy of the Yue family of Le'an, and Liu Guan Wutang, the envoy of Sanmiao, to inspect the Wuwei army camp in the south of Jiangning, accompanied by Fang Su, Kou Zichan, Zhao Jingyun and others.
Kou Zichan resigned from the Senate because of Qin Zhongshu's matter, withdrew from the list of the princes of Jiangning, and assisted Xu Ruyu in acting government affairs and compiling the Jiangning Code with the service of Qingfeng Mansion, and his official rank was only slightly higher than that of Shui Ruying.
Xu Ruyu took the 800-mile urgent document, hurriedly read it, and circulated it to everyone. Yue Shiheng pressed the surprise in his heart, and saw that Xu Ruyu looked the same, and he had no intention of returning to the city for urgent consultation.
Yue Shiheng said: "The young emperor collapsed, the world lost its master, what does Jiang Ning want?" ”
Xu Ruyu said: "What teachings does Yue Zun have? ”
Yue Shiheng was slightly stunned, and then thought: Gu Shida's soldiers fell into Xijing, Xu Ruyu and his father could predict that the young emperor would be poisoned by Gu Shida, and they were not surprised, and said: "My father said that it was possible, but there was no teaching for me, only that Le'an took Jiangning as the head of the horse, and if there was any teaching, it was also for Shiheng to assist the adults wholeheartedly." ”
Xu Ruyu sighed slightly, and said: "The young emperor has collapsed, the world has lost its master, and how many people have coveted this nominal throne." As early as last year, I heard the words 'the fortune of a prince is commanded by heaven'. He said to Zhao Jingyun, "The movements of the Suchuan soldiers are unpredictable, but the Suchuan soldiers went to stay in Qinzhou, which is really related to the development of Hulan in Youji, Helan Rongruo and Chu Shize are very likely to accelerate their plots against Hanoi and Bianzhou because of the Xijing Incident, and secretly ordered the five northern county divisions to pay close attention to the movements of Hulan's Hanyang battalion troops in the south of Youji." ”
Zhao Jingyun said: "The Hulan forces are advancing westward along the river, threatening Luochuan and Hedong Mansion of Qinzhou County, and will contain part of Xun Zhuwu's troops, so Gu Shida can continue to stay in Qinzhou. Do adults think that the great changes in Xijing are related to Xun Zhuwu? ”
Xu Ruyu said: "Yaoguangdian and Xun Zhuwu have the greatest influence in Qinzhou, although the great change in Xijing cannot be concluded to be related to it, it can be concluded that Li Sixun and Xun Zhuwu will never allow King Qin's edict to fall into the hands of other forces, otherwise there will be another military force in Qinzhou that can compete with Xun Zhuwu's Xiluo army." After a pause, he said, "Gu Shida continues to stay in Qinzhou, but it will cause the wealthy families in the western border of Qinzhou to integrate into the power of Yaoguang Palace. ”
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