Chapter Eighty-Eight: Reward and Punishment [Birthday Wishes]

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At the beginning of September of the fifth year of Jingzhi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Jijing, the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, broke out in the most powerful civil strife after the Rebellion of the Three Kings, and nearly 200,000 troops fought each other again.

The battle lasted for more than a month, during which the imperial forces and the northern forces used cavalry, infantry, archers, garrison troops, and even the Assassin organization, and both sides mobilized almost all the forces that could be mobilized.

And as Liu Qing guessed, the eldest grandson Xiangyu had already anticipated the calculation of Yang Ling, the commander of the Northern Xinjiang Army, so when the veteran Yang Ling led nearly 60,000 Northern Xinjiang troops to the vicinity of Jijing, he was immediately entangled by Fei Guo, the commander of the first division of the Jizhou Army.

One is a veteran general with a lifetime of experience and experience, and the other is a famous general of the Southern Expedition who is in the prime of life and has both civil and military skills.

With his 20,000 Jizhou Army's first division, as well as nearly 30,000 Southern Army and Northern Army, a total of 50,000 troops, Yang Ling's 60,000 soldiers and horses were resisted, and valuable time was gained for the friendly army besieging Jijing.

It's not that Yang Ling is inferior to Fei Guo in terms of strategy, this veteran is now old and no longer has the bravery of the past, so when he encounters a famous general like Fei Guo who is both wise and brave and careful and cautious, his powerlessness is no less than that of the Eastern Army generals who have been struggling to support him before.

And more importantly, because Yang Lingjun was originally a strong force that Li Mao did not intend to bring to Jijing, therefore, although the soldiers under the veteran general can still be called elite, but there is a lack of fierce generals who can resist the force of Fei Guo, so that Fei Guo often only needs to personally lead people to rush in an equal situation, and he can safely collect a victory in his pocket, which makes the veteran Yang Ling's hair more and more white. As long as you have a thick old face and ask Jijing to seconded the generals.

After all, most of those brave and young generals are in the main force of Yan King Li Mao.

After receiving the letter asking for help, Li Mao, the king of Yan, of course, could see that this was a tactic for the imperial court to surround the soldiers and horses to send reinforcements, and he besieged Jijing without attacking him. But he took the lead in sniping at Yang Lingjun who came to support, so he should even ask Youdou and Le Xu to leave the city that night and go to Yang Lingjun.

It's a pity that Cao Da and Le Xu were less than ten miles out of the city at night, and they bumped into Ma Dan, a vicious wolf who was foraging outside the city. The Five Tigers of Northern Xinjiang were immediately called to reduce their personnel.

Originally, Ma Dan was going to eradicate it together with Youdou, but it was a pity that Youdou's force was close to Fei Guo, but it was not something that Ma Dan could deal with, therefore. After taking advantage of it, Ma Dan quickly retreated, after all, after many days, the Yuyang iron riders in Jijing City who were soft-footed had already recovered, and Ma Dan didn't want to be bitten by it.

Sure enough, after noticing the fighting outside the city, Cao Da immediately led eight thousand Yuyang iron horsemen to leave Beijing. Chase Ma Dan.

Not to mention Ma Dan and Cao Da, the two cavalry units that are about to leave the battlefield and will start a cavalry hunting battle, and say that You Dou successfully came to Yang Ling's army and succeeded Yang Ling as the commander of the partial division.

It is undeniable that although You Dou was arrogant back then, he is now the strongest handsome general under the account of Li Mao, the king of Yan. So much so that when he replaced Yang Ling, Fei Guo really fell into a bitter battle.

One is the fierce general Youdou who is called the Xiashan Tiger among the Five Tigers in Northern Xinjiang, and the other is Fei Guo, the tiger of Liang Guo, who even acquiesces to the Liangqiu dance. There were more than 20 encounters.

In the end, Fei Guo still fought hard to pay a heavy price, defeated Youdou Yang Ling's army head-on, and personally went into battle, bravely killed Youdou, and asked the Five Tigers of Northern Xinjiang to lose one more member.

Knowing that the general under his command Youdou died in battle, Li Mao, the king of Yan, was really furious and personally raised troops to fight the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, but it is a pity that the current imperial army no longer has to be afraid of His Royal Highness the king of Yan, because the most powerful combat power of the imperial army, Yanhu Ji Liangqiu Wu, has already led the remaining cavalry of the Eastern Army and arrived near Jijing.

Previously, some people said that half of the strength of the Eastern Army was actually based on the strength of the Liangqiu Dance, and what about today's Northern Xinjiang Army? When Yan King Li Mao was restrained by Yanhu Ji Liangqiu Dance, how could the Northern Xinjiang Army be able to resist a general like Liao Li?

On September 3, the fifth year of Jingzhi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Li Mao, the king of Yan, personally raised his troops out of the city to meet the battle, and was defeated, not only was he injured his right arm by Liang Qiu Wu, but even his general Zhang Qi was also beheaded by Liao Li, causing the five tigers in northern Xinjiang to be reduced by one more.

Shortly thereafter, Xiao Huo, the youngest general of the Five Tigers in Northern Xinjiang, was also killed by Xiang Qing, a fierce general of the Eastern Army, and at the same time, the news that Ma Dan had defeated Cao Da and designed to lead the latter into a trap and shoot him was also sent from afar.

Who would have thought that the five tigers of Northern Xinjiang, who had no rivals across the grassland, would all die in this battle of civil strife?

After defeating the Yang Ling army, the supporting army, the imperial army officially launched a fierce attack on Jijing, attacking the city with soldiers, and secretly calling the Dongling people and Jinling people to take advantage of the night to blend into the city and harass them, causing the Northern Xinjiang army to live in peace day and night.

Although the Anyi heroes who went astray and were impressed by the charm of the overlord of Yan King Li Mao, Chu You, the cloth-clothed sword god, led hundreds of Anyi heroes to resist, but after all, they were defeated by the Dongling people and the Jinling people, and even Chu You himself was lured to the bamboo forest in the city by Mo Fei's deception, and hunted with the secret tricks passed down by Jin Ling'er.

When things progressed to this point, no matter who it was, they already thought that Li Mao would definitely lose, but when Li Shou thought about brotherhood and sent an envoy into the city to persuade Li Mao to surrender, he didn't expect that the envoy was killed by Li Mao with a sword before he could open his mouth after seeing Li Mao.

The overlord of the northern frontier does not need mercy from the enemy!

From September 6 to September 11, Li Mao, the king of Yan, began to break through, and in the face of more than 100,000 imperial court troops, it was hard to imagine that this northern overlord with a group of soldiers who had been defeated repeatedly dared to forcibly break through day after day.

And what is even more unexpected is that in the face of many fierce generals of the imperial court, such as Liang Qiuwu, Fei Guo, Liao Li, Ma Dan, etc., Li Mao really broke out of the encirclement, forced his way out of the imperial army, and fled back to northern Xinjiang.

Although Li Mao had less than ten horsemen around him at that time, he still broke through smoothly, relying on the generals of the Northern Frontier who were loyal to him until his death.

More than 100,000 troops came. Even, if you add the 70,000 or so Liaodong Expeditionary Force, the army of Li Mao, the king of Yan, who waved his army south, has nearly 200,000. But when he was defeated and retreated to the northern frontier, there were only less than ten horsemen left around him, and more than 100,000 northern Xinjiang soldiers died in this battle, and even, even though they knew that their side was doomed, most of the northern Xinjiang soldiers still sacrificed their precious lives for their lord to break through and return to northern Xinjiang.

As a result, when the Jizhou army counted the prisoners after the war, they found that the prisoners were only a few thousand......

How tragic! How sad!

The Rebellion of the Three Kings and the Rebellion of the Yan Kings, a two-year-long civil strife, finally came to an end today, but the Great Zhou Dynasty was also greatly damaged because of this. According to the post-war inventory of losses. The soldiers who died in the past two years were as high as one million, which was five times the number of soldiers and horses lost by both sides when the Great Zhou Dynasty went south to destroy the Tang Dynasty, or even more.

The turbulent and turbulent times led to a serious decline in the national strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Prices were high and the treasury was empty, which made the imperial court temporarily abandon the Northern Expedition, and also allowed Li Mao to take a breath for the time being.

In October of the fifth year of the reign of Jingzhi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, because all the soldiers and civilians in Jijing had moved to Chaoge earlier, Li Shou, the son of heaven, did not want the soldiers and civilians in the city to travel long distances to move back to Jijing, so he announced to the world. The royal capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty was officially designated as the imperial song, and as for the old royal capital Jijing, it was renamed Jizhou Mansion, which was stationed by the Jizhou army and became a northern military city to defend northern Xinjiang and grassland forces.

On October 6, Li Shou, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, sent a letter to Li Mao in northern Xinjiang. does not ask about the crime and does not forgive, but only says that a year later, on the same day, the imperial court should be the first to attack the northern frontier.

At that time, everyone didn't know what Li Shou meant, but Li Mao was silent after reading this letter in northern Xinjiang.

At the same time, the imperial court officially rewarded and canonized important ministers who had made military achievements in recent years.

Brunt. Xie An was officially canonized as King Anle, I have to say that this was somewhat unexpected by the generals of the Jizhou Army, after all, with Xie An's military exploits over the years, it is more than enough to seal the king title with the word "Wu".

But having said that, I'm afraid that only a very small number of people who know about it know the meaning of the title of King Anle, which is the title of Li Shou when he met Xie An.

And what was even more unexpected by the generals of the Jizhou Army was that the eldest son Mo Mo born to Xie An and the eldest grandson Xiangyu, this little guy who was not yet a year old, was canonized as the king of Wu'an by Li Shou, which made everyone wonder privately, did the Son of Heaven make a mistake and gave his son the title that should actually be given to Lao Tzu?

It is worth mentioning that when he was enthroned, Li Shou, the Son of Heaven, personally awarded the four-clawed python robe to Xie An, in other words, from today onwards, Xie An will wear those robes with four-clawed black pythons, which can be regarded as justifiable.

After Xie An, the people who were enshrined should have been Li Xian, Liang Qiu Wu, Wen Qin and others, but because the official positions of these people have risen to the top, this time Li Shou was not sealed, but personally wrote a calligraphy and painting with the three characters of Yan Hu Ji and gave it to Liang Qiu Wu, and gave Wen Qin a sword, giving Li Xian the honor of driving in the palace, going to the palace with a sword, and not worshipping in the court.

As for the eldest grandson Xiangyu and Liu Qing, because they were the heroes who made suggestions in this battle, Li Shou did not hesitate to reward, but unfortunately, the former didn't care about this kind of dispensable reward for her, and the latter, the eighteen-year-old excellent military advisor, obviously had not eliminated the mustard in his heart, so he did not accept the canonization of Li Shou, the son of heaven who destroyed the Great Zhou State that destroyed the Southern Tang Dynasty, which made Li Shou a little embarrassed.

As a result, Li Shou had no choice but to increase the rewards for Jin Ling'er, Qin Ke'er and several other Xie An's confidantes, and in the end, even Xie An's godsister Wang Xin also earned the honorific title of a princess, although the latter did not contribute to this victory at all.

And then there are the generals of the Jizhou Army.

Among them, Fei Guo was officially appointed as a general; Liao Li took over the helm of the Jizhou Army and became the commander of the Jizhou Army; Ma Dan was transferred to Beidi as the general of Yanmen, guarding the northwest of the state for the Great Zhou.

These three fierce generals of the Jizhou Army are all famous and tired, and they are reused by the country.

As for the rest of the generals, they also received canonization rewards one after another, including Liang Cheng, the commander of the Great Liang Army who was far away in Jingzhou, who was also promoted to the capital of Jingzhou Prefecture, and even Liang Shu, the capital of Xuzhou Prefecture, who was killed by the Taiping Army earlier, and Zhang Qi, the county guard of Guangling County, Li Shou also posthumously gave the title and asked their heirs to inherit the title.

It is worth mentioning. A full year after this battle, Da Zhou recuperated and gradually recovered from the heavy losses caused by successive battles, but in October of the following year. Li Shou, the Son of Heaven, really followed the preface and organized a large army to launch the first crusade against the northern frontier, and the target was Li Mao, the king of Yan, who was stripped of the throne.

And for this crusade, Li Shou transferred all the elites and fierce generals of the Great Zhou Imperial Court, and even Ma Dan, who was the commander of Yanmen, was temporarily summoned, which is enough to prove that Li Shou is bound to win the northern Xinjiang.

But to everyone's surprise, Li Mao's arrogant Royal Highness the King of Yuan Yan did not go out of the city to meet the battle this time, on the day when he learned that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court crusade were coming. He summoned his new wives and concubines, as well as their children, to whom he dined as if nothing had happened.

However, that night, Li Mao committed suicide by drinking poisoned wine.

Because he is well aware that both a year ago and a year later, almost all the elite Northern Frontier was lost. That can't stop the soldiers and horses of the imperial court at all, if necessary, Li Shou can actually ask Liang Qiuwu to pursue Li Mao as early as after the war and attack the entire northern Xinjiang.

It is no exaggeration to say that this year's time was deliberately left by Li Shou to Li Mao, in order to let Li Mao leave an heir. is not like the former crown prince Li Wei, the king of Qin Li Shen, and the king of Anling Li Cheng, who does not even have an heir after death.

And it was precisely because of Li Shou's kindness from brotherhood that Li Mao was silent at that time, so as not to kill the envoy who persuaded him to surrender like the previous time.

However, the arrogant Li Mao will not allow himself to bow to anyone. Even if it was a matter of his own life and death, therefore, in order to respond to Li Shou's kindness, Li Mao committed suicide by drinking poisoned wine when he still had tens of thousands of troops in his hands.

A dignified generation of northern heroes. The king of the grasslands, once upon a time the hero in the hearts of the residents of the Great Zhou in the north, fell.

After learning of this, Li Shouzhao told the world, pardoned Li Mao for the great crime of rebellion, and posthumously named the fourth emperor brother as the king of Zhou. This is not only Li Shou's tolerance for Li Mao, but also a pity for the latter.

As for Li Mao's children, Li Shou adopted them into the palace and asked the queen Wang to teach them carefully.

Of course, these are just later words, and the time will be traced back to October of the fifth year of Jingzhi, because at this time Xie An still has a major criminal to deal with, that is, Han Hong, Han Yi, father and son, who helped Li Mao, the king of Yan, betray the court and make a verdict.

At that time, after the Eastern Army caught Han Yi, he also caught Han Hong, the Duke of the Western Kingdom, this old man seemed to flee when he saw that the situation was not good, but he was intercepted by Luo Chao and others, and now, the father and son fell into the hands of Xie An, kneeling on the hall of the Great Prison Temple under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Department, and accepted the sentence.

Because of the special identity of the father and son of the Han family, Lao Tzu is the prince of the country, and his son is a marquis, and his status is outstanding, therefore, this time, in addition to Gou Gong, who has been promoted to the secretary of the Great Prison Temple, must be present for the trial, Xie An, the secretary of the criminal department, in addition to the squire of the criminal department, Xun Zheng of the Weiwei Temple, and Guanglu Siqing, and Beichi Hou Wenqin, because these two plus the current Gou Gong are considered to be the joint trial of the three lieutenants. The entire criminal government of the Great Zhou Dynasty was all present.

It is worth mentioning that even the Beizhen Fusi Du Wei Mo Fei and the Nanzhen Fu Si Du Wei Ding Qiu, who are also half of the criminal related yamen, also attended the hearing, so you can imagine the scale of this criminal trial.

It's no wonder, after all, the identity of the Han family's father and son is indeed special, and if you want to hold such two big people accountable, you must strictly follow the rules and regulations, so as not to fall into the truth. It would be bad if uninformed people mistakenly thought that this was the former hero of the imperial court's persecution of the Great Zhou.

I have to say that looking at the father and son of the Han family kneeling in the hall, Xie Anxin couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Back then, Xie An left the Nangong Mansion angrily because of something, and when he was cornered, the Xixiang Hou Han Li at that time could be called high-spirited, but now, he Xie An was a beggar-like little person in the hall, and he held a prominent position such as the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the Xixiang Hou Han Yi, who casually threw him five taels of silver, became a prisoner, which made people have to sigh and make people.

However, Xie An recognized Han Yi, but it didn't mean that Han Yi recognized Xie An, after all, people rely on clothes, even if Han Yi had seen Xie An many times before, but how could he have thought that the most popular minister next to him today would be a little person like a beggar begging for a birthday in front of his Xigong Mansion at the end of the lunar month?

Xie An was in a trance over there, wandering in the world, and Gou Gong, the new secretary of the Great Prison Temple, had already dealt with the rebellious behavior of the Han family's father and son, which was nothing more than beheading and raiding the house.

You can see it. Gou Gong was a little excited. It is no wonder that the new official took office with three fires, and he, the newly appointed Great Prison Temple, was going to behead a prince and a marquis as soon as he appeared, so you can imagine the excitement in his heart.

"What do you think?" Gou Gong opened his mouth and asked Xie An, Xun Zheng, Wen Qin and others, as for the others. For example, the imperial historian Meng Rang and Mo Fei and Ding Qiu of the Fusi of the North and South Towns, because they only have the right to observe, they are not within the scope of Gou Gong's inquiry.

In the end, under the nods of Xie An, Xun Zheng and Wen Qin, Gou Gong was shocked and sentenced the death sentence of the Han family's father and son, and the date was three days later.

Subsequently, Gou Gong personally led people to imprison the father and son of the Han family in a heavy prison, and said a few words to Di Bu, who served as the head of the cell.

"Old man, I heard that it will be your birthday in two months? But you have done your own wrong. I can't wait for that day! However, since Lord Xie has commanded, I have no choice but to do it, so I will ask you to celebrate in prison in advance! Not long after Gou Gong left, Di Bu ordered people to go to the street to prepare some wine and food and longevity food. was sent to the father and son of the Han family, making the father and son look at each other.

"Lord Xie? Why did Master Xie know about the old man's birthday? Han Hong asked in surprise and inexplicably.

"That's right!" As if he remembered something, Di Bu, who was about to leave, turned around, took out five taels of silver from his arms, threw them in Han Yi's arms, and said lightly, "This is Lord Xie asking me to return you!" Adults said. Although it wasn't the original intention, your father and son finally helped each other when the adults were down, and the grievances of the adults were clear...... Otherwise, this kind of treason can't just be ended by you and your father and son! ”

The father and son of the Han family were originally a little puzzled, and Gou Gong's sentence was beheaded, not Ling Chi or beheaded, and moreover. Although the family property was confiscated, it was not even on their relatives, and they couldn't help but be stunned when they heard it.

You must know that this kind of treason is definitely a matter of the six clans.

"Thank you...... Big...... Person? Looking at the five taels of silver in his arms, Han Yi's eyes couldn't help but widen. Through these five taels of silver, he suddenly remembered some past events.

How could he not know that the Lord Xie in Di Bu's mouth was referring to the Master Shangshu of the Criminal Department who was sitting on the throne in the temple hall of the Great Prison of Fangcai, but...... This most powerful minister in the Great Zhou Dynasty today is actually a beggar who made things difficult and gave alms to him back then?

Unable to help but hold the five taels of silver in his hand, Han Yi let out a long breath, even though he didn't care about it before, but at this moment, he had to admit that Xie An was just as the rumors said, the grievances were clear, the kindness of a meal would be repaid, and the grievances of the eyes would be repaid!

At the same time, our Lord Xie An Xie unexpectedly did not return home, but was alone in the newly opened restaurant in the city to get drunk.

Perhaps, it was because after meeting Han Yi, Xie An couldn't help but evoke some old memories in his heart......

ps: Ahem, this book will be over, two or three chapters. Don't say I'm lazy, it's really because after Liangqiu Dance got out of trouble, there was no suspense about the war with Northern Xinjiang. As you know, I don't like to talk about some obvious things the most to deceive you to see the money, the black devil is like this, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty is like this, and this wife is the same.

As for the biggest reason, it's because I've been writing this book for a year and a half, and I'm really a little tired of it, and sure enough, pure history is still not suitable for me, and I still like to write some history with fantasy colors.

By the way, in the next book, I'm working on a semi-historical, half-fantasy novel with a very grand world structure, and the goal this time is to make it a comic, hehe.

After the incident of Yangcheng Evening News, I think that if people are not famous, it will be the end of people's words. You should also pay more attention to this.

As for when the next novel will come out, ahem, to be honest, I've been doing a lot lately...... In addition to the incident in Yangcheng Evening News, I also have to learn to drive, and in addition, my daughter-in-law, who has just received a license and has not yet done a drink, is pregnant, alas......

Struggling with whether to have children...... Because now is the age to work hard and make money.

Finally, I wish you all the best, because I have indeed had a lot of trouble lately...... It's strange not to be too old again.

That's right, it's my birthday in a few days, please have time to help me get to a certain point to order birthday wishes, look better, please.