The sun is like a fire, knowing the enthusiastic chirping of the trees.

Sweat soaked his back, Yang Xiu bare-chested and bare-backed, standing under the tree and drinking the cold well water that had just been fetched, like a farmer and a small people, without the majesty of the emperor at all. Go to the damn emperor's majesty, Yang Xiu poured a stomach of cold well water, and the whole person finally got a moment of coolness. He never imagined that there would be such a hot place in this world, such a hot season. He has basically stayed in Shuzhong for many years, although the place in Shuzhong is a little remote, but there is no such heat in summer, and some are just cool and comfortable. What's more, even if it is hot in those days, there are always a lot of ice cubes in his palace, and his palace of the king of Shu is luxurious enough, there are gardens in the lotus pond rockery, water pavilions, and he also has a summer hall that can spray water on the roof in summer. And there are many big trees planted around the hall, and there are a lot of windmills erected under the trees, and the windmills agitate to blow the wind to the top of the tulle that penetrates, and suddenly a cool wind blows into the temple, making people feel like they are in a desolate valley.

But now under Nanyang City, there is no palace and no ice. Let the craftsmen make a few windmills, and the wind that can blow out is all hot.

The eldest grandson stood on one side, his head hanging silently, his throat seemed to be on fire, but he didn't dare to ask for a bowl of well water.

Yang Xiu looked at him with disgust, he had already known him before he married the eldest grandson. At that time, they used to play together, his father was the prime minister of the Northern Zhou Dynasty at that time, and Changsun Lei's father, Changsun Lan, was the royal family of the Northern Wei Dynasty and stood on Yang Jian's side. At that time, the two families were close. The children of the two families also played with each other, and Yang Xiu and the eldest grandson played very well. Later, the Yang family seized the imperial power of the Yuwen clan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the eldest grandson Lan participated in the killing of the Yuwen clan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, so he won the trust of the emperor even more, and soon deliberately married the daughter of the eldest grandson Lan to Yang Xiu, the king of Yue. Since then, Yang Xiu's relationship with the eldest grandson family has gone further. After he became the emperor, the eldest grandson family was even more favorable, and the entire eldest grandson family was crowned with eight national dukes, county princes and county princes, as well as more than 500 people, this favor was more favored than the three clans of Li Mu, Yu Yi and Wei Xiaokuan at the beginning of the founding of the Sui Dynasty.

"The front is announced. Changsun Kuan has been wiped out under Luyang Pass? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty. Yuan Heng secretly surrendered to the puppet dynasty, defected before the battle, and attacked my brother with the rebels back and forth, resulting in the annihilation of the entire army. ”

"Really?" Yang Xiu turned to Sun Hong, the head of Xue Guo. "I said that Yuan Heng is the main marshal, and Changsun Kuan is the deputy marshal, so that Changsun Kuan is mainly responsible for supervising Yuan Heng, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty." The contemporary head of the Changsun family, Changsun Hong, replied. He is the eldest son of the eldest grandson, the eldest brother of the eldest grandson Empress, and inherited his father's position as Xue Guogong. He has five brothers and sisters, three younger brothers and one sister. The younger sister was originally the princess of Shu, and now she is the queen, and he inherited his father's position as the Duke of Xue Guo. The three younger brothers also have to be crowned the Duke of the State, and the eldest grandson Kuan is his second brother, who has just died under the Luyang Pass.

"Deng Guogong, do you remember?"

"His Majesty asked Shangshu Yuanheng of the Ministry of War to lead the troops to attack Luyang Pass, and let Guan Guogong be the deputy marshal. And let him supervise Yuan Heng, and we all heard it. The eldest grandson of the eldest grandson, the eldest son of Deng Guogong, replied with his head lowered.

Sun Lai, the chief of the Lu Kingdom, opened and closed his mouth. "Majesty, it was Yuan Heng who betrayed Majesty. Guan Guogong has been loyal to the country"

"Loyal to the death? I don't need this kind of loyalty, it's called losing the teacher and misleading the country, 50,000 soldiers and horses, none of them came back, and all of them were lost to Yang Lin. And is that called loyalty, almost all of the 50,000 soldiers and horses surrendered to Yang Lin. If it weren't for the death of Changsun Kuan, I estimate that Changsun Kuan would have already descended to the puppet dynasty. I have repeatedly told Changsun Kuan before that his duty on this trip is to supervise Yuan Heng and be my supervisor, but as for him, almost all of the 50,000 troops have defected to the puppet dynasty, but he still doesn't know anything. I can't even remember my duties, who can blame if I die in battle? ”

His angry shout made the three uncles of the eldest grandson family all flinch, "It is true that the eldest grandson Kuan failed to fulfill his full-time duties, but he did die in battle for His Majesty." Yuan Heng and the others all surrendered, and Changsun Kuan never wavered in his support for His Majesty. ”

"Loyalty? To be loyal is to send all my 50,000 troops to the enemy, and then call me loyal when I die? ”

"The eldest grandson brothers were speechless, and the emperor's words hurt them very much.

"Your Majesty, our eldest grandson's family's loyalty to Your Majesty will never waver."

"Loyalty is not said with mouths, and what I want is not useless loyalty, when I needed to take Luyang Pass, you let tens of thousands of troops surrender to Yang Lin instead. I need to take Nanyang City, but you have been attacking for so long, and there is no way for a 100,000-strong army to take 4,000 defenders. ”

Changsun Hong grasped this sentence, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the weather is hot now, and it is extremely unsuitable for attacking the city, and now that Luoyang's 100,000 reinforcements have arrived, we have lost 50,000 soldiers and horses." The minister thought that we might as well retreat to Wuguan for the time being, so that we could send troops to fight after the weather was a little cooler, and then unite the soldiers and horses of the Turkic, Tuyuhun, Tubo, and Goguryeo tribes to go out of the pass together. ”

"Withdrawing troops?" Yang Xiu sneered, "Retreat, retreat at this time, how much morale do you think there is still in the army, maybe as soon as I announce my retirement, someone will immediately rebel." ”

"But now Yang Lin is coming too fast, the momentum is rapid, and we can't take Nanyang City, and when Yang Lin's army arrives, we will be in an extremely unfavorable situation." The eldest grandson Hong admonished.

"Then you will take Nanyang City for me immediately, you have an army of 100,000 and 100,000 craftsmen, why can't you even take Nanyang City, which is only guarded by 4,000 people? What kind of heroic city is Nanyang City? Or is it that the guards in Nanyang City are famous generals in the world? Yang Xiu glared angrily at Eldest Sun Hong. Although Nanyang City is also very tall, it is by no means as good as Chang'an, Luoyang, Xiangyang, Jingzhou, and other big cities, and the guards of Nanyang City are just Guo Yan's son, a stinky boy who has not dried up, if it were Guo Yan, it would not make him so angry. An unknown boy led 3,000 guest troops to guard Nanyang City, why couldn't the 100,000 army take it, even if it was filled with people, it would have been filled in long ago.

"Continue the siege?" Eldest Sun Hong's eyes were as big as a bull's eye, "Your Majesty, my God, although Guo Zhen is nameless, he does have some Guo Yan's ability." Although there were only 4,000 soldiers in the city, Guo Zhen recruited the whole city to be young and strong, and even women went to the city to help defend it, so he couldn't treat it as just 4,000 people. In particular, these rebels knew that Yang Lin was leading the army to arrive, so they were extremely tenacious. What the minister is most worried about is that even if we take Nanyang City, Nanyang City will have nothing to defend, and when Yang Lin's soldiers and horses arrive, Guo Yan of Xiangyang will go north again, and we will be trapped in Nanyang at that time. Nanyang City is a cage, and what we need to do now is not to smash open the cage and lock ourselves in, but to leave immediately. ”

"If you don't capture Nanyang, I vow not to retreat."

"Your Majesty, think twice. Retreat to Guanzhong, we are still related to Long, Shuhan, and Hexi, if we defend carefully, we will definitely be able to divide one side. Then recuperate, recuperate, and after ten years, then the troops will go out of the customs, and there will be no chance to seize the world if they are not compensated. I think that at the beginning, Yuwentai was only based on a corner of Guanzhong, and at that time, Guanzhong was even more destroyed, with only 30,000 soldiers, but Gao Huan was based in the land of Guandong, and the people were rich and strong, but in the end, Gao Huan failed to defeat Yuwentai in one fell swoop in several major wars of Eastern and Western Wei. In the end, the Yuwen clan established the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and the Gao clan established the Northern Qi, after decades of confrontation, it was the Northern Zhou Dynasty that destroyed the Northern Qi, with the weakest trend of the Three Kingdoms at the beginning, and later became the strongest in the world. Your Majesty, we are much stronger now than when Yuwentai first entered the customs, we have Shudi, Bahan, and Longyou Hexi, endure for a while, Taoguang Yanghui, he will make a comeback in the future, and it is still not too late. ”

Yang Xiu listened to the bitter persuasion of the eldest grandson Hong, and was not moved at all in his heart.

He is not stupid, these words of Changsun Hong can only be listened to superficially, and maybe he can talk to his officials and soldiers to boost everyone's morale. But Yang Xiu himself knows very well that today's shape is not the same as when Yuwentai and Gao Huan confronted each other back then. At that time, Yuwentai and Gao Huan each served as an emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty and competed with each other for the world. At that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty had just experienced a series of major rebellions such as the Six Towns Uprising, the Hebei Uprising, the Shandong Uprising, and the Guanlong Uprising, and the world was already in chaos. Although Gao Huan controls the Kanto region, he is also very unstable internally. According to Yuwentai, although there were only 30,000 soldiers at the beginning, the generals under his command were all generals from the Wuchuan Group. Only then did Yuwen Dai Zhou and counterattack the Northern Qi. But can the current shape be the same?

No matter how much he proclaimed, his name of killing the king and usurping the throne always lingered. Even in order to stabilize his control over Guanzhong, he had to deprive almost all of the wealthy lords in Guanzhong of their official positions and kick them out of the imperial court. These people are a hidden danger that can erupt at any time. In addition, on the contrary to himself, although Yang Lin is the regent of the country in the name of the prince, he was the grandson of the emperor canonized by the previous emperor, and Yang Yong is the crown prince canonized by the first emperor, so now Yang Yong of the Luoyang court has succeeded to the throne, and Yang Lin is the prince of the prison country, which can be said to occupy the orthodox name. In addition, Yang Lin is very good at using means, which makes the entire Kwantung region and even the Jiangnan region have now submitted to the Luoyang court, and Yang Lin has strong soldiers and horses in his hands, solving the hidden dangers of the northern Turks, and also getting a large number of Turkic cavalry to help.

At this time, he and Yang Lin desperately fought for Jingxiang, if they won, then they would be able to hold the Shuhan region, so that there would be the possibility of a long-term confrontation between the separatist side. If this time the troops failed to fight for Jingxiang, then Bashu Hanzhong would not be able to hold it at all, and it would be a dead word to be trapped in a corner of the pass at that time.

Yang Xiu would never retreat, he would rather fight to the death with Yang Lin in Nanyang than retreat into the pass, fall into embattlement, betray relatives, and die tragically.

"Don't say anything, if you don't think you can do it, get out of the way, and I'll personally direct the siege." (To be continued) R466