Chapter 12: Play Off
"This can't be done, whether Emperor Yan threw him out to make a deal with the Situ family or he is playing some tricks himself, we have no obligation to take our own lives to fill the hole for them."
Zheng Fan took out two cigarettes and handed one to the blind man, and then the two of them were originally sitting against the wall buttress, but now they all squatted down facing the wall buttress.
It's night now, in modern times, smoking on the battlefield at night is to give people a signal light, in ancient times it was not much better, there was no such thing as a sniper rifle in ancient times, but there was really no shortage of marksmen, especially after instilling qi and blood into the arrows and then shooting, the shooting and lethality will become very terrifying.
Zheng Fan used to practice arrows with Ah Ming when he had nothing to do, so he naturally had a deep understanding of this.
The two silver coins have always been precious to their lives, and they will definitely not joke around, after all, it is a tacit understanding to arrange a secret post or shooter near the front line at night.
So, with the cigarette butt pointing down, the two of them just pouted their butts and lit their cigarettes.
"What is the Lord going to do?"
"Since there must be a problem on the side of Xinsu City, then the result is either A or B, what are you planning, after smoking this cigarette later, I will go directly to the emperor and ask straight to the point."
"Lord, if Emperor Yan deliberately threw him out, it was to keep himself free from any cause and effect and suspicion, and to send him out in the most reasonable way;
Since we have accepted it here, wouldn't we deliberately smear Emperor Yan's face if we throw it out?
This may have made Emperor Yan angry and embarrassed even more than breaking Emperor Yan's calculations. ”
"Blind, you haven't seen Ji Runhao."
"Hmm."
"Let's put it this way, this emperor, in the ancient times of our time and space, is really another Qin Emperor Han Wu, and people are very arrogant, although they are dirty in politics, but people should disdain to use this method, first greet the Jin Emperor, and then let him be sold on the way back."
"If the Lord analyzes it from this point of view, his subordinates are convinced."
"Hehe, of course, if that's really the case, then it's a bad thing for us to be horizontal and vertical, and it's not interesting for this Dayan to stay any longer, isn't it?"
"That's right."
"If this one is all made by Emperor Jin himself........."
Zheng Fan spit out a puff of smoke rings, frowned and said:
"The problem is that even if there are no permanent enemies and friends in politics, what is he doing when he is in collusion with the Situ family at this time, Situ Lei has already ascended to the country."
"Lord, my subordinates feel that if we look at it according to this line of thought, if this matter was prompted by Emperor Jin, then there should be a change in one of the links that Emperor Jin himself did not expect."
As he spoke, the blind man stretched out his finger and pointed ahead, and continued:
"At night, thousands of horsemen came outside, and the size of the Situ family's army outside has exceeded 15,000 and is close to 20,000, this is not a battle that Emperor Jin can make."
"I heard that after the Helian family and the Wen family were destroyed, many Jin army leaders switched to his command of Yu Ciming?" Zheng Fan analyzed.
Yan Guo acquiesced to this behavior, and to use a not very appropriate analogy, Emperor Jin is now just like Wang Reclamation at the beginning.
Hearing this, Liang Cheng spoke: "Lord, the morale of the soldiers and horses outside is very strong, not like the rout soldiers who have just been reorganized. ”
"Forget it, don't analyze it, the analysis hurts my brain, since I'm sure there is a problem in this, I'll go down and ask it directly later, play a direct game, and don't do anything with him."
After that, Zheng Fan snuffed out the cigarette butt and said to Liang Cheng: "You watch from the city, be careful of the night attack of the Jin people at night." ”
"Yes, Lord."
When the authorities are in a mess, the best way is to cut it directly from the middle.
At least, Zheng Fan thinks so, it's not okay to pretend to be confused in order to get by with other things.
But at the moment, when it comes to the life and death of yourself and a large group of people around you, no matter how confused it is, it is not interesting.
Originally, the guards who entered the dock fort together with Emperor Jin were all transferred to the city wall, so when Zheng Fan led nearly a hundred armor soldiers over, there were actually only two guards and two maids around Emperor Jin.
Yes, the old dock owner did not change his habits and continued to send his granddaughter.
And Zheng Fan also found out that this specification is higher than himself, and he only said that he would send a granddaughter to warm the bed, and he would send two directly here.
Of course, this can also be understood, although the Yu royal family has long been worthless, and the Jin people have not known the Jin Emperor for a long, long time, but they are the real emperors in the end.
For a small tyrant like the old dock master, to be able to tie up with the Jin Emperor, even if it is not against his power, well, the Jin Emperor does not have much power left, but even if he allows himself to have two more princes and grandchildren, it is also a cost-effective deal.
Without waiting for the report, Zheng Fan walked in directly, and the two guards wanted to stop it, but they were forcibly stuck by the armor soldiers beside Zheng Fan, and they had a posture of directly starting if they didn't agree with each other, which made the two guards dare not make a mistake.
When Zheng Fan came in, he saw Emperor Jin drinking porridge in small sips, although at this time, he still maintained his own elegance.
But this elegance gave Zheng Fan a feeling of "he is very pretending".
In the entire four major powers of the East, people who have seen the three emperors can really be said to be rare, Zheng Fan has seen them all, and he has also spoken.
In contrast, Emperor Yan is domineering, and Emperor Qianhuang is free and easy, both of which are natural manifestations of "cultivation" to the extreme.
They may be similar to a certain extent, that is, they are both very easy-going, and the fundamental reason is that they are confident that they don't have to deliberately put on a majestic posture to declare their identity.
In other words, who wants to live by pretending to live every day? Aren't you tired?
But Emperor Jin is different, he is very pretending, because since he succeeded to the throne, he has not really enjoyed the feeling of the Ninety-Five Honor.
The more weak the person, the more eager he is to use this external way of expression to "hold" himself.
Seeing Zheng Fan come in, Emperor Jin put down the porridge bowl with some confusion and said:
"Has General Zheng had a dinner yet?"
At this point, I'm still thinking about Corporal Lixian.
Zheng Fan didn't like this, if he didn't know anything before, he was willing to cooperate with Emperor Jin to play a drama similar to Liu Bei's wrestling with Adou.
But now, not that interest.
"All out."
Zheng Fan said very bluntly.
Yu Ciming's eyes narrowed slightly, waved his hand, and said gently:
"Let's all get out."
Soon, there were only two people left in the room, Zheng Fan and Emperor Jin.
"Does General Zheng have any military opportunities to tell me?"
Zheng Fan sat down cross-legged in front of Emperor Jin, and at this moment, Zheng Fan did feel a difference in the level of power.
Emperor Yan, Emperor Qian, and even the two marquis of the north and south, when they were in front of them, they didn't hold a shelf very much, laughing, scolding and ridiculing from time to time, and they seemed very down-to-earth.
But the more like this, it made Zheng Fan tremble and walk on thin ice.
And now when facing Emperor Jin, Zheng Fan really feels that he is very presumptuous, and he is not bullying you, the emperor in name only?
In the final analysis, I am also looking at people with colored glasses.
"There is one thing that General Ben wants to make clear with His Majesty."
"General Zheng, please speak."
"Your Majesty's team was caught up by the Situ family's rebel army outside on the outskirts of Xinsu City?"
"Yes."
"Your Majesty should know that the person stationed in Xinsu City is a part of my Dayan Jingnan Army, and the Jingnan Army is the elite of my Dayan, with strict military discipline, and there are very few mistakes and slackness."
"I know."
"I'll just say it bluntly, Your Majesty, I suspect now that you were a gift from my Majesty to the Situ family."
When Emperor Jin heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and seemed to be a little unable to accept this level of straightforwardness, but in the end, it was the emperor, and his adaptability was still strong, and after being stunned for a while, he immediately said:
"How did General Zheng find out?"
"It's impossible for Shinjuku City to be completely unresponsive to the presence of a large army on the periphery, so I can only guess this way."
"So what does General Zheng want? The general took me in, didn't he ruin your Emperor's plan? ”
Zheng Fan shook his head and said:
"In fact, since Your Majesty has seen Your Majesty the Emperor of my family, you should know what kind of person Your Majesty the Emperor of my family is, General Ben has not received the notice, seeing that you are being chased, he will take you in, even if it is bad for His Majesty's plan, His Majesty will not blame me for this matter."
"This is not necessarily, the emperor's heart is as deep as the sea."
"Maybe Your Majesty still doesn't understand me, my third prince of Dayan was abolished by me personally."
Zheng Fan also thinks it's funny, the three princes were abolished by themselves, and they are about to become their own labels, and they can still take it out from time to time to brush up on their sense of existence.
"Since General Zheng is so sincere, if this is the case, how does General Zheng plan to deal with the aftermath?"
"It's hard." Zheng Fan said with emotion.
"Yes, it's hard."
Because there are so many people I have seen, I can't finish it if I want to extinguish it.
"However, I have a merit as a person."
"I want to hear about it."
"I always like to think about things in a good direction."
"Oh, good habits."
"What if this wasn't arranged by His Majesty?"
"Who arranged that? It can't be me, right? ”
Zheng Fan listened to this rhetorical question, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, staring at Yu Ciming.
Yu Ciming also smiled and looked at Zheng Fan.
Shaoqing,
Yu Ciming nodded and said:
"Yo, it's a coincidence, it's really me."
Yu Ciming admitted.
Zheng Fan silently put the saber at his side, and at the same time inadvertently reached out and touched the magic pill placed on his chest,
Road:
"What does Your Majesty want?"
This Jin Emperor is really a master who can toss.
The rebellion of building one's own country is in the front,
and then chase and kill yourself,
Resting in film and television dramas, this kind of plot is simply a brainless scene-stealing.
"Since General Zheng has been so sincere and open, I will not hide it, and the army outside the city has been ambushed in advance by my will.
The Yan army of Xinsu City did not dare to enter the land of Gyeonggi to investigate anything. ”
Matter, it makes sense.
Zheng Fan was really interested in this matter.
In fact, if he was just an ordinary city guard, he might really be treated as a marionette, and he would be played around, and he thought that he would get a cheap fall from the Jin Emperor's sister in the world.
Thanks to the demon kings under his command, they are all human spirits, and they discovered something wrong in time.
Emperor Jin sighed,
Fingers on the table and tapped gently,
Road:
"Without him, ask for a living ear."
"Who's going to kill you?" Zheng Fan asked.
"General Zheng, in fact, there are some people in this world who don't live for their lives. Swordsmen live for swords, literati live for poetry and articles, as emperors, if they are completely reduced to ornaments, then what is the meaning of living?
General Zheng, can you understand this truth? ”
"Eat to live, and live not to eat."
Hearing this, Emperor Jin's eyes suddenly lit up, and he suddenly felt a feeling of finding a confidant, and he couldn't help but regret a little in his heart, regretting that if he could have intersected with the other party earlier, he would not have been so lonely along the way.
However, Emperor Jin still had a layer of doubt in his heart, that is, his previous performance on the city wall and his current performance, this Yanren general, completely gave him a sense of immediacy between the two people.
In fact, at this time, whether it is Zheng Fan or Emperor Jin, when they look at each other, they have a feeling of being in the clouds.
At first, I thought it was a sand sculpture, but I slowly realized that it was more than just a sand sculpture.
"The matter has come to this point, please make it clear to Your Majesty, after all, there are no eyes on the battle array, and I have to be responsible for my own subordinates."
What kind of political routines do you play with conspiracy and tricks, you can go and play, I don't care if you go to harm the people of your Jin Kingdom anyway, but you want Lao Tzu's soldiers to give you a funeral, then I'm sorry, Lao Tzu is not playing.
"General Zheng should know that what I am asking for since I opened the South Gate Pass is nothing more than a 'living' word, I originally thought that with the support of the Yan people, although my face and history books will not be glorious, I will probably live with dignity, and it will not be a big problem.
As long as you Yan people still want to maintain a stable rule in the Jin Kingdom, you must offer me this archway, and as long as your majesty still has the ambition to sweep the east, you must treat me well. ”
"That's true."
"But the Situ family ascended the throne and established the country."
"So what?"
"In the land of the Three Jin Dynasty, the role of me is nothing more than three, one is to show the monarch of other countries, surrender to the Yan State, and also ensure that food and clothing are worry-free;
the second is to appease the hearts of the people in the land of the Three Jin Dynasty;
Third, it is to deter and suppress the Situ family, I am the real Jin Emperor here, and the Situ family, as a retainer, has always had to be suppressed in the name of orthodoxy.
Your Yan people's expedition also used the Zhenbei Army to go on the expedition, and now it is the time to recuperate, and they don't want to start a war with the Situ family, which is the most powerful and deepest foundation in the Three Jin Dynasty, at this time.
However, the sudden death of the old Situ family master, and Situ Lei's establishment of the country, seems to be a radical move, but it has already erased most of my existence and necessity. ”
Zheng Fan frowned slightly.
"You Yan people have promised the Situ family that if the Situ family is willing to surrender and return to the Yan Kingdom, you can retain the feudal country, and the Yan Kingdom can recognize its status as the lord of the country.
The old Situ family master directly refused, saying that he was a Jin person and would not be a lackey of the Yan people.
And then
He's dead. ”
"The deal was made with Situ Lei?"
Emperor Jin nodded and said, "That's true, what you Yan people want is a stable land of the Three Jins, so that the Situ family can build a country and completely divide the land of the Three Jins, which is very much in line with what you Yan people think."
But after that, how will I deal with myself?
I originally thought that your Yan Kingdom Tiger and Wolf Heart was very big, and you would have to swallow the three Jin before you stopped, but now you have stopped tasting it. ”
Originally, you are the emperor of the Jin Kingdom, no matter what, you represent the legitimacy of the Jin Kingdom in law, although the land of Gyeonggi is not big, and it is also a county, but at least you can still maintain a certain amount of influence.
Now that the Situ family has ascended the throne, it is clear that they don't recognize you as the emperor, if the Yan Kingdom still wants to take advantage of the situation to fight another battle and destroy the Situ family and unify the Jin Kingdom, it is completely possible to continue to rebel under his signboard.
But the problem is, in this battle of Yan State, the use of hundreds of thousands of cavalry, has emptied the family foundation, and is preparing to recuperate for a period of time, don't you see that the Marquis of Zhenbei has already rushed back to Beifeng County with a Zhenbei army?
This is because I don't want to fight anymore in a short period of time, and I want to digest the fruits of victory at this stage first, and because of this, the Yan Imperial Court even reached an agreement with the Situ family, you build a country, let's divide the Jin land together.
Under this default pattern, the existence of Emperor Jin is extremely embarrassing.
"Your Majesty is doing this to provoke a war between my Yan Kingdom and the Situ family?"
Emperor Jin nodded and said with emotion: "It's just for self-preservation." ”
Chengping's Jin State was an extremely unfavorable situation for this emperor, and only if the Jin State continued to fight and continue to be in turmoil, he had the need to continue to exist.
There is even a chance to fish in troubled waters.
Zheng Fan suddenly felt that the Jin Emperor in front of him was very similar to Li Fusheng, and his brain seemed to be sick.
For the sake of your own obsession, you can do anything extreme.
Or maybe this emperor has been obsessed with this kind of gambling since the opening of the South Gate.
"In other words, the soldiers and horses outside are Your Majesty's soldiers and horses?"
"After the Helian family and the Wen family were destroyed, I received a lot of knights from the Three Jin Dynasty and enriched the forbidden army."
That's an admission.
Zheng Fan stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, and said:
"Your Majesty, I still don't know what your real purpose is in doing this?"
Stirring up a war? Create tension? These big, empty goals seem a little unrealistic in concrete matters.
"Because I don't have a goal, I want to muddy the waters, otherwise there will never be a goal."
This is the answer given by Emperor Jin, first mess up, and then see.
"Oh, that's it."
Zheng Fan stood up.
Emperor Jin picked up the porridge bowl again and prepared to continue drinking porridge.
"Your Majesty, if you tell me all like this, aren't you afraid that I will write to my Majesty?"
"I'm not afraid."
"Why, I'm a swallow."
"I am still a Jin person, or the emperor of the Jin people, but didn't I also provoke a war for my own throne and let the people of the Three Jin Dynasty suffer poison?"
"No, no, no, it's different, I'm more pure."
"Perhaps, General Zheng, what are you asking for, I know in my heart that in the chaos, you and I can support each other.
Don't worry about the soldiers and horses outside, after two days of siege, they will disperse.
Your General Zheng's supernatural protection can be taken by you, and it is purely a gift from me to General Zheng. ”
"Not ........."
Zheng Fan suddenly felt that something was wrong.
"What else is going on with General Zheng?"
Zheng Fan turned around again, looked at Emperor Jin, and said:
"Your Majesty just said that the army outside the city is Your Majesty's men and horses?"
"Yes."
"Your Majesty, can you follow me to the city wall?"
"I was allowed to rest before, but you, general."
"The previous was the past, the present is the present, there are some things, I have to confirm before I can rest assured."
Emperor Jin stood up with a smile, walked to Zheng Fan's side, and said:
"Then I will accompany the general to the city tower to have a look, An Yi'an Zheng Aiqing's heart."
"Your Majesty, please."
Zheng Fan and Emperor Jin walked out together, and the two of them were deliberately separated by a certain distance.
After coming out, they walked up to the city wall side by side.
Emperor Jin looked at the armor soldiers on the city tower who were still waiting for him even at night, and said a little apologetically:
"I'm tired of keeping the general's tigers busy."
"This doesn't matter, even if the war doesn't start, it's good to be purely a martial artist."
Emperor Jin put his hands on the city wall, looked to the east, and said:
"Does the general know who the leader of the army on the other side is?"
"Please also make it clear to Your Majesty."
"His surname is Yu, his name is Yu Huacheng, and he is my pro-soldier general."
"Oh."
Oh, haven't heard of it.
"He is actually an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, but unfortunately he has been dragged down by me and has not been able to show his strengths, so I should introduce you to him in the future."
"Okay, okay."
"But his own brother, General Zheng should have heard of it, his name is Yu Huaping."
"Still not ........."
"Jianghu people call it the Sword Saint of the Jin Kingdom."
"Ahem, cough, cough ........."
This is indeed heard of.
"Your Majesty, so the Sword Saint of the Jin Kingdom is a royal person?"
"It's a distant relative, it's so far away that it can't be farther, but in the end, it's all surnamed Yu."
"I see."
At this moment, a whistle arrow suddenly rose into the air, bringing a whistling sound.
Liang Cheng on the city wall immediately shouted:
"The enemy is attacking at night, preparing to meet the enemy!"
For a while, all the armor soldiers who were keeping vigil or napping were mobilized and began to rush to the city wall.
On the city wall, Emperor Jin's face was a little gloomy, he looked at Zheng Fan, and said:
"General Zheng, what does this mean?"
"The enemy is attacking at night and preparing to attack the city." Zheng Fan replied.
The sentry arrow was shot by Xue San, and as an assassin, Xue San hid under the dock fort, so he could detect the enemy's movements early and give early warning.
Others can not believe it, but Zheng Fan trusts the demon king under his command 100% in these matters.
"Ridiculous!"
Emperor Jin scolded.
Zheng Fan was too lazy to beep more with Emperor Jin, so he directly pressed Emperor Jin's shoulder, and the two of them squatted down together.
"Whoosh !!!"
A flurry of arrows came up from under the city.
And with that,
There is also a dense shouting of killing,
Opposite the soldiers and horses,
It's really a night raid and a siege of the city!
Emperor Jin originally thought that Zheng Fan was fooling himself, but it was impossible to fake the current momentum, and he was stunned for a while.
"How is that possible......... How can it be............ How can this be ............"
At this time, Ah Ming and Siniang had already come to Zheng Fan's side, this is the standard, at any time on the battlefield, there must be at least two demon kings around the lord to protect him.
Ah Ming looked at the chaotic Jin Emperor over there and asked:
"What's wrong?"
Zheng Fan silently drew out his long knife,
Road:
"He's off."