Chapter 497: The Truth of the Matter
() Is there any humanity in him doing this? His words rang out, and for a moment there was silence in the hall.
Just when everyone was arguing and there was no sign of compromise, a man wearing armor and a sword pinned to his waist walked in.
Everyone's eyes widened one after another, and they looked incredulous.
"General Ma?"
The crowd shouted one after another.
The man who came was silent, but walked in on his own, until he came to the front of the people.
"It's me, that's right!" General Ma held the hilt of his sword in his hand and said with a bold smile.
After everyone was frightened, a man came out of it, wearing a high hat, who seemed to be in a good position, stepped forward and looked at General Ma carefully.
Then the man asked curiously, "General Ma, are you a human or a ghost?" ”
General Ma opened his arms, looked at himself with a smile, and then replied, "Hehe, do you think I'm a human or a ghost?" ”
"I see you like a person." The man lightly pointed at General Ma with his hand.
"That's it!"
The man stroked his mustache, circled around General Ma again, and looked at him carefully: "It's just that General Ma should have died in battle more than ten years ago, although you are like him, how can you prove that you are General Ma?" ”
"Yes, how do you prove that you are General Ma?"
Everyone immediately talked about it.
General Ma took off his helmet and hugged it around his waist: "Then how can I prove it?" ”
"Now that the emperor has just died, none of the princes have been left, but at this juncture, someone has come to pretend to be General Ma, what is his intention?" One person took advantage of the chaos and shouted.
Then there was another round of chatter.
General Ma saw that it was not easy to prove himself, and some of them had bad intentions, so he had to draw his sword and dance, the sword with a sharp edge, although it was a sword dance, but people did not dare to look at it directly.
After a sword dance, everyone sighed.
"That's right, this is General Ma, no one but him can play such a delicate swordsmanship." Another person in the crowd was wearing armor, and the rather old man shouted.
"Great, General Ma is back, now everyone can listen to General Ma's opinion and decide how to set up a new master!" Someone said among the people.
"Yes, yes!"
Seeing General Ma dancing his sword to prove his identity, some people took the opportunity to sneak out.
"Stop!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the general appeared in front of them, pointed his sword at them, and then beckoned the soldiers to detain them.
"What are you doing, even if you are General Ma, what qualifications do you have to detain us?" Several people said dissatisfiedly.
General Ma put away his sword and slowly walked in front of a few people: "Now that the state affairs are in chaos, and you want to set up a new lord, but a few people have taken the opportunity to slip away, first, you can see that you are disloyal, and second, I can also suspect that you and the dead emperor conspired to kill the first emperor, arrest you first, and then make plans after the interrogation!" ”
Then he commanded the soldiers: "Take away! ”
"General Ma's actions are still leaky, I admire and admire!"
General Ma waved his hand as a sign of modesty.
"But General Ma, how did you survive that war, we all thought you had died." Another asked.
After hearing this, General Ma sighed: "It's a long story! I am here today for the truth of this matter. ”
The crowd looked at each other, and after a while, it fell silent again.
"Then General Ma, come and say, I'll wait!"
"This matter is not clear at a moment, everyone sit down first, and we will discuss the matter of establishing a new lord!"
After General Ma finished speaking, he ordered the soldiers to bring chairs, and everyone discussed the past in the hall.
"We have been discussing this matter of establishing a new lord for a long time, although Gu Ziyuan is a descendant of the emperor and led the army to overthrow the current emperor, but he is the son of the first emperor, and the first emperor escaped from the battle, which is really unconvincing!"
The speaker was an older man, and General Ma wanted to refute it, but remembering his advanced age, he tactfully said: "The affairs of the first emperor, and listen to me after the past things are evaluated, in short, everything is just the words of the current emperor." ”
"Okay, please come quickly, I can't wait!"
General Ma nodded, and then began to look back on the conspiracy battle more than ten years ago.
It turned out that more than ten years ago, the first emperor led the soldiers to drive the expedition, the soldiers took the prestige of the first emperor to be high, and now they are driving the expedition, the morale is very high, after a few days and nights of desperate fighting, the first emperor has achieved absolute superiority, driving the enemy to a desperate situation, almost no way out.
However, the first emperor marched cautiously, and did not slack off in the face of the enemy army with no way out, he knew that the soldiers had been galloping on the battlefield for several days and nights, and they were all tired, and they had always been
Faith is supporting them, their bodies have already reached the limit, and if they continue to fight, the soldiers will be easily tired.
In this way, the enemy army may have a chance to counterattack, and besides, in the face of a desperate situation, the enemy army will inevitably burst out with stronger combat effectiveness than before, and the chances of victory will be much smaller for them.
The first emperor was a little worried about the problem at the critical time, and also took into account the enthusiasm of the soldiers, so he decided to rest on the spot for the night, and wait until the next day to capture the enemy army.
At night, in the face of the enemy army that had reached a dead end, the first emperor rewarded all the soldiers and set up a banquet, preparing for the victory the next day, and everyone cheered.
Things were going well, but the first emperor never thought that his brother would not give up on the throne, and when he was weak, he sent an army to attack.
His brother, that is, the emperor of the dynasty who had just died, because the first emperor had always been the prince favored by the emperor, and he wanted to pass on the throne to him, but the current emperor was treated coldly, and said that he was too greedy and too mediocre, and the current emperor was not convinced, and secretly jealous of the first emperor.
So he secretly colluded with the dead and sent people to assassinate the first emperor at a high price.
But the first emperor could not be killed casually, when the dead man was preparing to assassinate, the first emperor had already found clues and found someone to transfer the bag.
Seeing that he had been deceived, the dead man immediately prepared to kill himself, but was stopped by the men of the first emperor.
The interrogation revealed that the dead man was threatened by the current emperor, and if his hand was rewarded, he would reward him with a thousand taels of gold, but if he exposed the mastermind behind the scenes, he would kill his family, and the dead man wanted to commit suicide because of this.
The first emperor secretly saved the dead man's family, but the dead man could not escape death.
Later, Emperor Taishang knew that the current emperor had ill intentions towards the previous emperor, and he planned to punish him heavily, but after all, he was his own son, and he couldn't bear to do it, so he only locked him up, hoping that he could reflect on it.
But not only did he not reflect, but after he came out, he recruited troops, secretly gathered troops, and waited for the opportunity.
So that night, he didn't think about brotherhood, and led his troops to attack the first emperor, and the first emperor had to lead his troops to meet the attack after learning about it.
The two sides fought inextricably, but the good times did not last long, the army of the first emperor had been fighting for several days and nights, and now it was betrayed by its own people, which damaged a lot of morale, and could only barely cope.
The first emperor thought that the enemy army would take advantage of the chaos to flee when he was in internal strife, but the enemy army surprised everyone and also attacked the first emperor.