In the past, when he was sleeping, he was mostly in such a posture, but at this time, Lin Yuan's mood was no longer what it used to be, and he just quietly lowered his head to clean his face for the emperor. She knew in her heart that Tuoba Hong could not pardon her for the great crime of treason just because he coveted her beauty and took care of her old feelings. Even if you go to bed today, you can't be back to being the concubine of the past after tonight.

But when the candles were blown out in the end, someone from the palace came to report that Concubine Zhen had seen that the emperor had not eaten all night, so she sent supper.

Lin Yuan got up and said, "It's time for the concubine to retire and let Concubine Zhen serve the emperor." ”

Takubahiro raised an eyebrow at her. She had no choice but to say again: "The concubine is a sinner, and she is not qualified to stay with the emperor." ”

"It's okay, I didn't accuse you, what do you care?" Tuoba Hong said in a deep voice: "Since you are willing to go back, then go back." Tomorrow's ancestor worship ceremony, don't forget to wear that set of jade jewelry. ”

When she returned to the house, she was picked up by the same attendants. The first snow was put back, saying that Concubine Shu needed a caring person to serve her. Chu Xue didn't seem to be tortured, but she had calluses on her hands, and she said helplessly: "Niangniang doesn't know the hardships of being in the army, I was assigned to the Huotou Army to be responsible for food with a group of mothers-in-law, chopping wood and boiling water every day...... Alas, I'm really used to living a rich life in the palace. ”

He asked Lin Yuan quietly, "The emperor is willing to see you?" What is the emperor's mind in his heart? ”

"How do I know?" Lin Yuan said in a sullen voice: "I looked at the jewelry that the emperor gave me, and there is no seven-tailed phoenix ......."

The concubine is wearing a seven-tailed phoenix. The emperor rewarded ordinary jewelry, and perhaps he didn't really see her as a concubine.

"It's okay, even if it's the worst result...... Lin Yuan sighed softly: "It's not that I don't have hole cards." ”

***

On the second day, Lin Yuan was woken up by Lile very early.

Then he was dragged up, freshened up and changed, and was taken out after a hurried breakfast. It is not uncommon for emperors to worship their ancestors on the way to war, especially for Tuoba Hong - he drove his personal expedition to stimulate morale, and in two years, he not only recaptured the sixteen states of Youji occupied by the Xiongnu, but also advanced the battle line for thousands of miles, and led the army to attack Dajiaoyu deep into the border of the Xiongnu. Of course, dazzling deeds must be reported to the ancestors.

Lin Yuan knows her identity, although she is named as a concubine, she is now just living by being labeled as a rebel. She was led to the ancestral hall by the people in the palace in front of her, there were people in front of her, and there were royal nobles standing on the Temple of Heaven, and Lin Yuan couldn't see it clearly from a distance.

Yunzhou City is not as good as Jingli, but because the successive kings of Xiliang were all born in the royal family, the palace is qualified to build the Tuoba Ancestral Hall. Of course, there is no way to compare with the palace, if the emperor really invites the Ministry of Rites to come over, and the ceremonial guards to worship the ancestors are lined up step by step, the ancestral hall will not be able to stand.

Left and right is "on the way to the battle", Tuoba Hong has a hearty temperament, so he led everyone to worship his ancestors in the Temple of Heaven, and the right to be this place is a battlefield without a village and a store. Obviously, the set of ceremonial music to worship ancestors in Beijing can't be brought - the one hundred and twenty chimes will definitely not be able to carry it. Rather, the trumpets and drums shook the sky.

Tuoba Hong stood alone in front of the temple, burning incense and praying, kneeling and bowing. Concubine Zhen was favored but not in the main room, standing beside Emperor Huai Ke. Then came the military generals outside the imperial family. Lin Yuan didn't dare to go forward, let alone look around, like a puppet, with the arrangement of the imperial guards. She couldn't even see the shadow of the emperor, and she didn't know how far she was standing.

"The founding of the Great Qin, the ...... of the 291st year" Tuoba Hong personally recited the prayer and burned incense piously under the tablet of the former emperor: "Today's expedition to the Three Kingdoms will return the last wish of the father......

Indeed, one of the regrets of the first emperor was that the border was restless, and the Xiongnu were always restless after suing for peace, and sure enough, ten years later, the war broke out again. Tuoba Hong is also thicker than the city wall, and every time he worships his ancestors, he has to tell his father about big and small things, and at the end he also adds a sentence "My son has done things well, you can rest in peace." His father can rest in peace before there is a ghost, the beloved woman was given to death by the Empress Dowager Zhaode, and the baby son was executed by Tuoba Hong as a thief, and finally he sought power and usurped the throne.

I'm really not afraid that his father will jump out of the imperial tomb!

The subsequent sacrificial ceremony was very bloody, and it was naturally a living sacrifice in the war, and hundreds of Xiongnu generals with titles were captured alive from Beisai, all the way to the territory of Qin, and were executed in public at this time. The warriors poured the blood of the prisoners of war on the pines and cypresses in front of the temple, and Tuoba Hong proclaimed: "The Three Kingdoms belong to Qin, and the Mandate of Heaven belongs." Now that the three armies are in full swing, it is advisable to take advantage of the victory to conquer the old summer. ”

In front of the ancestors and ancestors, the emperor announced his ambition to march westward and attack the old Xia.

Lin Yuan's heart tightened. The East Palace rebelled against Concubine Shu, and at this time, the emperor was not in a hurry to rush back to the capital, but only sent tens of thousands of henchmen back to Beijing to suppress the situation.

In the current capital, most of them are the defenders of the capital and the forces of the Shangguan family.

Shangguan Yue refused to go to the battlefield after committing rheumatism, and most of the generals of the Shangguan clan were guarding the capital at this time. The cronies under his command followed Shangguan Yue to withdraw from the front line, and they have not gone north for several years, and have been sent to garrison Tongguan. Later, when there was a rebellion in the East Palace, the emperor transferred this group of people back to the capital to guard.

By doing this, Tuoba Hong meant to trust the Shangguan clan.

I don't know what happened to the prince in the capital. The emperor found a clumsy excuse to force the crown prince to abdicate and ordered the king of Zhao to take charge of the country. However, he never made the big case of "rebellion" public, nor did he give the mother and son of Donggong a real punishment. Even Concubine Lin Yuan has not been mistreated.

Not only did Lin Yuan feel flustered, but more people were afraid that they were even more panicked than Lin Yuan.

***

Lin Yuan didn't expect that the northward march would come so quickly. On the second day after the ancestor worship, the three armies were ready to go north at the emperor's order.

Lin Yuan had long been distrusted by the emperor, and he could not know the emperor's thoughts as soon as possible. She was taken by Tuoba Hong to follow the army, and only after a few days did she learn that there was chaos in the territory of the old Xia, and the Qin army took advantage of the situation to attack.

The Mongols reaped a lot of benefits in the Xia State, and fought against the Qin State over the years, and in order to compete for this piece of fat, they sent hundreds of thousands of heavy troops to defend the old Xia city. In the nineteenth year of Qianwu, the coup d'état of Empress Dowager Jingwen touched the interests of the Mongolian nobility. Just two months ago, in March of the 20th year of Qianwu, the two tribes of Donghuan and Minyue stationed in the territory of Xia State formed a bloody alliance and plotted rebellion with the intention of overthrowing Jingwen.

Mongolia has been strict since ancient times, women in power is unheard of, Donghuan and others have a large number of officials and nobles to follow, and uprisings have broken out in various parts of Mongolia.

The Mongol tribes, who already held great power, set themselves up as kings in a few days, and the situation was very critical. Empress Dowager Jingwen hurriedly ordered a crackdown.

Mongolia was in civil strife, and Tuoba Hong was naturally overjoyed, and he was busy sending orders to the Xia Kingdom in the west. If Wenzhuang suppressed the turmoil and gasped, it would be difficult to find such a good time.

It was mid-June when the army left the border of Qin. Takubahiro had a terrible scar on his shoulder, but he was finally alive and well on horseback. In June, the northern land is finally no longer cold, but the boundary of the Xia Kingdom, deep inland, is not inferior to the wind and sand compared to the Xiongnu, and the hot and dry is even more uncomfortable.

The further you go inside, the more stuffy it gets. It was a terrible feeling, Lin Yuan had experienced it in his previous life - Urumqi is known as one of the four major furnaces.

Fortunately, the people of Qin went to rob their homes and houses, and they were in a good mood along the way. The group of unlucky defenders of the capital were driven back by the emperor, and the Xiongnu Dajiaoyu still left King Wu and his group, and the escort sergeants who followed the emperor were only more than 100,000, and it was not enough to attack the Xia Kingdom. Tuoba Hong then sent a message to King Wu, ordering him, Feng Huaien, and Luo Rongzhen to lead the army back to help, and also to the west.

Dajiaoyu is really a bone that is difficult to gnaw until tears flow, Feng Huaien and this group are brave and strategic, and several generals are battle-hardened, and they have been gnawing for a few months, but they have lost their troops and made no progress. Tuoba Hong looked at the situation and knew that hard fighting was not the way, so he had to summon them back to go to the Xia Kingdom together.

As soon as they left the Qin State, they encountered the first wave of enemy attacks. Lin Yuan mixed around the emperor, staring at it with his eyes open for a long time before he recognized that this wave of people was the Donghuan tribe.

They were all stragglers, and the emperor waved his hand to run them over. Then came the second and third waves...... The scene was a mess, the internal strife among the Mongolian tribes was too serious, and even the Qin army was just about to charge from a long distance when they found that a large area of enemy troops under the mountain had started fighting on their own. On the night of June 15, the Qin army had just captured a small town, and the holy car rested for a while, but an envoy from the Donghuan tribe came to ask for an audience, saying that they would form an alliance with the Qin state to fight against the Mongol empress dowager.

Tuoba Hong was full of black lines, and Concubine Zhen over there was a mess with the two nobles sent by the other party on the spot.

The Qin army continued in the direction of Xiping Mansion.

Xiping Mansion is now guarded by General Chu - after Chu Dakai's death, several of his sons and daughters failed to get up, and Chu Huasheng, who had the most high hopes, died in the palace with no bones left. Fortunately, his brother's house inherited his father's business, and his eldest nephew Chu Shirong received military merits and was appreciated by the emperor. The emperor was grateful for Chu Dakai's exploits, thinking that he died under the walls of Xiping Mansion, so he simply rewarded Chu Shirong with a piece of fat meat in Xiping Mansion.

However, the Qin State and the Mongols had a serious quarrel, and Xiping Mansion was won by the Qin State, and several large cities and passes to the east and south of it were either disputed places or defended by the Mongols.

The Qin State was ready to take all these places away.

On June 28, the Mongol army attacked in a big way.

Anyone who has a large number of people is naturally a henchman of the Empress Dowager Jingwen. Tuoba Hong didn't expect the other party to come so quickly, and it was hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers, which was very difficult to deal with.

At that time, King Wu and they were still with the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu and the old Xia Kingdom were thousands of miles away, and they were trekking on the territory of other countries, and there were many obstacles along the way. It is estimated that they want to climb to the holy car, and they will not be able to run for more than a month. Tuoba Hongben was counting on them to come to their aid, but Wenzhuang's side came too quickly, and he couldn't count on it.

Fortunately, Tuoba Hong is not the kind of rich and noble king who has never been on the battlefield, he killed and retreated the Huns at the age of twenty, and the march was cautious, and the personal soldiers who followed the holy car could not say that they could take the old Xia, at least they could keep a peace.

He is now forty years old, and he is no longer full of spirit, but the blood in his bones has never been extinguished. Taking advantage of the Mongol army's initial arrival, he had not yet crossed the Qilian Mountains, and ordered the army to bypass and surround the Mongols from the north.

In this battle, the Qin army fought with confidence, and there were reinforcements in the east, even if the battle was unfavorable but the city was besieged, it would last for ten days and a half and wait for reinforcements. The Mongols are too unlucky, the Mongol royal city has broken out in turmoil, how can the Empress Dowager Jingwen send reinforcements. This side and the Qin State are in deep trouble, and that side is still being attacked by several rebellious tribes from time to time.

The emperor of Qin was thick-skinned, and did not dislike the exchange of letters with the "two countries" of Donghuan and Minyue, and also sent General Xue's sister-in-law to marry the "Khan" of Donghuan as a clan. That khan was self-appointed by him, and the Empress Dowager Jingwen was so angry that she jumped to her feet, and she shouted one khan and one khan at a time.

Under the attack of several sides, the Mongols were defeated in three days and fled in the direction of their own country. Tuoba Hong hesitated for a long time, and then led the troops to chase after him.

That night, Concubine Zhen knelt in front of the study and admonished, saying that the emperor should not take risks for an old summer. Historically, the emperor drove the expedition in person, as long as the purpose of boosting morale was achieved, he should return to the capital to enjoy the blessings, and really conquer the Quartet and crusade against the world, which is what the courtiers should do. Takubahiro was also injured and should have returned.

It's not that Tuoba Hong can't listen. After a while, he sighed and said, "Don't you know, Daqin has no Shangguan Yue...... The Xiongnu and Mongolia were strong and brave, and Chen Xiu was buried alive at the age of 300,000 people in the Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

He has self-knowledge, although the Qin State is known to be strong, it is not strong enough to swallow the Three Kingdoms in one bite. If you want to get what you are not eligible for, you need to pay more.

Once upon a time, there was a Shangguan Yue, and for a country, the prestige of the "God of War" cannot be underestimated. Sun Wu has produced one for thousands of years, and the kind of general who is extraordinary in wisdom and courage and can fight well, which country is out of the martial arts star.

At this time, the Qin army invaded the old Xia and confronted the Mongol army, which was a critical opportunity. If you can take down the old Xia in one go, wipe out the Mongol army in this territory, and fight to the east in the future, you can take Mongolia in one fell swoop. In the end, if you attack the Huns again, you really can't attack it for a few years and then go up, and you have more confidence. Tuoba Hong was reluctant to leave at this time, he was really afraid that as soon as he withdrew, the tragedy of Chen Xiu two years ago would be staged here.

Tuoba Hong thought well, and when this battle was won, he would return to the capital.

The Mongols were intercepted and pursued along the way, with the Qin army outside and several tribes inside plotting against the sneak attack, and they fled for a few days and lost most of them. The Zongwu Glacier is melting snow, and the White Lake is now at a "high tide", and several canyons are flooded, and the Mongolians can't hide in it, and it is even more difficult to cross the glacier and return to China, so they can only go north and bypass the glacier if they want to return to China. The Qin army calculated this and divided the troops into three ways to intercept it, making the Mongols' bypass plan a complete failure. In this way, they were forcibly blocked at the foot of the Zongwu Glacier Mountain.

On the 10th day of the seventh month, the Mongol army fought against the water, and actually broke through the encirclement and forced the Qin army into the edge of the White Lake.

In the end, it is a Mongolian who grew up on horseback, and he is a brave elite soldier, and he can still have the power to fight back under internal and external troubles. Tuoba Hong didn't care, and said to the left and right: "The hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff." ”

As the two armies were fighting, a cloud of black smoke suddenly rose from the southwest, and a strong smell of sulfur came from the pungent nose.

At first, Qin Jun didn't pay attention to it, and everyone smelled weird, just thinking that the torch had burned the grass. There was a big battle last night, and both armies were carrying torches, and it was normal for fires to break out in the chaos of war.

Only the quartermaster hurriedly ran to the back to check the grain and grass, and when he saw that it was not the grain cart that had burned, he was also relieved.

The Mongol army that had been in front fled again, and the Qin army was tired of chasing, so he stopped and looked, and someone pointed to the southwest and said, "Huh! Why, this group of barbarians was so bold today that they ran out a few hundred meters and turned back again......" and shouted: "Tell the general, line up!" The barbarians are not afraid to fight back! ”

Several generals also found that the enemy had turned back, and the shield array was on top of it in rows. However, before the hand-to-hand contact, General Xue, who was looking into the distance, changed his face and exclaimed: "Be careful! Look at the brutes! They don't seem to be quite right......"

The large number of Mongol soldiers in front of them were not in high morale and shouted and pounced. They threw away their armor and ran in embarrassment, crying and running one wall at a time, and the people who ran in front were naturally shot into hedgehogs by the Qin army, but the people who ran behind were not much lucky, they staggered and fell to the ground before they could run much way, some vomited blood, and some fell unconscious.

"Retreat! Fast! General Xue ordered loudly: "There is poisonous gas on the opposite side, and there is no blood in the killing!" Let's get out of the way! ”

Takubahiro on the chariot looked at everything in front of him in shock. He was extremely horrified to find that the brave Mongol army, which had not surrendered after fighting with the Qin army for most of the month, was completely defeated at this time, and most of the soldiers on the way to escape fell to the ground and vomited blood and died.

That's hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers! And so defeated!

Fortunately, the Qin army reacted quickly, even if the terrifying scene in front of them frightened most of the people, Su Rili's training also came in handy at this time. General Xue drew his bow and shot a few soldiers who ignored the military orders and fled in all directions, shocking the three armies, and the rest did not dare to disobey and retreated to the north of the Zongwu Glacier.

The army retreated in time and in good array, and within a moment the march of the men bypassed the White Lake and hid behind a hill. The military doctor risked death to inspect the body of a dead Mongolian soldier, and said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, it is miasma." ”

"Miasma?" General Xue doubted: "Yunnan, Shuzhou and other places have a hot and humid climate and dense forests, which are prone to miasma. Then there is the mahogany forest in the summer country, in July and August, the weather is dry and quite stuffy, once the forest is on fire, the black smoke is a poisonous miasma. We Central Plains people are not good at dealing with miasma, and the Qin army is careful to avoid the mahogany forest on this trip, where does this come from......"

He stopped abruptly. He ordered a few of his soldiers to stand on the highest peak and look south.

The thick black smoke was like the smoke of hell, enveloping the heavens and the earth, and it could not be dispersed. And the hundreds of thousands of Mongol troops, because they fled to the south at that time, faced the miasma head-on. When he turned back, not only was the time late, but he was also threatened by the Qin army, and he couldn't advance or retreat. At this time, of these hundreds of thousands of people, very few could escape for their lives, and the whole army was wiped out in black smoke!

There are also a number of aliens who are different from the Mongols' attire, vaguely wearing a wide robe, wearing a very peculiar shape of the hat on their heads, and the rest are not very clear. General Xue's face changed again and again, and he threw his bow and crossbow on the ground in anger and scolded: "It's from the Xia Kingdom!" ”

At this time, many people climbed the mountain peak to look south, and they all saw the strange and terrifying scene. The men with the hats were in the black smoke, but they moved freely, and they were still holding torches and burning something on the ground.

"Your Majesty, it's not appropriate to stay here for a long time!" A military general was shocked and said to the emperor: "Let's find a way to get out of this ghost place quickly!" The people of Xia are still setting fires, they have buried things in the ground, I don't know how many, and I don't know how many days this fire will burn! ”

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