Chapter XXVII: Retreat
King Wu caressed his mother's cold coffin, and then looked at the smile on Concubine Shu's face, and the hatred in his heart was monstrous.
"King Wu, you are still a child." Lin Yuan pretended to be pitiful: "It's really pitiful, I lost my mother at a young age." But it's okay, there will be this palace to take care of you in the future, and the queen will be good to you. ”
King Wu gritted his teeth. After a while, he asked Lin Yuan coldly: "Lady Concubine, Mother Zhen had a dispute with my mother because she learned about the old incident seven years ago, which eventually led to a tragedy. I want to ask Concubine Shu, so what happened seven years ago, does Concubine Shu also know about it? ”
Lin Yuan raised her eyebrows.
It is worthy of King Wu! It was she who underestimated this child!
Unlike King Zhao's mediocre qualifications, King Wu can see through the key to things at a glance! That's right, those four guards were all given by her to Concubine Zhen, including the inner eunuch surnamed Chen!
In the assassination seven years ago, she decisively shot Chu Huaxin, but left her henchmen and inner prison for future use.
Chen Neijian was loyal to Chu Huaxin, and naturally hated Lin Yuan. He was involved in the assassination and was supposed to be executed, but after Lin Yuan saved him and picked up a life, Lin Yuan placed him in the Xin Zheku to do rough work. He didn't know what Lin Yuan was having, he just endured the humiliation and waited for an opportunity to retaliate.
Until he came to Beisai, Lin Yuan gave him to Concubine Zhen.
He knew that Concubine Shu and Concubine Zhen were incompatible, and thought it was an opportunity, so he told all the handles he knew about Lin Yuan and reported it to Concubine Zhen.
As a result, Concubine Zhen learned about the incident and strangled Ye Xiuxin in a fit of rage.
If you don't reveal the events of the past, today's Concubine Zhen is still Ye Xiuxin's benefactor. King Wu saw through this.
King Wu's face was full of hatred, and Yun Dan stared at Lin Yuan's face with a cold expression.
"King Wu, you have also seen it, this matter, this palace really regrets it. It was the palace that fell into the trap of the concubine. Yun Dan squatted down and held King Wu's hand with both hands: "King Wu, Concubine Shu's mother and son are aggressive, and the former prime minister and other ministers support the East Palace. If you don't believe me anymore, with your own power, you can't fight this ruthless woman! And your younger brother of the crown prince, who is deeply appreciated by his father! ”
King Wu was silent.
Lin Yuan looked at it coldly for a long time, sneered and said, "This palace is too lazy to talk to you...... King Wu, you guessed it, this matter was the design of the main palace from the beginning! But so what? King Wu, look at what you're doing! Feng Huaien will support you a few times, Concubine Zhen Yundan, she is a foreigner and a princess! She killed Ye Xiuxin, not only because of old grudges, but also because she wanted to enjoy your ascension to the throne alone. She wants to be your dependent, your adoptive mother......"
"King Wu, you are luring wolves into the house by doing this, and the royal family of our Qin State will not be able to interfere with outsiders. Even if the crown prince and I die at your hands in the end, I don't want to see a hundred years later, the women of Tubo take control of our court in Great Qin. Your aunt, Emperor Wenzhuang, is now the Empress Dowager Jingwen of Mongolia! She is the princess of Heqin, the concubine of the first Khan. Do you know what it's called? This is stealing the country! ……”
King Wu's face gradually changed.
"Nonsense!" Yun Dan clasped Lin Yuan's wrist with one hand: "Concubine Shu has a sharp mouth, His Royal Highness King Wu can't listen to her nonsense!" Ha, Lady! And you admit it! It's because you want Ye's life, that's why you designed such a ...... King Wu, did you hear that? It's what she said herself......"
"Enough!" King Wu opened a pair of blood-red eyes: "My mother is dead!" ”
He gasped: "Lady Princess, Mother Jane, here is my mother's coffin." She doesn't want to be disturbed. ”
His Royal Highness King Wu ...... "Concubine Zhen still wants to persuade again."
Lin Yuan brushed his sleeves and left.
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Lin Yuan quickly returned to his camp.
In fact, as Concubine Zhen said, what she said in front of King Wu was indeed nonsense. Tuoba Hong guarded against Yundan tightly, and on the first day she married into the Qin State, she gave a decoction according to the ancestral teachings and cut off her heirs. Now conniving at her and King Wu's deep friendship is just coveting the help of Tubo Mongolia.
When Yun Dan supported King Wu at the beginning, he understood his identity and did not expect to be able to replace Ye Xiuxin one day. She just wants to find a support for her future, so that she will not grow miserable in old age.
But as the days go by, so does the ambition.
Ten days later, Feng Huaien and King Wu led their troops and attacked Wusheling Ridge.
The Tibetan soldiers and horses did not follow.
Lin Yuan stared at the army going out of the city, and turned to the side with a smile on the corner of her lips: "Concubine Zhen, it looks like you lost the bet." ”
Between King Wu and Concubine Zhen, it is not only the enmity of killing their mother, but also ambition and betrayal, which make them no longer able to trust each other.
King Wu couldn't stand Concubine Zhen's desire to control herself.
Yun Dan's face was numb. She looked at it for a long time, then turned around and said, "King Wu is a stubborn child. Forget it, there are more motherless children in this palace, and he is not the only one. ”
Lin Yuan's eyes were cold, but he could advance and retreat.
Then he smiled behind Concubine Zhen's back: "King Zhao and the Eighth Prince...... The palace is waiting for the good news of Concubine Zhen. ”
King Zhao in the palace is seventeen years old, married two side concubines a year ago, and went out of the palace to build a mansion according to the law. The biological mother of the seventh prince, Zhang, is quite loyal to Lin Yuan, and it is not easy for others to separate. The eighth prince is now only six months old, and he was conceived by a concubine who was not very favored a few days before the emperor's expedition.
So the eighth prince was not valued by his father, and there was a lively scene of the East Palace and King Wu, and almost no one would remember that there was another eighth prince.
"Today is the day when Ye's coffin returns to Beijing, right?" Lin Yuan asked left and right.
Ye Xiuxin's return to Beijing was a secret news of the royal family, and she didn't dare to spread it, so she was only managed by Concubine Shu. When Lin Yuan ordered someone to carry the coffin out of the cellar, it coincided with the retreat of the Huns on the front line, and it was a good time to attack Wusheling. King Wu and General Feng led their troops out early, but they didn't have time to send their mother to mourn.
Ye Xiuxin's life stopped at Beisai. She died at the hands of Concubine Zhen Yundan, and at the same time died in the hands of Lin Yuan.
Empress Dowager Zhaoyi Ye, one of the "Four Queens" of Emperor Qianwu. She was posthumously crowned Empress Dowager three months after Emperor Qianwu's death, and was deposed just a few months later. More than 50 years later, the monarch of the later generations of the Qin State thanked King Wu for his great military exploits in defeating the Xiongnu and garrisoning Beisai for many years, and restored his biological mother Ye to the status of the queen mother, and the tablet was re-moved into the Taimiao Temple, enjoying the incense offerings for all generations.
Ye Xiuxin had a rough life, unwilling to accept fate, and fought against each other, but after all, he was lost in the court fight of the Qianwu Dynasty. She was a loser in the struggle, but when it came to posthumous mourning, she finally got what she deserved.
This life is not worthless.
According to the official history, in the harem of the Qianwu Dynasty, the imperial concubines Lin and Ye have been discordant for a long time. However, another legend has been handed down at the same time - the Lin family and the Ye family once worshipped sisters, supported each other for more than ten years, and finally each was their son, and Ye Xiuxin died because of the inheritance.
"It's all settled, and the coffin of the golden silk nanmu has been replaced, and it will never insult the identity of Concubine Wen." Chu Xue smiled calmly: "Please ask the mother to show me again, is it to use the concubine ceremony to accompany the funeral, or to use the concubine?" ”
"With a chaise gift." Lin Yuan sank down: "It's King Wu's biological mother...... No one knows which prince will be sitting on the dragon chair in the future, if King Wu ascends the throne, needless to say, the fate of me and the East Palace, the Ye family will also be respected as the queen mother. The first snow, I'm already tired. ”
Ten years ago, the concubines competed, and she was still at ease. Now that she has won the great cause, she is no longer able to do it.
The war between the princes is really too cruel.
She looked at Yun Dan's tired and departing figure in the distance, and suddenly felt that she was too tired to hold her hands.
She leaned on the shoulders of the two maids and was helped back, and in the middle of the night, she caught a cold for no reason. This disease is another half a month.
It's just an ordinary wind chill, and Tuoba Hiroshi is not worried. Now that the war is scorching, surrounded by samurai who have gone to the battlefield to kill the enemy, Lin Yuan and the female streamers can't help but fall ill weakly, and they feel embarrassed, and they don't dare to bother anyone when they are recuperating alone.
The battle of Wusheling did not go well.
King Wu is young, but he is just following Feng Huaien. Fortunately, he was tenacious in his heart, and he did not lose his sense of proportion when he was surrounded by the Huns in the canyon, and then reinforcements came, and Wusheling was captured within ten days.
It's just Wusheling Mountain, but Tuoba Hong over there personally led hundreds of thousands of troops straight into the Xiongnu Yanshan Gorge in the east of Wusheling Mountain.
As a result, Yanshan Canyon won a big victory, and the good news was exciting. Tuoba Honglongxin Dayue decided to wave his troops north.
During this period, many courtiers wrote to admonish that it was too dangerous for the Tao to penetrate into the border of the Xiongnu. Moreover, the severe cold in the north is a great dilemma for the soldiers of the Central Plains, and everyone naturally has no intention of fighting when they are cold. If Great Qin wants to recover the world, he is not in a hurry, but he can carefully prepare for another battle in a few years.
Tuoba Hong thought about it for a long time. In the end, he decided to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.
He wanted to get the world so badly.
In the early spring of the twentieth year of Qianwu, the Qin army penetrated deep into the north. The two princesses drove north together.
The ambitions of the Qin emperors paid off. The Qin army fought all the way to Dajiaoyu, which is three hundred miles away from the Xiongnu royal city, which is the last line of defense like the Tongguan Pass of the Qin State - this is not easy, the Xiongnu are strong, the soldiers are strong, the Qin army is the best way to go, many important towns around the direct bypass, and in order to avoid the Xiongnu soldiers and horses from the north of the Qilian Mountains snow-capped mountains and valleys crawled. In those days, tens of thousands of people froze to death in the snow-capped mountains.
However, Qin's good fortune seems to have run out. The battle of Dajiaoyu was lost, and Tuoba Hiroshi was slashed in the right shoulder in the chaos and was seriously wounded.
The Qin army had to retreat.
Tuoba Hong's injuries were not light, and he was no longer able to continue the battle, so he was escorted back to the capital by heavy guards.
Although the emperor wanted to return to Beijing, it was impossible for the army to withdraw. Wu Wang, Feng Huaien, Luo Rongzhen and other generals led their troops to garrison under the city wall of Dajiaoyu, and ten days later they were ready to attack the city again. And along the way captured the Xiongnu cities, dangerous passes and other places, there are soldiers and horses garrisoned, the Qin army menacing into the Xiongnu.
At this time, the emperor's mood was not very bad. Although he was very unlucky to be stabbed, the Qin army had already obtained half of the Xiongnu and killed countless prisoners. Even because of the sacking of the Xiongnu and the cities of the Old Xia, the taxes in the Qin State were reduced by two cents.
Lin Yuan and Yun Dan served the emperor day and night, but now there are no courtiers to accuse the two imperial concubines, the emperor needs someone to take care of him, and it is really not good to have a meticulous and considerate woman by his side.
When the holy car arrived at Juyong Pass, there were soldiers with holy faces, and the pursuers of the Dao Huns came to this side.
The Xiongnu are not soft persimmons like the Xia Kingdom. A year ago, the Mongolian king Yuanlie made a desperate gamble and led a large army to the Xiongnu royal city, but the whole army was annihilated. Even though there was the reason for the infighting of the Mongol regime and the assassins sent by the concubine Wenzhuang, the difficult bone of the Xiongnu was the biggest dilemma.
Tuoba Hong sneered when he heard this. The Huns just don't want to die in their bones, Juyongguan is already in the territory of Qin, and they dare to chase after them.
The Huns went south, because there were cities captured by the Qin army everywhere, and the price they paid was huge.
"Reinforcement of guards." Tuoba Hongshen ordered.
"The emperor is relieved, and the East Palace has already issued an order to send reinforcements to meet the emperor on a long journey." Lin Yuan held Tuoba Hong's hand.
The man's palms were no longer warm forever.
Lin Yuan was a little scared, as a woman who was not very strong, the symptoms of cold limbs were very common. According to traditional Chinese medicine, the human body is weak and the heart is fragile when the hands and feet are cold. And the samurai who have been practicing martial arts since childhood are mostly warm in their hands and feet.
Tuoba Hong is no longer in the prime of life...... He was injured this time, and he was unlikely to recover as quickly as he did twenty years ago.
Hiroshi closed his eyes and nodded.
Even though the Qin army was heavily garrisoned, at midnight on this day, the Huns still killed Juyong Pass.
Far away, the sound of swords colliding and shouting to kill was faintly heard. Lin Yuan sat quietly and made a bowl of bird's nest for the emperor.
Like the emperor, she didn't feel nervous. At the end of the Xiongnu's strong crossbow, there is nothing to be afraid of.
However, an hour later, Lin Yuan heard the heavy sound of a wooden mallet crashing. She sat up in her cloak and ran to the upper room where the emperor was, and when the door opened, she saw Yun Dan, who was also panicked. Yun Dan said loudly: "Quick, protect the emperor!" The enemy has hit the gavel, is it about to break the city......"
"Shut up!" Lin Yuan shouted: "What are you doing alarmist!" What kind of place is Juyong Pass, you should know, it is impossible to break through here! ”
The situation is urgent, and there is no need to quarrel. Lin Yuan lifted the curtain to see the emperor: "Your Majesty ......"
"Don't panic." Tuoba Hong is still calm: "Spread Xue Ze, Wang and Gui ......"
Several generals were soon summoned. General Xue said sadly: "There is already panic in Juyong Pass! The people are preparing to flee, and the last general is also deeply surprised, the Huns are only tens of thousands of chasing soldiers, but there are three times as many as attacking the city tonight! It's really weird! ”
Another general, Zhang, said, "...... Reinforcements have been dispatched under the east palace of the capital, and they were originally expected to arrive tonight, but they have not arrived for a long time! If you continue to fight like this, the Juyong Pass will be broken, and it is the best policy to ask the emperor to move as soon as possible! ”
Tuoba Hong's face was angry, and he coughed up blood again in anger, which frightened Yun Dan to cry on the side.
Takubahiro knew how weird this was. According to Concubine Shu, it is impossible for Juyong Pass to be lost. There is a 300-meter-deep and 100-meter-wide mountain canyon, which is the moat! Not to mention that Juyongguan, as an important town of Qin, was well defended.
The devil knows how the desperate Huns hit the city gate!
However, there is no time to think now. Hiroshi Takuba ordered a retreat.
Hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers guarded the holy car, during which the people of the whole city fled with the left and right, and Tuoba Hong sat in the sedan chair and felt deeply embarrassed - what is the matter! Half of the Xiongnu is still in the hands of the Qin people, the Qin State has been fighting for many years, boasting of outstanding merits, how many territories and cities have been captured, but today they are driven by the Huns to abandon Juyong Pass!
Why don't the Huns play their cards according to common sense! Even if you want to hunt down your own king, you should send more main forces to recapture those lost cities first! According to General Xue's report, the Xiongnu army of soldiers and horses pressed the border...... Could it be that all the defenders of the royal city have been transferred?!
When the holy car walked through the south gate, Juyong passed through the north gate of the city.
The shouts of killing shook the sky.
"Turn back, fight!" Tuoba Hong said coldly.
Although several generals dissuaded him, the emperor finally decided to fight to the death. The army lit torches and set up a shield array, and General Wang led the vanguard to block the front.
General Xue led the army to burn down the granary of Juyongguan, and the flames rose to the sky. Along the way, the neighborhoods and alleys are full of torches, and in the dark midnight, Juyong Pass is illuminated like day.
The warriors of the Qin State climbed the city wall to guard the military flag, and below them were the black and oppressive enemy troops, who could break through the city gates, and the army swarmed into the city. The vanguard army immediately rose to the top and stopped the enemy troops who broke through the city.
However, just as the two sides were fighting head-on, General Wang saw the face of the opposing coach clearly by the firelight. He was so shocked that he almost fell off his horse, and shouted, "General Zhang......"
That's no one else.
It is the second grade of the capital to promote the governor Zhang Kaishan. In the past, he was stationed in Beisai for many years and made military achievements, and then he was transferred back to the capital to add an official to the knight.
"What's going on!" The adjutant general beside General Wang said in horror: "The palace in the middle of the capital has already issued an order, saying that it is going to send reinforcements to meet the holy car, and if the troops are sent over, it will be General Zhang who will lead the defenders of the capital...... But General Zhang met us in arms! ”
Before the words fell, another general shouted in fear and despair: "General Wang, go to the Holy Lord!" Donggong and Zhang Kaishan have rebelled! The East Palace killed the monarch and killed the father, the emperor should go south to hide......"
This "rebellion" is even more shocking than the Hun army's breaking of the city. There was an immediate commotion in the Qin army, and immediately someone went to spread the message to the emperor in the rear, and more people panicked: "What a rebellion!" Oh my God...... "The defenders of the capital are the most elite and brave soldiers, and we like the Northern Cypriot army want to enter the camp in the capital, but we have to take the martial arts test to get in." With the manpower of Juyongguan, it is no match for the city defense army! ”
At this time, General Wang was also shocked. He stared at the black men and horses opposite, suddenly drew his sword and turned back, and slashed at the head of the deputy general who shouted "rebellion".
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