Chapter 254 Catching Turtles in the Urn

According to the recital presented by Jiang Zhixuan. The plan to lure the enemy will be carried out during the three days from the sixth to the eighth day of the first month of April. Li Shimin looked at the piece in his hand, and couldn't help but feel a little worried. Today is the sixth day of the fourth month, and I don't know what is happening in Hangzhou City now......

Judging from the plan presented in Jiang Zhixuan's recital, Li Shimin himself believes that it is feasible from the perspective of a military commander. Especially the arrangements added by Jiang Zhixuan himself in the back are even more stable and old-fashioned. Li Shimin believed that if everything went smoothly and developed exactly according to the plan, the Hangzhou Rebellion would soon be put to rest.

As soon as he thought of this, Li Shimin hesitated a little. He has been thinking about a question - how to deal with his proud protégé Jiang Zhixuan?

In all fairness, Jiang Zhixuan will bear some responsibility for the Hangzhou Rebellion. It's a good thing to be jealous and hateful, but he's a bit of a rush. It is not at all like the conservative and prudent approach he had when he first arrived in Hangzhou, but Li Shimin also knew that this was because Empress Changsun was once critically ill and provoked the Jianghuai and Huai Protectorates. And although there was a mutiny in Hangzhou, the people of Hangzhou City did not suffer from the disaster of the war, which is already very commendable!

Jiang Zhixuan was cultivated by himself with great effort, not only for his own dynasty, but also as an auxiliary minister who was ready to be left to the successor. If that's it, they'll hide him. Is it too much for a man so young, with a reputation and prestige in his prime, and a man who is also very discreet?

However, the ministers of the DPRK and China seized on the Hangzhou mutiny, and the uncle of the country, Sun Wuji, unscrupulously impeached Jiang Zhixuan, forcing the Jianghuai and Huai to rebel. Li Shimin can understand the mind of the eldest grandson Wuji, Jianghuai and Donggong are the foundation of him and the East Palace, after so many years of hard work, once it is in vain, he will definitely do something out of the ordinary. But knowing that this was the case, Li Shimin still had to appease these people. Because there are not many old people who follow themselves to fight the world, and now they are all in high positions. For the sake of the stability of the imperial court and the overall situation, Li Shimin had to make some moves......

Thinking about it, I'm afraid that there is really only according to Guanyin's meaning, let him go to be a teacher for the pheasant slave, and temporarily break away from the government. However, although such a decision was made, Li Shimin himself did not know how to open this mouth. Suddenly there was an idea, yes, since it was Guanyin who proposed it, then let Guanyin be a good person again, let her speak......

Thinking like this, Li Shimin temporarily put aside the war in Hangzhou, turned around and ordered Wang De to drive the Tai Liquid Pool. It is said that since Sun Simiao prescribed the prescription, the eldest grandson queen took it every day, and the lady of the Jiang family, "> and the three little guys are happy every day, and this body is the same every day, and it is recovering every day. The glow on his face is getting brighter and brighter. According to Sun Simiao, as long as you insist on taking the medicine for another month, you can fully recover, and within five years, at least you don't have to worry about recurrence......

For such a completely unexpected result, Li Shimin was full of gratitude to Xiaoxiao. But because of this, I dare not face Xiaoxiao even more. He saved the life of his Guanyin maid three times and twice, but he was calculating to demote the position of the husband and reduce the power of the husband...... Therefore, when he is usually small, Li Shimin now tries to avoid going to the Taiye Pool......

By this time it was evening, and according to the usual custom, Xiao Xiao should have returned to the dwelling of the Manna Hall with the three lovely little ones. But for the sake of safety, when he arrived at the gate of the Taiye Pool, Li Shimin still habitually ordered Wang De to go and investigate, and learned that Xiao Xiao was no longer in the queen's bedroom, so Li Shimin took a long breath and stepped into the palace door with confidence.

Empress Changsun no longer needs to lie on the sickbed every day, on the contrary, during the day, she spends most of her time accompanied by a small one. Walk around the Imperial Garden and exercise. What is lost and recovered is often the most precious, not to mention that it is still life. Therefore, Empress Changsun basically obeys her little advice, what time to get up, what time to have breakfast, when to exercise and when to take medicine, there is a strict procedure. Empress Changsun knew that Xiaoxiao had such a set of health preservation methods before, but she didn't pay much attention to it before, but now she never dared to do it again......

When Li Shimin saw his Guanyin, she was doing a strange movement: her hands were on the ground, her arms were constantly bending and stretching, and she seemed to be doing it very hard. A palace maid next to her was still nodding and counting like a chicken pecking rice: seven...... Eight...... Nine......

When the palace maid counted to the seventeenth, Empress Changsun's face was already red, and she was panting in her throat, and it seemed that she was about to be unable to support it. Li Shimin hurriedly went over and opened a booklet on the table, which was the exercise subjects prescribed by Xiaoxiao for the eldest grandson queen every day. Seeing that today's request was twenty "push-ups", Li Shimin hurriedly turned around and cheered for Empress Changsun:

"There are still three left, Guanyin, come on, I am optimistic about you......"

Holding the thick Persian carpet in her hands, the eldest grandson queen didn't even have the strength to raise her head and roll her eyes, and after gritting her teeth and insisting on doing two more, she finally let go of her arms and lay straight on the ground. The back rises and falls with the heavy breathing of the chest. Li Shimin has been surprised by this situation since the first day, so he didn't rush over to help her up, but sat down for a long time, took a sip of the tea on the table, and then said something that made the eldest grandson queen angry:

"There's still one missing, don't be a laid-skin, you must finish it. Pheasant slaves can make seventy in one go. The little husband you found for our little son-in-law "> can make forty in one go, and your mother-in-law can't even do half of the others, it's too embarrassing......" said himself and laughed out loud first......

The eldest grandson queen on the ground couldn't wait to get up and beat him wildly, but after thinking about it, yes, the tiger head is only four years old, and he can do forty of them, and his face is not red or panting. I have only made nineteen of them, and it seems that the body is the one who is ...... What's that? Oh, physical fitness, physical fitness is really bad, it's that little girl, such a delicate look, you can do thirty casually. Thinking like this, Empress Eldest Sun forced herself to muster up the last bit of strength, and even did three more to stand up......

Li Shimin, who was sitting firmly in Diaoyutai, heard the final report of the palace maid, applauded again and again, and praised endlessly: "It's so rare, Guanyin, starting from the first day of five, to today, a full fifteen days have passed, and the goal of increasing by one every day is only to exceed the task." Reward! Hahaha......"

Since Empress Changsun gradually began to recover, Li Shimin has also been adjusting his personality. almost never got angry in front of her again, on the contrary, Li Shimin also took a small suggestion, and from time to time told some jokes to tease the eldest grandson queen, so that she could laugh more, be happier, and be in a much better mood. If the mood is good, the mood is good, and the mood is good, and it will have a better role in promoting the recovery of the disease......

Faced with her husband's teasing, Empress Eldest Sun didn't care at all. After standing up and gasping for breath for a while. finally smoothed out the breath, then took the wet towel handed over by the palace maid and cleaned his hands, and then walked back to the edge of the bed and sat down, facing Li Shimin opposite, and slowly opened his mouth and said:

"Why did Erlang come here so early today? Aren't you afraid of meeting Xiaoxiao? ”

Sure enough, as soon as Empress Eldest Sun said this, Li Shimin immediately became nervous, his buttocks were half raised, and he looked around nervously and asked:

"Could it be that Xiaoxiao hasn't gone back yet?"

Empress Changsun covered her mouth and smiled: "Look at your appearance, where is there still half an emperor's appearance." In the whole world, who can make His Majesty the Emperor afraid of this appearance? Wouldn't it be laughing off people's big teeth when it was passed out? ”

In front of his most beloved Guanyin, Li Shimin did not feel any shame. Looking at the queen's appearance, he knew that she must be entertaining herself again, but Li Shimin was not the slightest annoyance, but was even happier. So he continued the words of Empress Changsun and said:

"I don't know if the emperor of the previous dynasty was afraid of people, but now I am afraid of two people in this Zhenguan Tang Dynasty. One is naturally my Guanyin maid, and the other is this Mrs. Jiang ">, Xiao Xiaoxiao ......"

Empress Eldest Sun knew it, but she still asked with a smile: "Why is this?" Your Majesty the Emperor! ”

Li Shimin replied curtly: "Don't you know this?" They just saved your life again, and her husband is still in Hangzhou to defend the city and quell the rebellion. But I am thinking about cutting off the position of the husband of the family and reducing the title of the husband of the other family...... Alas, I'm ashamed......" As he said this, he glanced at Empress Changsun intentionally or unintentionally......

Empress Eldest Sun looked at Li Shimin's dodgy eyes in her eyes, and laughed in her heart: "Your Majesty might as well say it clearly, so dodging and dodging, but making the concubine see the joke......"

Li Shimin secretly said ashamed again in his heart, and then finally opened his mouth with Ai Ai: "Guanyin, that's the case, you see, most of the ministers in the DPRK and China are quite critical of Jiang Zhixuan. Your brother is even in tandem up and down, and launched the imperial historian to impeach him. For the sake of the unity of the court, for the sake of the overall situation, I had to follow their wishes. Refrigerate Jiang Zhixuan for the time being. It's just that I really can't open this mouth. You and Xiaoxiao are so close that they are sisters" > commensurate, I want to ask you for this matter, find an opportunity to tell her about my difficulties, and let her persuade Jiang Zhixuan? ”

Empress Eldest Sun secretly felt funny in her heart, this was originally a small meaning. Now His Majesty is the opposite, he feels embarrassed, what kind of thing is this? However, she also felt that she owed too little to the Jiang family and his wife, so that Erlang was worried about it, and she felt better in her own heart, so she forced a smile and nodded and agreed. Happy Li Shimin was overjoyed:

"Great, Guanyin, you're really my virtuous helper......"

Empress Eldest Sun was ashamed for a while: "Well, the virtuous help who turned his elbow outward......"

The next day, as soon as Xiaoxiao stepped into the Taiye Pool, Empress Changsun told Xiaoxiao the news as if she was invited to take credit. And as soon as he got the news, Xiaoxiao was also full of happiness. Then the two women sat down and discussed how to be a master for the pheasant slave after Jiang Zhixuan was removed. If Jiang Zhixuan knew that he had been removed, his wife "> and the queen almost jumped three feet high, I don't know if they would vomit blood in depression......

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Jiang Zhixuan almost vomited blood, but it was not because of this incident, but because of the shouting and killing at the city gate......

Today is the eighth day of the fourth month, the last day of Duan Zhixuan's plan to lure the enemy. Late yesterday night, Jiang Zhixuan received a message personally sent by the captain of the personal guard: In the early morning of the day before yesterday, more than 20,000 eagles were guarding the periphery of Suzhou, and more than 11,000 rebel reinforcements from Jiangnan Province were completely annihilated, and none of them escaped the net. Then, after a day and a night of galloping, we arrived at the periphery of Hangzhou yesterday night. It was secretly stationed and did not alarm the arrogant rebels outside Hangzhou in the slightest. In other words, as of this morning, the rebels outside Hangzhou City did not know that a terrifying imperial army had lurked behind them......

Duan Zhixuan, a veteran, has so much experience in battle formations, he will naturally not let go of such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Early this morning, a messenger was sent to inform Jiang Zhixuan to act according to the plan. After being besieged by the rebels for more than a month, Jiang Zhixuan really couldn't bear it. Therefore, after receiving the message from General Duan Zhixuan, he immediately implemented the plan that had been arranged. Hundreds of sergeants with loud voices were dispatched to scold at the head of the city of Hangzhou. And what is particularly vicious is that Jiang Zhixuan asked the sergeants to mention Ouyang Zihui and others who had been captured from time to time when they were scolding. The purpose is to poke Ouyang Ziming's scar, make him lose his mind, and attack the city desperately.

The sergeants at the head of the city moved extremely quickly, and the right guard sergeants under the west gate were not inferior. The boulder rolling wood on the west tower has long been prepared, and a hill has been piled up on the city gate tower. Once Li Siye's Modao army really can't stop the momentum of the rebels entering the city, there will be a violent rain of stones and trees inside and outside the west city gate at the same time, firmly blocking the west city gate......

In the female walls on both sides of the West City Gate, two thousand Mo sword weapons were unsheathed, murderous. At a distance of nearly three miles from the West City Gate to the Inner City Wall, 5,000 soldiers of the Right Weiwei Shenbow Battalion were ambushed at various commanding heights, stretching their bows and arrows, and condescendingly looking down on the main road and various important branch roads that were dozens of zhang wide. At the gate of the inner city of the West City, 3,000 right-hand guards of heavy armored infantry held a large shield more than one person high, and spears as long as one zhang and two feet were raised and pierced, forming a heavily defended iron wall, and any enemy who tried to break through them must first go through the merciless strangulation of those sharp spears......

The stupidity of the rebels outside Hangzhou lies in the fact that they have not even been able to see through such an obviously unreasonable plan to lure the enemy. Of course, perhaps because of Ouyang Zihui, or because of the arrogance of the past few days, Hangzhou City is no longer in their eyes. The insults on the head of the city were only half an hour's effort, and Ouyang Ziming, who temporarily served as the leader of the rebels, impulsively issued an order to attack the city......

Jiang Zhixuan is familiar with military books, and has experienced such battle formations as the Battle of the Mountain Wings. The plan to lure the enemy was carried out very seriously, and the attack and defense on the head of the city, after several tug-of-wars, only then did the rebels "dangerously" occupy the city gate building. But when the rebels wanted to take more of the walls, they couldn't advance anyway......

However, for Ouyang Ziming outside the city, it was enough to occupy the section of the city gate building. Because this at least gave the rebels the opportunity to crash the city gate with a crash car, and soon, a group of rebels carrying huge siege engines appeared under the west city gate, shouting trumpets, carrying the crash wood and violently hitting the city gate.

Jiang Zhixuan was not enough, and organized his own personal guards to make a posture of wanting to recapture the West City Gate Tower. However, all the rebels were in the excitement of occupying the West City Gate, and they didn't notice that Jiang Zhixuan's personal guards' counterattack was only thunder and rain, and they didn't even go up the city wall......

Without the interference of the rain of arrows from the city, the west gate was quickly slammed open. Countless rebels swarmed in, and at this time, Jiang Zhixuan had already returned to the inner city.

After the rebels broke through the outer city gates, they rushed towards the inner city with red eyes one by one. No one cleared the defenders on the city wall, so naturally they ignored the killers lurking on the female walls on both sides of the west gate. From the moment the city gate was broken, Li Siye stared at the city gate without blinking with a pair of big copper bell-like eyes, silently calculating the number of rebels who attacked the inner city.

Estimating that there were already 14,500 rebels entering the city, Li Siye roared, took the lead in jumping out of the female wall, the wide Mo knife in his hand, like a white knife wheel, rushed towards the city gate, and the two thousand Mo knife army led by him also killed at the same time, and the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound suddenly dodged the momentum of the rebels......

At the same time, the archers of the Shenbow Battalion who were ambushed in each place also saw Jiang Zhixuan's order flag on the upper floor of the inner city, and stood up at the same time and released the first arrow. However, in the blink of an eye, at least 3,000 rebels fell under this round of bows and arrows.

A succession of accidents and ambushes made the rebels extremely flustered. The rebels who rushed in front turned around and wanted to escape from the city, while the rebels behind were still pouring in, but they were blocked by the Modao army at the gate of the city, and they couldn't move forward for half a step......

Finally, the rebels who rushed into Chong came to their senses and shouted: "This is the imperial court's plan to catch turtles in the urn, quickly disperse the Mo Dao army at the city gate, and join the behind, and escape from the city......

At this time, more than 17,000 rebels who rushed into the city gate were no longer left, and they suffered heavy casualties......

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