Chapter 83
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However, none of these are the most important. γFengyun Reading Network. After this battle, the economy of Zhenhuang City was almost paralyzed, and in the temperature of June, too many deaths brought unstoppable plague and disease, too many merchants and houses were reduced to ashes in the fire, a large number of refugees had nowhere to settle, and wounded soldiers lay on the streets. The continuous rainy weather brought even more disaster to Zhenhuang, and many corpses that had not had time to be carried out of the city were dumped in sewage, soaked and white and stinky, turning into a pile of rotting flesh full of flies and bed bugs.
Because before Yan Xun left the city, a fire burned down the imperial granary, and most of the grain merchants were also looted on the night of the turmoil, for a while, Zhenhuang couldn't even raise food for disaster relief. In less than half a month, a large number of refugees died of starvation, and at the critical moment of life and death, the people of the imperial capital, who had always been docile, showed their savage side, and robberies occurred from time to time, and these good people who were cornered even dared to rob small groups of armed troops.
In just two days, more than thirty imperial squads sent out to maintain order disappeared without a trace, and it was only after a day that some of these people's belongings were found in the ditch on the side of the road. For example, military uniforms, daggers, bayonets, boots, epaulettes, or something more intimate, such as close-fitting underwear, treasured purses, broken hands and feet, gouged out eyeballs, and Sensen's bones......
The order of the imperial capital disappeared in an instant.
Half a month later, the frenzied refugees rushed out of Zhenhuang and fled in all directions. However, the Zhao family has no power to return to the current situation.
Zhao Zhengde stood on the tower of the ruined Shengjin Palace, smiled helplessly, and then took the last batch of armed forces, under the protection of General Song Que, and left the devastated city.
Three hundred years after the founding of Great Xia, this ancient city once withstood the blades of countless alien races.
In the battle to defend the imperial capital in 633, Emperor Baiwei of Great Xia once used 8,000 iron cavalry against 200,000 dog and wolf soldiers, and defended the imperial capital for a month.
In 684, the Wolong clan, a great clan in the eastern part of the empire, betrayed the empire, opened the Baishui Pass, and let the Tang and Song coalition forces enter the country. The enemy army rushed all the way to Sanlipo, which was less than thirty miles away from Zhenhuang City. At that time, the Emperor of Great Xia was traveling to the southeast, and there were only eight years old in the country, the crown prince Zhao Chongming and the empress Mu Hejiuge. At that time, the Manchu Dynasty persuaded the prince to retreat, but the twenty-seven-year-old Mu Hejiuge and his eight-year-old son stood at the head of the city for three days, until the imperial flag floated up the Sanli slope and defeated the enemy.
In the Red Tide Rebellion in 741, the gate of the imperial capital was even smashed by the rebels, and the Zhao royal family did not retreat in the slightest!
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The Zhenhuang Imperial Capital, which had tenaciously stood up for so many years, and stood proudly on the highest plateau in the world for three hundred years, finally left the heart of the empire that they had held for three hundred years on the morning of the ninth day of the sixth month, and retreated gloomily to the holy city of Yundu in the northeast.
Although the historians of later generations criticized this battle a lot, they have to admit that it was the new king of Yanbei who made this great cause, and the son of Yan Xun who had been in the imperial capital for eight years. With the strength of just one person, with the help of the 5,000 warriors of the Grand Companion Association, he single-handedly completed the miracle of the 300,000 troops of the Dog Rong people, the 580,000 soldiers of the Tang and Song Dynasty coalition forces, and the power of the rebel army!
The name of Yan Xun spread all over the country, and the entire Simon land was terrified. The lion of Yanbei has finally woken up, and it belongs to the era of Yanbei, and once again began vigorously in the flames of war in the troubled times.
In the gray morning, a horn sounded on the tower of Zhenhuang City, the sun slowly rose from the horizon, and the sky was foggy, as if it was going to rain again. More than a dozen warriors in cyan armor stood on the city tower, looking at the swaying grass in the distance, and there was no figure on the empty post road. The old soldier sighed, lowered his horn, and turned to walk back.
"No one has come yet?"
A deep voice sounded slowly, and the veteran was taken aback and raised his head. I saw that the man in front of me was in his twenties, handsome, very young, wearing a black cloak, covering the military uniform inside, and I couldn't tell what his identity was. But the veteran can still see at a glance that this is a noble general, not an ordinary soldier like himself can compare.
"Back to the general, no one has come yet."
The young man nodded silently, as if he had expected it. He looked at the veteran's rickety body, his nearly fifty-year-old body could no longer support the military uniform, and the two-moon monopattern on his shoulders looked a little shabby. The young man frowned slightly and asked, "Didn't the nineteen divisions all follow the emperor to Yundu?" Why didn't you go? β
"General, the little ones are too old to walk that far, so leave the chance to live for the young people." The veteran sighed in a low voice, "I started to be a soldier at the age of fourteen, starting from the horseman to guarding the city gate, I have been guarding the imperial capital for more than thirty years. As long as the gates don't fall, I'll have to stay here. β
The young man's brow furrowed, and his eyes were as deep as the sea, and the sparkles in his eyes were surging like a sharp sword roasted in a furnace.
The veteran didn't pay attention, and still chattered: "Besides, the little family members all died in this battle, and it's not interesting for me to go to Yundu alone, so it's better to stay here, at least find someone familiar with it, and see if there are any neighbors' corpses that no one needs me to help collect." People, always have to go into the earth for peace! β
The young man lowered his head, his face a little sad, and behind him were large expanses of scorched earth and ruins. Once home to some of the most prosperous buildings and people in the continent, some of the world's most majestic towers and lavish palaces, they are now part of history.
"General," the old soldier raised his head, rubbed his hands nervously, a little apprehensive, and seeing the young man's gentle expression, he finally asked puzzled, "Why are there so many princes of the family, none of them have sent troops to the imperial capital to support?" Lord Zhuge and Lord Wei have returned their territory, is the empire going to split? Is there another war? When will Yan Shizi bring the Yanbei Army over? β
"There won't be a day!" A calm voice slowly came out of the young man's mouth, but a strong confidence emanated from his words. The young man's face was tough, his tone was low, and he said word by word: "The empire will not be divided, the Yanbei army will not fight, and the emperor will not be destroyed." One day, those who left will come back, and the real city will recreate the grandeur of the past and the style of the past! β
The veteran was a little stunned, looking at the young man in front of him, and the rumors he had heard these days suddenly fell apart. At that moment, he really believed the words of the young general in front of him with all his heart. The old man's eyes lit up with hope, and he asked excitedly, "Really?" Will they come back? Can the little one continue to guard the gates? β
"You will," the young man turned his head and smiled softly, revealing his snow-white teeth, "I will grant you permission to keep it all the time, even if you are a hundred years old, I will send someone to carry you to the city gate every day." If you still have children and grandchildren alive, I will grant your descendants to guard the gate of the imperial capital for my Great Xia Dynasty, and the emperor will not die, as long as I am still alive, I will never break my word! β
With that, the young general rummaged through his body, and finally found a silver medal in his coat pocket that had been blackened by fire, on which was engraved a delicate and intricate crape myrtle flower, which was the national flower of Great Xia, and at this moment, it seemed sacred and desolate.
"This is to be regarded as a token."
The veteran was overjoyed, but he was a little skeptical, he looked at the young man puzzled, and very cleverly changed the way of inquiry, "May I ask which division the general is from?" Can the little one know the general's honorific name? β
The young man looked up, and by this time the sun had risen above the horizon, and the foggy weather had suddenly disappeared, and the sky was full of golden light.
"I am the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, my name is Zhao Che."
The veteran was startled, and his eyes widened. After a long time, the veteran knelt on the ground with a bang, kowtowed vigorously and shouted: "The little one has eyes and no beads, and he has collided with the Seventh Highness, please forgive His Highness for his sins and spare the little one this time." β
There was no sound in front of him, and the veteran looked up, but only saw a tall back on the steps of the tower. The young prince with his sword in his hand disappeared step by step into the city, his back straight, like a tree that could hold up the heavens and the earth.
The brilliance was shining, and the old man's eyes were dazzled in an instant. He turned his head to look and saw that in front of him, a silver sign was placed on the blue brick floor, and the crape myrtle flowers were blooming, like the warm sun in September!
A hundred years later, the history book of Tengyuan Pavilion of Bian Tang Dynasty only left this paragraph in the record of that year: After the revenge incident of the Great Peer Association, the Zhao royal family issued a conscription order, and the gate lords returned to their territories, and none of the vassal kings in various places responded. Emperor Xia had no choice but to order the capital to be moved. The prince Zhao Che guarded the country, and the prince Zhao Yang asked for orders to pursue the Yanbei army, and the Great Xia vein showed fatigue, and it was difficult to lead the huge territory and the princes of the eight directions. Under the mediation of the wise and wise crown prince of our country, Bian Tang became the largest country in the world, and the commercial center of the land of Simon began to shift from the north. The merchants of Daxia were unstable, and crossed the border into Bian Tang on a large scale, and the wisdom and wisdom of the crown prince were the talents of the heavens and the earth, the amazing wisdom, the courage of his skills, and the righteousness of illuminating the world, which can be called the example of the world, the leader of heaven and earth, and the great luck of all people......
Although later historians have maintained a high degree of skepticism about the later records of the crown prince Li Ce, they believe that Yan Xun's rebellion has nothing to do with him at all. And many people are very resolute that the latter words were definitely added by Crown Prince Li Ce himself, because the color of the ink before and after is completely different. If the front is the best calligraphy that is admirable, then the handwriting in the back is embarrassing even for children who have just learned to write.
But this cannot deny the authenticity of the front, after the revenge incident of the Great Peer Association, the huge Great Xia Dynasty is really going into decline.
Just when the capital of the Zhenhuang Emperor was facing a terrible catastrophe that had not been encountered in a century, Yanbei's last team in the inland was still wandering around Qiu Pingshan. On the vast Qiu Pingshan Plain, a team of ragged but determined-eyed troops was quietly lurking, like a group of hungry wolves, squatting in place, waiting for the best time to send troops.
Although the various gate lord clans did not assist the imperial capital, they all focused their eyes on the rebels in Yanbei. It was only at this time that Chu Qiao felt a little relieved that Yan Xun had given up the Southwest Town Mansion. The Yan family was beheaded by the empire, Yan Xun already had a blood feud with the Great Xia Dynasty, and the Great Guild was the recognized rebel leader of the mainland.
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