Chapter 375: Urging the Breeze to Enter Beijing
On the other hand, Li Heng rushed to Fuyang with more than 300,000 soldiers and horses day and night, only to learn that Lin'an City had been taken by Guo Ziyi, and in desperation, he had no choice but to send Li Siye to lead the light cavalry advance area to rescue Fuyang, because he understood that at this time, only by keeping Fuyang as a shelter could he temporarily stabilize the morale of hundreds of thousands of troops, and then he could continue to collect the remnants of the soldiers who were scattered because of fear.
But fortunately, the result was really as Li Heng expected, Li Siye, a fierce general who was temporarily promoted, lived up to expectations, lured the enemy and kept the safety of the strong team of Qingfeng. But what gave him a headache was that just a few days after hundreds of thousands of troops entered Fuyang and raised the banner of Li Tang's orthodoxy, Guo Ziyi's evil star besieged it again with more than 100,000 horses, and behind him stood Xiao Tiancheng and Zhang Xiaojing's army belatedly.
Then looking at the overall situation, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Li Heng still has no grasp of breaking through the encirclement again and turning the tide, but fortunately, Xiao Tianchengcheng is a scholar and heavy, not Zhang Xiaojing and Guo Ziyi are so obedient to Li Mao, even in such a situation where Li Heng can be killed like an ant with just a finger, he still took the way of a minister and personally wrote a letter of persuasion and sent it to Fuyang.
Qingfeng, in your opinion, how credible are the words of Xiao Tiancheng in his letter to protect the prince? Li Heng was already drunk at the wine table, and his face was full of loss and anxiety, but even in this situation, he still jokingly took the letter paper and urged Qingfeng to test it.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, I think that Xiao Tiancheng's words are completely credible, this person has always regarded himself as a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, not like Zhang Xiaojing, chasing his life and prospering his fortune...... and others regard Li Mao as a benefactor, in his eyes, His Royal Highness the Prince, you are still the prince of the Tang Dynasty, and the emperor is still the former saint, but this person is loyal to Li Mao at the moment, and he is also driven by righteousness, if one day Li Mao lives up to the people of the Tang Dynasty and becomes a faint monarch in the eyes of people, then he is afraid that he will be the first to rise up and resist, but now...... Even if he has a very high prestige among the officers and soldiers of the three armies, but in the face of the coercion of Li Mao, the emperor, I am afraid that he will not dare to rashly resist the decree and disrespect, and even if you are defeated and captured as Your Royal Highness, Li Mao will not dare to have murderous thoughts......"
"Oh, have you thought about it too? Do you also think that this prince will stop the army and make peace? If the ending is still like this, then why did the prince go through such a journey in the first place? "I don't dare to speculate on His Highness's intentions, it's just the current form, I can't help Your Highness not think about it, Fuyang Town is not a place to live for a long time, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses have already been disheartened, if it weren't for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at this moment, you are still there...... I'm afraid it's ......."
Although he urged Qingfeng to use the strength of wine, he still wanted to talk about the actual situation in the army at the moment, but Li Heng saw that he was so straightforward, and immediately raised his hand and pointed at him and laughed, and then smiled and smiled, and his eyes were instantly full of tears. "Qingfeng, Qingfeng, to this point, only you will say such heart-wrenching words to Prince Ben, those people outside, those people...... They are actually thinking about how to run, how to leave a way back for themselves! Do you know why Prince Ben hasn't given up when he is in such a desperate situation? ”
"I don't know about the lowly position, and I don't want to know, there is only one thought in the heart of the lowly duty, that is, the evil has not prevailed over the good throughout the ages, His Royal Highness the Prince, you are the prince of the Tang Dynasty, don't look at the eyes of everyone in the world now looking at him Li Mao, but how many people are convinced from the bottom of their hearts? There is also the emperor, if the emperor is not thinking about the relationship between father and son, can he tolerate him Li Mao messing around like this? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really up to date now, taking advantage of Xiao Tiancheng's ability to restrain Guo Ziyi and Zhang Xiaojing for a few days, you still let the humble go to Chang'an, you are thinking of brotherhood, but will Li Mao take care of it? Five thousand bad handsome, but I'm waiting for you to give an order in the capital division! ”
"Good...... So far, the prince can't think too much, since his father and the old man have already made up their minds, then Qingfeng, you can do it, leave tonight, the sooner the better, Xiao Tiancheng will be perfunctory with him for some time, as long as you succeed in Chang'an, then ......" Li Heng said this, and he didn't know whether he was really drunk or fake, anyway, the whole person didn't say more than half a word when he lay down on the wine table.
So after getting Li Heng's approval, he immediately got up and saluted Li Heng's back, and then quietly rushed to Chang'an City, the capital division, by night.
And half a month later, Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, which was as calm as ever, was urging the arrival of the breeze to become an undercurrent, and the first to bear the brunt were the ministers of the court who had bet on both ends of the snake and rat before? For example, Xiao Yu, who was belittled by Li Longji in order to defeat Li Linfu before, almost put the Xiao family's heavy bets on Li Heng's head after that time.
But what he never expected was that Li Mao suddenly rose up halfway and occupied the throne, and even unexpectedly put him, a veteran of the two dynasties, in the high position of the secretary of the military department, but it was because of this that Xiao Yu had trouble sleeping and eating for several years, because on the one hand, he had already hooked up with Li Heng and couldn't explain clearly, on the other hand, he just didn't say much, he was the leader of the military department, he did everything wrong, he offended Li Heng if he did a good job, and if he didn't do well, he would fail Li Mao.
It is in such a dilemma that Xiao Yu, a scholar of Shangshu, has almost focused his work on military strikes other than Datang in the past three years, and intentionally or unintentionally let Li Mao personally grasp the matter of Jiangnan against Li Heng, especially in the generals who chose to fight, his old man was even more completely ignorant and did not dare to intervene in it.
But today, this person who urged Qingfeng actually stepped into his Xiao Mansion in a grand manner, which really scared the old man who was only sixty years old into a cold sweat. "Mr. Xiao, you don't see that you see a ghost like a ghost, don't worry, since Cui has the courage to walk into your old study today, then he will definitely deal with the tail behind him cleanly, your boss can put his heart in his stomach, even if it is a disaster, it will not be able to provoke you!!"
"Arrogant, ignorant child, do you think Chang'an City is the Jiangnan before you? If you want to kill the old man, don't stop it, but don't pull the old man's family as a cushion, and put your heart in your stomach, I see that the heart of people like you is really eaten by dogs, don't you know what kind of situation it is now? The old man used to be for the sake of His Royal Highness the Prince...... But now at this moment and that time, what a smart person you are urging Qingfeng, do you still think that you can turn the tide of the decline of the south of the Yangtze River by yourself? ”
After Xiao Yu said this, he immediately walked to the door of the study and wanted to open the door to send off the guests, but before the old man could raise his hand to urge Qingfeng, the face hidden under the cloak instantly became gloomy, and then he took the first step to hold down the two doors. "Xiao Shangshu, of course Cui knows that it is impossible to change the current situation on his own, but as the old saying goes, things are man-made, and I can't die in vain if I urge the family to have two thousand, and the letters Cui Mou exchanged with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today are all brought by someone......
Qi Qingfeng said the threatening words very bluntly, he also thought that Xiao Yu would immediately show a gesture of cooperation when he heard this, but what he didn't expect was that Old Man Xiao was not angry or worried after listening to his words, but laughed out loud very abnormally.
"At the end of the crossbow, the dog jumped off the wall...... Ha ha...... Cui family children, if you only have these skills, then it is better to listen to the old man's words earlier, leave your life and flee overseas alone, I am afraid that there is no place for you in this Tang Dynasty territory, as for the correspondence you said, whether you are threatening or scaring the old man, you will go, but before you do this, the old man still has to tell you the ending that has been decided, that is, whether the old man helps His Royal Highness the Prince, victory or defeat on the battlefield is the key to winning or losing, why do you come today......"