Chapter 428: The mediocre Gao Wei

Since ancient times, the mediocre emperors who have left their names in the history books almost all have a super beauty who can turn all beings upside down, although Gao Wei still follows the absurd and brutal character of the emperors of the Northern Qi royal family, but this Si is still an infatuated guy, of course, his infatuation is only for Feng Shufei Feng Xiaolian's beautiful eyebrows.

Gao Wei was also very attentive at the beginning, and seemed to especially prefer palace maids, originally Gao Wei's first queen was the daughter of Hu Lawyers' Association, and after Gao Wei killed Hu Lawyers' Association by abolishing the Great Wall, Queen Hulu was the daughter of Hu Lawyers' Association, and then she was also demoted to a concubine and driven out of the palace.

I don't say much about this poor woman, although Empress Hulu was later accepted into the palace by Gao Wei, but after all, she has no status, and in the future, she will usher in a more tragic fate with the defeat of the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Gao Wei's second queen is the niece of Gao Wei's mother, Empress Dowager Hu, it is said that this Empress Hu has such a hard backstage as the aunt of the queen mother, and the position should be very stable, but Gao Wei's nurse Lu Lingxuan gave a bad thing in the bush.

Lu Lingxuan is Gao Wei's nurse, that is, the famous Lu Zhen in the later TV series, in fact, this person is not as good as said on TV, basically the most famous traitorous minister at the end of the Northern Qi Dynasty has more or less relationship with her.

It can even be said that the most famous minister at the end of the Northern Qi Dynasty was her.

Lu Lingxuan's husband's surname was Luo, and he died of rebellion, so she brought her son, who was also a sinner, into the palace when she was young, and later became Gao Wei's nursing mother, because she deliberately welcomed the princess of Gao Zhan, the king of Changguang, and is also the current Empress Dowager Hu, Lu Lingxuan has a very good relationship with Empress Dowager Hu.

After Gao Wei ascended the throne, in order to better cling to the powerful, because she was optimistic about the maid Mu Xili beside Empress Hu, she provoked the rights and wrongs of her niece Empress Hu by the side of Empress Dowager Hu, and soon Empress Hu, who didn't know what was going on, was forced to become a nun.

Gao Wei soon under the instigation of Lu Lingxuan, he helped Mu Xili, who was already Zhaoyi, to be the queen, and Lu Lingxuan in order to better cling to Mu Xili, and also let his son Mu Ti Po worship Mu Xie Li as his adoptive mother, and followed Queen Mu's surname, before Mu Ti Po was surnamed Luo.

But Gao Wei continued to like the new and hate the old at this time, and after more than half a year, Queen Mu Xili lost Gao Wei's favor under Cao Zhaoyi's soft offensive, so she was unwilling to use a killer move, slandering Cao Zhaoyi for secretly using witchcraft, and finally made Gao Wei give Cao Zhaoyi to death.

However, although Cao Zhaoyi died, Queen Mu still couldn't redeem Gao Wei's love, and then the playboy Gao Wei fell in love with a well-behaved and sensible Dong Zhaoyi.

In order to be able to win back Gao Wei's favor, Mu Xueli came up with a good idea that he thought was wonderful, and on May 5 of this year, he dedicated a beautiful dancer under his command to Gao Wei, called "Continuation of Life", this beauty is of course Feng Xiaolian who has the allusion of 'jade body Hengchen' in later generations.

Empress Mu's abacus is very clever, such a beautiful Feng Xiaolian can not only share Dong Zhaoyi's favor, but also get an ally who knows the roots, so no matter what, it is better than Gao Wei's favor Dong Zhaoyi.

But she was far from expecting Feng Xiaolian's huge lethality to Gao Wei, Gao Wei immediately thought that he was a celestial man after getting Feng Xiaolian, and named him a concubine, because Feng Xiaolian was smart and dexterous, good at playing the pipa, good at singing and dancing, and was deeply fascinated by her and loved her, Queen Mu, Dong Zhaoyi and everything were left behind.

I don't know if Queen Mu regretted it to death afterwards, but after all, she did it herself.

At that time, the history books commented that Gao Wei and Feng Xiaolian 'sat at the same table, went out on the same horse, and wished for life and death', it can be said that Empress Mu Xili originally used to deal with Dong Zhaoyi's killer weapon, but she completely defeated herself, which can really be described as a model of self-inflicted.

Gao Wei's love for Feng Xiaolian is indescribable, Feng Xiaolian wants to live in the beautiful Longji Hall, but he is disgusted that this is the place where the dead Cao Zhaoyi used to live every day, so Gao Wei ordered someone to change all the ground, and in order to win Feng Xiaolian's favor, Gao Wei built a large number of palaces.

When the Northern Zhou Dynasty led by Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yu Wenyong, personally led an army of more than 100,000 troops to the east, invaded the eastern region of the Northern Qi River and attacked Pingyang City day and night, when Jinzhou was in danger, Gao Wei and Feng Xiaolian were hunting in Tianchi (as described in the Zizhi Tongjian).

The first wave of messengers who hurried all the way to Jinyang to report the news, from the morning to the foot of the mountain under the Tianchi was stopped and could not report, and by noon there were three groups of messengers sent by Pingyang City to ask for help, but they were all blocked at the foot of the mountain and could not be seen.

At this time, Gao Anaqiu, who was the right prime minister of the Northern Qi Dynasty, after knowing about this, actually said to the officials who came to report the news: "The emperor is having fun, there is only a small war on the border, this is a very common thing, why rush to come to the newspaper to disturb the emperor!" "Huaxiu Chinese

In the evening of the same day, the last wave of urgent messengers arrived again, bringing the shocking news that "Pingyang has fallen", Gao Anaqiu ran to Gao Wei in a panic to report to Gao Wei.

In fact, the last wave of messengers said that Pingyang City had fallen, in fact, it was to attract the attention of Gao Anaqiu, Gao Wei and others, only in this way could the Northern Qi court send a large army to rescue faster, after all, the strategic position of Pingyang City was placed there, and it could not be ignored.

After receiving the emergency military report, Gao Wei should have immediately reorganized the army to rescue, but Feng Xiaolian was not finished in the previous hunting, and asked Gao Wei to hunt again, and Gao Wei, who was obedient to Feng Xiaolian, was willing to refuse the coquettishness of this peerless beauty, so he complied with her request.

Gao Wei's delay was several days, and it was not until October 25 that he sent troops from Jinyang, and Emperor Wu of Zhou, Yuwen Yong, came to Pingyang City from Fenqu every day to supervise the battle, and the Northern Zhou soldiers who besieged the city saw that the emperor personally supervised the battle and fought bravely to attack the city, so the defenders of Pingyang City in Northern Qi gradually could not support it.

Seeing that the domestic reinforcements of the Northern Qi Dynasty were delayed, the Northern Qi defenders in Pingyang City also began to divide internally, first the Northern Qi Xingtai Zuo Cheng Hou Ziqin was the first to go out of the city to surrender to the Northern Zhou, and many other Northern Qi officials and generals were similar to each other, and they surrendered out of the city one after another.

On October 27, Cui Jingsong, the assassin of Jinzhou in the Northern Qi Dynasty stationed in the northern city of Pingyang, saw that the reinforcements of the Northern Qi were delayed, and also sent people from close relatives to surrender to the Northern Zhou.

Wang Liang sent Duan Wenzhen to lead dozens of people as the advance team that night, and first landed in the city under Cui Jingsong's answer, and then quietly killed the Qi soldiers guarding the city gate, opened the north gate, and then the Northern Zhou army, which had already been prepared, continued to enter the city through the north city gate.

The Northern Qi defenders in Pingyang City were caught off guard and could not expel the Zhou army from the city, and more than 8,000 soldiers and soldiers of the Northern Qi army were captured, and the other Northern Qi soldiers quickly dispersed, so the Northern Zhou army successfully occupied Pingyang City.

At the same time, Wang Yu Wenxian of the Northern Zhou Dynasty led the army to connect the two cities of Hongdong (now Hongdong, Shanxi) and Yong'an (now Huoxian, Shanxi), and other Zhou armies also made many gains.

Two days before the Northern Zhou captured Pingyang City, Gao Wei finally led 100,000 elite Northern Qi troops south to rescue, and when the Northern Zhou army broke through Pingyang City, the Northern Qi army was gradually approaching.

After all, coming to Jinzhou from Jinyang is just to go down the Fenshui, at this time the mountain forests around Bingzhou (Shanxi) are still very well maintained, and the water surface of Fenshui is still wide under the protection of the forest, and the Qi army can also use the Fenshui to transport heavy grain and grass, so the speed of travel is very fast.

Gao Wei was very angry after learning the news of the fall of Pingyang City, it can be said that if Gao Wei had urgently dispatched troops after receiving the emergency report as soon as possible, he would still have had time to protect Pingyang City, but because of his mediocrity, something that should not have happened happened.

At this time, although the Northern Qi Dynasty had lost the two top generals of Hu Lawyers Association and Gao Changgong, there were still generals such as Dugu Yongye, Murong Yan, Pi Jinghe, etc., and there were two or three hundred thousand elite veterans who had experienced dozens of major battles, especially the 100,000 rescue army led by Gao Wei himself was the essence of the Northern Qi army, so the combat effectiveness of the Qi army was still very strong.

Originally, the soldiers who formed this army in history, the vast majority of them were born in the Xianbei town army, but because of the two battles that led to the siege of the Northern Qi after Wang Ze's appearance, the Xianbei soldiers in the Northern Qi army were greatly reduced, but the Han soldiers increased, and now among the soldiers who formed the 100,000 army, the Xianbei soldiers and the Han soldiers were half each.

Moreover, because of the previous battles between Wang Yong, Wang Ze and his son and the Northern Qi Dynasty, although the Northern Qi suffered a lot of big losses in it, they also learned a lot of advanced war technology and a large number of advanced equipment from Wang Yong.

Although the Northern Qi did not learn the technology of gunpowder manufacturing after all, they used their strong technical reserves to manufacture a large number of high-quality iron armor, horse swords, giant axes and other heavy weapons, coupled with the rich human resources of the Northern Qi Dynasty, armed with a heavy infantry of at least 20,000 people.

It can be said that although the national strength of the Northern Qi Dynasty is under the toss of Gao Wei, although the sunset is in the west, after all, it is a skinny camel that is bigger than a horse, relying on the old foundation left in the past, the combat effectiveness of the Northern Qi army is still very much to the ambitious Yu Wenyong is a little jealous.

Seeing that the most elite army of 100,000 troops in the Northern Qi Dynasty was gradually approaching Pingyang City, Yuwen Yong saw that the Qi army was in full swing, and in order to avoid the enemy's sharp spirit, he prepared to lead the army west to avoid its front.

However, Yuwen Yong's proposition was opposed by the vast majority of Northern Zhou generals, and the Northern Zhou generals all believed that the Northern Qi army was behind, and once the army was withdrawn, it would inevitably be pursued by the Northern Qi army, so it could not be withdrawn.