Chapter Forty-Three: The Three Counties of the East, the Last Defense?
Although Qiu Tiankui was killed by the joint efforts of everyone in Jifu with an ambush, after Beiheng Wang Zidi learned the news, his face did not change, he sat on the dragon chair, his eyes were slightly indifferent, and the corners of his mouth rose.
Zidi really couldn't understand that the killer he had cultivated would be so wasted that even the little girl in Jifu couldn't fight, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, holding the bamboo slip in his hand, the green tendons burst out, and the unwillingness to fail in his heart surged into his heart, pointing at the courtiers and scolding angrily.
"What a waste, he Qiu Tiankui boasted in front of the king that he had said that he would encircle and suppress Jifu for a few days, but he was halfway down, ridiculous."
Zidi waved his sleeves and looked at the ministers in the palace thoughtfully, these ministers are all slick and slick people, but it is difficult to let these mediocre ministers give advice.
"You have experienced different causes and results of the war with me for many years, what can you do to exterminate the stubborn Jifu?"
The ministers frowned sadly, and in the face of Zidi's sudden questioning, they still used vulgar words to perfunctory.
"Well, King Qiqi, we can send troops to encircle and suppress it."
"Yes, crusade against the traitors." , The ministers also nodded their heads in perfunctory, and then looked at Zidi who was sitting on the dragon chair: "The king issued a holy decree to crusade against the rebel Ji clan with the king's order." ”
Among them, several ministers shouted emotionally: "The disciples of Jifu do not listen to the holy words of the day, and insist on confronting the imperial court in order to hit the stone with an egg, and if they cannot effectively crusade, they will be in danger of the current dynasty." ”
The ministers next to him all nodded their heads, no matter whether what the leader said was right or wrong, it was completely related to the interests of their own scholars, anyway, with whomever they were, as long as you have the strength, you will obey the dog slave attitude.
Zidi sat on the dragon chair and heard the noisy sound in the hall, like a swarm of headless flies screaming in his ears, he clasped the ear calluses with his hands, and his eyes were not strange to these ministers who were acting on the spot, and he was accustomed to it.
These palace ministers were still discussing how to attack Jifu, and what they said was so loud that they were angry, until Zidi asked these ministers who were obsessed with verbal arguments on the spot who was going to send troops to fight against the rebels.
"I see you're having a good conversation, I wonder who wants to go against the traitors?"
Zidi saw the sudden silence in the hall, he was angry, the ministers who started the incident all valued their own family language background, and they were completely a group of rich stupid sons with strength and no brains.
"The court is originally civil and military autonomy, weigh the left and right to help the king and me stabilize the dynasty and society, why don't you guys even dare to crusade against a Ji clan?"
It's not that these court sons and brothers who enjoy the glory and wealth don't want to contribute, but they don't need to take great pains in front of the crusade against the traitor Ji clan, after all, some courtiers are forced to be helpless even if they take refuge in Zidi.
After all, there is no military general who sacrifices his life to serve the country, and they are all civil officials who reclaim their reputation, if they die, then how to sell the huge family property near the imperial city, for this reason, they just know how to enjoy it and not think about it.
"King, we are all civil officials and are not good at fighting on the battlefield, so this matter is not suitable for us."
Civil officials are afraid of death but value their reputation, and they do rely on military generals to fight on the battlefield, but although the military generals trained in Zidi's hands are fierce, they are all war scum without the cooperation of strategists and skilled strategists.
"It's easy to say, you people who eat the court's money, who can give me advice?"
"King Qiqi, I can come up with a plan for you, which will inevitably cause all the rebels in Jifu to lose everything, and you can send troops to encircle and suppress it when the time comes."
Zidi heard a familiar voice in his ears, he raised his head slightly, but he also squinted with his eyes, tilted his head, grabbed the armrest of the dragon chair with one hand, and looked at the person who spoke.
"How can you be more sure than these guys?"
The person who spoke in the hall was none other than Qiu Tiankui's younger brother Qiu Tianji, Qiu Tianji and his brother Qiu Tiankui were similar, after all, they were both brothers, and they had been resentful of Jifu for a long time in the face of their brother's death, thinking about how to take revenge.
"King, this traitor killed my brother, and I can't wait to fight them so that I can avenge my brother."
Zidi felt that letting the person in front of him who was full of hatred for Jifu to encircle and suppress it must be better than these ministers who contributed money and did not contribute to their lives, so he was curious and asked for a strategy.
"I have a deep grudge against these traitors, I don't know how you can avenge your brother?"
Qiu Tianji just glanced at Zidi, clasped his fists and saluted, and replied in a cold tone.
"The plan is to kill people with a knife, and the prestige of Jifu in the three counties of Yudong is too strong, which also makes the local forces around us submit to our new dynasty urgently need protection, so it is better to use the local power and Jifu to have grievances and consume each other's strength."
"Oh, what a murder with a knife, what a traitor my mighty master still uses to crusade, what a good idea."
In order to effectively crusade against the rebels, Zidi immediately ordered an edict ordering his Qiu Tianji to oversee the army and raise tens of thousands of elite soldiers to attack the three counties of Yudong (under the jurisdiction of Jifu).
In order to ensure a thorough battle plan, Zidi then mobilized some soldiers and horses of the imperial court to hold a large-scale anti-Ji operation with local Haoqiang and other departments.
Because Qiu Tianji had the handwritten edict of today's son Wan Zidi to beg for thieves, as well as the order of the holy driver, the local officials did not dare to stop it, so they let this group of court officers and soldiers easily attack.
The team of the crusade against the Ji clan was very smooth along the way, and the soldiers came to the city and went down to the three counties in the east of Yudong.
The Jifu militia guarding the city condescended to see that the imperial court sent people with thousands of troops and horses to encircle and suppress, and everyone was unwilling to sit still and wait for death, so they pulled their bows and prepared to draw arrows behind them.
Qiu Tianji didn't care because he was leading the elite soldiers of the imperial court to crusade against the local militia, and watched the militia draw bows and arrows against himself and tens of thousands of people.
He snorted coldly, rode a green horse, wore chain mail, held an iron shovel in his hand, held the reins with one hand, raised his head to look at the Jifu militia defending in the city, and looked at it with disdain.
The two armies confronted each other, the battle was about to break out, the two sides held weapons, the atmosphere was suddenly silent, Qiu Tianji, as the active attacker, waved the soldiers behind him with one hand.
The soldiers of the imperial court could not see the edge of the black pressure, and the attack on the city was to raise the banner and wave, beat the drum and cheer, and shouted to kill, they first used wooden stakes and ladders to open up the three counties of Yudong under the jurisdiction of the Ji clan, and then sent a large number of soldiers and chariots to attack the city.
The inner hall of the Jifu Mansion is in front of the main hall of the house.
Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) is sitting on a wooden bench alone and in the side room, and the rooms next to him are all empty, although it is inevitable that he will stay in the house alone and feel bored, he will also take his female companion Xiaoyue out for a walk at the same time, but there are too many things to deal with recently to be distracted.
The jet-black shiny hair is on the shoulders, and the slightly chubby and tender face also makes others watch a kind of non-blasphemous mood, the figure is not tall for the small family jasper, and she is already growing up in the cardamom year, fingers gently twisting her lips, and turning over the Jifu bill in a good way.
Not to mention how Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) looks good, at least this figure developed prematurely to make her look extra crowded when she wears the clothes of her peers, so the waist-length skirt she originally wore was modified to a bandeau skirt.
With her slender and white fingertips, she gently picked up the pages of the book, and she concentrated on silently reading the details on the bill, looking at the complicated bill in front of her, it was quite boring to turn left and right.
The thick bills accumulated at the table and watched, waiting for Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) to rectify it alone or reconcile the gap between the account books, it was obvious that Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting), who was not familiar with science, had a lot of alpacas in his heart.
Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) frowned, looking at the numbers on the bill, his head was panicked for a while, there was no one around, and he couldn't wait to complain a few words when he pointed to the bill.
"Phew, this is brain-burning, so many messy bills have not been sorted out for hundreds of years, huh."
Just thinking about leaving her seat, stretching her waist and stretching her tired body that had been sitting on the wooden bench for a long time to relax, her eyes were only sleepy, and she was unconsciously beating all day long.
"Ha, I haven't understood these thick bills after reading them for a long time, so it's better to sleep first and recuperate enough before doing it."
was just about to rest on the couch, and suddenly there was a quick knock at the door, which made Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting), who was about to enjoy sleeping time alone, a little unhappy in his heart.
She didn't want to open the door and waited for the person who didn't know how to disturb her sleep to walk away, and then she was sleeping, and kept banging on the door.
The piercing voice also made Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) unable to concentrate, she clenched her fists and thought that it was the people in the house who interrupted her sleepiness and it was not good to punch her, so she couldn't help but shout impatiently before opening the door.
"It's really convinced, the old lady is always disturbed when she wants to sleep."
Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) pouted, her complexion was not very good, and her white face was a little red, but it was sunny this morning, and she was hot after too long of exposure.
It turned out that the retainers in the mansion who kept knocking on the door, Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) looked at him carefully, looked at him with such a panicked expression, and suddenly asked.
"I don't know if I'm going to make a statement, is it the most afraid of being disturbed?"
"Miss Ji really bothered you, I'm very sorry." , Jifu retainers looked embarrassed, clasped their fists and saluted and said to Cheng Yuxi: "Last time, those court officers and soldiers came over again. ”
Originally, he was trying to be marginalized several times, but now he has hit the three counties of Yudong where he lives, and I have heard Ji Xiuming once tell me about the importance of the three counties of Yudong.
Hearing this, Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) didn't dare to slack off, and instantly came to his senses, this is someone else's bullying on his head, if he doesn't really demonstrate with the court, I'm afraid it will be bullying no one in the mansion.
Looking at the panicked retainers of Jifu, she knew that the defense outside the city could not withstand thousands of troops, although Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) did not have too many opinions, but in the face of sudden disasters, she also felt uneasy.
"Let me ask your retainers who sent scouts to report how many people there are in the imperial army, and when did they reach the city of the three counties in the east of our Ji clan?"
"I really don't know this, but I know that now the imperial army outside the city is like a divine soldier descending from the sky, and my militia guarding the city is resisting hard, lest it is a huge gap in combat readiness to resist the soldiers who are several times larger."
Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) thought twice, although she didn't know how to command the battle, as Ji Xiuming's righteous daughter, she naturally had the responsibility to act as the representative of the people of the three eastern counties.
"It seems that I personally came to the city to personally command, after all, these people who sacrificed their lives to resist several times the enemy were all born and raised in the city."
"It's too dangerous, you are the spiritual pillar of the Ji clan and the love of the Ji Hou during his lifetime, and the people of the three eastern counties have a lot of grace to the Ji clan, so you don't want to go if you are honest enough to help kill the enemy."
Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) immediately looked at the retainer angrily, and the retainer didn't dare to say more, just waiting for Cheng Yuxi (Ru Ting) to make a decision.
She held her hands behind her back, looked at the Jifu Mansion with affectionate eyes, and thought in her heart that a strong enemy was coming, if she didn't resist, the people would suffer, and if she resisted, the city would be ruined.
But it was better for her to bite her lip, clench her fists, and utter a few sonorous words in her mouth.
"In order for the military and civilian unity of the three counties in Yudong to be able to resist the evil forces together, it is my responsibility to lead the three counties of Yudong to regain their strength."