Chapter 397. all into mutiny,
Gao Feng said: "Your Majesty, we will protect you and kill you!" Li Qingxia pressed Gao Feng's shoulder, shook her head, and said, "No need, the other party is well prepared, we can't rush out, why make senseless sacrifices!" "The princess is wise!" A triumphant voice suddenly came from outside the back door. Li Qingxia and the others followed the prestige, only to see a beautiful woman in gorgeous costumes come in surrounded by everyone, and that woman was Li Ruolan, the concubine of the former emperor. Li Qingxia was taken aback when she saw Concubine Lan, but when she saw the two men beside Concubine Lan, everything understood.
Li Qingxia looked at the two people and said sarcastically: "Prime Minister Zuo, Prime Minister Right, you have made great contributions again!" "It turned out that the two men who followed Concubine Lan's side, one was Li Tongren, the left prime minister, and the other was the right prime minister, Daochong, these two appeared here, and the situation couldn't be more clear.
Li Tongren didn't dare to make eye contact with Li Qingxia, lowered his head, and said righteously: "We are all for the survival and continuation of Great Xia!" Your Majesty's reckless use of force has caused this catastrophe to befall now, for the sake of Great Xia and the people of Great Xia, we can only offend! β
Gao Feng glared and shouted, "Rebellion! Yu Daochong ignored Gao Feng, looked at Li Qingxia and asked, "Your Majesty, are you abdicating by yourself, or do you want us to do it?" β
Gao Feng excitedly said to Li Qingxia: "Your Majesty, the last general will wait to defend Your Majesty to the death and fight out of the encirclement!" Li Qingxia said blankly: "What can I do after I go out?" Hey, now that it's over, why kill each other again! I'm tired too, so it's okay not to be this emperor! He looked at Daochong and the others, and said, "So far, I have nothing to say, I just hope that you will let go of these guards and maids around me!" He said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, we are doing this for the sake of Great Xia, and naturally we will not do more killing!" Your Majesty is willing to give up the throne, and that couldn't be better! Li Qingxia said to the people around her: "Let's all lay down our weapons!" The crowd was so angry that they threw away their weapons.
He raised his voice and said, "Please return to the palace with Your Majesty!" The rebels immediately stepped forward, separated Li Qingxia from her guards and palace maids, and escorted Li Qingxia to the dormitory alone.
The fighting soon calmed down, and the rebels took full control of the palace. Li Qingxia sat in the dormitory, looking at the beautiful night scene outside the window of the moon cave in a daze, completely losing her usual look, as if she had no soul shell. Only two palace maids stood beside them, and the others were locked up elsewhere.
The door creaked, and the two palace maids looked at the door in fright, but Li Qingxia didn't have any reaction, for her, there was nothing worth her care about, something worthy of his fear. The footsteps came from far and near, stopped, and only heard the voices of Dao Chong and Li Tongren: "Your Royal Highness Princess! Li Qingxia slowly turned her head, saw that the two of them were bowing and saluting, and said mockingly: "I am now a prisoner of the ranks, why do you two have to be so polite!" β
Li Tongren was ashamed and said: "The minister is not willing to betray His Majesty even if he dies, it's just that it is just for the safety of Great Xia and the well-being of the people, the minister, I have to do this!" He said proudly: "Yes, although we are disrespectful to Your Majesty and ashamed of Your Majesty, we have a clear conscience!" β
Li Qingxia smiled mockingly, glanced at the two of them, and said: "You think that it is because of me that the peace negotiations cannot be carried out, because Yang Peng hates me, so he has to carry out the war to the end, and now that Great Xia has suffered heavy losses, the army's morale is shaken, and the building is about to fall, it is obviously powerless to resist Yan Yun." Do you think that Great Xia and yourselves, if you want to survive this crisis, you can only ask for peace, and to ask for peace, you must first resolve the anger of King Yan, and to resolve the anger of King Yan, you should undoubtedly push me down, and then sacrifice me to King Yan! β
He said, "Your Majesty is wise, it is true!" Didn't Your Majesty say that the king is dead? In today's situation, only by sacrificing His Majesty can he save the entire Great Xia, why should His Majesty be resentful! β
Li Qingxia turned her head to look out the window, with a sad look on her face, and muttered: "If sacrificing one of me can really save Great Xia, what a pity for me!" But you are so naΓ―ve, too naΓ―ve! King Yan, the hero of the world, that is a character that is difficult to produce for hundreds of years! He turned his head and looked at the two of them, and said mockingly: "Do you think that such a character will raise an army because of one person and dismiss it because of one person?" β
The two prime ministers looked at each other, and they couldn't help but feel in their hearts that what Li Qingxia said was reasonable, but such thoughts only flashed in their hearts, and they didn't want to believe that they were cornered. The mediation conflict snorted and said loudly: "We have no grievances with King Yan, why does he have to destroy our Great Xia!" The reason why you got to this level is not because you offended King Yan! As long as I dedicate you to King Yan, peace will be made! β
Li Qingxia smiled bitterly, sighed, and suddenly asked, "Is the generalissimo really dead?" Li Tongren sighed and said: "That's not our expectation, it's just that the generalissimo is desperate, we have no choice but to ......" Li Qingxia was sad and indignant, no longer looked at the two, and said coldly: "I'm tired, you guys go out!" β
Dao Chong snorted, turned around, and Li Tongren respectfully bowed to Li Qingxia and retreated. The dormitory was quiet, Li Qingxia suddenly felt extremely lonely, and couldn't help but feel sad from her heart, and tears were already overflowing her eyes. β¦β¦
Li Tongren and Yu Daochong came to the front hall, at this time Li Ruolan and her father Li Shicheng were sitting in the main hall chatting, and there was a middle-aged woman standing next to her, holding a two- or three-year-old baby in her arms, the baby was already asleep, and her chubby appearance was very cute.
When the father and daughter saw the two prime ministers coming, they immediately stopped talking and stood up, Li Ruolan asked, "Have you spoken to her?" Is she willing to go? Li Tongren sighed and said, "Your Majesty is extremely wise and has already guessed our intentions. Dao Chong snorted and said, "I can't help her if I don't go or not!" She can go if she wants to, and she has to go if she doesn't want to go! Li Ruolan nodded thoughtfully, and said gloatingly: "She is only a prisoner under the stairs now, where is her turn to be willing or not!" Then he said impatiently: "Since the rebellion has been cleared, it is time to help the new emperor ascend the throne as soon as possible!" Li Tongren glanced at the baby in the hands of the middle-aged woman, frowned, and only felt that Daxia was now facing the biggest crisis in a hundred years, and when there was a talented man who led everyone, he could overcome this crisis, but it was such an infant baby who was about to ascend the throne as emperor; He said, "Tomorrow morning, when the court comes, this matter will be announced!" After a pause, he frowned and said, "The top priority now is to quickly send someone to send Li Qingxia to King Yan to ask for peace!" Only when this is done can we sit back and relax! β
Li Qingxia glanced at her father Li Shicheng and said, "Just now my father and I were discussing this matter, my father has something to do with Yan Yun, and my father is no longer suitable to be this envoy!" β
Dao Chong glanced at Li Shicheng, nodded and said: "Guozhang is willing to take on this important responsibility, it is no better, there is Lao Guozhang!" Li Shicheng hurriedly returned the salute: "Prime Minister don't have to be polite, I'm all for the country!" In his words, there was a sense of righteousness and awe-inspiring. β¦β¦
Yu Daochong, Li Tongren, and Li Shicheng went down to prepare for the affairs of the court and the mission the next morning, and Li Ruolan came to Li Qingxia's bedroom, she wanted to see what kind of expression Li Qingxia, a woman who was defeated in her hands, would look like after seeing herself, she must be very angry, or she would cry and shout to beg her to let her go! Li Ruolan thought of the smugness and couldn't help laughing.
His eyes fell on Li Qingxia's body, and he saw that Li Qingxia was sitting in front of the window of the moon cave, with her back to this side, looking out of the window in a daze. Li Ruolan smiled slightly, walked straight up, until Li Qingxia stopped not far behind, and said with a smile: "The princess is really Yaxing, she is still in the mood to watch the night!" Li Qingxia turned her head, glanced at Li Ruolan, and said lightly: "I really underestimated you, I didn't expect you to plan such a mutiny!" Li Ruolan walked up to Li Qingxia, glanced at him, and said with a smile: "This is called more help for those who have attained the Dao, and less help for those who have lost the Dao." The hearts of the Heavenly Dao people are on my side, and this victory is just a natural result! β
Li Qingxia glanced at Li Ruolan carefully, and Li Ruolan asked proudly, "What, don't you know each other?" Li Qingxia turned her head to look out the window and said lightly: "You are indeed very good at playing conspiracy, but this set between countries is useless!" Li Ruolan's face was cold, and she said angrily: "You are already a prisoner under the stairs, don't worry about it!" I know how to deal with the strong better than you do! He glanced at Li Qingxia contemptuously and said, "You are just blindly strong, and in the end you can only harm others and yourself!" I am different from you, I understand the difference between strength and weakness, and I understand the way to survive as a weakling! β¦β¦β
Li Qingxia mocked: "Your way of survival is nothing more than wagging your tail and begging for mercy!" Li Ruolan's face changed, and she said angrily: "You are really stubborn!" It's all at this point, and you still have to be hard-mouthed! β
Li Qingxia was about to ridicule each other, but then thinking of the current situation, she couldn't help but swallow back the words that came to her lips, and said earnestly: "Concubine Lan, since you have won the power, I don't want to say anything more!" I just want to remind you that you must not have any illusions about King Yan! He is a hero who has never appeared in hundreds of years, and such a character will never give up his hegemony of dominating the world for a little rope profit! Not only is the destruction of Xia his goal, but also the destruction of Liao, Tubo, Dali, and Song are all his goals, he wants to unify the world and establish a great empire comparable to the Han and Tang Dynasties!! β
Li Ruolan was shocked, then snorted coldly and mocked: "You are so believing and confusing the public, you just want to escape your life!" I advise you to die before it's too late! Li Qingxia sighed, looked out the window, and stopped talking. Seeing this scene, Li Ruolan felt bored, and said angrily: "Look at it, look at it, I'm afraid I won't be able to see it tomorrow!" β
Li Ruolan brushed her sleeves away. Li Qingxia's mind couldn't help but appear with Yang Peng's face, and a strange feeling came to her heart, feeling that these compatriots around her were so hateful, but Yang Peng's life and death feud gave her a cordial feeling, just like the boy next door. Li Qingxia came back to her senses, her brows furrowed tightly.
That night, Yang Peng led the army to a small town more than 20 miles north of Xingqing Mansion, and in view of the late day, the army set up camp here. Soon after, curling smoke rose in and around the town, and the noise echoed in the night sky; However, in this small town, except for Yan Yun's soldiers, there is not a single local person, it turns out that they fled in panic when they got the news that Yan Yun's army was coming, this town has long become an empty town, and now it has become the temporary residence of Yan Yun's army.
In the big tent, Yang Peng was discussing the strategy of attacking Xingqing Mansion with several important generals. Yang Jing shouted loudly: "Big brother, I don't think there's anything to discuss, when the city is attacked tomorrow, I Yang Jing will lead the army to attack the city, and it won't be long before it can be captured!" At that time, what the emperor of Western Xia, the prime minister of Western Xia, all hands on the big brother! Everyone laughed, Yang Peng pointed at Yang Jing and said with a smile: Yang Jing is right, there is really nothing to discuss, the situation in front of him is already very clear, just go all out to attack the city!" The generals nodded in agreement. Yang Jing smiled and said: "You still say that I Yang Jing has a bad brain, you see, didn't the eldest brother adopt my Yang Jing's strategy?" Everyone laughed, and Huyan Chijin teased: "That's right, Yang Jing is definitely the smartest among the cows!" β
Yang Jing didn't hear that the other party was ridiculing himself, and thought that he was really praising himself, so he laughed, and the others laughed too. Yelu Hanyu said to Yang Peng: "Big brother, while we are storming the city, we can also launch arrow books to disturb the morale of the army!" He frowned and said, "To be honest, I don't think this battle will be easy, the Western Xia army and civilians are only afraid that they will fight to the death under the leadership of Li Qingxia!" There is definitely no problem in capturing Xingqing Mansion, but I don't know how many soldiers we will lose! β
The atmosphere suddenly became solemn, and Yang Peng said: "If you want to win the victory, sacrifice is inevitable, and you don't have to mind too much!" Without sacrifice, there is no victory, and without victory, there is no glory, so sacrifice is necessary, and a country that is afraid of sacrifice can never rise! We don't care about sacrifice, but we must always remember those soldiers who sacrificed for the country! Everyone couldn't help but nodded, and Yang Jing suddenly shouted loudly: "His grandmother's, the old man, is afraid of death, and his head is only a big scar in the bowl, and he will be a good man again twenty years later!" The crowd burst into laughter.
A secret guard rushed into the big tent and bowed: "Master Qiqi, the envoy of Western Xia is here, now I am asking to see you outside the gate!" Everyone was not surprised by this, Yang Jing said with a smile: "This group of guys, eighty percent of them are frightened, and they have come to ask for peace!" β
Yang Peng said to the secret guard: "Bring him in." The hidden killer answered and ran down. Yang Peng returned to the top and sat down, and the generals were separated. After a while, I saw the secret guard leading a man with an obscene appearance in, it was Li Ruolan's father and daughter's cronies who had come before, Li Fulu. Yang Peng and Yelu Hanyu were slightly surprised and glanced at each other.
I saw Li Fulu fall down and kneel down and bowed: "The villain Li Fulu greets His Royal Highness King Yan!" "It stands to reason that the envoy of a country should not salute others like this, it is really a loss of national body, but everything in the world, to put it bluntly, is controlled by power, any reason is a fart, only strength is the power that determines everything, so Li Fulu, as an envoy of a country, is not surprised to pay homage to Yang Peng like this.
Yang Peng glanced at Li Fulu and asked, "Aren't you a close confidant of Li Ruolan's father and daughter, why did you become the envoy of Western Xia again?" Li Fulu hurriedly said: "King Yan may not know something, our Great Xia has set things right not long ago, the puppet emperor Li Qingxia has stepped down, and the current emperor is supported by Lord Guozhang and Concubine Lan!" β
Everyone present was very surprised, and they couldn't help but whisper. Yang Peng smiled: "This is a bit unexpected. Li Fulu said: "Lord Guozhang and Concubine Lan Niangniang hope to make a truce with Yan Yun to rebuild the old friendship, and beg King Yan to have mercy!" β
Yang Peng said lightly: "You are not qualified to talk to me about this." Li Fulu hurriedly said: "How dare the villain negotiate with King Yan, Lord Guozhang is on the way here, and Lord Guozhang will negotiate with King Yan at that time." The villain only hoped that King Yan could postpone his march so that the two sides could negotiate peace. β
Yang Peng said with a smile: "Since the Guozhang has come in person, then I will suspend the march." Li Fulu was very happy and bowed: "Thank you King Yan!" Then he stood up, bowed and said, "If King Yan has no other orders, the villain will go back to his life!" Yang Peng nodded. Li Fulu said goodbye and left in a hurry.
Yang Jing, who couldn't help it for a long time, said loudly: "Big brother, why do you want to negotiate peace with Xixia, isn't it good to take Xingqing Mansion in one go?" The generals also had this idea. Yang Peng smiled and said: "Don't be in a hurry, it's not a bad thing to talk about it!" Yang Jing wanted to say more, Shi Ping next to him grabbed Yang Jing and whispered: "King Yan has his own plan, Yang Jing, don't talk too much!" Yang Jing pursed his lips, but didn't say anything more.
After the meeting ended, Yelu Hanyu and the other three princesses stayed, and the others went back to their respective camps. Yang Erya asked curiously, "Big brother, do you really want to make peace with Xixia?" β
Yang Peng smiled and said: "Isn't it good to talk about it, you can see some of the details of the other party?" "Yang Erya doesn't understand that peace talks are peace talks, what does it mean to look at the details of the other party? Then he suddenly realized, and glanced at Yang Peng with a strange expression, looking like he wanted to say something and stopped. Yelu Hanyu looked at Yang Erya's expression and teased: "Sister Erya, do you think that the eldest brother is too treacherous?" Yang Erya blushed and glanced at Yang Peng embarrassedly. Yang Peng glared at Yang Erya, and said angrily: "Look at the big brother like this, be careful of the family law!" As soon as these words came out, the three girls couldn't help but blush, Yelu Hanyu and Yang Jiumei showed a strange look on their faces, and Yang Erya looked very shy with affection.
Yang Peng saw that the three girls had different styles but were equally attractive, and his heart couldn't help but flutter, and then he became vigilant, didn't dare to talk about it anymore, and quickly changed the topic, he was afraid that if he provoked the fire, he was afraid that it would be difficult to clean up. β¦β¦
A day later, the Western Xia peace mission really arrived, and the leader was indeed Li Ruolan's father, Li Shicheng. As soon as Li Shicheng saw Yang Peng, he hurriedly bowed to him, very humble look, just like a slave under Yang Peng, those fierce generals under Yang Peng couldn't help but show contempt when they saw him like this, thinking of the Li Tuo who came at the beginning, it was strange that he was also the messenger of Western Xia, but why was there such a big difference?
Yang Peng said: "Your envoy doesn't have to be polite, let's get up and talk." Li Shicheng hurriedly thanked him, and then stood up, but he still stood with his head bowed. I only heard him say: "On behalf of the new emperor of our country, the villain Jin pays tribute to King Yan!" Yang Peng said with a smile: "Master Li is not an outsider to us, so we don't have to be so polite, just say it if you have anything to say." β
Li Shicheng couldn't help but be flattered when he heard Yang Peng say that he was not an outsider, and hurriedly said: "The villain is here to hope that you and I will always form an alliance!" Of course, we will naturally offer gifts to show our country's deference to Yanyun! Raising his eyes slightly, he saw Chen Xiao's expression of interest, and his heart was overjoyed, and he continued: "Our country is willing to cede all the land to the east and south of Helan Mountain, except for Xingqing Mansion, Huaizhou, Jingzhou, and Shunzhou, and there is another great gift to offer, I believe that King Yan will be very happy after seeing it!" β
Yang Peng smiled: "You have aroused my curiosity, what kind of gift has such a great charm?" Yang Jing shouted: "His grandmother's, don't sell it, I think it's just some gold and silver treasures, so what's so strange!" β
Li Shicheng didn't expect someone to dare to shout in front of King Yan, he was very surprised, and couldn't help but follow the prestige, and saw that the person who spoke was a very majestic and vicious man with a dark face, a face full of steel needles and beards, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and quickly looked away. After settling down, he said to Yang Peng: "King Yan, please allow the villain to dedicate this gift to King Yan here!" β
Yang Peng nodded. Li Shicheng said: "The gift is in that purple-curtained carriage, please send someone to get it." Yang Peng glanced at the king, and the latter immediately ran out of the big tent. The generals whispered, and they were all very curious about this gift of the Western Xia Da Guanzi.
A moment later, there was the sound of footsteps at the door, and the hum of whispering in the tent immediately disappeared, and everyone looked at the door in unison. I saw Wang Kaidang come first, and then I saw a few graceful figures behind him, and when they came in, they turned out to be three beautiful women, among whom the one who was supported was particularly beautiful, although it was not as beautiful as Princess Yelu's natural beauty, but it was definitely a peerless beauty in ten thousand. Everyone immediately understood, and couldn't help but secretly say: "It's been a long time, and I sent a beautiful woman to King Yan!" Some people even thought: 'I'm afraid this is not a good intention, this is a beauty trick!' However, Yang Peng and Yelu Hanyu showed surprise, because the two recognized the identity of the beauty, which was Li Qingxia, who had been an envoy to Tianjing New City and later mutiny and became the empress of Western Xia.
Where could Yang Peng and Yelu Hanyu think that the other party would actually send their first emperor as a gift, they were really shocked; And Li Qingxia was flushed, ashamed and indignant, if it weren't for being drugged and unable to move, she would definitely die in this big tent, it would be better than being insulted! Yang Peng glanced at Li Shicheng and said with a smile: "This gift is very unexpected to me!" β
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.