Chapter 401, Dedicated to the People

Wang Kai led a dusty herald to rush in, hugged his fists and said, "King Yan, report the battle in the south." Immediately retreated to the side, the herald immediately stepped forward, hugged his fists and bowed: "Qiyu Yan Wang, his subordinates have come to summon the order of General Yang, Huaizhou Governor Li Shifang has learned the news that King Yan has broken through the capital, and has already opened the city and surrendered, and now our army has received the Huaizhou ......."

Li Tongren praised loudly: "King Yan is powerful in the world, and the demon clown is descending from the wind!" "All the generals looked sideways, and they all secretly said in their hearts: 'This old fellow!'

Yang Peng smiled and said to the herald, "You continue." The herald replied and continued: "However, Wei Mingzhen, the governor of Jingzhou, and Li Cunxiao, the governor of Tiemen Pass, refuse to surrender and are still resisting, General Yang, General Gao, and General Xiao Duli are supervising the attack of the army, and I believe that good news will arrive soon!" Yang Peng nodded and asked the herald, "Do you have enough grain and grass?" The herald clenched his fists and said, "There is still half a moon of grain and grass!" Yang Peng nodded and said, "It should be enough!" He glanced at Shi Ping and asked, "How much grain and grass do we have here?" Shi Ping hugged his fists and said: "There are more than 300,000 loads of grain and grass." Yang Peng said: "Transfer 100,000 grains and grass over just in case." Shi Ping clenched his fists and promised.

Yang Peng looked at the herald and said, "You go back and tell General Yang not to worry, now that our army is victorious, we must not make mistakes in the hurry!" The herald answered and retreated.

Yang Peng glanced at the generals and said: "The infantry army and the iron cavalry of the king of Yan are resting outside the city, and the light cavalry is spilling out on all sides, clearing the remnants of the enemy and restoring local security!" The generals agreed in unison. ……

At noon, Yang Erya led a few Feifeng female guards to the place where Li Qingxia was under house arrest with food, and now Li Qingxia has been brought to Xingqing Mansion from Dingzhou and arranged to live in the palace where she used to live. In fact, not only Li Qingxia, but also the royal family members of Western Xia, including the baby who had just been the emperor for a few days, as well as the empress dowager Li Ruolan, the national abbot Li Shicheng, etc., were all under house arrest all over the palace, except that they could not act, the treatment was still very good.

Yang Erya led a few Feifeng female guards into the dormitory, and several palace maids saw them and immediately stepped forward to greet them: "I've seen Niangniang!" "These palace maids are more respectful and obedient to Yang Erya than they are to their own master, Li Qingxia. Yang Erya asked, "What about your majesty?" Several palace maids immediately pointed upstairs and said, "It's up there!" Yang Erya led a few Feifeng female guards towards the red lacquered staircase with carved railings not far away, and walked along the stairs to the second floor, only to see Li Qingxia standing behind the window not far away, looking at the scene outside the window in a daze. Li Qingxia looked at the familiar scene outside the window, only feeling that things were wrong, and a melancholy mood lingered in her heart. Hearing the sound of footsteps behind him, he couldn't help but retract his thoughts, turned around, and saw Yang Erya coming, a smile appeared on his originally gloomy face, and he hurriedly greeted him, "Sister Erya, are you here?" ”

Yang Erya smiled, asked the female guards to put down the food basket, and then took Li Qingxia's slender hand and walked to the window to talk, the two women were intimate, as if they had been close friends for many years. During this time, Yang Erya took care of Li Qingxia's daily life, Yang Erya unconsciously had a good impression of this wise and extraordinary woman who was worried about the country, and Li Qingxia also had a good impression of Yang Erya, a pure and straightforward woman. Unconsciously, the two daughters have become good friends who talk about everything, this is the case between people, if you are fated, you can become close friends in a blink of an eye, if you don't fall in love, you will get along for a lifetime, but you are just strangers.

"Sister, are you still worried about Western Xia?" Yang Erya saw Li Qingxia's brows tightly knit and her face was sad, and she couldn't help asking. Li Qingxia sighed and couldn't help but say: "The country is broken, and things are no longer people!" Unexpectedly, that glorious country would be wiped out in a blink of an eye! ”

Yang Erya didn't know how to persuade her, so she could only say, "Sister doesn't have to think too much!" Anyway, that's it, why don't you take a look at it! Li Qingxia smiled bitterly, and then asked with concern: "How is the situation outside now?" Did King Yan continue his march westward? ”

Yang Erya said: "Hu Daochong raised a baby named Mrs. Li to be the emperor in Xiliang Mansion, called Emperor Xia Ai. ......" Li Qingxia smiled bitterly and couldn't help muttering: "This word 'mourning' is really appropriate!" Hey, Great Xia has reached this point, and if you want to come back to life, unless a miracle comes from heaven! Glancing at Yang Erya, she smiled apologetically, "It's all my sister's fault, interrupting my sister's words, sister, you can continue." Yang Erya smiled: "Why should my sister be polite to me!" After a pause, he continued: "Our army has not marched westward, because the grain and grass have been exhausted, and we cannot carry out another expedition in a short time!" ”

Li Qingxia couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and said to Yang Erya: "Sister, I want to meet King Yan, please introduce me on your behalf!" Yang Erya smiled: "What's the problem with this, you come with me." Then he stood up, took Li Qingxia's slender hand and walked towards the stairs.

Yang Peng was standing in front of the map in the back hall of the mansion, looking at the situation on the map, thinking. Looking at the situation on this map, the Hetao area east of Helan Mountain has basically been occupied by the Yanyun army, only the Tiemen Pass and the Jingzhou Xixia army are still resisting, the general trend has been decided, and the Yanyun army's large-scale expedition will end perfectly. Yang Peng's gaze fell on Zhuo Luo, the Southern Military Division and the Xishou Baotai Military Division, and felt that he could take advantage of the convenience and attack these two places with cavalry in one fell swoop. Zhuo Luo and the Southern Military Division, across the river from Lanzhou on the Qinfeng Road under the control of Yanyun, in the north of the Yellow River, and Xining Prefecture across the steep Qiuliuling, and the Xishou Baotai Military Division, in the west of Weizhou, Zhuoluo and the south of the Southern Military Division, south of the ninth section of the Yellow River, probably in the north of Jingyuan County, Ningxia Province, surrounded by Killing Niu Ling, Rou Wolf Mountain, Lingbo Mountain, Wei Jing Mountain, the mountain is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Xishou Baotai Military Division, together with Zhuoluo and the Southern Military Division, constitute the entrance to the Hexi Corridor, and if Yanyun wants to attack Xiliang Mansion and even the Xuanhua Mansion (Zhangye) and Xiping Military Division in the west, generally speaking, he must attack all the way west from the Xishou Baotai Military Division, Zhuoluo and the Southern Military Division.

Now the situation is very favorable to Yan Yun, the Western Xia army is defeated and fled for his life, the Xishou Baotai Military Division and Zhuo Luo and the Southern Military Division have limited defenders and the military spirit is turbulent, it is a good time to go down with a drum, but the problem of grain and grass has limited Yan Yun's actions.

Yang Peng frowned and pondered. There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, Yang Peng retracted his thoughts, turned around, and saw Yang Erya, who was dressed in military uniform, leading Li Qingxia in civilian clothes to come in. Chen Xiao was a little surprised.

Yang Erya led Li Qingxia to Yang Peng, hugged her fists and said, "Big brother, Sister Qingxia wants to talk to you, so the little sister brought her!" Yang Peng looked at Li Qingxia, Li Qingxia also looked at him, the eyes of the two met in the air, and complex emotions rose in Li Qingxia's heart. Yang Peng smiled and asked, "What does Your Majesty want to talk to me about?" When Li Qingxia heard this, she couldn't help but feel angry in her heart, and said coldly: "You already knew that I was not the emperor, and if you call me like this, you are obviously mocking me!" ”

Yang Peng snorted and said with a smile: "I didn't mean that." Li Qingxia looked at the man in front of him who was a little not serious, thinking that his country was dying and struggling at his feet, and his own people were rushing for their lives under his soldiers, and inconvenient hatred surged into her heart, and she just wanted to pounce and bite off the flesh on her body piece by piece. Reluctantly calmed himself down, he turned his head to Yang Erya and said, "Sister Erya, can we talk about it alone?" Yang Erya looked at the eldest brother, and when he saw the eldest brother nodding, he smiled and said, "You guys talk, I'm out!" Then he turned and left.

Yang Peng saw that Li Qingxia only stared at him with angry eyes, but did not speak, and couldn't help laughing: "Do you want to stare me to death with your eyeballs?" Li Qingxia said fiercely; It's a pity I can't! If there is a spirit in the sky, I would rather offer my soul and flesh and blood, and I would rather die without being reborn forever, and beg the sky to send a thunderbolt to kill you, the demon king who has plagued the world!! ”

Yang Peng was a little depressed, he didn't expect that there would be someone who hated him so much, and he was also an extraordinary beautiful woman. Yang Peng glanced at Li Qingxia and said self-deprecatingly: "I didn't expect that I was actually a demon king in your eyes!" Li Qingxia snorted, "You have destroyed our country, killed countless party members, and trampled our dignity to the ground mercilessly, aren't you still the Demon King?" I only hate that I don't have the strength to turn the tide! ”

Yang Peng said lightly: "Why are you so excited? During the Tang Dynasty, weren't the party members also under the rule of the Tang Dynasty? Even at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the party was under the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty! Now it's just a return to normal! ”

Li Qingxia sneered: "It is normal to let you rule, and it is a crooked way for us to establish an independent country!" Then he nodded, "Your words are also right now, since the ancient saying 'success is a prince and a thief if he loses', if you win, naturally everything is right!" ”

Yang Peng didn't know what to say. raised his head and glanced at Li Qingxia, "The ancestors of the Dangxiang people, and the ancestors of the Han people, are all three emperors and five emperors, we are all descendants of China, with the same face, the same complexion, and the same blood, only because of the changes in life later, you became the party members, and we became Han people!" We are a family, so why should we share each other? Li Qingxia frowned and didn't speak, she felt that Yang Peng was reasonable, but the pride in her heart made her unwilling to give in to the other party.

Raised his head and glanced at Yang Peng, "I don't want to say this." I'm here just to ask you for one thing! Yang Peng smiled and teased: "Your Majesty is Your Majesty in the end, asking for people to be so arrogant!" Li Qingxia frowned, and suddenly knelt down towards Yang Peng. Yang Peng was taken aback, he was just joking, but he didn't expect the other party to have such a big reaction.

"I beg you one thing as a slave! ......" Li Qingxia knelt on the ground and said to Yang Peng, at this time she was already in tears, and the endless humiliation lingered in her chest, pressing her almost out of breath, she was a princess of Xixia, and she had also been the emperor of Xixia, how noble her identity was, not to mention such a humiliating thing, she had never thought about it.

Yang Peng came back to his senses and hurriedly stepped forward to hold her arm and wanted to help her up. However, Li Qingxia resolutely refused, stared at Yang Peng with tearful eyes, and said: "I beg you, please treat the party and the people well, don't enslave them!" ”

Yang Peng felt a little surprised, and then there was an emotion of great admiration in his chest, the little woman in front of him, to this point, actually thought about her compatriots, all the dignity can be dispensed with, just ask herself to let go of her people! Those men in the party, compared to her, should really feel ashamed!

Yang Peng helped Li Qingxia up, looked at her complicated face and smiled bitterly, and said, "Why do you have to do this?" If the dignity of your people requires you to fight for them in this way, they are not qualified to live in this world! ”

Li Qingxia fell into an ice cave, she thought that Yang Peng was going to carry out a massacre against the party members, and in a panic, she only thought of a way, at this moment, she couldn't take care of everything, and reached out to untie the belt of her long skirt. Chen Xiao felt inexplicable when he saw her suddenly untie her belt, and then saw that she actually took off the long skirt on her body, Yang Peng was stunned, but Li Qingxia did not stop, and continued to take off all the underwear and underwear, and in the blink of an eye, a fleshy, convex, seductive, and trembling female body appeared in front of Yang Peng's eyes. Yang Peng's head was a little short-circuited, and he couldn't figure out which one he was singing for a while. Suddenly, there was a flower in front of her, and Li Qingxia's smooth and smooth female body crashed into her arms in the fragrant breeze.

Yang Peng came back to his senses, felt Li Qingxia's body trembling in his arms, and understood why Li Qingxia did this, an inexplicable sadness couldn't help but come to his heart, reached out and pressed Li Qingxia's shoulder, gently pushed her away, and said with a wry smile: "Your people have already abandoned you, why do you sacrifice yourself so much for them!" Is it worth it? Li Qingxia said with tears in her eyes: "I, I am their princess, their majesty, as long as I can save them, I am willing to sacrifice everything!" ”

Yang Peng didn't know what to say, but he felt that Her Royal Highness the princess of Western Xia was very admirable. Walked a short distance, picked up the long skirt and put it on her. Li Qingxia was very surprised, and then infinite worry came to her heart, what she thought was that since the other party had no interest in her body, then she would not be able to save her clansmen!? Yang Peng looked at her anxious and frightened face, understood what she was worried about, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about your people!" Under my rule, all people are the same, they can enjoy the same power, and only if they do their duty to the country, of course! But no matter what, what you're worried about can't happen! ”

Li Qingxia felt incredulous, looked at Yang Peng blankly, saw a smile in his eyes, and suddenly a wave of anger surged from her chest, raised her hand and gave Yang Peng a slap, and scolded angrily: "You bastard!" After scolding, he turned and ran away. Yang Peng looked outside the study, touched his cheek and said with a wry smile: "I don't know if I owe a debt to a woman in my previous life, I have always been slapped by a woman in this life!" Thinking of Li Qingxia's actions just now, I couldn't help but feel infinite respect in my heart, in this ancient time, which seemed to modern people to be very backward and barbaric, there was actually a member of the royal family, and her people could sacrifice to such an extent for her country! Even those so-called revolutionaries, I'm afraid that few people can do it, and they will definitely not be able to do it themselves!

Yang Peng couldn't help but sigh and said loudly: "Amazing! ”……

Later that day, Yang Peng came to inspect the city wall, and saw that on the vast land, the turbid Yellow River was rolling north, and the thunderous sound was faintly heard, and a sense of pride could not help but rise in his heart. Then I couldn't help but think: 'All this is inexplicable, the experience of the past few years is like a big dream, I don't know if this big dream will suddenly wake up one day!?' He glanced up at the sky and muttered, "You thief, you've played me enough, but don't play with me again!" Retracting his gaze and looking into the distance, at this time, there happened to be a large herd of wild horses galloping along the Yellow River towards the south on the east bank of the Yellow River, and an unrestrained atmosphere came to his face, and Yang Peng's face couldn't help but smile.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him, pulling Yang Peng's thoughts back. Turning around, I saw Li Tongren bending down and running in front of him, and said respectfully: "His Royal Highness King Yan!" Yang Peng nodded and asked, "Is there something wrong?" Li Tongren bowed down and said, "Weichen has already arranged the banquet according to King Yan's instructions!" Yang Peng nodded, "You did a good job!" Li Tongren was very happy and said: "King Yan invited the Western Xia royal family to a banquet and gave kindness, which is really extremely wise!" However, Weichen thinks that it is not enough to just give kindness, but he still has to guard against them! As the saying goes, 'you can't have the heart to hurt others, and you can't have the heart to prevent people'! ”

Yang Peng smiled and asked, "If you say that, does Master Li have a way to prevent the slightest deterioration?" ”

"Wechen is not talented, but he thought of a way. Weichen thought that although King Yan's kindness could influence most of the royal family, it was difficult to guarantee that there would not be one or two guys who were still delusional! They are members of the Western Xia royal family, and most of the party members still regard them as orthodox, as long as they remain in this land, it is a hidden danger, and Weichen means to follow the practice of Tang Taizong and move them all to the capital of the Central Plains. This not only shows the great grace of the Yan King, but also makes them leave their own race, so that even if someone has a different heart, they will definitely not be able to make any trouble! In the capital, you can also monitor nearby, even if someone really eats the ambition of the leopard and does something against the sky, it can also be found and dealt with in time! ”

Yang Peng smiled and nodded, and praised: "Lord Li's proposal is very good!" Then he thought, "If this is the case, I will canonize all the members of the royal family at today's banquet, and at the same time give them a house in Tianjing New Town, so that they can return to Tianjing New Town with me." Li Tongren immediately bowed and said: "King Yan is wise! ”

Yang Peng smiled slightly, stepped forward, patted Li Tongren's shoulder, and encouraged: "Work hard, I am very optimistic about you!" Li Tongren only felt flattered, and then an impulse came up, knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said: "Weichen is loyal to King Yan, his liver and brain are smeared, and he is dead!" Yang Peng looked at Li Tongren who was prostrate on the ground, and couldn't help but feel a sense of superiority in his heart, which was quite refreshing. ……

Night fell, the original Xixia Palace hall was brightly lit, Yang Penggao sat on the top, nearly a hundred members of the Xixia royal family were present, facing a table full of wine and food, but everyone was trembling and looking terrified. However, not everyone looks like this, Li Qingxia frowned slightly, thoughtful, and Li Ruolan was radiant and radiant, which was particularly eye-catching.

Yang Peng glanced at His Highness and said, "You are now Yanyun's people, and no one dares to bully you. ”

Everyone was originally trembling, thinking that the banquet set up by Yang Peng was a Hongmen banquet, but after hearing Yang Peng's words at this moment, the worry in their hearts couldn't help but subside a lot. An elderly member of the royal family picked up a glass of wine, stood up, and said to Yang Peng: "Thanks to King Yan, I can save this life, King Yan is our great benefactor!" Several members of the royal family rushed to echo, and they all looked like they were scrambling. Seeing this scene, Li Qingxia only felt embarrassed, she felt that although Great Xia was defeated, she also had to be defeated with dignity and dignity, but most of the highest-ranking royal family members of the party clan in front of her were actually a servile face! Li Qingxia only felt nauseous.

The elder of the royal family who spoke earlier said to everyone: "Let's all toast King Yan with a glass of wine, and thank King Yan for saving his life!" "Hehe, God knows where this 'grace' begins. All the royal family members picked up their wine glasses and stood up, but Li Qingxia sat there unmoved, with a depressed expression. Seeing that Li Qingxia didn't get up, the elder of the royal family couldn't help but feel panicked in his heart, and then he was a little annoyed, and whispered: "Qingxia, Qingxia!" Seeing that Li Qingxia ignored herself, she couldn't help but feel angry, feeling that this junior was really too presumptuous. Immediately ignored Li Qingxia, held the wine glass and bowed to Yang Peng and said, "Old decay respects King Yan!" Then he brought the wine glass to his lips, tilted his head and poured it, he obviously couldn't drink enough, his face was painful, but he still tried his best to pour a large glass of wine, and gasped for breath, a face that was originally white suddenly turned red, and his expression was painful, and the others also drank the wine in the glass.

Yang Peng smiled slightly, picked up the wine glass and tilted his head to dry. Everyone was very happy when they saw that Yang Peng had also dried up the wine. Yang Peng put down his wine glass, glanced at everyone, and his eyes stayed on Li Qingxia's body for a moment, at this moment Li Qingxia was still sitting there in a daze, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

Yang Peng glanced at Li Tongren, who was standing beside him, who understood, stepped forward with an order in his hand, and said loudly: "King Yan's grace, everyone listen to the seal!" When everyone heard this, they were really overjoyed, and they left their seats one after another, and came to the main hall to kneel, Li Qingxia was still sitting in a daze in the distance, like a stone statue. Li Tongren had already heard about the incident during the day today, so he didn't dare to scold Li Qingxia, but looked at Yang Peng to see his instructions. Yang Peng said: "Read it." ”

Li Tongren's heart moved, and he couldn't help but have an idea in his heart, feeling that Li Qingxia might still be his master. Quickly put these chaotic thoughts behind me, opened the order, and read it.

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.