Chapter 82: Destroying the Truth
Seeing the Liu family, Mo Ling was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly took it back to the palace to settle down, and since then he has learned the whole truth about the "Mo rebellion" from the Liu family.
On that day, several tribes of the steppe formed an alliance and suddenly launched an attack on the Mo tribe.
After the Mo tribe was raided by the alliance, they were very puzzled, several tribes in the grassland have always been safe except for fighting for pastures for their livelihoods, and the Mo tribe has long since retreated, why do those tribes attack them?
Under the coercion and temptation of the alliance, the Mo clan learned the purpose of the alliance's attack on the Mo clan. First, they wanted to punish the Mo people for turning their backs on the grassland tribes and establishing diplomatic relations with Beiming without authorization; The second is to use the attack on the Mo tribe as a cover, wanting to cross the Mo tribe and loot the border city of Beiming.
As long as the Mo people are willing to open the city to let them cross the border and break off diplomatic relations with Beiming, they will not be guilty of the past, otherwise they will regard the Mo people as enemies.
The Kemo clan also knew very well that if they betrayed Beiming, the end would definitely not be better than now. Moreover, Princess Mo Ling has married Emperor Xuanwu, and the material culture of Beiming is needed for the development of the Mo people, which makes it even more impossible for them to turn against Beiming.
Mo Ling's father led the clansmen to defend the city gate at the first time, not giving the alliance the slightest chance, and sent someone to inform the garrison troops on the border of Beiming of the plan of the tribal alliance, so that they could send the news back to Shangyuan City and ask Beiming to send reinforcements to fight against the tribal alliance together.
And the Mo people's attitude of desperate resistance also completely angered the tribal alliance.
It didn't take long for the Mo tribe to receive news from the Beiming garrison, saying that the Beiming army had set a trap in the rear, so that they could first pretend to surrender in obedience, and then open the city gate to let the alliance army cross, and then they could catch turtles in the urn.
The news sent back by Beiming made the king and several elders very hesitant. They didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in the Beiming gourd, so why didn't they directly send reinforcements and work together to completely intercept the tribal alliance outside the territory of the Mo tribe, but instead let them enter the territory of the Mo tribe? You must know that once the Mo people open the city gate, they will definitely have a fierce battle with the tribal alliance, how can the tribal alliance easily let them go?
But at that time, the war was tight, and the Mo people were weak and isolated, so they couldn't resist for a while. Although the king and the elders were skeptical of this plan, as the offensive of the tribal alliance became more and more intense, the Mo tribe had no choice but to obey Beiming's plan in desperation.
The king ordered all the old and weak women and children to retreat to the border of Beiming, and led the remaining men to open the city gate and let the tribal alliance cross. Who knew that this release not only caused heavy casualties to the Mo people, but also became the "criminal evidence" of their Mo rebellion.
At that time, the Liu family took their three-year-old son and the old and weak women and children of the Mo tribe to the border of Beiming, which, as a country of diplomatic relations with the Mo people, should accept these Mo people. But when they arrived at the border, the Beiming garrison refused the Mo people's request to enter the country on the grounds that the Mo people were at war and were afraid of mixing in.
Soon the tribal alliance reached the north, but the Beiming garrison did not make any move. It was only then that they knew that Beiming's so-called trap was not set for others from beginning to end, but for the Mo clan!
Their group of old and weak women and children were locked up outside the city, with nothing to rely on, so they could only grit their teeth and fight to the death with the tribal alliance, but fortunately, the king brought people to come in time to save some of them. They fled all the way back to the Mo City, but fortunately, the purpose of the tribal alliance was the border city of Beiming, and it did not kill them all, so they escaped.
When they set foot on that familiar land, they found that this is still the home where they usually live? As far as the eye can see, there are corpses strewn all over the field, and every inch of the land is infected with the blood of the people, and those dark red blood stains seem to tell that there was a catastrophe here.
After all, the tribal alliance did not let go of the Mo tribe, and now standing here is the only living person of the Mo tribe.
They buried the remains of their clan in tears, including Liu's father and husband. But before she could come out of her grief, the king fell.
It turned out that the king had also been seriously wounded in this battle, and after he learned that the clansmen had not been sheltered by Beiming, he rushed to the north with his last breath, and took the seriously injured body to pick up the clansmen, but unfortunately it was still a step too late, and more than half of their old and weak women and children were killed and wounded after all.
When the king was dying, he quietly handed over a piece of silk silk to the Liu family, and told her that the Mo tribe's catastrophe today may be because of this silk silk, and Emperor Xuanwu had secretly sent people to the Mo tribe to look for this silk silk, but he didn't know the origin and function of this silk silk, so he could only hide it secretly. He knew that the purpose of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Emperor Xuanwu and the Mo people was not as simple as it seemed, but the Mo people were helpless, and if they wanted to have long-term development, they must learn the farming technology and other advanced culture of the Central Plains from Beiming. If Beiming is to be unfavorable to the Mo people in the future, this sheet music is a bargaining chip.
But what he didn't expect was that the tribal alliance would raid the Mo Clan, and Beiming completely ignored Mo Ling and directly fell into the well against the Mo Clan, refusing to even give them a chance to negotiate. It turned out that from the very beginning, Beiming had planned how to annex the Mo people, what diplomatic relations, what marriages, all for today's borrowing knife to kill.
The king asked the Liu family to hand over this piece of silk to Mo Ling no matter what, and told Mo Ling to beware of Emperor Xuanwu.
Soon after, the king died of his injuries. At the same time, Xiao Yuchuan also led his army to the north and fought with the tribal alliance.
The smoke was everywhere, and the people of the Mo tribe could only hide in the city and did not dare to go out. I don't know how long it took for such a dark day, until the sound of the horses' hooves of the tribal alliance stepped through the city, and they knew that Beiming had won.
But they never expected that after the tribal alliance was defeated, what awaited the Mo tribe was another catastrophe.
When Xiao Yuchuan led the army to kill, Liu and his son hid in a cellar and escaped death. While she was hiding in the cellar, she overheard the soldiers who were searching outside secretly mentioning some secret edict, and from the content of their conversation, she found that these soldiers turned out to be two groups of people. One group is Xiao Yuchuan's people, and the other group is under the secret order of Emperor Xuanwu to secretly look for things.
When she came out of the cellar, a few days later, she and her son had gone to look for someone, but there was no life in the city, except for the disgusting smell of blood and the vultures gnawing at the corpses.
The Liu family is almost desperate, but she can't let herself fall, she has to live, she has to fulfill the king's last wish, go to Beiming to find the princess, tell her all the truth, can't let her be deceived by Beiming and Emperor Xuanwu again, and avenge the tragic death of the clansmen!
After enduring the grief in her heart, she disguised herself and fostered her son in a farmhouse in the north, while she sneaked into Shangyuan City, ready to find an opportunity to sneak into the palace, but unexpectedly saw Mo Ling outside the palace that day.
After listening to Liu's words, Mo Ling set off a storm in his heart, and for a while, anger and grief were intertwined, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.
At first, she couldn't figure out what Empress Renzhao meant by what she said to her before she died. And the tribe in the north and the Mo tribe have always been well water and do not interfere with river water, why did they suddenly form an alliance to attack the Mo tribe? Why did the northern garrison frame the Mo rebellion? Why would Xiao Yuchuan rather resist the decree than exterminate the Mo tribe?
It turns out that these seemingly unrelated things can be connected in series, and all of these are the bureaus of Emperor Xuanwu.