Chapter 341: Emperor Xian's surrender is not as good as cattle and horses
The thunderous roar disappeared one after another, and a huge fire ignited the castle tower of the Sun Gate on the north side, and the firelight lit up half of the night sky.
The streets of the city, large and small, especially the ones near the Gate of the Sun, are noisy and noisy.
The people who were awakened by the loud noise ran in panic, shouted loudly, huddled under the lattice with their children in their arms and wept.
The men stood on both sides of the street and watched the bandons of soldiers and horses rushing to the northern wall, and even the officials of the government rushed into the streets, driving the people back to their homes to wait for the announcement.
Many people couldn't sleep this night, unable to understand why the huge noise came with the firelight, and worried about whether the army of the Xia Kingdom would attack at night, and whether the soldiers defending the city would be able to hold it.
For the sudden explosion, the palace naturally heard it, Qi Ke'an asked the eunuch to carry him to the front palace's tower, only to find that Qi Wangge was also in the building, and neither father nor son spoke to each other, looking at the burning city tower in the northwest in the distance.
The achievements of the Xia army have already shocked the world, and a big city like Luyang in the Central Plains was defeated in half a day, not to mention Xinxiang, which was in disrepair.
Not only Qi Wangge's father and son, but the whole world knew that Xin Xiang could not stop the attack of the Xia army.
Qi Wangge was actually more scared than his son Qi Ke'an and his father Qi Qingbao.
Previously, he escaped from the imperial city with the empress dowager and his wife, and they all fled to the city gate, and were chased back by the civil and military forces, and now they were forced to the palace by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and they wanted to send their Qi family to the Xia State military camp for several generations.
Thinking of such a situation, I was angry and afraid.
That's why during the day today, I tore up with my son without saying a word.
"Father...... I'm afraid we're really going to be sent to the Xia State military camp by those civil and military forces. ”
Hearing his son's words, Qi Wangge hung his head and opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, for a long time, he squeezed out a low voice: "It's because my father can't stand you." ”
Now that the catastrophe is coming, he can't wait to slap himself when he looks back on what he wants to do.
If he didn't follow his mother to imprison his father, kill the envoys of the Xia Kingdom, and surrender to the country in the future, he would not lose the position of a feudal prince, and it would be better to be an idle son than to be the king of the fallen country and be sent to the enemy camp by his own ministers.
The father and son each returned to their palaces, and they couldn't sleep all night, so they simply broke the jar and broke it, called a few concubines, and played crazy all night in the dormitory.
And let the eunuchs dress them in imperial clothes, put on crowns and come to the front palace hall, at this time, the civil and military ministers have already come, there is no need for eunuchs to enter the palace, they all wear swords, standing in the main hall, looking indifferent.
"Please Your Majesty, the Emperor Taishang, and the harem concubines, move to the Xia State military camp outside the city!"
The ministers couldn't help but speak, and they didn't even speak to Qi Wangge and Qi Ke'an, after all, last night was the last room for the monarch and ministers, in fact, the civil and military ministers still hoped that the father and son could commit suicide by taking poison yesterday, so that the monarch did not have to go to the enemy's military camp to be humiliated, and they could also open Xinxiang and surrender logically.
However, the news that came back from the eyeliner in the palace early this morning showed that the emperor and the emperor had been enjoying the female sex all night, and then let the concubines who served commit suicide, which suddenly made a group of civil and military officers feel that the father and son were completely helpless.
So early in the morning, they put on their weapons and took control of the imperial city, their faces as cold as a layer of frost.
Here, the father and son on the royal stairs were mentally prepared, but when they thought of being sent to the enemy camp, they couldn't help but panic in their hearts, trying to impress the courtiers below with their words.
"Princes, gentlemen and ministers, why do you have to do it so ......" Qi Wangge swallowed his saliva, and his voice was obviously trembling.
"Your Majesty remembers the monarch and ministers, please don't make it difficult for me and other courtiers."
It was Yang Qi, the prime minister who was the first to stand up yesterday, who arched his hand slightly, took two steps back, straightened up, and waved his hand.
"Please Your Majesty and the Emperor Taishang get in the car, and in addition, go to the harem to move the harem concubines, as well as the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager and the Emperor Lady together."
The defeated army entered the city, and was soon surrounded by Yang Qi, the prime minister with a keen sense of smell, and the only remaining generals of the four armies, Han Jinsu, Zhao Ji'an, Xu Jinwu, and Tong Ju, all worshiped under his command, and Sun Zhan, the defender of the imperial city, was his son-in-law, so he dared to act like this.
After keeping the family business, the Yang family will not fall in Qidi, even if he surrenders, he can't be the prime minister, he can also mix in the Xia State court, and paving the way for the heirs behind the Yang family is also a good plan.
He lowered his eyes slightly, and two teams of imperial city soldiers rushed in, without the slightest respect in the past, and directly set up Qi Wangge and Qi Ke'an on the imperial steps, and took them outside the main hall in the noisy shouts of the two.
Subsequently, the palace guards cooperated with the soldiers to enter the harem and took Zhao Zhuangyi, who was disguised as an old woman, to find and take away, as for Qi Qingbao, these guards and soldiers still knew some things, and they didn't treat him too roughly, Qi Qingbao didn't struggle to beg for mercy, so he wore a simple regular uniform, and followed the soldiers with his hands to leave the palace where he had lived for decades.
When it was time to leave the palace, he turned around and arched his hand, trembling towards the majestic palace groups here, bowing down.
Then there were the empresses and concubines of the three generations of emperors, there were hundreds of people, loaded more than 30 carriages, and drove out of the imperial city with the imperial chauffeur under the escort of the imperial city's soldiers and horses.
The people on the street stood on the side of the road, looking at the carriage passing in front of them, without any expression on their faces, numbly watching the harem concubines in the carriage crying out of the car window.
For the royal affairs, the people in the city naturally know, first Qi Qingbao was imprisoned and abdicated, Qi Wangge ascended the throne, and then this straw bag-like emperor was afraid of Xia Guobing Feng and hurriedly stepped down from the throne, so that his sixteen-year-old son ascended the throne, this series of operations was true and made the people of Qi in Xinxiang stunned At the same time, they also sneered at the emperor in the palace.
In private, the literati and writers all shook their heads at such a thing and said: "The dynasty rotates, and in the last years, the army does not cultivate martial arts, and literature does not govern the country." The emperor is so stupid, how can there be any reason for immortality. ”
The convoy went out of the Sun Gate, and the soldiers of the Imperial City who were originally holding spears showed nervous expressions on their faces, and the civil and military officials who came out together, although they were dressed formally and walked majestically on foot, their hearts were also up and down.
Early this morning, they had already sent fast horses to the Xia State military camp to report, and when they left the imperial city, they sent fast horses again, and the other party should have received the letter and would not do anything to hurt them.
Ten miles after the expulsion of the Rimen, the convoy saw off the cavalry of five hundred people, led by a female general, holding a silver spear, wearing a white robe of the silver family, majestically stopped in front of the road, after looking at the long procession, Yang Qi, who had just stepped forward to salute, and several Qi generals nodded, and then led the white horse to make his debut, signaling them to continue to move forward.
"Go over, but tell you and others that Li Shangshu is strict in governing the army, and remember not to make noise."
"Yes!"
Seeing that it was a woman who would greet them in the future, as a civil and martial artist, he naturally had some whispers in his heart, but now looking at people's faces, he naturally didn't dare to show it, Yang Qi responded respectfully, and then continued to lead the team forward.
Ten miles again, in front of the field of vision, even the camp of several miles of horizontal reflects the bottom of the eyes, the camp 'Li', 'Xiang', 'Lu', 'Zhao', 'Dong' and so on the tooth flag hunting and flying, the highest flag, a 'Xia' word on the book, the flag black background and white dragon pattern is particularly conspicuous.
Before the convoy approached the camp, the drums sounded in the barracks, and the ground shook accordingly, and I saw that on the left and right of the camp, each cavalry rushed out, each with about a thousand horsemen, with overwhelming momentum, and when it reached the position of thirty zhang on the left and right sides of the convoy, the two cavalrymen headed by a red and a white general raised their weapons.
A cavalry lieutenant waved a command flag in the ranks: "Stop! ”
The iron hooves of the two cavalry slowed down their speed and stopped in unison at the last of their moments, and the dust swept through the field.
This scene of wolf smoke made the civil and military forces led by Yang Qi tremble, and Qi Wangge, Qi Ke'an, and Zhao Zhuangyi and his wife in the two carriages in front of them opened the curtain, only glanced at it, and were so frightened that they hurriedly put down the curtain and retracted it.
They have been pampered for too long, and they can't see this kind of bloody and murderous army.
In a moment, the gate in front of it was wide open, and the two armies of Youyan and Xiliang also sent more than 1,000 foot soldiers, quickly pouring out of the gate, listing the formations on the left and right, these soldiers were carefully selected, armed to the teeth, the purpose was to deter the civil and military forces of the Qi country.
At this time, Su Dingfang, who was still old, pressed the head of the knife and crossed Zhang Yi and other generals, and did not salute, raised his hand slightly and stretched out his hand to the gate: "The emperor of your country, and his family have arrived?" If they arrive, they will enter the camp together, and the commander of my family will wait in the big tent. ”
"Yes!"
Yang Qi maintained the number of courtesies, bowed down to the generals of the Xia Kingdom, and then ordered someone to take the emperor, Emperor Taishang and others off the carriage, and Qi Wangge and his son were carried over.
Zhang Yi and the others looked at the father and son in imperial clothes, their legs trembled as they walked, and they couldn't help laughing, Dong Zhuo scolded with a smile: "It's worse than Liu Xiedu back then!" ”
Li Wei laughed directly, and then added: "Dong Gong, after you leave, Liu Xie is almost the same as this father and son in front of me and Guo Yan." Then he was kicked by Dong Zhuo, and then followed the generals into the barracks behind Qi Guo's team.
Inside the big tent of the Chinese army.
Li Jing sat on a black wooden chair, dressed in bright light armor and majestic, when he saw Yang Qi, the prime minister of Qi State, leading the emperor of Qi and his family into the tent, he sat on the chair and did not move, his eyes swept over them coldly.
Yang Qi on the opposite side, as well as Qi Wangge's father and son, as well as Zhao Zhuangyi and Qi Qingbao, finally met the commander of the Xia Guodong Route Army, and before they saluted each other, the generals of the Xia State Army rushed in, standing on both sides with the sound of Jia Ye trembling.
The murderous aura exuded by these generals was completely incomparable to the generals of the Qi State, as if these people had already fought countless battles at such an age.
Zhao Zhuangyi lowered his head and looked at these generals, Lu Bu with a golden crown and bundled hair, a handsome general with silver armor and white robes, a fat man with a fat head and big ears but a fierce face, especially one of the generals wearing a big coat and wearing luxurious silver armor, burly and tall, just one glance, and seeing the heavy pupils in the other party's eyes, she was so frightened that she was numb and didn't dare to look more.
At this time, she suddenly understood why her husband Qi Qingbao would rather sacrifice the country and surrender......
But what's the use of mentioning it now, it's too late.
At this time, Yang Qi, the prime minister of Qi in front, stepped forward to greet Li Jing, and was about to speak, but was interrupted by Li Jing raising his hand, "Although I am the commander of the three armies, I could have been surrendered on the front line, but my majesty is already on the way south, and at this moment it has passed Pingshengzhou, not to mention that I will come to Shengzhou and give you the surrender, and it should be my majesty." ”
After speaking, Li Jing got up and raised his hand to beckon.
"Dingfang, lead the troops to take over the defense of Xinxiang City first, the Chinese martial arts, and the Tianzi of the State of Qi, and his family members will stay in the army for two days, waiting for His Majesty to come and personally decide."
"General...... That's not what you said in your letter! Yang Qi was shocked, and hurriedly stepped forward to say more, but was kicked to the ground by Li Dao, Zhang Yi directly pulled out the ring head knife and pressed it on the old man's neck, with a fierce expression: "One more word, a knife will cut off the head level!" ”
"I really didn't say that in my letter, but things have changed, don't worry, I won't hurt your life!"
Li Jing stroked his beard and laughed, and instructed the guards outside the tent: "Arrange tents for the civil and military ministers of Qi State, and make do with them at night, the emperor of Qi State ...... and their families, take them to the back camp together, help feed the horses, and do laundry! ”
"This general!"
Where did Qi Wangge and Qi Ke'an do such a thing, they wanted to beg, but they were slapped by Li Dao and Zhang Yi respectively, and they played a handsome account like driving cattle and sheep.
was escorted away with the harem concubines and the empress dowager Zhao Zhuangyi, while Qi Qingbao was taken away alone and imprisoned in a tent with Wenwu.
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The next day, the imperial car of the Xia Emperor finally appeared at the border of Heshengzhou, and soon after, he arrived at the front-line military camp.
(End of chapter)