Chapter 342: Descending to the Emperor
In the afternoon, on the way to the 20-mile camp outside Xinxiang City, it was drizzling, and the three soldiers and horses of the Huwei and Huwei Shenji battalions totaled 5,000 people.
The front and rear arches guarded the royal chariot through the rain curtain, and at this time all the firearms and bows and crossbows were put away.
The two battalions of Huwei and Huwei are wearing thick iron armor, which has an abrupt visual difference with the Shenji battalion wearing cotton armor in the rear, and the road on the side, as well as the slowly marching Yulin cavalry, are under the command of Huo Quai, interspersed with states and counties to attack the city, which is not Huo Quai's strong point, and staying by his side can also be used as a mobile force.
Right now, on the way to Xinxiang with Su Chen, Li Jing's letter has already come from there.
"It's a rare thing in the world." Su Chen sat on the tiger skin chair, looked at the letter, and casually lifted it down, letting the scouts outside ride away.
Jia Xu took the letter and quickly swept the vertical handwriting on it, and couldn't help laughing, casually put the letter on the candle on the offering table, lit it, threw it into the incense burner, and continued.
"It's really rare, it's not for nothing that the prince seeks to seize the throne, but in half a year, there are three generations of emperors, that is, the great joke of the world, the country of Qi is not destroyed, and the people can't say it."
Jia Xu came out of various political situations to protect himself, and later came to Cao Wei, especially after Cao Pi ascended the throne, in fact, he has always been walking on thin ice, but he is also glad that he did not live to Sima Yi's dictatorship, otherwise some things are really hard to say.
"Hehe, being an emperor was coerced by the courtiers and tied to the enemy camp with his own hands, not to mention that there was no Huaxia at that time, and the world here is unprecedented."
Su Chen nodded his fingers, "In the final analysis, the Qi State is too weak, and Li Shangshu and the others beat too hard, which frightened people." ”
At this time, on the offering table behind him, all the emperor's spiritual thrones had read the letter and laughed heartily.
"It's a shame to be the emperor when he gets to this position!" Zhao Kuangyin started in the army, and he beat the whole world with a dragon stick, so he naturally looked down on such a weak and innocent emperor the most.
"What my brother said is that even though Wen Taowu is slightly inferior to my brother, I have been stubborn once...... It's like the father and son of Qi Guo. Zhao Kuangyi hurriedly smiled.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was not far away, laughed even louder, "What happened in this Qi country, didn't it happen to your old Zhao family?" ”
Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Kuangyi's spiritual positions turned around in unison, and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in a rather surprised tone: "Ming Taizu, what are you talking about?!" ”
Around, a group of emperors' spirit cards gossip came up, leaned forward, and quietly waited for Zhu Yuanzhang's next step.
At this time, a spirit position that had never appeared before jumped over and pestled next to Er Zhao's spirit card.
"He is talking about the Song Dynasty of your family, the descendant of the brothers, Song Weizong Zhao Ji, was frightened by the Jin people, and quickly abdicated, and the Zen prince Zhao Heng, as a result, Zhao Heng saw that he couldn't beat it, so he personally ran to negotiate peace with the Jin army...... Haha, the dignified emperor went out of the city to negotiate peace with the enemy...... But don't worry, my Mongol army will avenge you! ”
"I'm so angry......" Zhao Kuangyin listened to this, the spirit cards jumped high, and Zhao Kuangyi's spirit seat came over and wanted to persuade two sentences, but he was kicked out by a spirit pedestal.
After a while, Zhao Kuangyin thanked the spirit seat who spoke just now, and saw Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty engraved on the spirit seat, and Zhu Yuanzhang on the side laughed directly on the table, "Your Great Song Dynasty died in the hands of this group of Tartars in the end, you still thank you, hahaha!" I'm laughing to death! ”
Zhao Kuangyin: "......"
At the same time, outside the slowly moving carriage, Dian Wei and Xu Chudu muttered about the affairs of Qi State.
"If I go with you ......"
Dian Wei, who was walking outside the car, stretched out his hand and hooked Xu Chu's shoulder, who was also walking on foot: "Let's go to the city wall to stop, will the war be over in a while?" ”
While speaking, about seven miles later, Ma Yunlu followed her husband Zhao Yun and led five hundred cavalry to greet him, Zhao Yun has always obeyed the rules, and before he got close to the imperial chariot, he dismounted with his wife and strode to the side of the car.
The husband and wife bowed their hands together.
"Yun (Ma Yunlu) greets Your Majesty!"
The curtain of the car was opened, revealing Su Chen's face, and he smiled: "General Zhao and his wife don't need to be polite, and there are no outsiders here, get on the horse and lead the way in front." ”
"Whoa!"
Zhao Yun turned around and left the imperial chariot with a heavy hand, turned over and got on his horse, and then greeted Huo Quai, and the two cavalry stood up together, erected the emperor's banner, and went to the front to open the way.
Although the state of Qi entered the war, there was no real fighting. Along the way, the fields and villages were not destroyed, and the cowering peasants could still be seen in the mountain villages far and near, hiding behind the village entrance or fence to peek at the honor guard of the Xia Emperor on the road in the distance.
There are also farmers who have the courage to work in the fields, kneeling on the ground at this time, looking at the neat military appearance, the iron-clad and hideous team, kneeling there trembling, and their dark faces are pale, for fear that the sudden honor guard of the Xia Emperor will be an eyesore and slaughtered with a knife.
Fortunately, the guard of honor didn't even stop, and went directly from the field.
This relieved the peasants in the field, and sat down on the ground with a weak body, only to find that their foreheads, cheeks, and the back of their necks were covered with a layer of cold sweat.
The wife of the family with the child in her arms and relatives in the village rushed out and hugged him.
"You don't want to die, you're still working in the fields at this time!"
"You dead ghost, you are the pillar of the family, if you are killed, how will my daughter and I live!"
“…… Daddy, don't be afraid! ”
"It's okay, it's okay, the army of the Emperor of Xia doesn't seem to be so scary."
"Phew, it's not scary, where did you get all your sweat from? It can only be said that the emperor of the Xia Kingdom is afraid of dirty knives when he kills us despicable people. ”
The peasants, their wives, and a relative sat on the ridge of the field and chattered and chattered from time to time, until the mighty guard of honor of the emperor disappeared in front of them, and they got up from the ground, patted the dust on their bodies, and continued to work in the fields.
On Su Chen's side, the honor guard walked another street, and finally arrived at the Xia State military camp stationed twenty miles north of Xinxiang, Li Jing and a group of generals led five thousand people from each of the two armies to line up outside the camp.
"Hooray!"
"Hooray!"
……
The sound of the mountains roaring and the tsunami resounded over the barracks, and in the busy camp of soldiers and horses, Qi Wangge's father and son, who were urged by the soldiers to wash their dirty old clothes, almost lost their arms, and they washed their clothes for two days in a row, their hands turned white, and their arms trembled uncontrollably.
More than 100 concubines in the harem have also changed their luxurious dresses on weekdays, all of them are cloth clothes, their faces are plain, except for their fair and delicate skin, they are similar to the women in the village, and they are the same as the emperor and the empress dowager Zhao Zhuangyi in the past two days, doing rough work in the camp, and their hands and feet are worn out, and they are complaining.
From time to time, the soldiers in the army would laugh at a few words, which made some of the concubines want to die.
Especially when Zhao Zhuangyi lived to such an old age, it was the first time to clean dirty and old clothes for others, his hands were wrinkled by blisters, and there were several blood blisters in his palms.
At this time, the shouts of the mountains and the tsunami came.
The gourd in Qi Wangge's hand snapped into the wooden basin and splashed. He trembled and glanced at his son Qi Ke'an, and hurriedly arched his hand towards one of the soldiers who was watching them on the side: "Dare to ask who is coming outside?" ”
After all, the other party had also been the emperor, but the soldier still replied: "Long live, it is naturally His Majesty the Emperor." ”
I heard the word emperor from the mouths of the bystanders...... The father and son were in mixed moods, the two nodded with a smile, and were about to continue washing clothes, when a lieutenant came over with a knife.
"You two put down your work for the time being and follow me!"
Qi Wangge and Qi Ke'an replied uneasily, got up and wiped their hands on their robes, and followed the lieutenant to the front camp.
They also saw the two emperors of the Qi family, and they whimpered and cried.
The Empress Dowager Zhao Zhuangyi didn't have the face to see them, and wanted to bury her head, but she was pulled out by the soldiers who came and retreated to the side of the father and son here, "Let's go together, Your Majesty has arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army." ”
When the three of them passed, the civil and military officials who were stranded in the barracks were all waiting in the open space outside the marshal's tent, as if they were going to court on weekdays, and the rows were neat, but some of them had bruises on their faces.
All around, ordinary soldiers have been replaced by Tiger Guards and Shenji Battalion soldiers, and the surrounding areas are closely guarded.
Qi Guo's civil and military forces stood in several columns, and Yang Qi in the front row saw Qi Wangge and Qi Ke'an who were dressed in coarse linen, and felt happy for no reason: I gave you a night to commit suicide, and now it's good, and you are humiliated with cattle and horses.
The father and son of the Qi family came over and didn't see Qi Qingbao, when they came to the tent, the tiger head knife buzzed, almost sticking to the door in front of them, and the two of them were so frightened that they retreated together, and when they saw the knife that was split on the ground, they broke out in a cold sweat.
Immediately, he timidly looked at the sturdy Xu Chu, who raised the knife again, carried it on his shoulder, and glanced coldly at the two of them in his slender eyes.
"Stand here and wait, Your Majesty will call you before you can go in!"
In the big tent, all the generals in the army were there, and in the middle was Qi Qingbao, who was dressed in regular clothes, nearly sixty years old, standing in the middle, bowing to the young emperor behind the long case.
"Minister Qi Qingbao, meet Your Majesty."
The old man looked calm, even if he was down today, he tried to keep his tone neither humble nor arrogant. However, his eyes also secretly looked at the figure of the first Malaysian Golden Dao sitting upright in the tent.
Swords, guns, swords, halberds, all kinds of weapons, beast felt fur, lined behind Su Chen showed a hideous aura of gold and iron, he is also tall now, wearing a dull beast swallowing mountain pattern armor, the cloak on his back was gathered in the crook of his arm by Wu Zixun, a regular attendant on the side, and there were warriors as tall as mountains on the other side.
"Actually, you are the most innocent in this matter." Su Chen didn't look at the former emperor of Qi and smiled: "Originally, we didn't need to be so troublesome about many things, let alone meet here." ”
Qi Qingbao pursed his lips and closed his eyes: "Your Majesty said yes." ”
"Your son, together with his mother, imprisoned you and forced you to abdicate, I know it in my heart."
Su Chen stood up, bypassed the long case, and patted the old man on the shoulder twice, reassuring him: "...... The death of my envoy Wang Huaiyi has nothing to do with you. ”
Looking at the old man's drooping face, he continued: "Originally, when you surrendered the country, made you a marquis, and lived peacefully with your children and grandchildren, when you were fine, you could still put incense on the first emperor of the Qi family in Zongmiao and kowtow a few times, but now you have also seen it, when the soldiers meet, I can't give you those things, at least some of the things are peeled out of it." ”
"The ministers all understand......" What Su Chen said, Qi Qingbao naturally knew it in his heart.
Su Chen knocked on the table, his voice cold.
"Marquis, I still want to give it to you, but there are not many foods, and as for your son and grandson, they may not be treated like you."
(End of chapter)