Chapter 357: The Soldiers Gather, the Mighty Heaven
As the Sogdian tribal leader rolled over the Meat Mountain, that is, An Lushan, suddenly raised the banner of the Qing monarch in the northeast of the Liang State and killed the traitorous ministers around the emperor, the Liang State, which was already nervous about killing, became even more tense.
He also sent the soldiers of the various tribes to send the Qing Jun's side back to their respective tribes, even if no one responded, it could create the illusion that the Liang Kingdom was in turmoil and the building was about to collapse.
The first to receive the news were Xiahou Yuan, Qin Qiong, Li Xuanba and other troops who stormed Gudang Mountain, they were not very clear about the specific situation of An Lushan over there, and suddenly heard this news, and first sent people to investigate there, and then got corroboration, as well as a letter written by An Lushan himself.
Immediately the people gathered together in the big tent to discuss.
"What are you hesitating about, Uncle Yue, you gave an order, let's not fight here in Gudang Mountain, just bypass it, join An Lushan, kill the capital of Liang State, and take off the dragon chair and cut off the emperor's head."
Zhang Fei sat on the left side, his temperament was still hot, but after coming here, he didn't whip the soldiers anymore.
First, in his previous life, he treated the soldiers too harshly and reaped the consequences; Second, Guan Yu and Liu Bei also imposed restrictions in this regard, gradually reversing his bad preferences.
"General Zhang is right, take this opportunity to bypass Gudang Mountain, this place is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the other party can not pass through the mountain pass, and it is particularly inappropriate to waste grain and soldiers in vain here."
Xu Huang interjected at the right time and expressed his opinion.
Li Xuanba, who was opposite him, also nodded: "Let's go around Gudang Mountain, the soldiers and horses of the Liang State here will definitely not let us leave easily, it is better for me to set up an ambush halfway at that time, wait for them to chase and kill, and hit them halfway!" β
Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong glanced at each other, their faces showed joy, their observations of Li Xuanba during this period of time did find that in the past two years, they have grown a lot, and they no longer only know how to charge into battle like before.
"Xuanba said wonderful, we both agree!"
"What do you agree on?"
At this time, a voice outside the tent came like a bronze bell, and everyone hurriedly got up, and saw the curtain opened, and Guan Yu, who was in green robe and gold armor, strode forward, followed by the eldest son Guan Ping.
As soon as he came in, everyone bowed their hands one after another, Zhang Fei rushed up with a brisk step, and looked Guan Yu's arms up and down: "Second brother, I heard that you used 2,000 cavalry to kill 50,000 barbarians, are you injured?" β
"Haha, Yide thinks it's hurt to be a brother? A bunch of local chickens and dogs! β
Guan Yu also held Zhang Fei's arm and laughed, and then bowed back to the people in the tent, and Guan Ping behind him also saluted, after all, he is a junior, although there are still generals of later dynasties in the tent, but age is here, Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong should be respected, and they should still be respected.
When they looked at Zhang Bao, the two raised their eyebrows and greeted each other in a way that belonged to young people.
Over there, Xiahou Yuan also got up from the first place, gave up the main position behind the long case to Guan Yu, and put it in front of him, Guan Yu naturally sat down.
But after the battle of Jimai City, he grabbed Xiahou Yuan's wrist with a smile, and asked Guan Ping to take the chair, and the two sat in the first place.
"Miaocai, I have already done the ancients, although I am alive, but I don't have to worry about some complicated etiquette."
Guan Yu looked at Xiahou Yuan, who was smiling bitterly, patted the back of his hand, smiled and stroked his beard and looked at the generals in the tent.
"There is one thing, Guan forgot to tell you that the rolling meat mountain is actually An Lushan, and the more than 10,000 people under his command were actually captured by Guan Mou, and secretly looked for an opportunity for him to rescue him, in order to let him complete His Majesty's plan and disrupt the morale of Liang Guo."
"Prince, we already knew!"
As an old friend for many years, Xu Huang laughed, and took out the letter sent by An Lushan from the information on the long case, and let Guan Yu, who was stunned, read it.
"This ...... And to surprise you. β
After reading the contents of the letter, Guan Yu chuckled, causing all the generals in the account to laugh too.
In the big tent, the atmosphere was warm, after everyone laughed, Guan Yu restrained his smile, he stood up in the metal sound of the armor rubbing, and Feng Mu solemnly swept over a member of the general in the tent.
"An Lushan has already incited the soldiers and horses of the Liang State, so let's add another fire, bypass Gudang Mountain, and go straight to the capital of the Liang State!"
"All the troopsβ"
Murderous spirit spreads.
Woo!!
The horn of the assembly sounded, and the entire barracks was filled with the sound of human footsteps and weapons clashing, and the generals in the tent came out in twos and threes to go to their respective teams.
Soon after, together with the 50,000 Xirong cavalry of the Iron Buddha of the Sulu Division, a total of 110,000 bypassed Gudang Mountain and went from the southwest.
The 40,000 Liang troops stationed in Gudang Mountain, as Li Xuanba expected, wanted to take advantage of the situation to pursue, and took Guan Yu's headquarters by surprise from the rear, but they were ambushed by Li Xuanba, Qin Qiong, and Wei Chigong, with more than 12,000 casualties, and scattered and fled.
An Lushan in the southeast and Xia Guo in the southwest, these two armies rushed south like a flood around the Gudang Mountain standing in the middle.
The roads and grassy beaches heading south were full of galloping horses carrying messages frantically heading further south, and behind these commanders were huge armies with the will to destroy the country.
When the Xia State West Route Army bypassed Gudang Mountain, and the rebels of Rolling Meat Mountain rushed to the capital of Liang State left and right, like a big wave, it slapped on the huge body of Liang State.
The palace and the capital have gone up and down, and the pot has exploded inside and outside the city.
The rebels in the name of the Qing monarch actually went south with the Xia army, as long as normal people understood that the leader of the Sogdian tribe called Rolling Meat Mountain wore the same pants as the Xia people at all.
In other words, he has long taken refuge in the Emperor of Xia.
In the palace, it was late at night, and Emperor Tuoba Kui looked at the concubine who had finished on him, scolded "Get out", and drove people away.
Concerned about the survival of the country, he put on a single coat in a distraught and came to the pavilion outside to sit down, but he didn't expect the queen mother Zhao Xifeng to come over on crutches.
"I heard that His Majesty drove people out?" The old woman came and sat down beside her son.
The surrounding eunuchs, palace maids, and guards stood far away.
Tuoba Kui looked at the pond outside the pavilion, nodded sullenly, then looked at his mother, and squeezed out a little smile: "She went to the queen mother to complain?" Hehe, next time I'll see how I clean her up. β
"You're like a man, but...... It's not like the king of a country. Zhao Xifeng looked at her son who was smiling bitterly in front of her, as a mother, she was distressed.
"It's because my mother has tired you, if you don't encourage you to avenge your uncle...... Maybe that's not the case. β
"Whatever the queen mother says, you are my mother, I should listen to whatever you say, not to mention that even if you don't avenge your uncle, the emperor of Xia will still kill you."
"Yes, but at least it won't be so early, if it's a little later, you will have more soldiers and horses in your hands, and you will be more elite."
Zhao Xifeng looked at his son in front of him, reached out and touched his face.
"Take advantage of now, it's better to repair a letter and call the emperor of Xia Kingdom, don't be in a hurry to veto, listen to your mother."
The old woman interrupted Tuoba Kui, who was about to speak, and continued, "...... Enduring a moment of humiliation is also what the emperor should learn, and when you are strong, you will get back what you lost! β
Tuoba Kui quietly looked at the old woman in front of him, as if he had returned to his childhood, he snuggled up to his mother and listened to her talk about the knowledge and allusions of the Central Plains.
After a while, he nodded.
Soon after, when he sent his mother back to the palace to rest, he summoned the officials of Zhongshu Province to write a letter of state and sent eloquent courtiers to meet the Emperor of Xia.
In the northwest of this place, Wenchen is also skilled in bowing and horses, the envoy took the letter of state, and a dozen cavalry quickly out of the western capital, along the official road quickly horses and whips south, rushed to Zunwang Prefecture more than 800 miles away.
On this way, the more south you go, the more people of Liang fled on the road, most of them went to the mountains, they were not stupid, the other party hit the door, it must be to kill the capital, at this time also go to the western capital of Liang State, it is equivalent to taking your life to help defend the city.
However, fortunately, the Xia army advanced from the south, and it was not as terrible as the rumors, and there was not too much embarrassment for the people, allowing them to leave their homeland and move elsewhere.
Even if the people of Liang were too late to leave, or who were unwilling to go, when the army came, they tried their best to do nothing in the autumn, and there were even brave people standing at the entrance of the village, watching the huge army pass by the paths and fields outside their villages, and even the cavalry would not trample on the crops in the field.
It is difficult for the people of the Liang State to understand this, but in the armies of the Xia State, it is already common knowledge not to trample on the crops and not to harm the people who are not hostile, and this is all thanks to the merits of the governors and horsemen that Su Chen sent to the camp.
Moreover, the armies of various countries cannot be compared, that is, even if the leader of the army is killed in battle, the soldiers below will not break and flee...... Until the last man in the fight.
Such a layer-by-layer military system is completely beyond all armies in this world.
There were even soldiers who joked that he would be able to become a general after all the people above were killed!
The soldier was then punished in the school yard and shouted this sentence a hundred times.
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After a few days of wearing the stars and wearing the moon, the fast horse that came out of the western capital finally came to Zunwang Prefecture, and now it is the group of soldiers and generals of Qi State who are in full swing to attack the state.
After surrendering to the Xia Kingdom, as a pioneer, they were like fighting chicken blood, and after a few successive battles, I felt that I was also an elite soldier in a hundred battles.
When the envoy arrived at the place, he was quickly intercepted by the cavalry patrolling the field, and after being searched for valuable things, he threw the other party in front of Xu Mao and other generals, and informed the other party that he was an envoy of the Liang State, and wanted to see the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, so they let him go, and sent a personal guard to escort the other party to the emperor's camp fifty miles behind.
At this time, Su Chen was having a meeting with the Chinese generals, and was a little surprised when he heard the envoys of the Liang State coming over.
"Let him in."
Su Chen waved his hand to let Wu Zixun cover the hanging map with a cloth, and then sat back on the tiger skin chair behind the long case, surrounded by Lu Bu, Xiang Yu, Zhao Yun and others.
The envoys waiting outside cautiously entered the big tent, and their hearts trembled when they saw so many generals.
"The foreign minister meets the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom!"
He knelt on the ground, bowed, trembled and took out a wooden box from his arms, and held the national letter inside above his head with both hands.
Wu Zixun stepped forward to take the box, opened it and took out the national letter written in silk, and handed it to Su Chen.
"Hehe......"
The first Shang Su Chen held the silk and roughly swept the handwriting on it, "Your emperor is starting to speak softly now?" β
He handed over the letter to Wu Zixun and made him burn it.
This startled the envoy: "Your Majesty, you are ......"
"I haven't received a credential."
Su Chen leaned back in his chair and asked the generals in the tent with a smile: "Have you seen that I have accepted the national letter?" β
"Nope!" The generals laughed and replied in unison.
"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty......"
The envoy of the Liang State looked at this picture dumbfounded, he didn't expect the Emperor of the Xia State to act like this.
Behind the long case opposite him, Su Chen's smile retracted, his gaze gradually became cold, he got up and came to the envoy of the Liang State, grabbed his shoulder, and lifted him up.
"Go back and tell your emperor, don't waste your efforts, I won't quit the army because he is a soft minister, and I won't give him time to breathe!"
The envoy swallowed his saliva, retreated in fear, and was about to leave the tent when Su Chen said again.
"By the way, if he surrenders the whole country, I will consider it."
(End of chapter)