Chapter 511: Lao Cao's Melancholy
The sky is cloudless, and in the setting sun, there are traces of flying birds.
The information of the scouts went back and forth in the military array, and finally gathered in the hands of an old man named Jia Xu to integrate, analyze, and then present it to the emperor.
As night approached, the last news came into the ancestral car, Su Chen saw what was written on the note, with a faint smile on his face, and immediately, asked Commander Liu, who was waiting for the order outside, to prepare a banquet, he wanted to reward these generals for this final victory.
"The soldiers can't withhold food and straw, although they don't prepare wine and meat, but they are full of food, they eat openly today, and return to Yanjing the next day, and I will set up another big banquet in the barracks, so I will truthfully convey my words to the sons and daughters below."
Soon after Liu Sheng left, the soldiers and horses of the three armies who were sweeping outside returned to the camp one after another.
At nightfall, Guan Yu and Lu Bu returned with the cavalry, entered the camp and placed Hu Xia Erlang, as soon as they stepped into the emperor's camp, Qin Qiong, Zhao Yun, Wei Chigong, and Zhang Liao waited outside for a long time.
"Marquis Wen, Marquis, how about the capture?"
Lu Bu turned over and dismounted, untied a head hanging under the horse's neck, and waved it at the people around him in his hand, but did not boast, but said with a smile: "This guy is the leader of the Japanese Bandits, but unfortunately when a certain family killed him, this guy cut his abdomen and died, so he had to cut off his head and bring it back." β
As he spoke, he threw the head to a soldier not far away.
And Guan Yu, who came over, handed over the Qinglong knife to Zhou Cang, who came up, and hugged Zhang Fei again, and was also walked over by Zhang Bao, Zhang Fei, and Zhou Cang, and pointed behind him, a monkey-like figure, tied by the cavalry of the Tiger Cavalry Battalion with a rope, and pulled to this side.
Those Danfeng eyes were full of smiles.
"Guan captured this widow alive, and planned to give it to His Majesty, and escort it back to the Central Plains and Northland, which can be used to parade the streets, so that the people will also be happy, and throw him a few stones."
Ha ha!
Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Qin Qiong and the others laughed loudly, and also looked at the widow in the hands of the cavalry, but it was only about five feet, and they were as weak as children in front of them.
"I don't understand, where does such a small man come from to be ambitious."
Zhang Fei was a loud voice, kicked Toyotomi Hideyoshi's buttocks, kicked the other party to the ground and fell on his heels. "Really, monkey?"
"General Zhang is angry, you have the ability to fight Wen Hou, if you kick him again, I'm afraid you will kick him to death!" Qin Qiong looked at the weak body of the widow on the ground, for fear that he would be killed like this, so he hurriedly came up to persuade him.
Guan Yu on the side also looked at Zhang Fei, who then dropped the foot he was about to lift back to the ground, and said stupidly: "What does this kind of monkey do to Your Majesty, kick it to death, and throw it into the sea to feed the fish?" β
"Okay, Yide, it makes sense to capture my brother alive." Guan Yu knew his third brother's temper, so he naturally didn't think much about it, smiled and took his hand, and then stepped forward to invite Lu Bu to go to the imperial tent together, and at the same time, he also bowed his hand to the surrounding generals.
Seeing this, Zhang Yi greeted warmly: "Let's go, let's go in together, Your Majesty has a big banquet today, and you won't get drunk tonight!" β
"No, even if we win, we are still on the battlefield, we are the generals of the army, how can we get drunk!"
"Second Brother Qin, you should drink less."
"Xuanba, be careful that your brother hears it."
The generals were noisy and shouting, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who originally thought he would be left here, was then picked up by a sergeant.
It was the first time he had seen so many Chinese generals, except for Lu Bu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, who could see from their appearances and clothes, they didn't know any of them.
But can be ranked with heroes of the late Han Dynasty such as Guan Yu and Lu Bu, how can they be ordinary people?
He was dragged up, and his heart was even more uneasy, as a former big name, a stormy figure, after calming down on the way to being captured, how could he not know what he would face next?
On the way, he thought about biting his tongue and committing suicide, but his mouth was strangled by a rope, not to mention biting his tongue, it was already a luxury to be able to close his mouth.
Right now, his saliva unconsciously flowed from the corners of his mouth, and he was dragged by the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom who looked disgusted, and then the armor soldier shouted outside the tent: "The head of the Japanese thief is here!" β
From the huge tent, a young voice sounded, "Bring it in." β
Toyotomi Hideyoshi also went from obscurity to the position of a hegemon, so naturally he will not be easily frightened, but it depends on where he is and who he is facing.
After a moment, he was pushed in, and the reflection in his eyes was a brightly lit tent, as well as dense Chinese generals sitting on the left and right, some had seen and had not seen, such as Xiang Yu, Jia Xu, Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, Gan Ning, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Guan Ping, Zhang Yi, Qi Jiguang, Liu Sheng, Dian Wei, Xu Chu.
There was also Zhao Kuian'an of the Wuzhou Naval Division, as well as the foreign generals of the Northern Fleet, Elsa, Barry, and Rafal.
Two braziers stand on either side of the head, blazing.
The swords, guns, swords, halberds, and furs placed in the tent are embellished with the murderous aura of a golden iron horse, and such a scene is not at all what Toyotomi Hideyoshi once had and is now.
"Get on your knees!"
Liu Sheng let out a low snort, and the armor who followed in raised the halberd, and the tail of the halberd was pointed at Toyotomi Hideyoshi's knee socket, beat him to his knees, stepped forward to remove the rope from his mouth, and stood next to him at any time to prevent the other party from biting his tongue and committing suicide.
"I think you should be able to speak Xia Guohua."
Su Chen was tall, sitting behind the long case, pressing the table with one hand, his burly body leaning forward slightly, "Tell me, which name are you?" β
On the opposite side of the field of vision, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was beaten and knelt down, seemed to be a dwarf living in the kingdom of giants, and his body couldn't help but tremble slightly in the face of the murderous eyes intertwined around him.
The trembling feeling in the face of the Ming army back then is back.
"Toyotomi Hideyoshi ......," he whispered.
"It's a familiar name, I should have seen your deeds......" Su Chen actually knew, but there were other local generals at the moment, and it was not convenient to say some things too explicitly.
After a pause in his words, Su Chen sat back upright with a faint smile on his face.
"I don't like you, whether you attack the coast or not, I have to do something to you, but you have advanced the war, well, for you, I don't have the slightest need to say it, but don't worry, your life is saved for the time being, my people, you need to see what the Japanese are like."
"You're going to humiliate me?"
"It's good to understand." Su Chen nodded straightforwardly, and immediately, he raised his hand and waved at the armor next to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, "Take him down and take strict care of him, as long as he is alive." β
There is another meaning in this sentence, of course, the armor man understands, and immediately receives the order, will carry Toyotomi Hideyoshi's collar, and drag him out of the big tent.
The Japanese were taken out, and the atmosphere of excitement suddenly reappeared in the imperial tent, and the generals in the tent laughed with each other, and joked with Toyotomi Hideyoshi just now.
Su Chen also laughed, but he said: "This widow still has some ability, and he is very ambitious, and he once coveted my Chinese land." β
"So arrogant?" Xiang Yu was a little unhappy, just now the body of the widow was only more than five feet, such a person, a group of short soldiers under the command of the commander also dared to go to the land of China to claim the king?
That's just an insult to them.
After all, even if he was defeated by Liu Bang at the beginning, it was an internal affair of the Huaxia family.
"Of course I was arrogant, but then I ......" Su Chen's eyes swept over the Chinese or local generals who came and went in the tent, and finally his eyes fell on Liu Sheng on the side, and he deliberately hung the atmosphere for a while, before he left the last sentence: "But in the end, it was cleaned up by Daming, and he ran back to Wadao in a gray manner." β
Hearing the last sentence, Liu Sheng unconsciously straightened his waist in front of everyone.
And all the people in the tent burst into laughter.
"Haha, these dwarfs deserve to be driven back!"
"When this is the reason, when I Lao Zhang charged, I couldn't find the opponent, I only saw a horse running over, and when I got closer, I found that the Japanese soldiers were actually covered by the horse's neck."
Zhang Fei said suddenly, and made everyone laugh again.
The atmosphere became intense.
As they talked about the battle to conquer the island, Lu Bu and Zhao Yun also successively said that they had slaughtered the Japanese generals who were benchmarking them, which made Guan Yu a little unbearable, after he met with Zhao Yun and Lu Bu before, he had heard about it.
Now that he mentioned it again, he closed his phoenix eyes slightly, and asked in a loud voice: "What about the general who is the same as Guan?" Why didn't Guan meet him? β
"Haha, General Guan doesn't know anything." Wei Chigong stood up and shouted to Guan Yu in front of the heroes of the late Han Dynasty on the opposite side: "That guy is the descendant of Liu Azhi, you also saw it, he committed suicide in front of His Majesty." β
"It's him."
Guan Yu closed his eyes, stroked his beard, thinking that the other party had not hesitated to give him a knife before, but nodded reluctantly.
"Although there is some disdain for the standard, he is acceptable."
In the middle of the words, in the camp outside the tent, the bonfire was burning, and the soldiers celebrating the victory gathered around the flames and laughed, and a patrol team with weapons without unloading their armor walked over not long after, and they saw a soldier and horse coming outside the gate, and the soldiers guarding the gate shot rockets to investigate, and immediately asked the soldiers at the door to immediately push the gate away on both sides to make way for the road.
"Prime Minister Zhuge has arrived-"
A soldier outside the tent who received the report, when he saw Zhuge Liang sitting on a four-wheeled car, shaking a feather fan and being pushed over by the tall Yuwen Chengdu, he shouted loudly, and immediately hurriedly scooped up the curtain.
Zhuge Liang smiled and nodded at the armor soldier, got off the four-wheeled car, and walked into the big tent with Yuwen Chengdu.
Su Chen knew that Zhuge Liang was coming, and when he saw the two people who came in, he stretched out his hand and invited them to sit down in the two empty seats on the left, "Why is the prime minister late, you will have to punish the wine later." β
Zhuge Liang, who came to stand in the middle, held a crane fan and arched his hand towards the front with Yuwen Chengdu.
"Liang and General Yuwen came in a hurry, and they even went to Heianjing to visit Wu Changshi halfway, so it was a little late."
Yuwen Chengdu didn't care about the so-called penalty wine, "Since it's late, you should be punished, take two more jars!" β
Zhang Fei grabbed the wine jar on the ground and hugged it into his arms.
"It's a beautiful idea!"
"It's better to have a big fight with the ring-eyed thief!" Lu Bu said with a smile, calling the other party to ring the eyes of the thief, probably to return the previous incident where Zhang Fei scolded him for being a 'three-mound fake'.
Here, there were still soldiers who came over and poured wine for Yuwen Chengdu, he took a big sip, and after sitting down with Zhuge Liang, he reluctantly put this bowl of wine on the table, after all, after fighting for several months, it is a kind of torment for people who are good at drinking.
After sitting down, Zhuge Liang on the side smiled unabated: "Your Majesty, the overall situation has been decided, how should we arrange it next?" β
The generals of the Chinese Xia are all their own people, even the innermost local generals, they are second only to the Huaxia group in terms of status, and they belong to the henchmen of the Son of Heaven.
At this moment, when he heard Zhuge Liang speak, he cheered up one by one, and looked at the Son of Heaven behind the long case.
The noisy atmosphere quieted down, Su Chen naturally wouldn't be asked by Zhuge Liang like this, and he was a little overwhelmed, as an emperor, how could he not have a belly case.
After a moment of silence, Su Chen raised the wine, saluted Zhuge Liang and the generals in front of him, and then continued: "The main force of the Japanese people has basically been cleared, and the city here has been destroyed, but there are still many Japanese people on the remaining islands, especially the three islands of Nanniao, Sanliang, and Lunai, and there are a large number of Japanese people. β
"Kill without an army?" Qin Qiong frowned.
Su Chen was about to speak, but Jia Xu spoke first, he was not worried that His Majesty would not be able to explain, but there were some words, if he said it, the notoriety would not fall on the head of the Son of Heaven.
The flickering flames shone on the fox-like face, and Jia Xu smiled at all the generals present, but his smile looked eerie against the firelight.
"General Qin is right to question it, but the natives of these three islands, who have been nurtured by the Japanese people for a long time, have formed a habit of plundering, and let it go, in the next few years, decades, maybe there will be another wind of piracy and looting coastal ships, since we have hit here today, we might as well slaughter all the remaining Japanese people once and for all, and prevent the future troubles of the next hundred or even thousands of years!"
As soon as the words were finished, in the seats of the heroes at the end of the Han Dynasty, the black man with a leopard head and eyes slapped his knees, opened his voice and laughed: "I'm the same as you think!" β
Su Chen also nodded, and fell affirmatively.
"The meaning of Taiwei is also the meaning of me, once and for all, for the next thousand years!"
At this time, Su Chen took over the words and took them together with Jia Xu.
Then Su Chen picked up the drink and got up from behind the long case.
ββ¦β¦ The conquest of Wajima was almost a perfect victory, but there was also a group of soldiers who spilled their blood on the battlefield. β
He took the wine in his hand and stretched it out of the long table, from left to right, and slowly fell down.
"Come, with the wine in your hands, to the souls of our bones, who are dying, and to the generals who are in the tents. Full drinkβ"
"Drink to win!!"
With a bang, the generals in the tent stood up together, followed the movements of the Son of Heaven, held the wine, and drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp in a shout.
The sound shook the big tent.
Su Chen put down the empty bowl: "The dead soldiers are not dead in vain, their merits will be implemented on their families, and what should be given must be given, and this island can not be left alone, such a natural harbor, how can it be used." β
"I mean." Su Chen stretched out his finger, and then knocked on the table, "In the future, the navy will be stationed here to develop the island, just like when I developed the snow field, not only to let the inland rich go to sea by boat, but also to spend leisure on this island, and by the way, the rich and noble people from overseas countries can also come here." β
Zhuge Liang laughed: "Your Majesty, this is to take away the money bags of all the rich people in the world." β
"You can't take it all." Su Chen didn't want to say too much about this matter, in terms of logistics management, he was not as good as Zhuge Liang, so he had to go around himself, and when he went back, he would have to plan the layout in detail and then implement it.
ββ¦β¦ But the Japanese people are too poor, we have laid down the Japanese island, and the real things, except for these big islands, have no value, I always find a way to start from the island, the rewards of the soldiers, the compensation of the families, and the expenditure of the treasury to fill it. β
"Yes, this conquest of the Japanese is indeed the worst war we have ever lost." Zhuge Liang is specially responsible for the allocation of baggage this time, and has the most say in the consumption of money and grain, "Your Majesty can have such an idea, it is really the blessing of the Xia Kingdom!" β
He is almost stronger than Liu Chan, I don't know how many times to say it.
"Okay, that's the end of the discussion, the banquet is a little shabby today, wait for the eyes back, I will hold another celebration banquet to reward the generals."
Outside the tent, as Su Chen's words for the banquet fell, the soldiers of the imperial tent who had been waiting for a long time rushed in with dishes and placed them in front of the small tables of the generals.
Soon after, Su Chen used some casually, then withdrew from the table and left, and everyone also knew that His Majesty had another banquet to go, so they didn't care, and each pulled the generals they knew each other to drink and have fun in the tent.
The atmosphere was warm for a while.
At the same time, Su Chen came out of the imperial tent and came to the open space behind the tent, where three tables were also placed, and the wine and food were presented on the table one by one, in the sight of others, there was no one at the table, only Su Chen and Dian Wei, who came over together, at this moment, the table was full of figures drinking and dishing.
"Changsheng, come on, drink with Gu!"
Cao Cao floated over a little drunk, pulled Su Chen's cuffs, and sat down at his table.
As soon as he sat down, Li Shimin leaned over next to him and said in a low voice: "Lao Cao has a knot in his heart and has drunk himself." β
"Heart knots?"
Su Chen didn't understand why Cao Cao, who had become extremely free and easy, was so preoccupied after coming here, but then he thought of what Tamura Maro said before.
Then it was clear in my heart.
Our Prime Minister Cao Cheng wants to die of the Sima family.
(End of chapter)