Chapter Seventy-One: Ningluochuan Enters Jiangnan
However, there was no siege, but after a bluff, he slipped around with the cavalry outside the tall Yunzhou City to make a mockery and retreated.
The safety of the Liao Emperor is the most worrying about the Khitan nobles of the Great Liao State, although there are intrigues on weekdays, many of them also want to seek power for the Liao Emperor, and they have also put aside their grievances, mobilized more than 70,000 soldiers and horses, and stationed outside Yunzhou, and Yanyun's Han soldiers also have 60,000 people, stationed behind Yunzhou City, Yunzhou City has so many military horses stationed these days, the people in the city naturally heard some things, some people rumored that the Liao Emperor defeated Yuan Hao, and drove straight into more than 400 miles, and then encountered Yuan Hao's soldiers on the way back to intercept and kill, and lost a lot of people and horsesγ
There are also people who are more bold, and the news came out that Emperor Liao was defeated by Yuan Hao, and the 100,000 Liao army was almost wiped out, and those who came back, including Emperor Liao, only a few dozen rode into the city.
One to ten, ten to hundred, one hundred to thousand. After a few days of hard work, the entire Yanyun knew that the Liao Emperor had been defeated at the hands of Yuan Hao in the west.
The Great Song Dynasty probed in the imperial cities of the Liao Dynasty, and also listened to the truth and reality, and finally confirmed the news of the Liao Emperor's fiasco, and hurriedly transmitted the news back to the Song Dynasty.
For a time, many of the great Song dynasty wanted to exhort His Majesty, and the generals of the main battle against the Great Xia did not dare to say more, the Qiang people of Great Xia were originally barbaric places, Yuan Hao inherited the barbarism and cruelty of the barbarians in the west, and liked to cut off the nose of the defeated generals, and now Yuan Hao has even defeated the Khitans, which shows that Li Yuanhao's martial arts are indeed shocking.
"Yuan Hao is now winning consecutive battles, I'm afraid it has become a climate now, if Your Majesty wants to attack Yuan Hao, the minister thinks ...... Inappropriate. β
"Yuan Hao has the power of a great victory, if he breaks the contract again in the future, the minister thinks that he should first dispatch the forbidden army and garrison the northwest. β
"If Liaoxia is negotiated in the future, then Yuan Hao will inevitably look at the Central Plains, and when the time comes, I am afraid that the unscrupulous will be able to stop it. β
The important ministers of the country who spoke were like frightened birds, in groups of three or five, waiting outside the hall, and the secret agents from the northwest and north had already sent letters into the main hall, and the emperor did not let people in, leaving Zhang Maoze alone, listening to the return of the Imperial City Division.
Zhang Mao also bowed down, standing next to the emperor, there was actually a Li Chun sitting in the hall, Li Chun, as the commander of the forbidden army, was wearing a big red robe at the moment, waiting for the emperor in the palace early, the emperor arrived, and did not intervene, waiting for Zhang Mao to finish the news.
"Yuan Hao defeated Emperor Liao, and 100,000 Liao cavalry disappeared overnight, so I am afraid that Yuan Hao will make a side knock in the coming year. The Emperor sighed.
Previously, Emperor Liao led the army to pull out, a total of 100,000 iron cavalry to the west, Liao State privy envoy Xiao Hui led 60,000 cavalry troops to go out of the north road in three ways, and the emperor's brother Chongyuan 7,000 people went out of the south road, and the Imperial City Division once wrote: It is difficult to see 100,000 Liao cavalry at a glance. What a majestic momentum.
Who would have thought that the Liao people, who were coercing the Great Song Kingdom, would fight such a defeat in the west.
"Yuan Hao is not simple. Li Chun also sighed, as the head of the forbidden army, he is in charge of the forbidden army in the world, how to deal with the enemy, one is to see what Zhao Zhen thinks, and the other is to see Li Chun's order.
The so-called three ya, three divisions, and two mansions, how to hold the power, in Li Chun's eyes, is far less important than hearing that the two big clans have happy events in the rivers and lakes.
"This time I came to look for Your Majesty, mainly because the Northwest Forbidden Army intercepted a Liao cavalry, and there was news back. Li Chun said flatly, how the Liao people were defeated in the west really didn't matter to him.
A note was submitted to Zhang Mao and presented to the emperor.
This note was sent from the west, and it was dictated by the Liao cavalry who were captured by the forbidden army, and it was sent directly, without passing through the hands of anyone else, except for the forbidden army, no one knew.
The note doesn't use much ink, but it just shows that there are military horses in the Yanyun realm, and there is a thousand-strong Yunzhou iron horse, which has bypassed the Yanmen Pass and has entered the Central Plains.
It turned out that the Liao people entered the middle school, and it was not a particularly strange thing, that is, in these years, there were also many reasons for the Liao people to knock on the customs, mostly to rob some villages of salt and grain, not to cause human life, and the local officials are also more than one thing is better than less things, and there are few reports, but where there is a forbidden army on duty, there will be a record, and it will be handed over to Li Chun.
The Yunzhou Iron Cavalry of about 1,000 people was of course not small-scale, and the forbidden army knew the news as soon as possible, so they immediately sent the news back.
Since the failure of Taizong and Zhenzong's Northern Expedition, the Great Song Kingdom has only waited and seen for the sixteen states of Yanyun, and the ancient Great Wall has since remained in the hands of the Liao.
"These more than 1,000 people came to my Great Song Dynasty, where are they going, can you find out?" Zhao Zhen asked Zhang Maoze, who is now in charge of the Imperial City Division.
After Zhang Mao took charge of the Imperial City Division, he re-deployed the Imperial City Division in Jianghuai, but after all, it was He Xiao who ordered Biyi Shiqi to carefully set up, and the chess pieces of hundreds of people are now clueless, and those buried chess pieces are now like swimming fish with a broken fishing line, put into the lake and sea, and there are no clues.
Zhang Mao bowed down and said: "The Imperial City Division has visited a lot more horses in recent days, and most of the people who have entered Beijing to report the epidemic in the past few days are reporting some epidemics, and the case is ......."
"Mao Ze!" Zhao Zhen shouted coldly.
Zhang Mao hurriedly knelt on the ground, not daring to say more, just trembling, waiting for the emperor's cold reprimand.
The emperor has recently been infected with a cold, and this anger began to cough violently, Li Chun glanced at the emperor, and didn't think much about it, he has always been like this, and the prime minister is in front of him, that is, an ordinary man.
What Kyushu dragon qi lies in one body, the general trend of the world is gathered in one person, and he can't afford a serious illness, and he has to take medicine every day when it comes suddenly.
"The Imperial City is in your hands, you don't know anything, what are you doing?" the Emperor said coldly.
Zhang Mao didn't dare to say anything at the first time, only after seeing the emperor's eyes, he said tremblingly: "In the past few days, the official documents and horses have been reported that the epidemic has dispersed, and the great famine has risen again, and some places have become hell on earth. β
The emperor's anger did not subside, holding the dragon chair, and sighed long, after all, the gap left by He Xiao was too big, it is indeed no wonder that Zhang Maoze, the Imperial City Division did summarize the disaster situation in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty at the moment, and reported it, and then the Imperial City Division in the south of the Yangtze River, the spies need to be rearranged, and the traces left by the blue clothes and stone trees must be covered, each of which requires a lot of time and energy, and it is no wonder that the Imperial City Division failed to find out about this matter in the forbidden army.
The emperor tilted his head and glanced at Li Chun slightly, Li Chun had nothing to do with himself, the emperor looked at him and said: "Now the Imperial City Division still needs to make up for the vacancy in the south of the Yangtze River, presumably the Northwest Incident also used a lot of energy, Li Chun, explore the location of this Liao cavalry, is that cavalry army...... Who led the ...... And for what reason, the matter will be left to you. β
Li Chun nodded and said lightly: "This is the news from two days ago, I have already ordered it to go down, and ordered Ma Jun to follow and return at any time." β
"That's fine. Zhao Zhen nodded.
"It's just that yesterday, my people also learned a piece of news, which is about the disciple named Nan Huaijin in Qingyun Mountain. β
Without waiting for the emperor to say more, Li Chun said again: "Wang Chi, who came down from Qingyun Mountain, died in Suizhou. β
The emperor was stunned for a moment, he didn't move when he picked up the lubricated water glass, and he was puzzled when he brought it to his mouth, he remembered that Wang Chi, and said: "Oh?
Li Chun nodded, raised his big red sleeve, and took out another letter from his sleeve, and Zhang Mao, who was kneeling, hurriedly got up again, walked to Li Chun and took the letter, and sent it to the emperor, with a few lines written on it:
On an ancient road in Suizhou, there were traces of blood left, Wang Chi and more than 40 disciples of Qingyun Outer Sect died tragically, and there were hundreds of dead people in the mouth of the pit, totaling more than 500.
Wang Chi died, and there were more than forty Qingyun Outer Sect disciples, in addition to them, there were hundreds of corpses, all buried, and the person who wrote only wrote the word tragic death to describe it, for fear that it would indeed die extremely miserably.
"What about the three Ling Tianmen disciples, but there is still news?"
Li Chun shook his head, leaving only those corpses, and there were no other clues: "In addition to this matter, there is another thing that not long ago, another disciple of Ling Tianmen went down the mountain, it was Ning Luochuan, the second disciple under Lu Weisheng's seat, it is rumored that his swordsmanship is a must on Qingyun Mountain, and he is the top three masters among Lu Weisheng's disciples." β
The emperor nodded, this disciple of Qingyun Mountain has also heard of this, this person's swordsmanship is superb, the sword is extremely fast, among the fast swords, there are almost no opponents, although he is still young, far inferior to the current number one swordsman in the world, but he is very famous, among the younger generation, there will be almost no opponents.
What the emperor cares about the most is that it is rumored that Yu Huanian, the flying star hand of the front division of the palace, was also defeated in the hands of this Ning Luochuan.
"Ning Luochuan seems to have gone to Jiangnan, probably listening to the words of those masters in Qingyun Mountain, and going to find Nan Huaijin. β
"But Nan Huaijin and others ......"
It is indeed gone, only that he and Wang Chi once went north from the Jiangnan Qixian Tower, and then in Suizhou City, Wang Chi died, and the disciples of Qingyun Mountain who accompanied him also died tragically.
This Ning Luochuan went to Jiangnan, obviously, now even Qingyun Mountain does not know the whereabouts of this Nan Huaijin and others.
"Matter, Mauzei. The emperor thought for a moment and said.
"Let your people find out the whereabouts of Nan Huaijin, Ji Xiang, and Lu Qingxue for me, put aside the reason for the time being, and then find out for me who intercepted and killed Qingyun Xuejiao Wang Chi, as well as those disciples. β
Zhang Mao received the order, bowed down and retreated, and when he left the palace gate, he beckoned a young general of the Imperial City Division, and commanded in his ear for a while, the young general nodded and hurriedly retreated.
If you want to find out who wants that Qingyun Mountain to open the knife, it is naturally the best to use the Jiangnan Imperial City Division, and the Imperial City Division in Jiangnan is now also arranged a lot, and you only need to explore it in the people, and it is not difficult to find the clues of the Qixian Tower.
Li Chun chatted with the emperor for a while, and walked alone, he didn't take the usual road, turned into a red shadow and disappeared without a trace, those important ministers of the country outside the door had been waiting for a long time, and finally waited for the palace door to open, and hurriedly stepped forward, but Li Chun, the commander of the forbidden army who went out, quickly got out of the way with a cold snort, and let Li Chun go away before pouring into the hall.