Section 692 In the Wind of the Wilderness
"Wang Daozhi!" Lin Yan changed his past style and called him by his name, he hated the person who stood in his way the most, and he must fight to the death, "You don't want to treat everyone in the world as a fool, you are ostensibly assisting the king, but in fact it is not for yourself! You deliberately pretend to be a corporal of Lixian and care for the people of Liming, in fact, you have long had a disobedient heart!"
Wang Daozhi had no intention of defending himself at all, looked at Lin Yan lightly, and asked: "What the old man has done is worthy of his heart, he is worthy of the king, and he is worthy of the people of Dawn, how can General Lin see that I have a heart of disobedience?"
Lin Yan sneered, "Your martial arts are strong, no one in the world can compare, obviously you can kill a thousand people with one punch, even if the 100,000 defenders of Chang'an City attack together, it is only a matter of a hundred punches for you." If you are willing to do your best, we can capture Chang'an in a few days. But you have been persuading the king to stay in Chang'an all these years, unwilling to attack Chang'an City, and it has been in vain for four years, what is your selfishness for this?"
Huang Chaojing listened to the quarrel between the two subordinates, his face was calm, he hugged his arms on the horse's back, and was silent.
Seeing that the king was silent, Wang Daozhi couldn't help but sigh lightly, and his next words were ostensibly to Lin Yan, but in fact, he was persuading the king: "The so-called conquest is not just killing, General Lin, if it is according to your opinion, I might as well kill everyone in the whole world, and let the king be the emperor on the scorched earth." But is it really good to do this? The reason why our people started the incident back then was to break the exploitation of the common people by the clan and to establish a brand-new China in which everyone is equal and the world is in harmony. Mere killing is contrary to our original purpose and will only lead us astray!"
Lin Yan shook his head again and again, "You don't want to steal beams and change pillars, I'm talking about attacking Chang'an City, not killing all the people in the world." If you were willing to capture Chang'an four years ago, then the king would have become the emperor a long time ago, how could we be in such a dilemma today!"
Huang Chao frowned slightly after listening to Lin Yan's words, but he didn't speak.
Wang Daozhi saw the change in the king's expression, "General Lin's words are wrong, Chang'an is a prosperous place of Chinese culture, how can it be destroyed by war." The reason why I persuaded the king to besiege Chang'an was to let the city surrender without a fight. In this way, the princes of the world can also know that our righteous army is merciful, and they will definitely surrender to the wind!"
Lin Yan sneered: "But the current situation is that the defenders in Chang'an City are getting stronger and stronger under the leadership of that person named Liu Yu, and our army has lost the opportunity to attack the city, and the soldiers can only live hard in this cold wind, and their morale is low!"
Wang Daozhi sighed, "That Liu Yu is indeed a hero among the younger generation, far beyond my expectations, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid that Chang'an City would have already fallen." ”
Lin Yan stared at Wang Daozhi closely, "Hehe, unexpectedly, all these things are caused by the military advisor, is the military advisor unwilling to take responsibility?"
Wang Daozhi's face was solemn, "I do have an unshirkable responsibility for the defeat in the previous battle, and I will bear this myself!"
He turned around and bowed to the leader Huang Chao, and said sincerely: "Now that the righteous army is in a predicament, it is difficult for his subordinates to take the blame, and please ask the king to surrender!"
Huang Chao smiled slightly bitterly after hearing this, and then spoke: "The military advisor has been fighting with me for many years, and his hard work is high, how can he say that he will be punished." Let's focus on the current situation and chase back the defected Wang Xianzhi!"
Wang Daozhi breathed a sigh of relief, nodded and said, "The subordinates already have an idea about this matter, please rest assured that the king!"
He jumped up from his horse, like a sturdy dragon, cutting through the cold autumn wind in the wilderness, and was dozens of paces away in an instant.
He chased in the direction of Wang Xianzhi's westward escape, his pace was very fast, his body rubbed against the air rapidly, and the sound produced was as loud as a dragon's roar, resounding outside Chang'an City.
Huang Chao's color changed when he heard the sound, and his hands holding the horse's reins trembled slightly.
Lin Yan saw all this in his eyes, and looked at Wang Daozhi who disappeared into a black spot in the distance, "Great King, the martial arts of the military advisor are too high, and almost no one can control him." There are even rumors in the army that the king is not the real dragon emperor, but just making a wedding dress for the military advisor. In order to ensure the peace of the army and the safety of the king, please also ask the king to allow the minister to lead the troops to guard the tent night and night!"
He wanted to take the opportunity to master the personal soldiers around the king, so that he could take his position in the rebel army to a higher level.
Huang Chao bowed his head and smiled bitterly, "The military advisor is like a no-man's land among the ten thousand armies, even if you lead the soldiers and horses to guard me, what's the use." Besides, when the military advisor and I met in Weimo, they would definitely not fail me, you think about this all day long, but it's just that people are worried about the sky, and you don't follow me to chase Wang Xianzhi!"
Before he could finish speaking, the horses under his crotch had already rushed out, chasing after the distant horizon where the royal road had disappeared. Seeing this, Lin Yan and the generals didn't dare to slack off, so they had to ride their horses to follow.
The group chased after about half a cup of tea, and saw Wang Daozhi standing alone in the field full of barren grass from a distance, blocking the way of Wang Xianzhi's 200,000 troops.
The vast expanse of people and horses like the sea was as cowardly as a lamb in front of this ordinary-looking old man, and he didn't dare to move at all.
The general Wang Xianzhi knew the power of Wang Daozhi's martial arts, and under the escort of many horsemen, he shouted to Wang Daozhi from afar: "Military division, I don't want to rebel, but now winter is coming, and our army is short of food and grass, and it is meaningless to continue to besiege Chang'an City." I just want to lead my troops to other states and counties, and then join forces with the king in the spring of next year, jointly attack Chang'an, and support the king as the emperor!"
In order to save his life, he put aside the relationship between himself and Tang Ting, and ordered a group of sword-wielding warriors to escort more than a dozen Tang court envoys to the front of the battle, among which the leading messenger looked white and fat, it was Pei Yuan, the secretary of the military department, and shouted: "It's all to blame for these Tang court lobbyists who bewitched me, so I will behead them and apologize to the military advisor and the king!"
Wang Xianzhi said that he made a gesture of chopping off his head with his hands, and the sword-wielding wrestlers pressed the group of Tang court envoys to kneel on the ground, raising their knives and about to cut off their heads.
Pei Yuan was not afraid of death, he forcibly raised his head, turned around and shouted angrily to Wang Xianzhi, who was hiding in the army: "General, you have long admired the imperial court, and you have sent letters several times to say that you want to surrender, why are you afraid of these rebellious ministers and thieves today!
Wang Xianzhi was annoyed and angry when he heard this, he didn't expect that this dead fat man would have to pour a scoop of dirty water on himself when he was dying. I hadn't even seen the face of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, where did I get any kindness, so I was so angry that I shouted to the sword-wielding warriors: "This traitor dares to slander me in front of the military advisor, you will hack him to death!"
After listening to the order, the knife-wielding wrestlers hurriedly kicked Pei Yuan to the ground, regardless of his struggle, they all raised their knives to slash!
"Wait!" Wang Daozhi suddenly shouted loudly, "The two countries are still at war, and the general's move is insulting to the name of our righteous army, so it's better to let them go!"
When Wang Xianzhi saw Wang Daozhi's words, he didn't dare to make an assertion, so he had to order to those sword-wielding warriors: "Count the good lives of these Tang court traitors, and follow the military division's to take care of them for the time being!"
Pei Yuan intuitively felt that the gravity pressed on his body suddenly loosened, got up from the ground, looked up at Wang Daozhi not far away, and arched his hand: "Wang Dajunshi and Lord Liu of the Dali Temple of the Imperial Court are old friends, and they are also the Duke of Qin State of the Imperial Court and the position of Assassin of the Prefecture, today you save your next life, and you will not forget each other in the next place, and you will definitely report to Lord Liu when you go back!"
He seemed to be grateful, but in fact, he was bent on provoking the relationship between Wang Daozhi and Huang Chao and others in front of everyone in the righteous army.
Wang Daozhi couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this, he didn't expect that he would save this person's life, but this person wanted to pull himself into the water, he was about to speak, but found that Huang Chao had already arrived on horseback, so he changed his mind and put aside the idea of defending himself for the time being, wanting to help Wang Xianzhi say a few good words for the overall situation of the righteous army.
He turned to Huang Chao on horseback and saluted: "King Qiqi, the reason why the general led the crowd to leave this time was just because he was bewitched by the Tang Dynasty. Please also ask the king to pardon the general, and the two armies will work together to capture Chang'an City before winter comes!"
Wang Xianzhi was overjoyed when he heard that the military advisor had exonerated him, and at the moment, saving his life was the first priority for him, and he said: "Exactly, exactly." King Qiyu, his subordinates have just been awakened by the military advisor, and they realized that what they did was very confused. The subordinates are willing to lead the people back to the camp and let the king condemn!"