Chapter 122: Escape
"What are you talking about?The emperor of the Tang Dynasty does not agree to our surrender?!" Fujiwara Tokihei heard what Sugawara Michizane said, and jumped up directly from his seat, "It's not okay to surrender, what are they going to do?!"
Sugawara Michizane lamented: "It's not that I don't agree, it's that I want Brother Fujiwara, His Majesty the Emperor, and the Emperor of France to go to the battle ship of the Lingnan Navy Division together to express the sincerity of surrender, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is willing to accept it." ”
"That's disagreeing!" Fujiwara said categorically with a gloomy gaze.
"So far, what can I do? Brother Fujiwara has a plan?" Sugawara Michizan asked with a blank eye. The two of them "coerced and enticed" and finally persuaded Daigo and submitted a letter of surrender, but the Tang Emperor did not accept it, and now they are not people inside and outside, and the situation can be described as extremely miserable.
How can there be such a thing in the world?
"What else? It's just a battle to the death!" Fujiwara gritted his teeth, his face was red, and he looked humiliated and angry.
Sugawara opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
In fact, he wanted to persuade Fujiwara Tohei to take Daigo and Uta to see the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but the matter of surrender was already a sharp arrow, so how could there be any reason to take it back? Besides, if this war could be fought, they would still need to persuade Daigo to surrender?
"Brother Sugawara, the matter has come to this, you and I have no way to retreat, and the country has no choice but to rise up and resist! The Tang army is coming from afar, and there are not many troops at present, if we can stop them before their follow-up troops arrive, then the army of King Qin from all over the country will be able to come, and when the time comes, it will be a big deal to break the net with the Tang army!"
Fujiwara Tokihei grabbed Sugawara Michizane's hand and his eyes burned, "Brother Sugawara has always been the backbone of the country, with a noble character, and he is a model for us, and when things come to an end, he won't back down, right?"
Sugawara Michizane was puzzled: "Brother Fujiwara really wants to fight?"
"We must fight!"
"Okay!" Sugawara Michizane thought about it again and again, and made up his mind. He was not afraid of death, and originally wanted to preserve his bloodline for the emperor so that the people would not be slaughtered, but since the Tang Dynasty did not accept their surrender, they had no choice but to die fighting for the country.
"Brother Sugawara, you go to the front to preside over the war, try to prevent the Tang army from landing on the shore, if you can't stop it, it doesn't matter, but be sure to block it layer by layer, delay their arrival in Heiankyo, I am in Heianjing, and call on the whole country to support Brother Sugawara!" Fujiwara Tokihei looked like he was going to fight to the death.
Sugawara Michichi is really ready to go out, and he has no opinion on Fujiwara Tokihei's arrangement.
After the two discussed some plans and the details of the war, Sugawara Michizane returned to Kurosaki Bay.
After Sugawara Michizane left, Fujiwara Tokihei's face changed instantly.
He rushed back to the Fujiwara family as soon as possible, found his uncle Fujiwara Kiyojing, and said to the other party: "The country is going to die, the army can't stop the Tang army for a few days, we can't accompany the emperor to the funeral, we must immediately move the family! Fortunately, the family still has a lot of sea ships, although they can't be used to fight the Tang army, but it's no problem to carry us away!"
Fujiwara Kiyotsune was stunned and said, "Aren't you going to surrender? Why do you want to leave again?"
"The emperors of the Tang Dynasty did not accept our surrender, they just made up their minds to completely destroy our country!" Fujiwara Tokihei's expression was distorted, and he couldn't tell whether it was anger, fear, or humiliation, or both.
Let him go to meet the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he will never go, when the time comes, people will be swordsmen and I will be fish and meat, if the other party wants to kill himself and destroy the Fujiwara family, then what should I do? Although this possibility is not very likely, it is not impossible
Yes Tokihei Fujiwara would never take that risk.
What emperor is important, how can his own life be important, and what country, how can his family be important?
If the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was willing to accept the surrender of the Wa Kingdom, he accepted it at this time, and Fujiwara Tokihei was also willing to stay in Heianjing; but the emperor of the Tang Dynasty was faced with the letter of request for surrender, and he even put it aside and did not read it, which shows that he had made up his intention to kill!
In the face of a reasonable Tang Dynasty emperor, the Fujiwara family, which can help govern the local area and appease the people's hearts, is useful and can continue to exist; in the face of an unreasonable and murderous Tang Dynasty emperor, the Fujiwara family is a land snake that must be cleaned up, a threat to power, and it is impossible to continue to exist!
What he didn't know was that although there were only 100,000 soldiers in the Lingnan Naval Division, these 100,000 soldiers concentrated the essence of the magic weapons in the Tang Army, especially the Battle of Silla has come to an end.
If the Tang Dynasty sends some troops over in the future, how can the three inches of land in the Japanese Kingdom withstand the ravages of the Tang Army?
Although Fujiwara Tokihei didn't know any of this, no matter which way he looked at it, his choice was wise.
"Where can we go without Heiankyo?" Fujiwara Kiyotsune hesitated.
"Let's go to Ezo Island first, and then find a way to go overseas, the world is big, and there is always a place for our Fujiwara family. With the strength of the children of our clan, we can lay a foundation anywhere, and staying here to face the Tang army is only a dead end!"
Fujiwara Tohei couldn't help but get anxious when he saw that Fujiwara Kiyojing couldn't make up his mind, "I deceived Sugawara Michizane and asked him to take the army to meet the Tang Army, he will definitely not be able to delay for too long, and hesitation is the disaster of extermination!"
"Okay, let's go!" Fujiwara Kiyotsune finally had to face reality. He also knew very well that the Wa State could not stop the Tang Army - before that, they had gone to see the general who followed Sugawara Michizane and went to the Lingnan Naval Division to find out the truth and reality, and knew how powerful the Lingnan Naval Division was.
"Immediately gather all the clansmen in Heiankyo, in the name of dispatching military funds, carry supplies out of the city overnight, we go to the southern seas, as long as we get on the boat, the Tang Army sailors will not be able to catch up!" Fujiwara Tohei said, "As for the clansmen who are not in Heiankyo, we can only let them follow up on their own, we can't wait for them!"
Fujiwara Kiyotsune's eyes widened, "What about the clansmen in the army? Many of them are under Sugawara Michizane, blocking the Tang army in front!"
"I said, only take away the clansmen in Heiankyo! The children under the command of Sugawara Michizane, we still have to rely on them to fight against the Tang army, and we can't transfer them back, otherwise the army will be in chaos and will be defeated by itself, who will stop the Tang army? Uncle, for the survival and continuation of the family, their sacrifice is worth it, at this time, there must be no kindness of women!"
Fujiwara Tokihei has a fierce gaze.
Fujiwara Kiyotsura wanted to speak several times, but finally agreed to Fujiwara Tokihei's decision.
He knew very well that as soon as the Fujiwara family left, the country would be in chaos in an instant, and no matter what the battle situation was, the army at the front would be instantly defeated as long as they learned the news. And Heiankyo loses the Fujiwara family, and no one will be able to defend it anymore, and no one will have the heart to defend it, which is within easy reach for the Tang Army.
It can be said that because the Fujiwara family was afraid of war and fled, the Wa Kingdom had lost the ability to resist the Tang army on the last line and cause trouble for the Tang army.
And this, simply because, they know the magic weapons in the Tang Army's naval division,
Real data on the strength of the monks.
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Three days later, at dusk, Sugawara Michizane, covered in blood and with his hair scattered, flew back to Heiankyo with his own personal guard monks, rushed into the Fujiwara family's mansion like crazy, and searched inside and out.
But he didn't say that he didn't see Fujiwara Tokihei, and he didn't even see a person from the Fujiwara family.
In the empty mansion, all kinds of furniture and objects were scattered everywhere, in a mess, like a thief.
"Fujiwara Tokihei, how can you deceive me like this?!" Sugawara Michizane stood in the empty courtyard, looking up to the sky and roaring, spurting out a mouthful of blood into the hall. This shout and mouthful of blood seemed to have exhausted his last trace of essence, and his body could no longer hold on, and he fell straight back.
Fortunately, with the support and treatment of his own guards, he was not killed when he was seriously injured.
Sugawara Michizane, who woke up Yoyo, was furious and wanted to burn down the Fujiwara family's house, and as soon as this thought came to his mind, he saw a thick smoke rising from the depths of the courtyard along with the firelight, and it seemed that someone had done it before him.
Sugawara Michima hurried over, and when he passed through a courtyard gate, he saw a rather beautiful and magnificent attic, which was burning, and the fire had even spread to the maple trees next to it.
And the man who set the fire, still holding a torch in his hand, was chuckling at the burning building, and his back was thin and thin, and it looked particularly strange when night fell.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty?" Sugawara Michizane was shocked, recognized Daigo, staggered forward to salute, and then opened his mouth, but he was speechless.
At that time, I was ignorant, and I only knew that the people in the house were very dear and deferential to me, so I thought that they were my relatives, and I was very close to them—they were indeed my relatives. It's a pity that today they are gone, you say, where have they gone? Heaven or Hell?"
Daigo's voice was slow and ethereal, with an indescribable melancholy and sadness, like a lonely ghost crying at night.
Sugawara Michizane didn't know what to say.
The Fujiwara family controls the government as a foreign relative, and the concubines of the emperor, the crown prince, and even the prince all have the women of the Fujiwara family. It was common for their children to live here when they were young, and the purpose was naturally to nurture their affection for the Fujiwara family and to strengthen their position.
"Before the war, the people who said that they wanted to pay tribute to the ministers sacrificed their lives to fight until now, and the people who kept saying that they were willing to bury their bones for the country abandoned the country early. Is everything in the world so ironic?"
Daigo threw away the torch in his hand and turned around in front of the monstrous flames, his back was bright, but his front body, including his face, was dark. He looked at Sugawara Michizane motionlessly, as if trying to find some kind of answer from the other party.
In the end, he got nothing, shook his head in disappointment, and sighed.
"Since Aiqing is back, let's tell me about the battle ahead, no matter what, Heiankyo is still there, the country is not dead, I am still the emperor, and I should care about the country. Daigo sat cross-legged on the ground, a lifeless peace between his brows.
"Yes. ”
Sugawara Michizane bowed down to receive the order, and just one word, his voice trembled, and the old eyes couldn't help but show a look of horror. Obviously, recalling the battle situation is not an easy task for him, and if it weren't for Daigo's question, he probably wouldn't even want to mention it.