Chapter Eighty-Nine: Triumphant Return
Snow flies, and after the fire is extinguished, black smoke billows into the air, and the ground is endless corpses. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 The earth was scorched by fire, and the snow melted and froze, freezing endless corpses.
Of the 1.8 million soldiers, more than 52,000 remained, all of whom became prisoners.
In this battle, only the two commanders, Goodwin and Muzuo'e, fled back to the Winter Mountain Country in embarrassment.
The remaining more than 50,000 captives were also injured to varying degrees, and when the red-robed iron cavalry escorted them back to Yanliang City, nearly 10,000 people died because of the burns, and nearly 5,000 were disabled.
Later, Li Yanliang was very kind-hearted and asked his father, King Wuliang, to personally lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to send these 5,000 disabled soldiers back to Dongshan Kingdom.
In this way, more than 37,000 captives were left who were completely escorted back to the city, plus more than 3,000 white bears.
These white bears were not adapted to the climate of Xia Zeguo at first, but after being dealt with by King Wuliang, he sent 30,000 iron horsemen to guard the northern border of Xia Zeguo, and brought 4,000 captives to the border to raise this group of white bears.
Because the northern border is the junction of Xia Ze and Dongshan countries, the white bear can adapt to the environment there.
The commander of the northern border this time is Han Wei, the right deputy general of King Wuliang, and with Han Wei, a fierce general, guarding the border, it is like the patron saint of Xia Zeguo, and no one dares to offend this god of war.
This time, King Wuliang led his army back triumphantly, and the biggest gain was not to get more than 3,000 white bears, but to capture hundreds of thousands of intact northern sophisticated equipment on the battlefield.
In the first battle of Zhongguan, the fire burned the sky, but hundreds of thousands of these excellent equipment are still intact, which can be seen how valuable these equipment are.
After the triumph of King Wuliang, the whole country rejoiced. Emperor Xia Liang held a banquet to entertain King Wuliang, and at the same time rewarded thousands of troops.
Liu Wenbo was restored to the position of prime minister, and with his own lifelong connections, he persuaded many capable and talented and virtuous people to accept the recruitment and reward.
In this way, except for a handful of loyal ministers, the entire relationship circle of the imperial court was built around Liu Wenbo, and he was on an equal footing with King Wuliang in one fell swoop.
However, Liu Wenbo did not work against King Wuliang like Zhang Quanzhi, but concentrated on governing the government for Emperor Xia Liang, supervising the behavior of the new ministers and officials, and offering some good strategies for governing the country and the people to Emperor Xia Liang.
Zhang Xun, the second son of the Wenru Palace, was named the king of civil responsibility and became the head of civil officials, but he learned the lessons of his father and began to think about others and discipline himself, accumulate experience, not be stubborn, listen to the opinions of hundreds of officials, do not covet the struggle for political power, and only concentrate on governing civil life.
Today's pillars of the Wenru Mansion are the two brothers Zhang Xun and Zhang Heng, one literary and one martial, each in charge of their duties.
Speaking of these three sons, Zhang Heng, although he has martial arts, he does not have an official position. After the lessons of this invasion of the Dongshan Kingdom, Emperor Xia Liang also began to pay attention to these young and promising people, and directly named Zhang Heng as the general of Sanpin.
After the appointment of hundreds of officials, the imperial court began to vigorously recruit troops, expand the national armed forces, and redeploy border defenses.
Winter goes to spring, and it is the season when peach blossoms are in full bloom.
The prince Li Yanliang finally returned to the royal city with 10,000 soldiers and horses, and brought a letter of apology from the king of Dongshan Kingdom, and offered the mining rights of more than 100 mines such as gold, copper, and iron mines, in order to appease the anger of Emperor Xia Liang.
When Emperor Xia Liang read the letter of apology from the king of Dongshan Kingdom, he immediately laughed and gave Li Yanliang the title of prince in red robe.
This is also the youngest prince in the history of Xia Zeguo, and it is the first case in history that a father and son are both princes and reign at the same time.
Emperor Xia Liang opened up the first case of enshrined Li Yanliang, who was only twenty-two years old, as a prince, and he had already expressed his attitude.
Once Emperor Xia Liang coveted the military power of King Wuliang, but after the first battle of Zhongguan, Emperor Xia Liang was completely unwary and gave the military power to the Wuliang Palace, so that King Wuliang had the right to distribute the national troops.
At this time, Li Yanliang had just received the reward, so he couldn't wait to return to the Wuliang Palace.
In front of the palace, Qiluo had been waiting for a long time with Mrs. Wanyi in her arms. At this time, seeing Li Yanliang galloping on a white horse, they couldn't hide their excitement.
I haven't seen him for a few months, one as a mother and the other as a wife, the two most important women in Li Yanliang's life, are worried about him and can't sleep at night.
Even when King Wuliang led thousands of troops and horses to triumph, they were not worried that Li Yanliang would go to the strange country of extreme cold alone.
"Mother, the child is back. Qiluo, have you taken good care of our mother in the past few months?" Before he reached the door, Li Yanliang shouted with a smile.
At this time, the war horse stopped in front of the door, and Li Yanliang jumped off the horse. Mrs. Wanyi walked to her son's side with Qiluo's support, looked at her son's face, and smiled: "Qiluo is the best daughter-in-law in the world, with her company, I have almost forgotten about you, a son who only cares about fighting and ignores his family." ”
Li Yanliang scratched his head and smiled, looked at Qiluo affectionately, and said: "Thank you for your hard work, from now on the world will be peaceful, the imperial court has carried out a major blood change, Xia Zeguo is rising a new force, this is a more united force, there is no such thing as deceit, the king has also handed over all the military power to his father, from now on, whether it is a small family, there will be no worries!"
"Yes, family and everything is prosperous, whether it is the country or my family, harmony makes money. Mrs. Wanyi also laughed happily, with a dignified posture, showing her affinity.
Li Yanliang called his subordinates to lead the white horse to the courtyard, and then he and Qiluo supported Mrs. Wanyi back to the palace.
As soon as the three of them walked into the courtyard, King Wuliang walked out laughing, looked at Li Yanliang, and laughed: "When you come back this time, what reward does the king have for you?"
Li Yan said with a cold smile: "In the past, people gave me the title of red-robed prince, but this time the king personally gave me this title. ”
"It's amazing, this is the first prince with a different surname in history to be crowned the crown prince, you are really better than the blue!" King Wuliang laughed and was very happy.
Li Yanliang smiled proudly, and then said: "Speaking of the blue out of the blue, the king really gave me a more valuable reward, father, mother, Qiluo, what do you think the king has rewarded?"
King Wuliang looked at his son pretending to be mysterious, and said lightly: "What else can I reward you, could it be a bounty?"
Li Yanliang shook his head.
Kira guessed, "Did I give you a precious treasure?"
Li Yanliang shook his head helplessly and said, "Can you not always think about material things, I'm not such a cheesy person." ”
Mrs. Wanyi smiled and said, "Since it is not a material reward, there is only a knighthood." ”
Li Yanliang laughed and said: "That's right, it's still smart, this time the king directly named me the king of Yanliang!"
"King Yanliang, this title sounds very powerful, but I don't know how many official positions it is?" King Wuliang didn't expect Emperor Xia Liang to give Li Yanliang the title of marquis, and thought that this King of Yanliang and the red-robed prince were of the same nature, and they were just titles that sounded very bluffing.
Li Yanliang put away his smile and said solemnly: "The official position that the king has given me is King Yanliang, father, from now on, my son will be on an equal footing with you." ”
Seeing that Li Yanliang was not joking, the family was shocked, even King Wuliang was no exception, and he was the most shocked.
"His grandmother's, Lao Tzu worked hard to sit on the throne of King Wuliang. You kid was named the King of Yanliang after a battle, who the hell is going to reason with!" King Wuliang pretended to be angry, but he still couldn't help laughing.
"Come on, prepare a banquet! Pick up the wind and wash the dust for our family's Yanliang son!" King Wuliang roared, called his subordinates, and ordered the banquet to be prepared.
Mrs. Wanyi glared at King Wu Liang with disgust, and scolded with a smile: "It's not serious, it's still so rude to talk in front of the child, and our daughter-in-law is still around, you should pay attention in the future!"
King Wuliang glanced at his daughter-in-law who was accompanying his wife, scratched his head, and laughed: "What's the matter, those who become big things are not informal!"
Qiluo smiled slightly and said: "Father's bold personality is really enviable, but it is much more noble than those sanctimonious ministers in the past. ”
"Haha, it's still a daughter-in-law who understands righteousness, Qiluo, wait a minute, you will also send someone to call your father-in-law to the palace, Liu Renxi, that old thing, I was afraid that I was scared to death before, and I didn't dare to marry you to our family Yan Liang, this time I have to punish him with a few glasses of wine!" King Wuliang laughed unabashedly, and he was really happy.
Mrs. Wanyi glared at him again and said, "Daughter-in-law praised you, but you are even more open-mouthed, do you say this about your father-in-law? Hey, it's a pity that her mother-in-law died a few years ago, and her wish to see Liang'er for the last time has not been fulfilled." ”
Li Yanliang was shocked when he heard this, looked at Qiluo, and said: "Mother-in-law, her old man has passed away, it's all because I didn't have the heart and lungs to fight with the soldiers all the way and delayed the trip, otherwise I would have been able to rush back before the year!"
Qiluo's eyes were a little moist, but she shook her head and said softly: "Stepmother, she was very kind and not painful before she died, because she saw that my life in the palace was very happy, and she was satisfied. ”
"Qiluo, I invited my father-in-law today, and I said that I would leave him in the palace, he is so old, it is not easy to be alone, you used to help him take care of the grocery store, and now I married you to the palace, he must be very lonely. And now that I'm a prince, if I let my father-in-law live in the grocery store and let the people gossip about it? Li Yanliang stretched out his hand and gently wiped Qiluo's tear-stained eyes, and sighed lightly: "Forget it, let's not send someone to invite my father-in-law, let's go in person." ”
King Wuliang patted his son on the shoulder and said, "Go, your mother and I are waiting for you to come back in the mansion." No matter what method you use this time, if your father-in-law really refuses to come to the palace, you will tie him up. ”
"Yes, this time I have to invite my father-in-law to the palace anyway. Li Yanliang nodded, called someone to bring the white horse over again, and then he hugged Qiluo on the horse's back, and the two rode away.