Chapter 508: The Empty City
Under the political struggle between Jia Rudao and Ding Daquan, and under the promise of Kublai Khan, LΓΌ Wenhuan finally made the decision to surrender. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, even Kublai Khan did not know that there was another important reason that prompted LΓΌ Wenhuan to finally surrender.
No one knew that Lu Wenhuan had already rebelled ten years ago.
Ten years ago, he lied about his military exploits and committed the crime of defrauding the king, but it has not been unearthed by Jia Yidao.
Ten years ago, he had been commanding the soldiers of Xiangyang and the beggars who cooperated with Guo Jing and Huang Rong to defend the city.
Ten years ago, he rebelled because he felt that his life was very aggrieved and that his efforts were meaningless.
The person who created grievances for Lu Wenhuan, and made Lu Wenhuan doubt the meaning of guarding Xiangyang from the bottom of his heart, was Guo Fu.
Even Qian Qingjian, the supreme martial arts who commands the world, will save some face for Lu Dashuai in front of the military and civilians in Xiangyang. Even Guo Daxia, the leader of the martial arts alliance, would not let him, the supreme military commander, not be able to come to power. Although Guo Jing does not know how to be tactful and subtle, Guo Daxia is never domineering, and only this one can get along with others.
But Guo Fu didn't care about that.
In the more than half a year that Guo Jing and Huang Rong led a large group of men and horses to expedition to the Western Regions, although Yideng and the old urchin promised to sit in Xiangyang for Guo Jing, they were old after all and would not intervene in the management of daily trivial matters. In fact, Guo Jing and Huang Rong also handed over the work of cooperating with Lu Dashuai to implement daily guarding to Yeluqi.
Guo Jing and Huang Rong didn't expect that in the past half a year, their baby daughter Guo Fu has been very addicted to officials.
Who said that Yeluqi was in charge? Is the surname Yelu capable of mastering the affairs of the Guo family? In the hall of the Guo family's mansion, Yeluqi stood aside, and Guo Nuxia appeared on the stage. Commanding, the scenery is unlimited.
What? And Lu Dashuai? What kind of green onion is Lu Dashuai? The iron-beaten Xiangyang was guarded by my father, Guo Jing and Guo Daxia, not by him, Lu Wenhuan. Who has the final say in Xiangyang? Of course, it was my father and mother who had the final say when my father and mother were there, and when my father and mother were not there, it was I, Guo Fu, who had the final say.
That's right, Guo Poyu is also surnamed Guo, and he is a man, but my younger brother is still young and not sensible, so the affairs of the Guo family have to be decided by me, the eldest daughter.
Half a year is not long, but it is not short, one hundred and eighty days, Lu Dashuai is slapped in the face every day, every day is like sitting on pins and needles, every day Wang Ba drills the stove pit - holding his breath and adding fire.
The decree does not go out, and no one listens to it when it goes out. Anyway, someone listened to it, and Guo Fu had to change it. Not only the people of Xiangyang, but also Lu Dashuai himself felt that in front of Guo Fu, he Lu Wenhuan was a fart.
But he can't afford to provoke Guo Fu, not to mention that Guo Fu has a lamp and the old urchin and others to protect him, even if he doesn't have the support of these masters, does he dare to move Guo Fu? If Guo Fu is moved, what will he do after Guo Jing and Huang Rong come back? That group of people are full of masters!
It's boring! What's the point of working hard for half a life, and guarding Xiangyang with all your heart? Bowing down to the imperial court, flattering them, nodding their heads and bowing their heads and greeting these martial arts people with a smile, and now they have to suffer the anger of such a big-bellied girl! Just because the father of this big-bellied girl is Guo Jing.
Is it interesting to live like this? Lu Dashuai will inevitably have such feelings. So he was already thinking about surrendering to Mongolia at that time. It's just that Kublai Khan didn't send an envoy to communicate with him in time at that time, otherwise he would have rebelled ten years ago.
But this time he really reversed, and he had to rebel. If you don't oppose him, you have to die! Choose between death and life, and if there is the right to choose, then people usually do not hesitate.
Therefore, by the time Kublai Khan's army gathered in Nanyang and was ready to go, Xiangyang had already become an empty city.
The so-called empty city does not mean that there is no one in the city, but that there are no soldiers in the city.
Lu Wenhuan would not choose to defect in battle, because he knew that with Guo Jing and Huang Rong's martial arts, it would be more pleasant for him to defect before the battle than to tie a rope loop on the roof beam of the Shuai Mansion.
Lu Wenhuan chose to go out of the city with all the troops in the city in the middle of the night. Someone asked, but he only said that he was going to sneak attack the enemy troops in Xinye and Dengzhou.
When Guo Jing and Huang Rong learned about this, it was already too late. When they got up at dawn, they found that only the common people and the beggar disciples were left in Xiangyang City.
Standing side by side with Huang Rong on the head of Xiangyang, Guo Jing couldn't understand Lu Wenhuan's mood. He paused and beat his chest and said: "Lu Wenhuan, why is this? Even if the imperial court investigates his crimes, he only needs to resign from his official position and stay in Xiangyang, can't I, Guo Jing, protect his life? Why should he isolate himself from the people of the Great Song Dynasty?"
Huang Rong was thinking completely different from Guo Jing at this time, she didn't care whether Lu Wenhuan was cut off from the Great Song Dynasty, she only cared about the tens of thousands of soldiers and generals that Lu Wenhuan took away. Without these soldiers, Xiangyang would be no longer lucky. So she didn't answer Guo Jing's question at all, and said directly: "Xiangyang will definitely not be able to hold it, let's evacuate quickly." β
Huang Rong was right. Xiangyang really can't hold it.
After a great injury ten years ago, in the past ten years, although the strength of Guo Jing and Huang Rong's subordinates has recovered, it is still less than half of what it was ten years ago. In addition, without the call of the Martial Arts Supreme at this time, Guo Jing and Huang Rong could no longer find any strong masters to help defend them. What's more, in recent years, Zhen Zhibing has repeatedly made waves in the rivers and lakes, and he has killed the mastermind elites of some sects.
Guo Jing shook his head and smiled desolately: "Rong'er, I swore an oath to live and die with Xiangyang." Have you forgotten?"
Looking at Guo Jing's white hair on his temples, Huang Rong burst into tears and said: "I haven't forgotten, but there are no soldiers left in this city, wouldn't it be for nothing for us to stay here and die?"
Guo Jing's eyes were also moist, but his gaze was extremely firm, he held Huang Rong's arms with both hands, and said: "Rong'er, outside of Xiangyang, there is no danger in the Great Song Dynasty, and you don't know it." I have arranged for the people of the city to flee from the south of the city, so you can take the children with you. β
Huang Rong smiled and shook her head with tears in her eyes: "Brother Jing, what do you say? How can I leave you? If you don't leave, I will die here with you." β
"Dad!Mother, I'm not leaving, I'll die with you!" Guo Poyu, who was holding a dog-beating stick, shouted with tears. Behind him was a large black knife, which was the Dragon Slayer.
"Broken, you must go, you have forgotten what your father and mother told you? Huang Rong vaguely reminded Guo Poyu that he not only shouldered the inheritance of the dragon slaying knife, but he was also the leader of the twenty-first generation of beggar gangs.
Guo Poyu's martial arts are even higher than Yeluqi's, so after Lu Youjiao died, under the auspices of Huang Rong, after a symbolic competition within the beggar gang, the leader of the beggar gang fell on Guo Poyu's head.
Guo Poyu took off the dragon slaying knife behind his back, handed it to Yeluqi and said, "Brother-in-law, you and your sister take this knife away, I will stay here with my father!"
Yeluqi shook his head and said, "I'm not leaving, Sister Fu, you and Po Lu go, I'm here to accompany my father-in-law and mother-in-law." β
Since Huang Rong couldn't persuade Guo Jing, the others didn't persuade him anymore, and what was put in front of the Guo family was just the question of who would stay with Guo Jing and Huang Rong. (To be continued.) )