Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3923 Turtle in the urn
Tongguan.

Amidst the wind and rain, all armies pulled out their camps. Cheng Mingzhen, Yu Chigong, and Ashina Simo were all ready to go. Cheng Yaojin, as the vanguard of the army, had already taken a step ahead and led his left guards to go straight to Chang'an. After leading the army, they will start tomorrow.

Inside the festival hall, Li Ji stood in front of the window and looked at the bustle and bustle outside, feeling a little heavy in his heart.

Wang Shoushi once again silently appeared at the door behind him.

For this poisonous snake that seems to be hidden in the grass and chooses people to eat, Li Jijue has no sympathy for it. He turned around, frowned and said: "This place is the military festival hall, a secret place, the servant should not always come here so unscrupulously For good."

This eunuch holds His Majesty's seal, and no one in the world dares to stop him...

Wang Shoushi didn't seem to be able to hear the dissatisfaction and threats in Li Ji's words, and said calmly, "Why did the British Duke send Cheng Yaojin as the vanguard? It is still suspected that the secret of Guanlong's transfer of troops into the city was leaked. Let him be the vanguard, if after returning to Chang'an, his heart goes to the East Palace and ruins the big event, what should we do?"

At this point in the development of the current situation, the mutiny is coming to an end, and what needs to be considered now is not who wins and who loses.

In this mutiny, Guan Longjiu took it upon himself, it would be fine if he won in the end, but now he was defeated and lost, as the saying goes, he has to bear all the responsibilities.

Even if Guan Long couldn't afford it at all.

Not to mention anything else, only half of Chang'an City was destroyed by the war, as well as the whole Guanzhong area's one-year cultivation and longer-term commercial impact, even if all the family properties of the Guanlongmen Clan were confiscated, it would not be able to make up for this huge loss.

Therefore, whether Guan Long bears the responsibility for the crime is actually not important. How to look forward to the distribution of power in the court after the war is the most important thing.

In fact, no matter who is in power in the final court, it is necessary to keep Guan Long's place, not only because uprooting Guan Long will cause great damage to the foundation of the empire, but also because of the post-war Shandong and Jiangnan dynasties. The swarming of people will cause a situation where the upper and lower courts will fight against those in power. The contradictions will intensify and the turmoil will deepen, because the disputes of interests are irreconcilable.

Under such circumstances, the existence of Guan Long is the best buffer.

There is no such thing as self-inflicted or deserved. The interests of the court are always the first, the ministers are like this, the family is like this, even the emperor is like this.

If you really want to be kind and do things arbitrarily, you can only end up like Qin Huang and Sui Yang, the government is divided, and everyone betrays their relatives...

To be in power is to constantly compromise, compromise with political opponents, and compromise with interests.

If you really forge ahead and compare pennies and pennies, you won't end well...

So Wang Shoushi's worry was not unreasonable, if Cheng Yaojin turned to the East Palace, returned to Chang'an first and then attacked Guan Long. Although he expressed his loyalty to the East Palace, the prince would also use him as the humerus, but it ruined the overall situation.

Li Ji raised his eyebrows and looked at Wang Shoushi: "You are just a servant, relying on His Majesty's trust, so you can enter and leave my festival hall. But you still need to keep in mind that no matter when, you are just a servant, nothing more. Where is the room for you to comment on important military affairs?"

Without waiting for Wang Shoushi to speak, he turned around and took out a box from under the desk, opened it, took out the tiger talisman and threw it on the desk with a "bang", and said coldly: "Either you ask your majesty to take this tiger talisman back, and I will take it away from the commander of the army." Military affairs can be dominated by you. Or, stand aside and don’t dictate military affairs, and then dare to break into the Chinese Army Festival Hall wantonly, and be punished by military law!”

Since ancient times, civil servants and military generals have been very wary of eunuchs and eunuchs. Because of their incomplete bodies, these eunuchs have extreme aspirations. They only have their own interests in their eyes, and they have no thoughts of family and country. own reputation.

What's more, eunuchs who disrupt the government will inevitably get involved in power, and thus form conflicts with ministers. They all climbed up after going through ups and downs in official careers. Who wants to bow down to eunuchs?

These words were not polite at all, more harsh than the previous day's words, but Wang Shoushi just stared at Li Ji with white eyes, and looked at Li Ji full of resentment, turned and walked out without saying anything.

As Li Ji said, no matter how favored he is, he is nothing more than an eunuch. How can his status and importance be compared with that of Li Ji, the head of the prime minister and a famous commander in the world?

Li Ji looked at the back of Wang Shoushi going away, his eyes were dark and gloomy.

This eunuch seems to have no official position, but in fact he is extremely favored by His Majesty, and he has a powerful team of dead soldiers in his hands. Pointing fingers in front of yourself?
Walking to the door, looking at the dark and quiet courtyard amidst the wind and rain, he sighed slightly.

The Tang Dynasty has been established for a long time, and the court has already entered the right track. The remnants of the former Sui Dynasty either died in battle or died of old age.Since Zhenguan, the government and the public have worked hard to govern and all industries have flourished. The prosperous age has quietly come, the treasury is abundant, the people live in peace, the frontier is stable, and foreign countries are overwhelmed.

Under such a good situation, whether the prince is wise and courageous and has the appearance of a wise emperor is actually not very important, as long as his temperament is calm and he has the style of defending the city.

Why bother with this?

Not to mention that the prince's performance in the past few years has been considered excellent, even if it is slightly worse, compared with the ruins of the entire Guanzhong caused by the Guanlong mutiny, there is nothing unbearable...

Having said that, even if the king of Wei or the king of Jin is replaced, will he definitely do better than the crown prince?
Your Majesty's annoying obsession...

Li Ji sighed again, called his own soldiers in, and ordered Yu Chigong, Cheng Mingzhen, and Ashina Simo to command their headquarters and go to Chang'an to meet Cheng Yaojin.

As for what Wang Shoushi was worried about, whether Cheng Yaojin's role as a striker would be detrimental to Guan Long after arriving in Chang'an first... so what?

He, Li Ji, as the head of the minister and the commander of the army, has reached the pinnacle of civil and military affairs, and his qualifications, status, and power are enough to bear such a consequence.

Not to mention a mere eunuch, even if His Majesty stood in front of him and criticized him, so what?

*****
In the Taiji Palace, there are heavy winds and rains, and the flames of war are raging.

The more than ten thousand Guanlong elite troops who entered the Taiji Palace received the order from Changsun Wuji, and immediately realized that the situation was unfavorable. They were afraid that the right guards would make a surprise attack on Chengtianmen and block the way of retreat, so they had no intention of fighting again. Morale plummeted.

Fortunately, the storm all the way to the Neizhong Gate went smoothly, and the morale of the army is still stable. At this moment, it is difficult to maintain reason after receiving the retreat order, knowing that they cannot retreat all at once. chaos.

However, Li Jing had been waiting for this moment for a long time, how could he allow Guanlong's army to withdraw calmly?

With an order, Wan Yu held back for a long time, and the six soldiers of the East Palace gave up their defensive positions and launched a full-scale counterattack.Countless soldiers poured out from behind the city wall and under the palace, gathered into a powerful torrent, and rushed towards the rear of the Guanlong army that was blocking the retreat. He counterattacked and was caught off guard immediately, causing heavy casualties.

What's more important is that the East Palace Six Commander chased after him, which made it difficult for the Guanlong army to retreat calmly. Just now, an army was dispatched to try to stop the Eastern Palace Six Rate, but it was wiped out by the crazy counterattack of the Eastern Palace Six Rate in a blink of an eye...

The Guanlong army had no choice but to mobilize another army to turn back to intercept the counterattack of the Sixth Army of the East Palace. However, the Sixth Army of the East Palace's counterattack was like a tide, and a force was separated to entangle with the Guanlong Army, and the rest of the troops surrounded from both sides. In the first place, he must always be behind the Guanlong army.

Guan Long's army was eager to withdraw from the Taiji Palace, but the Six Commanders of the East Palace followed closely behind. If they didn't pay attention, they would be bitten to death by them bit by bit.Knowing that stopping to stop him was in the hands of the Liu rate of the East Palace, but he had to grit his teeth and delay his retreat to prevent the army from stabilizing their position, and fought with the Liu rate of the East Palace who came from behind.

……

Gao Kan led the heavy armored infantry into the city from Jinguangmen, rushed all the way along the long street, and ran into the Guanlong army who came for reinforcements outside the West Market. Among the chaotic army, the morale of the rebels plummeted, and the morale of the army was lax.

You Tunwei took the opportunity to step up the offensive. Gao Kan sent Sun Renshi to lead an army to rush northward from the area between Bosihu Temple and Buzhengfang. In the south, it went straight to the east of Yanshoufang, forming a pincer attack on the east and west sides with Gao Kan's troops.

Yanshoufang was attacked, and the Guanlong army outside the West Market was defeated by the enemy.

(End of this chapter)