Da Wei Chun

Chapter 673
Yuan Cheng gritted his teeth in hatred.

He knew that he must die, so he didn't blame Gao Ying for putting him to death.

Regardless of the others, Tuyuhun and Cui Yanbo were defeated one after another. How could he escape being involved as an envoy and the envoy of the governor's Northern Expedition?
The queen mother must give an explanation to the courtiers and the people of the world, and no matter what, she must behead a few enough heads to apologize.

As for Cui Yanbo, he still couldn't afford such a big pot, so he was the most suitable person for counting and counting.

What's more, he and Murong Xiao were the ones who brought the Tuyuhun defeated army and the Xihai army that smashed Cui Yanbo's camp.

Based on this alone, he will definitely not escape the death penalty.

What Yuan Cheng hated was Gao Ying's confusion of right and wrong, and he was irresponsible.Now it is even more important to put all the responsibility for Li Chengzhi's rebellion on himself and Gao Zhao, and he will not hesitate to let himself bear the infamy for the rest of his life.

What's more, the majestic monarch threatens the lives of his courtiers and family members. How is it different from villains and despicable villains in the market?
Sure enough, as Shi Jin said: the needles of the hornet's tail, the letter of the green snake's mouth, neither is poisonous, but the most poisonous to a woman's heart...

It's a pity that the situation is stronger than others, and Yuan Cheng has nothing to do except resentment.

Everything is destined, no one can help.

As Li Chengzhi said: Thunder, rain and dew are all the grace of the king.How many others are like Li Chengzhi, who have the courage to turn the tables and rebel as long as they are unhappy?
Left and right can only die once, and they can't leave disasters for their descendants after they die.

Therefore, no matter how unwilling or resentful, Yuan Cheng could only obediently submit.

With hatred in his heart, he gritted his teeth and said with a sneer: "Since the queen mother has made a decision, the decree is that I must obey it!"

What I was waiting for was his words.

Qin Song immediately beamed with joy: "Your Highness is really willing to accompany Si Qing (Liu Fang) to go to the West Sea as an envoy?"

"As an envoy, isn't this going to die?"

Yuan Cheng finally couldn't hold back his anger, and opened his mouth to scold, "You eunuch, don't you think that if a lonely tiger falls into Pingyang, you can let you bully me?"

Qin Song wasn't annoyed either: "It's strange that the official said nothing, and please calm down His Highness...The official will go and ask the Queen Mother for orders!"

After saying that, he turned around and left, but before he stepped out of the palace gate, he suddenly heard a thud behind him.Qin Song suddenly turned his head and saw Yuan Li had fallen to the ground.

His face was even more ashen-white and bloodless.Yuan Quan and You Zhao hurried forward and helped him up.

There is great terror between life and death, and who is not afraid of death?

Qin Song secretly sighed, and walked away quickly.

Just a moment before and after, he went back and forth, and brought back the Queen Mother's oral order.

Gao Ying also simply made the second son of Yuan Cheng the king of Fufeng County on the spot, and the eldest son Yuan Shun the Duke of Dong'e County.

As for the direct son Yuan Yi, naturally after a hundred years from Yuan Cheng, he can inherit his title of city king.

For some reason, Yuan Cheng, who was already heartbroken, suddenly laughed.Laughing louder and louder, finally like howling.

The face is full of old tears...

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After careful calculation, this is the third time that the imperial court has sent envoys to the West Sea.

The first time was for Cui Guang and Wei Zijian, but Roubaozi beat the dog and never came back.

The second time is Li Shao and Yang Shu.But Li Shaoyuan didn't stay for half a day, and finally he was charged with ineffective consolation.Even Yang Shu was implicated and demoted several levels.

This time the battle was even bigger, with Liu Fang as the main envoy, and Chi Jie as the envoy.In addition, Gao Ying issued a decree overnight, and issued an edict to Longxi, Guanzhong, and the six towns: all three armies will be suppressed, and Guifang Jiedu, no one dares to violate it.

It means that whatever Liu Fang's order, no matter Cui Yanbo, Xing Luan, Yuan Yao and Xi Kangsheng, must be obeyed, otherwise it will be a serious crime of resisting the order.

In addition, the deputy envoys Yuan Yuan and Yang Shujun gave holidays and had the right to make decisions on the fly.

Although the identities and responsibilities of these three people are different, they all have one thing in common: they had a close relationship with Li Chengzhi, and they helped him a lot when Li Chengzhi was in his infancy.

Therefore, a discerning person can tell at a glance that the imperial court's name this time is to appease, but it is actually seeking peace.He just wanted to use the personal friendship between these three people and Li Chengzhi to ask him to stop fighting.

And this is only second, the most important thing is that the court's attitude towards Xihai this time: it is no longer aloof, but a dialogue with equal status, even the imperial edict given to Li Chengzhi by the Queen Mother is no longer an "edict", but a book .Including the word "zhi", which is also used, instead of "grant", or bestow.

To put it bluntly, the Yuan and Wei dynasties had acquiesced that Xihai was the real "country", just like Tuyuhun, Rouran, and Nanliang were treated, rather than belonging to the country.

It's just that I was scruples about the last bit of face, and I didn't tell the world...

Five days before the departure, the imperial court expedited the journey by [-] miles and informed Xihai in advance.And Li Chengzhi had been waiting for this day for a long time, so he naturally hit the snake with the stick, and his reaction was not unpleasant.

Before the mission left Beijing, Huangfurang, Li Liang, Daxi, Zhang Jingzhi, Li Feng, Zhang Xinyi, etc. received secret orders one after another: suspend the troops for the time being!

Roughly speaking, Huangfu Rang has already occupied Bogulu Town, forcing Xing Luan to the east of the Yellow River.Li Feng went to the west foot of Langshan Mountain and confronted Yuan Yao and Xi Kangsheng across Gaoque Pass and Jilu Pass.

There has been no war in these two places for a month, and at most they are testing each other, and no one dares to mess around.

To put it bluntly, whether it is Huangfu Rang or Li Feng, they are actually covering for Li Liang.

Under Li Chengzhi's instruction, Li Liang now has nearly ten guards, about [-] troops.Then the troops were divided into four groups, led by Zhang Jingzhi, Li Xiaozhang, Huangfuzhong, and Zhang Xinyi respectively.Like four sharp arrows, they pierced straight into Longxi.

It is only a month or so since Daxi and Zhang Jingzhi came to help, but it reaches Bogulu in the north, Wudu Town in the south, and Xiaoguan in the east, including the three prefectures of Qin, Liang, and He, and the three towns of Shanshan, Fanghan, and Wudu. They have all returned to the West Sea.

Afraid of being too greedy, and even more afraid of playing tricks, Li Chengzhi repeatedly ordered to Li Liang and others: just pass is easy to break, too late, enough is enough, and when it is good, let it go.

If not, Li Liang might have conquered Chen Cang long ago, and it would only be a matter of time before he even won Qizhou.Li Liang didn't even plan to use artillery or explosives.

It's not that Li Liang doesn't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, but that whenever Xihai soldiers approach the city, seven or eight of the ten counties in the prefectures and counties of Longxi will open their city gates wide open and surrender without a fight.Although Cui Yanbo was stationed at Chencang, he was close at hand, but he had more energy than he wanted.

Since mid-April, he has been defeated again and again, retreated again and again, from Shanshan Town to Chencang Pass, this retreat is more than a thousand miles?

To say that the [-] remnants still have some morale and fighting spirit is like joking.

Although repeated battles and defeats, at least the loss is not big.He tried his best to keep the army from collapsing, so Cui Yanbo knew very well: if he dared to divide his troops to garrison in various counties, he would probably collapse at the sound of the cannon, and surrender at the sight of the "Li Ziqi".

And gathered in Chencang, at least there are many people, and they are more or less confident.It is not enough to surrender to the West Sea and make it easier for the enemy and thieves.

Furthermore, Longxi is not small, with three prefectures of Qin, Liang, and He, and three towns of Shanshan, Fanghan, and Wudu.There are dozens of counties and more than a hundred counties under it. Even if they surrender when they hear the wind, how many counties can Xihai occupy in a day, and how many soldiers can be stationed in a county?
So Cui Yanbo had expected it long ago: Since Xihai's purpose is to occupy land and rob people, let him occupy and rob.As long as it is occupied, the troops will be stationed separately. Even if one county is stationed in one brigade, nearly [-] soldiers will be needed.Moreover, Xing Luan from Lizi Garden and Yuan Yao from Woye Town have to be restrained. How many troops are left in Xihai, how dare they invade Guanzhong?
At least for the time being, there will be no more wars, and the West Sea has moved eastward flawlessly in a short time.

In this way, it really stopped for nearly a month.Small battles naturally continue, but most of them are short-lived.

Li Liang, who was camped in Qingshui County, was less than four hundred miles away from Cui Yanbo who was stationed in Chencangguan.There is only a mountain ridge between Xihai Jiaqi, which travels to Bailitan at the west foot of Longshan Mountain (now Guanshan Grassland, Longxian County, Baoji), and the Chinese army stationed in Longguan.

But strangely, it seemed that Longshan Mountain had really become a natural moat.After arriving in Qingshui County, the Xihai army, which was as fierce as a mountain tiger, never advanced eastward.

However, Cui Yanbo's subordinates have already become frightened birds, fearing that one day the iron bullets that can destroy mountains and cities will fall on their heads, so they are trembling and dare not be careless.

When Liu Fang and others came out of Longguan, they saw a very strange scene: shadowy figures on the mountains, swords and guns on the pass city, and all the soldiers of the imperial court seemed to be facing enemies.

But less than a mile away, there are countless cattle and sheep scattered at the foot of the mountain and the pass.The Xihai soldiers who shepherd the sheep didn't even wear armor, most of them only wore linen trousers and crotch (waistcoat), and many of them were bare-chested, as if they were all invulnerable, and the sharp arrows on the city couldn't kill them. Opening the bow is also trusting the horse and wandering the rein, ignoring it.

If cattle and sheep go up the mountain and even under the city wall, the Xihai soldiers will at most shout and shout a few times, but will not come to chase them.However, the imperial soldiers in the mountains and Guancheng did not dare to be careless.However, some cattle and sheep approached within the range of the shot, and they were shot back with blunt arrows or slingshots.

Why do you think he is so cautious?
All because the lesson was too profound: At the beginning of Tuyuhun's defeat, although 20 to [-] defeated troops rushed eastward without a clue, Cui Yanbo held an army of nearly [-], and he set up the camp high and high, and built a prison It's in prison again.

Moreover, a moat was dug outside the camp, so it was absolutely impossible to destroy Cui Yanbo's camp in one go just by relying on Tuyuhun's defeated army.

It was Huangfu Rang who used a clever trick to gather the broken horse of the Tuyuhun cavalry, and then tied the explosives around the horse's neck, and extended the lead wire around the horse's tail and the horse's hind body.

As soon as the lead line is hit, the horse only knows to run forward, let alone a ditch or a wall in front of it, even a cliff thousands of feet high can still jump.

With this method, Huangfu Rang not only filled the trenches and blew up the walls of the village, but also blew up a path for the Tuyuhun's defeated army.

Already frightened by the fire horses that were blown up as soon as they entered the camp, the chaos became even more chaotic after Tuyuhun's rout troops rushed into the camp.Moreover, Huangfu asked the artillery battalion to fire two miles away, every shell fell into the center of Cui Yanbo's camp, how could the officers and soldiers be invincible?

As the saying goes, one learns one's wisdom. Whenever the officers and soldiers see livestock approaching the Guancheng, they can't help but think of the tragic scene of that night. How could they not be on guard?

The reason why blunt arrows and slingshots are used instead of sharp arrows is naturally because they are afraid of explosives hidden in livestock.So it will only drive far away, instead of shooting to death in the pass.

As for being hanged up to eat meat after being shot to death, don't even think about it.

God knows if General Xihai has fed poison to the cattle and sheep in advance like he did to Murong Xiao?
So Cui Yanbo had already issued a strict order, but if there are livestock close to the gate, they must be driven away.Naturally, there is also the intention of not wanting to take the initiative to provoke troubles.

So it looks like the defenders on the mountain and the city are helping the enemy to graze.

The soldiers shepherding the sheep were also happy and leisurely, they just stood a hundred feet away, singing or joking.But when it comes time to eat, there will be a fire to barbecue...

Seeing this scene, from Liu Fang down, everyone's face was gloomy and sinking like water.

Love like Yang Shu's is so serious that he almost popped his eyes out.

Even if you are afraid of provoking trouble, you dare not shoot a human being, but you dare not even shoot a sheep?
Could it be that Cui Yanbo was frightened by Li Chengzhi?

Seeing his sarcasm, his eyes full of disdain, more like hesitant to speak, Li Shao hurriedly gave him a hand: "If you don't know what to do, don't talk about it..."

Yang Shu rolled his eyes, snorted again, and felt even more slanderous in his heart: Li Yuanbo, do you think highly of me, Yang Yanrong?
Liu Fang, Yuan Cheng, and Gao Zhao didn't make a sound. I'm only a few grades old, so you dare to ask me to criticize Cui Yanbo?
Isn't this offending people to death?

The old man is straightforward, but not stupid?

Cui Yanbo was on the side, so close and close, he could clearly see the small movements of the two.

But he didn't care.

How brave the defeated general was, even if he was ridiculed by others, he also recognized it.

I can only wait for the court to be defeated again, I am afraid that I will know Li Chengzhi's tricks...

I thought to myself, and then I heard Liu Fang sighed sadly: "There will be a farewell after sending you off for thousands of miles, please come back, magistrate!"

Cui Yanbo was not polite either, he clasped his fists in response and said: "Everyone take care, I will send you off soon!"

After finishing speaking, he left the city without waiting for everyone's response.After a while, more than a dozen rode out of the south gate and ran towards Chencang.

This move is a bit rude, but no one cares about it, they are just thinking about it in their hearts.

If it was an ordinary person who suffered a big defeat, lost troops and lost generals, there would have been hundreds of memorials to plead guilty.But Cui Yanbo didn't say a single word from the beginning to the end, he just pretended that this had never happened, and it seemed that he was not the one who lost the battle.

Everyone knows that the reason why Cui Yanbo is like this is because he is unwilling, let alone disobedient.

Unwilling to fight without a good fight, he became the defeated general.Unexpectedly, Yuan Cheng was a wise man for the first time, but in the end he was greedy for life and afraid of death, causing him to bear the infamy of eternity.

If the Tuyuhun camp was in chaos, Yuan Cheng hadn't gotten out of the way and had taken a step ahead, Murong Xiao would not have abandoned the army and fled. How could the nearly [-] elite cavalry collapse so quickly?

That's all, the good Yuan Cheng didn't spare any detours, and came straight to the Shanshan camp.Murong Xiao pursued Yuan Cheng even harder, and only after that he attracted ninety-nine percent of the defeated army, and even attracted the army from the West Sea.

Therefore, Cui Yanbo hated Yuan Cheng long ago, and was even more angry at the court's ignorance and injustice: such a big defeat, Yuan Cheng should have been beheaded long ago to pay homage to the dead soldiers.

It is a pity that Yuan Cheng has been in Beijing for nearly [-] days, but there is no news of Yuan Cheng.The imperial court had neither a residence report nor an imperial decree, and never asked him about his defeat. Cui Yanbo thought that the Empress Dowager was protecting Yuan Cheng, and even such a big defeat was treated like a floating cloud?
Under the discouragement, naturally there is nothing to fear.

(End of this chapter)