The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 426

In the past few days, as the Liangshan army's offensive gradually slowed down, the concerns of the officials in Taiyuan City finally let go.

But Sun Yi was not included among these people.As a qualified general, he knows better than anyone else that the tranquility in front of him is like a person deliberately retracting his fist before punching, so that the next punch will be more powerful.

Therefore, Sun Yi was more cautious than before, guarding the top of the city every day, even eating and lodging there, not daring to slack off for a moment.

It's just that the next development was beyond Sun Yi's expectations. There was no movement outside the city for five consecutive days, which really made people puzzled and wondered what the enemy general was up to.

On the evening of the sixth day, Sun Yi had just finished touring the city gates and was about to rest for a while, when Feng Qing, the military commander of Taiyuan City, came to invite him, saying that it was Mr. Zhang Xiaochun, Xuanfu envoy of Hedong.

Sun Yi didn't doubt that there was him, and went to Zhang Xiaochun's mansion without even taking any of his personal attendants.Sun Yi originally thought that Zhang Xiaochun invited him this time to discuss the defense of Taiyuan City, who would have thought that Zhang Xiaochun was throwing a big banquet.

He immediately became a little unhappy, and asked in a blunt tone, "I don't know what's going on in the future, my lord?"

Zhang Xiaochun seemed not aware of it, and replied with a smile, "General Sun has worked really hard to defend the city recently, I specially invite you to have a glass of water and wine to reward the general."

Sun Yi refused, "The thieves outside the city may attack the city at any time, so the general will not dare to leave his post without authorization!"

Seeing that Sun Yi was so ungrateful, Zhang Xiaochun became more and more annoyed, and he didn't bother to make excuses any more. Then he threw the wine glass heavily on the table, and immediately rushed out a group of soldiers from outside the screen, and pushed Sun Yi to the ground without explanation. , tied tightly.

Sun Yi struggled and shouted, "Master Zhang, what is the meaning of this, and what crime have I committed?"

Zhang Xiaochun got up and came to the front, looked down at Sun Yi, and said coldly, "At this moment, you still want to lie! I ask you, do you recognize Hu Yanqing?"

Sun Yi replied honestly, "I know him, I have been friends with him for many years."

"In that case, you must also recognize Hu Yanzhuo?"

Sun Yi denied, "I've only heard of his name, but never seen him."

Hearing this, Zhang Xiaochun sneered, "It's a good one who only hears his name! You have been guarding the top of the city these days, and Hu Yanzhuo is among the bandits outside the city, how dare you say you don't know him?"

Without waiting for Sun Yi's rebuttal, Zhang Xiaochun took out another letter, threw it in his face, and cursed,

"I put you as a thief in the army. Are you a fool if you treat me as an official? You clearly want to cooperate with Hu Yanzhuo outside the city, but you are still quibbling!"

Sun Yi didn't know the content of the letter at all, so he yelled that he was wronged.

"My lord's words are so unreasonable. Even if Hu Yanzhuo turned himself into a thief, the officials did not implicate the rest of the Huyan family because of him alone. Why does your lord believe that I have colluded with him?"

Zhang Xiaochun said angrily, "Keep your dog eyes open, this letter is evidence, this is a secret letter written to you by Hu Yanqing, what else can you say?"

Sun Yi was very puzzled when he heard the words, and argued forcefully, "The general has been guarding the top of the city recently, and has never received any secret letter. If your lord doesn't believe it, you can ask someone to ask."

No matter how much Zhang Xiaochun believed this, he stopped talking nonsense and ordered Sun Yiyao to be imprisoned immediately, planning to wait until the siege of Taiyuan was resolved, and then report to the court, and let the officials handle the matter.

It was Feng Qing who came with him and said something fair for Sun Yi, "Did you make a mistake? The villain has been assisting in the defense of the city for the past few days. It is true that General Sun has not received any letters."

Zhang Xiaochun was going to have a fit, but after thinking about it, now that Sun Yi is gone, he has to rely on Feng Qing to defend the city, so suppressing his dissatisfaction, he explained,
"General Feng doesn't know something. I have already found someone to identify it. This letter is indeed written by Hu Yanqing. Even if Sun Yi doesn't know, I dare not trust him again!"

Then he assured, "General, you can rest assured that this official will never wrong a good person. This matter will be reported to the official, and we will have our own opinions!"

Seeing Zhang Xiaochun's firm attitude, Feng Qing didn't dare to persuade him anymore, but he still expressed his worries, and only listened to him,
"My lord, I'm worried that if news of Sun Yi's arrest spreads, the [-] troops he brought from Shuoning will mutiny, and things will be bad."

It can be said that Feng Qing's words are extremely reasonable, but he has overlooked one point, that is, Zhang Xiaochun is a unique literati in the Song Dynasty.People like them always look down on those thieves who join the army, and Song Dynasty has always had the tradition of laymen commanding experts.

Therefore, after Zhang Xiaochun heard this, he didn't think deeply at all, so he waved his hands and said, "This matter is easy to handle. After you go back, dismiss all the generals and schools of the Shuoning Army and replace them with people from the Taiyuan Army."

"This..." Feng Qing was dumbfounded. Isn't this just adding to the chaos? In this way, it's no wonder that those low-level top soldiers are not overwhelmed.

"My lord, I'm afraid this is inappropriate, as a villain..."

With Feng Qing's repeated objections today, Zhang Xiaochun was already extremely impatient, and completely unwilling to listen to his words, immediately waved his hand and interrupted his words, "Don't talk about it, this matter is settled like this!"

After driving Feng Qing away, Zhang Xiaochun felt uneasy, for fear that Feng Qing would make his own decisions, so he specially sent his cronies to oversee the matter.

Sure enough, Feng Qing's worries were not groundless.

Since Sun Yi usually leads troops well, his subordinates are very convinced of him from top to bottom. Now that he suddenly heard that he was sent to a big prison, how could his subordinates be willing to give up? They immediately started clamoring and threatened to go to Shangguan Ask for an explanation.

Originally, at this time, if a person of high morals and esteem came forward, he could try to persuade him, and the matter might not be suppressed.

However, the cronies sent by Zhang Xiaochun did the opposite. Not only did they not want to say soft words, but they kept saying that they were thieves joining the army. What's more, they even threatened to arrest all the generals who caused trouble. , let them go to jail with Sun Yi.

This can be regarded as stabbing a hornet's nest, and those Shuoning troops didn't even want to defend the city anymore, and they started to make troubles one after another.

Mu Xu, who always sent people to keep an eye on the movement in the city, learned of this situation, so he naturally would not miss this good opportunity, and immediately sent troops to attack the east and west walls guarded by the Shuoning army.

Without Sun Yi's systematic command, and Shuoning's army lost their fighting spirit, the city was in chaos. Even if Feng Qing tried his best, he could only hold back for half an hour, but Liang Shan's army finally broke through the west gate.

In an instant, under the leadership of Lin Chong and Lu Junyi, the three thousand cavalry who had been prepared for a long time entered in a file, turning the city upside down for a while.

But he said that Zhang Xiaochun was still in his study at this time, writing a memorial with great speed, and wanted to tell Zhao Guan's family about Yan Qing and Sun Yi.

Fang wrote more than half of it, when suddenly there was a commotion from outside, Zhang Xiaochun paused, immediately wrote a wrong word, and couldn't help cursing, "Unlucky, these damned thieves, can't they attack the city at another time? It's a waste of my life pen and ink!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as the words fell, the door of the study was pushed open from the outside, and the housekeeper ran in scrambling.Zhang Xiaochun frowned, and asked sharply, "Damn thing, who told you to trespass on my study, is there any more rules, you will definitely..."

"Master, something is wrong, the thieves have entered the city!"

"Ah! What did you say!" Zhang Xiaochun was frightened out of his wits by these words, and could no longer see the calmness he had just now.

The butler had no choice but to repeat it again.Zhang Xiaochun heard it clearly now, and said tremblingly, "Quickly order Madam to clean up the things, before the thief arrives, let's run for our lives!"

(End of this chapter)