I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 404 Riding a tiger is hard to get off?

How is the night?

The night is still young, the light of the courtyard burns;

The gentleman will stop, and the sound of Luan will general.

This line from "The Book of Songs Xiaoya Ting Liao" is originally a record of the king of Zhou looking forward in the morning, talking with the time teller, praising the king for his diligence in government affairs, and describing the scene of the early court.

—What time of night is it?
——It was still midnight before dawn, and the torches in the courtyard were blazing brightly.

——The princes of the early dynasty began to arrive, and the bells on the flags jingled.

Just from the lines of this ancient poem, it is not difficult for people to see what kind of harmonious scene the court of that era was.

But in today's Han Dynasty, Ye Weiyang no longer has the same meaning.

How is the night?

Ye Weiyang.

How is the night?

Before dawn.

Just one question and one answer is enough to explain a lot.

Before dawn;

Before dawn.

Ye Weiyang······

"Your Majesty~"

"It's about time..."

"Your Majesty, let's rest for a while..."

"Looking at Your Majesty, I don't know how to tell the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother..."

Chang'an City, Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace.

As the poem said, in the Weiyang Palace, the night is still young.

And in the scorching light of the court, the young emperor Shengzheng bowed his head in front of the imperial case, sometimes writing and sometimes reading, but in short, he just couldn't relax.

Looking at Liu Sheng's state of mind that would rather waste sleep and food than deal with government affairs day and night, rather than take a short rest, the eunuch made Xia Que feel extremely worried.

But worry is nothing but worry, Xia Que has no other choice except to say such a euphemistic persuasion...
"His Majesty······"

"—how is the night~"

"—Ye, Weiyang."

Xia Que's feminine voice came from the ear again, but it failed to draw Liu Sheng's attention back to his eyes.

Lifting his head tiredly, looking out of the palace gate with dull eyes, looking at the dark sky and the flames flashing outside the palace gate from time to time, Liu Shengru let out a soft murmur.

"Summer sparrow;"

"What do you mean by this poem?"

"—what time is the night?"

"--Before dawn."

"Tell me, when will the sky in my Han family be bright..."

"From the time of Emperor Taizu Gao to the present, the sky in my Han family has been dark for 60 years."

"When will this day be bright again..."

The rare, even unprecedented kind words made Xia Que flattered for a while.

Slightly calming down, and trying to understand and accept what Liu Sheng wanted to express, Xia Quefang bowed his head when he understood roughly.

"Your Majesty, you are so concerned about the war in northern Xinjiang that you don't want to go to sleep?"

"—It's not that I don't want to."

"—I really can't sleep..."

Saying so, Liu Sheng stood up from the imperial couch, put his hands behind his back, and let out a long sigh.

At Liu Sheng's side, Xia Que thought for a while in secret, and then flirted with a Lang official at the side of the hall.

After a while, all the palace people and forbidden servants in the palace retreated, leaving only the emperor Sheng, the eunuch Ling Xiaque, master and servant.

It was only at this time that Xia Que dared to lead the topic in the direction Liu Sheng wanted.

"This slave is dull and has not read many books. It was difficult to know His Majesty's intentions."

"But after serving His Majesty for so many years, although I was stupid and didn't learn much, I still vaguely understood something."

"—I know that in the past, the previous emperors and queen mothers of our Han family all swallowed their anger in front of the Huns, just for this day."

"The survivors of Qin Fen VI, only the Qin Wangzheng swept away the world;"

"Now, Your Majesty can also be regarded as inheriting the will of the sixth emperor of the Han Dynasty, to drive the Hulu to the north..."

The first time he heard Xia Que's words, Liu Sheng was taken aback for a moment;
After a while, he counted with his fingers again.

Taizu Gao Emperor Liu Bang;
Emperor Xiaohui Liu Ying;

Former Young Emperor Liu Gong;
Later Emperor Liu Hong;
Emperor Taizong Xiaowen Liu Heng;

There is also Emperor Xiaojing Liu Qi...

wrong.

Not VI.

It should be IV.

should be······

"The Legacy of the Sixth World..."

"Ah;"

"I don't know that my Han family has ever had six generations of emperors..."

"I remember that the great position of my Han family has been passed down to me, and it is only the fifth generation?"

Pretending to say the words lightly, but seeing that Xia Que hadn't been entangled in this topic for too long, she naturally continued to lead the topic down.

"Recently, His Majesty has always shown others with a calm face, but he refuses to rest in the middle of the night."

"The empress dowager has sent people here several times to reprimand her majesty for being inconsiderate, and she doesn't know how to persuade her to take care of her sage."

"I said this to His Majesty, I am not complaining - this is the duty of a slave. If I can share some worries for Your Majesty, I will be happy."

"But since His Majesty asked about it today, I still have something to say to Your Majesty..."

···
"Your Majesty has just reached the crown, and has not yet crowned himself in charge. Facing such a war, it is human nature to worry about gains and losses."

"But Your Majesty should be able to understand: Your Majesty's worries cannot change everything that the frontline soldiers are encountering."

"Your Majesty lays down at the desk in the middle of the night, even if you don't care about your own health, where do you put the ancestral temple, the country, the former emperor, the empress dowager, the empress dowager, and even those frontline soldiers who fought bravely?"

"If your Majesty has an emergency, when the soldiers return from victory, who will award them the rewards, and who will issue the edict 'All Heavens Celebrate'?"

Liu Shengrao, who was quite familiar with Xia Que, couldn't help being slightly surprised by the slightly polite, even admonishing words that were extremely inconsistent with his status as an eunuch.

Just as she was about to speak, she saw Xia Que knelt down with bitterness on her face, and kowtowed again.

"I read these words from the letter, and I don't know if I used them correctly."

"But whether it's true or not, I know these words, and only those who care about His Majesty will say them."

"But Your Majesty also needs to know: at this juncture, not only His Majesty has no idea, but in the whole world, there are probably few people who have no idea."

"—The empress dowager has no idea, the empress dowager has no idea, the ministers of the Manchu dynasty, the princes and relatives, I'm afraid it's the same."

"At such a juncture, if His Majesty also shows a panic, the soldiers will probably be beating their hearts when the news reaches the front line."

"So, even if it is to inspire people and boost the morale of the frontline soldiers, His Majesty should also show greater confidence and belief in victory..."

With one last word, Xia Que pressed his forehead tightly to the ground, added the last sentence in a low voice, "Bold and false words, death penalty and death penalty", and then did not say another word.

And before the imperial case, seeing the loyal servant kowtowed at his feet like a loyal and straightforward national scholar, Liu Sheng felt mixed feelings.

Xia Que was right.

Liu Sheng really had no idea in his heart.

Even if this war is an unprecedented 'war' between Han and Hungarian;
Even for this war, the Han Dynasty had made full preparations, and even dispatched tens of thousands of troops from all directions in Mayi, the main battlefield;

Even before the outbreak of this war, during the temple calculations among the senior generals of the Han family, Taiwei Zhou Yafu himself said that "maybe we can't win, but we certainly won't suffer too much defeat";
Even if...

There are too many evens, too many evens.

Liu Sheng has too many reasons to face this war with a more indifferent and confident attitude.

But Liu Sheng also has a reason. He is so anxious as he is now, and even at the age of 20, he has to work crazy to divert his attention.

And this reason must be more convincing than the countless evens, the countless evens added together.

—never won.

——Since Emperor Gaozu Liu Bangli Han Guozuo, for more than [-] years, the Han family has never won a victory in the war with the Huns!

From the First Battle of Pingcheng, when Emperor Taizu Gao was trapped in the siege of Baideng, to the event of "Shujue Rebellion" that was suppressed in order to avoid the war during the reign of Empress Dowager Lu;
From the decisive battle in Emperor Taizong's reign because of Liu Xingju, the king of Jinbei, who was stillborn, to the reign of Emperor Xiandi, the Huns made peace with the Han Dynasty, and at the same time went south to commit crimes year after year.

In these countless battles, the Han family has never won a complete victory in any complete battle.

The situation was better, because the Huns had robbed enough and swaggered back to the grassland;

The situation is worse, the loss of soldiers and generals at the border, and even the loss of the population, and the inland is also affected by the flames of war, and years of accumulation are destroyed.

"just one time."

"My Han family only needs to win once."

"With this time, everything will be easy to talk about in the future..."

Muttering to himself, the young emperor, who was still young, frivolous and youthful, finally shook his head with a wry smile and fell back on the couch, staring at the gradually brightening sky, dazed.

yes;

Just win once.

It only takes one time, from now on, I will never be afraid of losing...

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"All cheer up!"

"It's just after noon, and there are at least three hours before sunset!"

"The Huns still have at least five waves of offensive!!!"

Daibei, Yanmen County, the head of Mayi city.

Just a few days ago, the city of Mayi, which still exuded a simple and heavy atmosphere, has now completely become a meat grinding ground stained red with blood.

The deep black blood stains all over the city, the roars, screams, roars, and wailings filling the air;

Of course, there are stumps, broken arms, and even mutilated bodies that can be seen everywhere...
"How about the casualties?"

On the turret on the side of the north wall, the chariot and cavalry general Zhi all sullenly watched the Huns receding like a tide outside the city, and only asked this question immediately.

Even though the answer to this question had roughly surfaced in Zhidu's mind, Zhidu still couldn't help asking.

And after getting the exact figures, Zhidu's high-hanging heart finally had a tendency to settle down a bit.

"Report to the general who rides a chariot."

"It has been fifteen days since the station was opened, and the army has suffered more than three thousand casualties."

"If you count those wounded guarding the wall, there are probably tens of thousands..."

It was supposed to be a series of statistics that severely damaged the morale of the army, but somehow it made Zhi even relax a little.

More than [-] casualties, in fact, more than [-] were killed or killed in battle.

The tens of thousands of people "injured and guarding the wall" are actually tens of thousands of people who have lost their combat effectiveness and are receiving medical treatment in the city.

As for those who were really slightly injured, they simply bandaged them and continued to stick to their defensive positions?
——Zhi Du dares to say without shame: being able to count the number of wounded in addition to the number of dead in battle is already a "management of the army well".

Speaking of the data itself: more than 3000 people were killed and tens of thousands were wounded. In any war in any other place, this would be an unacceptably huge casualty.

But here is Mayi.

On the opposite side are the Huns.

Outside the city walls and on the top of the city, not only the blood of Chinese nobles were stained red...
"The Huns, it's hard to get off the tiger..."

···
"We stormed Mayi for [-] days and couldn't go down. The Zhelan tribe has long since stopped participating in the siege, and the Baiyang and Loufan tribes are also dealing with errands."

"Let's not talk about the lost slaves. Just the loss of Zhelan, Baiyang, Loufan, and Zuo Xianwang's headquarters is probably no less than the number of casualties in our army."

"If you continue to fight, it will only take another ten days..."

Standing up pointedly, straightened his back, and looked outside the city wall from a distance, Zhi could only narrow his eyes instinctively to the voices of those feeblely packing up the corpses and receding towards the outside of the city;
After a while, the eagle-like sharp eyes finally turned to an unknown low hill on the right side of the battlefield.

"There is still no news from the Flying Fox Army?"

The sudden question only caused the soldiers beside him to shake their heads violently, and Zhidu couldn't help frowning.

"What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd?"

"It's understandable not to enter the city, why didn't even send a letter..."

After struggling with this issue for a moment, Zhi Du forced himself to recover and retreated from the top of the wall.

——From the first day they arrived at the battlefield, the only thing the Flying Fox Army did was to dig a hole in that unknown low hill.

Everyone knows those pits, and they are specially prepared for casting Jingguan.

Zhi didn't understand.

I can't understand why the fine tradition of the Flying Fox Army is so eager to carry forward.

But Zhi also understands that he can't control it.

No matter whether the Flying Fox Army is going to dig a hole or fill a river, go to the sky or enter the earth, Zhi has no qualification and right to question the movements of the Flying Fox Army.

the reason is simple.

——According to the past traditions of the Han family, Lieutenant Feihu himself led the rank of chariot and cavalry general, and when he was attacked by the Huns at the border of the North Wall, he had the autonomy in wartime to send troops to rescue first, and then wrote a letter to report.

In other words: Zhidu, the chariot and cavalry general, was snatched from the elder brother of the Flying Fox Captain...
"After the war, I'm afraid there will be another dispute..."

"Hi~"

Looking to the side of the battlefield, the simple camp built by the Flying Fox Army, and finally dropped the words, Zhidu finally got off the city wall.

But he didn't go far, just leaned against the inner side of the city wall, poured a bowl of water, and ate some dry food.

——The war has entered a white-hot stage.

Next, any major event that occurs in this war is very likely to be absolutely the final direction of the war, and even the ending...
(End of this chapter)