My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 354 Xin Xiang’s Shame

It was dusk.

The decree of Emperor Su Chen of the Xia Kingdom was transmitted to the troops fighting on the Eastern Front. As night fell, Li Jing sat behind the court table. In front of him and on both sides were Xiang Yu, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, Zhang Yi, Tie Ya, Su Dingfang and other generals.

"Your Majesty's decree has arrived today." Li Jing smiled and said the emperor's oral instructions from the command, "Your Majesty hopes to break into the capital of Qi as soon as possible, end the war in Qi, and save the soldiers from casualties."

"Zhen Nai Renjun!" Dong Zhuo covered his belly and laughed, "It's much better than when I was there."

"Give the order, I also want to see if Qi's hundreds of thousands of troops can help me regain the feeling of fighting with the Qin army." This was Xiang Yu's voice. In the past few days, Li Jing came to see him several times in person, and the two of them talked. They got to know each other better in Lai Er, and Xiang Yu had some respect for this famous commander in later generations. After all, soldiers who had fought in wars to destroy their country would naturally be attracted to each other.

"Actually, whether His Majesty's decree comes or not, this battle is already ready to begin." The person who spoke next was Lu Bu. He had a rebellious temperament. In addition to being close to Ma Chao, he now has a similar temperament to Xiang Yu. "A certain family is Together with King Xiang, we will first provide eye drops to Qi’s hundreds of thousands of troops, so that Qi’s monarchs and ministers will know what the Northern Iron Hoof is!”

"Haha, what I want is the unruly temper of the generals!" Li Jing stood up, took out the order and threw it out of the table. The moment it landed with a thud: "...start the war!"

"Yes! (Here!)"

A group of generals from the Han and Tang Dynasties stood up violently, cupped their hands and shouted.

……

That side of Huiyin County is on the border with Shengzhou.

A total of 30 people from the five armies gathered here, and the daily food, drink, and diarrhea were huge astronomical figures. Thousands of carriages formed an endless torrent, constantly going back and forth between Xin Xiang and the army. .

The atmosphere in the army at this time is also solidified. After all, there are many outstanding people among the troops gathered. Starting from this morning, the scouts will not be able to enter the boundaries of Huiyin County. Some people have speculated that there may be big moves there.

But the five armies belong to different groups, and the imperial court has not yet sent a commander to lead the army. After all, it has 30 troops and horses, and people cannot be sent randomly. The emperor has the emperor's concerns, and the ministers have the thoughts of the ministers.

The emperor was worried about whether outsiders controlling such a huge army would threaten him, and the civil and military officials were thinking about whose family would be the commander-in-chief. After all, once they had 30 soldiers and horses, the family behind them would definitely take advantage of the situation and take advantage of the situation. Not just the benefits, but the reputation of driving away foreign enemies.

Once there is a dispute in the court, many things will be delayed. Even the courageous emperor will have a headache. What's more, Qi Ke'an, who only took the throne after his father abdicated, even broke his leg deliberately and could not escape the fate of becoming emperor. Looking at the civil and military officials who were still wrangling below, he was not only afraid, but also wanted to scold his mother.

Especially he wanted to scold Qi Wangge for cheating his own father and then cheating his own son. He was a dandy prince. He didn't know how to fight and govern the country. He usually just brags to his friends and friends. Now he is sitting on the dragon's throne. He couldn't even fart.

That night, he returned to the harem, leaning on crutches and watching his father Qi Wangge and grandfather Qi Qingbao sitting there drinking tea.

He just wanted to cry.

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At this time, to the north of Xinxiang and the northern boundary of Heshengzhou, the stars were as dense as a silver belt paving the night sky, and the silver moonlight illuminated the rocks and weeds in the wilderness.

The chirping of insects in the cracks in the grass and stones suddenly stopped, and the quiet earth gradually began to stir. The cavalry wrapped around the horses' feet flowed slowly like a black tide in the moonlight.

The Youyan and Xiliang armies without flags tried their best to keep their weapons from colliding, silently following their generals like a long winding dragon spreading across the wilderness under the moonlight.

Divide into five or six teams, slowly bypass the U-shaped array of hundreds of thousands of Qi's troops, and approach the opponent from the left and right sides, probably first cutting off the opponent's two outstretched 'arms'.

The night wind blew through the large forest field. In the horse team at the front, Xiang Yu, wearing a big cloak, got on his horse and pulled out the Overlord's city-breaking halberd on the ground. On his side, there was a man wearing an animal face and swallowing head and chain armor, riding a flying smoke red cloud horse. Lu Bu.

"When I was competing with Liu Bang for supremacy, I was fighting with the Five Kingdoms. Every time I defeated more with less!" Xiang Yu raised his head slightly and felt the night wind blowing on his face.

He stroked the horse's mane with his other hand and said relaxedly with his eyes closed. "Several to 10 people... I started from Po Zhanghan and then to Gaixia, and I defeated millions of soldiers and horses."

The overlord who had dominated the whole world talked about the achievements that made Lu Bu look at him. Then he opened his eyes and raised the city-breaking halberd. Over there, Lu Bu also raised the Fang Tianhua halberd. The two halberds touched and intertwined lightly between them for a moment. .

"Send orders to control the wolf cavalry, as well as the iron-toothed Xirong cavalry."

Xiang Yu tightened the reins of his horse and spoke in a low and majestic voice, "Follow my horse to join forces and directly kill the 30 Qi soldiers and horses on the opposite side!"

"Hahaha!"

Lu Bu laughed boldly, drew his halberd across the board, and shouted: "Trample them to death!" In an instant, the crowd of cavalry got on their horses, flowing slowly like a sea tide, and gradually speeding up, their iron hooves churning on the field, in the night Turned into thunderous thunder.

At this time, the five armies stationed in the northern part of Hesheng Prefecture were resting. There were also vigilant generals who were worried that there would be a night attack tonight and asked their troops to be prepared.

30 soldiers and horses were divided into five armies, each with 6 people. Although they were stationed in a U-shaped array, each army was separated by ten miles up and down, and more than 20 miles left and right. One of them was attacked, and the others It will take an hour for the soldiers and horses in the direction to react. If it is night, it may take longer.

The two armies that were originally at the front of the U-shaped formation were in the safest place tonight. When the Xia cavalry made a surprise attack, they detoured in a large arc, outflanked them from left to right, and penetrated fiercely in the middle of the U-shaped formation. Go in and cut this formation in half.

Under the dark sky, more than 3 Xirong cavalry, accompanied by [-] string-controlled wolf cavalry and a thousand flying bear troops, charged into the two [-]-strong Qi army in the middle, broke through the camp, and faced the panic-stricken Qi army. The soldiers started massacre.

Xiang Yu and Lu Bu led the cavalry to immediately set fire to the opponent's camp, forcing the Qi army to the wilderness, and then crushed them back and forth.

An hour later, Xiliang and Youyan, who were also outflanking, set up an ambush halfway, and surrounded the point for reinforcements. They defeated the other three troops who came for reinforcements in an organized manner on the plain, killing corpses everywhere.

Knowing that they had been tricked, the five armies began to retreat southward, but how could generals like Xiang Yu and Lu Bu, who had already launched an attack, let them go?

Teams of Xirong light cavalry and string-controlled wolf cavalry held torches and charged across the wilderness. Their goals were clear. They first killed the horsemen, then those carrying the national flag, and finally chased down the two-legged infantry.

On the field, a group of Qi soldiers and horses that had just reorganized their entire team were smashed to pieces by the charging Flying Bear Army before they even formed their formation. The Xirong Qingqi that arrived later began to massacre them one after another.

The 30 troops are not crowded together. Once they are defeated or ambushed, they will be defeated one by one, and the mountains and plains will be full of fleeing figures. It is really easy to kill them at this time.

Almost the entire battlefield stretched for tens of miles and was divided into more than a dozen large and small pieces. The entire night was illuminated by the burning woods and the sea of ​​​​fire on horseback.

Even so, 30 people, together with the young and strong civilian men recruited, almost millions of people, fled southward in a frantic manner in the northern part of Hesheng Prefecture.

The whole second half of the night was the time for massacre.

At this time, Xinxiang, the capital of Qi State, was still wrangling fiercely, and the news of the disastrous defeat of hundreds of thousands of troops also came back on April 28.

The whole chattering sound in the court disappeared instantly.

The common people and literati in Xinxiang City were still happy that hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in the north. After the news of the tragic defeat came, the streets became deserted. By the afternoon, the deserted streets became crowded and noisy, with tractors everywhere. The common people and gentry with their families and all their belongings began to leave the city.

On April 29, there were still 10,000+ defeated troops retreating from the front line, and the two armies of Xia State came out of the southern part of Shengzhou and officially crossed the border and entered Heshengzhou.

Qi Ke'an, who was born as a dandy prince, yelled like a madman in the Jinluan Palace.

"It's noisy! It's noisy! You are procrastinating. If you lose the battle, you can still become a surrender. What should I do?!"

While he was making a fuss, the Empress Dowager and the Supreme Emperor took Qi Qingbao Qiluan and drove out of the imperial city. Qi Ke'an, who was so angry that his legs were inconvenient, burst into tears in the court hall.

On April 13, Heshengzhou's northern defense line collapsed completely, and Xia Guodong's East Route Army, with [-] troops and horses, entered Heshengzhou.

Just when the emperor was about to flee, but was stopped by the ministers who risked their lives, and the empress dowager Zhao Zhuangyi and the emperor Qi Wangge, who were about to flee outside the city, were desperately brought back to the palace, Li Jing commanded the army to kill thousands of miles, interspersed with battles The center of Shengzhou, beyond several large cities, is less than two hundred miles away from the capital of Qi.

At the same time, the defeated 10,000+ Qi troops also retreated into the city, and the generals went into the imperial city to pay homage to the emperor, hoping to fight to the death with Xia's troops.

Qi Ke'an nodded in agreement without tears.

He turned around and asked Zhongshu Sheng to draw up an edict immediately, wanting to abdicate and pass the throne to his son... But after thinking about it, he gave up because the prince was only four years old, so he changed the imperial edict and sent someone outside the city in order to Sue for peace with the Xia army.

However, what they got was a humiliating reply: The emperor, empress, queen mother, empress dowager, and emperor of Qi must all leave the city and enter the Xia military camp without delay.

As the emperor, Qi Ke'an would naturally not agree to this condition, and the Empress Dowager Zhao Zhuangyi would not agree even more. She knew very well what kind of treatment she would receive when entering the Xia Kingdom's military camp.

What is the difference between it and subjugation?
However, the civil and military officials in the court were different. When they went to court, they looked at the emperor and the empress dowager with scary wolf-like eyes.

(End of this chapter)