Tang Dynasty woman

Chapter 66
25. Cycle of retribution
An Qingxu entered the palace overnight, first wrapped An Lushan's body in a felt blanket and put it under the bed, reasoning that the emperor was critically ill, and issued an edict to make An Qingxu the crown prince.In the early morning of the next day, an edict was issued saying that An Lushan passed the throne to An Qingxu, respected An Lushan as the Supreme Emperor, changed the country name to the first year of Zaichu, and expelled the Sun's mother and son from Luoyang.

After An Qingxu became emperor, he drank and had fun with Li Zhuer, his mother and son every day in the palace, and Yan Zhuang presided over all the court affairs.The news spread to Lingwu, and Emperor Suzong ordered King Guangping to lead an army to march eastward.Chang'an was recaptured soon, and when King Guangping came to attack Luoyang, An Qingxu abandoned the palace and fled. An Qingxu's younger brother, An Qinghe, was captured and sent to the capital to behead him.

An Qingxu had no choice but to lead 500 soldiers to join Shi Siming. He didn't want Shi Siming to think that the Supreme Emperor was punishing thieves, beheaded An Qingxu's head, and then sacrificed to Anlu Mountain.

Suzong also ordered Guo Ziyi and Li Fu Guotong to send 20 soldiers to attack Shi Siming in the Ninth Festival.It's ridiculous that Shi Siming had just usurped the throne for a few days, and his son Shi Chaoyi instructed his subordinate General Cao to hang him alive with a rope.In the future, Shi Chaoyi was also forced to leave by his subordinate Tian Chengsi, and hanged to death under the Temple of Yiwulu.The two thieves, An and Shi, were wiped out, and their subordinates returned to Tang Dynasty again. For a while, the world was peaceful again.However, although the Anshi Rebellion, which lasted eight years, was finally put down, the vitality of the Tang Dynasty was severely damaged, and it turned from strong to weak.

26. The Festival of Fierce and Bloody Sacrifice

Emperor Xuanzong Taishang received Guo Ziyi's memorabilia in Chengdu, saying that An Lushan was assassinated in Luoyang, and his rebellious son An Qingxu was in exile, Luoyang has been recovered; the world is settled, please come back to Luan.

In this hard-won victory, the Tang Dynasty still has a few loyal ministers.Among them, Yan Gaoqing is one of the most loyal people.He was originally discovered and promoted by An Lushan first. After An Lushan raised his army, he used him a lot and also rewarded him a lot. However, Yan Gaoqing took the opportunity to make An Lushan suffer a great setback. The invincible An's army repeatedly lost their cities and lands during the fierce resistance of the Yan family's soldiers, which gave the Tang Dynasty a chance to breathe, and Yan Gaoqing's reputation was greatly shaken because of this.An Lushan frightened him to death, and sent Shi Siming and others to lead an army to attack Changshan where Yan Gaoqing was stationed.

Yan Gaoqing's troops in the city were weak, so he sent people to Hedong to ask Wang Chengye for help, but Wang Chengye refused to send troops because he was afraid that he would take the victory.Yan Gaoqing supervised the battle day and night, personally boarded the city to defend against the enemy, fought hard for six days and nights, and ran out of arrows and food.After the city was broken, Yan Gaoqing led his sons and nephews to fight bravely in the street, killing until the blood covered his face, but he couldn't tell which was the blood that flowed out from his own piercing, and which was the blood splashed by killing the enemy.

In the end, Yan Gaoqing was captured with a knife and sent to the enemy camp.His capable colleague Yuan Luqian was also arrested at the same time.The enemy general persuaded Yan Gaoqing to surrender, but he raised his head and refused, so he brought Yan Gaoqing's youngest son, Yan Jiming, in front of him, and slashed cruelly into Yan Jiming's neck with a white knife, and immediately followed the cut on the tender skin, Bright red blood flowed out, and while the child was moaning and howling in pain, the enemy general said loudly to Yan Gaoqing: "Gaoqing, if you are willing to surrender, I will spare your son right away!" Closing his eyes and not answering, he really couldn't force himself to keep his eyes open to watch, the blood of his own son was continuously flowing from his immature neck.

Enraged, the enemy general killed Yan Jiming and Yan Gaoqing's nephew Lu Ti on the spot, then put Yan Gaoqing into a cage and sent him to Fan Yang.When An Lushan saw Yan Gaoqing, he said angrily, "I promoted you to be the prefect. What can I do to you? You rebelled against me like this?"

Yan Gaoqing turned tit-for-tat, and cursed with furious eyes, "You are a shepherd slave in Yingzhou! It is the emperor Hong Si who made you rich and noble, and what is wrong with you, yet you are so rebellious against the emperor? Yan Gaoqing As a minister of the Tang Dynasty, I will stick to my loyalty and wish to thank the emperor by killing all the rebels, so why would I join you in the rebellion?"

An Lushan hurriedly covered his ears with both hands, and ordered the warriors to drag Yan Gaoqing out of the palace, tie him to the Tianjin bridge pillars, and cut him up piecemeal.But this is not the most cruel and terrifying, Yan Gaoqing was forced to eat the meat that Yan Gaoqing cut off piecemeal.At the time, Yan Gaoqing, who was 65 years old, was in great physical pain. While being forced into the mouth, he had to swallow the flesh of his body in this way, and at the same time he still tried his best to free up his tongue In the land of martial arts, I like to scold the traitors for their shameless actions that harm the country and the people.As a result, Yan Gaoqing once again paid a heavy price for his loyalty to the country and the people. After An Lushan received the letter from his subordinates, he ordered the warrior to cut off Yan Gaoqing's tongue with a knife.Before Yan Gaoqing swallowed his last breath, he kept roaring. Even though he lost his tongue, he could still make a sound. This roar became Yan Gaoqing's last battle weapon.

Yan Gaoqing's right-hand man, Yuan Luqian, was also cut off by the warriors. An Lushan's love general He Qiannian's younger brother was just within his reach. Yuan Luqian bit off the root of his tongue, and then chewed his own tongue. He spat at him fiercely, spraying blood all over his face.He Qiannian's younger brother became furious and snatched the sharp knife from the warrior's hand. At that moment, his eyes shone like a wolf's green light, and he stared at Yuan Luqian coldly, his thick lips turned up, revealing his clenched mouth teeth, the knife in his hand began to cut and scrape Yuan Luqian carefully, from arms to thighs, from chest to back, until Yuan Luqian died in the most inhumane and unbearable pain.

Then Yan Gaoqing's eldest son's close relatives were all captured and killed by Anlu Mountain. The corpses were scattered all over the place, but no one dared to collect them.All the counties and counties that Yan Gaoqing recovered before his death surrendered to Anlu Mountain together.

27. The Cooked Woman

Zhenyuanling Zhang Xun was also a famous brave general at that time.In the battle with An Lushan's general Linghu Chao, he was shot and his armor was red with blood.Finally turned defeat into victory and defeated the enemy.Guo Ziyi recommended Zhang Xun as the envoy of the Yandong economic strategy, and he was stationed in Suiyang.After Prince Li Heng came to the throne of Lingwu, he issued an imperial edict to worship Zhang Xun as the censor Zhongcheng and Xu Yuan as the censor.

Soon, Linghu Chao was ordered by An Lushan to attack Suiyang City.After being besieged for a long time, Zhang Xun guarded the isolated city and had no communication with the capital. However, Zhang Xun was determined to serve the country, and led the soldiers to fight against the enemy with one as ten and ten as a hundred.He bravely took the lead, braved the arrows and stones, and supervised the city on the city. He never closed his eyes for three days and nights.When we were in a tight situation, the food officer suddenly came to report that there was no salt or rice in the city.

That night, Zhang Xun sat alone in the lobby with a sad face.After another sleepless night, he decided to risk his life to rob the grain, but he got the grain, but couldn't get into the city because of the resistance of the enemy soldiers.But in the end, the sky paid off. After many attacks, the resourceful Zhang Xun finally managed to get back some food and tide over the difficulties temporarily.But Suiyang City is a lonely city that has been trapped for a long time, Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan are struggling to find a real solution.

Originally, there were [-] hu of rice in the city, enough to feed for a year.The neighboring counties Puyang and Jiyin ran out of grain in spring, King Guo ordered half of the grain to be donated to the two counties.It wasn't until Gao Chengyi, the prefect of Jiyin, got the grain and rice and immediately surrendered to Anlu Mountain with these precious sources of life, that King Guo knew that he regretted it, but it was too late.

In July, An Lushan sent Yin Ziqi to lead troops to besiege the city. At this time, the food in Suiyang City was exhausted, and each soldier was only given a spoonful of rice every day. belly to satisfy hunger.The soldiers gradually became exhausted, the old and the weak died first, and as time passed, the strong also starved to death.The respectable soldiers did not have a single complaint until they died.Look at the soldiers in the city, there are only more than 1000 soldiers left, and all of them are so hungry that they can't lift their arrows.Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan were extremely anxious, but the rescue soldiers they had been looking forward to day and night did not arrive.But Yin Ziqi, who was besieging the city, heard that the city was running out of food, so he attacked the city with all his might.The guards in the city starved to death every day. Zhang Xun ordered the people in the city to dig rats for the soldiers.But there are only a few sparrows in the city, and the people are starving to death every day, so how can they take care of the soldiers.

On that day, Zhang Xun sent all the soldiers to the hall to hold a banquet.All the soldiers sat on both sides, and saw empty plates and bowls lined up on the table; after a pause, they brought out a large cooking stove and placed it before the banquet.Zhang Xun ordered to go to the back hall to ask his wife to come out, only to hear a ringing sound, and two maids helped Zhang Xun's charming and plump Mrs. Shen to come.When all the officers and men saw that it was the concubine of the chief general who came out, they bowed their heads together.Shen walked up to Zhang Xun, sat down deeply, and asked in a low voice, "Master called my concubine out, what orders do you have?"

Zhang Xun looked at her in pain, pointed to a chair beside him, and said softly, "Sit down, I have something to say." Shen half-folded her slender waist and sat down sideways.Then Zhang Xun stood up abruptly, bowed down under Shen's pomegranate skirt as soon as he accepted his head, and Shen was so panicked that he knelt down to return the salute.When Zhang Xun stood up, tears were streaming down his face, and he said: "I am determined to risk my life to be a loyal minister, and I hope my wife will fulfill my ambition and become a martyr. Look at all the soldiers in the hall." , are all enduring hunger and suffering, guarding this isolated city of Suiyang; I can't cut off the skin to share with the soldiers just because my body is still related to the survival of the city. Madam's body is fat and tender, it should be more delicious than mine I beg my wife to kill me for me! Madam’s death, not only my husband’s gratitude, even Long Live God will also be grateful for Madam’s benefits!”

After hearing this, Mrs. Shen immediately opened the front of her dress with her slender hands without hesitation, revealing her white and crisp breasts.The soldiers on both sides immediately rushed forward, and before their intercession could be uttered, Zhang Xun had already pulled out his sword, only to hear a tragic scream, a large bloody hole had already been pierced in that snow-white breast, But Shen's family has fallen to the ground, and Huatian's fragrant soul has gone to heaven.

All the soldiers were so moved that they knelt down on the ground and wailed bitterly.Zhang Xun couldn't hold back his tears, he gritted his teeth and gave orders to drag the body down the hall, wash it and put it in a big cauldron to boil.Just at this time, Xu Yuan suddenly grabbed a concubine who had been killed with one hand, and walked up to the hall with tears on his face, and handed over his concubine to the left and right, and let them be washed and boiled together. miserable.Immediately, all the soldiers in the hall cried in unison: "The little people are willing to go through fire and water with Marshal Zhang and Marshal Xu, and live and die together."

In a short while, the human flesh in the cauldron had been boiled into a soup, and the servants came over, filled it up bowl by bowl, and served it in front of all the soldiers.No matter how willing the soldiers were to eat, they shouted: "Thank you two generals for your kindness!" Then they raised their weapons and rushed to the city, still fighting against the enemy outside the city.It's a pity that they are all people who have not eaten for four or five days. How can they hold a gun and shoot an arrow? They can't even stand when they are so hungry.

Zhang Xun was hungry in the same way. He gritted his teeth tightly and supported his body by holding on to the battlements, but his eyes were still looking out of the city. He roared and demonstrated in his throat, and then released a few weak arrows.

The general Nan Jiyun led 30 warriors, each riding a fast horse, rushed out of the city desperately, and asked for help from He Lanjinming, the coach sent by the imperial court to fight against Anlu Mountain.He Lan Jinming smiled indifferently and said: "Suiyang City is about to fall, even if I leave the army, I won't gain anything, it's just exhausting in vain, so General Nan can just drink here."

After Nan Jiyun's begging was unsuccessful, he cried loudly: "When I left Suiyang City yesterday, the soldiers had no grain to eat, and it would take more than a month for them to have enough to eat; the general will die if he doesn't save these thousands of righteous men. Set up vocal music, the general has the heart of life and death with all the righteous men in Suiyang City, and the righteousness is not exclusive, please leave a finger to repay my righteous men!" After finishing speaking, he pulled out his saber, slammed it, and cut it on the spot. Cutting off one of his fingers surprised everyone like He Lan Jinming, who was a wine, meat, singer, and singer. Then Nan Jiyun turned around and went out, jumped on his horse, and ran back to Suiyang in the starry night, forcing a bloody road into the city.When Nan Jiyun entered the city, his battle robe was covered in blood and his face was pale.

(End of this chapter)