Tiantang

Chapter 447 Assault on Hanhai City, I am a pawn

Chapter 455 Assault on Hanhai City, I am a pawn

"You don't know what crime you have committed?" Zhang Xuan was extremely angry and sneered.

Suddenly, he pointed at Cheng Qianli and angrily said, "Since you are pretending to be confused in front of me, then I will tell you."

"You moved Beiting Duhufu from Hanhai City to Balikun, have you ever reported it to the imperial court? Tuqishi invaded Beiting, why did you lie to me?" As soon as Zhang Xuan's voice fell, Cheng Qianli forced himself He defended, "Your Majesty, the minister led the Northern Court's Protectorate to move to Balikun, not arbitrarily advocating. The minister has written three times to the imperial court——Tuqi Shiren betrayed the imperial court, and united with the big cannibals and the Ge Luolu people to harass the Northern Court In desperation, the minister is preparing to move south."

"The minister wrote three times, but did not receive a reply from the court. The minister wanted to come, or because of the turmoil in the Western Regions and Beiting, the messenger sent by the minister was intercepted by the Tuqishi."

"At that time, an army of [-] Tuqi Shimen attacked Beiting in two directions, conquering more than ten cities in a row. In desperation, the minister had no choice but to move his troops to the south, and led the army to station on the front line of Balikun to prevent the Tuqishi people from invading south."

Zhang Xuan was stunned, he had seen shameless people, but he had never seen such shameless people.He never expected that this Cheng Qianli would be such a brazen person.It seems that Cheng Qianli has made up his mind a long time ago, and just refuses to admit it.

"So, as the governor of Beiting, you have lost most of Beiting's territory to Tuqi Shiren, and you have not reported it to the court. Not only are you innocent, but you have merit?"

Zhang Xuan's face became extremely gloomy, "What a way to stop Tuqi from invading the south! Cheng Qianli, you are really shameless to the extreme!"

"When I came to Balikun, I encountered sudden cavalry soldiers on the way. Cheng Qianli, right under your nose, just outside Balikun City, sudden cavalry soldiers plundered merchants everywhere, you still have the face Do you say that blocking the sudden cavalry is meritorious?"

"Ba Likun's garrison is close to 3, and Beiting has less than [-] Tuqishi people, which is nothing to be afraid of. But you can't retreat, so that more than ten cities in Beiting have fallen. Cheng Qianli, you should be In front of me, how dare you be so eloquent and quibble without repenting!"

"You bastard, you're shameless!"

"With 500 soldiers, I can still annihilate the Tuqi Shiqian team, but you can't be afraid that [-] troops occupy Balikun, and let the majesty of my Chinese court be demolished!"

Zhang Xuan suddenly waved his hand and reprimanded loudly, "Nanba, announce the decree, depose Cheng Qianli as an official and military officer, demote him to a commoner, escort him to Beijing, and deal with it after I return to Beijing from the Western Expedition."

"Hurry up and send an order to Pu Gu Huai'en at eight hundred miles, and order Pu Gu Huai'en to rush to Barkol within ten days to replace Cheng Qianli."

Zhang Xuan stomped his feet, raising a circle of smoke and dust.

Cheng Qianli's face suddenly became extremely pale, his shoulders trembled slightly, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he collapsed on the ground unable to utter a word.He didn't expect that the emperor would be so ruthless, and so decisive, he was dismissed directly - in less than a cup of tea, he was reduced from a second-rank high-ranking official and a local official to a prisoner.

In fact, he didn't intend to deceive the emperor, but he was afraid of the strength of the Tuqishi cavalry, so he didn't dare to fight, for fear that he would lose the battle with the Tuqishi, and his reputation would be ruined for thousands of years, so he retreated step by step and forbearance. He is going to wait for the emperor's Western Expeditionary Army to enter the Western Regions, and then lead the army to counterattack and retake the land of Beiting. In this way, even if the emperor knows that he has made some mistakes, he will not be dismissed from office.

But the emperor came too soon.And the emperor's judgment on him was too thunderous.What he didn't know was that Zhang Xuan had already decided to take him down long before he set out on the expedition, and Pugu Wynn was here to replace him.

Cheng Qianli's subordinates were a little panicked, for fear that the emperor would start with Cheng Qianli and implicate many people.After all, if Cheng Qianli is guilty, his subordinates are also to blame.

But the emperor is obviously not going to hit a large area.Taking down Cheng Qianli was a must, but for the sake of Beiting's stability, he decided to only hold the culprit accountable, not the followers.

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Cheng Qianli was captured by the soldiers on the spot, took off his official robes, and put him in a prison car to be escorted back to Beijing.

Dozens of middle-level and above officials from Beiting Protectorate's Mansion gathered in the lobby of Cheng Qianli's Mansion in Balikun City. Zhang Xuan put on a bright armor of the emperor, held a Longquan sword, and strode in with awe.Behind him are two female generals, Li Tengkong and Guo Fu, who are equally heroic in armor, and behind him is Nan Jiyun, the accompanying general.

"Your Majesty, my lord, long live my emperor!"

Amidst the shouts of long live from the officials and generals of the Beiting Dufu Mansion, Zhang Xuan strode up to the handsome hall and took a seat. Guo Fu and Li Tengkong sat on his left and right, while Nan Jiyun stood behind him.

"Let's live in peace." Zhang Xuan let out a long breath, and said loudly, "My Royal Conquest of the Western Regions, the intention is to wipe out the foreign aggression in one fell swoop and bring the entire Northern Court of the Western Regions under the jurisdiction of the imperial court."

"I have traveled all the way, and wherever I went, people's lives were in ruins and chaos. Tuqi cavalry plundered merchants everywhere, and business routes were almost cut off. As the emperor of China, I feel very ashamed-my [-] troops are in Bari Kun, wasting food, grass, and state children in vain, and watching Tuqi burn, kill, and plunder!"

"A businessman once told me that the Beiting Protectorate's Mansion has long existed in name only, and the Chinese army and horses in Beiting are just for display, and they dare not fight against Tuqishi people at all! I come to ask you, is this true? You are all Is my subject, the official of the imperial court, and the veteran general in the army, really scared out of his nerve by the Tuqishi?"

Zhang Xuan's voice was stern, and he slapped the table suddenly.

Everyone blushed and was ashamed and speechless, and lowered their heads.

"Raise your head and look at me! Answer me, are you scared out of your wits by the Tuqi people? Are you afraid to fight?" Zhang Xuan shouted violently.

Sun Ting, the Commander of the Han Navy under the Beiting Dufu Mansion, gritted his teeth, bowed and said in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty, I am ashamed of knowing that I have committed a crime. The General is willing to ask His Majesty to lead the army out of the city immediately. Assault on Hanhai City, fight to the death with the Tuqishi people, and wash away the shame of Xuehan's navy retreating without a fight!"

"Your Majesty, please be merciful, the last general is willing to fight to the death to avenge his shame!" Many generals followed Sun Ting, knelt down and shouted in unison.

In fact, these generals complained a lot about Cheng Qianli's retreat without a fight, but because Cheng Qianli had run the Beiting for many years, and the chief officer overshadowed the sky with one hand, no one dared to oppose his order.

Zhang Xuan sat there, and out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the dozen or so civil servants and generals who stood by the side and hung their heads silently, headed by Ouyang Jie, the deputy governor of Beiting. Backing away from Balikun City has a lot to do with the bewitching of these people.

Although Zhang Xuan was very dissatisfied, at this time, it was not easy for him to punish these people, because after all, he still had to consider the stability of the military morale of the Twenty Wanhan Navy and the smooth transition of the entire Beiting situation.Of course, once his Western Expeditionary Army arrived in Balikun or Yiwu, Pugu Huai'en led his [-] Flying Leopards to arrive, he would no longer have so many scruples.

"Okay, I'll give you a chance." Zhang Xuan got up slowly, "Nan Ba, I ordered you to temporarily act as General of the Han Navy, Sun Ting, and I canonized you as General of the Han Navy and Deputy Chief of the Beiting March, Er The two quickly gather the whole army, leave Balikun early tomorrow morning, and rush to Hanhai City!"

"I, Concubine Li Gui and Concubine Duan will personally join the army and serve as pawns in the army—I will use this battle to tell all the barbarians in the Northern Court of the Western Regions that our country's mighty army is inviolable!"

"Your Majesty is holy! Long live my emperor!"

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In the middle of the night, Nan Jiyun and Sun Ting led the [-] Han navy out of Balikun to attack Hanhai City.Zhang Xuan, Li Tengkong, and Guo Fu were also in the army, and the emperor was not afraid to join the battle in person, which greatly mobilized the morale of the Han navy soldiers.

From Balikun to Hanhai City, the straight-line distance is actually less than two hundred miles.Nan Jiyun made a prompt decision, led his army through the Gobi Desert, took a shortcut and marched towards Hanhai City, and arrived at the periphery of Hanhai City in the afternoon of the third day.

The Chinese army was attacking in a big way, and Tuqi Shiren got the news two hours ago, closed the gates of the city tightly, and made a posture of standing firm and waiting for help.

In fact, at this time, there were only 1 cavalry soldiers guarding Hanhai City.Zhang Xuan's hundreds of thousands of troops marched westward, and the main force of the Tuqishi people began to recover Tuqishi, preparing for a decisive battle with the Chinese army. At this moment, only a small tribe in the north of Tuqishi remained in the Beiting. The sudden cavalry and cavalry are nothing but stragglers from various tribes, similar to bandits and bandits in the Central Plains.

Because it was getting late, Zhang Xuan ordered Han Haijun to camp on a high slope more than ten miles away from Hanhai City.

In the early morning of the second day, the [-]-Han Navy divided into two groups, led by Nan Jiyun and Sun Ting, to outflank Hanhai City.

Hanhai City is the administrative center of Beiting, the city defense is strong, and it is the largest city in Beiting. If the Tuqishi people can't hold on, it will be a problem.However, Nan Jiyun knew that the Tuqishi people were not good at defending the city, and sooner or later they would be unable to hold back and go out of the city to fight against the Han Navy head-on, so Nan Jiyun was not in a hurry, but ordered the two armies to approach slowly and form a siege .

The two lines of Han navy pointed towards Hanhai City like two arrows. The soldiers in Hanhai city guarded the gate of the city, no matter how much the Han navy soldiers scolded them, they refused to come out.

This is not quite like the sturdy style of Tuqi Shiren, which made Zhang Xuan judge that there must be no more than [-] Tuqi Shiren in the city, maybe not even [-].Thinking of this, he waved his hand suddenly, and the Modao in the hand of an iron guard beside him was raised high, making a signal.

Nan Jiyun rode over immediately, bowed down on the horse and said, "Your Majesty, the last general is polite!"

"Nanba, escort the hundreds of Tuqi Shiren captured along the way to the front of the battle, and behead them all for public display!" Zhang Xuan pursed his lips, and his voice was extremely cold.

The so-called kindness does not control soldiers, the two countries are at war, and the army marches westward, killing is inevitable, he will not be kind to women.What's more, these sudden cavalry and robbers robbed merchants and people, and they didn't know how many lives were lost under their hands.

(End of this chapter)