stubborn thief

Chapter 229 The State of Liu Chengzong

The lion camp entered, and Xining City was in chaos.

Several post chiefs were actually talking about seizing the city outside.

Cao Yao wanted to enter the city a long time ago, but Liu Shifei left him outside the city, saying that if something happened in the city, he would set up a big weapon and shoot the gate tower.

Essentially imagining a fight is as much a part of their amateur pastime as peacefully walking and suddenly jumping backwards.

Of course, the defenders on the city are likely to be like them, and they are also pretending to be a city defense battle.

But then the sound of gunfire in the city interrupted all this.

Before the defenders knew what was going on, some Tang soldiers from the Lion Camp rode their horses across the street and shouted to the gate guards: "Pull the horses away, the angel has been assassinated!"

The soldiers in Xining had never seen an angel once in their entire lives, and they were immediately petrified. They didn't know whether they should be obedient and pull away the horse.

The hundreds of households in the city didn't know whether they should be obedient or not. Holding the battlements, they saw the cavalry forming an army not far away. One by one, the cavalry put their sabers on their shoulders and dragged their cannons around the outside of the city. day.

Baihu took off his helmet, clutched his hair in a bun, and frantically imagined the consequences of his actions.

First of all, no matter what happens in the city, it has nothing to do with the lion camp stationed outside the city.

If you really start, as long as there is still a city gate in hand, there will be countless local soldiers to help, and Xining City should be able to hold it.

However, the lion camp outside the city had already completed the mobilization before entering the city. Although there were no siege equipment, if there was a cry of killing, the east gate would surely fall if they attacked from both inside and outside.

This is a battle that must be won, but he himself is one of the prices for victory, and the chance of him surviving until the soldiers come to help him is extremely slim.

If he wanted to survive temporarily, he had to open the city gate, but if the bandits opened the city gate deliberately attacking the city, they might not let him survive.

After all the calculations, Baihu scolded: "Damn it, it's my turn to get this bad luck... Pull the horse back, in case the angel is really assassinated!"

As if they had received an amnesty, the defenders of the city banner rushed to pull away the rejecting horses.

Everyone has a steelyard in their hearts, but the banner army is not as worried as Baihu. Anyway, they follow orders. If Baihu tells them to defend, they will die; , they will have no guilt whatsoever.

Teams of cavalry marched four ways outside the city gate and made two ways, crossed the Weng City arrogantly, and then broke up into four ways during the march, and stepped into Xining City.

The front team quickly dispersed and occupied each street corner, announcing that they were arresting the thieves who assassinated the angel, advising the army and civilians not to act rashly, and military control will be lifted soon.

This is not the first time they have done such a thing, they are very skilled.

The brass lion cannon was dragged by war horses and twisted through the Wengcheng, and the polished and smooth barrel made hundreds of households on the Wengcheng salivate.

Exquisite skills, strict orders and prohibitions, and excellent armor.

Seeing that all the lion soldiers raised their chins, they were either young or middle-aged, wishing to see people with their nostrils, walking into the city with such pride as if they had won a battle and returned home.

Looking back at the flag army under my command, the age ranges from black hair to gray hair, and they wear everything. On average, sixteen people have a set of armor, and all of them hang their heads and feel ashamed.

Baihu rubbed his head and sighed, and wanted to put on the helmet, but unfortunately touched the unarmored cotton neck, a hole bitten by a mouse, and was so angry that he wanted to smash the helmet off.

After thinking and thinking, firstly I was reluctant to part with it, secondly I didn’t dare to, and finally I had to wear it honestly.

It's not that they are poor and have no armor. For a military town, armor is very cheap.

His helmet was piled up in the warehouse in Xining City until it became moldy and was bitten by rats. The armor in the warehouse was enough for each of them to wear.

But no one wore it, it was too hot and too tired, even he deliberately removed the nail leaves in his neck before wearing them.

Too many soldiers is not a good thing sometimes. Everyone feels that they can relax a little bit, and there are others to rely on anyway.

For a moment, Baihu felt that the master Wang was under the city and the bandits were above the city, and that he was the despicable little guy in the storybook.

When Wei Qian'er blocked the Martial Arts Field located in the southwest of the city, the commanders and envoys gathered in it and waited for the angel to give Liu Chengzu a job suddenly fell into chaos.

More than 400 hereditary officers, native officials, and monks whispered to each other, and rushed to the more than 20 chairs placed at the front of the team.

That was the seat of several rank-and-file commanders and fourteen hereditary commanders.

Everyone showed panic, only two people could sit on the chairs, namely Li Tianyu from the Xibo Mansion and Qi Guoping from the Dongqi Family.

The former is the most powerful chieftain in Xining, with a clan of more than [-]; the father of the latter is Qi Bingzhong, the commander-in-chief of Gansu who died in the Liaodong battlefield.

The chieftains in Xining all command their own clansmen.

These two people sat in the middle, and people rushed to ask them for advice.

Li Tianyu was very calm: "Why panic, let him take over the city defense, we have more than [-] clansmen together, how can he kill us all?"

Qi Guoping said: "Then, the city defense will be handed over to him?"

"What does he want to tell us by making such a big show of his power? He is a dragon in the river, let us sit down and lie down, so let's lie down."

Li Tianyu didn't care about this, he reached out and said to everyone: "Come up and make us submissive, so that we can go out to Qinghai, do you think this is a bad thing?"

"If he came quietly and talked nicely with us, it would be a bad thing. Why is it a bad thing? Go if you want."

Li Tianyu breathed a sigh of relief.

Others don't know what Liu Chengzong does, but Li Tianyu knows.

He knew that He Huchen, the commander-in-chief of Ningxia, led his troops into Yan'an.

He also knew that after Liu Chengzong left Pingliang, King Han, Governor Yang He of the three sides, and Governor Hong Chengchou of Yansui unified the caliber, saying that the Guanning army mutiny that entered the pass to suppress the rebellion, Cao Wenzhao and Liu Chengzong stopped it in time, but fortunately it did not affect Han Fan. Several people were fined their salaries, and Cao Wenzhao was transferred to Yaozhou to rest.

Don't mutiny in the morning, don't mutiny in the evening, let people travel four thousand miles in two months without mutiny, and saw Liu Chengzong mutiny.

If this matter is tricky, who is Liu Chengzong?
But if there is nothing tricky about this matter, what would Liu Chengzong be?

No matter how you think about it, it's scary, so many people have never tossed this guy... Li Tianyu reckoned that the gang of chieftains tied together wouldn't be enough for the God of Plague to toss.

So what he is most afraid of is that Liu Chengzong respects them, the chieftains, which means that this recruitment of bandits into Qinghai to expand the territory is just a cover, and he wants to take root in Xining.

Xining City is so big, and they control all walks of life, just like Qinghai's salt, river gold, silver mines, copper mountains, iron mountains, jade, pastoral areas, and even fish in the river. Master.

For more than 200 years, the fourteen chieftains in Xining have long been tired of fighting, and have a mature set of profit distribution rules to carve up the city.

Suddenly, a Shanxi shabby who commanded an army came and settled down in Xining, so these things had to be re-divided.

Re-dividing, it is a fool to beat up fourteen families, and it is a coward to join him to divide up thirteen families.

It is a smart person to gather a few small chieftains and devour the big chieftains.

Whether Liu Chengzong is smart or not, Li Tianyu doesn't know.

But he knew that a coward would rather starve to death than dare to rebel, and a fool would not be able to get away with the imperial counter-insurgency troops one by one.

So on the surface there are many roads, but as long as Liu Chengzong intends to occupy Xining as his lair, one of them must die.

Li Tianyu wasn't sure of winning, but he didn't want to die either.

That's why he was really relieved when he saw Liu Chengzong's cavalry surrounded the martial arts arena. He didn't come up to make friends with everyone. He took over the city defense to hold the west gate of Qinghai, which made people feel relieved.

This guy really wants to enter Qinghai.

Chen Shiwen was also among the noisy and uneasy crowd, he was quite at ease, but he just pretended to be uneasy.

Even though he had a seat, none of those senior officials and Tu Qian from the big chieftain's family would let him in. After finally squeezing into the crowd, no one was talking, and chieftain Li didn't hear anything he said.

I saw Tusi Qi thinking for a long time, and asked: "Then if he is a lunatic, he really killed us all, and we just sit and wait for death?"

"Why did he kill us? He asked for money, so he tied us all up, and there was no way to spend it in Qinghai for money; if he killed us and made [-] enemies, then he wouldn't want Xining anymore. Kill us, who Can you sleep peacefully in this city?"

The more Li Tianyu said, the more he strengthened his confidence. He picked up his teacup steadily and took a sip: "Even if he wants to kill, he is also cheerful. He hits one by one, and throws something to make us kill each other."

"Take ten thousand steps back and say that he is a lunatic and intends to massacre the city. How about the four hundred of us compared to He Huchen?"

Li Tianyu put down the teacup, and asked everyone who should sit to sit back, and those who should stand to stand up: "Be safe and don't be impatient, at least death will be better."

The speaker has no intention of the listener.

Chen Shiwen's expression at this time was extremely ugly, which was mixed with uneasiness about an uncertain future and unconcealable revenge.

He had never seen these omnipotent earth emperors looking downcast like this!
Especially because he was so dejected, it was not the time for him to beg Tusi Li to let his second brother study in the Li family society but he couldn't ask for it!

That lamb, that lamb died so damn well!

As to whether it was because of Liu Chengzong or because of him, Chen Shiwen, Chen Shiwen didn't think it was necessary to separate the two too much.

He has already worshiped the top of the mountain, what is it called?
With honor!

Just as Chen Shiwen was thinking excitedly, he happened to meet Li Tianyu Wanglai's eyes, and his hair almost stood on end in fright.

Li Tianyu asked, "Commander Chen, what do you think we should do?"

Li Tianyu was very puzzled, everyone sat back when they should sit back, stood back when they should stand back, and you, Chieftain Chen, were left standing there alone with a very strange expression on your face.

If you want to laugh, you are choked, if you want to cry, you are almost slapped, what are you thinking?

"I, I was thinking..." Everyone's eyes turned to Chen Shiwen's face, which made him extremely embarrassed. He almost exhausted his entire life's wisdom and held his breath for a moment without any waves. He said: "Angel What if you are attacked?"

"Hahahaha!"

Starting from Tusi Qi, people laughed loudly, like slaps, light and slow and continuous.

Chieftain Li smiled brightly: "Commander Chen, don't worry too much... In this city, except for the thief himself, who else will attack the angel?"

They were laughing here, the soldiers at the gate of the Martial Arts Field moved away, and two rows of clean troops ran in, and someone sang, "Angels are here!"

Many lion soldiers imagined by the chieftain did not come in, only Cao Huachun walked into the martial arts field with a sullen face after the Jing army, and Liu Chengzu swaggered half a step behind Cao Huachun.

Behind is a series of clean troops, holding official uniforms, official seals, orders and other things.

When all these people entered the martial arts arena, Liu Chengzong appeared outside the martial arts arena with the clatter of horseshoes, sitting between the two rows of clean troops at the gate, holding his sword on his horseback.

A group of senior officials, local officials, monks and officials hurriedly stood up and saluted, Cao Huachun ignored them, and walked to the south of Jiangtai: "General Liu, accept the order."

Liu Chengzu bowed down at the top of the general's platform, and Cao Huachun said: "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor, the imperial edict said, Liu Chengzu and his brothers returned to the Wei Fan for meritorious service, and awarded General Zhaoyong, the hereditary commander of Xining Wei, hereby."

Liu Chengzu said "the minister leads the order" and got up to accept the order.

He stared at the group of chieftains under the general platform, that's it?Just a fucking minister to lead the order?

What happened to these two brothers!

One rode a horse outside and didn't get off from the beginning to the end of the play; the other got up after receiving the order, and the angel really gave the order.

What about three bows and nine knocks?
How about Saint Ann?
How about thanking God?
What about Yongfu resignation?
A group of chieftains were made suspicious of life by Liu Chengzu's ceremony of receiving the order, and they were full of doubts whether their previous way of receiving the order was wrong.

How did they know that Cao Huachun was extremely satisfied with Liu Chengzu.

This group of people has no experience. If they have seen Liu Shizi grab the imperial decree, they will naturally describe Liu Chengzu's "minister leading the decree" as respectful in their minds.

This obeisance is also obeisance, already profess minister, do you have any more extravagant hopes?
Perhaps in the eyes of these chieftains, the man on the red-haired horse outside was watching a show, but in the eyes of Eunuch Cao, the leader of the bandits was clearly there.

If something goes wrong, maybe he will rush in and snatch the imperial decree away!

Moreover, Cao Huachun knew that Liu Chengzong would not be happy at this time, and no one would be happy after being assassinated.

Just now, Liu Chengzong told him that the people in Xining had malicious intentions towards him, that Eunuch Cao could not return to Beijing to serve the emperor, and that Eunuch Cao would not be able to return to the Forbidden City until the crisis in Xining was resolved and the mastermind behind the scenes could be found.

Cao Huachun was about to cry, he thought I was useless, he had already arrived in Xining, and the Mongolian Tartars would not listen to me, why did they just catch a sheep and squeeze it to death?
To be honest, this is not the first time Cao Huachun has been on an envoy. He has also been out of the palace before. At that time, four fat and strong Jing troops accompanied him, which brought him an unparalleled sense of security.

But here?
The emperor sent him [-] clean troops, but Cao Huachun can guarantee that those [-] clean troops are more afraid than him.

Cao Huachun is not afraid of rebels who seek to recruit security; Cao Huachun is not afraid of rebels who come through the formal recruitment procedures.

The problem lies in the state of Liu Chengzong who recruited the rebels. The so-called state of Liu Chengzong is a state of being caressed but not caressed, rebellious but not rebellious.

Cao Huachun always felt that at the next moment Liu Chengzong would suddenly attack the city and set up a rebellion, but he didn't; but whenever Cao Huachun felt that Liu Chengzong was very honest now, he would make rash moves within half an hour.

Cao Huachun couldn't bear this kind of stimulation, so he planned to find a way to leave Liu Chengzong as soon as possible, and simply finish everything at once.

"Just now, General Liu was assassinated in the city. There are still criminals in this city...Xining Guard." Cao Huachun walked to the front and asked a group of hereditary officials: "How many enlisted soldiers are there? You can ask me." It's the real amount."

Li Tianyu looked a little embarrassed, and said: "Not counting officers, there are [-] households."

"Okay, you are the palm seal?" Cao Huachun was very happy, and he solved two problems at once: "Commander Liu dispatched three thousand troops to garrison in the city, you go to vacate the barracks, since you are the palm seal, you go to see General Liu, Whatever the general arranges in the future, you will follow."

After finishing speaking, Cao Huachun shook his head, and walked towards the gate of the martial arts field with his hands behind his back.

Cao Huachun was very happy, he found another sheep for Liu Chengzong, now he should not be caught and killed!

　good afternoon!

　　
　
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