My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 77: Shocking Discussion in the Court
"Your Majesty!" "Quickly pinch people!"

"Hurry up and tell the imperial doctor!"

Amidst the chaos of exclamations and shouts, Xiao Wenbi hurriedly carried the emperor and placed him on the dragon throne, using his internal strength to sort out his inner energy.The civil and military officials in the palace hurriedly picked up the paper that fell on the floor and circulated it.

In the entire hall, hundreds of figures gradually turned into deathly silence.

Someone took the paper over and read it again in disbelief. His hands were trembling. It read word by word: 12 soldiers and horses pressed into the border. The army was blocked. After two days of fighting with the rebels, they were defeated.

Military information has always been simple. In just a few words, if you want to know, you will definitely need more information to piece together to know the cause of the matter.

Not [-] troops?

The extra [-] people there should be Rongzhou local county soldiers.

All the civil and military officials in the hall looked a little uneasy. When the emperor on the imperial steps woke up, someone stepped forward to comfort him: "Your Majesty, please don't be upset. This news was only two or three days ago. It is impossible to say that the general has regrouped now." Defeat the troops, rectify the troops and counterattack, and return. Your Majesty and your ministers should wait with peace of mind."

Xiao Wenbi also nodded: "That's what the Minister of Civil Affairs said. Your Majesty is waiting for the news with peace of mind. He Jinchen is a veteran general in the army. How can he be a general in power without means? It is normal for the two armies to win and lose in battles."

In fact, the old man's face was also ugly. He was compared to a vicious minion in the previous article, which made him hard to express his anger. However, the other party was his nephew, and the other party did not know his identity. But now the imperial army's counter-rebellion army was frustrated, and the victory or defeat was unknown. This was It’s even more uncomfortable.

"I... my heart aches for you, general..." Kitamiya pressed the armrest and gradually recovered. After he calmed down, his anger also rekindled. He has martial arts, and the pure gold armrest was deformed by pinching: "Ten Tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, all of whom are elites in our capital, can't even defeat the rebels in the area. How can He Jinchen have the dignity to come back to see me!"

On the afternoon when we were discussing the counter-rebellion, a group of soldiers returning south broke the silence of the imperial city again. It was Li Gan, the leader of the Huben Army. Following him were more than [-] remnant soldiers, all wounded and clothed. A was in ruins, but fortunately the other two thousand Yanshan cavalry were in good condition and there was no big loss.

He himself suffered several wounds, and there was a wound on one arm that was deep enough to show the bone. As soon as he arrived in Yanjing and the troops returned to camp, he was summoned by the emperor, and the civil and military officials of the court were also there.

Bei Gongye looked at Li Gan kneeling in the middle of the hall. His armor had not yet been taken off, and it was stained with blood, stains and knife marks. Only half of his cloak was torn. It can be seen that the intensity of the war at that time was completely beyond the imagination of everyone here.

"...Where is He Jinchen now? But he has no face to come back to see me?!"

Li Gan pursed his lips, lowered his head and stared at the floor: "Your Majesty... the general died in battle."

The eyes of the civil and military personnel on both sides widened. On the dragon chair, Kitamiya's expression was stunned for a moment, but he soon recovered, with obvious fluctuations in his voice, "Tell me everything... Where are the other generals? How did my army of one hundred thousand defeat me?" of!"

"Your Majesty..." Li Gan then raised his face. His hair was disheveled, his lips were pursed, and his voice was choked with sobs: "Originally, the general had the upper hand in the battle with the rebels, and Rongzhou's [-] troops also joined the battlefield to assist. However, the camp rations were burned down by a night attack that night, and the morale of the army was unstable. The general wanted to defeat the rebels in one go to avoid shortage of rations. However, changes occurred due to the prolongation of the province. However, the battle started the next day, and Rongzhou's soldiers and horses were defeated on the battlefield. , were carried by the rebels and rushed to the front line, causing a complete rout... We were involved with the rebels, fighting all over the mountains and plains..."

"When I later found the general, he was besieged by the rebels on a hillock and beheaded by the rebels... Seeing this, I tried my best to fight but failed to retrieve the general's body. I could only lead the remaining troops to retreat. They met two thousand Yanshan cavalry and then returned to Yanzhou... In this battle, the commander of the Yanshan cavalry, Ling Xiao, died in the battle, the leader of the Shengnu Army, Nu Yan, and the leader of the Shibuya Army, Chen Fang and Zhao Sheng, died in the battle, and the leader of the Longxiang Army, Jiang Hua, died in the battle... …”

Listening to the names of the generals who died in battle, the eyelids of the civil and military officials in the palace were twitching. This was the first time they had heard of so many generals dying in battle in their decades of service.

Li Gan paused, and then said the next words that shocked everyone.

"...Your Majesty, there is another matter. Wu Huizhi, the Marquis of Yunqi County, and Tang Huaiyuan, the governor of Rongzhou, have also rebelled!"

"what!!!"

After hearing this last sentence, Kitamiya stood up directly from the dragon chair, raised his hand and shook it tremblingly: "I... I want to kill them... pass on my will... raise another hundred thousand troops, I want to Defeat Rongzhou and leave no stone untouched!"

"Your Majesty, you can't do it!" Wang Huaiyi hurriedly walked out of the crowd. He was the crown prince of Fenzhou. After the court meeting, he was left by the emperor's side as a regular attendant. Now that he heard that troops were about to be raised again, he raised his hands and said, "Your Majesty, the capital of Gyeonggi Province The local troops and horses are no longer sufficient. If the Rongzhou rebels are conquered again, Yanjing will have no troops to use."

"You want to disobey me?!" Kitamiya took two steps forward, flicked his dragon sleeves, and roared at the other party.

Wang Huaiyi hurriedly knelt down, cupped his hands and bowed his head: "Your Majesty is your father, I dare not disobey you! I just tell the truth."

The Minister in charge of the Ministry of Revenue also hurriedly stood up at this moment: "Your Majesty, what Wang Changshi said is that excluding the troops and horses guarding the capital, Yanjing only has more than [-] people, and there is not much food and fodder. Last year, there was a drought in several states. The grain turned in is no longer enough. This spring the general conquered Rongzhou and took away a large amount of grain. Now the grain warehouse in the capital is only enough for one year."

"Are we leaving the rebels alone and waiting for them to become more powerful?!"

Among the civil servants, a censor came out and stood behind Wang Huaiyi: "Your Majesty, the one hundred thousand army has failed in the expedition. The princes of various states must also be on guard. The Wei State south of the Hun River is also watching with eager eyes. If it fails again, then..."

"Shut up!" Kitamiya yelled at the censor who had just dissuaded him, and raised his hand to call the guards: "Drag him out..."

"slow."

At this time, Xiao Wenbi came out, waved the two guards who entered the palace to go out, and then raised his hands to the emperor on the imperial steps and said: "Your Majesty, what the ministers said is true. Yanjing must not make mistakes, but what your Majesty has said is It is not wrong to say that the rebels cannot gain power because they are guarding against tigers."

The emperor exhaled, suppressed his anger, and returned to the dragon chair to sit down. "Does the Grand Master have any good ideas?"

"I have three strategies."

"speak!"

"In one move, His Majesty restored his position as a marquis, repaired the relationship, and generously awarded rewards. All the soldiers and generals under his command were also rewarded and promoted, and were transferred to the capital or elsewhere. Regardless of whether they were accepted or not, the rebel generals would definitely be alienated from their hearts. Once they lose their wings, Cut them off, and the Rongzhou rebels will be nothing more than a bandit in a corner."

Xiao Wenbi raised his second finger: "Secondly, He Jinchen studied under the sword god Yuan Bai Sheng. I heard that this person has been in the realm of a grand master for 30 years and has lived in seclusion in the ice and snow of Yubai Mountain all year round. If he hears that his disciple has been killed, he will definitely come out of the mountain."

"How old is this year?"

"120 nine."

Kitamiya was stunned for a moment, "You want an old man who is over a hundred years old to go out and seek revenge?"

"Haha, Your Majesty, don't underestimate his age. When Yuan Bai Sheng was a hundred years old, I had the honor to see him make a single move, with just one palm, he made a twenty-foot-thick snow peak crack and tilt."

The emperor pursed his lips and said, "What about the third strategy?"

"The third strategy is to promise Xirong some benefits and let them send troops. The northwest of Rongzhou is connected to Yantang Pass. Say hello to the border guard and let the Xirong people enter Rongzhou and let the two dogs fight. Your Majesty only needs to watch the fire from across the bank and rest. It will take half a year to send out troops again. By then, the Su family will be almost defeated. They have put down the rebellion and killed Xirong without giving the remaining benefits to the other side."

Let the Xirong people enter the pass?

This made many civil and military officials in the court change their expressions. Although they were personally supported by Bei Gongye, if they really wanted to do this, it would be against the ancestral precepts of Emperor Yan Gaozu to resist Hu.

Just as someone stood up to accuse Xiao Wenbi, the emperor on the imperial steps took the first step. He stood up and pondered for a moment: "The three strategies of the Grand Master do not conflict with each other. It is better to use the three strategies together. One of them will always work."

The emperor looked at the crowd and said, "Don't be so alarmed. The Xirong barbarians are nothing but scabies. The Rongzhou rebels are suffering from internal diseases that are fatal!"

After saying that, regardless of the rest of the civil and military affairs, he flicked his robe sleeves, returned to the dragon chair, and sat down with a big horse and a golden sword.

"Just do as the grand master said. In addition, according to my decree, all states should speed up the handover of grain. From today on, the Yanjing grain depot will no longer be used by the imperial city, and the inventory and storage will be stepped up..."

"His Majesty!!"

A sudden voice interrupted Bei Gongye's voice. A guard quickly ran up from the stone steps outside the palace to the front of the hall. He raised his hands and shouted: "Your Majesty, something happened. The grain depot in Wengcheng northeast of Yanjing is on fire. An incoming team is on fire." Unknown cavalry suddenly attacked there!"

The faces of the officials in the palace had never changed like they did today. Over there, Kitamiya's face turned red.

"The walls of the urn are thick and the city is high. How could it catch fire?"

"The group of cavalry robbed the cavalry patrolling Wengcheng halfway, used tokens to open the city gate, and rushed directly into the city. They set fire everywhere, and 36 granaries were set alight."

Xiao Wenbi quickly asked: "How many people are there in that cavalry team, and where are they now?"

"About a thousand cavalry, they burned the official warehouse, rushed out of Wengcheng, and headed west again."

"It must be the rebel cavalry..."

Kitamiya's face turned purple from holding back. He sat back on the dragon chair for a while, clenched his teeth and puffed out his cheeks, and forced out a hoarse voice with difficulty.

"Send the Yanshan Iron Cavalry to chase and suppress... I don't want to live!"

……

Under the same sky, the wind traveled hundreds of miles to the southwest.

Changchuan County.

Su Chen wandered vaguely in his dream, and the fighting, shouting, and screams of that day flashed through his dream all the time.

(End of this chapter)