My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 80 The spring cold is back, and the five princes have risen

On February [-]th, three days had passed since the news of the defeat of [-] soldiers and horses was delivered to Yanjing. The news that the more than [-] cavalrymen who entered Yanjing were burning, killing and looting in various places in Yanzhou were still sent to the palace.

Emperor Kitamiya got angry several times over this. Two granaries, a mine, and a pasture were looted last night. A large number of cattle, sheep, and war horses were slaughtered. The food shortage was already worsening, and now it was even worse.

He was so angry that he summoned another commander of the Yanshan Cavalry all night and scolded him head-on.

The latter regretted it, and then personally led two thousand cavalry out of Yanjing on the 21st. He joined the cavalry sent before. After analyzing the terrain, he roughly determined the opponent's possible route. Thousands of cavalry pursued him from north to south. , two thousand riders rode below to intercept them.However, the thousand cavalry who were chasing them went south along the pasture, and until they met the intercepting commander, there was no sign of him.

Gu Zhaowu is another commander among the [-] Yanshan cavalry. Now, including the two thousand who escaped before, there are only [-] cavalry left in the imperial city. He has brought out [-] cavalry. If there is another loss, he doesn't know how long he will feel distressed, but now The emperor had no choice but to follow them, and he pursued them all the way, but found no trace of the enemy. He sent out a large number of scouts, but all returned without success.

It feels like the opponent's anti-reconnaissance ability is much stronger than his.

"Commander Gu, what should we do next?" Lieutenant General Li Yuanying came up and asked. He is a typical northern man with a loud voice, a big frame and a strong build.

"There is definitely someone around the other party who is familiar with this place." Gu Zhaowu spurred his horse back and forth for a moment and waved his whip: "If you guard against thieves for a thousand days, you will only be led by him... The places he attacks are all related to the imperial court. There is also a market for slaves and a weapons store for Long Xiang’s army here.”

"The equipment station is heavily guarded. There are two thousand Longxiang troops stationed there. This person is a cavalry person and he should not be able to pass by. On the contrary, it is a market for slaves. There is not even a peripheral guardrail. There are only tents. It is easy to attack there. , and you can also snatch supplies.”

"Don't be careless. You and I will work separately. I'll go to Long Xiang's army to have a look, and you'll go to the market where slaves are born!"

As soon as the two gathered together, they each led their cavalry and left separately. Gu Zhaowu went to the Longxiang Army Equipment Camp to the west of Yanjing, while Li Yuanying went to the Shengnuren Market to the northwest.

This place used to be a place where raw slaves were sold. Later, the raw slaves in the snowy fields became conscious and began to resist. They attacked the border troops many times. During his reign, the late emperor saw that they were brave and good at fighting and wanted to recruit them to form an army, so he awarded the chiefs of the raw slaves a number of titles. The official title was nice and useless, and some luxury items such as rice and food were given every year. After the two sides gradually opened up mutual trade, a large number of slaves poured into Yanzhou, gradually forming a leasing army, but most of the generals were served by slaves.

This place has become a market for slaves. Every year, many precious medicinal materials, furs, bones, and ores from the snowfields and snow forests enter Yanzhou for sale.

When Li Yuanying led the cavalry over, the place was still bustling and noisy. After patrolling the perimeter, he rested his horse about a mile away from the market, and also let his men drink water and eat some dry food to replenish their strength.

He took a bite of the dried meat, got up from the stone, greeted one of his subordinates, and then went to urinate in the grass in front. As soon as he took off his belt and took off his pants, a faint sound suddenly came from the distance. He turned his head and There was smoke and dust in the distance, and the ground beneath my feet suddenly felt a slight tremor.

Li Yuanying's teeth clenched and his eyes widened. Without waiting to finish urinating, he pulled up his pants and tied them up while running, "Mount up! Mount up!" He called to the subordinates around him. He rushed to the horse with great difficulty, and the shock under his feet became more and more shaking. The moment he turned over, a fiery red war horse approached quickly, dragging slanting dust and smoke.

The surrounding Yanshan cavalry hurriedly assembled their entire team.

He suddenly pulled out the spear stuck in the ground with his right hand, clamped it into the horse's belly, and rode forward to meet him. Li Yuanying's martial arts was pretty good, reaching the fourth level, one level higher than the commander Gu Zhaowu. Unfortunately, he was not proficient in commanding cavalry. Attacks from both sides At the moment of intertwining, the spear in his hand passed through the waving halberd. When the tip of the spear pointed at the opponent's door, the figure on the red horse suddenly pressed down on the spear in his hand, directly jamming the tip of Li Yuanying's spear. He let go He opened one hand and quickly touched his waist, and slashed out with a flash of sword!

The steel knife cut across a flash of cold light——

But it was Zhan Kong!

The figure on the horse sat upright and came back. The painted halberd rubbed the tip of the spear against the sparks. The halberd was slashed open. When the cloak spread, blood shot up into the sky like an arrow.

——Tiger steps across the Yangtze River and Huaihe River!
In just one breath, two war horses passed by each other. Li Yuanying's head was already spinning in the air, and his strong body sat on the horse's back. He followed the horse for a few steps before falling down from the horse's back.

The red war horse circled back, its heavy hoofs hit the ground and stopped. A painted halberd was inserted into the head of the person and lifted up in the air.Lu Bu looked at the horrified Yan State cavalry. In the next second, a thousand Ding'an Army cavalry rushed past him, rushing like raindrops into the cavalry who were staying in place and in scattered formations.

The sudden movement attracted the traders and slave laborers in the market to rush outside the market. Then, a group of cavalry turned around and charged towards them.

Soon after, Gu Zhaowu's eyes widened when he received the news from the Yanshan Cavalry who had escaped, and he rushed to the Shengnuren Market with two thousand cavalry. The place was full of human corpses, and every tent was trampled. The man lay in a pool of blood, holding his calf that was trampled by iron hoofs and wailing repeatedly.

"Ah..."

Seeing the headless body of the deputy general, Gu Zhaowu almost went crazy. He asked someone to bring him a map, and suddenly found that the other party had attacked the slave market and surrounded Yanjing in a semicircle.

Could it be that...this cavalry will eventually arrive outside the south gate of Yanjing?

What is this cavalry doing here after killing them all?
After looking at the map for a moment, Gu Zhaowu immediately asked a group of people to stay and collect the bodies of his dead brothers, "The rest of you get on your horses and follow me to Xuanyang Gate!"

Go to the south gate and defeat the cavalry!

At this time, the morning light rises above the clouds, approaching noon.

While more than 900 Yanshan riders were detouring around the South Gate, the road under their feet extended in a direction that merged into the main post road leading to Xuanyang Gate. At this time, there were many business travelers, pedestrians, and dignitaries entering and leaving the capital. During this critical period, most of them had to be interrogated. .

As a long queue of people entered the city, a voice suddenly spoke in confusion.

"Then, what's over there..."

Some people lowered their heads and looked at their feet: "Why is the ground shaking?"

On the Xuanyang Gate of Yanjing, the soldiers standing in front of the city tower raised their hands between their brows and looked into the distance. Under the sunshine and the fluffy white clouds, the traders who had not yet passed through the intertwined roads were running away. The vast to the west On the field, a wave of cavalry troops came towards Xuanyang Gate under the sky.

"Is that... Yanshan Cavalry?"

"wrong!"

"People below, leave quickly..."

The soldiers on the city tower realized something was wrong and waved their hands downwards and shouted. The soldiers under the Xuanyang Gate drove them away with spears. There was also a group of soldiers dragging their horses and placing them in front of the city gate. From time to time they shouted: "Close the city gate! Close the city." Door! Everyone leave!"

At the city gate, business travelers, pedestrians, and carriages of wealthy gentry all fled in panic at this moment.

Soon, the rumble of horse hooves rushed to Xuanyang Gate. When it was four hundred steps away, the galloping red horse neighed and roared, the man stood up, and the cloak of the figure on the horse was waved back.

Lu Bu drew his bow and nocked an arrow, and with a whoosh, the arrow flew directly towards the tower. The general who was rushing to the tower wall drew his sword and slashed, the arrow broke, and the arrow nailed to the eaves column of the tower with a bang, going straight through. A big hole was punched in the window lattice.

The general and the surrounding soldiers looked at the two shocking big holes made by the nails and were slightly speechless. They looked outside again and saw that the cavalry did not attack the city gate. Instead, they raised their hands and asked the cavalry behind them to run and stop a little further away. Down, he held a painted halberd and slowly looked at the tower.Then, a powerful voice sounded.

"Emperor of Yan——"

"Kita Miyano!!"

……

Royal Palace.

Kitamiya was sitting in his study, instructing the three selected envoys to go to the snowy mountains in the north to find the 120-[-]-year-old sword god in Yubai Mountain. On the other side was the envoy heading to Xirong, and he also compiled a list of gifts.

The last messenger is going to Ding'an City in Rongzhou to announce the decree to Su Chen.

The lights flickered to illuminate the study.

Kitamiya sat behind the dragon case. After confirming once again that all the letters were correct, he handed them to the eunuch to use the seal, and then sent away the three envoys. After finishing his work, he was going to return to the harem to see the queen. , to tease the prince who has just turned four.

There were footsteps outside the eaves, and the eunuch cautiously said outside the door: "Your Majesty, the Grand Master is here."

The emperor who was about to leave stopped and frowned: "Let the Grand Master come in." After saying that, he sat back on the dragon throne. Not long after, Xiao Wenbi walked in. His expression was a little ugly: "Your Majesty, I have something to do with you. need to know."

"What's the matter? About the rebel cavalry?"

"Yes...but they appeared directly outside Xuanyang Gate and kept calling His Majesty's name!"

Kitamiya frowned and stood up. He also had the tall figure of a northern man. He was silent for a while, "If you call me, you must have something to tell me. Go to the city wall. I want to see what this person wants to say to me!"

After saying this, he and Xiao Wenbi left the palace together. With a simple carriage, seven hundred soldiers cleared the way and went directly out from the Zhuque Gate. They followed the post road in the city that only imperial chariots or victorious soldiers could walk, all the way to the Xuanyang Gate. Stepping onto the city wall, the surrounding soldiers were half-kneeling, and at the same time, the sounds outside became louder and louder.

"Emperor of Yan!"

"I'm here!"

Accompanied by the old man, Kitamiya walked straight to the general who defended the city and stood next to him. He flicked his sleeves and pressed his hands on the wall. His voice was equally majestic: "I have heard that you led the cavalry to sweep through the capital, burning, killing and looting. He comes and goes like the wind, he is a powerful cavalry commander, and now he comes to Xuanyangmen and asks me to come and meet him, but what do you want?"

Hahaha!
Outside the city, Lu Bu galloped for a while, stopped four hundred steps away, looked up at the top of the city and laughed, "I have no demands, I just want to see what the Emperor of Yan looks like, so as not to kill the wrong one in the future!"

This was a mistake he made when he was in Puyang, otherwise he would have killed Cao Cao by then.

On the tower, the emperor's smile froze, and the muscles on his face were twitching slightly.There was a group of soldiers around, and even Xiao Wenbi couldn't bear it anymore, so he immediately ordered the soldiers on the city to shoot him with arrows.

The general on the side was quite embarrassed: "Your Majesty, Grand Master, that person is out of range."

When he finished speaking, Lu Bu outside the city leaned over and threw out a human head tied to the horse's neck, "I will return the head to you! A certain family will give you a gift, so you can remember that I am -"

The moment the sound resounded, the horses drew their bows, and the bow strings were pulled to the extreme with the feathers and arrows.

——Shoot the halberd at the gate!
The sound of the string collapsed, and the arrow swung away from the string with the roar of "——Jiuyuan Lu Bu!" and rushed directly to the city tower. It was so fast that it almost took a breath and flew to the top of the city in an instant.

The sound breaks through the sky!

Xiao Wenbi reached out to push the emperor, and Bei Gongye suddenly pressed down with his hands, his robes bulged, and the moment the air wave was forced away, the arrow deflected upwards, and there was still a "pop" sound.

The vertical crown worn on the head was nailed to the eaves of the tower.

"Hahaha... Emperor Yan, when you come back next time, a certain family will really kill you!" Lu Bu put away his bow and arrows, glanced to the west, there was the sound of horse hooves coming, he pulled the reins and pulled out the Fang Tianhua on the ground. Holding the halberd, he turned his horse's head and ran back to the thousand cavalry, leading them away to the south. In the sunshine, only the red cloak was left billowing in the wind.

Kitamiya stood under the tower with disheveled hair, biting his lips and drawing a trace of blood.

I thought that when the other party saw me, he would ask for anything and submit to him, but I didn't expect that it would be so humiliating and humiliating!
"Grand Master, implement your three strategies immediately!"

He gritted his teeth and made a sound, turned around and walked directly to the city.

However, the day after the cavalry left, several fast cavalry rushed madly into Yanjing from two directions along the post road. Without fear of the obstruction of the defenders, they rushed directly into the Suzaku Avenue where the imperial chariots were traveling, and rushed into Yanjing. Rush to the imperial city, rush to the imperial palace.

This was even more frightening news from other states. No one dared to delay. After receiving the news, Liu Changqing, the chief guard of the palace, directly used his body-lighting skills in the palace and went straight to the main hall where the emperor was.

Haixinghou of Laizhou, which is close to the sea in the southeast, rebelled!

Below Yanzhou and to the west of Rongzhou, the governor of Lingzhou, Linghou, rebelled!

Yonghuaihou of Huaizhou, adjacent to Lingzhou, rebelled!

At present, only Fenzhou, Junzhou, and Zhangzhou, which are the farthest away, have not heard any news.Including the Marquis of Yunqiu and the Marquis of Ding'an, five marquises have rebelled.

The entire court was shaken, and the entire Yan Kingdom was shaken. Countless people were frightened and confused, and then ran around, using everything they could use.

Emperor Bei Gongye sat on the dragon chair with dull eyes, and then he drove all the civil and military officials out of the hall like crazy. He raised the dragon case with "Ah!", and memorials, pens, ink and papers were flying all over the sky.

……

Su Chen, who had returned to Ding'an City, heard the news in early March, as well as letters from several rebel marquises, inviting them to form an alliance and join the Northern Expedition!
(End of this chapter)