The last Chiyou

Chapter 9 Cost

Compared to Fengji and Yongjia's ease and ease, Li Chun can be said to be in a state of desperation these days.In fact, it's not purely bad news, at least things went smoothly in the capital. Princess Yiyang went to the palace many times for her little lover Liu Zhongwen, stalked the saint, and finally got Liu Zhongwen a member of the staff. , although this official is a deputy, but after all, he is in charge of the national tribute, which is no small matter.If she hadn't been widowed for many years, she would have never said anything or begged to the late emperor or the current sage in these years, and Liu Lang himself did have unique insights on how to expand the sage's purse, and Li Jien and other eunuchs had various suggestions. The sage couldn't make up his mind to do this for her even though he was beating the side drum.

It is also because Liu Zhongwen really has the ability. When the treasury of this dynasty is always stretched, he is exactly the talent that the court needs, and Gu Xianggong has always been a meritocracy, so he did not object this time.

This is the first step to success. Shangshu, Zhongshu, and the prime ministers of the three provinces under the door were originally purged because of the sage's superior position. At present, only two remain. In time, with Liu Zhongwen's talent, the sage will soon find out that leaving Gu Xianggong The court will still function well.

Everything went according to plan, and the capital was not going well. What troubled Li Chun at this time was that the teacher's perseverance was too strong.These savages were so strong that they seemed to be able to eat and sleep without eating. They fought for two full days the first time they attacked the city, and they didn't withdraw until the evening of the second day.Given the weakness of the Tang army, if Li Chun hadn't suppressed it with bloody means, and disregarded the dignity of the county king, and took the lead, he would have been unable to resist.

Li Chun grew up rich and well-clothed since he was a child. He ordered his servants to kill people. He did it himself, but this was the first time. Hot, sweet blood splattered on his face, and even got into his mouth. Made him want to vomit.This is different from the deduction on paper. In the tent, you can use millions of soldiers while talking and laughing. Those soldiers are nothing more than numbers, but when they come to the battlefield in person, they become real people.

He wants to command these living people to kill or be killed.

It is good to have their heads chopped off or directly shot to death by arrows. So many bodies were cut into two pieces and crawled on the ground dragging their intestines, smashed into flesh by stones, turned into skinless monsters by boiling oil, His head was red and white, his brains were covered with battered battlements... so close at hand, the sweet smell of death was everywhere, and the gleaming bright armor on his body was covered in blood, and his color had turned black, so he couldn't tell who it was of.Even if he is a majestic county king, let alone other people, if not for the personal guards desperately protecting him, he would have long since died at the hands of which Huihe people.

Originally, he always thought that the feeling of missing someone he loved was like a year, but on the battlefield, facing seemingly endless battles and endless deaths, it was really like a year.When Huihe finally retreated at night on the second day, Li Chun felt as if he was dead and came back to life, but he couldn't rest, and he had to clean up the battlefield, repair the city wall, and re-mobilize the army based on the current number of casualties... and so on. Things are waiting for him.The details are naturally handled by the general Bai Zhide sent to help him, but to calm people's hearts, he must be present, no matter how tired he is, or how much he wants to fall asleep.

In the face of life and death, the throne that has always been on his mind has become extremely far away. The Twelfth Lang of the Gu family, who was promoted rapidly because of his strength and bravery in battle and the rapid reduction of troops, is not on his mind at all. What I have to do now is no matter what, even if I use my body to block the gap opened by the Uighurs, I have to defend it for a few more days, until the defenders are unable to attack by force, and take the initiative to cut off his food road in a roundabout way. Strategies will work.If you can't keep it, the battle will be defeated, and the people in Lingzhou will die.He is the king of the county, and he will die in an extremely humiliating manner.

In the most difficult time, he also resented in his heart, why did Liu Fengji understate a few words, so that he and so many people had to work hard?But after calming down, he also figured it out. It was Li Chun who finally decided to adopt this strategy, and it was Li Chun who was going to make a big deal happen. Shirking responsibility when encountering difficulties is not what the lord of the country should do.Now that you have decided, do your best!Even if he is defeated, Li Chun is no longer a small person who can be written off in the history books. If a man is alive, he can leave his name in history, what more can he ask for!

But the combat power of this army was too weak. On the evening of the third day, the gate of Lingzhou City was breached by Huihe people. A group of Huihe cavalrymen with machetes rushed into the city gate screaming. Behind the temporary Lujiao stronghold in the city gate, they used spears to resist. Seeing that Lingzhou was about to fall, Li Chun gritted his teeth and called the soldiers with loud voices to shout to the soldiers outside the city, saying that we will surrender!But you have to give His Royal Highness a little time to rest and rectify, and leave tomorrow morning!

The simple savage believed it.

Of course, Li Chun and Tang Jun, who seized the time to rebuild the fortifications, and then had a good rest all night, did not surrender the next day. Tang Jun opened the city.

The teacher was so angry that he was about to bleed, these unfaithful Central Plains people!The day's offensive therefore became extremely ferocious.But Li Chun has always had such a belief in his heart to support him, as long as he perseveres through this wave, and only this wave, if he overcomes it, the teacher's spirit will definitely be severely frustrated.

Compared with the hopes of the Tang army, the Huihe people who were deceived miserably experienced such ups and downs, but their morale was inevitably affected. On the fourth night, the unsuccessful siege finally retreated, retreating seventy miles outside the city At Luokouchuan, camps were set up, and troops were mobilized.

Looking at the Huihe people receding like a tide outside the city, Li Chun let out a long breath. Many Tang soldiers beside him hugged each other and cheered, with tears streaming down their faces. Many of them leaned against the corner without even taking off their armor in time. Or lie directly on the ground and fall asleep.

The pressure is just too much.If things happened again, Li Chun didn't know if he still had the courage to stand at the head of the city of Lingzhou, but no matter what, he had fulfilled his role after all, and the next step was up to Bai Zhide.

In all fairness, Bai Zhide's job was even more difficult.Without him, following Li Chun desperately, there is still a glimmer of life, but those who are sent by Bai Zhide to pretend to be the luggage team must die.

At this time, General Bai's usual love for soldiers like a son and his ruthless iron fist showed their power. Seeing so many comrades groaning/crying and crying under the Huihe knife, unable to move, watching them besieged by the fire, unable to move Seeing them clawing at the boulder blocking the mouth of the Xiling River Valley and shouting for help, they still couldn't move.

A big fire, thousands of heroic souls.

On the top of the mountain, facing the countless charred corpses in the valley, Bai Zhide knelt down heavily, and all the soldiers behind him knelt down and burst into tears.Who has no parents and brothers, who has no relatives and children?The clan and the foreigners are under the same blue sky, so what is the point of killing each other like this?One will be successful, but for the sake of the emperor's hegemony, it will be more than ten thousand bones.But neither Li Chun nor Bai Zhide had to take this step, to exchange the least casualties for the greatest victory, as a general should do.

Those who are the so-called minimum price get nothing more than kneeling and crying.

Li Chun, who was finally able to sit down and negotiate with his teacher on an equal footing, had a new understanding of Liu Fengji. This Wei Jinjia son who always had a gentle and harmless smile was the most ruthless person.

He is ruthless to his enemies, ruthless to his own people, and equally ruthless to himself.

As a century-old wealthy family from the Hedong Liu family, Liu Fengji, a sixth-rank imperial official, and Gu Xiang's favorite student, unexpectedly revealed his true identity in Huihe in a grand manner.

For a time, the ruling and opposition parties were in an uproar.

Going abroad without orders is disloyalty, serving the enemy is a breach of integrity, how can such a person stand above the court?

The little ambiguity with Li Chun in the past can be said to be a special interest of the scholar-bureaucrat who is not for outsiders. Now that there is such a disturbance, Li Chun doesn't know how to get him back if he wants to break his head.

On the contrary, once the various cover-ups he made for Fengji's trip were exposed, although he was ordered by the sage to warn him, it also proved that his obsession with Fengji had reached the point of becoming dizzy.Now he said that Fengji was sent to Huihe under his order, and even Bai Zhide showed him a dead face with no expression, how could he believe it?

Li Chun understood that Feng Ji did not lose his head for a while, he must have a plan, but no matter what he planned, the price would be too high.The Patriarch of the Liu family came forward in person, and it was a trivial matter to remove Fengji from the Liu family. The most terrible thing was that both the imperial court and Gu Xiang's personal face were completely humiliated by him.

Offending the teacher, offending the sage, offending his own clan, how can such a person survive?Putting himself in a desperate situation, what exactly was he doing?

When the news came, Twelve Lang's eyes were red when he broke into the big tent in disregard of the military order, but Li Chun was also at a loss for the persecution of his subordinates.

Fengji, which was at the center of this storm, lived a very leisurely life in Huihe.His identity was disclosed so quickly that the eldest prince didn't even have time to get close, so Wu Jie invited him directly to the tooth tent.

Wu Jie, who was old and refined, knew all about the little thoughts of his sons, so he didn't feel at ease putting such a sensitive and cunning beauty beside any of his sons.But if he were to be killed like this, the relationship between this person and the second prince of the Tang Dynasty seemed to be a rare commodity, but he was reluctant to part with it.He couldn't kill him, he couldn't release him, and he was worried about thorns if he wanted to eat him, so Wu Jie had no choice but to raise him like this first, and let someone watch him carefully.

The problem lies in the supervision.God knows what kind of ecstasy is hidden in this Liu beauty, no matter who is sent to take care of him, the last thing is to untie his rope, drink and chat with him, and the little boy he brought beside him will pour the wine.This made Wu Jie extremely annoyed. After beheading a few heads, he finally figured it out, so why should he be guarded?Due to the weakness of his master and servant, he took an iron chain and tied them firmly in the tent, and tied their hands and feet with cowhide ropes at night, so there was no possibility of escape.

Yongjia disliked having to tie himself up every night when he came back from a stroll, it was too troublesome, and the next day when the Huihe people wanted to tie him up, he began to cry and wipe away his tears. Those who heard the grievance and pitiful appearance were really sad, and it was also this three-four The appearance of the young boy was really deceptive, and the Huihe people were impatient with his cries, so after all, they only brought him an iron chain to finish the job.The iron chain was as thick as an adult's wrist, and it was tied around Yongjia's slender waist. Anyone who looked at it felt that it was extremely secure, but they didn't notice that every day, the chain seemed to get a little bit shorter.

With Yongjia, a little spy who can come and go freely, Fengji is naturally well-informed, and the timing is just right. On the day when Zheshi sneaked back to the tooth tent, Wu Jie was assassinated.

The old man Wu Jie died really aggrieved. On the eve of his birthday, An Ansheng slept in his big tent with a treasured sword in his hand, and the guards outside the big tent were heavily guarded. It was full of blood, and it also stained a plump beauty beside the corpse.

This beauty is also dead, holding a sharp knife in her hand, it is obvious that she is the murderer, she is the concubine of his elder son who is famous for her beauty.

It is already disgusting that the father occupies the son and the wife, but what is even more disgusting is that there is a third person in the big tent.

A toddler huddled in a corner, in ragged clothes, with an extremely helpless expression.

This time, apart from the eldest prince, everyone else is also dissatisfied with their own Khan. Hero of the first generation, so it is good to bully such a small doll, isn't he afraid of thunder?

Faced with such a sudden incident, the princes who stayed in Yazhang naturally had disagreements. Some said that the eldest prince’s concubine should be investigated for the crime of assassinating the Khan, and some said that a new Khan should be established first. In the chaos, Zheshi suddenly led the troops to rush in, and it was even more messed up.After all, the teacher had been prepared for a long time, and finally managed to control the situation reluctantly. His subordinates were at odds with several forces, but he stood in the center of the big tent, holding up a golden knife with a proud face.

Everyone recognized that this was Khan's golden knife.

This golden knife means the succession of Khan's position. Wu Jie kept it properly and seldom showed it to others. Now the teacher insists that Wu Jie passed on the throne to him. Although the disciples have no evidence to refute it, they still refuse to accept it.Master Zhe said sharply: "Ancestral teachings, the one who holds the golden sword is the profuse sweat, have you all forgotten!"

As he spoke, he held the sheath across his chest with one hand, and held the handle of the knife with the other, and slowly pulled out the golden knife with the power to seize life and death.

There was a dead silence in the big tent.

The teacher was dumbfounded.

The scabbard was clearly the scabbard, and the handle was clearly the same. There was no trace of damage on the handle, but the pure gold blade was gone.

Whether it is the eldest prince, the teacher, or other princes, or even their ambitious cousins, due to the mysterious disappearance of the golden knife, an uncontrollable melee broke out all of a sudden. Those who are strong in soldiers and horses get it.

The cunning Central Plains people betrayed their promises again, but the teacher had no time to look south.The most important thing right now is how to defeat other people and win this position.

As for the mysterious Liu Meiren and that unobtrusive little boy disappearing into the vast desert, no one will pay attention.

It seems that he didn't do anything, just walked around Huihe, watched the chaos of Liu Fengji, and quietly returned to the Tang army's camp with a relaxed body, but he still didn't forget to bring Li Chun a very nice leather A robe as a gift—the fur is really good because of the bitter cold in Huihe.

Li Chun has been devastated for a while, Huihe has withdrawn his troops, and even the army that was originally stalemate with him has withdrawn to the mainland. This campaign can be described as a complete victory.But how to solve the matter of Fengji?The sage issued several edicts asking him to return to the capital, but he has been procrastinating for various reasons, waiting for news from Fengji.And he was heartbroken here, but the victim himself was still there, pretending to be excited about going out and coming back, which made him really gnash his teeth.

Li Chun suppressed his anger and asked: "Ziyu has been away for more than a month, do you know what happened in the court?"

Feng Ji smiled and said: "The minister came back from Huihe and has heard a lot of news. I don't know what His Highness is referring to?"

Li Chun's tone was already a bit unfriendly: "Naturally, you have colluded with the enemy and treasoned the country, and even ruined your reputation, and acted as a child prostitute for the Huihe Khan."

Feng Ji smiled: "It's really a serious crime. Then how will His Highness deal with this minister?"

Li Chun gritted his teeth and said, "Ziyu has really helped me a lot this time, but if you rely on credit, you want me to clean up such troublesome things for you, and you think so highly of yourself!"

Feng gathered his sleeves together, and said with a smile: "Then, if the minister wins over a powerful feudal town for His Highness, as His Highness's help, is this credit enough?"

Li Chun sneered and said, "You're talking about Tao Xuan. He's self-reliant and rebellious by nature. What basis do you have to let him be used by me?"

Feng Ji smiled, leaned over, and whispered eight words in Li Chun's ear: "Luan and Phoenix unite, peaches and plums help each other."

Li Chun was startled when he heard the words, and then he couldn't help having a headache: "It turns out that you are playing tricks." He thought for a while, and then said, "You lied to him like this, and the truth will come to light one day. At that time, won't I have an enemy for nothing?"

Feng Ji said with a smile: "With His Highness's ability, are you afraid that you won't be able to subdue him then?"

Li Chun shook his head and sighed: "It's not easy. These years, the feudal town has been growing and becoming more and more arrogant. There is no imperial court. We have no soldiers and no money. What can we do to subdue them?"

Feng Ji smiled: "Your Highness has no soldiers and no money now, so how can you subdue Bai Zhide and return Huihe?"

"You mean..."

"The prosperity of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. There is no exception. As long as Your Highness can do what he likes, who can't take it back?" Feng Ji said leisurely, "The world is not a world of one person, but a world of people. The world also. Those who share the benefits of the world will gain the world; those who are good at the benefits of the world will lose the world. What do you think, Your Highness?"

Li Chun's face changed suddenly when he heard the words: "The Great Tang belongs to my Li family, how can it be separated from the feudal town?"

Feng Ji smiled and said: "The emperor of the Tang Dynasty today is just a vain name. Compared with the Chengzhou period, the fashion of rites and music is not as good, so how can we talk about the world? Eunuchs, feudal towns, which one can be completely abolished by His Highness? Now The Great Tang Dynasty has accumulated so much that it is hard to return, it is better to share it with the people of the world than to leave this false name in vain."

Li Chun was stunned by these words: "This, this, this is what you want?"

The author has something to say: (Li Chun’s false surrender strategy has a real model in history. During the Anshi Rebellion, Shi Siming tried to break Heyang and go west to Tongguan to attack Chang’an, so he attacked Heyang first, and Heyang was divided into Nancheng, Beicheng, and Zhongyu (sound Greed, second tone) In the third part of the city, Li Guangbi ordered the general Li Baoyu to guard the southern city. The agreement was that only two days would be enough, but he couldn't hold it on the first day. Li Baoyu simply said that he would surrender, but he had to wait until the next day. Shi Siming Naively and stupidly agreed, but Li Baoyu did not surrender the next day, and because reinforcements would arrive after only one more day of defense, the Tang army was full of fighting spirit. The army also took advantage of the opportunity to attack back and forth. Shi Siming was defeated, so he had to turn to attack Zhongyu, but failed. Then Beicheng was defeated by the famous general Li Guangbi and retreated across the board. For a long time after that, Shi Siming was defeated by Li Guangbi on the Central Plains battlefield It has been held back for a long time. To be able to do this, the battle of Heyang is very important. Speaking of Li Guangbi, he is really powerful. I was so happy to see the battle between him and Shi Siming on the battlefield. The one I really lost was the hated emperor who was dragging his feet! During that time Among the people who emerged, I love Yan Zhenqing, Guo Ziyi, Li Guangbi, Feng Changqing! De Zongchao loves Li Mi the most! Aww! It’s too bad, I’m so cute, I can’t extricate myself TT)

(The world is not the world of one person, but the world of the world. Those who share the benefits of the world will gain the world; those who are good at the benefits of the world will lose the world. ——From "Six Secret Teachings")

I accidentally posted the saved manuscript of Chapter 9, and in a fit of rage, I simply stopped saving the first few chapters, and just sent it out all at once.But after that, I can save the manuscript at 0