Reborn as King again

When I came to the back room, regardless of He Wenliu's willingness or not, I pulled him to sit on the toffee chair and asked, "What happened? Why are you angry with me?"

"I'm not angry with you," He Wenliu said with a frown, "I'm just worried for you."

Look at him, I don't believe he's not angry.

"Do you know that there are rumors spreading in the palace now that the rebel army has already reached Huaiyang City," He Wenliu said anxiously, "Why do you still have time to teach Jue'er how to write?"

"The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics." I was a little annoyed at He Wenliu's accusation, "Concubine Wen, don't you care a little too much?"

"Whatever you think," He Wenliu said, stood up, pulled up my sleeves, and said, "Your Majesty, you should leave the capital as soon as possible. The rebels have already arrived in Huaiyang City. Since the plague ten years ago, Huaiyang The city is a veritable dead city, no one lives there, let alone resists, and the rebel army will come to the city in a short time, and it will be too late for you to escape..."

Looking at He Wenliu's anxious appearance, the unhappiness I had just disappeared without a trace, I couldn't help but pursed my lips and smiled and asked: "Escape? You make me a bereaved dog?" Many ministers said this this morning Advise me.

"Weichen doesn't mean that...Weichen just..." The word "sorrowful dog" doesn't sound good, He Wenliu quickly explained to me: "What Weichen means is, you go and hide for a while, you can...you can go to me for a second Brother, my second brother will send troops for you..."

"Idiot." I smiled and scratched the bridge of He Wenliu's nose, "Don't worry, I will never lose."

"Your Majesty..." Just when He Wenliu was about to say something, Li Jue came in bouncing in with a piece of paper, and said flamboyantly: "Father, Father, look, my son has finished writing a piece of paper. It's paper, do you see how Erchen wrote it?"

I waved to Li Jue, told him to come over, and said to him: "Jue'er, go and coax your concubine mother, he seems to be angry."

As soon as Li Jue heard it, he immediately entangled him, pulled the corner of He Wenliu's clothes and asked coquettishly, "Mother Concubine, what's wrong with you? Why are you angry?" As he spoke, he handed over the paper he used to practice calligraphy. In front of He Wenliu, "Look, the emperor asked Jue'er to write it. Is Jue'er writing it well?"

He Wenliu glanced at the piece of paper. On the piece of paper, there were three characters written crookedly, "Huaiyang City".

He Wenliu didn't know what I meant, he wanted to ask me but he didn't know where to start, seeing his hesitation, I took his hand and comforted him and said, "I made you worry about me, don't worry, don't worry. This time we will not flee."

He Wenliu is right, Huaiyang City is a dead city, and that dead city is my trap.

When the rebel army entered Huaiyang City, the Datong soldiers hiding around immediately closed the city gate. It was splashed with oil and unable to climb. There was nothing in Huaiyang City, and there was no water source. The food and grass of the rebels could only last for five days at most.

Five days later, the rebels in Huaiyang City became restless due to lack of food. Our generals stood on the city wall and began to lobby the rebels to surrender, because the rebels were either Zheng people or Huainan people, and they didn’t know Huaiyang at all. What happened in Yangcheng? The general told them that the city where they were imprisoned was the hardest-hit area of ​​the plague, and more than half of the people in the city died. He also threatened them that if they were imprisoned for a long time, they might be infected with the plague.

For a while, the rebels exploded. They didn't have to choose to surrender, and they would either starve to death or die of the plague.

This time, "King Rui" personally led the army to fight, and he was also trapped in Huaiyang City.Seeing that the time was right, "King Rui" decided to surrender.

"King Rui" dispatched only [-] troops this time, and the rest were borrowed from Zheng Guo.At the beginning, the people of Zheng Guo were still swearing to die, but they also knew my prestige, and they had better agree to the conditions when they were asked to surrender, otherwise the shop would be gone after passing this village.Coupled with the instigation of "King Rui" and others, Zheng Guoren finally decided to surrender to Datong.

Of course, there are also a very small number of people who are unwilling to surrender at all, such as the deputy general Huang Kun who thinks he is still the confidant of "King Rui".

When everyone was about to surrender, Huang Kun was still encouraging everyone, don't give up, you will be able to find a way to break through the city gate, but at that time the rebels hadn't eaten for nearly five days, fortunately there was a game during this period Rain, otherwise everyone would die of thirst before starving to death.

Since there was no food or water, everyone was on the verge of dying of starvation and thirst. Who would think of breaking the city gate or thinking about fighting? Huang Kun's encouragement and persuasion made the rebels even more irritable. Even more depressed.

Until that morning, when General Datong came to the city wall again and continued to persuade the rebels to surrender, Huang Kun immediately jumped out, pointed at the general's nose and cursed, don't let him wishful thinking, never surrender!

That general is also a famous figure in the army, so he was furious to be insulted like this, but before he could get angry, several leaders among the rebels below directly pressed Huang Kun down, scolding him not to drag everyone After getting back on his feet, he quickly raised his head to ask the general to explain that this was just Huang Kun's personal opinion, and it did not represent everyone's. Everyone unanimously decided to surrender!

The general has my secret letter, and I told him that anyone can survive, except for a man named Huang Kun.The general saw this as an opportunity, and he made a condition: "This man has angered me just now, as long as his head is chopped off, everyone will not have to die."

As soon as the general finished speaking, one of the burly soldiers raised his sword and slashed at Huang Kun. Huang Kun died.

Even if the insurgents trapped in Luoyang City decided to surrender, I didn't intend to just let them out. The Huainan people on the "King Rui" side, I can say, the key is the people of Zheng Guo, if they just opened the city gate If I contradict my promise, then I will suffer.

So those insurgents were kept in Luoyang City. I would not give them enough water and food. About every five days, I ordered the generals to throw a little bit of food and grass down, hang their lives, and don’t let them Starve to death.

The so-called capturing the thief first captures the king, as long as the Emperor Ouyang Ji of Zheng State is captured, aren't they afraid that the people of Zheng State will submit obediently?

As early as when persuading the rebels, a group of troops quietly went towards the state of Zheng.

In fact, while I was conveying the secret letter to the prefects of various cities, I also sent a secret letter to the Zuodu General Chen Hao by the way.

Chen Hao used to be a partisan of the Xia family, and was the deputy general of Xia Ligang, the general of Rongma. When the Xia family failed in rebellion, Chen Hao led the Xia family soldiers to surrender to me within the stipulated time. I naturally spared his life. Junjie, I started to use him again after observing that he was not dissatisfied.

Chen Hao is also a man who knows how to fight. I wrote it clearly in the secret letter to him. When the rebels were besieged in Luoyang City, they quietly dispatched 40 troops from the border, divided them into three directions, and launched an attack on Zheng Guo. attack.

Before, I let the rebels win the battle and let them come smoothly, just to let Ouyang Ji let go of his guard and shift his attention from the defense of his own border to the development of our civil war in Datong.

"King Rui" received 30 soldiers from Ouyang Ji, and Ouyang Ji sent him from various places, so the defense of his own land would be greatly weakened.The three-sided attack by Chen Hao and his subordinates really caught him off guard.

Ouyang Ji had no power to parry. Most of the troops he could mobilize had already been invested in the civil war on the main channel. He was really defenseless against this raid in Datong, and he couldn't immediately mobilize troops from the border to resist. The gate was breached.

In the secret letter to Chen Hao, I specifically wrote that I don't need to capture Zheng Guo's royal family alive, they will all be killed without mercy, and no one will be left behind.

When I gave this order, Chen Hao thought I was going to kill the grass and roots, just in case, but in fact, I wanted to kill Ouyang Ji as soon as possible, as if I didn't have this son, and let him die in another country. In this way, He Wenliu and I would be threatened. The existence between has completely disappeared.

It's a pity that things didn't develop in the direction I planned. I told Chen Hao to kill him, but who knew he still spared Ouyang Ji's life and escorted him back to Datong.

Chen Hao wrote me a letter and explained it to me.

According to what Chen Hao said, when he caught Ouyang Ji, his heart skipped a beat when he saw Ouyang Ji's appearance. He had heard of Ouyang Ji before, because he was similar to He Wenliu in appearance, especially his eyes, but Chen Hao When Hao caught the man, he found that the man's facial features were somewhat similar to mine, so he didn't dare to do it. He was afraid that he was a member of the Li family, so he decided to take him to the capital and let me deal with it.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Hao pretended to be smart and sent someone to inform the generals guarding Huaiyang City that the Emperor Zheng was actually the prince who had been missing for many years in Datong. This would make the people of Zheng give up and surrender obediently.

When I wanted to give Chen Hao another order to kill Ouyang Ji, it was already too late, because there had already been rumors in the capital that Emperor Zheng Guoxin had the blood of the Li family. People who had met Ouyang Ji before would think that he was related to He Wenliu There is a blood relationship, and his age is about the same as Li Ji who died outside earlier, so it was rumored that Ouyang Ji was actually Li Ji, and the court ministers also began to discuss at this time, suggesting that I verify the identity of the new emperor Zheng Guo, If I hurt the killer again at this time, it will make people suspicious.

Next to He Wenliu is a little green man who is very good at gossip, and he often tells He Wenliu interesting things inside and outside the palace. This time, I just finished talking about the new emperor Zheng Guo in the morning, and He Wenliu came to see him at noon. What happened to He Wenliu as soon as possible.

However, He Wenliu will know about such rumors sooner or later, so I don't care about them.

When He Wenliu came, I was having lunch in Qianlong Palace. I pretended nothing happened, and ordered the eunuch to add extra bowls, chopsticks and stools.

I patted the empty stool beside me, smiled at He Wenliu and said, "Come on, let's have dinner with me, I just happen to be very lonely by myself."