[Wu Zetian] Queen's Road

Chapter 21 Second St. 17

No matter how you look at it, Datang's military operation to encircle and suppress the Haihai people is absolutely certain.

Although the movement of Su Ding's army marching northward by land was relatively large, there were still Liu Rengui and Xue Rengui plundering formations on the east and west sides. It really shouldn't let the turtle in the urn, the Hairen, escape!

In fact, after getting the news that Tang, Bohai, and Eizo were attacking from all directions, the people in Haihai already felt that there was no hope of breaking through. However, the words of his queen Uda Ji made him suddenly enlightened.

Although the four armies are aggressive, they are uneven in strength, and the arrival time is also different.

Uda Hime said that if the people of the sea want to stick to leaving Yucheng, they will only be captured or killed. If they choose to break out from the weaker side of the four, they can even make a time difference to escape.

The people in the sea think that what Uda Ji said is very reasonable, and the current situation is similar to the situation when he and his brother were besieged by the Tang army in Yamato. If he misses the opportunity and is surrounded by the Tang army, he will die!

Only take action when the Tang army and the coalition forces of Bohai and Yezo have not yet formed an encirclement trend.

However, the cunning Hairen did not follow Uda Hime's idea and ran directly to the northwest in the direction of the Bohai Sea and the two countries of Ezo attacking. Instead, he secretly sent his confidants to the northeast coast of Mutsu while the East and West sides were delaying the Tang Army's fleet. Prepare the ship.

Just when Su Dingfang's army was fighting all the way to the border of Izuha country, the Hairen left a substitute in the Izuha Palace, and he had already sneaked out of Izuba City with Nuda Ji and a few confidants, and ran all the way north.

Therefore, even though Su Dingfang took Deyu Castle, when he found out that the Japanese King of the palace was a Xibei product, he broke out in a cold sweat.

What made him even more depressed was that none of the civil and military ministers of the Deyu government knew that their king had already escaped from his shell, let alone where the people from Haihai had gone.

Su Dingfang had no choice but to write an apology, and asked people to be sent to Luoyang immediately, while he took his elite to hunt down Hairen and his party—the fact that they were able to sneak out of Yucheng without being noticed shows that Hairen and his party The number of people is not many.

Su Dingfang was not afraid that the other party would run fast, but he was afraid that the other party would turn around and disguise himself and hide in the countryside, which would be troublesome!

And Wu Xu, who was far away in Luoyang, received the news that "the battle is going well, but the people from the sea have escaped", he was so angry that he almost vomited blood: Nima!It has been less than a month since the solar eclipse appeared, and at the critical moment, this old Su lost the chain to her again, she was really pissed off!

Wu Xu didn't dare to tell Li Xiaojiu about this, lest he become more worried and sick, so he gritted his teeth and issued a secret order to Wa Island, asking Liu Rengui, who had already occupied Deyu, to lock up that fake Japanese king and all the Japanese civil and military officials. All of them were sent back to Luoyang to offer prisoners.The northern area of ​​Wa Island that was just captured was temporarily handed over to Xue Rengui to guard it, and he also called young officials from several southern states to help...

As for General Su who was the first to break through the gate of Deyu Kingdom, let's catch someone first!

As soon as this angry secret edict from the Empress Dowager came out, the three generals could all see a cold sweat.

Wu Xu's meaning is very clear, there is no delay in exterminating the people from the sea, and no matter whether the person they captured is really the people from the sea, they must immediately bring them back to Datang to offer prisoners!

Liu Rengui and Xue Rengui had always obeyed the emperor's order, so naturally they had no objection, and immediately split up to work after receiving the order.

The hard-pressed General Su is full of grievances and resentment. The grievance is that he managed to break out of Yucheng, but thought that a moment of negligence caused Dahai's heart to escape through the back door, and the first achievement he saw was in vain!

The resentment is mainly aimed at the people from Haihai who ran away without a trace.

Damn!After all, this Haihai man is also a vassal king, but he really condescended to disguise himself as a commoner and hide himself. How can he find him? !

Can't we arrest all the Japanese and look for them one by one?

Not to mention that General Su was terribly arresting people in Wa Island, but it was said that Liu Rengui immediately wrote a big letter of success and returned to Chang'an after accepting the order of the Queen of Heaven, and then took the fake King of Wa and all the ministers of civil and military affairs of the country of Wa to ride Hundreds of ships will meet in Datang.

The good news arrived in Chang'an, and it was published in major newspapers in the country that day.

Everyone in the Tang Dynasty rejoiced and praised the emperor and empress for their wisdom and martial arts.

The aristocratic family who were originally in a mess because of the revision of the "Record of Surnames" were shocked when they first heard the good news.

This military operation has not been exposed in the court at all - even if it is said in the court, some aristocratic families who have no one in the center may not necessarily get the news =. =

All the aristocratic families thought that it was the ultimate achievement for the Tang Dynasty to win two-thirds of Wajima. Some aristocratic families originally wanted to use this as an excuse to impeach His Majesty Li Xiaojiu for "provoking military force" and "leaving future troubles". After a few months, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu wiped out Renwa Island in such a silent manner!

The period of truce in the middle of the relationship was not because of the lack of Tang's troops, but because the border soldiers had a rest for the Spring Festival!

A group of bigwigs with ulterior motives couldn't help holding a meeting. In order to occupy a good position in the "Record of Surnames", these old men have long forgotten the original intention of forming an alliance. There are not a few.

Even if there are a few people who are not too old and confused, they have vaguely guessed that His Majesty Li Xiaojiu is going to suppress the family in the name of rebuilding the clan chronicles, and they lost their minds when they heard that those brats wanted to downgrade their clan...

Scholars can be killed but not humiliated!

This sentence is not casual!

Even if there are already many aristocratic families that have no children in the court, these centuries-old clans are not easy to mess with.

Previously, His Majesty Li Xiaojiu dealt a severe blow to several old aristocratic families with the matter of changing the empress. The following series of policies, such as the scientific examination system, the school system, and the abolition of low status, will not be understood by these aristocratic families. Whatever His Majesty the young emperor wants to do, they will live in vain!

They are not strong enough to directly confront the emperor, but they are absolutely confident in removing the second in command who supports and promotes the New Deal—Queen Wu Xu.

Especially the children of Confucianism, who previously occupied most of the world in the court, were very dissatisfied with Wu Xu's behavior of advocating law and science, and increasing the proportion of Jinshi who counted law as agriculture.

Even Taoism, which Li Tang followed, was criticized because Wu Xu was more inclined to Buddhism (?).

Aristocratic families, Confucian scholars and a group of gods, this strange combination began to plan a conspiracy to bring down the Queen of Heaven.

It was also their luck (or misfortune?) that the person responsible for creating public opinion accidentally discovered Li Chunfeng's astronomical observation results, knowing that in the near future, there will be a solar eclipse in the Tang Dynasty...

This news is like a shot in the arm, making these people's blood boil.

Those sour rots who can only use pens immediately connected the solar eclipse with the affairs of the harem, and immediately used the funds provided by the aristocratic family to start compiling some rumors such as "the celestial phenomenon is different because of the evil star". Not only exaggerated the historical story of Empress Lu's chaotic government a hundred times, but also conveniently fabricated the horror legend of how the "drunk bone" was concocted today...

Wu Xu was about to laugh angrily. She didn't even know that she was such a terrifying person. Fortunately, everyone in the Tang Dynasty has the habit of reading regular newspapers. Those gossips can only deceive bookworms and Foreigners only.

As the specific date of the solar eclipse is getting closer, Wu Xu also launched "Chang'an Daily", "Luoyang Evening News" and other major media to popularize many research works of scientists in the Han Dynasty on the formation of the solar eclipse, and even set up a special page. A public guessing event was held.

As a result, the phrase "masters are among the people" really came true. Many readers deduced from the armillary sphere made in the Han Dynasty that the solar eclipse of the sun was due to the occlusion of the moon!

All of a sudden, Datang's interest in astronomy was unprecedentedly high, and some people even proposed the theory that the earth is not the center of the universe...

This unexpected event made the faces of the gods who had hoped to maintain the mystery of the solar eclipse pale.

On the day when the solar eclipse came, because the people who had been psychologically prepared for a long time, not only did they not panic, but they even called friends to watch the solar eclipse together, and even served small wine and side dishes as usual to watch the moon and view the scenery. Candles, while reciting poems, guessing how long the sun will disappear...

Are you too calm? !

After listening to the guards' reaction to the common people's reaction to the solar eclipse, Wu Xu felt dumbfounded.

The people of the Celestial Dynasty are really very receptive to new things!

This saves her from explaining why the sun being swallowed by the Tengu has something to do with the demise of the Wa Kingdom!

For Little Japan's self-proclaimed, classmate Xiao Wu has always been very responsive. At the beginning, Li Sanlang's plan to deal with the solar eclipse by destroying the Japanese was also an emergency strategy. Now there is no need to bother to explain it. How can Wu Xu be unhappy?

Besides, once the Deba regime of the Wa Kingdom is destroyed, the entire Wa Kingdom will be completely wiped out, and there will never be a country called "Japan" in this world...

This incident alone made Wu Xu feel so excited that he couldn't help himself!

What does it matter if a seaman escapes?

Even the Japanese themselves don't know that the Dahai people have slipped away. As long as she believes that the guy who was captured and offered as a captive is the Dahai people, wouldn't it be over?

Of course, things couldn't go as smoothly as Wu Xu thought.

After all, what about Chang'an, the elder brother and son of Hairen, this time the Tang Dynasty wiped out the Deyu regime, and held a prisoner offering ceremony in Luoyang, it was inevitable that the Marquis of Donghai would be invited to watch the ceremony. , things can get worse!

For this reason, Wu Xu also specially greeted Li Sanlang who is far away in Chang'an, but don't let her lose the chain at a critical moment like Su Dingfang!

Mr. Li accepted the secret decree from the Empress Dowager with a smile, and when he turned around, he went to Donghai Hou Mansion to pay a visit to the Hou Ye himself, and went to 'report the good news' to him...

As a result, after being visited by Mr. Li, Donghaihou fell ill that night, and he could only regret that he could not attend the prisoner presentation ceremony in Luoyang!

Since then, there has been another terrifying legend about Mr. Li in Chang'an City...

The author has something to say: After solving the Japanese kingdom, it's time to prepare for the four buns =. =

ps: Today is Women's Day, I wish all the girls and mothers in the world happy~