Chapter 141: The World Moves to Welcome the New (Next)

In xiangfu year that eventful autumn season, the war situation in guangling road is really let a person painful at the same time slander, Yang Shenxing troops out of jizhou was caught in a jar, Yan Zhenchun 30,000 elite cavalry was destroyed, although the end of the unpleasant, but at least all the real sword with the western chu rebel army against, in contrast, a few of the king of pacification division of the twist is simply to let the dynasty and the field is feeling ridiculous! Huainan King Zhao Ying led the army to leave the jurisdiction after the cantonment of Slide Mountain, not moving, Jing’an King Zhao Xun’s 6,000 riders in the arrival of Artemisia Ao Lake, there is no movement, as for the Yanzhi King’s son, in addition to all the way up the way to the north of the chicken flew dog jumping, the real to the southern part of the Guangling Road, simply completely disappeared, dare to say that your highness is not to run to the Jingan to go, but strutting around to play the wind of the autumn to raise the autumn fat to come?

But in a few days is the Xiangfu two years of the year off time, the king of Huainan’s troops to make people’s spirit, Li Yang on the weak nature of this famous in the world’s vassal king greatly changed, even a one-off successive success east of the slippery mountain of the yellow sheep, small fishy, hate the three passes!

Among them, Song Wuyang, the defender of Huangyang Pass, had already participated in the rebellion and erected the Jiang flag in the pass, but King Zhao Ying, the king of Huainan, lined up one mile outside the pass and rode out alone to beckon Song Wuyang to surrender, and the latter ordered to be shot by the city crossbow, but he was suddenly killed by the vice general Wang Di, who opened the door to greet the army under the command of King Zhao Ying, King of Huainan, and entered the pass. The King of Huainan used the surrendered general Wang Di Di’s 3,000 soldiers as the vanguard and attacked the Little Fishy Pass in the night, but the defending general Ji Yun firmly refused to surrender. Zhao Ying ordered a strong attack and personally supervised the battle, Wang Di’s soldiers braved the arrow rain to fill the trench first, and then set up ladders to attack the city with an ant-attachment trend, two attacks on the city, with more than 500 people killed in action, and Wang Di, who personally fell into the battle and was drenched in blood, asked for a truce, but Zhao Ying did not allow it, and allowed Wang Di to watch the battle from the side, and ordered the first line of his own soldiers to start the attack on the city, and the time of dusk, the steady stream of bed crossbows, catapults and battering ram arrived at the battlefield one after another, and the two sides fought bloody battles until the nightfall, and the Huainan soldiers died at the bottom of the city, eight soldiers died. The two sides bloody battle until the end of the night, Huainan foot soldiers died in the city of eight hundred people, Zhao Ying always hold the whip riding under the Zhao flag, indifferent. At dawn on the second day, the city was attacked again, Zhao Ying’s beloved general Xia Ping led eighty dead soldiers to attack the city for the first time, and all of them died in the battle, and Xia Ping’s body was stabbed down by the defending general Ji Yun with an iron spear. Wang diabolical indignation to fight, ants attached, an iron armor embedded feather arrow six or seven, by the boulder rubbed on the shoulder, smashed back to the ground, get up and climb the ladder, and was a pot of boiling oil poured down the head, from the ladder fell to the ground, the guards risked their lives to carry back.

Wearing the bright yellow python robe of Zhao Ying, looking at the incomparably stalemate of the tragic battle situation, ears filled with the wailing and shouting of the city over there, as well as the sound of the drums beside themselves, and of course, the cold wind blowing the Zhao flag hunting sound, the man surnamed Zhao, who has always been just a subject of ridicule in the Liyang Dynasty, slowly raised his head to look at the embroidered flag of that Zhao, lips pursed up, seems to be a kind of burden for many years finally He seemed to have a smile of relief as if he was relieved of his burden.

The attacking side of the city’s hammer wood are replaced with the fourth, up to 300 paces still has considerable lethality of the huge bed crossbow is also destroyed half, and small fishy pass several crossbow platform crossbow has long been no dense crossbow arrows can be shot, sporadic, and no longer have a flame. But swore to die with the city of small fishy pass is still struggling, fierce defense, nail full of five inches long and heavy six two nails more than two thousand, four sides of the blade to increase the killing of the wolf’s teeth beat all broken, the city winch cast and can be retrieved by the night fork logs and car foot logs is broken thick rope, but the city is still brave and healthy armored men constantly threw down the sharp iron hooks and long iron chain composed of “iron owls! However, at the top of the city, there were still brave and healthy soldiers throwing down “iron owls” made of sharp iron hooks and long iron chains, which could be hooked onto the armor or even the bodies of the attacking soldiers, and hung the hooked person in the mid-air just like fishing.

There were also treacle axes with strange shapes that either hooked, stabbed or shoveled the arms of those who climbed the city.

Zhao Ying, who steered his horse a little closer to the battlefield, saw with his own eyes that a soldier’s whole arm was cut off by the shovel, and the arm fell off from the top of the city before the soldier did.

Zhao Ying was indifferent to this and turned his horse around with an indifferent expression.

The precarious little fishy pass is in an emergency, Ji Yun had to order fast riders out of the east gate to ask for help from the hate this pass, agreed that the two sides in the morning at dawn together surprise attack on the camp of the king of Huainan, little fishy pass will then take the initiative to open the gates of the city rushed out of the 200 cavalry, Ji Yun led the charge, cavalry army, after the little fishy pass is the only remaining four hundred people. Zhao Ying ordered his masters to lead ten elite scouts to chase after him, but unexpectedly he was still wounded and escaped. The next day chen time, know small fishy concern will not be able to defend ji yun really with the heart of death, with two hundred cavalry appeared in the city door, no matter hate this off the main general whether to rescue, he will die for the great chu, is in his prime ji yun is not not life-threatening, is not ignorant of the current situation, but in his twentieth year of the year of the and the crown, there is no should have been awarded the crown of the father, there is no ceremony to celebrate the big guests, is his own for their own! He added the Velvet Cloth Crown because Ji Hai, who was a military general of Chu, had long since died in battle, and his uncles and uncles had also died in battle one after another.

Sitting on his war horse, Ji Yun let his men open the city gate before he looked back at the faces illuminated by those torches, and did not speak, but only clasped his fists fiercely.

On this day, Ji Yun, the defender of the Little Fishy Pass of the Western Chu rebels, left the city at dawn to take the initiative to attack the King of Huainan. However, Zhao Ying’s army seemed to have anticipated this and defended the city in an organized manner. Hate this Pass, which has the largest number of cavalry among the three passes, disregarded the order of Xie Xijian, the general of the western line, and went out with 800 cavalry and 2,500 foot soldiers, but they were attacked by Zhao Ying’s real main force in the middle of the road, and the spearhead of the 800 cavalry suffered heavy casualties under the crossbow fire, and the army was crushed at once, and the main general and vice generals were all killed by the King of Huainan’s horsemen during the confusion, leaving behind the old and weak soldiers at the head of the city of Hate this Pass. The commander of the foot soldiers of Hate This Pass fled back to the city and killed himself after leading 700 soldiers and horses.

Ji Yun, after three charges, died of a feathered arrow of Hou Datong, the general of Zhao Ying, the king of Huainan, which penetrated his skull and killed him on his horse.

The two hundred horsemen and four hundred foot soldiers of Little Fishy Pass also all died in the charge.

Wearing an eye-catching python robe, Zhao Ying dismounted and walked past the corpses, slowly climbed to the top of the city, looked at the rising sun in the east, and said with a smile, “The sunrise has Yao, and the lamb’s fur is like moistening.”

The King of Huainan, who had successive victories in three passes in hand, did not transmit even a single report of success to Tai’an City, and did not even occupy one of the dangerous passes of the western gateway of the Guangling Road to hate this pass, in fact, this feudal king did not have the intention of dividing his troops to digest the results of the victory at all after he broke through the pass, and just let the seriously wounded Wang Di Di and the remnants of his troops to continue to stay in Huangyang Pass, and after inserting a large flag of the word Zhao in the head of the three passes, he led all the soldiers of the Huainan Road to continue to travel eastward, and the army was directed at the difficult and difficult to attack pass. He led all the soldiers of Huainan Dao to continue their march to the east, pointing his troops directly to the treacherous and difficult to attack Shaking Pavilion Pass. Between the two passes of Shaking Pavilion and Shaking Pavilion, there is a rare plains in the west of Guangling Dao where the water network is densely covered.

The King of Huainan made a slight reorganization at the Hate Pass, and then brought along all the horses that could be ridden, and slowly advanced. It was as if he was quietly waiting for the commander-in-chief of the western front of Chu who had urgently rushed to Shaking Yu Pass, the genius general who had made the entire Liyang Dynasty memorize his name at such a young age, Xie Xijian.

Closer to the plains of Shaky Yu Pass, the two armies, which had enough time for consolidation and scouting, began to face each other from a distance, and King Zhao Ying of Huainan dismounted from his horse and put on an exquisite armor in addition to his python robe, and carried a pouch of arrows that he had treasured for many years on his back. This is ridiculed as the ambitious and incompetent feudal king of the Zhao surname, this after the vassal’s years of alcoholism and acting crazy, but also by the current son of heaven many times reprimanded the pitiful, this in the eldest son died “for no reason” after the Dan Tong Pass has been childless, turned on his horse, Zhao Ying looked straight ahead, to the side of the two generals followed for many years, smiled and said: “Hou Datong, Yu Qianshan, Xia Ping preceded us and died on the battlefield as we agreed when we were young, now it’s our turn. For so many years, I even tired you guys to live such a suffocating life.”

Hou Datong laughed loudly, “It’s true that living is quite frustrating, but it’s not just a pain in the ass. Later on, I have to kill a few more Western Chu remnants to ensure that I am angry with old Xia, haha, forget that this guy is already dead!”

Yu Qianshan was more like a refined schemer shaking his feather fan than the rough-looking Hou Datong, but he was also wearing armor and a sword, and smiled, “You guys are quite painfully fast, it’s hard for me, a scholar.”

Before Zhao Ying ordered the charge to begin, he closed his eyes and said softly, “Father, my son is unfilial, and I haven’t had the chance to go to the Imperial Tomb to toast over the years. Today, I will substitute blood for wine.”

Directly in front of King Zhao Ying of Huainan, there were two thousand heavily armored foot soldiers lined up to reject the horses, while there were one thousand elite cavalry on each flank of the foot soldiers, and there were even close to one thousand roaming cavalry roaming far away, waiting for an opportunity to make a move.

On this day, excluding the 4,000 soldiers and horses recruited from all over the Huainan Road, King Zhao Ying, together with Hou Datong Yu Qianshan, two generals, and all the close guards and soldiers, all of them were killed in battle, and none of them died from arrows in the back, and none of them died from being hacked to death by the back of the horsemen.

On the same day, heard all the way from artemisia ao lake galloped to the Jing’an king Zhao Xun six thousand riders, in the dusk moment to reach the periphery of the battlefield, in the knowledge that the situation has gone back to the premise of the sky, in the knowledge of rocking yuyuguan there are still one thousand heavy rider motionless, in the see with their own eyes the king of huainan zhao ying’s body was west chu general a spear pick off the horse back when the young feudal king Zhao Xun still decided to lead the army to the charge!

In the end, only two hundred riders were left to escort Zhao Xun to escape from the battlefield.

In this battle, one of the two feudal lords who participated in the war was killed and one was injured.

Just at the end of the year, the Western Chu rebels shaking You Guan victory, means that this is not a thick encirclement mouth wide open, both sides leakage, the court of Liyang can be said to be worse, the former can be happy to celebrate the old year and welcome the new, the latter in the Yan Zhenchun after the death of the capital once again shrouded in a layer of heavy gloom. Fortunately, following the Yang Shenxeng Yan Zhenchun, another famous in the Spring and Autumn of the weighty veteran in and commander Lu Shengxiang openly and honestly after a long talk, led the troops south, 30,000 troops pushed straight into the Qing Yang basin, not to defeat the Western Chu, but only to strive to save General Yang Shenxeng trapped 40,000 Jixinan foot soldiers.

Hussar General Lu Shengxiang, who has been stagnating at Youlu Pass, has also finally made a move in the limelight, leading his army to march south along the Yuandong Plain.

But one of the most stabilizing events was not the mobilization of nearly 100,000 troops, but only because two people appeared in Tai’an City.

One was His Majesty the Emperor, who let the Chief Minister of the Emperor’s Department issue an imperial edict after returning to the capital from his border patrol, and the other was the Great General Gu Jiantang, who accompanied the Emperor.

That monarch, who had once chastised the King of Huainan for a trivial matter, had only issued two holy edicts after returning to Tai’an City, the first of which was to let Zhang Julu die a miserable death and not be awarded a posthumous title. The latter is to let the feudal king Zhao Ying died extremely mournful honor, posthumous “Yi”, and said “I if I lose the humerus”.

The year off is not good, but ultimately have to cross over.

Tai’an City, the sound of firecrackers to say goodbye to the old year, just than in the past the lack of that festive gas.

In this way, the court of Liyang ushered in the second year of Xiangfu.

The first morning court of the new year.

The emperor Zhao Dun sat on the dragon chair, this is the king since the throne do not know how many times this sitting in the north towards the south, he through the wide door of the temple, through the wide door of the palace, looking straight to the unobstructed view of the imperial road.

The emperor should be the south and listen to the world, to the Ming and rule.

Perhaps it is keenly aware of the son of God’s distraction, the Secretary of the seal eunuch Song Tanglu did not call out on time that “something to report, nothing to retreat”.

The civil and military officials in the courtroom and the courtiers outside the hall are respectfully lowered their heads, convergence of vision, breathless and quiet waiting, those who are bitter about the morning court of the old ministers, they began to doze without showing.

The emperor bit by bit slowly retracted his sight, from the seemingly endless straight to the southern border of the imperial road back to the palace gate, the emperor also clearly remembered that year summoned to meet the two generals of the first to destroy Dachu and then Pingxi Shu, the older one crippled, the step is not in a hurry, not the kind of because of the crippled slow, but a kind of walking in this for the human courtiers should be the most serious road, but also do not take it seriously that kind of diffidence, the person wear a handle, the famous Xu family is the most important thing. That famous heaven-shattering Xu family sword, his step by step approach, let as the nine to five himself feel a doubly humiliating sense of suffocation.

And the young man behind the cripple, good looking, a white coat, and really young ah, let a person see it will be close to the heart, especially he, the new ruler of the country, hate to lower the frame with the arms of the words of joy, in the bottom of his heart, the new emperor that the first emperor can have that cripple for the war of the north and the south, then he himself should have a white soldier saint who has been more than ever, he can be as rich as the first emperor to give the greatest power to a young military general. Give a young general the greatest authority, the most troops and horses, for him to take the horse to send off, let him let go to the whip to the outside of the plug, the ruler and the ministers to establish the frontiers of success.

Just that year, the young man in white refused, the emperor was disappointed, but not angry.

Then later, the emperor watched those later glittering young readers is also like this in the morning sun, they with hard to hide the constraints and excitement, step by step into their own line of sight.

Yin Maochun, Zhao Youling, Bai Guo, Wang Xionggui, Zheng Zhenxian, Qian Yujian ……

Linyi.

Together, they created the Spring of Yong Hui of the Liyang Dynasty.

And they are destined to be passed down through the ages in history along with the oligarchs.

At the end of the Yong Hui dynasty, there were no those two unruly and difficult to tame obtrusive vassal kings Xu Snapdragon and Zhao Bing in the temple, but there were such meritorious military generals as Gu Jiantang, Yang Shenxing, and Yan Zhenchun, as well as Lu Shengxiang Lu Baijie, a young and strong general who had enough years to accumulate his war achievements. There are Zhang Julu, Huan Wen, Yao Baifeng, these gradually aging civilian leaders, there are Yin Maochun, these famous men in their prime, but also those seemingly inexhaustible one a three scholar scholar scholar.

The late emperor once deeply regretted that when he first set his sights on the world, he was overstretched in every aspect of his employment.

But he is not the same as Zhao Dun, he really felt the kind of luxury of sitting on the river and mountain.

The emperor withdrew some of his eyes again and saw that temple door.

That threshold was a crucial dragon gate that all officials under the sky wanted to cross.

He personally watched an official patch embroidered with white pheasants and herons or bears and fighters of the aged civil officials and military generals, year after year kneeling in the square outside the temple, blearily looking at this common people’s mouth of the Golden Palace, kneeling until they lay into the coffin has not yet been able to enter it.

Have also seen many want to laugh but forced to hold back the scene, some people are hungry dizzy sun dizzy by eunuchs carry away, some people can not hold back the urgent urine was found reprimanded, and even the day before in order to grab the flower girl face, the next day will be secretly elbowed each other’s colleagues. There are also people quietly yawning by him as the emperor’s sharp eyes found, jokingly intentionally face shouted him into the temple to listen to the training, he remembered that guy did not wait for him to speak, scared to flop on the ground, seven-foot man, non-stop kowtow, more than tears. He warm words of questioning, learned that he was on duty the night before in the Ministry of household Yamen, almost did not sleep a night, he was allowed to take leave to rest for a day, he also smiled and asked the temple of the Ministry of household officials can be approved, at that time is not Wang Xionggui more than the white Guo Guo sitting in the Ministry of household that position, always known for its rigor, the old book of rare jokes and echoed the sentence, “Your Majesty’s golden mouth, I do not allow to be permitted! “, six years later the Ministry of household officials to go to the Huainan Road, high rise county governor, the old Secretary has long been to the home town.

The emperor once again retracted his sight and placed it in the hall.

West Chu old master Sun Xiji’s that chair is gone, this old man at the moment should be in the West Chu Palace standing in front of that little girl.

The emperor to this old man can not talk about hate, several times the king and the minister dialogue, the emperor admired the old man’s profound knowledge, and even privately expressly said temporarily only the soil and water of western chu can give the old man this kind of unique qi, of course only temporarily, the old man is also sincerely nodded his head to recognize. Such an old man, even if he goes to Xichu, the emperor feels that even if the imperial army pacifies Guangling Road later, as long as the old man is still willing to live, then Liyang Dynasty should have the breadth of mind to let the old man enjoy his old age peacefully.

The emperor finally looked at the young man standing face to face with his back to himself, wearing a positive yellow python robe.

It was his son, Crown Prince Zhao Zhuan.

For this son who had already been supervising the country for some time, the emperor had nothing to be dissatisfied with.

Just looking at him, it was inevitable that he felt a little guilty about his first-born son, Zhao Wu, so he planned to marry that Chen Yu, who was said to be magnificent, far away from the border to Zhao Wu.

And leaping over the crown prince’s head, the emperor saw a piercingly empty seat.

Nearby there was Huan Wen, who had stood there for some years under the Gate Province, and there was also an additional Qi Yanglong, the newly appointed Chinese Minister.

On the other side stood Gu Jiantang, the Great Pillar State who had returned from the two Liao.

It is the only missing person.

The emperor subconsciously gripped the armrests of the dragon chair with both hands.

He went to the imperial prison, but always stood far away, from late at night until early in the morning, but did not come close to face that person.

He was afraid, afraid that the purple bearded blue-eyed child would be in a sorry state in prison, afraid that he would see the appearance of the head minister of the dynasty losing his mind.

But the real fear in his heart was that he was afraid that this scholar named Zhang Julu would not be half disheveled at all, and would only laugh and scold him, Zhao Dun, for being a dimwitted ruler!

The Emperor whose lips were gently trembling quietly loosened his hand.

Song Tanglu said aloud almost simultaneously, “If there is something to report, if there is nothing to report, retire from the court!”

In the chilling night air, a couple walked hand in hand through the all-silent palace, and when they came to a majestic hall, the radiant man turned to help his wife tighten the chest knot of his fox fur, then looked up to the top of that hall, reached out to point, and laughed softly, “Livers and guts are alike, and the ruler and ministers share the autumn moon. Like-minded, brothers sit together in the spring breeze. This is the friendship between the late Emperor and Xu Primrose Yang Taiyou there.”

The man turned sideways to tenderly hold his wife’s hands, lowered his head to help her puff a mouthful of hot air, and then said, “‘When a great man is a male flyer, can he be a female?!’ These are the words that Zhao Heng blurted out in front of the late emperor at the age of seven, and I can’t say them in a million words. ‘There are four things that I wish to be unaffected by, green mountains, hidden books, beauty and elder brother.’ This is what Zhao Yi that big chubby guy said, so the world is my elder brother’s, but I’m happy to give him a Guangling Road. When that guy Zhao Bing was a teenager, he often claimed that he could hear the short sword at the head of his bed whimpering as a dragon and tiger, only the older he got the more reticent he became, so I sent him to the southern border to fight the Northern Mang, no matter what he did. As for Zhao Ying Zhao Suo, I’ve never had much affection for them, but since Zhao Ying died for what he deserved, I won’t begrudge anything.”

The man looked at his wife with reddened eyes and suddenly laughed, “I know, I am returning to my days are numbered.”

His wife, the motherly Empress Zhao Zhi, rested her head gently on his shoulder.

Just Zhao Dun instead of some emperor stroked his wife’s hair and softly said, “I have no regrets in this life, but I feel that I have too little time with you. It’s funny, maybe the time I spent facing those few cabinet ministers facing those zhangzhi is more than the time I spent by your side.”

Zhao Zhi suddenly asked, “Remember that trick we did back then? At that time, you were just the prince and I was the prince’s consort.”

Zhao Dun laughed out loud and took a step back, bowing in a serious manner, “Empress Mother is a thousand years old.”

Zhao Zhi also took a step back, “Long live Your Majesty.”

A few moments later, Zhao Dun covered his mouth and still kept coughing.

Zhao Zhi helped to gently pound his back.

After Zhao Dun slowed down, he held her hand tightly, “Let’s go.”

Zhao Zhi gave a hmmm.

She said, “Your Majesty, you know what? I’m happy to be able to marry you. To be able to grow old with you, even happier.”

“I know that you’ve always felt that you don’t look good enough, but actually, ah, you can’t look good enough anymore. Look, you have gray hair, I still can’t get tired of looking at you, it’s still exactly the same as when I saw you for the first time, at a glance, I liked it too much, I liked it so much that I won’t stop liking it in this life.”

“So you will also say these love words ah.”

“Haha …… love words naturally will say, just always used to think that the best love words under the sky, is to go with you to this day, and still let you know that I like you more than the first time I saw you.”

The woman whose hand was being held tightly stopped in her tracks and whimpered and sobbed, quite unlike what a woman’s mother should do.

He stopped with her and tried to reach out and help her wipe away her tears.

But he eventually fell back to her.

She put her arms around him, although the tear stains are still there, but her eyes are unusually resolute, lowered her voice and said: “It’s good to be gone, you can finally rest in peace. I will help you look at this great river and mountain, and help you look at the seal child sitting on the dragon chair …….”

Only after stepping into the second year of Xiang Fu, there came a heavenly bad news.

At the beginning of the spring of Liyang Dynasty, the whole country was onyx.

A huge Tai’an City, even more so, the sound of crying could be heard everywhere.

Then, a young man surnamed Zhao, who had been a prince for more than twenty years and had only worn the prince’s python suit for only one year, rightfully put on that unique piece of clothing of the dynasty and reigned over the world.

The young king of a country was wearing a brand new dragon robe that fit incomparably well.

Sitting high on that chair.

He raised his eyes to the distance with the same expressionless face as successive emperors as the entire dynasty of civil and military personnel performed the kneeling salute.

The emperor at this time should have been a false hand raised, without losing etiquette, said in a deep voice, “all the ministers calm down”.

But he did not rush to speak.

He narrowed his eyes, enjoying the blackened kneeling figures inside and outside the temple.

If he didn’t speak, no one could rise.

Because from now on, the Emperor of Liyang was him, Zhao Zhuan ah!

He intentionally glanced in the northwest direction, the corner of his mouth imperceptibly curling up slightly.