Chapter 277 – Dead End and Reason
If adding chairs to the council hall is pouring oil on the fire and the young vassal king cocooning himself, then White Feather Cavalry Commander Yuan Nanting arriving at the council hall with a few veteran marshals who had quit the border army is adding insult to injury. Not only the former cavalry vice marshal Lieutenant Tieshan and the former infantry vice marshal Liu Yuanji arrived, even Lin Doufang came, the latter not only in the Liangzhou border parade hands to beat up Liu Yuanji want to fight for Zhong Hongwu, but also appeared in the procession for the son of His Highness along with the Jin partridge Zhou Kang, the Xu family old pawns back then, almost with the Xu Snapdragon in-laws, so Lin Doufang in the northern Liang although retired for many years, but in the two dynasties of the northern Liang iron horsemen in the mind of the co-owners. In the hearts of the two Northern Liang iron horsemen, it is obviously an extremely special existence, far from being comparable to an ordinary Northern Liang general. The council hall is crowded, and to Liu Yunu Wang Lingbao these martyrs added chairs, so when Lin Duofang and his party seated, silent for many years in the council hall tonight has been a little overcrowded. At this moment, the council hall placed nearly sixty chairs, the northern Liang cavalry and foot army generals and vice generals, the three states assassin generals, the local power lieutenant, Qingliang mountain ministers and strategists, all gathered together, the mountain rain wants to full of buildings.
Lin Duofang seated, look around, some young faces, more or familiar with half a lifetime of old faces, the old man complex, look at the current situation, the two sides have not pierced that layer of windowpaper, they are not too late. Said both sides, in fact, the root of the family, is Xu Fengyen and the entire Northern Liang only. This once for the Xu family of old pawns into death eyes trance, think back to the year, after winning the battle of the western base wall, the general also faced a similar scene, to Zhao Changling as the leader, the force with the cunning rabbit dead dog cooking signs of Liyang Zhao room to rule the river, at this time is still sitting in the council hall Yan Wenluan belongs to one of the set of people, and has not been in the northern Liang Xu Pu Wu Yu, has died Zhong Hongwu, are also. Of course, Lin Doufang himself is even more among them. Only the new and old Liang Wang successive two successive two times, similar and different, after all, that time the great general there is a Li Yishan around, in addition to the deep minded Chen Zhibao, the remaining five war heroes are unswervingly stood behind the great general. And today’s young vassal king, it seems like he has really been in a situation where all of his relatives have fallen away from him.
Lin Doufang unobtrusively glanced at the brocade partridge, it is said that this time in the refusal of the northern city Zhou Kang was forced to surrender part of the military power, and has already had a gap with the king. Lin Doufang line of sight shifted to the Northern Liang capital guard Chu Lushan and cavalry commander Yuan Zuozong side, Chu Lushan looked down at the toes as if in the counting ants, Yuan Baixiong in the closed eyes to rest his soul, the two side of the same general’s son Qi Dangguo straighten his back, fists clenched, want to say something like, so that the tiger back waist of the battlefield generals appear to have a few comical and ridiculous. Lin Doufang line of sight swept over the outgoing Liangzhou assassin Tian Peifang, the nominal third chair of the civil officials of the Northern Liang Road, probably like a lamb standing between jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards, very fidgety. Lin Doufang quietly sighed, this time in the New Year’s Eve collective audience with the king, he got the news early, is still in the border army holding the power of Chen Yuntui greeted him, did not say anything in detail, only said that Beiliang ranked guys will go to the king’s house, only to ask his old Lin want to join in the fun, Lin Doufang know that certainly will not be what Shu Xin thing, did not want to trip the muddy water, but just the pro or can not be held back for fear of the great generals! It is not easy to save the family business, overnight will fall apart. Lin Doufang finally shouted on the life brother Liu Saner and the old and mature Wei Tieshan, I hope that no matter what happens, at least there are three of them old men who put their lives on the line as a peacemaker, always not to be out of hand. The strange thing is that when they came to the king’s house door, Yuan Nanting is over there waiting for a long time, said Yan Wenluan and Chu Lu Shan to take a message to their three old, want them to wait and see what happens, do not have to rush to take a stand. Lin Doufang, who rushed to Liangzhou in a hurry, surged with a nameless anger, but Yuan Nanting was one of the old pawns who sent off for His Highness, Lin Doufang held back and didn’t lash out at him on the spot.
Inside the hall, there is no “gentleman and courtiers” noisy talk, the group of civil and military officials are not polite pleasantries, Lin Doufang and Tieshan Liu Yuanji Yu feel a suffocating sense of oppression, here and now, no sound is better than sound. It can be imagined that the pressure on the young feudal king is very large. Liu Yuan Ji nature brown, big grin used to, turned his head and sat next to He Zhonghu asked in a low voice: “Old He, in the end you want to mess which ah? Give me Liu Saner through a bottom, save uncomfortable, this knife resting on the neck to wipe not wipe, but also too difficult to bear some.”
In recent years has been physically ill old marshal hesitated for a moment, lowered his voice calmly said: “North Mang barbarians do not know when the army will be pressed, the king wants to lead a cavalry elite south to the Central Plains at such a time ……”
Liu Yuan Ji immediately glared and said, “What, we’re finally going to fuck those white-eyed wolves in Li Yang? Good thing ah, count me in! I don’t want to continue to be the deputy commander of the infantry after the comeback, I can give a general as a general, under the hands of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers will be able to make do, the first to fight the western Sichuan or Hezhou? But said, I want to be the vanguard general ……”
He Zhonghu glanced at the old reckless, when Liu Yuanji returned home from the Guanwai, the old general immediately put the three sons of the misdeeds beat half to death, almost to run to Qingliang Mountain personally to ask for forgiveness, or the general wrote to Liu Yuanji, which only let go, but the old general soon personally escorted the three sons to Yan Wenluan army, said where it is easy to die in Youzhou where the dead will be thrown to the dead count, the home, anyway, there are five grandchildren. There are still five grandchildren in the family. But what’s more interesting is that Yan Wenluan put down a sentence to Liu Yuanji, which made Liu San’er so angry that he almost went up in smoke, and Yan Wenluan very nonchalantly said in front of the old man that the Youzhou foot soldiers don’t accept garbage. For this reason the two old men almost cut off their friendship, and in the end it was Chen Yuntui who helped Liu Yuanji’s three sons to join the army.
Lin Doufang asked softly, “Old Marshal He, what’s going on?”
He Zhonghu said with a helpless face, “Do you know about Western Chu Empress Jiang Si?”
Lin Doufang nodded, “This matter is abuzz, I’ve heard about it in the countryside, rumor has it that this woman was saved by the Great General, and has been secretly adopted in the royal residence, and then it was taken away by Cao Changqing, which led to the Western Chu Restoration thing.”
Lin Doufang frowned as he said this, “Is it hard to believe?”
He Zhongxiu sighed, lowered his voice and said, “You guessed it, the king is to be angry for the red face ah, if it is put aside in the past, Liang Mang war is not imminent, not to mention the seven or eight thousand elite cavalry, that is, two or three million cavalry, to go to the Central Plains also go to the Central Plains, there is a vassal king of the flag of the rebellion, and is not really want to rebel, the northern Liang is not worried about the court to say three or four, to take a step back, the Zhao Family really To do this in the matter of shipping again and again to make things difficult for Beiliang, we can instead follow the trend to let the court ride the tiger difficult to get down. But now the situation, the North Mang has lost red eyes, I guess that old woman is losing her mind, we refuse the North City has not yet been built, the deployment of the Guanwai has not yet been completely completed …… Alas, Lin old brother, do you think it is not this reasoning?”
Lin Doufang silent.
Liu Yuan Ji some blocked, with the readers like reasoning he is not good, but always feel where not right, so this year scolded His Highness the world’s most fierce old man, looked at the young man sitting in the main seat and empty a chair around, Liu Yuan Ji scratched his head, his heart is confused. Yan Wenluan, in the general Li Yishan Chen Zhi Bao these backbone of the dead dead gone, the only can in the northern Liang army in the grand banner of the border army, look around, finally take the lead to break the silence that makes everyone feel embarrassed, raised his head to look squarely at the young feudal king, asked in a deep voice: “I Yan Wenluan, the northern Liang infantry army commander in chief! I have recently heard that Your Highness intends to personally lead the Feng Zi Battalion and deploy more than 10,000 elite iron horsemen to the south of Guangling Road? May I ask what you want to do with this? Dare I ask if this move will miss the opportunity of the war outside of Guanwai?”
The young man on the main seat bent down and gently ruffled the coals, rising and straightening his back. Lin Doufang’s mind turned sharply, rushed to speak before the former clan king opened his mouth, but also do not care about what overstepped his authority, hurriedly said, “Marshal Yan, the Northern Mang battle deaths of three hundred thousand people, as a bridgehead for the supply of food and grass, the Southern Dynasty has been overwhelmed, it is difficult to rectify in a short period of time, this time the Northern Mang barbarians fought in the war, different from the past nomads come and go like the wind, hit the Central Plains, the more, the more The more they hurt their vitality, I believe that within three months the war is unlikely to happen, since this is the case, with the speed of advancement of my Northern Liang Iron Cavalry, going to the Central Plains Guangling Road, a trip back and forth, won’t affect the overall situation.”
Yan Wenluan didn’t even look at Lin Doufang, he just sneered, “If you say there will be no war for three months, then there will be no war? Furthermore, wouldn’t that old bitch and the Southern Court King Dong Zhuo take advantage of the fact that Northern Liang is leaderless and cause several elite troops to head south first?”
Lin Doufang looked at the young vassal king and said, “Your Highness doesn’t need to personally travel to Guangling Road.”
Without waiting for a response from Yan Wenluan’s side, Xu Fengnian had already shaken his head and said, “If Northern Liang sends troops to Guangling, I will definitely lead the army myself.”
Lin Doufang’s head was spinning for a while, how should we talk about this?
Xu Fengnian suddenly laughed, “I mean if the army is sent out, since all of you here do not agree ……”
Right at this moment, a Confucian shirted old man panted and ran to the entrance of the council hall, one foot crossed the threshold, then stood violently, as if he no longer dared to lift the other foot, just so oddly one foot inside and one foot outside the room, he stabilized his mind, reddened his face and raised his voice angrily, “The hall of the Beiliang Iron Cavalry A world, how is it that when you have won the war, you have small guts instead? So what if we transfer 10,000 cavalry to the Central Plains? Not to mention 10,000, I think even 20,000 to 30,000 will be fine, so what, without the king of Beiliang personally help you to control the border, you a bunch of officials do not know how to guard the door of Beiliang? Yan Wenluan, your foot soldiers are the best in the world, and you need the king to stand behind you every moment, do you want him to help you with advice or to serve you tea? He Zhongshu, Zhou Kang, Gu Dazu, you are guarding the Liangzhou Pass, do you need your majesty to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy in every battle? Otherwise you won’t be able to defeat the Northern Mang barbarians?”
This old man said more and more angry, reached out and pointed to the position of the most forward a few people, a bit like pointing at the nose to scold, “Chu Lushan, Yuan Zuozong, Qi Dangguo! You three, don’t forget what it is for that you can sit here!”
The old man turned his head to look at that set of civil and military personnel in Liuzhou, snickering, “As for you Liuzhou officials, you really have a reason to cry out and not let the king leave Beiliang, hey, if it wasn’t for the king personally leading his troops and horses to rush to Qingcang City, you guys really wouldn’t be able to guard the Liuzhou that Li Yishan has created.”
Yang Guangdou, the assassin of Liuzhou, was almost about to get up and jump to his feet to curse, only to be pulled back by Chen Xiliang, who had an equally somber face.
Outside the door corridor Jin Bao room did not show his face, after hearing the Wang priest’s outburst, some admiration from the bottom of his heart, not to say reason or not, just based on this verve of the tongue, it is enough for the old man’s entire second half of his life is qualified to brag about it. Although the Central Plains readers also like to scold the Beiliang martial artists, but who has the guts to scold in front of the face of the Beiliang military generals? But Wang priest this is a breath of almost the Northern Liang civil and military all scolded all over, no wonder just now the old man to pull himself first to listen to the tide of the Pavilion, dare he give himself the courage to go. This period of time the exchange of letters, brothers and sisters have mentioned the deeds of Gu Da Zu at the time outside the Liangzhou Pass, the facts prove that even the reputation of the Spring and Autumn veterans, in the past years of the South Tang pillar of the first person, to the Northern Liang, even if it has been the foot army vice marshal, in the annoyance of the local military forces, as well as to eat a pocket to go, everyone knows, the next commander in chief of the infantry army, the original Gu Da Zu and Chen Yuntui is between fifty-fifty, and today, even if not Chen Yuntui to replace Yan Yan. Even if it is not Chen Yuntui to replace Yan Wenluan, even if it is appointed by the younger generation of military generals, anyway, it is definitely not Gu Dazu. This from the side shows in the northern Liang border army, military forces are how deep-rooted, even if the young king of the clan force row to lose the heart of the army of Gu Dazu pushed into the position of commander in chief of the infantry army, it is estimated that the Gu Dazu himself can not sit stable.
In that case, the days of biding his time in the academy were completely wasted.
The old man no longer had any fear, and said angrily, “As soon as the great general left, everyone became bullish, and dared to gang up and come to the Xu family to show off their power! I don’t believe it, there are so many people here, there is no one who has a heart towards the king, Xu Beihao! Chen Xiliang! Li Hanlin! All stand up for me and say a fair word!”
As a result, not only the two strategists, Xu Beihao and Chen Xiliang, but even the prodigal son, Li Hanlin, sat on his chair, not moving.
Wang priest froze on the spot, suddenly sat on the threshold, like a shrew cursing, tearing his heart out and said, “Why do we hold 300,000 iron horsemen of the king of Beiliang, live a little meaningless? Once, just once, can’t it all work? Yan Wenluan you old bastards ah! You’re so old, why are you bullying a young man who isn’t even thirty years old!”
The hall was silent.
With bloodshot eyes, Priest Priest Wang laughed in anger, raised one palm high and laughed, “Since the early Yong Hui when that Liyang army returned without success, for more than a decade, for the first time in more than a decade, the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Northern Mang, do you know why?!”
Priest Wang slowly stood up, always raising that hand high, the old man looked like he had pressed his palm hard against the wall and shouted, “At that time, Xu Snap stood by the wall, slapped his hand on the North Mang situation map, and said a word to me, Xu Snap said that his son was there!”
The old man looked angrily at the people in the council chamber, “Xu Snap also asked me if this reason to send out troops, is it enough?!”
The old man violently lifted his other hand and pressed again, “Then, the current Xu family head of the family, telling you that there is a person in Guangling Road, he, Xu Fengyen, as it were, must be rescued, is this reason, is it enough?!”
Just after a short face to face, Yan Wenluan still had a stern face and muffled out, “Not enough!”
Oil and salt does not enter.
Priest Wang climbed to his feet and said with open teeth and claws, “I can’t beat you to death, you old turtle!”
Just the old man suddenly seemed like he was plastered with a fixation charm, his body tilted back, and out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed a person, and finally waited.