Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 415 The Moth Is Finally Here

Outside the city of Mayi, a wooden platform is being built, with beams on top and blankets on the bottom. Du Xiao is busy getting his personal guards in armor to act as guards and stand up everywhere with long daggers in their hands. Cui Xin is also busy giving pointers. Although the placement is simple, it can't be too shabby.

After taking a few mouthfuls from the water bag, Cui Xin touched his throat. After working for a long time, his voice became a little hoarse. He handed the water bag back casually, glanced at him and asked, "Are you from the Zhujiagou tribe?"

Zhu Ba respectfully replied: "Yes, the villain is your personal guard."

"How long have you been with him?"

"Lang Jun stays in Zhujiagou, and the villain is Lang Jun's entourage, and then he will go to Shandong." Zhu Ba said softly: "Lang Jun is benevolent and righteous, and all disciples will die."

After a moment of silence, Cui Xin suddenly asked, "Have you heard that Huairen's mother is named Zhu?"

"Yes." Although Zhu Ba didn't know the inside story, he knew that there must be a connection between the Zhu family and the Zhujiagou people.

Liu Shirang came in a hurry, sometimes looking up at the sky, "I'm afraid there will be snow in the afternoon."

Cui Xin also raised his head and glanced, the sky was gloomy, the sky was not visible, and the atmosphere was quite depressing.

The recruiting is scheduled for noon today, and the two sides started detailed negotiations early in the morning. Liu Shirang is not qualified to get involved, and Cui Xin is too lazy to get involved... Yuan Junzhang is more sure that the person in charge is Li Shan.

Just as he was hesitating whether to ask someone to remind him, Zhu Ba pointed at the city gate and said, "Here we come."

Cui Xin immediately saw the young man in the green shirt, tall and straight, with a calm demeanor, and he stood out from the crowd as he paced.

Liu Shirang's gaze also fell on Li Shan's body, and he suddenly turned his head to look at Cui Xin, opened his mouth, and finally said nothing.

Cui Xin knew what Liu Shirang wanted to ask, he also asked Li Shan this question yesterday... What is the general trend?
For Liu Shirang, Li Shan has no scruples, but for Cui Xin... Hey, he is quite jealous, which son-in-law can not feel guilty when he meets the version of his father-in-law who loves his daughter and madman?
Of course Li Shan knew that when the Turks attacked next year, Yuan Junzhang might make a 180-degree turn and surrender the city... This would indeed implicate Li Shan.

But it is even more important to see that once Yuan Junzhang submits the surrender form, it means that the political faction of this force has undergone a fundamental change.

You must know that Yuan Junzhang was once Liu Wuzhou's general, and even Liu Wuzhou's brother-in-law. Li Yuan tried to appease him several times before, but Yuan Junzhang refused several times, and repeatedly attacked Daizhou... This time he voted for Tang, even if he rebelled next year, Can Turks still trust Yuan Junzhang without any scruples?

Even if Yuan Junzhang votes for Turks again next year, he should know that relying on Turks is unreliable. When he is in a difficult situation, Li Tang may help him, but Turks will not.

This is a strategy of division, and it is also a conspiracy under the sun. As long as Yuan Junzhang votes for the Tang Dynasty, there will be a gap between him and the Turks... It is worthwhile to pay some food, grass, and weapons for this.

What's more, Yuan Junzhang's subordinates are all Han. They didn't have to choose, or didn't need to choose, but now they have to choose, and some of them choose... After all this, are they willing to be Turkic dogs?

How many soldiers fled to the pass, this is what the people want, this is the general trend, and this is a general trend that Yuan Junzhang cannot stop alone.

Thinking of Li Shan's calm and self-confidence when he described the general situation last night, Cui Xin felt strange. This person really does not look like a young man who has not yet been crowned, but an old man who sees through the world and reads the world.

Liu Shirang endured and endured but still couldn't, he took a few steps forward and said, "Is it settled?"

Liu Shirang can't be blamed, the success or failure of recruiting is too important to him... The court's treatment of him largely depends on what the deputy county magistrate said.

Cui Xin was more able to hold on, the old god was standing there, waiting for Li Shan to pass.

Sure enough, Li Shan walked all the way to Cui Xin's side before he spoke, "Present a good horse, send a watch to Beijing, raise food and grass on behalf of the prefecture to send to Mayi, and mobilize a batch of armaments...but they can only be armaments for defending the city."

"What about the down list?"

Li Shan took out the surrender form from his sleeve and handed it over, thinking that this negotiation is easy to say, but it is actually very grueling... Yuan Junzhang guessed that he really couldn't hold it, at least in Shuozhou. It is a pity that the Turks need Yuan Junzhang to guard Mayi, an important military stronghold.

It is inevitable to drop the list, and the presentation of good horses was additionally proposed by Li Shan, and he also vaguely mentioned... Daizhou is also short of horses!
Yuan Junzhang gritted his teeth and agreed, offering [-] good horses, and an additional [-] good horses to Li Shan, and Li Shan promised that after the caregiver was over, he would immediately mobilize a batch of grain and grass from Daizhou emergency.

"It's almost time." Li Shan said with a smile, "Cui Sheren is also invited to preside over the etiquette matters."

For this kind of ceremony, Li Shan has no interest in this kind of ceremony since his previous life. Standing on the side, he couldn't help but yawned. He slept very restlessly last night, always thinking about... Li Shan turned his head and glanced at Liu Shirang, why are you here? What's the matter with Yigan, last night was the last chance, and he still hasn't escaped?
Could it be that he had guessed wrongly, this person would rather be questioned by the court, or be sentenced to death in prison, than to vote for the Turks... Li Shan knew that the so-called national consciousness did not sprout until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Republic of China did not formally take shape until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The desolate horn sounded, Cui Xin straightened his clothes, and solemnly stepped onto the stage, holding the Duke's uniform and the iron coupon to avoid death in his hands. Yuan Junzhang, who was opposite, was bowing and saluting, holding a surrender form with both hands.

Li Shan yawned again, and the sound of the horn continued incessantly, which was really a lot of lung capacity.

At this moment, Yuan Junzhang, who was bowing, was shocked, looked sideways, and suddenly straightened up, his face was full of panic.

Li Shan also sensed that something was wrong, so he rushed up to the wooden platform in two steps, climbed up and looked at it, and there was darkness in the distance, hundreds of cavalry came galloping, the most front cavalry held bull horns, and the horn sounded continuously.

"It's Turkic!" Wang Junhao roared.

All the soldiers watching the ceremony dispersed, and the Turkic soldiers galloped towards the wooden platform in an open and aboveboard way. Du Xiao and Kan Leng, who reacted the fastest, summoned their own guards to guard around the wooden platform.

Du Xiao jumped off the human ladder and said in a low voice, "About five hundred riders, I haven't seen them in the distance."

As if the big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, Li Shan calmed down instead, thinking that this trip could not be so smooth... Well, Yao Mozi finally appeared!
It can't be such a coincidence, I arrived in Mayi yesterday, and the Turks arrived today... In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the Turkic people did not stay through the winter honestly, and suddenly sent troops to Mayi, they must have received the exact news of Yuan Junzhang's vote to Tang and then disrupted the situation!
Who did it?
The most suspicious person is Liu Shirang... Li Shan and Cui Xin's eyes fell on this old man.

The dull sound of horseshoes didn't stop, and the Turkic cavalry didn't go straight to the wooden platform, but drew an arc and stayed a hundred paces away from the wooden platform horizontally. Only one cavalry speeded up and rushed towards the wooden platform.

"Don't shoot arrows." Li Shan shouted.

Shooting arrows at this time is tantamount to declaring war... The opponent came alone, so naturally it would not be a declaration of war.

Li Shan dragged Cui Xin over and behind the shield, staring at the cavalryman all the time.

I saw that Turkic man slowed down his horse, bent his bow and set his arrow, and with a whoosh sound, the long arrow was nailed to the table on the wooden platform with such great force that it knocked over the wooden plate that Cui Xin put down. Clothes and iron coupons were scattered on the stage.

"Fuck!" Li Shan shouted angrily, "Wang Junhao!"

Among the personal guards, Wang Junhao is the best at riding and shooting... This trip is to appease Yuan Junzhang, if the Turks come to disrupt the situation, if he loses his vigor, he may not be able to return to Yanmen.

Just as Wang Junhao got on his horse, he saw a green horse had already come out, and it had already rushed a long way in a few breaths. The knight screamed, and a sharp arrow pierced the sky, and shot at the Turkic cavalry in full view.

There was a moment of silence, and then there was an uproar in the audience. The long arrow was impartial, and it happened to shoot the leather cap on the head of the Turkic cavalry.

Such a sharp shot is astonishing, and what is even more rare is the grasp of the scale. The opponent's shot overturned the wooden plate, and this person shot off his cap, which did not hurt him at all, but he responded with a tooth for a tooth, which greatly boosted morale.

Cui Xin stared at this scene dumbfounded, he was not someone who had never seen the market, but... He turned his head and looked at Li Shan who was also a little embarrassed, it was actually Liu Shirang!

(End of this chapter)