Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 443 The famous father-in-law arrives

At the beginning of December, Yelu Deguang of Weizhou learned that King Wei of the West Route Army and Ma Da of the East Route had suffered a disastrous defeat. He was terrified and afraid of being surrounded by two sides.

So he immediately added [-] troops to Zhao Yanshou and Yeluwu, and ordered them to quickly break through Qicheng and cross the Yellow River south.

As long as the main force of the Jin army is defeated, the disastrous defeats on the left and right will not matter.

So far, the Khitan army participating in the siege of Qicheng has reached as many as 80,000 people.

And how many people are there in Gao Xingzhou who is stationed in Qicheng and acts as the nail of the army?
The answer is less than 6000 people.

Qicheng is a small city, and there is not much food in it. The [-] Khitan troops surrounded and attacked fiercely, and they are always in danger.

Gao Xingzhou and Zi Gao Huaide went out of the city several times, charging from left to right with cavalry, but there were too many Khitans to break through.

In the middle of the year, Shi Chonggui, who was stationed in Chanzhou, won the battle between Xinzhou and Majiakou. Overjoyed, he rewarded the generals and held a big reception. From the lingering fear at the beginning, he began to look down on the Khitan people.

Jing Yanguang knew how powerful the Khitan people were, because no matter whether it was King Wei of the West Route Army or Ma Da of the East Route Army, they were essentially tribal armies of the Khitan people.

These armies cannot be said to have no combat effectiveness, but they have few weapons and are not familiar with geography.

Liu Zhiyuan, Li Shouzhen, and Huangfu Yu are all famous ministers and brave generals, it is normal that the Khitan tribal army can't beat them.

As for the main force of Yelu Deguang's troops on the north bank of the Yellow River, there are at least [-] Pishi troops and more than [-] Shan troops.

These are all the Khitan's imperial tent troops, with more than [-]% armor, and most of them are iron armor.

Zhao Yanshou inherited his father Zhao Dejun's accumulation of more than ten years, and the thousands of people under his command were all the elite of Lu Long's army in the past, and their combat effectiveness was quite strong.

As a result, when facing the main force of the Khitan, this powerful minister who was loud and loud, was discouraged.

He withheld Gao Xingzhou's request for help from Shi Chonggui, and made up his mind not to rescue him.

Because in Jing Yanguang's view, it is inevitable that the Jin army will not be able to defeat the Khitan people. If they send troops to rescue them, they will probably be defeated.

If they are not rescued, Gao Xingzhou, Gao Huaide and his son will die in battle, and they will still be able to confront the Khitan across the river.

But paper can't contain the fire, Gao Xingzhou's general Gao Chao stood out in all difficulties and came to ask for help, he would not leave without rescue, he was making noise outside Shi Chonggui's camp every day.

Ha ha!If I, Jing Yanguang, can't solve the problem, how can I not solve you, the person who caused the problem?
So Jing Yanguang ordered Gao Ming to be secretly arrested, but the bodyguards he sent out were also warriors, who felt the same way and were unwilling to arrest this loyal general, so he secretly revealed the news, and Gao Ming was able to escape with his life.

. . . .

In the evening, the right Qianniuwei general Hu Cile invited the generals in the camp.

Fu Yanqing, Wang Zhou, Pan Huan, Yao Yuanfu, Xue Huairang and others will all be present.

Although Hucile is only a general with the false title of Qianniuwei, his son Huguang is only a deputy general of the guard Ma Jun.

But the two of them, father and son, have always had a lot of friends in Tokyo, and five years ago with Murong Nobunaga, they made great achievements in suppressing Zhang Congbin's rebellion, Shi Jingtang once took them as his confidantes.

In Shi Chonggui's time, they fell out of favor, but this gave the two of them an even more unusual signal in the eyes of interested people.

Because everyone knows, with Hu Cile, Hu Guang's father and son's salaries, why do they make such a big deal in Tokyo.

This must be supported by someone behind, so who is supporting, isn't it self-evident.

Except for the Heavenly King of Great Liang who is sending envoys to the imperial court and is likely to visit the 28 states of Liang Kingdom again, who else can there be?
And why is Zhang Tianwang supporting the tiger to stab the father and son's property?Isn't that obvious.

There is also a secret connection between them.

For this point, Fu Yanqing, the 44-year-old Ma Jun team leader, is more clear.

Because his eighth younger brother Fu Yanlun and his eldest son Fu Zhaoxin have always been friends with Murong Nobunaga, so they have a relatively clear understanding of Liangguo's power structure.

Zhang Tianwang led [-] people to go west to Khotan in the past, and these [-] people were the Yuan Cong faction in Liang, with the highest status and the most military exploits, and they were the confidantes of his confidants.

In addition to the Yuan Cong faction, which currently has only a few dozen people left, is the Donggui Wuxun Group where Hucile and his son belong.

Most of these people are descendants of the Anxi Army, as well as the Khotan Tanger presented by King Li Shengtian, King of the Kingdom of Jin, uncle of the Heavenly King.

Although the position is not high, but the number of people is large. Compared with the Yuan Cong faction with dozens of people, they are Zhang Tianwang's basic board.

Hucile was born in the east and returned to Wuxun, so how could he casually turn his back on King Liang.

Now Liangguo is in the west of Hexi, with sharp armored soldiers, and it looks like it is about to become a powerful force in the world.

At the same time, Shi Chonggui has become less and less like a personal master in the past two years. Compared with Shi Jingtang, he is far behind.

In Jin, Liu Zhiyuan and Du Chongwei both had two minds. Jing Yanguang, who held power, was narrow-minded and provoked the war with Khitan, but he had no responsibility and only cared about rejecting dissidents.

There are strong enemies outside, internal instability, and since Houliang, the dynasties of all dynasties are basically nothing more than ten or 20 years of national destiny.

That's why many people compare Zhang Zhao who lives in Liangguo with Liu Zhiyuan who lives in Hedong in their hearts.

Because he was on the front line, and in recent years, the later Jin Dynasty had been facing floods and droughts, so even if it was a tiger thorn who was not short of money, there was no good food for the treat, but some muddy wine and a few thin sheep.

After everyone ate a few bowls of wine, Hucile, who was sitting in the main seat, suddenly put down his chopsticks and let out a long sigh.

"I don't have any specialties in fighting Han, but I only have martial arts, and today I am defending the country against the enemy, so I came here.

The deployment of Gaodu is trapped by the Khitan army, it is in danger, let alone a bowl of corn and rice, not to mention the wine and sheep, I really can't bear it. "

Hearing what Hucile said, Fu Yanqing felt very uncomfortable, because he was Gao Xingzhou's close friend, and the two of them were known together in the army on weekdays.

It's just that he didn't understand why Hucile called them together and said these things?

Because the officers present, except for him, Fu Yanqing, can only be regarded as mid-level officers.

In terms of future generations, it is almost at the level of battalion commander to deputy regimental commander. Officers at this level must not be able to control the affairs of Jing Yanguang and other high-level officials.
And even if it is to provoke the dissatisfaction of the generals in the army and tarnish Shi Chonggui's image for King Zhang, isn't it too early?
But at this point, Fu Yanqing also felt that Hucile might want to establish an image of being loyal to the country through this incident.

However, Fu Yanqing has this understanding because he is from a family of Wu Xun.

But others such as Yao Yuanfu, Pan Huan, Wang Zhou, etc. are pure fighters, and they don't have so many twists and turns in their hearts. Hearing what Hu Cile said, they all yelled at Jing Yanguang.

Because of the war with Khitan, Jing Yanguang provoked it, and now, Gao Xingzhou is trapped in Qicheng, Jing Yanguang didn't send troops to rescue him, and he dared to block the military newspaper.

Hu Cile took a look, and seeing that Fu Yanqing had no intention of speaking, he could only cough to clarify the matter.

"Mr. Guanhou is the best friend of the Son of Heaven. Now that Jing Yanguang is blocking the way to speak, the Son of Heaven is in the deep palace. I'm afraid he doesn't know what's going on outside. Can you lead us to speak to the Son of Heaven?"

Fu Yanqing's character is very interesting, it's called Guanhou. Most people dare not use these two characters as a font name, because no matter how you look at it, it reminds people of Championhou.

So every time Fu Yanqing heard someone solemnly calling him Guanhou, even though he was over forty years old, he still couldn't help but feel a slight ripple in his heart.

The relationship between Fu Yanqing and Shi Chonggui is indeed very good, but it was established before Shi Jingtang turned against Tang and established himself as emperor.

At that time, Shi Chonggui was only one of Shi Jingtang's adopted sons, and he was not very favored.

Fu Yanqing's father, Fu Cunshen, was originally called Li Cunshen, one of Li Keyong's thirteen Taibaos, and was posthumously named King of Qin after his death.

It can be said that Shi Chonggui tried to curry favor with Fu Yanqing back then.

But now, after Shi Jingtang passed away, only a one-year-old son was left behind, and Shi Chonggui took advantage of it.

Now that Shi Chonggui has become the emperor, he is not very willing to get together with old friends like Fu Yanqing, because it will remind Shi Chonggui of the unpleasant past of his low status.

So Fu Yanqing shook his head slowly, and he refused with difficulty: "Now that Jing Yanguang, Feng Yu and others are holy and prosperous, some of them are just a left-handed envoy, and if they want to speak to the emperor, they may not be able to enter the palace easily. "

Hearing what Fu Yanqing said, the others didn't feel anything, because it was indeed the truth.

Although everyone sympathized with Gao Xingzhou's experience, they ignored Jing Yanguang and complained a lot.

But they are not willing to let them take the risk of offending Jing Yanguang to speak to Shi Chonggui.

But as soon as Fu Yanqing finished speaking, a person rushed out from the back hall, everyone looked up, it was the general Gao Chao who was sent by Gao Xingzhou to rush out from Qicheng, and it turned out that he was strangled by a tiger and hid.

Gao Chao looked at Fu Yanqing with a tearful look and shouted loudly: "I always thought that among the generals in Chanzhou today, only Fu Pai is the hero!
If even you don't save my family, who else can save?
Should he be loyal to the country and die under the sword of the Khitan people? "

Yao Yuanfu and others saw Gao Chao coming out, but they were all silent.

They were just mid-level officers, they didn't even manage to be a commander in chief, they didn't have many soldiers under them, and they didn't have any reputation in front of Jing Yanguang, so they couldn't save them even if they wanted to.

However, Fu Yanqing was excited by the superb words, and immediately stood up.

"Don't try to provoke me with words if you are so superb. The emperor and Jing Yanguang are really helpless, but Gao Du's deployment is the country's most important general. I can't ignore him for his loyalty and bravery against the enemy!

There are still hundreds of Fu Jiaerlang under his command, who are willing to live and die with Gao Du, the generals are here, who is willing to cross the river with me to save them? "

There was admiration in the eyes of Hu Cile and Hu Guang at the same time.

The 80,000 Khitan army besieged Qicheng. Although it is impossible for all of these [-] people to be crowded outside the small Qicheng, they were distributed in various towns north of Qicheng.

But Qicheng's face-to-face enemies will not be less than [-], and they must be the elite of the Khitan army.

This Fu Yanqing actually wanted to rescue Gao Xingzhou with hundreds of cavalry. In the eyes of most people, this was no different from sending him to death.

So although Fu Yanqing spoke impassionedly, Yao Yuanfu, Pan Huan, Wang Zhou, Xue Huairang and other generals also looked ashamed, but they still did not speak.

Don't be kidding, let them take the risk of offending Jing Yanguang for this matter, and they won't do it. How could they go to save Gao Xingzhou, who seemed to commit suicide?
But they didn't do it, Hu Ci Le suddenly stood up, and he bowed to everyone.

Today's banquet was originally called by him, now that Fu Yanqing is going to rescue Gao Xingzhou, how can he lag behind?

Moreover, to win over Fu Yanqing, Gao Xingzhou and others was a secret mission given to him by Zhang Tianwang.

What's more, the [-] Liangzhou horses under his command are all well-equipped cavalry, half of them are relatives of the Hucile tribe, so they can fight resolutely with one mind.

There is a flat river around Qicheng, which is very suitable for cavalry combat, so Gao Xingzhou may not be rescued.

Thinking of this, Hu Cile shouted to everyone: "Fu Paizhen envoy Bo Yuntian, although my Hu family father and son were born outside the customs, but they have been taught by the king of heaven and know what loyalty is.

I would like to go to rescue Gaodu with the Fupai Envoy. If I never come back, I still have hundreds of treasures and some armors here. Please share them with me, and I will use them to kill the enemy in the future. "

Hearing Hucile's words, Yao Yuanfu drank the muddy wine in the bowl in one gulp.

"General Tiger, don't look down on people. I, Yao Yuanfu, would like to go to Qicheng with the two of you."

The matter has come to this point, Xue Huairang, Pan Huan and Wang Zhouzhou were also forced to have no choice but to give up their hearts and agree to go together to rescue Gao Xingzhou.

(End of this chapter)