Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 740 Xiaoguo goes northward, the Emperor Tai

Xiao Shi was in front of Yang Guangling, with a hint of request in his voice through the screen.

"Duke Tang, Emperor Daxing has already left, leaving forever. This is the only thing we can do for him. No matter how others hate him, slander him, but I am his queen and you are his subject , but you can't slander him or slander him, even if it's for the sake of the venerable, it should be done this time."

"Now that the return to the west is imminent, I am a woman and cannot handle military and state affairs, so I intend to entrust you with Lai Huer, Xiao Yu, Wang Shichong, Yang Yichen, and Chen Leng as auxiliary ministers, and I also entrust you as Taishi, Nayan, etc. .”

This can be regarded as an exchange condition for Empress Xiao.

She knew that Li Yuan was now in control of Jiangdu soldiers and horses, so as long as Li Yuan was willing to accept her request and confer the posthumous title of Emperor Taizong Wu on Yang Guang, she was willing to let Li Yuan go one step further and become a high-ranking official under one of the three provinces, and give He went to the honorary title of three divisions such as Grand Master.

"How dare my minister Li Yuan!"

Li Yuankou said he didn't dare, but he had already accepted the deal.

So that day.

Empress Xiao issued an edict.

The posthumous posthumous title of Daxing Emperor Wu Emperor, the temple name Taizong, was assisted by Jiangdu generals to return to Guanzhong and buried in the mountain mausoleum.

The second edict respected Yang You, the grandson of the emperor, as the son of heaven, and posthumously posthumously named Prince Yuande as Emperor Xiaocheng, with the temple name Sejong.Empress Xiao was honored as the empress dowager.

He also named the emperor's grandson Yang Tan as the emperor of filial piety, and was named Yizong in the temple.

Then the third edict was issued.

He worshiped Li Yuan as his grand teacher, taught his disciples the words of provincial government, Jiaping chapter affairs, and assistant ministers.

He worshiped Xiao Yu as Taifu, granted the order of internal history and provincial internal history, Jiaping Zhangshi, and assistant minister.

He came to protect the child as the Taibao, and was granted the title of Shangshusheng Zuopushe, Jiaping Zhangshi, and assistant minister.

Chen Leng was named Taiwei and Youpushe, Wang Shichong was named Situ and Neishi Shilang, Yang Yichen was named Sikong and Huangmen Shilang, and they were all Jiaping Zhangshi and assistant ministers.

On the same day, an edict was issued to help Emperor Taizong's coffin return to Xijing.

However, Li Yuan believed that Jiangdu was important and should not be discarded easily, and in the name of preventing Du Fuwei from pursuing him, he asked Chen Leng, who was also an auxiliary minister, to join the post of staying in Jiangdu and led [-] Jianghuai troops to stay in Jiangdu.

In this way, Li Yuan was the only auxiliary minister in the imperial court going north.

Nearly 10 people left Kyoto and headed north, including more than [-] Xiaoguo troops.

And Chen Ling led [-] Jianghuai soldiers to stay in Jiangdu.

West of Jiangdu City, Du Fuwei Barracks.

"I didn't expect that the chaos in Jiangdu would end so soon. This Li Yuan is really good at it."

Du Fuwei was very disappointed when he heard that the victory had already been decided there, and Yu Wenhuaji was killed after being the emperor for only one day.He originally planned to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, wait for the two Xiaoguo armies to kill both losers, and then go up to pick peaches and wipe out the Jiangdu City court.

"Li Yuan has already gone north, Chen Leng stayed behind."

"This old fox." Du Fuwei sighed.

Kan Leng said, "I think he is too smart. If he is really smart, he should submit to the Liaodong court and defect to us. In this way, he will not lose the merits of Long Yuanzuo in the future, but now he is going to fight against us." path of."

"Those nobles always think highly of themselves, forget it, let's not talk about them, what do you think we should do now?"

"Chasing Li Yuan?" Ximen Junyi asked.

Wang Xiongsheng shook his head.

"I think, don't worry about them, let's deal with Chen Leng in Jiangdu first, take Jiangdu, and then capture the entire Huainan, or after taking Huaidong, take advantage of the victory and go north to capture the Xiapi of Pengcheng, so that we can fight against the enemy. Shandong is united as one, and we have a firm foothold in the southeast, making preparations for the commander-in-chief to go south."

Du Fuwei thought about it, and it made sense.

"Then don't go chasing Li Yuan. Anyway, the Liaodong court is still serving as the emperor of the Yang family. We are still the Sui army. It's not the time to make a move. Besides, there is Li Mi in Henan and Dou Jiande in Hebei. Li Yuan wants to go back to Guanzhong, but It's not easy, someone will stop them."

"Immediately report the information here to the Marshal of Liaodong."

"Pass down the order. Tomorrow, we will prepare meals at the fourth watch and pull out the camp at the fifth watch. The whole army will be under the city of Jiangdu, ready to take the city!" Du Fuwei ordered.

Li Yuan led 10 troops northward.

The envoy of Xuanfu and Minister of Internal History in Pengcheng, Lai Huer, received the order at this time, and was still a little dazed.

The emperor died, and then the regicide Yu Wenhua and the emperor who only served for one day also died. Now Li Yuan has brought a team of 10 people here, and wants to return to Xijing?

After a while.

Lai Hu'er ordered the whole army to wear sackcloth and filial piety to observe the national funeral.

Everyone wept for the emperor together, scolded Yu Wenhua and Sima Dekan and other traitors, and then accepted this fact.

So Lai Hu'er accepted the order of the assistant minister and became the assistant minister and Shangshu Zuo Pushe.

Lai Hu'er personally led the soldiers and horses to go south to meet them. After the two armies met, Lai Hu'er first went to pay homage to the Empress Dowager Xiao, and then went to sacrifice to Emperor Daxing.

Next, Li Yuan consulted with the nurse and talked for a long time.

In fact, the meaning is that the imperial court left Chen Leng in Jiangdu, and Jiangdu cannot abandon it.Jiangdu can't be abandoned, so of course Pengcheng can't be thrown away either, so Li Yuan invited the guardian to continue to defend Pengcheng. As for the emperor's coffin, he will bring the Xiaoguo army back to Xijing.

He also said that the current situation is difficult, and after he returns to Xijing, he will start to put down the rebellion with everyone, regain the lost land, and restore peace to the world.

The righteousness of these words is awe-inspiring.

Lai Huer couldn't refute it either.

Although he believes that Jiangdu and Pengcheng are actually difficult to defend for a long time, because there is no food, and there are enemies on all sides, it is a deadly place.It's better to retreat to Guanzhong together, and then Xu Tu develops and slowly recovers the lost ground.

But Li Yuan said that this is also what the Empress Dowager meant.

Lai Huer was the most loyal person, so he accepted the order.

Li Yuan also took a large amount of food and supplies from Pengcheng, and took away 2 horses from Lai Huer, so there were only more than 60 men left in Lai Huer, but he was responsible for defending the three counties of Pengcheng, Xiapi, and Donghai. He has [-] troops supported by Li Mi in the west, and the Luo family army in the east has already crossed the sea.

Lai Huer was soothed.

Li Yuan couldn't help feeling a little elated.

Both Chen Ling and Lai Hu'er were Xiao Houding's auxiliary ministers, but now they were easily handled by him.

Not only that, but his troops returning from the west have now increased to [-], and he has added a lot of food and grass.

So while continuing to move forward, Li Yuan sent people to Luoyang and also sent an edict, asking Wang Shichong, who was in command of Luoyang, and Pei Renji, who was in command of western Henan, to lead their troops to respond.

Only this time, things didn't go so well.

The edict was sent to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and the officials and generals who stayed behind in Luoyang cried and cried. After shedding a few tears, they refused to obey the edict.

Because Wang Shichong, who actually controls Luoyang now, refuses to accept it, so why should he look far away, instead of making the king of Yue of Luoyang the emperor, instead of making the king of Daxing the emperor?
Moreover, Wang Shichong was very dissatisfied with Li Yuan's authoritarian behavior. He claimed that Li Yuan had held the Jiangdu court hostage, so he could not resist the imperial edict.

With his extremely eloquent mouth, he persuaded other ministers left behind in Jiangdu, Yuan Wendu, Lu Chu and others.

So just when Li Yuan came out of Pengcheng Laihuer and was heading for Luoyang, Wang Shichong in Luoyang city respected Yang Yu, the king of Yue, as the emperor, and changed his year name to Huangtai.

Then Emperor Huangtai issued an edict to make Wang Shichong the Grand Master, Zheng Guogong, and Nayan.

Feng Yuanwen was granted the title of Lu Guogong and Nei Shi Ling, Lu Chu was granted the title of Left Servant of Shangshu, and Huangfu Wuyi was appointed Right Servant of Shangshu.

Then, Wang Shichong sent an imperial edict back to Li Yuan, saying that he would be appointed as the prince and grand master and general Zuo Wuwei, and asked him to send the empress dowager back to Luoyang.

(End of this chapter)