The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 352

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The shaft of the chariot rolled over the rough road, and the passing caravans and pedestrians gave way, watching a horse team coming from Chang'an to the south escorting the two carriages slowly.

The whole team was about twenty riders, and the two carriages were simple and light. Only the small flag of Shu country hanging on the corner was gently swaying in the wind, telling the passers-by that this team was the envoys of Shu.

The breeze caressed the corners of the curtains, and in one of the carriages, Tang Shaoren lay on the cushions and groaned non-stop, while the deputy envoy sitting beside him took a semi-wet towel and took off his clothes and gently wiped them, and there was a bloody mess inside.

"Geng Jichang is not a son of man. He pretended to be Yu Cong's student and ruined his reputation!"

The deputy envoy didn't speak, and cleaned the towel in the wooden basin beside him, but he still couldn't help complaining: "It's better to say a few words, if it wasn't for provoking the opponent's shortcomings by exposing the shortcomings, these twenty sticks would not have fallen on you. "

"So what? I've endured twenty sticks, but that's all!"

"The other party obviously hit me lightly. Well, what I'm worried about is how you and I will deal with His Majesty after we go back. If we really want to drag the war on, even if we win, the land of Sichuan will be in a mess. It's really not worthwhile. Waiting for the next year , then King Yong recruits troops to the south again, how should he deal with it?"

"That's what His Majesty should think, you and I can just tell the truth."

Tang Shaoren is a native of Sichuan. He is full of knowledge and has a lot of reputation. Where can he not be respected?But when he was sent to Chang'an, he received a stick, and then spread the word, so where is the reputation he gained in the past?
Feeling the burning pain in his back, the more he thought about it, the more angry he was, he gritted his teeth and slapped the car floor.

Bah!
"How can the humiliation of Chang'an be forgotten like this. Isn't he disregarding face? Then I will do as he wants—"

The envoy lowered his eyebrows and raised his face when he heard this, and then listened to Tang Shaoren's continuation.

"There are many literati and refined scholars in our Shu region. Let them use their mouths to say how this Geng Qing is rebellious, ruined his teacher's reputation, and made the literati and heroes all over the world criticize him. The righteous people in the Jianghu want to kill him."

In the following time, I made intensive plans all the way, and passed the news to my acquainted friends. At the same time, I went all the way south and bypassed Bazhou. I heard that there was another war there. Territory.

Over the mountains, the carriages of the team were quite conspicuous. They won two more battles in Bazhou, and Li Siyuan and Shi Jingtang, who dared not go out in the tortoise city that Wang Zongkan fought, now received the information sent by the scouts, and there was a trace of doubt in their eyes.

"Come from the north with the flag of Shu land?"

"Could it be that he went to Chang'an to meet King Yong's envoy from Shu?" Li Siyuan took off his iron helmet and put it aside, pulled out a broken feather arrow embedded in the armor leaf, and threw it on the ground lightly. If the guess is correct, there is nothing wrong with it. too unexpected.

"Wang Zongyan has just succeeded to the throne, and the upper and lower levels have not been sorted out. Naturally, he is unbearable to fight. If the guess is right, it should be the team that negotiated peace with King Yong."

"should be."

Shi Jingtang threw the information aside, dragged his suit of armor and sat down on the low stool, "If it were me, it would be better to make compromises at this time than exhaust the power of the country."

"Then let them go?"

"Well, let it go. According to the news, the prince has returned to Chang'an safely. King Yong should have met with these envoys from Shu. No matter whether the negotiation is successful or not, the order to withdraw the troops should come soon."

"For nearly a month, the number of soldiers and horses in my hand has been severely reduced, but they have also trained good soldiers. It is the commander-in-chief's side. Shoot it down too."

When the two said this, they looked at each other and laughed. They fought several battles around Wang Zongkan in Bazhou, and there were some gains. The iron cannons that were abandoned before were also found one by one and buried deep in the ground.

But compared with the soldiers and horses of Longzhou, the battles they fought were insignificant. The army on the right side of Longzhou has always been elite. In response to the order of King Yong, they went south to fight in Shu, almost pushing all the way. After capturing Fengzhou, they fought in Jianzhou He captured Wang Zongbi, the envoy on the North Road of Shu, and has been imprisoned until now.

Half a month ago, they harassed Mianzhou with fast cavalry, and the infantry crossed the mountains and surreptitiously attacked Mianzhuguan. Captured, after the new emperor ascended the throne, in order to prevent Mianzhou from being held by Li Cunxiao's Wang Zongbi Order Talisman, he ordered people to swindle Mianzhou, so the soldiers were changed. The new generals were not familiar with the terrain and the relationship between the top and bottom, so they were besieged.
In the past few days, he sent several letters asking for help to Chengdu, and the news from the court was that he was asked to hold on to Mianzhu Pass, Dongchuan Longzhou, Zizhou, and Suizhou had all their soldiers and horses, a total of [-] people. On the way.

But in fact, the general who took over from Mianzhou knew that less than 2 people actually rushed over, and the [-] troops were divided into three places.

However, right now, he can only hope that the rescue can be done quickly, even if there are only 2 or [-] people.

Not long after, he stood on the city wall, watching the 7000 people who came from Zizhou first, being charged back and forth in the wilderness outside the city by Longyou iron cavalry. Hot plasma and corpses splashed under countless galloping iron hooves.

Two days later, he sent the last message for help, arrived in Chengdu on a fast horse, and put him in the court hall. He was still replacing officials, and replaced him with his confidant emperor. Only then did he realize that the problem had become more serious.

This kind of awareness is just an afterthought. He doesn't understand the military, but the power he finally obtained cannot be easily transferred to the army. This is also the teaching of his mother and aunt in the harem.

But right now, the military front is threatening the safety of Chengdu, and he was also a little dazed for a while, going up to the civil and military court, down to the officials in the city, and the army outside the city, there was a lot of trouble in coordinating with each other.

For the rescue of Mianzhou, he could only send troops to the three nearest counties in Dongchuan first, and at the same time let several righteous brothers lead their own troops to the north of Chengdu to set up a line of defense, so as to delay the speed of the Longyou army going south.

"Longyou soldiers and horses are indeed elite. They can attack the three states in a row. It is inevitable that there will be no casualties among the soldiers under their command. They have to defend in various places. Even if they have the granaries in the city to supply the heavy logistics, it will not last long. I think their attack on Mianzhu is already at the end of their strength. , it is impossible to go south again, as for the Chang'an soldiers and horses in Bazhou, it is just a minor illness, and when the Tang envoy returns from Chang'an, everything will be over."

Wang Zongyan set up a map of the deduction in the court and talked freely.

In the next three days, Tang Shaoren's team came back with the words of King Yong of Chang'an. When they saw the letter handed to them, their smiling faces turned livid, and they crumpled into a ball and fell hard to the ground.

"Damn Geng Qing, you actually insulted me—"

"Didn't he want to fight? I will accompany you to the end, pass on my will, and use all the soldiers and horses of Xichuan to fight to the death with the Longyou army!"

The young emperor walked back and forth on the imperial steps, furious, and the civil and military atmosphere below did not dare to show it, and still vented.

The eunuch who spread out the imperial decree came over, Wang Zongyan wrote the imperial decree, threw away the brush, took the seal and stamped it, and sent it to the Ministry of Education for issuance.

"Too much deceit."

Rao was a little cowardly, and even an emperor could hardly bear the bad breath, so he cursed a few more words on the dragon chair, and outside the golden palace, a soldier of the imperial army rushed into the palace with a scroll of Bailijia.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, just hurry up to report that Mianzhou fell into the enemy's hands, and the reinforcements sent by Zizhou were also defeated under the city, and half of the soldiers surrendered."

There was a sudden silence in the hall.

The emperor, who was still gnashing his teeth just now, was stunned, and he took a while to react, and hurriedly summoned the eunuch who accompanied him, "Quickly go and recall my imperial decree. In addition, beat Tang Shaoren with ten sticks!"

"Your Majesty..." Tang Shaoren, who was kneeling on the main hall, opened his mouth slightly, and before he could speak, he was dragged down by the guards.

Over there, the emperor looked at the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, with a complicated expression on his face, and his muscles twitched for a moment: "I think the terms of the peace negotiation are unacceptable, but some places can be negotiated, what do you think?"

All the civil and military people looked at me and I looked at you, bowing their heads one by one.

"Respect His Majesty's will."

(End of this chapter)