Late Tang

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Yu Cong was riding on a horse holding the imperial decree of bright yellow silk cloth. Dozens of Jin Wuwei guards cleared the way in front, and two teams of Shence Army soldiers guarded left and right. The imperial doctor also has the master who is best at detoxification.

At Tonghua Gate, the north gate of the third gate on the east wall of Chang'an Wai Guocheng, there were originally [-] guards stationed, but now it has increased to [-] guards.Just now, the emperor has urgently issued an edict, ordering the nine gates of the east, west and south of Guocheng outside Chang'an City to step up their guard, strengthen their defenses, and immediately close the city gates, and enforce martial law throughout the city.

The general of the Forbidden Army guarding the gate took Yu Cong's special pass and checked it carefully before finally ordering the city gate to be opened.

Yu Cong also frowned when he saw the tense city gate guards. Now he was praying in his heart that nothing would happen to Li Jing.It's not just that Li Jing is Yu Yu's protégé, but the Yu family's powerful foreign aid.What's more important is that if something happened to Li Jing, he was really worried that something would happen in the town of 15 [***].Although there are tens of thousands of forbidden troops inside and outside Chang'an City, there are even [-] magic trick troops in the vicinity of Gyeonggi.But in the capital for a long time, how could he not know what the Shence Army is like.In the early years, the Shence Army often participated in counter-insurgency battles, and its combat effectiveness was good, but in the past few years, it has been worse every year. The Shence Army is full of messy people.If they really wanted to fight, they would definitely not be able to defeat Zhen[***], which had just won consecutive victories in Hedong.

As soon as the team left Tonghua Gate, they passed through Changle Slope and went [-] miles eastward to reach Bashang, where the triumphant army was stationed in Bashang.

Sitting on the horse, overlooking the company camp, Yu Cong couldn't help frowning even more.

Bashang, this is the most important strategic location in the east of Chang'an City.

Thirty miles east of Chang'an City, the Bahe River flows through.Because it controls the only way to enter the east of Chang'an City, Bashang has always been an important traffic artery for defending the capital city. Historically, it has been a battleground for military strategists.Historically, Liu Bang took the lead in entering Guanzhong and stationed troops in Bashang, and the later Hongmen Banquet took place near Bashang.

Bashang is also a part of Bailuyuan. Bailuyuan has a relatively high terrain, with a flat terrain and a wide field of vision. It is also protected by the Bahe River and the Chanhe River.In the military, it is convenient to garrison the army, and it has a condescending place with bows and crossbows. Knowing that soldiers are unstoppable. 'The favorable terrain.Bashang relies on favorable terrain like Bailuyuan, which plays a very important role in Chang'an's defense.

But now, this important land for military strategists is the garrison of [-] troops in the town of [***], which is as hot as a frying pan.

As soon as they entered the White Deer Plain, a group of galloping cavalry came and surrounded them.

Yu Cong took a look at the flag, and saw that it was the cavalry of [***] Zhen.Holding up the imperial decree in his hand, he said loudly to the knight on horseback: "A soldier in the town [***], Yu Cong from the Zhengshitang, according to the emperor's holy metaphor, specially invited the best imperial doctor from the imperial hospital to heal Li Zhenguo's wounds. .In addition, an imperial decree was sent to the camp to announce the will of the emperor."

After the knights on the horse looked them over carefully, they opened the curtains and checked the car again, before finally agreeing for them to move forward, but the Jinwu Guards and the soldiers of the Shence Army forbade them to move forward.The Imperial Guard officer was furious, but Yu Cong quickly said something nice to him and asked him to stay here and wait.He only went to the camp with a few imperial doctors.

When he arrived at the gate of the camp, Yu Cong saw cavalry galloping past in front of the camp from time to time. In the camp, there were even groups of soldiers wearing helmets and armor, holding swords and spears and lined up. His expression changed a little.

"Stop coming!" The guard at the camp gate yelled.

The previous cavalry officer stepped forward and said a few words, but a young general wearing a mountain armor and carrying a five-foot giant sword passed by, and looked at them coldly.

"Is it the imperial doctor who came to save lives or the imperial doctor who came to kill?" The young general snorted coldly, "Please go back, our town [***] has the best military doctor, and we don't need your imperial doctor."

Yu Cong was stunned for a moment, the majestic prime minister turned out to be so rejected, and his face couldn't help but look unhappy.But he knew that this was not the time to show off his authority, not to mention that he didn't have much to say to a group of soldiers.Then he said directly: "Where is Yu Jun Yu Shuai? I am his brother Yu Cong. Please lead me to meet him."

When Fu Cun heard that this purple-robed official was actually the brother of the teacher's teacher, he couldn't help being stunned.Quickly put away the cold expression on his face, and changed into a respectful expression, "So it's Yu Xiangguo, I'll show you the way."

When he arrived at Yu Yu's camp, Yu Cong was secretly startled.Because along the way, he found that the town [***] had almost controlled the entire camp, and the soldiers and horses of other towns were already surrounded.

When the two brothers Yu Cong and Yu Guan met, they couldn't help sighing.Yu Jian invited Zheng Congxuan and other generals, and together they heard Yu Cong talk about the results of the emperor and Zhengshitang.

Zheng Congyu and the others did not speak after listening, but just sat there without saying a word, silent.

Yu Cong said anxiously: "You are all the pillars of the country. At this time, there must be no mutiny. No matter what is right or wrong, the first thing is to control the situation. You have fought side by side with Zhen [***] for so long , I am acquainted with the officers and men of Zhen [***], so I must help the imperial court control the situation at this time."

Cui Anqian said dissatisfiedly: "When things have come to this point, why are you talking about controlling the situation? Tian Bandit is insane and has repeatedly murdered Li Shuai. In the previous siege, we followed the imperial court's wishes and helped persuade Li Shuai to calm down. But now it seems that Tian Bandit is See our behavior as weakness. To be honest, now we have no face to go out to face the brothers of Zhen[***]. On the battlefield in Hedong, Zhen[***] helped us several times and rescued us All the armies are in danger. But now, their commander-in-chief is being murdered again and again, and it is unreasonable for us not to help them uphold justice, and the imperial court wants us to control the situation again, which is really a joke."

Zheng Congyu also said at the side: "At the moment we want to control it, but we can't control it. As soon as the assassination happened, the town [***] immediately sealed off the camp. Our 4000 people were basically suppressed [***] *]Surrounded. Any movement, maybe it will anger Zhen[***] first, and cause bad things.”

"Is there no other way?" Yu Cong asked anxiously.

Yu Guan looked at his brother, sighed and said: "The current situation should not add fuel to the fire. A single spark can cause a big fire. In my opinion, it is better to calm down first. Guan Jian's , let’s wait for Li Jing to wake up first.”

"What if Li Jing can't think about it?" Yu Cong asked.

No one answered his question, but the result is obvious.If Li Jing really can't wake up, the situation will be really difficult to control.

In the afternoon, Tian Lingzi came.

He was very reluctant to come, and even said that he was afraid of Zhen[***].

But he had to come, and the emperor sent people to urge him three times in a row.

Now Tian Lingzi is in a mess.Don't look at him usually controlling the government with one hand, but after all, he still relies on the emperor internally and the prime minister externally to control the court.Without the support of the emperor, his power would be like a castle in the air.He has not been in charge of the government for too long, and he is far from the ability of those dazai in the previous dynasties to easily dethrone the emperor, or even directly kill the emperor and establish another one.Now the emperor is his foundation, and he has to listen to the emperor's orders.

Tian Lingzi didn't come empty-handed. The emperor asked him to spend 200 million guan in money to appease the town [***], and every soldier had a hundred guan of money.The amount of money was so much that it made Tian feel extremely painful.But he didn't dare not give it. Compared with money, life is naturally more valuable.

Right now, the emperor is dissatisfied with him, Ximen Sigong, Yang Fugong, Zhang Tai, etc. are eyeing him, plus the [-] town[***] army Chen Bing is outside, Tian Lingzi feels that there is a lot of crisis, and he dare not have it at this time. Other thoughts.

After rambling for a long time, the 200 million yuan was finally collected. At the beginning, Tian Lingzi came to Bashang directly with the flying money issued by various cabinet workshops and court courts of various states and towns.As a result, the Zhendong Army refused to accept flying money, and insisted on real gold and silver copper coins.In the end, Tian Lingzi had no choice but to bear it, and loaded cart after cart of money from various cabinets and storages.The convoy for transporting money lined up from Chang'an City to Bashang.

"I don't know if our family can visit Qi Guogong in person?" Tian Lingzi smiled and said to Zhang Hong, the secretary of the town [***] who received the money, and joined the army.

"If you keep the money, you can leave." Li Cunxiao who was behind Zhang Hong shouted coldly, which made Tian Lingzi's heart tremble.He was about to attack, but when he saw these town[***] soldiers staring angrily, holding their knives and guns tightly, they almost rushed forward and chopped him into pieces, but finally endured it, but Li Jing's heart was full of anger. He Zhen [***] scolded him a dozen times.

After Tian Lingzi left, Li Cunxiao turned around and returned to the camp of the Chinese army.

Outside Li Jing's camp, there are three whole guard battalion guards on the inner and outer third floors at this time, and even an ant can't even think of crawling in.

Li Jing's tent is the captured Shatuo Li Guochang's tent. The tent is woven with gold silk, and the whole tent is extremely gorgeous.It is said that this tent is the king's tent of the Uighur Khan. Later, the Uighur civil strife, the Uighur prime minister invited the Shatuo people to send troops to help. This king's tent is one of the Shatuo people's trophies.Li Jing originally intended to dedicate this golden tent to the emperor, but now, it has been used by him.

As soon as the curtain was lifted, a large shelf was erected at the door, with a row of gorgeous and precious armors on it, all of which were Li Jing's collections.On the other side is a row of weapon racks, with swords, guns and swords on them, all of which are high-quality goods.

Entering the tent, apart from Li Cunxiao, the other five disciples and Li Jing's sworn brothers Wang Zhong and Lin Wu were all sitting inside.Liu Xun gestured to Li Cunxiao, telling him to keep his voice down and not disturb Li Jing.

But Li Jing had already heard footsteps, opened his eyes, propped himself up and leaned back.In the warm tent with several charcoal pots burning, Li Jing's upper body was bare, and most of his body was wrapped with white linen cloth. After several layers, there were traces of bright red seeping from it.His face was pale, his lips were chapped, and his hair was loose.

"Tian Lingzi has been here?" Li Jing asked, his voice was hoarse and exhausted.

Li Cunxiao nodded, "I sent 200 million yuan. According to the teacher's wishes, I accepted the money and drove away." (To be continued.)