Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

At this time in Linzhou, Li Jiqian led [-] heavy troops to continue to besiege Linzhou. Dangxiang's soldiers each carried a wooden plank to climb the city wall to resist falling rocks and arrows, and continued to attack the city day and night for five consecutive days.Linzhou Zhizhou and Hemen Zhihou Wei Jushi personally led troops to fight, repelled Dangxiang's siege several times, and sent troops to attack many times when Dangxiang was unprepared. He also recruited warriors from the city and hung them from the city wall at night. Li Jiqian ambushed Li Jiqian's army. After dozens of rounds of fighting, Li Jiqian suffered heavy casualties. In the melee with Wei Jushi's ambush soldiers, they trampled on each other by nearly a thousand, and lost nearly [-] soldiers and horses. Seeing this, Li Jiqian hurriedly withdrew his troops and retreated. party item.

In a few days, the border battle report was sent back to the capital. Zhenzong was very happy with the good news from Linzhou, and immediately decreed to promote Weijushi as a reserve envoy.

In July, because most of the soldiers in the border areas guarded the fortresses, and there were not many soldiers and horses under the direct control of the local generals, Zhenzong ordered Liu Chenggui to select 500 warriors from the Xiang army in Huan, Qing and other states. Sent to the Walled City to replace the banned brigade under the jurisdiction of the general.

In the same month, Wei Xian led troops to assist Kaifeng Prefecture in arresting villains in Beijing. After receiving the order, the patrol officers acted quickly. After more than a month, a total of 120 people were arrested. The procedures of trial and sentencing were all smooth. All the criminals who were arrested fled out of Beijing one after another, and some gangsters living in the capital became honest and did not dare to bully their neighbors. For a while, there were no fighting and theft cases in the capital. Kaifeng Mansion tried to prevent the villains from returning The capital committed a crime, and asked the imperial court to increase the number of patrols in the capital, which was approved by Zhenzong, and the people all praised it.

At the time of You, in the dining hall of the Nanqing Palace, De Fang, Concubine Di and the children sat around the table for dinner, Wei Xian walked in sweating, "Father, Queen, the child is back."

Defang looked up at Weixian, "I'm back early today."

"Yes, the boy is just patrolling the inner city with people today, and he caught two fighters. The Kaifeng mansion said nothing happened, so the boy went back early."

Concubine Di waved her hands and said, "Xian'er, the food is hot, please sit down and eat."

"After thanking your mother," Wei Xian took two steps and Defang said, "Wait a minute, look at the dust on your official uniform, your head is sweating, put down the saber, change your clothes first, and then come back after scrubbing."

Wei Xian nodded, Concubine Di stood up and said, "Xian'er, don't go, Ke'er, go fetch water."

"Madam" Defang asked, "What are you doing?"

"Xian'er," said Concubine Di, "come on, take off your official uniform."

Weixian took off his official uniform, Concubine Di wiped his hands with a wet towel, then pulled him to the table, "Okay, sit down and eat quickly, come, next to the queen mother."

Weixian looked at Defang, Defang took a look and ignored it, and ate on her own, Concubine Di pulled Weixian to sit down, and brought him a lot of food, "Xian'er, eat quickly, it's cold when it's cold." Not good."

"Thank you, mother." Wei Xian held the bowl without moving his chopsticks, Wei Xu said, "Wei Xian, you've been exhausted for more than a month, eat more."

"Second brother" Wei Neng also said, "I heard that the common people praise you very much. I really admire you. It's just that the second brother is so busy and hasn't compared arrows with the elder brother and the younger brother for a long time. When the second brother is free, he will compete with us again." Let's shoot."

Defang knocked on the table with her fingers, "You don't eat, you don't talk, you don't sleep, you eat all the books and rituals you read with the rice?"

The children looked at each other and hurriedly lowered their heads to eat without making a sound. Concubine Di touched Defang, "The prince himself is talking, eat quickly."