Chapter 175 represents the right judgment of you
Chapter 175 represents the right judgment of you
Emperors think about the problem from different angles, they often think about who is a threat to them, and if there is a threat, they should be eliminated as soon as possible.
When Chen Ying and Li Xiuning walked into the Chinese army's tent together, they saw the envoy from Chang'an at first sight. Of course, there's no way not to pay attention. The entire tent was full of military generals, and there was only one official wearing a purple uniform, wearing a soft-footed head, a mutton fat jade belt around his waist, and a goldfish bag.
It's just that Chen Ying doesn't know many officials, and the number of court meetings he has participated in is also limited, but he feels that this person is a little familiar, and Chen Ying really can't name who it is.
The official was stunned for a moment, then arched over and said, "The minister Fenglun has met Her Royal Highness Princess Pingyang and General Chen!" β
The situation of Feng Lun and Feng Deyi is more complicated. said that it was Li Jiancheng's person, but he definitely helped Li Shimin a lot, otherwise he would not have rewarded him with tens of thousands of dollars before and after, and let Li Shimin always treat him as a confidant, saying that it was Li Shimin's person, which was not right. There is a sentence in the "Old Tang Book", "When Gaozu will be abolished, hesitate and hesitate, seek it, and stop it", who is the one who stops? I think the reference should be Li Shimin, so that the meaning of both the grammar and the context of the sentence is more coherent.
Chen Ying naturally listened to Feng Lun's name, and also knew that he was a celebrity in front of Li Yuan, known for his sleekness. For such a slippery Feng Lun Feng De Yi Chen Ying did not show too much goodwill, just nodded and hurriedly saluted.
However, although Chen Ying didn't want to have entanglement with Feng Lun, Feng Lun didn't intend to let Chen Ying go easily, he stroked his beard under his chin with a smile and said: "General Chen helps the crisis and turns the tide, he is really the Marquis of Zhu Xuhou of Anhan and the King of Lanling of the Northern Dynasty." β
Chen Ying was a little puzzled, Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling, had heard of it, but it didn't seem to end well, who Zhu Xuhou was, he really didn't have an impression.
Looking at Chen Ying's doubts, Li Xiuning gently said in Chen Ying's ear: "Former Han Dynasty Zhu Xuhou Liu Zhang, destroy the Lu family, and help the crisis." β
Hearing this, Chen Ying suddenly realized. Empress Lu of the Western Han Dynasty was in power for fifteen years, and the nobles of the royal family swallowed their anger for fifteen years, all of whom had the heart of reprimanding Lu, Empress Lu died of illness, and urgently needed someone to stand up.
Historical Records? Empress Dowager Lu Benji Ninth contains: After the King of Qi sent troops, Liu Zhang led his troops into the palace to punish Lu for giving birth in the toilet. was beheaded off in the toilet, and Lu Chan was also considered to be a well-deserved death. LΓΌ Lu was then killed by Zhou Bo's army in his fiefdom.
The Han Dynasty was once again shrouded in bloody rain, and the once-prominent Lu family, hundreds of people instantly turned into lonely ghosts.
There has never been hatred for no reason in politics, and there is no love for no reason, it seems inappropriate to compare Zhu Xuhou and Gao Changgong to himself, right?
If it was before, Chen Ying didn't have any way to take Feng Lun. But now that Chen Ying has the Tiger Servant of the Hou Mo Chen clan in his hands, it shouldn't be difficult to seal Lun. Chen Ying made up his mind that he must investigate and seal Lun, whether the surname is Wang or Jiang.
Chen Ying turned to look at Li Shimin and said, "I don't know what His Royal Highness King Qin has called, what happened?" β
Li Shimin didn't speak, but his face didn't look at it.
"See for yourself!" Li Shimin sighed and pushed a secret letter in front of Chen Ying.
Chen Ying took this secret letter suspiciously, unfolded it and only glanced at it a few times, and felt that his breathing was a little dignified: "Dou Jiande broke through Xiangzhou?" β
Li Shimin nodded.
Xiangzhou, roughly Yecheng, is today's Anyang area of Henan. Of course, it is not far from Luoyang, Xiangzhou is about 600 miles away from Luoyang, according to the calculation of the infantry army marching 40 to 60 miles in this era, as little as ten days, more than half a month, Dou Jiande's army will be under the city of Luoyang.
Chen Ying then looked down and found that on the secret letter, Li Yuan said to Li Shimin in a serious tone that Dou Jiande led an army of 300,000 to the west, although there are definitely not so many 300,000 horses in Dou Jiande's department, but there must be an army of more than 100,000 people, once Dou Jiande and Wang Shichong converge, Datang will definitely be squeezed out of the Central Plains.
Now that the best opportunity to seize the Central Plains has been lost, he hastened to retreat while Dou Jiande's army has not yet arrived.
At the same time, Li Yuan also gave Chen Yingyi a secret letter, in which Li Yuan was an official and a wish, and Chen Ying was promoted from the Duke of Pengcheng County to the Duke of Liang. The identity of the pacification envoy was slightly appeased, and the Henan Province was pacified. Li Yuan also asked Chen Yingwude on September 8 of the third year, which was an auspicious day, and Chen Yingshang was the princess of Pingyang, who was the commander of the horses.
At this time, it was not easy to defeat Zhu Cang, the Tang army's original collapsed military morale slowly recovered, as long as the generals rested for a few days and the generals recovered their strength, they could launch an attack on Luoyang, retreating at this juncture, Chen Ying was really a little unwilling. However, Chen Ying doesn't care about the big or small officials, nor does he care about the rank or not, he only cares if he can stay with Princess Pingyang.
Now hearing Li Yuan's promise, Chen Ying is also in a dilemma.
Chen Ying thought for a while and handed the secret letter to Li Shimin: "What does His Royal Highness King Qin think?" β
"Unwilling...... Unwilling! Li Shimin sighed and said indignantly: "Wang Shichong only has half a life left, and Dou Jiande, a despicable villain, actually came to take advantage of the fire to rob again." β
Feng Deyi said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, what Your Majesty means, presumably His Royal Highness the King of Qin has already understood, taking advantage of the news that Dou Jiande's army is coming, it has not yet spread, hurry up and deploy the army to retreat!" β
Li Shimin had a look of hesitation on his face, and he did not make a decision immediately.
"Boom ......"
A huge thunder that shook the heavens and the earth shook the canvas of the big tent and trembled, and it also interrupted Li Shimin's thinking in the big tent.
"Bang!" Li Shimin raised his head, slammed the desk in front of him with a fist, walked to the door of the big tent, pushed open the curtain and looked out, the outside of the tent was dark and gloomy, although it was only three minutes at this time, and there was still more than an hour before it was dark, but the sky was gloomy and gloomy, but he couldn't look at it dozens of steps away.
A lightning bolt lit up, only to see that the camp was white, the torrential rain was like an injection, the rain was pouring on the ground, and there was no longer a piece of road surface that had not been waterlogged, Li Shimin said anxiously: "This thief God, the torrential rain is pouring, and the next one will not end." β
Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Li Shimin's meaning, it seemed that he didn't want to withdraw from the army.
Once Datang retreats, it will cause chain consequences, first of all, Wang Shichong can completely gain a foothold in the Central Plains, and when the time comes, if Li Tang wants to attack the Central Plains again, the difficulty will increase exponentially. At the same time, with the passage of time, Dou Jiande will occupy the Jiaodong Peninsula and stabilize the rear, and he will form a three-legged situation with Li Tang, Wang Zheng and Dou Xia.
At this moment, Du Ruhui hurriedly entered the hall and handed over the battle report to Li Shimin, Li Shimin took a look, and his face was full of joy: "Eight thousand battles, 13,000 prisoners, 10,000 armor and blades were captured. β
Du Ruhui nodded.
Li Shimin muttered: "There are more than 5,000 wounded, it's really a bit more, if you cut those prisoners out of the old and weak, you can always get seven or eight thousand people, right?" β
Fang Xuanling said: "It should be about the same!" β
Li Shimin said: "Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan, Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie!" β
The four generals of Qin, Cheng, Duan, and Hou bowed down and hugged their fists and said: "The last will be!" β
Li Shimin said loudly: "You go to the prisoner camp and the people's camp, select their young and strong, and form them into an army ......."
Without waiting for Li Shimin to finish speaking, Chen Ying interrupted Li Shimin's words and said, "Wait! β
Li Shimin's face sank: "General Chen ......"
Chen Ying naturally knew that in this era, it was not uncommon for the enemy to be captured and reorganized into his own part with a little screening. Even if Chen Ying himself did this, in the army under the command of Liang Shidu, Chen Ying also reorganized these prisoners into the Dingyuan army.
Chen Ying said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, Zhu Cang's department is an ogre army that runs through Jingxiang, and many soldiers have followed Zhu Cang to eat people, if you just let go of these captive soldiers and their generals, it will be too cheap for them!" β
"Killing prisoners is ominous!" Li Shimin said: "Now that they have surrendered, if we kill them again, I am afraid it will be detrimental to General Chen's reputation." β
Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Chen Ying doesn't mind. Some people must be judged justly for their crimes, and they cannot pretend to be good people just because they put down their butcher knives. β
Li Shimin thought about it, and thought that Chen Ying had suffered too heavy losses from the cavalry under his command, so he had a revenge mentality against Zhu Cang's troops.
Seeing Chen Ying hesitate, Chen Ying bowed his head: "Please ask His Royal Highness King Qin to do it!" β
Li Shimin did not directly agree to Chen Ying, but looked at Feng Lun, the supervisor in the palace.
"What do you think of the prison seal?"
Seeing Li Shimin's eager eyes full of hope, and with a slightly uneasy look, Feng Lun's heart was soft and wanted to agree; Suddenly, he looked at the murderous aura in Chen Ying's eyes, and just wanted to refuse, but saw Li Shimin's eager gaze again.
Feng Lun secretly complained in his heart, these two are not to be offended by anyone. He had to look away from the door and look at the rain curtain outside the door for help.
Li Shimin had to reluctantly agree to Chen Ying's request.
Chen Ying was not lazy, and with Li Shimin's permission, he immediately took Shan Xiongxin, Zhou Qing, Guo Luo and a group of guards and walked towards the prisoner camp.
The hatred in Chen Ying's heart was monstrous.
In his cognition, man is only distinguished from beasts because he has a conscience.
However, Zhu Cang is a beast and beast wearing human skin.
Especially in the prisoner camp, Zhu Cang is still in a majestic posture. Looking at Zhu Cang's appearance, Chen Ying suddenly became angry in his heart. He didn't talk to Zhu Cang first, and raised his horizontal knife to catch Zhu Cang is a beating.
Although Chen Ying's horizontal knife was not unsheathed, it was picked up by Chen Ying and smashed like a stick, and Zhu Cang was also scarred and drenched in blood.
Until Chen Ying was too tired to do anything, Chen Ying threw down the knife and gasped: "Zhu Cang, you are doing evil in Qingzhou, Luozhou, and Jingzhou. Massacre of Han Chinese people. When the people of my Han family wantonly slaughtered and humiliated the land. Can you imagine that there will be today? β
"Hmph. Don't get complacent too soon! Zhu Cang suddenly broke free from control with brute force. However, before he could pounce on Chen Ying, he was kicked by Shan Xiongxin on one side and knocked to the ground, Zhu Cang said viciously to Chen Ying: "If you have the courage, let me live a few more days." Good way, see with your own eyes how you were beaten by the tower! β
"Really?" Chen Ying smiled coldly: "It's just a pity, you don't have a chance, today this general will judge you on behalf of the main council." β
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