Chapter 176: Full of Slaughter
Heavy rain for several days in a row, the Cangjiang River water swelled, the original clear river water became muddy, changed the gentle image of the past, with a rumbling roar poured down from the upstream, fiercely rushed against the river embankment, the original dense flood control forest under the river embankment, now only some treetops are still above the water, swaying in panic.
The rain was still falling, not as fierce as the previous days, and the wisps were floating with the breeze, which didn't look big, but it would make people feel sticky and uncomfortable.
Yuejing, the capital of the Yue Kingdom, is located on the bank of the Cangjiang River, which is an ancient city, thousands of years ago, Li Qing Emperor ruled the world and set up the Yue Kyoto Governor's Mansion to control the vast mountainous area in the northeast. In these mountainous areas, there are dozens of ethnic groups of all sizes, the folk customs are fierce, brave and ruthless, if they do not agree with each other, they will draw their swords against each other, the weapons fighting among the tribes are as commonplace, before the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, the mountain people here recruit peace, and the rebellion is as casual as playing at home. Give them some sweetness, and they will declare their submission to the court, and if they do not satisfy their opinions, they will immediately turn their faces.
Even with Emperor Li Qing's ability back then, there were not too many ways to fight them? It's not worth it, the vast mountainous area is their natural hiding place, there are too many people, they pack up, and hide deeper in the mountains, you have nothing to do, there are fewer people, these mountain tribes will be connected with each other, set one trap after another in the mountains, so that the army that enters the mountains to exterminate them is gone.
From ancient times to the present day, they seem to be places outside the law.
Of course, Emperor Li Qing was clearly different from everyone before him, and he adopted an unusual strategy, and after the establishment of the Yue Kyoto Governorate, the Tang Dynasty at that time formulated a strategy to govern the land that lasted for a hundred years. The first step is to lure them down the mountain, starting with the children of the clan leaders, the world of flowers and flowers under the mountain is naturally not boring mountain life can be compared, and in order to make Yuejing have a better attraction, the Tang Dynasty has made a bloody investment for Yuejing. The third step is education, and a large number of scholars are sent to Yuejing to open schools for free and teach the children of the mountain people to read and read for free.
This national policy, which cost countless money and lasted for nearly a hundred years, finally achieved the results he hoped for when Emperor Li Qing left this earthly world. The vast majority of the mountain tribes went down the mountain and left the place where their ancestors had lived for generations, because outside the mountain could give them a better life, and their children were not willing to return to the mountains after receiving the education of the Tang Dynasty.
The world beyond the mountains is even more colorful.
The vast majority of the mountain tribes went down the mountain, and the rest were still stubborn, and the mountain tribes that adhered to the characteristics of the tribe were no longer climate, and with the guidance of those mountain people who went down the mountain, more children of the mountain people who were familiar with the situation of the mountains entered the army, which also made these tribes who stuck to the mountains repeatedly defeated in the conflict with the Tang Dynasty, and almost wiped out.
Although Yuejing is located in the northeast and far away from the prosperous area of the Central Plains, its urban scale, culture, education and martial arts are not inferior to any central city in the Central Plains.
More than 100 years ago, the Cao family usurped the throne, Wu Xiushan, the governor of the Yue Kyoto Governor's Mansion, took advantage of the situation and established himself as the emperor, in the subsequent battle with the Qi State, relying on joining forces with Qin and Chu, forced the Qi family to retreat, in the following decades, the three kingdoms of Yue, Qin and Chu have always formed an alliance to jointly fight against the Qi State, and finally forced the Qi State to recognize their status, and the four countries divided the world pattern of the Tang Dynasty, which was formed.
Among the four countries, Yue because nearly half of the land is mountainous, and the richest plain area, but it borders on the Qi country, for decades, the war is endless, can not be recuperated, the national strength has always been in the last place among the four countries, but as one of the iron triangle to fight against the Qi country, the Yue country has an extremely important position, in the past hundred years, it seems to be in danger, but it has always been standing.
Today, a hundred years later, the country of Vietnam finally feels the crisis of national destruction for the first time.
The Qin State suffered the greatest drought in a century, the old emperor of the Chu State fell ill and died, and the two countries were in turmoil, and the situation was extremely tense, and the Emperor Cao Tiancheng of the Qi State keenly seized this rare opportunity in a hundred years, and brazenly launched the war against Vietnam again.
The State of Qi does not need to prepare, because since the founding of the country for a hundred years, every emperor of this country has been doing the dream of dominating the world all the time and repeating the dream of the Tang Dynasty in the past, so the State of Qi has always been ready to go to the battlefield at any time, with one to three, but the three countries have to take a defensive position, which shows the strength of the Qi State.
With the order of the Emperor Cao Tiancheng of the Qi State, the army of the State of Qi under the command of Prince Cao Yun crossed the border and raided the State of Yue. The loss of this area is a fatal blow to the national strength of the Yue country.
Just when the government and the opposition of the Yue State were in mourning, the rapidly advancing Qi army suddenly slowed down, and the conditions of the armistice also reached Yuejing.
The Yue State must tear up the alliance treaty with Qin and Chu, and instead declare an alliance with the Qi State, cede the land, pay indemnities, and send protons to Chang'an, the capital of the Qi State.
Under the condition that he was unable to reach the front of the Qi army, and Qin Chu was too busy to take care of himself and could not rescue, the lord and faction of the Yue State gained the upper hand and decided to sign an alliance treaty with Qi.
The core of the signing of the treaty is that the Yue State will not be allowed to station large troops on the Qi-Yue border, and all troops must be transferred to the Qin-Chu border. In return, the Qi State returned half of the occupied land of the Yue Kingdom to the Yue Kingdom.
As soon as this treaty broke out, there was an immediate uproar in the government and the opposition, especially the main battle faction reacted strongly, if he agreed to the conditions of Qi State, it would be equivalent to washing his neck clean and stretching it out under the butcher's knife of Qi State, and Qi State would cut it whenever he wanted. Yuejing is at the junction of the eastern plains and the northern mountains, and if there are no troops stationed in this area, the Qi army can drive straight into it at any time.
Such harsh and unequal conditions also made the royal family of Yue hesitate, and just when the main battle faction was about to regain the upper hand, Cao Yun's army attacked again, and within ten days, ten cities were connected, and the front was only less than a hundred miles away from Yuejing.
The successive defeats in military battles finally became the last straw that crushed the main battle faction, and Wu Jian, the emperor of the Yue State, decided to agree to the conditions of the Qi State. At this time, the new conditions of Qi came unexpectedly.
The new conditions required the Yue Imperial Court to kill the main battle faction, and Cao Yun even made a detailed list.
The first on the list is the Yue Guo Jiangmen family, the Luo family. As the leader of the main battle faction, Luo Kuan, the head of the Luo family, is in charge of the military department, and most of the children in the family are in the army, and Luo Yishui is the chief general of Zhaoguan, the largest pass on the Qiyue border, commanding tens of thousands of troops. Although he has now lost consecutive battles, he is still on the opposite side of the Qi army, constantly gathering and organizing resistance. In order to create a good atmosphere for the negotiations, Qi gave Luo Yishui precious time, and he actually gathered 50,000 Vietnamese troops who were defeated on the front line under the noses of Qi people, which became an extremely annoying stumbling block in front of Qi people.
This time Luo Yishui learned the lesson of the previous defeat, the current Yue army, simply can not confront the Qi army head-on, with the 50,000 troops, Luo Yishui retreated while fighting, although he is still constantly losing the city, but he effectively preserves the strength in his hands, which makes the Qi State up to the emperor, down to the commander Cao Yun are extremely annoyed.
Qi and Yue have been fighting for a hundred years, and there are deep grievances between the two countries, if Luo Yishui is allowed to continue like this, I am afraid that he will gather more and more people, which will form a very strong interference with the grand strategy of Qi State, and affect the timing of Qi State's next war against Chu State. Qi didn't want to have a tough Yue main battle faction behind him to command the army when he was at war with Chu, threatening Qi at all times.
Kolo Yishui is also an experienced veteran on the battlefield, and now he has become a slippery guy, it is easy to defeat him on the frontal battlefield, but it is impossible to completely annihilate his army. In that case, let the lord of the Yue country and send him to clean him up.
Under the threat of the Qi army, and the constant pressure of the domestic lord and faction, the Yue Emperor Wu Jian finally compromised, and the Yuejing City began a large-scale purge, and the main battle faction led by Luo Kuan was taken down with a drum.
The palace guards have gone straight to Luo Yishui's camp with the holy decree, and they will directly seize power and behead Luo Yishui on the spot, and in Yuejing City, the final disposition of the Luo clan has also been issued, and under the pressure of the Qi envoys, the Luo clan will be beheaded all over the house.
Today's rainy day is the last day of the Luo clan in this world.
On the embankment of the Cangjiang River, there is a wide stone platform, the edge of the platform protrudes out of the embankment far away, and under the platform, there is the water of the Cangjiang River. Here, it is not a viewing platform in Cangjiang, but an execution platform specially used in Yuejing to execute criminals.
Under the embankment, has already gathered a dense number of people in Yuejing, Luo's is an ancient family, together with the royal Wu family, settled here as early as the Tang Dynasty, for many years, has been the famous Jiangmen family of Yue, in the history of more than 100 years of Yue, the Luo family died in the war of countless people, deeply loved by the people.
It is difficult for loyal ministers to have a good end since ancient times, and Luo's fate seems to confirm this law again, looking at the Luo's door on the high platform that was kneeling on the ground by the executioner, and there was a faint cry in the crowd watching the execution.
All over the house, from the gray-haired old man to the infant baby, will be cut off from the execution table today. Luo Kuan knelt in the front, and under him, there was the surging Cangjiang River, he still stubbornly held his head high, and stared unyieldingly at Zhang Ning, the left minister of the Yue country, the lord and leader of the Yue country.
"The Vietnamese National Assembly died at the hands of you." He stiffened his neck and yelled. "Although the Luo clan is dead, Da Yue's resistance to Qi will never stop, Zhang Ning, you are a sinner in Yue Guo, you will be stinking for 10,000 years." (To be continued.) )