Chapter Ninety-Eight: Song Kai Sacrifices Prisoners
The leading team slowly entered through the Chengtian Gate from the end gate, Li Xin was sandwiched in the most conspicuous position of the honor guard, the bullfighting suit sent by the eunuch was tight and narrow, and he was out of breath, so he turned to the East Chang'an Street, the onlookers were rubbing shoulders one after another, sweating like rain, in order not to be ashamed, he had to resist the urge to tear off the bullfighting suit of Rausch, and sat upright on the horse.
Among the people can be crowded on the East Chang'an Street, the family is either rich or expensive, the people who dress up and travel are extremely gorgeous, and there is a jubilation and enthusiasm under the crowd, and the dilapidated and bleak judgment seen by entering the city from Anding Gate on that day is like heaven and earth, Li Xin seems to be like falling into a dream, feeling the last illusory prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.
Crowded in the crowd to watch the excitement, there was Huang Er, who was drinking with Li Xin that day, this kind of excitement is everyone who has to come and see, he is no exception, and he is followed closely by his son-in-law, and he is also the honor guard who stretched his neck to look at the angry horse in fresh clothes.
"Second son, look, look, that's the general who captured the eldest son of the slave chieftain, call Li to ......"
"It's called Li Xin, yes, Gaoyang Li Xin!"
That Huang Er was originally absent-minded, and suddenly heard the four words of Gaoyang Li Xin, so he came to his senses, looked in the direction pointed by Chang Sui, and really saw a bearded man in a big red dress standing on a horse like a pins and needles, but this dress was too ill-fitting, and the originally burly body was strangled like a meat bun, which was extremely funny. Huang Er laughed for a while, it turned out to be him.
Gaoyang Li Xin!
This time, Huang Er completely remembered this name, and he couldn't see that such a strong man could capture the thief chief in the midst of thousands of troops, he really underestimated him, but then he frowned again, but I don't know why this person took refuge in those eunuchs in Dongchang? Yesterday, Huang Er saw the Dongchang waist card in Li Xinbu's bag, so he put away his heart and his hypocrisy, but he didn't expect that he was the main general of today's Song Kai prisoner. It's a pity that heroes also have to sell themselves for glory, how sad!
Li Xin couldn't feel the sighing and regretful gaze in the crowd at all, he only hoped that this torture-like procession would end as soon as possible, and he knew that he would suffer so much, so he refused to go through the street that day.
The Chinese army of the honor guard finally entered the Chengtian Gate at a turtle speed, and after the end gate is the noon gate, the last stop of the parade, Li Xin with extremely expectant eyes, in his heart shouted: I am here at the noon gate! Thinking that at the end of the trip, who would have thought that the team turned east and entered the Taimiao.
Li Xin immediately collapsed, and the big red bullfighting suit on his body was like a torture instrument, and he was like a hundred claws scratching his heart.
After entering the Forbidden City, there are ceremonial officials in every key place, and the ceremonial officials of the Taimiao guide the prisoners and generals to make a cumbersome sacrifice, and then they turn out and drive straight to the noon gate. The ceremony of sacrificing prisoners began, and Fu Zonglong, the secretary of the military department, traveled to the east side of the noon gate to praise Xuanlubu. Xuanbi, handed over to the officials of the Zhongshu Provincial Division, and immediately announced to the world. Next is Liu Juesi, the secretary of the Criminal Department, who appeared on the stage, the old man trembled slightly, and he must have come to the front of the noon gate in one step.
At the same time, those ceremonial officials didn't know when they tricked Hauge, who was dressed in sackcloth, into front of Li Xinma. Li Xin was fidgeting, and Haoge sneered: "How can General Li sit on pins and needles? This king leads the horse for you, but it is a blessing that cannot be cultivated by eight generations. ā
Li Xin has never seen a stranger person than Haoge since he crossed over, his heart is too big, and he has been sacrificed as a sacrifice, and this thing still has the heart to quarrel.
The horn sounded melodiously, and the ceremonial officer motioned for Li Xin to move forward. Li Xin was waiting for this moment, his feet knocked on the horse's belly, and he led Haoge and went straight to Liu Juesi, the secretary of the old criminal department, the war horse Xu was manic, and he actually ran up more than a dozen steps away, and Haoge, who was unprepared, was pulled by the rope and stumbled, almost fell to the ground, and hurriedly trotted a few steps to keep up.
The speed of the war horse Li Xin sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly pulled the reins and pressed the saddle, just about to make this last trembling, but don't go wrong. The war horse screamed strangely, raised its front hooves for a while, and stopped in front of Liu Juesi, scaring the old man so much that he lost half of his three souls and seven spirits, but he didn't move.
In the eyes of the civil and military officials, this move was extremely beautiful, and Lao Shangshu was not afraid of danger, and some people shouted hello, followed by a mountain shouting long live, and the whole atmosphere was like firecrackers that were instantly ignited and could not be calm for a long time.
Even Zhu Youzhen, who was wearing a crown on the Wumen City Tower, nodded with satisfaction, it seems that Li Xin is still a little anxious, and this performance is just right.
As everyone knows, Li Xin, who was on the horse, was soaked in cold sweat and put on his bullfighting suit, and a gust of north wind blew, which made him tremble. Under the guidance of the ceremonial officer, Li Xin dismounted and led Hauge to kneel directly below the emperor. Lao Shangshu Liu Juesi moistened his dry mouth, coughed hard, and knelt on the ground.
"Liu Juesi, the secretary of the Ministry of Punishment and Punishment, Qi Shengshang, Gaoyang Li Xin captured the eldest son of the slave chieftain Taiji in Baoding Mansion and the prince of Pseudo-Su Haoge, dedicated to His Majesty, please pay the division!"
The emperor waved his hand in agreement, and the eunuchs beside him sang angrily:
"Emperor Ming is merciful and forgives you!"
After the three singing, a criminal officer immediately stepped forward to loosen the tie for Haoge, according to the etiquette system, at this time Haoge should kneel to thank the emperor, but he refused to kneel no matter what. The criminal officer couldn't hold him down for a while, Li Xin was anxious on the side, and he didn't care about the etiquette, he got up and raised his leg to kick Hauge's thigh, only to hear a miserable cry Hauge fell to the ground.
The contingent of Siyi envoys who were on the west side to watch the ceremony immediately protested.
Li Xin looked back, and saw that it was familiar, as if he had seen it in Dorgon's camp. This person was the military attache sent by Dolgon's invitation, named Rong Su, and the Zhenghong Banner Zhangjing. Soon, Rong Su was gagged by the Jinyi guards who closely monitored him, and the ceremony continued.
Emperor Zhu Youzhen encouraged, hundreds of officials bowed to the mountain, and the eunuchs read out the reward. On the long list of rewards, even Sun Chengzong, Liu Yuliang and other ministers are included, Lu Xiangsheng, Hu Dawei, and Wang Pu are also impressively listed, but Li Xin is not mentioned for half a word.
The emperor not only did not investigate the responsibility for the fall of Gaoyang City, but instead promoted Sun Chengzong to be loyal and brave, and the civil official was knighted and honored. Obviously, Zhu Youzhen has this account in his heart, and Li Xin's credit must be counted under Sun Chengzong's strategy. Otherwise, with a martial artist, how can it be difficult to attack and kill the deputy commander of the Tartars and capture the son of the slave chief?
After the decree was announced, what did the eunuch say Li Xin couldn't listen to, even if he didn't care about anything, he had to get a sentence after a hard day, okay? After a long time, he is the props on the stage, and he can throw it away when he is finished.
However, even if Li Xin is a prop, he can't be used up and thrown away, and there are more important performance tasks waiting for him to complete. After the ceremony, Emperor Zhu Youzhen returned to the palace leisurely, and the ministers left in order.
At this moment, Li Xin vaguely felt that there was the sound of a cannon, perhaps because he was overworked today and hallucinated. After leaving the noon gate, he immediately ripped off the bullfighting suit on his body, revealing the martial arts suit inside.
As soon as he came out of Chengtianmen, the people watching on the south side of the long street had not dispersed, but when he saw a horse galloping, Yang Sichang's face changed drastically in the midst of the hundred officials, and he hurriedly separated everyone and stepped forward. The soldier dismounted and presented the paperwork, and Yang Sichang only glanced at it a few times before he felt crumbling. Stunned, he hurriedly came back to his senses, his eyes wandered, looking for Li Xin's figure in the crowd.
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The Tartars bombarded the city of Beijing, and at the same time the army moved together, heading straight for the Ming army outside the city, Li Xinxin was anxious, these tens of thousands of Mali not only had innocent people, but also his 300 brothers who fought side by side, so he could not stand idly by. He almost snapped his horse's whip, and his horse galloped across the streets of Andingmen.
By the time Li Xin ascended to the top of the city, the Tartar army had already broken through to the pass. There are a large number of mines planted by Li Xin in the pass, which can withstand it for a while and a half, and the biggest problem actually comes from the north of the army, where only a mine array is planted, as long as the Tartars go around to the north and let out a wave of people to rush over, then the mines will be destroyed, and the Tartars will be able to run over without any blockage.
"Let me go down to town now!"
Li Xin did not hesitate and insisted on going down despite the obstruction of the generals in the city. Even if he died, he had to die with his brothers and the people he had promised to bring them back to their homeland safely. Li Xin didn't know why the Tartars suddenly attacked, but he had a hunch that something must be wrong, and it was very likely that the Tartars' goal had changed.
When Li Xin returned to the army from the city, the people, 300 horse thieves and Liu Quan's own army saw Li Xin returning, and their feelings immediately rose, and they all said that they would be brave soldiers. Li Xin has brought them too much incredible, and in the consciousness of the people, it seems that as long as they follow this General Li, they can march all the way. This is not? They even arrived in the capital!
However, the day before yesterday, a holy decree came from the capital, saying that Li Xin had been left in Beijing to listen to it, and the army was unified under the command of Yang Sichang, a scholar of Shangshu University of the Ministry of Rites. This news blasted the originally monolithic army apart like a Hongyi cannon.
A part of the people, mainly the people of Jinghai, shouted that they wanted to leave the brigade and return to Jinghai. The original Baoding people led by Zeng Dare took a wait-and-see attitude. Liu Quan, the general of the Shandong General Liu Zeqing's pro-army, was neither willing nor able to leave, but he also did not want to fight a decisive battle with the Tartars. The horse thieves led by Lu Jiu were even more outrageous, and someone actually built yƬ to sneak into Beijing City and rescue the thirteenth brother Li Xin.
It was in this chaotic situation that the Tartars struck a fatal blow. At the critical moment, Li Xin's arrival saved the morale of the army that was about to collapse, but under the onslaught of Tartar power, how many rounds could it last?
As long as Li Xin gave the order to retreat, the army would collapse in a blink of an eye, and it would be up to the Tartars to kill at that time. Therefore, even if you know that you will lose, you can't give up, and let the Tartar gnaw on the bones, and you have to break off two front teeth.
"Heralds, drums, trumpets!"
"Woo woo woo ......"
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
With the sound of rumbling drums and long trumpets, the army that had been on the verge of collapse miraculously regrouped. Observing the Baiyin map from a distance, I couldn't help but wonder that the changes in the Ming army seemed to have been quelled, and it was still under the situation of the soldiers pressing the border, which was really too difficult to understand.
But can this be able to resist the iron cavalry of the Qing Dynasty?