Chapter 722: There will be serious consequences
Prince Cheng was also wondering at this time whether Yang Ze, the king of Yan, was dead, and this kind of thought was not his own, even the king of Jingde County, and some lords and lords who were not particularly dull in their brains, also began to have this kind of thought!
Now the people on the city wall have not wavered, except for some nobles who do not understand the situation and have been excluded from the decision-making circle, that is, Wu Youren and Li Chongjiu are still believing that Yang Ze is dead, and the once glorious King Yan must be dead!
Li Chongjiu firmly believes that Yang Ze is dead, because he is afraid of death, the more he is afraid of death, the more he hopes that it is someone else who dies, not himself, if the news that Yang Ze is dead is false, then he will understand very clearly that his own death is coming, and he does not want to understand this, so he firmly believes that Yang Ze is dead.
And Wu Youren thinks that Yang Ze must be dead, how can he not die, Yang Ze must die of infighting, there is no evidence that Yang Ze is not dead, so he must be dead!
No matter how much you believe in this, you can't change the facts, everyone in the city who plans to watch the battle, and watch the civil war of the Yan army, is just stupid in a quarter of an hour, because they see the Yan army coming like a tide and stop half a mile away from the city wall, although the sky is already dark at this time, but the banner of the Yan army can still be seen clearly through the moon!
Especially when the Yan army stopped advancing and began to light the torches, and the light of the torches illuminated the person under the banner, Li Chongjiu and Wu Youren had the feeling of fainting immediately, because they were clear, or the Yan army had to see the commander under the banner clearly. It's Yang Ze himself!
Half a mile away, it's not too far away, if the Taiyuan soldiers have a hard crossbow. That kind of bed crossbow, then it is enough to shoot Yang Ze, and Taiyuan soldiers really have this kind of bed crossbow, but unfortunately, no one thinks of using it at this time!
Li Chongjiu stood up from the chair, pointed to Yang Ze in the distance, and said, "That." Who is that person, he and he, he can't be Yang Ze! ”
Wu Youren only felt dizzy and his head was swollen. He shook his body, stood up as well, and looked at Yang Ze fixedly, to be honest. He couldn't really see what the man really looked like. In terms of posture, except for Yang Ze, it can't be anyone else!
Wu Youren said loudly: "That's fake, it's Yang Ze's stand-in, Yang Ze has long been killed by Gui Baohua, in order to cover up the truth, they used a fake Yang Ze!" ”
He suddenly raised his voice and shouted to the Taiyuan soldiers near the city tower: "Yang Ze is dead. has been killed by General Gui Baohua, everyone shouts. Yang Ze is dead, Yang Ze is dead! ”
But the Taiyuan soldiers were dumbfounded, they had already received the order to shout that Yang Ze was dead, but everyone thought it was fake, it was used to boost morale, to tell the truth, no one really thought that Yang Ze was really dead, look at the day before dark, the hundred or so Yan soldiers, they dared to run around Taiyuan City, and dared to shoot arrows to the city while running, and no army defending the city dared to open the city gate to fight, the Yan army soldiers were already so powerful, as the leader of the Yan soldiers, how could Yang Ze die so easily!
Although this idea is not so reliable, no matter how powerful a person is, he will die, will Yang Ze always live because he is strong? This kind of thinking is definitely wrong, but at this time, who will care if it is right or not, isn't Yang Ze under the city, even if he doesn't know himself, but that big flag, and that kind of momentum, who can't guess that it is King Yan!
Prince Cheng suddenly shouted: "Where is Li Mofeng, where is Li Mofeng?" ”
At this time, he finally remembered the news that Li Mofeng and Yang Ze had died, but Li Mofeng brought it back, and it proved that Yang Ze was dead, and the news that the emperor of Chang'an wanted to set up a long-lived princess as the imperial concubine was also brought back by Li Mofeng, Li Mofeng was the key person, but he never took Li Mofeng seriously!
Li Mofeng was also in the city, but he didn't come to him, he heard the shout, he knew that something was wrong, this was to sprinkle anger on his head, but at this time, it was too late to escape, there were naturally people around him who recognized him, twisted him, and escorted him to Li Chongjiu!
Li Chongjiu pointed under him and said angrily: "That person, is it a fake Yang Ze?" ”
This kind of question is quite infuriating, but it is also quite brainless, how can Li Mofeng answer this question, he will definitely answer that it is false, otherwise his head will not be saved!
Sure enough, Li Mofeng shouted: "It's fake, it must be fake, Yang Ze has already been killed by Gui Baohua, and the following is a stand-in, it's fake!" ”
Wu Youren hurriedly said: "It's fake, everyone is about to shout that Yang Ze is dead!" ”
The Taiyuan soldiers looked at each other at first, and only the eldest son of Prince Cheng shouted first, and the rest of the soldiers shouted scatteredly, but the sound they shouted was not enough for the Yan soldiers outside the city to hear, and there was no way to do it, because they all saw Li Chongjiu's panic, and they almost all thought that this was a lie!
Li Chongjiu looked at Li Mofeng with extreme disgust, he now began to suspect that what Li Mofeng brought back was fake news, anyway, whether it was true or not, he wanted to kill Li Mofeng now, waved his hand, and said: "Pull it down and cut it!" ”
Wu Youren was shocked, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you can't kill him, if he dies, wouldn't it be equivalent to saying to others that Yang Ze is not dead, then the real news has become false!" ”
Li Chongjiu was right to think about it, but before he could change his order, he heard someone shouting: "Yang Ze is here, Yang ...... King Yan is here! ”
Li Chongjiu was furious, and said that Yang Ze was dead, how could he still say that he was coming, but Wu Youren pointed to the city, and Li Chongjiu was stunned, because, he saw it, Yang Ze really came!
Outside the city, under the protection of more than a hundred Bohai warriors holding huge shields, Yang Ze rode a horse and walked over slowly, until he reached the range of the bow and arrow in the city without stopping, and slowly walked to the moat!
Yang Ze's mood is also quite nervous now, although he thinks that no Taiyuan soldier will shoot him with an arrow at this time, but there is no guarantee that it will happen, but if he doesn't come at this time, then there will be no way to hit Li Chongjiu, and give Li Chongjiu the most fatal blow!
Yang Ze raised his head and stood and shouted to Li Chongjiu on the city tower, "Li Chongjiu." You're not His Royal Highness the Crown Prince now, do you know about it yourself? ”
Li Chongjiu was dumbfounded, and he didn't know how to answer. Wu Youren shouted from the side: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already ascended the throne and is the emperor of my Dafang Empire, the criminal minister Yang Ze, if you don't hurry up and cut yourself, when do you have to wait!" ”
He can say the wrong thing now, such a name, isn't it equivalent to admitting that the following is Yang Ze. Yang Ze is still alive, so what happened to forcing Taiyuan soldiers to shout that Yang Ze is dead? So people can't be in a hurry. In a hurry, it is easy to make mistakes!
Yang Ze laughed and said, "It seems that you know that I am not dead, how about it." The man named Li Mofeng. The news to you, you all know it, this news makes you very happy, happy that you have established yourself as the emperor, this is a rebellion, now you understand what's going on! ”
Li Chongjiu and Wu Youren were stupid immediately, they were fooled, and they were fooled. If Li didn't think that Yang Ze was really dead, would he have the courage to be the emperor? They certainly don't have the guts!
The big and small lords are even more blinded. Especially Prince Cheng and King Jingdejun, two worthy of being good brothers, they actually fainted together at the same time!
Yang Ze smiled again: "If you receive any letter from Chang'an, such as a brocade book or something, it is also fake, anyway, as long as it is something that Li Mofeng brought back, it will definitely not be true, have you killed him, if you haven't killed him, hurry up and hand him over, this king wants to thank him personally!" ”
Wu Youren was furious and scolded: "Yang thief, you conspired to frame the prince, the crime is extremely heinous, and the emperor will definitely investigate ......"
Before he finished speaking, Yang Ze said: "Fart, what if something else is fake, but your rebellion is real!" ”
He stretched out three fingers and said, "Three hours, give you three hours to think about it, and think about what to do!" With that, no more nonsense, under the protection of the shieldbearer, retreated to the main formation.
After returning to the main formation, Yang Ze wiped his sweat, don't look at him was very arrogant just now, but his forehead was already full of cold sweat, just now he was really afraid of releasing arrows in the city, but it was a pity, Li Chongjiu and Wu Youren did not seize this opportunity, and just now he also confirmed that those Taiyuan soldiers did not listen to Li Chongjiu's words so much, and they were not necessarily loyal to Li Chongjiu, otherwise, if there were loyal people, even if Li Chongjiu did not give an order, he would give Yang Ze an arrow, even if he couldn't shoot him, but it would also scare him to flee back to the main formation, and his arrogance would become embarrassed, is it really interesting to be arrogant in the city?
As soon as Yang Ze came back, the generals immediately surrounded him, and Gui Baohua first asked: "Taiwei, after three hours, the sky is not yet bright, if they don't react, then are we really going to attack the city?" ”
The other generals also looked embarrassed, this day's wild running, the soldiers are tired, and they haven't eaten yet, even if they rest for three hours, I'm afraid they can't recover, three hours is almost the second half of the night, if there is really a war at that time, it is estimated that in addition to being able to shout a few voices under the city, there is nothing else to do, and it takes time to build a cloud ladder!
Yang Ze smiled: "Three hours is not enough? Then give them three more hours! Let's eat and drink raw, and then rest, let's sleep tonight, let them stay up late! ”
Gui Baohua breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If you can not use force, it is better not to use force!" ”
His thoughts are the same as most of the generals, after all, it is better to kill Li Chongjiu and let others do it than for them to do it themselves, if those royal family members in the city understand something, then everything will be fine!
The generals gave an order, the Yan soldiers began to dismount and rest, ate some dry food, the soldiers were so tired that they had no strength to boil hot water, just drank some water in the water bladder indiscriminately, made up some food for the war horses, and then fell asleep, too tired, even if it was a cavalry, it was enough to run down for such a day.
But the Yan soldiers rested, but Li Chongjiu and the others in the city couldn't rest!
Li Chongjiu was in a hurry and asked: "Wu Aiqing, what are three hours, why three hours, is it possible that he still wants me to surrender?" This simply makes no sense! ”
He is a dignified new emperor, even if it is not very legitimate, take a step back, he is only the prince, that is also the prince of the Dafang Empire, and Yang Ze is the prince of the Dafang Empire, how can there be any reason for the prince to surrender to the prince, unless it is the holy decree to degrade him as a commoner, otherwise Yang Ze can't do anything to him, and even if he wants to be the queen of Caicai, he doesn't need to be demoted to a commoner, give him an empty title, get by on face, and then give a manor, that's okay, it's impossible for his father and queen mother to kill him as a son, right?
Of course, this is what Li Chongjiu thinks, Wu Youren doesn't think so, and none of the people around Li Chongjiu think so, because they all understand what three hours mean!
It is unlikely that the emperor of Chang'an will kill Li Chongjiu, but the king of Yan outside the city will definitely kill him, what does three hours mean? That's not what it means to Li Chongjiu, but Yang Ze is telling them that these members of the royal family will tie up Li Chongjiu within three hours, or kill him, so that he will spare the royal family members in the city, otherwise when he waves his army to attack the city, he will kill all the nobles of Taiyuan!
Wu Youren saw that Li Chongjiu was panicking, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, Yang Ze's intentions are extremely sinister, he is ......" Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, some words really can't be said in front of Prince Cheng, these members of the Taiyuan royal family, it will immediately trigger betrayal, at this time, in addition to showing goodwill, there can be no little bit of stimulation.
Wu Youren swallowed what he was about to say, but said: "It's getting late, why don't the emperor go back to the palace to rest first, and all the people leave the city and go back to the palace with the emperor, and everyone don't go home separately." ”
The palace he said was the left-behind mansion, Li Chongjiu was called the emperor, so the mansion was going to be changed to a palace, and he said that everyone went together, that was because he didn't want Prince Cheng and them to have a chance to be alone together, otherwise they would discuss what they could do for three hours, and if this thing is done, it will definitely be unfavorable to Li Chongjiu, and you will know the result with your toes!
Li Chongjiu didn't want to go back to the Stay-behind Mansion, it can be seen that Wu Youren insisted, and he could only agree, and now he has no one else to rely on except Wu Youren!
On the way back, Prince Cheng and King Jingde deliberately fell behind, Prince Cheng said: "If you don't defend the city now, it's useless, even if we defend it harder, it seems that the Yan soldiers will also kill in, brother, do you understand the consequences?" ”
The muscles on King Jingdejun's face jumped, and he said: "I regret not being at the beginning, I really shouldn't have fallen into this muddy water, and now I'm putting ourselves in it." ”
Prince Cheng said: "Now is not the time to regret it, we have to find a way back for ourselves, otherwise, hand over the emperor, what do you think?" ”
When danger was coming, the first thing that this treacherous Prince Cheng thought of was to protect his family, and he had no idea of continuing to be loyal to Li Chongjiu!
King Jingde glanced at Li Chongjiu in front of him, and said in a low voice: "Hand him over, and everything after that will be done by King Yan, it will become irrelevant to us, and we can be regarded as getting rid of the charge of rebellion, but if King Yan kills him, the emperor will hate us, and sooner or later he will destroy our whole clan, but don't expect Yang Ze to thank us and speak for us." ”
As for whether to protect his family or betray Li Chongjiu, King Jingde will not hesitate at all, and the choice is quite fast.
Prince Cheng said twice, "Isn't it enough to find a substitute for the dead ghost!" ”
"Looking for whom?"
"Just look for that Li Mofeng, didn't he have time to be beheaded just now, this kind of best substitute for the dead, no one needs him to use!"
King Jingde didn't react for a while, and asked, "What kind of use method?" ”
Prince Cheng whispered a few words, King Jingde County sighed, nodded slightly, beckoned Li Bozhi to come, and said, "Go and seal that Li Mo, he is going to come in handy now!" (To be continued......)