Chapter 765: Woe to Xiao Wall
In Liu Yunniang's eyes, her husband Li Ke's newly cast crown was like a heavy mountain, weighing heavily on his head.
For hundreds of years, the Shatuo clan has been only a vassal and thug of the strong, from the Turks to the Tibetan Invasion, and from the last to the Inner Li Tang. The patriarchs of each generation of Shatuo are attached to the strong, and at the same time, they hope to lead Shatuo to rise. Shatuo established himself as a kingdom and had a territory entirely of their own, which was the dream of countless generations of Shatuo patriarchs. Since the fall of the Turks, Shatuo was oppressed by the Tibetans, and moved to Li Tang thousands of miles later.
Today, with the efforts of Li Guochang's father and son, finally when Li Keyong was used, the Shatuo people had a real territory of their own, and the leader of Shatuo was also crowned king.
Li Keyong is not only the king of Yanmen County rewarded by Li Tang, but also the king of Shatuo of Shatuo.
Today, Li Guochang was finally sent back to Yanmen by Li Tang and returned to the Shatuo tribe. Li Tang sent Li Guochang back in the hope of using the power of Sha Tuo to defeat Huang Chao. However, as soon as Li Guochang returned to Yanmen Town, he directly slaughtered the imperial envoy who escorted him back. Then, Li Guochang gave his son Li Keyong a Shatuo crown that he carried with him and put it on his head.
The Shatuo people have never had their own true kingdom, but the Shatuo people have always had a crown that has been passed down from generation to generation. As early as hundreds of years ago, when the Shatuo people were still following the Turks, the Shatuo people had asked the most famous craftsmen in the West to create a crown. Over the centuries, Shatuo has gone through ups and downs, but this crown has been passed down from generation to generation. However, for a long time, the story of the Shatuo crown was only known to the Shatuo patriarch, and everyone else had heard the story of the crown. But no one has seen it. But today. Li Guochang really took out this crown. And personally crowned his son and put it on.
This crown made by the most famous blacksmith in the Western Regions, just like the legend in the past, is a crown made of gold, engraved with ancient Turkic scripts, completely in the style of the land of Taixi, and nine sharp wolf-tooth-like crystal hard gemstone spikes stand on it. This crown is gold-based, inlaid with jewels, and the gold shines. But it's strong and sharp. After the crown was cast, the Shatuo clan lord died in the Turkic civil war, and since then, no one has actually worn this crown. Now, Li Guochang personally crowned his son Li Keyong, and countless Shatuo soldiers in Yanmen witnessed it together.
Today's Yanmen Town is very lively, the Son of Heaven in Chengdu not only sent Li Guochang back to Yanmen, but also sent angels, sent a commendation decree, and personally crowned Li Keyong King of Jin. Named Li Guochang the king of Yanmen County, and then rewarded Li Ke with his generals. Li Keyong Situ, the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses and the marshal of the Hedong soldiers and horses, and even the Son of Heaven called Li Guochang the emperor's uncle and Li Keyong as the emperor's brother according to the generations after the Zhu Xiejia entered the royal family in the holy decree.
On the outskirts of Yanmen, they invited angels from Chengdu to inspect the soldiers and horses of Shatuo, and then held a banquet for the angels in the city.
Liu Yunniang was named the princess of Jin, and even because she commanded 5,000 female troops, she was specially awarded the general of the right Weiwei, and the female army under her command was given the title of Lion's Roar, known as the Hedong Lion's Roar Army. She and Li Keyong's two-year-old daughter were also named the county lords of Xincheng. At this time, she also attended the banquet, and did not shy away from it, and she saw that her husband had deliberately put out the crown and placed it on the shaggy black hair.
The envoy of the court seemed to be shocked by this crown, and the expression on his face became a little strange, and he turned his head from time to time to look at the crown, but he did not speak out. Li Keyong seemed to be satisfied with the effect at first, but it didn't take long for him to reach out and take the crown, and after a while he moved it forward, and then after a while he spun it around again, as if the crown was not comfortable on his head. Liu Yunniang thought while looking at it, this crown is not easy to wear. The husband wore this crown at this time, and it was a military parade during the day, undoubtedly showing his strength to the envoys of the imperial court, and wanting to get something he wanted from the imperial court. Especially after the defeat in Yiwu Town before, he needs to be so strong more and more. But on the one hand, her husband is still a little weak after all, and now the Shatuo army is not strong, and he just missed a great opportunity to defeat Li Jing. If the truth of Yanmen is seen through by the imperial court, in case the imperial court asks the towns in Hedong to send troops to attack Yanmen, it will be dangerous.
In the middle of the banquet, Li Ke used Xuanren to bring the captive generals who had just been exchanged for Li Jing.
The generals led by Li Kexin brought in, and Li Keyong asked people to take his own swords with a black face. Li Sizhao took Li Ke's big sword, and handed it over with the hilt in front of him. Li Ke drew his two-handed big sword and placed it horizontally on his knees, his face gloomy, and his coercive momentum spread.
"King, people have brought it." Li Siyuan personally brought people in and came forward to report.
"Zhang Dirty! When you see the king, don't kneel down quickly! Li Sizhao shouted, and Li Sien stepped forward to press Li Cunxin down.
Although they are all Li Keyong's adopted sons, in fact, no one likes Li Cunxin.
This adopted son did not have the slightest momentum of a Shatuo man, Liu Yunniang sat on the side and watched coldly, but then remembered that Zhang Yanluo was actually a Uighur, not a Shatuo, and he had been her husband's adopted son for less than two years. She has also heard about Li Cunxin's personality. Li Keyong's adopted sons have always been obedient and respectful to the Liu family, but only this Li Cunxin is not very old, but every time he looks at her, he always secretly has a trace of evil spirit. Although he knew that Li Siyuan always peeked at her with a different gaze, Li Siyuan's gaze was pure. Therefore, she can actually understand Li Siyuan in her heart, but she has always disliked Li Cunxin. If it weren't for the fact that Li Cunxin's father died because of reporting to them, Liu would have planned to drive him away.
Li Cunxin's father was a tall and burly Uighur warrior, but Li Cunxin did not inherit his father's appearance at all, but he had slender yellow hair, a short chin, a thin face, and was only more than five feet tall, a pair of pale and colorless eyes, constantly blinking, and his gaze always made people feel a gloomy feeling.
"Zhang Dirty, get up." Although the husband's voice was soft, his tone was very cold. Although his voice is not high, it reveals a palpitating coercion. The king of Shatuo in his twenties, the first king of Shatuo to wear the crown of Shatuo, is in his twenties. But it has been on the battlefield for ten years. War. Sharpened this one-eyed man. The great sword resting horizontally on his lap reflected the candle flame in the hall, and the sharp white blade shone with a ghostly glow.
Li Cunxin knelt on the ground and didn't dare to get up at all, his heart was full of anxiety. At the beginning of Youzhou City, it was he who first proposed to surrender Li Jing. But after the war, Li Jing entrusted Guo Chongtao and Liu Rengong with important tasks, but sent him back to Yanmen. Li Jing also said that this is the importance of himself, and he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, so that he could return to Li Keyong's side to be an insider. If only that's it. Li Cunxin didn't think it was anything, it was a big deal, and he would go back to Li Ke's side to continue the past.
But fortunately, Li Jing beheaded Shi Jingsi, the white-robed general who was Li Keyong's most trusted personal guard.
Guo Chongtao and Liu Rengong were demoted, and Li Jing was directly entrusted with important tasks. He fell, and Li Jing villained him back to Yanmen. Shi Jingsi was loyal to Li Keyong and refused to surrender, but Li Jing didn't say a word, and stopped persuading him to surrender at all, and directly cut him down in front of everyone. Then he actually threw Shi Jingsi's head to him, and asked him to return to Yanmen with the head and a thousand wounded and disabled prisoners.
He had just returned to Yanzhou. It was taken down by Li Ke's guards. Then he was escorted directly to Yanmen in a prisoner car, and has been locked up in the dungeon until now. I haven't even seen Li Ke's noodles until now.
At this time, he hated Li Jing in his heart, and he also hated Li Keyong. Li Jing wants him to die, Li Keyong wants him to die, no matter how he chooses, he will die today.
However, at this time, what Li Cun was more anxious about was not the sword on Li Ke's knee, but the colorful insect behind him. Li Jing raised a huge silver wolf, but Li Keyong actually followed the trend and got a tiger cub to raise in the grassland, until now, this big insect has grown into a red banwen fur, the body is as big as a calf, a king character on the forehead, and a long tail dragged behind, it was lying at Li Keyong's feet, at this time slowly got up, leisurely paced to his side and sniffed, but like a tail wagging dog.
But Li Cunxin's heart was full of fear at this time, because this tiger, like a dog, was by no means a good kind. He had seen it many times before, Li Ke fed this big insect with criminals alive and dead, and the living people who died under the mouth of this tiger were not a hundred but dozens. As long as Li Ke said a word, he would immediately be eaten by this tiger without even a single bone left.
Li Cunxin staggered to his feet and hurriedly retreated, causing a group of Shatuo generals to laugh.
"King!" Li Siyuan shouted loudly. Among Li Keyong's sons, he has three sons, but the eldest is less than a year old, and the youngest has just been born, and all of them are concubines. The remaining righteous sons, Li Keyong received more than 100 of them, but among them, Li Siyuan and Li Sizhao were the most trusted and valued, especially Li Siyuan, who was the most courageous and was given the name Li Hengchong by Li Keyong.
Li Siyuan was loyal to Li Keyong, and although he was said to have his selfish motives in the defeat of the military capital this time, he believed that the most important reason was that Guo Chongtao and Li Cunxin insisted on dividing their troops to attack. And among them, because of Li Cunxin's fanning of the flames, it will lead to the most embarrassing incident. For this murderer who is usually incompetent, who specializes in slandering people behind his back, and who led to his defeat this time, he will never allow him to survive.
"Father-in-law, please spare me for the sake of my father's desperate life for the adults back then." Li Cunxin hurriedly shouted, no one here will save him, there is no other way but to save himself.
Li Keyong, who had been gloomy all the time, heard this, and his face changed slightly. Li Keyong may be a rebellious minister, but if he makes friends, Li Keyong is definitely a righteous friend worthy of treating each other. At the beginning, Li Cunxin's father reported the news for the Shatuo people, but he died, and temporarily paid Li Cunxin to him, and he promised to take care of Li Cunxin. Thinking of this soundly, Li Ke couldn't help but sigh, put away his long sword abruptly, and turned his head: "You go, from now on, you will be Zhang Dirty, no longer Li Cunxin." ”
Li Cunxin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and finally picked up a life again. "Father-in-law, my son is indeed responsible for this defeat, but the main reason is that Guo Chongtao, the thief, has already secretly fornicated with Li Jing, so he deliberately wanted to lead the troops out of the military capital pass, so that the military capital pass was weak, and the Qin army had a chance to take advantage of it. Then he took us directly to Youzhou City, deliberately brought us into Youzhou City, and sent us and other Shatuo elites to Li Jing's mouth. ”
While speaking, Li Cunxin stepped forward on his knees, grabbed Li Keyong's leg and said: "Please also ask your father-in-law to believe in the child, Guo Chongtao has already secretly surrendered to Qin, and even Liu Rengong is with them." I didn't know anything about it until I was defeated. After the defeat, Guo Thief and Liu Thief were immediately appointed by Li Jing to important positions and take charge of the first army. The child and Brother Shi would rather die than surrender, but as a result, Li Thief directly beheaded Brother Shi and wanted to behead me, but in the end, it was because he wanted to exchange his lover Murong Xue that he reluctantly left the child and exchanged it for hostages. Father-in-law, the child is wholeheartedly loyal to his father-in-law, and will never dare to have two hearts, if there is half a lie, teach me ten thousand arrows to pierce the heart, and the sky will strike five thunders. ”
Li Keyong still didn't speak, but his heart was already a little shaken.
"Father-in-law, if the child descends to a thief, how can he come back to die, wouldn't he have become Li Jing's subordinate like Guo Thief and Liu Thief at this time? Besides, Guo Thief and Liu Thief can descend Li Thief, that's because they are all Han dogs, and they can't. My son was originally a Uighur, but now he is the son of his father-in-law, even if my son surrenders, how will Li Thief believe me? In the past, children couldn't speak, and they offended many brothers in the army, but children really never had two hearts. If the father-in-law feels that the child is responsible for the defeat, then the child will die without complaint, but if the father-in-law says that the child has surrendered to the Li thief, the child will not be blind. ”
Li Cunxin cried bitterly as he spoke, and kept kowtowing until his forehead was bloody. After the last, Li Keyong was finally moved, and he also felt that Guo Chongtao and Liu Rengong were foreigners after all, and the two of them had not been in the army for a long time. And Li Cunxin is his own righteous son, even if he is willing to surrender, how can Li Jing believe him? Thinking of his father's report and saving the Shatuo family, but he died because of this, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty in his heart, so he softened his heart at the moment, turned around and helped Li Cunxin up, patted the dust on his body, sighed and said: "This king believes you, it's just this time, you have to learn a lesson in the future, you are the Marquis of Duyu, in charge of military law, and as a result, the main general of the army fornicated with the enemy, but you didn't notice, this is a serious dereliction of duty." Now that you are back, you will be relieved of all your duties first, and you will simply take a good rest for a while, and during this time, you will learn the art of cavalry and archery with your righteous brothers. Shatuo man, how can he be weak? ”
"Yes, the child remembers his father's teachings!"
Seeing this result, many Shatuo generals next to him were slightly disappointed, especially Li Siyuan's heart, this time he wanted to take Li Cunxin's life, but no one wanted to kill him like this. He knew that in the future, they would become enemies of life and death.
Li Siyuan suddenly felt a gaze hit him, and looked sideways, but just saw Li Cunxin hurriedly retracting his gaze. Although Li Cunxin quickly retracted his gaze and quickly concealed his original expression, he still keenly caught that Li Cunxin looked at him just now with a bitter hatred.
Thinking of this, Li Siyuan chuckled coldly, and then, his eyes couldn't help but turn his eyes, and the beautiful figure that had been unforgettable and lingering among everyone. (To be continued......)