All the six generations of Dai Viet's late emperors were buried in the deep valley of Songshan Mountain in the south of Gong County. The guardian of the mausoleum is not unimportant or inconspicuous, but this appointment is far from the center. Every year, many clan ministers or princes pay homage to the imperial mausoleum. During his tenure, almost
I didn't even have the opportunity to meet the official family, and I had to be careful not to make any mistakes. It was really a hard job.
Qiao Jien asked Zhang Xin to please come back. After walking, he sat on the carved lacquer embroidered pier, frowned and looked at Xu Huai, Wang Ju, Guo Junpan and other generals who sat close to King Jing Zhao Tuan.
Qiao Ji'en, who is nearly sixty years old, has no beard on his chin, a rosy complexion, and no frost hair on his temples. It can be seen that although he is far away from the power center of Dai Viet in Gong County, he is living a comfortable life.
There was no time to make any detours with Qiao Jien, so King Jing Zhao Tuan asked directly: "It has been nearly a month since we captured the Nankou River and Huaihe River. Four days ago, we captured all the counties in the capital, and the day before yesterday, tens of thousands of people rushed to Zhengzhou. I don't know what you think about it.
This issue?"
"..." At this time, Qiao Jien had no idea what King Jing Zhao Tuan and his friends were planning. He just frowned and tried his best to appear worried, but what he said was still general, "As the saying goes, those who do unrighteousness will be punished.
The captive soldiers invaded the south, burned, killed, looted and carried out perverse actions. The government and the public were outraged. It will not take long for the monarch and his ministers to work together and use all their strength to drive out the captives."
When the local officials of Gong County gathered in the side hall just now, King Jing Zhao Tuan asked everyone what they thought of the current situation. Qiao Jien, Chen Yougui, Gao Huihong and others all said the same thing.
Unexpectedly, when summoned alone, Qiao Jien still took the trouble to fool himself with such lies and empty words. King Jing Zhao Tuan was also a little irritable.
He pressed his hand on the table, stared at Qiao Jien, and asked sternly:
"From what you see, we don't have to do anything. We just wait for the monarch and his ministers to work together to drive out the captors?"
Qiao Jien was stunned for a while and said: "When I heard that the Japanese soldiers were invading, I wished I could select some brave men to help the capital and serve His Majesty. However, in Gong County, the mausoleum of the late emperors of Vietnam for several generations, I was even more afraid of the Japanese soldiers invading the souls of the late emperors, so I could only stay there
Gong County prays for the officials and Bianliang day and night..."
King Jing Zhao Tuan realized that there was really nothing he could do with an old cunning guy like Qiao Jien, and he didn't expect to get anything sincere from him, so he simply said straight to the point:
"Except for the elite troops of the Western Army who are capable of fighting, the King Qin's divisions in the southeast and southwest routes have been weakened and have been hastily gathered near the capital. It is difficult to compete with the captive troops. This is something that is obvious to all. It is not just a saying that 'the emperor and his ministers are united and will kill the soldiers.'"
They can cover it up - the pirates obviously know this. Wang Xiangong has long been worried that the soldiers will seize Zhengzhou and the cities west of Zhengzhou, and use the way of the Sisi army to advance eastward, so that they can
The siege of Bianliang will be protracted and difficult to solve due to the wanton plundering of the Hehuai River. Tens of thousands of captive soldiers surrounded Zhengzhou two days ago, which has confirmed the concerns of Wang Zhengong. And once the Chihu people launch a strong attack on Zhengzhou, they will definitely send out an army.
Our troops and horses were inserted between Luoyang and Yanshi and Gongxian to prevent our Luoyang troops and the Western Army's forward troops from entering Yanshi, Gongxian and other cities in advance and guard the Western Army's eastward advance from the northern foot of Songshan Mountain.
——Qiao Jien, do you think that Gong County is in a corner and the soldiers will not attack by force, so you just choose this cheap talk?"
"The old minister is ignorant and has been guarding the late emperor's mausoleum for a long time. He is ignorant of the affairs of the military and state. I am not just perfunctory to Your Highness, but please forgive me." Qiao Jien leaned sideways and said.
"Then let me ask you, the bandits sent thousands of cavalry to block Yanshi and Gong County. After the fall of Zhengzhou, thousands of bandits came to attack Gong County. How do you respond?" King Jing Zhao Tuan
He stared at Qiao Jien and asked.
"As the saying goes, when the water comes, the earth will cover it, but when the soldiers come, it will stop it..." Qiao Jien said.
"Besides these nonsense, I'm afraid you can't say anything else. Then the defense of Gong County cannot be entrusted to you," King Jing Zhao Tuan said, "I will take over the defense of Gong County at this time.
, do you have anything to say?"
"It is hard work in guarding and guarding. It is for the staff to share the worries for His Highness and not to make His Highness's rich body work hard. But Your Highness insists on doing this and I dare not disobey." Qiao Jien lowered his head and said in a low voice.
"Will Chen Yougui disobey?" King Jing Zhao Tuan asked.
"Your Highness took the military talisman from the old minister, and Chen Yougui shouldn't dare to disobey him," Qiao Jien said.
At this time, King Jing Zhao Tuan finally saw how cunning his officials like Qiao Jien were.
Qiao Jien was not completely blind to the seriousness of the situation. He did not dare or was unwilling to disobey him at this time. However, in the future, if someone in the government impeached him for arrogating power, Qiao Jien would never be willing to take responsibility for it.
How can such an irresponsible person be expected to rely on him to defend Gong County?
"Go and get the military talisman. I will be responsible for everything!" King Jing Zhao Tuan said.
"The military talismans, seals and other items are all at the register. Your Highness can ask Zhang Junhou to go with the old minister." Qiao Jien suggested appropriately; he still wanted to let the staff of the Shouling Division understand that all this was done by King Jing Zhao.
He was forced to do so by pressing his head, and his cooperation was not voluntary.
King Jing Zhao Tuan also had no idea what to do with a cunning old official like Qiao Jien. When he was about to ask Zhang Xin to take someone with him, he heard the sound of a horn blowing in the distance and looked towards His Highness in fear.
"The soldiers are not slow to arrive!" Xu Huai said with a frown.
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Xu Huai and others gathered around King Zhao Tuan of King Jing and climbed up to the city gate tower, only to see hundreds of captives appearing on the north bank of the Yellow River.
Because the cavalry rides on war horses, the territory and momentum it occupies is definitely several times larger than the same number of infantry.
At this time, the sun rises, and the view is excellent. Standing on the tower, you can vaguely see the scenery ten or twenty miles away.
Although it was difficult to see clearly, the two thousand cavalrymen gathered together in darkness on the north bank of the Yellow River, like a slightly rippling black lake, but it was so shocking.
At this time, there were already small cavalry soldiers crossing the ice to the south bank.
There were many refugees who fled in a hurry from the north bank, but many of them were mercilessly massacred by the Japanese soldiers on the way. On the ice in the north of Gong County, hundreds of corpses of civilians, some young and strong, some women, were scattered on the ice.
Children, gray-haired old men, and more civilians were driven away by the soldiers and fled towards the Gong County city.
In the past month, although there have been captive soldiers near the mouth of the Yiluo River, they were all small groups of scouts, ranging from a dozen to thirty or fifty people.
Even so, the mausoleum defenders and Gongxian sword archers did not dare to go out of the city to fight. At this time, seeing so many captives swarming in, Qiao Jien's face turned pale.
Just now at the palace, King Jing Zhao Tuan had foreseen that the Japanese soldiers would send a cavalry force directly to Yanshi, to the west and south of Gong County. He was very dissatisfied, but he did not expect that it would be confirmed so soon.
In fact, this is not something difficult to guess.
If the Red Husbands launched a strong attack on Zhengzhou, they could no longer hope that their intention of seizing Zhengzhou and advancing eastward with the Western Army would confuse the Yue court.
They rushed to the Yue court to react and before the Yue court strengthened the defense of the cities at the northern foot of Songshan Mountain. They cut off the connection between Luoyang City and Yanshi and Gong County. This is the meaning of the title.
As the weather gets warmer, the ice on the Yellow River will become thinner. If they had not controlled Yanshi, Gongxian and other cities, large groups of cavalry would not have dared to go west easily to block the Hangu Mountain Road.
In that case, it will be too easy to be locked up and beat the dog. The ice of the Yellow River will melt and the Luoyang Basin will become a natural trap. There are only three passes to escape. The Hulao Pass at the northern foot of Songshan Mountain is the core.
One piece.
The overall planning of the Chihu people was very good. What they didn't expect was that their strategic intentions for Zhengzhou were not difficult to guess. Xu Huai had already escorted King Jing Zhao Tuan into Gong County before they divided their troops and invaded Yanshi.
Of course, there was a lot of luck in this, as Xu Huai and the others only entered Gongxian two or three hours earlier than this part of the captive cavalry.
"You old..., what else do you have to say?" King Jing Zhao Tuan glared at Qiao Jien angrily and hatefully, and suppressed the curse words in his stomach.
On the way to Gong County, Xu Huai stressed several times that the situation was very urgent and that he must make a prompt decision after arriving in Gong County and take control of the defense and redeploy it immediately. However, he still wanted to persuade Qiao Jien and others to proactively cooperate.
This was more or less delayed for two or three hours.
At this time, the Tongbai Mountain soldiers had not climbed onto the city wall to set up defenses.
King Jing Zhao Tuan could not help but worry. If the Qi soldiers directly attacked the city at this juncture, they would not know how many more people would be killed and injured for no reason in the chaos. I wonder if the five hundred soldiers of Tongbai Mountain would be able to kill them immediately.
The soldiers stood outside the city.
"But it's at His Majesty's command!" Qiao Jien didn't dare to be wordy at this time and said in panic.
King Jing Zhao Tuan looked at Chen Yougui, Gao Huihong and others who were frightened when they saw the enemy rear, and said loudly:
"The mausoleum guard, Qiao Jien, guards the Dayue Emperor's mausoleum with conscientiousness. He has never done so in several years. However, he is not good at guarding the city and is not a good choice for guarding the city. The country is in ruins and the horsemen are raging. Since I am in Gong County, and
When faced with difficulties, it is my duty as the prince of Dai Viet to stand up and live and die with the soldiers and civilians of the city to ward off the thieves. Chen Yougui, Gao Huihong, you and the generals must all listen to me before the soldiers retreat.
Order, do you have any questions?"
Chen Yougui and Gao Huihong glanced at Qiao Jien and saw that he did not express any objection, so they immediately claimed...
