Since the Chinese and Foreign Mansion had not been completely cleaned up and tidied up, and the family members of the former Otsuka Prime Minister Yu Wentai still lived in the inner mansion, and King Taiyuan had a very large entourage, the old residence in the city could not accommodate it, so he simply stayed in the city temporarily.
In a military city outside.
I don’t know whether Yu Jin intended it or not, but the military city that he arranged to clear out in advance was the military residence where Li Tai served as the commander-in-chief of the rear army in Taiwan. Li Tai did not reject this, and the reason why he arranged it
Yu Jin's early return was also to send a somewhat humane signal to the people in Tongzhou, so as to prevent anyone from being too hasty to cause any big trouble during his return.
Today's King of Taiyuan is already popular among the people at home and abroad, and Emperor Tuoba Kuo has made no secret of his dependence on King Taiyuan.
Although they didn't get along with each other for a long time, Tuoba Kuo has been deeply shocked by the former Otsuka Prime Minister Yuwentai since he came to the throne. He has suffered many frights in the past period. For Taiyuan King Li Boshan who can compete with Yuwentai's hegemony, he feels deeply in his heart.
Naturally, it is full of good feelings and expectations.
And unlike Yu Wentai and other forces that suppressed the army, the Li family of Longxi, where King Taiyuan was born, also had a deep friendship and close contacts with their Yuan and Wei clans.
Therefore, in the process of welcoming King Taiyuan, the emperor couldn't help but make many intimate actions that were against the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers. When he moved to the military city, he repeatedly invited King Taiyuan to go with him. When Li Tai repeatedly refused,
, the emperor simply abandoned his chariot and rode his horse, and entered the city side by side.
The civil and military people from Tongzhou City, who belonged to the imperial court and the Chinese and Foreign Governments, naturally followed them all the way into the city. At this time, a banquet had already been arranged in the city to honor King Taiyuan.
After Li Tai entered the city lord's palace here, he saw some overly fancy and festive decorations, including some drinks prepared for the banquet, and ordered them to be removed. Of course, this may not be due to the negligence of the officials who prepared the matter and made such inappropriate arrangements.
After all, it is up to King Taiyuan himself to decide whether it is appropriate or not.
Because of the removal of these arrangements, the atmosphere dropped a bit, and no one dared to grin and show their back teeth to show their enthusiasm for the return of King Taiyuan.
The people in the hall were sitting in attendance, while more people were queuing up outside the hall. It was not until the news came out in the hall that everyone outside the hall dispersed and sat down in the cottages on the left and right sides.
"This time the Eastern Campaign was unfavorable, but the king was able to lead the army north regardless of the past, turn the war into victory, and severely punish the traitors in the east. It is truly magnificent! I and the people of Kansai all admire the king's power and enjoy peace and tranquility as the king.
A spoonful to wash away the wind and sand stained by the journey!"
The emperor and Li Tai sat at the table together. Because Li Tai ordered the drinks to be taken away, the emperor himself spooned the soup and served it to Li Tai.
Li Tai quickly took it with both hands, but did not drink it directly. Instead, he held the soup in one hand and pointed at the Feng and other generals sitting in the hall and said: "I dare not take advantage of the merit of defeating the enemy. We all killed them side by side."
It is also a blessing for Your Majesty to have such a loyal and brave man defending the country against the enemy."
After the emperor heard this, he quickly ordered the waiters to serve soup, and he distributed the soup to the Shannan Dao generals who followed Li Tai back home.
A total of 10,000 soldiers entered the customs with Li Tai this time, as well as the Chinese and foreign ministers Shi Lutong and others who had previously stayed in Tongguan. As for Gao Le, Li Bi and others, they still stayed in Tongguan to support them and arrangements were still being made.
The defeated troops of the Chinese and Foreign Governments who returned from Heluo.
Although it was not a formal court meeting at the moment, Li Tai also knew that the people in Guanzhong were quite curious about the outcome of this battle, so he gave a brief introduction to the emperor and the people present.
This war was divided into two stages. Before the arrival of Li Tai and his troops, the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office suffered heavy defeats along the way. The specific losses cannot be calculated.
As for Li Tai, after various battles with the Northern Qi Dynasty, he achieved quite a lot of results. First of all, he recovered the previously lost territories and cities such as Xin'an Han Pass and Yiyang Jiuqu City, which basically restored the battle line to the situation before the war.
The second and most important thing is to rescue a large number of scattered and captured Chinese and foreign soldiers. The number of soldiers rescued and negotiated from the Northern Qi army alone reached nearly 30,000. As for those who escaped and returned
There are about 20,000 soldiers from the Chinese and foreign government who actively attached themselves.
These people are the essence of the soldiers accumulated by the Zhongwai Mansion for many years of continuous military construction. In other words, if Li Tai had not gone to Heluo to participate in the war, even if we did not consider those who died in the war, these more than 50,000 people died and were captured.
I'm afraid it will be difficult for the soldiers to return to Guanzhong.
After the people present heard this data, they couldn't help but feel scared for a while. They couldn't even imagine what the Kansai regime would be like after such a huge defeat without King Taiyuan joining the war and bringing about a turnaround.
situation.
Although the Battle of Mangshan many years ago also suffered heavy losses, at least there were still the descendants of the powerful soldiers from Guanxi to supplement the army. But if all the hundreds of thousands of troops in this eastern expedition were lost in this battle, what would happen to Guanxi?
The blow to the Western regime will be fatal!
Some Guanzhong Shiliu who had been persecuted by Duke Lueyang, Li Zhi and others in the past were still vaguely complaining about the King of Taiyuan for not going directly to Guanzhong to take power.
Even the Grand Sima Duguxin was brutally killed, and he felt that King Taiyuan had made a poor choice in this incident.
But after hearing that King Taiyuan had saved so many Guanxi children in Heluo, such thoughts in these people's minds suddenly disappeared.
If the King of Taiyuan had gone directly to Guanzhong at that time, of course he would have been able to take over the power smoothly, but what he would have taken over was a dilapidated and decayed Guanzhong with a weakened youth. Moreover, it would be very difficult to organize and expand the army in the future. Even if the people fled to the mountains and fields, they would not be able to survive.
I won’t let the sons and daughters enter the camp and die again.
While the crowd here was still lamenting the great achievements of King Taiyuan in this battle, another team arrived in Tongzhou City not long after, which was the team escorting the coffin of Otsuka Zai Yuwen Tai.
Unlike the excitement of hundreds of thousands of troops marching to the east a few months ago, and the scene where the emperor and his civil and military ministers welcomed King Taiyuan not long ago, Yuwentai's coffin was guarded by only a thousand soldiers in front and back, and it was also guarded by Li
Shannan Dao Jia soldiers led by Qu Ji.
Yu Wenhu was dressed in sackcloth and barefoot, walking on foot beside the cart carrying his uncle's coffin. The corners of his lips were cracked and his throat was dry and hoarse. When he looked up and saw the gate of Tongzhou City, he suddenly felt sad again.
Come, hold the coffin and call out in a dry and weak tone: "Uncle, the soul is back, back... we are home!"
In front of the gate of Tongzhou City, when a large group of people followed the emperor and Wang Yi of Taiyuan to the military city, Yu Jin arranged for Yu Wentai's children and concubines to wait here.
Yuwentai had many children, but the eldest daughter died together with the deposed emperor Yuanqin. The two oldest sons also died in infancy. The third son Yuwenjue was in prison. The fourth son Yuwenyong, the Duke of Fucheng, was only 12 years old. The other sons
They are even younger, and some are even held in swaddling clothes by servant women.
These young men and women did not know the cruelty of life and death. Some of them were still stamping their feet and complaining in the cold wind. When they saw their father's coffin, they had no idea what was going on. They only saw the older brothers and sisters weeping and crying, and there were two young and innocent endurers.
He couldn't help covering his mouth and started laughing.
Yu Jin was still holding back his grief, but when he heard the children's ignorant laughter, he finally couldn't help but burst into tears. He stepped forward and held down the two children who were unaware of their father's coffin and said sadly: "Silly boy, in the car.
It’s you, Aye. From now on, you no longer have a father..."
In this world, sorrow and joy are never connected. Tongzhou City, the city that witnessed Yuwentai's rise in Kansai and his monopoly on hegemony, now only greets the return of its old master with silence and desolation.
As the new leader of the Bafu, Li Tai naturally has personnel matters that he needs to deal with. It is also a good intention to still leave the Zhongwai Mansion to the Yuwen family to take care of the funeral.
In front of the Chinese and Foreign Mansion, Yu Wenjue, Yu Chigang, Cai You and other people who had been imprisoned before were all released by Kai En at this time, and returned to the Mansion to welcome Yu Wentai's coffin back to the Mansion.
Yu Wenjue had been in a state of numbness since he was captured by Yu Jin. When he saw his father's coffin, he rushed forward and lay on the coffin and cried: "Ah, I was wrong! Ah, save me."
Me, save me, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to..."
Yu Wenhu, who was already weak from grief and fatigue, suddenly became furious when he saw Yu Wenjue, and a surge of strength surged up in his heart. He stepped forward and pulled Yu Wenjue off, still yelling in a hoarse tone: "Nie, bastard."
Son! My uncle has been a hero for half his life, so why did he give birth to a scoundrel like you... But if he can take care of himself a little, why does the family matter end up like this..."
A soldier came forward and separated the two people who were fighting. Yuchigang, who looked extremely haggard, stepped forward to help Yuwenhu, who was on the verge of collapse. He still refused to give up and whispered to Yuwenhu in a low voice: "Cousin, Li Boshan is still willing to stay with you.
Whether, whether you are willing to..."
He wanted to ask Li Boshan if he would be grateful for his old love and be open-minded. However, after hearing this, Yu Wenhu just shook his head sadly and said: "Don't think too much, you shouldn't think too much... He just couldn't bear the desertedness of his uncle's mourning hall..."
We can't escape, no one can escape, and for the sake of my uncle's honor after his death, we must die! I deserve my punishment, and I am not afraid of death. I just hope that he will keep his promise. He once promised me that as long as the funeral for my uncle is completed properly, he will let me.