Chapter 506: Personal Conquest in Guanzhong Two Vomits Blood
After Liu Bei finished reading the Northern Expedition motto dedicated to his ancestors, the Ancestral Temple fell into silence.
Suddenly it was announced outside the sword that Liangzhou was being taken over. When I first heard about it, my clothes were filled with tears.
This was Liu Bei's state just now - crying with joy.
But after crying with joy, the tears on Liu Bei's face gradually disappeared, especially after reading the contents of the Northern Expedition's message.
Crying with joy is how he, an unworthy descendant and an elder, should behave, but it should not be the behavior of an emperor.
"Someone is coming!"
Liu Bei let out a clear drink.
The chamberlain who heard Liu Bei's call immediately came to Liu Bei's side from outside the temple with his waist bent.
The chamberlain thought that Liu Bei would have some instructions, but after he arrived, Liu Bei did not say anything immediately.
Liu Bei, who noticed that the chamberlain was standing behind him, looked at the ancestors' spiritual tablets surrounded by smoke, and his thoughts seemed to have returned to the first year of Chuping.
That year, Dong Zhuo was in chaos. Liu Bei's mentor Lu Zhi offended Dong Zhuo and was dismissed from office. He returned to his hometown and passed through the plains.
Liu Bei went out of the city in person to greet Lu Zhi.
That year, it was almost the consensus of the world that the Han Dynasty was late.
At the banquet, the drunken Lu Zhi once asked Liu Bei: "The Han Dynasty is covered with dust, what should you do?"
Liu Bei replied: "I am willing to wipe the dust with myself."
Lu Zhifu asked: "What if the Han Dynasty falls apart?"
Faced with this more serious consequence, the fashionable and young Liu Bei obviously hesitated.
But Liu Bei soon gave the answer:
"I am willing to make up the blue sky step by step."
Liu Bei that year had a very firm tone.
Thinking of the past, Liu Bei let out a heavy breath.
He won't change.
Liu Bei handed the Northern Expedition Proclamation to the servant behind him and said loudly: "I ordered people to copy this Northern Expedition Proclamation into many copies and distribute it to all the major states and counties, so that it will be known to everyone."
After the chamberlain heard that this proclamation was related to the important event of the Northern Expedition, he did not dare to neglect it at all.
He respectfully took the Northern Expedition Message from Liu Bei and was about to leave, but Liu Bei's next words made the chamberlain freeze in place.
"I ordered the minister to prepare an edict and spread it to the world. I will personally conduct the Northern Expedition!"
After hearing Liu Bei's words, the chamberlain showed surprise on his face. Worried about Liu Bei's health, he hurriedly advised:
"Your Majesty, war has its own generals. The battlefield is dangerous and the journey is difficult. Why risk your life?"
As an old man who has always been by Liu Bei's side, the chamberlain knew that Liu Bei's health was not optimistic at all.
Although now is the best time for the Han army to make the Northern Expedition, Liu Bei's body will definitely not be able to withstand the thousands of miles of expedition.
While admonishing, the chamberlain's words were faintly choked with sobs.
But when faced with the advice of his chamberlain, Liu Bei just replied lightly:
"I am the emperor of the Han Dynasty!
You have no joke."
After Liu Bei said these words, the chamberlain's eyes were already filled with tears, but he knew that there was no turning back on this matter.
So he finally held back his tears and walked out with a message for the Northern Expedition in his hand.
When the chamberlain walked out of the Ancestral Temple, Liu Bei looked at the ranking of Taizu and Shizu among the six tablets in front of him.
He did not dare to compete with his two ancestors, but Liu Bei would not be afraid of anything that the two ancestors were not afraid of.
Liu Bei bowed deeply to the row in front of him:
If destiny is on his side, at least, let him at least enshrine the spiritual tablets of his ancestors and return them to the Chang'an Ancestral Temple.
When Liu Bei bowed down, a breeze suddenly blew up in the Ancestral Temple. When the breeze blew through the chimes in the temple, they made a sweet sound.
These pleasant sounds are like the whispers of the ancestors of the Han Dynasty:
"Let's go.
Let’s go.”
Regardless of success or failure, having such descendants is enough to make every ancestor feel proud.
This is worthy of the surname Liu!
...
In August of the fourth year of Emperor Zhangwu of the Han Dynasty, two shocking news broke out in Chengdu.
The first news is that the Han general Mi Yang took advantage of the monstrous Han River to destroy more than 100,000 Wei troops, and the crisis in Liangzhou was relieved in one battle.
But just when the people in Chengdu had not yet woken up from this shock, Shangshutai followed the emperor's order and issued an even more shocking news.
The emperor wants to personally conquer the Northern Expedition!
When this news spread in the streets and alleys of Chengdu, the people in Chengdu were suddenly brought to a new climax.
The country was lost to the enemy, but the great emperor Zhengshuo could only settle in the south. This has always been a pain in the hearts of all Han people, and even a shame.
Shame often breeds deep hatred in this world.
For the current Han people, they may not understand what national strategy is being told to them, but telling them that they will avenge their shame next will arouse great enthusiasm.
This is the sense of honor and disgrace that has been engraved in the hearts of every Han citizen since the time of Emperor Xiaowu.
Especially the words "the emperor's personal conquest" sound even more soul-stirring.
How could such a grand event not cause a huge sensation in Chengdu?
And just as this news spread rapidly in Chengdu, the majestic and passionate Northern Expedition essay written by Mi Yang also began to spread at an extremely fast speed.
For a time, all the literate people in Chengdu rushed to copy the contents of the Northern Expedition proclamation.
Under the enthusiasm of the people, Chengdu became expensive for a while.
And this rising tide in Chengdu City spread towards the outside world at an extremely fast speed.
Announce it to the world, and the envoys will know it!
...
Compared with the lively cheers south of Qishan Mountain, Chencang north of Qishan Mountain seemed dead.
As the closest important town to the front line, a steady stream of remnants of soldiers fled from the front line into Chencang City not long ago.
However, due to the obstruction of Xiegu Road and Luogu Road, as well as the previous rainy season that made the two mountain roads muddy and difficult to navigate, there were very few such remnants.
Once the number of people was small, no matter how shocking the news they told was, Hao Zhao would not believe it.
Due to the strict military laws of Cao Wei, deserters often occurred in the army. After the deserters were captured, what excuse could not be given to avoid being punished?
Hao Zhao has seen too many such things.
So at first, Hao Zhao didn't even send anyone to the front line to investigate the news.
However, as time went by, more and more defeated troops fled to Chencang City, including many generals.
The most terrifying thing is that after examining their identities, Hao Zhao discovered that most of the defeated troops were the defenders of Xiegu and Luogu.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! What does it mean that the defenders of these two places fled to Chencang?
Hao Zhao couldn't help but shudder when he thought about the importance of Xie Valley and Luo Valley.
When things developed to this point, Hao Zhao immediately sent scouts to the front line to investigate the news.
But none of the scouts sent out ever came back.
This made Hao Zhao more and more frightened, but at the same time he still retained a glimmer of hope.
Maybe, things are not so bad after all!
At this time, Hao Zhao believed that the front line had lost the battle, but the extent of the defeat was still uncertain.
However, a person who fled to Chencang soon broke Hao Zhao's illusion.
Later General Zhu Ling!
After Zhu Ling fled to Chencang, he was almost like a beggar.
After devouring a lot of food to replenish energy in his body, Zhu Ling told Hao Zhao the news that was like a bolt from the blue.
"Big water, big water filling the sky!
Our entire army has been wiped out!"
Zhu Ling conveyed this information to Hao Zhao with a look of horror and tears.
After hearing this information, Hao Zhao was so frightened that he fell to the ground.
He shook Zhu Ling desperately and asked him about the situation of Cao Zhen or other Wei generals, but Zhu Ling knew nothing about this either.
Before the flood came, the Wei generals scrambled to find rescue ships, but the fierce flooding of the flood had already dispersed the ships on which the Wei generals were, so where could they find a general?
At this moment, Hao Zhao just realized why there had been no reports of defeat from the front line.
The biggest reason is not that the mountain road blocked it, nor that Cao Zhen deliberately concealed it, but that the entire Wei army's organization and command system were destroyed by Mi Yang!
In this case, who should report failure?
The scouts who came back later brought Hao Zhao another shocking news.
Liu Bei is about to personally conquer Guanzhong!
Also arriving at the same time as this news was Mi Yang's letter on the Northern Expedition.
After reading the contents of the Northern Expedition's message, Hao Zhao was so frightened that he could not speak.
If the news of the annihilation of the entire army on the front line had not been received, this Northern Expedition message would not have been so powerful.
But! But!
What scares Hao Zhao the most is how he should report these two pieces of news to Luoyang!
Even if he no longer wanted to report the two bad news to Luoyang, Hao Zhao could not bear the crime of deceiving the emperor.
Besides, if they don't report to Luoyang, how can Guanzhong get reinforcements?
In the end, after weighing the pros and cons, Hao Zhao gritted his teeth and wrote the two pieces of news into a report, and ordered someone to rush the report six hundred miles away to Luoyang.
And when the messenger arrived at the Chancellery in Luoyang, the whole of Luoyang exploded instantly.
All the subjects of the Wei Dynasty in Luoyang experienced for the first time what it means to feel like the world is falling apart.
...
At the urgent meeting where all the important ministers gathered, Cao Pi looked at the long report in his hand with a livid face.
After seeing the news that Cao Zhen's entire army had been wiped out and his whereabouts were unknown, Cao Pi couldn't help but cover his chest.
Sadness, anger, regret, all these emotions are preceded by the word extreme.
The shock caused by flooding one's own army of more than 100,000 people was huge.
Especially after knowing that the dike that killed more than 100,000 of our own troops was built by our own troops, the anger and shame were like two pairs of big hands, constantly slapping Cao Pi's face.
But it may be that in recent years, Cao Pi has received too many reports of defeat, and his inner temper has been tempered, and he finally resisted the act of spitting out a mouthful of old blood.
However, after seeing Mi Yang's extremely arrogant message for the Northern Expedition, Cao Pi finally couldn't hold back anymore and sprayed the blood accumulated in his chest directly onto the report in his hand.
It's not that Cao Pi's heart wasn't strong enough, it's that Mi Yang's message to the Northern Expedition was too destructive.
It's enough to insult Cao family members for generations at the beginning. Many people have done this.
But in the main content of the appeal, Mi Yang kept mocking his incompetence and the incompetence of the Wei army in an extremely arrogant tone.
The most disgusting thing is that he also used comparison!
When Mi Yang's extremely arrogant taunts were combined with his horrifying achievements, the impact was like steel knives that turned into reality and were thrust into Cao Pi's heart one by one.
While those steel knives stabbed Cao Pi's heart with blood, they also undoubtedly chopped into pieces the political slogan "Destiny is in Wei" that Cao Wei had been promoting in front of the world.
"The power of God is unstoppable, and the sin of disobedience is serious."
This sentence undoubtedly caused great harm to Cao Wei's political and legal system.
And from the perspective of this consequence, the sentence "I am afraid that the enemy's curses have not stopped, but the sword of Liangzhou has been dug into his chest" is not a boast.
At this moment, Cao Pi felt a burning pain in his chest.
Seeing that the emperor suddenly vomited blood because of the report in his hand, the ministers in the palace were already panicking, and now they were even more panicked, with fear on their faces.
Many ministers wanted to rush up to investigate Cao Pi's situation, but they were blocked by the imperial guards in the palace, so they could only keep jumping below.
Fortunately, King Cao Rui of Qi was not stopped by the imperial army and came to Cao Pi to anxiously explore his body.
Seeing Cao Rui coming, Cao Pi grabbed Cao Rui's hand.
Due to the grief and anger in his heart, the veins in Cao Pi's hand bulged out. The force caused Cao Rui some pain, but Cao Rui did not pull his hand away after all.
Finally, Cao Pi seemed to realize something was wrong, slowly let go of his hand, and asked Cao Rui to return to his original position.
After Cao Rui returned to his original position with worried eyes, the ministers in the palace saw that Cao Pi seemed to be fine, so they all began to say:
"My army of more than 100,000 men has been completely wiped out. The thieves have no restraint anymore. With the thieves' abilities, the Hussars General and the general who conquered Shu are in danger."
The person who said this was Wang Lang of Sikong. When he said this, Wang Da Sikong was extremely angry.
After Wang Lang finished saying this, Situ Huaxin on the side directly answered:
"What do you mean by the two generals? Don't you see that the enemy's target is Chang'an? If Chang'an is lost, half of the country will fall into the enemy's hands!"
When he said this, Hua Xin sighed, causing the crown on his head to shake.
And when the two most senior princes finished expressing their views, a quarrel soon broke out in the palace.
Some said that reinforcements would be mobilized to rescue Guo Huai and Cao Hong, and some said that reinforcements would be mobilized to defend Guanzhong, but the "sages" just did not say where the reinforcements would come from.
Such advice is more of a subconscious rejoicing by the great Wei Xianliangs to relieve the panic in their hearts.
Looking down from Cao Pi's eyes, he saw that all the virtuous people he relied on in the past, and the great celebrities respected by everyone in the world in the past, were like stupid donkeys at the foot of Mount Tai when it was about to collapse, neighing anxiously.
, running around in haste.
Where is there any dignity and wisdom?
Seeing this scene, Cao Pi felt more and more pain in his chest.
It hurt so much that Cao Pi's thoughts began to blur.
At this moment, Cao Pi recalled the content of the Northern Expedition essay.
A thought suddenly came to his mind: The Wei Dynasty has always used other countries as its flesh and blood, is it now the Wei Dynasty's turn to be the flesh and blood of other countries?
After realizing this, Cao Pi spit out another large mouthful of blood. This time he could no longer hold on and fell directly towards the throne beside him.
Before Cao Pi was completely unconscious, he saw the officials running toward him, who could no longer be stopped by the imperial army, and he also saw Cao Rui.