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"If you weren't suspicious, you wouldn't be Zhao Da."
Liu Ling didn't express any attitude, just said something like this lightly. He sat leaning on the chair, as if his physical fatigue had not been eliminated after a good sleep. He was a little lazy, a little casual. It happened that the more he felt, the more
In this way, Zhao Da became even more frightened and uneasy.
"I know that the prince must have joined Luo Xu and Zhu Sanqi's men to launch an offensive against the Khitans in the evening. This subordinate's heart has been soaked in the dark courtyard of the Supervisory Council for a long time, so it is inevitable that he will be
It's a bit dark. I know the crime, please punish me."
Zhao Da knelt down and touched his head to the ground.
Liu Ling smiled and said, "Get up. I told you that you don't have to pretend to be scared in front of me. I don't believe you are really scared, and you don't believe it yourself either."
Zhao Da raised his head, glanced at Liu Ling and said, "This subordinate... is really scared."
Liu Ling shook his head and said, "You don't have to panic, because your guess is right."
He said bluntly: "Yes, it was exactly what you suspected. After gathering Zhu Sanqi and Luo Xu's troops, I ordered to wait until sunset before launching an offensive against the Khitans. At sunset, the Khitans had just eaten
Food, the 20,000 troops who were newly sent to attack the city have just exerted their strength, and the Khitan camp must be relaxed. You know, when people are full of food, especially when the sky is getting dark and they have just eaten,
The defensiveness is the weakest."
Zhao Da suddenly raised his head, then smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, you just want to tell me that your guess is correct?"
Liu Ling said softly: "I came here to tell you that if this happens again next time, I will still make the same choice."
Zhao Da was stunned. After a long time, he took a deep breath and said: "Your Majesty did the right thing. If your subordinates were in your position, they would do the same thing. So, please don't hold your heart against me."
Guilt.”
Liu Ling sighed: "I don't feel guilty in my heart."
He looked at Zhao Da Dao: "I came here just to let you know that you are not a disposable pawn as I thought. The reason why I waited until sunset before ordering the attack was because I knew that you could not die. Even the whole city
Everyone is dead, and you can’t die either.”
"The Khitans cannot break Cangzhou City. No matter how I calculate, the premise is that the Khitans cannot break Cangzhou City. Therefore, you are right in guessing that I delayed the attack until sunset, but what you are thinking is,
It is wrong that you, Zhuo Qingzhan and others are abandoned and can be thrown away casually. If you cannot stop the Khitan offensive, I will send troops in advance. After saying this, you may also be thinking in your heart that you are more important after all.
, or is Cangzhou City more important? I can tell you for sure that you are far more important than Cangzhou City. In the future, you will manage many, many state capitals for me. Don’t take yourself too lightly, my general.
There are people who are braver and better at fighting than you, there are people who are more ruthless and severe than you, and there are people who are more generous and kind than you, but overall, they are all inferior to you."
"Because you are very important to me and are an important part of the great cause I want to accomplish in the future, so I will not let you die so easily."
Liu Ling's tone was very sincere, which gradually warmed up Zhao Da's cold heart.
"You can't live without you in the courtyard. In terms of power and tactics, after Zhou Yangong, you are the most evil person. However, Zhou Yangong is a brighter person than you. The courtyard is too dark for Zhou Yangong."
Liu Ling finally concluded: "So, take yourself more seriously in the future. Don't always think that you are an insignificant person. In the future, I will give you a position that is much greater than the commander of the Overwatch Council."
Is this a promise?
Zhao Da's heart skipped a beat.
It is much larger than the commander of the Overwatch Council. What kind of official title is it? Duke? Or... king?
Liu Ling stood up and said, "No matter what, I owe you a favor by letting you take the lead in Cangzhou. Although I asked Zhuo Qingzhan to command the defense of the city before I left, you are the one who is shouldering the hardship. I know it."
I have already made a decree before, granting Zhuo Qingzhan the title of General Xuanwei, from the third rank, a brave uncle, not hereditary. If you have greater merit than him, you can be made a county marquis first, hereditary, with a settlement of 500 households. In the army
Compared with other generals, this title is not the highest, but it is not much different."
"You took a wife when you were in Jinzhou the year before last. I have already granted you a second-grade imperial title, and you will be promoted to the first grade. After you have children, the eldest son will inherit the hereditary title, and the second son and below will all be appointed Xuande Lang General."
"Subordinate... thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!"
Zhao Da lowered his head deeply.
Liu Ling smiled: "Not at all. If it weren't for the fear of the backlash from the ministers in the army and the DPRK, this Marquis should have been given to you long ago. You also know that you are the commander of the Supervisory Yuan and have too much power.
Big, your position is too high, and you are already standing on the opposite side of all officials, especially those civil servants. If you are given another prestigious title, they will jump up and curse. Even if you are not afraid of trouble, I am." |
"My subordinates just did what they should do."
Liu Ling rolled her eyes at him and said: "What should you do? You also do what you shouldn't do. Don't think that I have forgotten that you destroyed Xie Junman's family. You have been with me for so long, you should know that I hate others the most.
You lied to me and hid it from me. If you do it again in the future, I will let you strip off your hat, robe, boots and socks. There will be a place for you in the stable, and the red lion needs someone to wash it frequently.
bath."
Zhao Da raised his head and then said in a low voice, "Your Majesty is really cruel."
Liu Ling kicked Zhao Da on the butt and said, "If you have the ability, say those three words you want to say."
Zhao D said sincerely: "This subordinate has no ability..."
Liu Ling smiled and said: "Keep it up, I see you have more than a dozen major and minor injuries. The Khitans won't be attacking the city these days, and the sergeants just have a rest."
The guard outside the door lifted the curtain and walked in, serving a few stir-fried vegetables and a bowl of white rice. Liu Ling sat down and asked Zhao Da: "Do you really dare not say the three words you want to say?"
Zhao Dadao: "I'm afraid that the prince will lock me in a stable and let the red lion give me a bath."
"You are forgiven."
"real?"
"explain!"
"My lord...you are so vicious."
"Zhao Da? Have you ever thought about how you will die?"
"No!"
"Do you want me to tell you?"
"I'd better eat, my subordinates."
After eating a full meal, Liu Ling came out of Zhao Da's military tent and settled a matter on his mind. Zhao Da controlled the Supervisory Yuan. It wasn't that Liu Ling suspected that he had ulterior motives, but he was just worried that the shadow in his heart would become bigger and bigger.
Sooner or later, it will become a haze that blocks the sun. Liu Ling does not want his generals to be suspicious of him. In that case, it will be a very helpless and painful thing. Liu Ling did delay the attack, but
There is no doubt that this is the most correct order given by a qualified leader on the battlefield. Therefore, it is precisely because of this that Luo Xu and Zhu Sanqi respect and fear Liu Ling even more.
In their view, Liu Ling was indeed ruthless.
From this point of view, Liu Ling has the potential to become a king. Since ancient times, if an emperor wants to achieve great success, he must be a ruthless person. A good emperor will be ruthless to himself and even more ruthless to his ministers.
Liu Ling would rather wipe out all the Cangzhou garrison under his command than launch an offensive in advance. Not every general can do this. It is not that Liu Ling is unkind and unethical, he is just doing the right thing.
He just made the most correct decision at the right time. When Liu Ling went south from Taiyuan, he was no longer the former general king.
The armies of Luo Xu and Zhu Sanqi are not in Cangzhou City. The two of them, one on the left and the other on the right, are guarding Cangzhou City like two door gods. With these two current tiger generals as door gods, Cangzhou is not so easy to be beaten even if it is not said to be impregnable.
It hurts. But the Khitan people don't dare to wander around at will. After all, the more than 10,000 tigers and warriors under Luo Xu's command are not vegetarians. The 20,000 horses under Zhu Sanqi's command are also veterans of hundreds of battles.
People are much more skilled than chopping vegetables.
Yeluji feels a bit like he is riding a tiger now. Cangzhou has changed from a piece of casually kneaded tofu to a big stone. He is the one who hurts himself when he hits it with his fists and bites his teeth. The difficulties Yeluji has to face now are definitely not only
But Cangzhou was no longer easy to capture. He still needed to explain to his father, His Majesty Yelu Xiongji, the greatest emperor in Khitan history, about the loss of 100,000 troops in the First World War.
In any case, the defeat is a fact. Even if you want to hide it, you can't hide it. There are hundreds of thousands of mouths on the battlefield on both sides, and the most unreliable thing in the world is the mouth. So Yeluji has no intention of hiding this tragedy.
If he did that, he would not be smart, but stupid, like a clown who was hiding his ears. He knew that his great father had control over the country and the army, and nothing could be hidden from his father's eyes and ears.
He honestly wrote an apology letter and sent his soldiers to the upper capital at high speed. However, Yeluji did not feel relieved. From this moment on, he waited for his father's thunderous wrath to bring him.
The terrible consequences. He knew his father, who was a man who killed without blinking an eye, whether it was against his enemies or his own people.
In fact, this excerpt was dictated by Han Zhigu, and Yeluji was just the one who wrote it.
He knew that if he wanted to appease his father's anger, the best way was to defeat the enemy and massacre them all. It would be best to massacre Cangzhou City as well, so that His Majesty might be angry and laugh a little. It is actually a good idea to have a peerless king as me.
It was a very painful thing, because he knew that no matter how hard he struggled, in the eyes of his father, he was just a naive and somewhat ridiculous little boy.
Now, the most direct way to overpower the Cangzhou defenders is also the one he is least willing to use, because he doesn't want to spend all his hard-earned strength just to win a small Cangzhou city. In that case, he will
All his plans were in vain.
Therefore, strangely enough, both the enemy and us in Cangzhou have ceased fighting since a fierce battle a few evenings ago. It doesn’t look like they are here to start a war, but more like they are here for a vacation. (To be continued)
