Chapter 380: Officials are mighty, but kindness cannot lead the army
Weiming Anhui followed Emperor Xia's imperial edict and ordered his men to take out the two heads from the black cloth bag brought back by the messenger.
When two dead and bloody heads were displayed in front of Wei Ming Anhui, he was shocked.
Weiming Anhui only took one look and recognized from the face of the middle-aged man's head that he was the biological father of Cao, the current imperial concubine of Daxia who was an official in the same dynasty.
That middle-aged woman’s head should be that of Princess Cao’s mother, right?
"This..." What Weina Anhui wanted to say was swallowed back in her stomach.
With his heart beating fast, he could only follow Emperor Xia's imperial edict and order the Xia army's tornado gunners on the city to use trebuchets to throw the heads of the two spies who Emperor Xia called lurking in the capital.
In front of the Song army formation, the woman who claimed to be the imperial concubine Cao of Great Xia approached.
"call……"
"call……"
When the two bloody heads were thrown into the sky by the Xia army's trebuchet on the city, two arcs were drawn.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
It landed with a bang on the yellow sand ground more than thirty steps in front of Princess Cao.
"Ah?!" Liu Guangshi caught a glimpse of two black figures and mistakenly thought that the stones thrown by the Xia enemy were stones, and he wanted to kill Princess Cao who was shouting to persuade the Xia army to surrender.
His face suddenly changed, fearing that the official Zhao family had entrusted him with the responsibility of protecting the personal safety of the Xixia Princess, so he shouted:
"My shield men step forward to protect Princess Cao and retreat quickly."
"Follow the order!"
More than a dozen shield bearers from Liu Guangshi's department were ordered to step forward, raise their shields to protect the front and top of Princess Cao's head, and tried to withdraw...
At this time, in the imperial city of Xingqing Mansion, Weiming Anhui ordered hundreds of Xixia soldiers who could speak Chinese to shout in unison:
"Listen up, Song Army. The two heads just thrown in front of you are the carefully crafted heads of the two Han Chinese whom I, the Emperor of Great Xia, just ordered to kill."
"Song troops, why don't you step forward and pick up those two Han dog heads?"
"..."
Weiming Anhui obeyed the imperial edict of Emperor Xia and did not admit that the beautiful and dignified woman in the Song army below the city was Princess Cao, nor did she expose the identity of the real owner of the two heads. She just did not want to affect the morale and morale of the Xia army who were clinging to the imperial city.
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However, many of the soldiers and generals of the Xia army guarding the city who knew Princess Cao's father only glanced at the head of the middle-aged man killed by Emperor Xia and recognized that it was the head of Princess Cao's father! They were frightened, but they didn't
Dare to disobey Weiming Anhui's military orders and shouted in unison:
"The Han woman in the Song army who pretended to be the imperial concubine of our Great Xia Kingdom was optimistic that the two heads thrown over the city might be your accomplices!"
Princess Cao was being covered by the Song army's shield bearers and was about to retreat. When she heard this, she shouted:
"Wait a minute! General Liu, can you send your soldiers to pick up the two heads and show them to me?"
Liu Guangshi said: "What's so difficult about this? Come here, quickly take the two heads that Xia's enemy threw down the city and present them to Cao for viewing."
"Follow the order." The two soldiers held their shields high, guarding against the arrows and flowing stones of the Xia army on the city. They ran forward, picked up the two bloody and dead heads on the ground in front of the formation, and quickly ran back to the The Imperial Concubine Cao of Xixia, who was protected by more than a dozen shields, approached.
"ah?!"
Princess Cao screamed in surprise, her pupils instantly widened, her eyes full of grief, anger and despair.
Her body was shaking violently, her hands were clenched into fists, and her nails were dug into her palms, as if to resist the sudden blow.
She let out a low and shrill wail from her throat, which was a sign of sudden sadness, anger and helplessness.
"Father! Mother! The two elders died so miserably!"
Princess Cao was in great grief, her screams pierced the sky, her eyes were instantly bloodshot, tears and anger were intertwined, making her almost unable to breathe.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Her parents also punished and humiliated her in such a cruel and cruel way.
"Uuuuuuuuuuah...it's all because of my daughter's fault that I killed your two elders!"
Concubine Cao was filled with grief and anger. After shouting this sentence with all her strength, two lines of tears flowed down her pretty face as pale as paper. Her red lips trembled, and a surge of blood in her chest surged like a huge wave. Her blood pressure It kept soaring, as if all the blood was rushing to her head...
Concubine Cao's vision went dark, her body collapsed weakly, and with a "plop", she fainted and fell to the ground.
When Liu Guangshi saw Cao fainted on the ground, he immediately shouted and ordered his soldiers to help him:
"There is no intimacy between men and women, so don't touch her! The Cao family has been handed over to me by Zhao Guan's family. You must take good care of her."
In fact, the Xixia Emperor Cao was so young, beautiful, dignified and virtuous, Liu Guang wanted to help her and take advantage of her.
However, although he was not good at leading the army in battle, he was very good at observing people's actions. Before that, he had observed the good attitude of the Zhao Guan family towards Cao Wenhui, and when the Zhao Guan family handed over the task, he had told him to deal with this Xixia man who had surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Imperial Concubine Cao takes good care of you.
Liu Guangshi speculated that the Zhao Guan family was most likely to have a desire to conquer the young, beautiful, dignified and virtuous Xixia Princess Cao, just like Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty conquered Xiao Zhou, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty after the country was destroyed. After that...
Therefore, in order to please the Zhao Guan family, he ordered his rough Han soldiers not to help the Cao family indiscriminately. He shouted: "Where are the two maids given to the Cao family by the Zhao Guan family? Come forward quickly and help your little girl." Lord, quickly return to your carriage and rest."
Those two maids were given to the Cao family by the imperial commander of Zhao Guan's family after he conquered Xiping Mansion. At this time, they were frightened by the scene on the battlefield, especially the two bloody heads thrown down from the city. You have to stand still.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Liu Guangshi shouted, they both came to their senses. They were so frightened that they trembled all over. They ran to Cao who had fainted on the ground and pulled Cao Shi helped her up and carried her back to the car not far behind her...
Not far away from Liu Guangshi's troops, Yue Fei, who was pointing at the Song army to pretend to attack the Xixia Imperial City, saw this scene and couldn't help frowning and sighing secretly:
"The Zhao Guan family asked Liu Guangshi to lead his troops to take the Cao family who surrendered to the Song Dynasty, Brother Richard who was captured and refused to surrender, and the body of Li Liangfu who died in the battle, and persuaded the enemies defending the city to surrender under the city. It was not necessarily successful. Instead, the Cao family's biological My parents were injured and their bodies were dislocated!"
"However, after Yue received Enkewu's first prize in the capital, the Zhao Guan family once taught me: 'Compassion does not lead the army...' Now, the Zhao Guan family sent Liu Guangshi to use such an unbenevolent move to break the hearts of Xia's enemy troops and shake their morale. , it seems that it has basically been achieved.”
Liu Guangshi here saw that the surrendered Xixia Princess Cao had been helped back to the carriage in the rear formation by the two maids. He rolled his eyes and ordered his hundreds of soldiers who were shouting to the enemy:
"You continue to shout about Zhao Guan's family's policy of recruiting surrender and accepting rebels. You should also add that the land of Xixia was originally the territory of the Han Dynasty. In order to show their surrender to us, the Song Dynasty, the ancestors of the current Xixia puppet emperor Li Qianshun also accepted the Great Song Dynasty. Where is the surname Zhao given by the First Emperor of the Song Dynasty!"
"Li Qianshun, the pseudo-emperor of Xixia, was so cruel that he actually killed the biological parents of his beloved concubine Cao!"
"Cao's biological parents are also the father-in-law and mother-in-law of the Western Xia pseudo-emperor Li Qianshun! Ask them about the Xia army generals who guarded the Western Xia imperial city and followed this unkind, unjust, unfaithful and unfilial pseudo-emperor Li Qianshun. They Did you get a good ending?"
"I, the imperial commander of the Great Song Dynasty, personally led the Zhao Guan family to lead several armies, totaling one million people, to rush into the city. By then, the Imperial City of Xixia, which has become isolated and helpless, can it still be defended?"
"Let them, the Xixia soldiers and generals guarding the city, quickly open the city gates and surrender to our Song Dynasty officers and soldiers as early as possible. Then they will receive high-ranking officials and generous salaries! The Xia army soldiers and generals who defend the city and resist stubbornly, when the city is broken, the Song Dynasty officers and soldiers will not only If you are to be killed, your family members will be beheaded or enslaved!"
The civil servant in the army recorded Liu Guangshi's orders. Then, after sorting it out a little, he taught the hundreds of soldiers and generals who shouted to persuade them to surrender twice. After that, Liu Guangshi's surrender team began to shout in unison again...
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"..."
Many Xia army generals on the city began to whisper...
Weiming Anhui, the Privy Councilor of Xixia who was supervising the battle on the city, saw that the military morale of the city defenders was beginning to waver and their morale was rapidly declining. He hurriedly led his headquarters to supervise the battle with a hundred men armed with broadswords, patrolling back and forth on the city to prevent the troops from entering the city. Thinking of changes, the situation of surrendering to the Song Dynasty happened.
A hundred steps away from the main gate of the Xixia Imperial City on the left side of the city, a small school named Wang Zhongxia led his troops to guard several crenels. He seemed to be carrying a sharp sword and was supervising the soldiers of his headquarters to guard this section of the city wall. ;
In fact, not long ago, he had conspired with his soldiers to rebel against Xia and surrender to Song Dynasty, in order to save himself and his family's lives, and also get the high-ranking officials, generous salary, glory and wealth given by the Emperor of Song Dynasty...
In fact, Wang Zhongxia, a junior high school officer in the Imperial City of Xixia, was a well-known Han nationality living in Xixia. His late maternal grandmother, Cao, was the aunt of Cao, the imperial concubine of Xixia who had just shouted to the Xia army generals outside the city.
Not long ago, before Wang Zhongxia saw the bloody heads of his cousin and aunt, he was still hesitating whether it was better to defend the imperial city with loyalty to the country, or to take the opportunity to surrender to the Song Dynasty for the sake of glory and wealth.
However, when he saw that Li Qianshun, the current emperor of Xia, killed both Princess Cao's parents and threw their heads under the city, he was awakened by the fact that Li Qianshun, who originally believed in Confucianism and Buddhism and was superficially benevolent, could also engage in conspiracy if he became ruthless. massacred.
Then I am also related to Princess Cao of Western Xia who has surrendered to the Song Dynasty! Later, will the ruthless Xia Emperor Li Qianshun issue an order to kill the nine clans of Princess Cao?
If that were the case, he would also be among those killed!
Therefore, he took advantage of the fact that the Song army under the city had not yet attacked the city, and accompanied the Song army under the city's shouts of persuasion to surrender, he first conspired with several of his confidants to rebel against Xia and surrender to Song. As a result, they all had the same fate. meaning……
At this time, Xixia Privy Councilor Weiming Anhui, who was patrolling the city to supervise the battle, led a hundred-man supervising team to the section of the city guarded by Wang Zhongxia's troops...
Wang Zhongxia sheathed his sword and pretended to be enthusiastic as he stepped forward to welcome Wei Ming Anhui's patrol supervisor. However, in his heart, the idea of betraying Xia to save his life and surrendering to Song Dynasty for wealth grew like wild weeds.
"The last general, Zhongxia, would like to greet the Prime Minister of Xifu." Wang Zhongxia bowed and clasped his fists:
"In this section of the city defense, the last general led his troops and just shot and killed more than 400 Song enemies who tried to attack the city! The corpses of the Song enemies were everywhere under the city..."
An Hui, the minister of the Privy Council, did not know the hunky Xia Jun primary school in front of him, but after hearing the number of enemy kills reported by him, he could not help but look at him with admiration and asked curiously:
"Did you really kill so many Song enemies?"
"How dare you deceive the Prime Minister of Xifu, General Zhongxia?" Wang Zhongxia said in a serious tone:
"General Zhongxia, please respectfully ask Mr. Xifu to get closer to the battlements and look down the city. We can really see that the corpses of many Song army generals who were shot by our troops are lying all over the field!"
"Oh!" Weiming Anhui, the Privy Councilor of Xixia, exclaimed and said happily:
"If this is true, I will remember you for your great achievements!"
Weiming Anhui walked towards the battlements directed by Wang Zhongxia...
Wang Zhongxia bent down and followed closely to the left of Weiming Anhui. He used his right hand to support himself and pointed to the city with his finger...
When Wei Ming Anhui looked down the city, he did not see the corpses of the Song army lying all over the city as the captain said. Just when he was about to turn around and angrily scold Wang Zhongxia, he only heard a "clang" sound.
Wang Zhongxia's sharp knife quickly unsheathed, aimed at the back of Weiming Anhui's neck, and chopped it off hard!
With a "click", the head of Xixia Privy Councilor Weiming Anhui rolled down to the bottom of the city...
The corpse of Wei Ming Anhui had blood spurting out from its neck...
Suddenly, the Xia army in this section of the city and the hundreds of soldiers of the supervising team brought by Wei Ming Anhui were all extremely shocked and horrified...
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