Feng Yi said everything he needed to say. He left Daliang Guozhao behind and went to the post house to rest. Everyone sat in silence in the meeting hall, and the Yajun guards guarding the Yamen looked at each other with complicated expressions.
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Their situation in Xiangbei completely collapsed. The direct reason was indeed that Kong Xirong was ordered to lead his troops through Caizhou to enter Fangcheng's defense line. However, as the saying goes, "Generals die in hundreds of battles and return with their bodies wrapped in horse leather", everyone is a man who licks blood to survive on the battlefield.
Victory, defeat, life and death, have never been the focus of hatred.
Just as Feng Yi said, the Jiangdong aristocratic clan and the people in the DPRK who claimed to be the Qingliu gentry may have slandered Han Qian and the Tangyi New Deal in every possible way, but several of the Yajun generals around Li Zhigao were related to the aristocratic clan or the so-called Qingliu gentry.
The gentry Qingliu stood together?
Of course, they had no right to say anything in this matter, they could only hold their breath and listen to the movement in the hall.
"I have made up my mind to cherish the water," Li Zhigao said with his hands on his knees and sitting behind the long desk. "Since I govern Liangzhou, I will be responsible for the life and death of Liangzhou's soldiers and civilians. How much food and grass is left in the state?
You also know how much summer grain can be harvested after summer, and how thin and sallow the tens of thousands of women and children outside the city are. Even if Zhou Bingwu and Zhang Zhi do not use troops in Liangzhou, Liangzhou will inevitably have some crops before the autumn grain is harvested.
Thousands of women and children died of hunger.”
"You are going to follow the imperial edict of the traitor Liang State and bring Liangzhou into Liang State. How are you going to explain all this to your wife?" Yao Xishui stared at Li Zhigao and asked in a hoarse voice.
Feng Yi came over and asked Liangzhou to expel Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan, Zhong Yanhu and others, in addition to bringing the Queen Mother Wang Chan'er, Prince Xiang Yang Lin, Chen De and others back to East Lake as bargaining chips for subsequent negotiations with Jinling.
Not only Li Zhigao and his generals such as Deng Tai, Zhang Song, Zhou Tong, Hao Zixia, Chai Jian, Chai Xun and his son can also be said to be relatively pure generals, Han Qian could tolerate them and accept them, but Zhong Yanhu killed people and massacred the village, leaving no women and children behind.
, Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan and others, as the masterminds behind many rebellions, acted unscrupulously. Han Qian did not expect Li Zhigao and Chai Jian to hand them over at this time, but he also asked Li Zhigao and Chai Jian to have a thorough investigation with them.
He cut them off and expelled them from Liangzhou.
"After the palace coup failed, they should accept this result." Li Zhigao said with determination.
In fact, many times, they all have better choices, but it is Lu Qingxia, Yao Xishui and the others who believe too much in the power of conspiracy and have no intention of promoting the construction of positive forces, so they miss too many opportunities.
After Lu Qingxia and the others failed in the palace coup and retreated to Yingzhou, Li Zhigao was determined to separate and defend Liangzhou alone; and after Lu Qingxia and Chai Jianxiang were defeated in the north, he did not hesitate to block the gates of Liangzhou and force Lu
Qing Xia, after Zhou Yuan handed over his military power, he allowed hundreds of them to garrison in a small village northwest of Liangzhou City.
This time, even if Han Qian didn't make a request, Li Zhigao would make up his mind to expel them.
He still doesn't know yet whether Han Qian can defend Heluo, but one thing is certain, even if Han Qian cannot defend Heluo, it will only make Liangzhou's strategic position in the overall world more prominent.
In addition to obtaining food aid from the Shu Kingdom, the more important thing is that they can only obtain the legal status of Liangzhou by relying on the Liang Kingdom, and temporarily lift the state of war with the Chu army, and his life experience will never be known again.
What kind of obstacle would it be? Otherwise, even if they could take advantage of the danger and defend it, the generals were too weak and the morale of the army was too shaken. It was still unknown whether they could stop Zhang Wei from leading the elite Youwu Guards to attack all the way.
Even after Han Qian successfully defended Heluo and Tangyi and Heluo were better integrated, Liangzhou would inevitably be marginalized. Maybe Han Qian would not be able to allow them to establish themselves in Liangzhou for a long time.
Trying every possible means to find excuses to transfer them out, but it is still better than surrendering to the Mongol people.
Even if we put aside the conflict between China and Yi and surrender to the Mongols, the Mongols will only use them as a vanguard to attack Shu or Jingxiang, and there is no way they will be allowed to attack a strategically important place on the western front like Liangzhou.
Establish a long-term foothold.
"Since eldest brother has made a decision, I will explain all this to the madam and the others, and I will leave with the madam and the others." Yao Xishui gritted her teeth and said, since she could not persuade him, she could only leave sadly.
"Cherish the water..." Su Hongyu couldn't bear to persuade.
Li Zhigao looked up and looked outside the lobby, took a long breath, and finally said: "Hao Zixia will accompany you there."
In the face of the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, the love between brothers and sisters has to be abandoned as a last resort.
In order to prevent Lu Qingxia and the others from doing anything evil at this juncture, Li Zhigao decided that Hao Zixia would lead two thousand elites and urged Lu Qingxia and the others to hand over the Queen Mother Wang Chan'er, Chen De, Xiang Wang Yang Lin and others, and imprison them along the Han River.
The river valleys and mountains in the upper reaches were crossed westward to Songfan, instead of going north directly to join the Mongol people.
Of course, if Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan and others arrived in Songfan, then turned around and went to Qinzhou and Qizhou, and decided to mingle with Zhao Mengji, Wang Xiaoxian and the others, this would not be something that Li Zhigao could decide or be responsible for.
Thinking of this, even though Li Zhigao knew it was useless, he couldn't help but said to Yao Xishui: "Both emperors of the Liang Kingdom have passed away, and the Liang Kingdom has also changed to a new owner. It is almost completely reborn inside and out. The old grudges are old.
It should also disappear. Since you and I consider ourselves descendants of the former dynasty, and the places in the Central Plains such as Hehuai and Jianghuai are inhabited and reproduced by the old people of the former dynasty, no matter what Madam, Zhou Yuan and others choose, you should not help them.
The Hulu cavalry trampled the Central Plains..."
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"What?"
Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan and others withdrew to Liangzhou, and hundreds of people settled in a stone village thirty miles north of Liangzhou City. Zhong Yanhu led more than 300 soldiers to guard them. This can also be said to be the last direct force of late Honglou.
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Li Zhigao also stationed a battalion of soldiers and horses near Shizhai to monitor their every move and restrict their contact with the outside world.
It was only when Hao Zixia led 2,000 troops to surround Shizhai and Yao Xishui entered the village that they realized what earth-shaking changes had taken place in Heluo.
"After the death of Emperor Liang, Han Qian actually abdicated and became the new leader of the Liang Kingdom?"
"Li Zhigao is so ungrateful that he would rather submit to Han Qian's knees as a minister than expel us?"
Zhou Yuan sat down on the chair, unable to imagine what was happening in front of him.
Chen De sat behind the case and thought that although he had been the commander of the Imperial Guards and the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Guards in recent years, he had been manipulated in every possible way as puppets. Seeing Zhou Yuan and the others acting like bereaved dogs, he couldn't bear it.
Zhu sarcastically said: "After all these years, you are still completely unable to defeat Han Qian..."
"What are you so proud of? That thief Han Qian wanted to take you to East Lake by name, and he must have used it as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Chu Ting. Do you really think that more than ten people from your Chen family, old and young, can escape being executed?" Zhou
Yuan said ferociously.
Chen De's face turned gloomy.
He also knew very well that as the biological mother of Emperor Yanyou, after being handed over to Jinling by Han Qian, Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang might not directly kill Wang Chan'er; and Prince Xiang Yang Lin was only a five-year-old child, most likely after he was deposed. After being imprisoned, he would most likely be regarded as the mastermind of the assassination of Gong Bian and be pushed out as a scapegoat to be executed.
However, Chen De also knew clearly that fate would not give him any more room to struggle. At this time, he just sat there with his eyes closed and turned a deaf ear to Zhou Yuan's subsequent words.
"Madam, I have been tired of it all these years. No matter what punishment I will get if I go to Jinling, madam, please allow me to serve the Queen Mother for the last time!" Chun Shisanniang said in despair.
"You..." Unexpectedly, Chun Shisanniang would rather go to Jinling and die than part ways with them. Zhou Yuan was so angry that he almost trembled all over.
Lu Qingxia waved his hand in frustration.
The conditions given by Han Qian were generous enough that Li Zhigao had no room for bargaining; and Li Zhigao directly sent soldiers and horses to surround them, and then asked Yao Xishui to go into the village to report the news, leaving them no room for bargaining.
Although they had calculated everything, they never thought that Emperor Zhu Yu would make such a choice before his death!
This also shattered the last chance they had expected.
Xiao Yiqing has not sent anyone to Liangzhou until now, and obviously knows that Liangzhou has no chance for them. They may focus on the work of Xin Wang Yang Yuanyan at this time.
This also means that they have become dispensable and abandoned.
In the past three months, the people in the village have only had one-third of their usual rations, and even the bulky armors may not be able to wear them. What other choice is there other than handing the people over and leaving sadly?
If they hand them over now, Li Zhigao will miss their old friendship and give them a chance to escape. If they resist and really think that Yao Xishui is in the stronghold, Li Zhigao will not order an attack. That would be too naive.
Who has spent half his life commanding troops and fighting on the battlefield, who is not a person whose heart is as hard as iron and whose blood is as cold as ice?
