Feng Yi entered Xiangcheng and was detained by Zhou Bingwu for half a month. At the end of February, Jinling came with an imperial edict, and Zhou Bingwu sent troops to escort them eastward by boat, arriving at Jinling on March 2nd.
Entering Jinling City in March, the grass is growing and the orioles are flying, and the spring scenery is harmonious.
At dusk, there were still a few white-feathered river gulls flying under the sunset.
Approaching the pier, Feng Yi stood on the bow of the ship and looked at the Jinghaimen Gate Tower.
Lu Qingxia and others launched a palace coup. After the failure, they escaped by boat from Jinghai Gate. In order to stop the pursuers, they set fire to the Jinghai Gate Gate Tower. Feng Yi never returned to Jinling City at that time or after that, but at this time, he saw that the Jinghai Gate Gate Tower was being repaired.
It was new, but the bricks covering the outer city still had burnt marks. I turned my head to look at another official ship that had docked at the dock.
Queen Mother Wang Chan'er, Chen De, Prince Xiang "Yang Lin" and Chun Shisanniang were all on the ship. Chamberlain Yang En and Dali Temple Supervisor Kong Yanling personally came with a group of people to verify their identities and took them to Dali.
Temple prison custody.
Feng Yi didn't know how they felt when they saw Jinghaimen Gate Tower again.
After the pallet was put on the ship's side, Feng Yi lifted up his robe and went to the shore. Officials on the left and right came over with shackles. Feng Yi glared at them and yelled angrily: "You are outrageous!"
Yang En and Kong Yanling, the supervisor of Dali Temple, came over and signaled the government officials to step aside.
"Mr. Yang, why are you using shackles to treat your old friend today? Do you really want to see Jinling involved in the war and all the lives lost?" Feng Yi asked with his hands behind his hands.
Yang En looked at Feng Yi and sighed softly: "Your wings have grown hard!"
Feng Yi calmed down his arrogance and said: "It doesn't matter whether the wings are strong or not. In these years, Tangyi has always been at the front and charged into battle. At this time, in Heluo, he was also fighting with the captives in a river of blood. There were corpses everywhere. There were not many
Even if we have two strong bones, we can't hold on, and it is impossible for Emperor Liang to trust us with our country. Now, we have sent all the important criminals to Jinling, and we can say that we are treating Jinling with sincerity, but we don't know when Jinling will treat us with sincerity?
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"This matter is not something I can make arbitrarily. I would like you to stay in the Han Mansion for a while. I will let you know when the Queen Mother of the two palaces has made up her mind." Yang En said.
For thousands of years, there have been endless records of abdication, but the "blessings" that have really happened in the long history are actually usurping the throne. Even the previous dynasty's civil and military achievements were revered as the "Khan of Heaven" by all races. It can be said that it is
Emperor Taizong, who was one of the few heroes in thousands of years, also forced his father to surrender after launching a mutiny at Xuanwu Gate.
However, Zhu Yu sent the generals of Liang State to welcome Han Qian, entrusted him with the support of his country, and abdicated the throne of the country. There was no conspiracy at all in this.
Under this circumstance, even if all the Confucian classics that have been regarded as the guideline for various dynasties for thousands of years are brought out, Han Qian cannot be charged with treason and surrender to the enemy.
In addition to the matter of fame and position, the situation involved was also so complicated that it had been delayed until this point, and neither the DPRK nor China had reached an agreement.
After Queen Mother Wang Chan'er and more than a hundred rebels arrived in Beijing, Dali Temple naturally took over. However, Feng Yi and his followers still had to be sent to the Han Mansion first. Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang did not want to meet Feng Yi directly for the time being.
For the convenience of supervision, Yun Puzi, Qin Wen and their children have all been placed under house arrest in the Han Mansion. Chen Jingzhou, the minister of the Ministry of War, has always been regarded as a minister of the Tangyi line and was ordered to self-examine in the house and was not allowed to go out at will.
At this time, a speedboat sailed out from a river fork west of Tangyi City on the north bank.
The naval forces of Youlong Wujun stationed at Jinghaimen Pier felt like they were facing a formidable enemy and sent several warships to intercept them.
Yang En was indifferent.
A large number of generals in Tangyi followed Han Qian northward, but Zhao Wuji, Zhao Qi, Lin Zongjing, Han Chengmeng, Chen Zhiyong, Ji Xiyao and other generals remained on the southern front. Han Daochang, Han Duan and others also fled to the north bank a month ago.
Yang En knew that Zhao Wuji, Han Daochang, Han Duan, Zhao Qi and others, including Guo Duanduo who came south from Luoyang half a month ago, were all in Tangyi City across the river at this time.
At this time, a fast boat sailed out from the Tangyi navy camp, probably rushing to meet Feng Yi.
When the navy warships of Youlong Wujun intercept the incoming ship, they will soon escort a person to Jinghaimen Pier.
When he saw that the person coming was Wen Ruilin, Yang En felt even more confused. He didn't say anything at the moment and sent them all to the Han Mansion.
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Yang En treated Feng Yi and Wen Ruilin politely. Although he did not send them to Han Mansion in person, he still arranged a spacious and comfortable carriage.
Feng Yi got into the carriage and learned about the current situation in Jinling City from Wen Ruilin along the way.
At this time, it had been a month since Jinling knew the news of Han Qian's journey north, and it had been half a month since the news that Han Qian had succeeded to the throne of Daliang in Luoyang City had officially reached Jinling.
Such news is, of course, like a boulder crashing into a calm lake, causing a shocking uproar.
Even now, in the streets, alleys, teahouses, restaurants, and even prostitutes' villages and boats, everyone from the princes and ministers to the people in the market are discussing this matter endlessly.
This is a problem that no one can ignore and avoid.
He was once a dandy and a prodigal son, serving as a pupil to the prince. In just a few years, he rose to become a frontier vassal like the mainstay of Chu. It is already legendary enough. Who would have thought that he would suddenly transform and become the leader of the Liang Kingdom?
You must know that just five or six years ago, Liang Jun's army almost pointed directly at Jinling.
Even though it was rumored that Emperor Zhu Yu of Liang had sent his generals to welcome Han Qian to Luoyang for abdication, there were still countless people in Jinling City who were more willing to believe that Han Qian had taken advantage of the opportunity to usurp the throne of the Liang Kingdom.
However, in addition to the fact that this legendary incident caused people to talk about it endlessly, even the people in the city knew that the whole thing was far from ending like this.
Xuzhou is far away in the southwest border, and the situation has not yet reached Jinling. However, large-scale naval forces have gathered in Donghu and Tangyi, and the Huaixi states and Dengjun states have exchanged seals and letters, calling themselves the territory of Liang State.
, the place where many of these things happened is just across the Yangtze River from Jinling, and the people in Jinling City soon knew everything about it.
Even though Han Qian claimed to be the lord of the country in Luoyang but not the emperor, and Daliang also claimed the country but not the dynasty, Han Daoming and Qin Wen also secretly spread the news that Liang would profess vassalage to Da Chu, but let alone the princes and ministers of the dynasty, some radical
The scholars and scholars still found this matter unacceptable.
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucian classics have clarified the principle of "enfeoffment as vassal, submission as vassal, and distinction between Chinese and barbarians".
The Liang State is a vassal state of Chu. However, like the Shu State, the Liang State has its own military and political affairs.
In this relationship, apart from claiming vassal status and paying tribute, the internal affairs and military affairs are completely free from interference by the suzerain state.
This is very different from how after the Jinling Rebellion, King Yang Yuanyan was forced by the situation to seize Huaidong as a vassal.
At least psychologically, the subjects of Da Chu would think that Huaidong was always an integral part of Da Chu. In his early years, Emperor Yanyou even claimed to have granted King Xin vassal status in Huaidong in order to make it more effective for Liang Jun to move south.
A vassal state means a fence.
The original purpose of Zhou's enfeoffment of princes and Han Emperor Gaozu's enfeoffment of princes into vassals was to protect the central royal power. However, in the middle and late stages of the previous dynasty, there were many vassals, which were also regarded as local separatist forces.
However, no one would think that after Liang and Shu became vassals, they would become part of Chu. Liang would always be Liang, and the leader of Liang would always be Liang Jun, not Chu ministers.
With the change of Han Qian's identity, Huaixi was included in the territory of Liang State, and the southern border reached the center of Chu. Who could bear it?
Of course, from the perspective of Confucian classics, Han Qian was upright and succeeded to the throne of the Liang Kingdom through abdication of the Eight Classics, but it cannot be considered a betrayal and defection to the enemy. Currently, many scholars and officials have written letters asking the court to take back Huaixi
, Xuzhou and other places, but the sound of sending troops to suppress it is not that loud.
Enter Jinghaimen, follow the avenue on the west side of the imperial city and pass through most of Jinling City, then you will arrive at the Han family's mansion in the southwest corner of Jinling City.
At this time, the mansions around the Han Mansion were cleared out, and more than two hundred guards and soldiers were stationed to supervise the Han Mansion. However, the Han Mansion was still peaceful, and there were no soldiers or officials to break in and cause trouble at will for the time being. In addition,
The Housekeeper will also deliver fruits, vegetables, meat, oil, salt, rice and noodles on a per-person basis every day.
Whether it is peace or war, Han Daoming, Qin Wen, Yun Puzi and other members of the Han family will not be treated as prisoners of war until the DPRK comes to a final conclusion.
Feng Yi and Wen Ruilin entered the Han Mansion. In addition to Han Daoming, his son Han Jianji, Qin Wen, Yun Puzi and others, the old man Han Wenhuan, whose beard and hair were all white, changed from his usual lethargy and lethargy and walked into the Mingju Hall in high spirits to participate.
Secret discussion.
"Currently, there is a lot of controversy in Jinling, which is quite unfavorable to me in Liangzhou. What is Li Zhigao thinking about you going to Liangzhou..." Qin Wen asked.
It was only twenty-six years after the fall of the previous dynasty. When Qin Wen was young, he served as an official in Shengzhou Jiedushi Mansion. After the founding of the Chu Kingdom, he was regarded as an alien and was sent to Xuzhou to serve as a minor official in Shengdou, which was equivalent to exile.
, his father and brother both died in Xuzhou, and it took him sixteen years to usher Han Daoxun, Han Qian and his son into Xuzhou. To be honest, he had no sense of identification with Chu Ting.
In the beginning, he was able to stand up with Xue Ruogu and Li Tang and be used by Han Daoxun mainly because he stood as a guest of the Han people and was dissatisfied with the terror and oppression of the native Han people.
Later, he went to Yueyang to join Shen Lan, and got Han Qian's permission.
He had absolutely no psychological barriers to changing his role at this time.
The news that Li Zhigao accepted the canonization of Daliang and led the army and people of Liangzhou to join the Liang Kingdom reached Jinling as early as possible.
After the imperial court put them under house arrest, they no longer formally sent anyone to contact or negotiate with them. They could only convey some news through hidden piles every day by transporting vegetables, meat, rice and noodles, so as to have a general understanding of the development of the situation.
They also knew the news of Li Zhigao's defection to Daliang earlier, but the more specific details of the matter and whether Li Zhigao was forced by the situation and just wanted to surrender to Daliang in exchange for a chance to breathe, or did he really want to be used by Daliang, or at least
They were willing to take a more active stance to help Daliang stabilize the situation in Hehuai, but they would not know until Feng Yi arrived in Jinling.
Li Zhigao chose to be essentially neutral, or he was more inclined to use a positive attitude to help contain part of the Chu army from the west, and even directly ensured that before Jinling made the final decision, Zhao Zhen led the Youwuxiang Army to garrison Fancheng and Suiyang.
I will not dare to act rashly.
When Chu Ting weighed the pros and cons, he would not include Li Zhigao, Chai Jian and Liangzhou soldiers and horses in the calculation of the new Liang army. His mentality was completely different.
Although the Chu Army currently employs senior generals such as Du Chongtao and Zhou Bingwu, Zhang Wei is also a senior general who is as famous as Du Chongtao and others. Although Liangzhou's troops and horses have been repeatedly defeated, among the current new generation of Chu Army's generals, they can compete with Li Zhigao.
The only people who are as famous as Chai Jian are Guo Liang, Zheng Hui, Zhao Zhen and others.
It can even be said that Guo Liang, Zheng Hui, Zhao Zhen and others are more or less deficient than Li Zhigao.
Other generals of the new generation who are truly regarded as rising stars, such as Wen Bo, Li Xiu and others, have long joined the New Liang Army, not to mention the large number of direct generals that Han Qian has brought out over the years.
Liangzhou's soldiers and horses are currently extremely weak, their morale is disorganized, and supplies are extremely difficult. However, most of them are veteran soldiers who have followed Li Zhigao and Chai Jian in the ten years of conquering the world. Once the soldiers are fully supplied and rested, let alone recruiting the army.
More than half of the state soldiers and townships were brave. It is still unknown whether the Youwu Guards and the Youwu Xiang Army can match them.
To measure the military strength of both sides, it is never enough to simply calculate the size of the troops on both sides.
"Li Zhigao and Chai Jian were quite active. Not only did they expel Lu Qingxia, Zhou Yuan and others at our request, they also sent their sons Li Zhi and Chai Zhi to Luoyang to see Han Qian. At this time, they also sent Deng Tai and Zhang
Song has led 10,000 troops to Yunyang. His name is Zhou Bingwu. Zhang Ping has a headache."
Feng Yi picked up the hot tea soup, sipped it gently, and said excitedly,
"Next, if Wang Yong, the Lord of Shu, goes to Yuzhou to gather troops and horses as agreed, Jinling should not dare to make any changes. However, Han Qian is still too soft-hearted, knowing that Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan were expelled
They would surrender to the Mongol people, but they did not ask Li Zhigao to hand them over..."
"Sometimes being kind and soft-hearted is not a bad thing," Han Wenhuan said with a smile, "Chai Jian has always been closer to Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan, but it is impossible for him to work with Li Zhigao to send his son Chai Zhi to Luoyang.
There’s no trade-off…”
Of course Feng Yi knew these truths, but he just saw people like Lu Qingxia and Zhou Yuan jumping around again and again, which made him feel quite bored. He smiled and said to Han Wenhuan: "You are so proud. You are now the leader."
The great emperor is the lord of the kingdom..."
Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, founded the country and respected his father Liu Taigong as the Supreme Emperor. Only then did he officially have the titles of Supreme Emperor and Supreme Leader of the country. However, there is no precedent in history for his grandson to be the emperor or the leader of the country while his grandfather is still alive.
However, Han Wenhuan must be given a serious and upright title. It seems that Feng Yi just used the term "Taihuang Taishang Lord" at this time.
"You little naughty boy!" Han Wenhuan laughed.
Liangzhou is stable, Shu is stable, Tiancheng sends envoy to Shu
After entering the country, after receiving the news, he rushed directly to Xuzhou to take charge. The brutal first stage of the Yiluo River Defense War was also over. Even though everyone was under house arrest in the Han Mansion with a radius of a hundred steps, they were not allowed to be free.
But there was no uneasiness.
"What Han Qian means is that no matter what demands Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and the others put forward, we can negotiate now, and we have to negotiate to buy time," Feng Yi said while drinking tea, "As long as we wait until the flood season of the Yu River comes, Heluo can If we can get another four to five months of respite, then we can talk about whether Jin Ling loves to talk about it or not..."
"Xiao Yiqing may have regretted that Liang Shixiong dug the Yuhe River embankment in the east of Xingyang." Wen Ruilin was sitting under Feng Yi. Although he was still a little unnatural in his thoughts, he still tried his best to catch up with Feng Yi. Follow their words.
"So, we still have to thank Xiao Yiqing!" Feng Yi smiled heartlessly.
The Yu River broke its banks and invaded the Shaying River to the south, forming a large floodplain area in the middle and lower reaches of the Jialu River and both sides of the Shaying River. After the weather warmed up in the southern plain of the Yu River in mid-February, it became completely muddy.
Although there was still a period of ice-free period before, the time was too short to allow the Dongliang Army to launch a large-scale westward invasion offensive from the east of Yingshui River.
This made the first stage of the Heluo Defense War directly restrict the Dongliang Army from using troops from Xingyang, Bianliang, Bozhou, Fuyang and other places to attack the west bank of Yingshui River.
In fact, until the end of October and the beginning of November, before Yingshui completely freezes again, Lin Haizheng, Yang Qin and others, who are currently mainly in charge of the eastern defense in Xiacai and Linhao, only need to lead the elite Xiacai Xingying Army to hold the Xiacai defense line. Can.
Although the Xiacai defense line protrudes east of Yingshui River and north of Huaihe River, it has formed a complete defense system of Chengzhaigouhao. With the help of the natural dangers in the middle reaches of Huaihe River, there are 30,000 water camp infantry. Although it will be very difficult, it can be Reluctantly, Xu Si's army and Shouzhou army, which had several times the number of troops, were blocked to the north of the Huaihe River. It was difficult to take a step forward, and the Yingshui River and the middle reaches of the Huaihe River were protected.
Otherwise, in front of the Dongliang Army, which can mobilize more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, Cai Xingying's enlarged army, which has less than 30,000 soldiers and horses, and the more than 10,000 Old Liang Army stationed in Xuchen and other places, will not be able to do anything. It is impossible to defend this thousand-mile defense line from Xinzheng along the Jialu River to the Shaying River, and then from Shouchun to the west bank of Hongzepu without leakage.
However, along the west bank of Yingshui River, it was also the key flank of Xinliang Kingdom.
Xu Ru Cai Ying not only has millions of people living there and reproducing, but it is also the hub linking Jingxiang, Heluo and Huaixi.
Not only can this area not be occupied or cut by the enemy, it can even be penetrated by the enemy, which will directly affect the transportation of people, horses and supplies. The Songshan Plank Road is equivalent to being cut off.
The negative impact this had on the Heluo War was quite fatal.
At that time, Han Qian would have to deploy troops and horses from Huaixi to strengthen the defense of this area.
The defense lines along the Yingshui and Jialu Rivers are too long, and it is not enough to mobilize 10,000 or 20,000 troops and horses.
It has been dragging on for nearly a month, and Chu Ting has just put everyone under house arrest here without any embarrassment, nor has it revealed any clear intention to declare war on Xinliang or to take back Huaixi.
In addition to the time required for Chu Ting to adjust the military deployment near the capital and mobilize the state troops in Jiangdong, the more important thing is that in addition to the expansion of eight brigades stationed in Xichuan, Pingjing north of Suiyang, Donghu, Chuzhou, and Xiacai In addition to the 60,000 elite infantrymen, after the troops and horses of Chishanhui were assembled, the naval force assembled in Donghu and Tangyi alone exceeded 40,000 people.
Strong and callable military power is the most effective tranquilizer. Not only Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang and others are currently silent. Although Yang Yuanyan in Chuzhou is gathering troops in the area between Fanliang Lake and Hongzepu, It has not crossed the border between Chuzhou and Chuzhou yet.
Of course, after Liang Shixiong excavated the Yu River embankment, the Yu River diverted the Huai River and flowed into the sea. As a result, a large area between Fanliang Lake and Hongzepu was flooded last summer and autumn, and a large number of roads and bridges were washed away. This is why Yang Yuanyan cannot A key reason why he dared to easily send troops to invade Chuzhou.
Han Daoming, Qin Wen, and Wen Ruilin speculated that Yang Yuanyan did not want to send troops at this time, nor was he completely concerned that Chu Ting had not made a final decision. It was actually the poor road conditions between Chuzhou and Chuzhou, as well as this summer and autumn this year. There is a high probability that the area will be flooded again, which will block his retreat and make him afraid to leave Chu Ting and use troops against Huaixi alone.
And if there were no flood plains ranging from 30 to 50 or even 70 to 80 miles wide on both sides of the Yingshui River, Xinliang would be forced to deploy 50,000 or more elite combat troops from Huaixi to the areas along the Yingshui River to participate in the defense. .
By that time, let alone Yang Yuan, you can think of Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, Zhang Chao, and even Zheng Chang, Zheng Yu, Du Chongtao, Zhou Bingwu, etc., all of them will be eager to send troops to take back Huaixi; The change in attitude of Liangzhou and Shu was also difficult to play a key role.
At present, more than 700 miles along the Jialu River and Shaying River have become floodplains. This is actually equivalent to helping the New Liang Kingdom shorten its defense line by more than 700 miles outside the short ice period. In addition, it also connects the southern line with Chu Ting The focus of the confrontation was concentrated on the Yangtze River waterway, which restricted Chuzhou's land-based military communications with Huaixi.
Otherwise, he would be surrounded by enemies on three sides, and no matter how powerful Han Qian was, it would be difficult to mobilize his troops.
If we are forced to compromise with Chu Ting at that time, the concessions and sacrifices we have to make will be too great.
At that time, it would be useless even if the Empress Dowager Changxin was completely on their side. After all, the Empress Dowager Changxin could not go against the will of the Chu court officials.
However, the Empress Dowager Changxin could not reverse the will of the ministers, so she secretly kept Cai Chen and Lei Cheng by her side and did not complete the matter.
Han Daoming said with emotion: "Xiao Yiqing's plan was good, but he didn't think enough of Emperor Liang Zhu Yu. Of course, we also far underestimated Zhu Yu's ambition..."
They were under house arrest in the mansion and had nothing else to do in the past month. In their spare time, they repeatedly considered the situation in Hehuai and clarified the many complicated situations. They knew that if Zhu Yu hadn't been broad-minded enough, , and decisive enough, otherwise none of them would be able to defeat the overall situation that Wusu Dashi and Xiao Yiqing have set up in Hehuai in the past two years.
It was precisely Zhu Yu's plan that others could not plan and defeat that others could not defeat, which was why Wu Su Dashi and Xiao Yiqing made many seemingly brilliant arrangements, such as breaking the Yu River embankment, and temporarily ordering Liang Shixiong's remaining troops to leave Luoyang. The withdrawal of Yanshi, etc., in turn, became a favorable factor for this side.
Han Daoming thought that people like Li Zhigao and Chai Jian must have seen through the twists and turns before making the immediate decision. This also made what they had to do in Jinling relatively easy.