Let’s talk about Ge Feng’s execution of Deng Sheng at the foot of Chang’an City. The morale in Chang’an City was greatly boosted, and the depression was no longer as low as when the Liang Army had just besieged the city. However, after the Liang Army learned that Bingzhou was about to send troops, the situation that they thought would be a sure victory changed.
, this shocked the military morale. How could Ge Feng and Guo Si not know that they had made a big mistake? They hurriedly convened a military meeting to ask Jia Xu for advice.
Jia Xu was helpless and explained to Guo Si: "I ordered the soldiers to call the city in Gaoling because they were of low origin and were temporarily recruited by Wang Yun. They were not loyal to the court and only needed a little inducement and coercion.
, naturally willing to call the city for me.
Although Deng Sheng is wearing short clothes, his conversation is clearly that of a famous scholar, and he must be from a wealthy family. Now his family members are all in Hedong, and he knows filial piety and etiquette. If you can't induce it, you can't coerce it, so I let you
Behead him and don't cause trouble. It's also my fault that I didn't explain it clearly to you."
Guo Si was extremely ashamed when he heard this. He could only apologize and said: "But the deal is done, what should we do now?"
Jia Xu pondered for a moment and analyzed: "I originally planned to use a plan to incite the people in the city and make it fall without attacking. But now the plan can only be combined with a hard attack. After all, the enemy defenders have many new soldiers, so they cannot last long.
Even if we send out troops tomorrow, we still have some time. As long as we occupy Chang'an and sit on the throne of the emperor, Chen Tingjian can only look at the city and sigh!"
"A little time, how long is it?" Li Jue asked.
This time it was not Jia Xu who answered, but Xu Rong. He said slowly: "We still have 10,000 defenders in Linjin. As long as Yang follows their orders to prevent the enemy from crossing the river, conservatively, we can always stop them for ten days."
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"We can't count on this." Jia Xu interrupted Xu Rong's words and said flatly: "Even though Bai Bo is a sworn enemy of Bingzhou, they are now clearly outnumbered and they may not dare to stop them. However, they have to cross the Wei River to reach Chang'an.
After all, it’s a five-day journey. If we want to take full advantage, we must defeat this high city within five days!”
The various ministries felt awe-inspiring, so they raised hundreds of earthen hills on Longshou Plain that day, and began to storm Chang'an City that night.
In Chang'an City, the news that reinforcements were on the way reached the imperial court, and the imperial court was reassured. The original wave of opposition to Wang Yun immediately subsided. After all, Zhong Yao, who conveyed the proposal, was also a good friend of Bingzhou Mu Chen Chong. Zhong Yao learned that
After hearing the news, he did not propose peace, but took advantage of the situation to propose the release of Cai Yong who was in prison. Unexpectedly, Wang Yun did not allow it, saying that Cai Yong had committed a crime and had no merit. How could he be pardoned? It would be better to wait for Chen Chong to wait until Chen Chong's reinforcements arrived.
Take the initiative to ask for further discussion. This statement chilled many courtiers, and the originally relaxed atmosphere became tense again.
One night passed, a messenger came to report that the first wave of Liang people's offensive had stopped. But when asked about the losses, the casualties were staggering. The Liang army seemed to be fighting with all their lives when they attacked. Nearly ten thousand people rushed straight from the mountains.
The city wall, and most of the sergeants guarding the city were new soldiers, could not be defeated at all. Fortunately, Lu Bu personally went to the city tower to take command, braved the enemy personally, and with the support of belief in having reinforcements, he risked his life and death and fought to the death with the Liang army.
, so although there were many casualties, the Liang army failed to break through Nancheng.
This is good news, but the worst thing is that after a temporary truce.
The Liang people shot books at the city sergeants, trumpeting their past achievements and saying that they had served the country for more than ten years, but now they ended up as traitors. Is this their fault? The court doesn't care about their lives today, and it will not happen tomorrow.
I won’t care about your lives. Think about the fate of General Chariot and Cavalry, and think about Cai Yong still in prison, why would you sacrifice your lives for Wang Yun?
Speaking of this, the Liang people placed more than a hundred boxes of gold and silver plundered along the way at the foot of the city, and publicly declared that the celestial phenomena showed the day before yesterday that the imperial court would be defeated in this battle. They were just obeying God's will and did not want to kill more lives. As long as the defenders in the city
Abandoning the city to invest, the gold and silver here are at their disposal.
These words had little impact on the Shangdang army who had been with Lu Bu for many years. After all, they had been on the same level as the Liang people for a long time. Now that Lu Bu has risen to the top, they must be indispensable for their glory and wealth. But for the three auxiliary soldiers, it is very effective. They are originally
Before Wang Yun's coup, Dong Zhuo ordered the newly recruited soldiers to be recruited. Before they could actually fight, they were controlled by the court and participated in the Battle of Xiwu. However, they fought against the Liang army twice in succession. Even if they knew there were reinforcements, they
He didn't want to fight anymore, and many people were ready to escape from Chang'an City from the mountains. Lu Bu noticed something unusual, and led the trapped camp to kill a few of the troublemakers before reluctantly suppressing it. But for the subsequent war, Lu Bu did not want to fight anymore.
To be honest, Lu Bu himself didn’t know what to do.
After hearing this, Wang Yun said angrily: "The country is destroyed because of this group of heartless people! They eat the country's salary without thinking about serving the country. How can the country be peaceful? After the war, I will punish you severely!"
But anger will not help at this time. As the auxiliary minister, Wang Yun must appease the morale of the military.
Someone proposed to share the rewards, but Wang Yun had already rewarded gold and silver once before, and he was always frugal and had not much savings, so he did not distribute much to the soldiers. Wang Yun was not willing to use the emperor's treasury to do this.
I had no choice but to give up.
So someone else suggested that it would be better to promote some warriors who killed the enemy to be captains and generals, which would also inspire people. But Wang Yun rebuked this and said: "How can important national positions be hastily and privately awarded? The late emperor gave out official positions indiscriminately, and only then did we have what we have today.
Now that foreign aid is coming, will I be almost defeated?" Then he gave up.
The matter of releasing Cai Yong had been discussed before, and no one mentioned it again. In the end, we had to say that Huangfu Song's body had not yet been buried. Situ might as well go to Huangfu Song's mansion to pay homage to him to show the court's respect for him.
After all, Huangfu Song has a high reputation in the army, so the soldiers can feel at ease.
This time Wang Yun did not refuse. He actually regretted exposing himself for framing Huangfu Song. At this time, he said: "Huangfu Yizhen has made merits and demerits in his life. Although he is not worthy of the late emperor, he has also made merits for the country. I and him
We were personal friends, but it was only because of Dong Zhuo that things got to this point. But if Dong Zhuo hadn't been jealous, how could he have died? Thinking of this, I sighed in my heart, and there was no harm in going to pay homage."<
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At the end of the day, he took a bus and arrived in front of Huangfu Song's Mansion with eight other officials. At this time, Huangfu's Mansion was still full of criticism and mourning, which was quite conspicuous on the streets under martial law. Wang Yun was doing this on his own.
I came here for the first time after Huangfusong died, and then I remembered that Huangfusong had been dead for nearly half a year.
This made him turn around and ask Chang Shi: "It's been so long since we've been in mourning, why are we still wearing silk clothes? We don't have to do this when we're in mourning."
Chang Shi raised his head and glanced at him, then quickly lowered his head and replied: "After all, the riders have not been buried yet, how could they not hang up?"
Only then did Wang Yun react and asked an embarrassing question. He gave Huangfu Song a bad posthumous title. Huangfu Jianshou and others refused to accept it, so they did not bury Huangfu Song's body as a sign of protest. Unexpectedly,
The delay has lasted until today, and they still refuse to give in.
This moment made him hesitate, and he did not want to enter Huangfu's mansion again. But since he had reported the matter to the emperor and walked to the palace in person, it would be absurd to return here. Therefore, Wang Yun straightened his mind and
Still knocking on the door to ask for an audience.
Huangfu's family had already received the news and had been waiting in the palace for a long time. When he opened the door, the clansmen stood in two rows like a forest, bowing their heads and saluting Wang Yun. Huangfu Jianshou and a Cangtou led the way for him.
, the Huangfu Mansion is not big, and after walking only a few dozen steps, you can see the main room where the coffin is kept. Wang Yun saw a coffin at the gate from a distance, and felt a chill in his heart, but he still braved the bullet and walked in. p>
What is in front of me is an ordinary pine coffin. It is no more than five feet high and no more than two feet long. It looks like an ordinary people's home. For Huangfu Song, who had a high official position, this can be said to be an extremely simple burial system. It is parked in front of the coffin.
There was a sacrificial altar, but there was no sacrificial tablet. Wang Yun knew the reason, they were still waiting for him to change his posthumous title.
"Situ, do you want to see me again?" After a brief worship, Huangfu Jianshou suddenly asked Wang Yun.
Wang Yun was stunned, then waved his hand and refused, saying that he was disrespectful to the body. Huangfu Jianshou said that he replaced the ice cubes in the coffin every day to ensure that the body was not damaged. Only then did Wang Yun understand why it was still the autumn season.
It was so cold in the hall. He calmed down and advised Huangfu Jianshou: "The coffin of the chariot has been parked for a long time. Leaving it for such a long time is disrespectful to him. As a son of man, you should be buried as soon as possible." After saying that, without waiting for Huangfu Jianshou's reply, he immediately read out the emperor's edict, saying that the emperor was grateful for Huangfu Songping's achievements as a thief, and rewarded him with a court dress, a suit of clothes, three hundred thousand money, and a hundred pieces of cloth.
After the reading was finished, Wang Yun didn't want to stay here for a moment. He turned around and was about to leave Huangfu Mansion, but was stopped by Huangfu Jianshou again. The reason was that he wanted to borrow a few stones of rice from him. It turned out that before Huangfu Song died, there was
He didn't leave any money, he didn't hoard food, and he didn't interact with other families. Now that the war has closed the city, his family is eating porridge every day, and now it's almost to the point where there is no food left.
Wang Yun didn't know that he was in such difficulty, and he didn't know what to say. He immediately ordered a Cangtou to go to his house to get ten stones of wheat flour, then he said goodbye and went back to the palace.
The two did not mention a word of posthumous title during the whole process.
After returning to the car, Wang Yun breathed a sigh of relief. But he closed his eyes and immediately recalled what he saw and heard at Huangfu Song's house. The depression in his heart did not dissipate at all, as if a ghost was still entangled in him, strangling him.
My own throat. Am I wrong? Wang Yun asked himself this for the first time, but he immediately replied to himself with certainty: To eliminate evil for the country, what is wrong? Huangfu Song was noble in the small section, but suffered in the big section, and this is the outcome.
, of course!
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard a scream, and the horses in front of him neighed again. What followed was a violent jolt in the carriage. Just as Wang Yun was about to make a move, he rolled over with the car and hit his forehead.
Standing on the beam of the car, his eyes almost went dark, but he lay on the ground for the time being, unable to get up.
Wang Yun looked at the dim light coming from in front of the car door, shining on his red imperial robe. His vision was sometimes hazy and sometimes clear. After an indescribable sound, he found a person breaking in, and the blazing sunlight came from that person.
The light shone down from the gap in his body and shone on his face. He struggled to stand up, but his body refused to obey, and he could only barely see the dazzling light outside the carriage. The intruder lifted his neck and pulled it from his waist.
A piece of cold light was drawn out, which quickly overshadowed the sunlight. Wang Yun saw his own appearance in the cold light, and then lost consciousness.
Huangfu Shi, an orphan raised by Huangfu Song, cut Wang Yun's throat with a knife and staggered out of the carriage. Outside the carriage, two attendants had been shot dead by arrows. The two horses pulling the horse had their legs broken.
They were all chopped off, but the horse was still alive at this moment, shaking its broken legs and neighing.
Exhaling a long breath, Huangfu Shi raised his head and listened. The sound of fighting between the Liang Army and the Northern Army resounded in the south. After listening for a moment, Huangfu Shi suddenly laughed and shouted to the sky, his voice became extremely hoarse. Then
, slashed his face three times, wiped his neck with the fourth knife and killed himself, falling beside Wang Yun.
The soldiers who rushed over hurriedly reported the incident, but no one could find out the cause and effect. After all, the assassin was completely unrecognizable. No one could recognize the assassin's appearance. When they opened his mouth, they found that the man had even cut his own tongue. The responsible person
The official on the case said privately: What a ruthless person. Even if this person failed to assassinate him and was caught afterwards, no one would be able to recognize him.