Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 923 Crisis 4
Li Yan completely ignored Yang Menglong's terrifying gaze, and just calmly moved a stool for him, asked him to sit down, then picked up the teapot, brought two cups of tea, and handed one of them to Yang Menglong. All this was done very naturally. Just like usual... In the past two or three years, he often sat and talked with Yang Menglong, talking all night long, and had a few drinks when the mood came, without any distinction between superior and inferior.Facing Yang Menglong's eyes that were about to spit out fire, he smiled and said: "You are very irritable now, so you should drink a cup of tea first. Drinking tea can calm people down, otherwise I can't guarantee you Will he jump up and chop off my head with a knife before I finish speaking, or will someone come in and take me down, killing me on the spot?"

Yang Menglong snorted: "The army...can I still command the army?"

Li Yan looked at him and said solemnly: "This will always be your army. No one can command them except you! No one is worthy to command them!"

Yang Menglong was stunned for a moment and stared at Li Yan, only to see that he was still so calm, with frankness and sincerity in his eyes. This look made him secretly relieved.He and Li Yan are not only superiors and subordinates, but also good friends. Only close friends can look at each other like this.He controlled his breathing and heartbeat, took a sip of tea, and tasted it for a long time before swallowing it slowly.The bitter and sweet tea flows into the body, as if a clear spring has been injected into the dry sand. The irritability is eliminated and the spirit is lifted.After a few sips, he felt much better and regained his composure, but his tone was still bad: "What on earth do you want to do? Now that the Qing army has entered the pass, and the capital is in danger, why not advance quickly and race against time to break through before the Qing army Tangshan rushed to Beijing to organize a defense line before, but retreated back? What on earth do you want to do!? "

Li Yan didn't answer directly, but said in a somewhat sad tone: "The 30 army of the Northern Expedition...is all over! In just two months, the 30 army, countless outstanding officers and generals, were buried in Liaodong. And what ruined them was just a ridiculous idea of ​​a certain person, the selfish desires of a small group of people!"

Yang Menglong frowned, wanting to refute, but didn't know how to refute.It can be seen that the failure of this Northern Expedition dealt a great blow to Daming. As soon as he entered the barracks, he found that the morale of the Heluo New Army was low and completely lost the high fighting spirit of the past. He felt a sense of gloom—it could even be said that resentment was pouring in from all directions, making him feel out of breath.He vaguely understood that the Heluo new army stopped advancing and put on a posture of watching the fire from the other side, which is most likely related to this failed expedition.

Li Yan looked sad, and said: "Now the Mongols, Jiannu, and Junggars have invaded one after another, the south of the Yangtze River is in turmoil, and the northwest is full of wars. There is a great potential for Shenzhou to sink. Three months ago, we were still victorious in various battlefields." , advancing from several directions at the same time, making Jiannu breathless! It was just someone's muddled idea, and these advantages that were exchanged for the blood of countless soldiers were ruined. The energy accumulated over the years The Master of War has almost been wiped out!" At this point, he became excited and said loudly: "This time you will stand up and turn the tide, what about next time? What if someone does something like this next time? Absurd decision, if someone wants to push the entire country into the abyss of destruction for their own self-interest, can you guarantee that there will be someone who will stand up like you and prop up this fallen sky!?"

Yang Menglong frowned even tighter: "What are you trying to say? What does this have to do with you ordering the army to stop advancing?"

Li Yan stood up and said loudly: "Of course it does matter! I've had enough! I've had enough! There is always someone who knows nothing but stands high above all living beings and can decide the fate of thousands of people with one word , knowing that it is wrong to do so, but to show their majesty to do it, even if it means sacrificing millions of lives! I have had enough of a person who can challenge the world just because he was born in the emperor's family People come and go, a trumped-up charge can wantonly deprive the people below of everything! I have had enough of a group of people surrounding that idiot to advise him, trying to push the people of the world into the fire pit, even if the country dies I don't hesitate! Just like this time, you and Su Yihou worked hard and fought hard, and finally reversed the situation of Ming Dynasty's fall and Qing Dynasty's rise, allowing Daming to breathe a sigh of relief, and step by step Jiannu forced At the moment of death, but what is the use? The person sitting on the dragon chair just said a few words, and ruined all your years of work! I have endured since the day I was born, and I have endured until now. I'm really fed up! Since they like to die so much, then I will let them die!"

Yang Menglong jumped up and glared at Li Yan: "You want to use the hands of Jiannu to destroy the Ming Dynasty? Don't even think about it!"

Li Yan shook his head: "I don't want to destroy Daming, but at least I can use the hands of Jiannu to uproot that extremely decayed center! The tragedy of the Northern Expedition was definitely not caused by the emperor alone. There are many behind it. In the dark, so I want to play hard to get, let Jianu enter the pass and take Beijing. As soon as Jianu enters the capital, the dross will immediately rise up, and then I will rush to fight for the power of the dragon. Who will be the enemy at that time? , who is a friend, at a glance, it will be much easier to deal with them!" His eyes were burning, he stared at Yang Menglong, and his voice was like steel: "Master, the Ming Dynasty has rotted to the root, and there are too many people lying on its rotten bed. Suck its blood crazily and tear its flesh. Even if you try your best to help this country that has fallen into the abyss again, those vampires who try to win generations of princes in the change of dynasty will still push it down by all means, even Push down with you! But by taking advantage of this opportunity, we can cut off these bedbugs together with the tumors on the body of this country, smash all the rotten pots and pans, and then you can do what you want, Create a glorious and prosperous world!"

Yang Menglong's face turned livid: "You want to add a yellow robe to me?"

Li Yan shook his head: "I dare not, because I know Lord Hou will not be the emperor, you are too lazy!" He said word by word: "We can change to another emperor! An emperor who can listen to our opinions!"

Yang Menglong sneered: "At the end of the day, you still want to win the meritorious service of the dragon! If you do this, what is the difference between you and those bastards in the center!"

Li Yan yelled: "Of course there is a difference! It's also ruining this old and decaying country. They want to hand over the whole country to a foreign race in exchange for their own glory and wealth, but I just want to let this land and the people on this land Rejuvenate and share the prosperity and peace!"

Yang Menglong also yelled: "I don't need to borrow the hands of Jiannu to do it!"

Li Yan stared at him, and said word by word: "Of course you can do it, because your will is stronger than steel, and your talents are stronger than the sea. No one can compete with you! But you have to fight!" What you see is a ghost that has been wandering for thousands of years. You can't touch it, your powerful army can't hurt it, and it's always staring at you, attacking you by any means! Even if it can't do anything to you, What about after your death? Do you dare to say that your successor can be as strong as you, so strong that even if the old forces in the whole country hate you, there is nothing they can do?"

Yang Menglong hesitated to speak...he couldn't make any promises, really couldn't make any promises.He was able to get to this point not because of how outstanding his own talent was, but because he took advantage of his foresight. In many cases, he could seize the opportunity and be one step ahead of others, while making people confused about his path.But history is always dynamic. If the original history is a game of four people, after adding one person, the rules and process of the game will soon be changed beyond recognition. Now the Qing army entered the customs several years in advance, and the Guan Ning army entered the customs ahead of schedule. Several years of rebellion against the Ming Dynasty are the evil result of the history being changed—to put it a little more mysteriously, it is the counterattack launched by history against him.After the world has figured out his bottom line, when the technology he relies on most is no longer amazing, but has entered thousands of households, will he still be as strong as he is now, even if he is an enemy of the entire country? Can it be safe and sound?
Li Yan slowed down his tone, and said: "You can't guarantee it! Things are unpredictable, no matter how powerful a hero is, there is no guarantee that the whole family will remain unchanged after his death. Think about Wu Qi, think about Tai Yuegong, think about it Think about how those pioneers died for thousands of years!"

Yang Menglong took a few breaths, gritted his teeth and said, "I won't talk so much with you! In short, the Heluo New Army must go north immediately and block Jiannu outside Tangshan City as much as possible, otherwise there will be millions of dead bodies in the Beijing and Tianjin area. !"

Li Yan slowly shook his head: "I'm sorry to have to obey."

Yang Menglong roared: "Bastard, don't you have to be satisfied with the blood of millions of dead bodies in Beijing and Tianjin!?"

Li Yan had a tough attitude: "Slaughter a city and wake up a country! Only by allowing the Jian slaves to capture Beijing can all the debris float up, and the people of the world can see clearly how insidious and shameless those superior and sanctimonious scholar-bureaucrats are. They have been the same for hundreds of years. How selfish and incompetent is the emperor who supports the capital with his own blood and sweat every day! For more than 200 years, hundreds of millions of people have supported the capital with their own blood and sweat, and now it is time for it to pay the price!"

Yang Menglong roared: "I can't do this! That's a million lives, not wild leeks and wheat seedlings that can be cut at will!"

Li Yan also roared: "You must do this! Otherwise, the next time will not be a million corpses, but tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions! No one can straighten a tall building whose foundation has been hollowed out, no The end of self-reliance can only be to be crushed by it! The only way is to tear it down, then clean up the rubble, lay a solid foundation, and rebuild a new building! These things are very dirty, not only dirty hands, but also heart. Dirty, you can't do it, you can't do it, so let me help you!"

Yang Menglong was furious, and drew out the short knife with a swipe, pointed the tip of the knife at Li Yan's neck, and shouted: "Believe it or not, I killed you with one knife!?"

Li Yan laughed miserably: "It's easy for you to kill me, I won't resist... But it's useless to kill me, the whole army has been completely disappointed with this center, even if you kill me, they won't continue to go north , at least not until those scum rises, no!"

Yang Menglong's eyes flashed, and before he could speak, the door opened, and two or three hundred people rushed in. They didn't speak, but knelt on the ground in unison, looking at Yang Menglong quietly, and wrote all their pleas in the On the face, even Xue Siming, Han Peng, Zhong Ning, Cao Jun and other veterans who have been following him since the beginning of his business are no exception. Except for the Third Army Corps, which is fighting hard in Shanxi, more than half of the generals and officers of the Heluo New Army They are all kneeling here.Yang Menglong looked around at the crowd and asked in a deep voice, "What do you want to do?"

Xue Siming said loudly: "Master Hou, you don't like others to kneel to you, so since we started following you, we have never kneeled to anyone, but this time we kneel to you. Please, listen to Military Master Li once!"

Yang Menglong yelled: "Do you know what you are doing? Yes, that emperor is a bastard, and the people in the center are very bastards, but because of this, you can stand by with peace of mind and watch Jian Jian go straight to capture the capital?"

With tears in his eyes, Han Peng said: "Master Hou, you are devoted to the country and disregard self-interest. We all know that, and it is precisely because of this that we have always followed you, trusted you, and obeyed you unconditionally. It has always been like this, and it will always be like this in the future. But, look at what this bastard country has done! Just because he was afraid of your high achievements, the emperor could launch a suicidal Northern Expedition regardless of the climate and regardless of the life and death of tens of thousands of people, just because he was afraid Suyi Houwei is too big to lose the emperor, so the emperor can appoint a Tailin who is not familiar with military affairs as the commander of the whole army. Just because you threaten the status of the few in the center, they can try their best to instigate the emperor's northern expedition, destroy the border defense by any means, lure wolves into the house, and so on. Is this even more absurd!? In the past, there was no reward for meritorious service, and we were often made things difficult and ridiculed at the local level. We have endured all these, even if we grit our teeth, we can bear it! But they don’t treat this country at all. The attitude of taking it seriously has made us unbearable! Since they don’t listen to our advice and don’t take the fate of this country seriously, let’s replace it with someone who can listen to our advice and still have this country in their hearts! "

Zhong Ning said: "Master Hou, please think about us too! If we don't do what the military adviser said, our end will come when we defeat Jiannu! Even if it's just to cover up, the emperor won't let us go." What’s more, since ancient times, how many of the commanders who have turned the tide and turned the tide will end well! If the emperor is still alive, after returning to Beijing, will he still trust you as before? Those scholar-bureaucrats who have ghosts in their hearts Can you let us go? If we go to rescue the capital now, what awaits us will definitely be a catastrophe!"

Cao Jun said: "Master Hou, we are not afraid of death, but we don't want to be sent to the guillotine for a trumped-up charge despite our great achievements, and also affect our relatives!"

Yang Menglong was speechless... It turned out that he was eager to resolve the crisis and turn things around, but he unknowingly led the entire Heluo New Army to the edge of the cliff. If he took one more step forward, he would fall to pieces!Wu Qi, Shang Yang, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Pugu Huai'en... these outstanding figures used their own or their relatives' fate to tell future generations that they are the most poisonous to the emperor's heart. For the sake of the royal interests, they will do no matter how ungrateful they are. It's amazing that after they died, their son confessed to the unjust dead for his father!If he now leads the new army of Heluo to the capital and repels the Qing army, unless he usurps the Ming Dynasty and becomes self-reliant, his fate will definitely not be much better. Either he will die with his eyes open like Wu Qi, Shang Yang, and Pugu Huai'en, or he will be like Wei Huo In that way, he was an extremely human minister in life, and his whole family will be punished after death, leaving no chickens or dogs behind!He didn't see it through, but Li Yan, who was familiar with history books, did, and successfully convinced the Heluo New Army. Just as Li Yan said, even if he was killed on the spot, Yang Menglong had no way to let the Heluo New Army go north!
They've had enough of the emperor's selfishness and ingratitude!

However, if he doesn't go north, the capital will be covered in blood, and millions of souls will be reduced to dry bones. Yang Menglong doesn't care about losing the eternal infamy of the capital, but the curse of millions of people will make him shudder!

The hand holding the knife hangs down weakly, Yang Menglong closes his eyes, and asks in a hoarse voice: "Li Yan, must this be done? Is there no other way?"

Li Yan shook his head: "After Jiannu breaks through the capital and proclaims himself emperor, and all the scum rises to the surface, make the king of Tang or the crown prince the new king, swear to the Northern Expedition, and after defeating Jiannu, rebuild the Great Prison and uproot all the old forces that are hostile to the new army. , It must be like this! Only in this way can the peaceful and prosperous times be reproduced, only in this way can the Heluo model be extended to all corners of the country, and only in this way can we meritorious ministers truly retire without worrying about trumped-up crimes falling on us! Hou Lord, these things are indeed dirty, but they must be done. The builders will never be able to defeat the demolishers, and the upright will never be able to deal with the despicable villains! The only way to build a peaceful and prosperous world is to send all the demolishers to hell! "

Yang Menglong said weakly: "A lot of people will die...Although I didn't kill them, I have to bear the main responsibility!"

Li Yan said almost coldly: "General Zhou Yuji should be able to resist for a while, so they can take advantage of this time to escape as much as they can. As for those who don't want to escape, they can only blame their own fate!"

Yang Menglong smiled shyly, and suddenly let out a roar, and threw the dog-leg knife with his hand.

The dog-leg knife turned into a flash of cold light and was nailed to the wall with a sound.

Half of the blade was nailed in!

(End of this chapter)