Journey to the West: I am entertaining in Datang

In the first year of Duangong, Li Yu, Liu Yu and others had already died of illness, and only Wuyue King Qian Chu and Dingnan Jiedu Envoy Li Jipeng remained in the capital.In August of the first year of Duangong, on Qian Chu's birthday, Zhao Guangyi gave a banquet in the side hall, and Qian Chu died suddenly that night. People speculated that he died of poisoning!

Li Jipeng stayed in the capital with nothing to do. After his younger brother Li Jiqian returned to Khitan, relying on the Khitan people as his backer, he harassed the border wantonly.

Zhao Pu was afraid that Li Jipeng would leak the secrets while staying in the capital, so he wrote to Zhao Guangyi to send him back to Xiazhou to appease Li Jiqian.

Zhao Guangyi thought it made sense, so he summoned Li Jipeng to have an audience and gave him the name Zhao Baozhong.

At the same time, he was generously rewarded, ordered him to return to Xiazhou, and persuaded his younger brother to return to his sincerity.

Li Jipeng was cowardly and mediocre by nature, how could he subdue his cunning and cruel younger brother?

It was really a mistake for Zhao Guangyi to let him go back.

A few days later, the court received urgent reports from the border one after another:

The first time was the fall of Zhuozhou, the second time was the fall of Qizhou, and the third time was the fall of Xinle.

Zhao Guangyi had a sad face and complained to the officials:

"Khitan refuses to withdraw troops, and always invades the border of our Great Song Dynasty. It seems that we have to send troops to the Northern Expedition!"

Knowing the importance of the matter, Zhao Pu tried his best to persuade him: "It's already the depths of winter, so it's not convenient to go out. First order the border guards to defend the city, and it won't be too late to raise troops when spring comes next year!"

After hearing his words, Zhao Guangyi was hesitant, and Wang Yucheng of Youshiyi also wrote a letter to support his proposal, which basically meant to recuperate and fight again in the next year.

In the seventh month of the second year of Duangong, the Khitan marched again and captured Yizhou.

Zhao Guangyi once again convened hundreds of officials to discuss countermeasures. Most of the ministers advocated stationing troops on guard, and it is not appropriate to confront the Khitan head-on.

At that time, Song Qi, the Tongping Zhangshi, had been dismissed, but was later promoted to Minister of the Ministry of officials.

Song Qi is from Youzhou and knows everything about the frontier like the back of his hand.

He and Li Fang wrote a letter together, suggesting that Zhao Guangyi and Khitan should repair each other and not use force easily.

After many times of persuasion by the officials, Zhao Guangyi finally canceled the plan of the Northern Expedition, and only ordered the side generals to stick to the fortress and use defense as an offense.

The Khitan heard that the Song Dynasty did not dare to send troops, so they led the army to attack again.

The imperial court ordered Li Jilong, the magistrate of Dingzhou, to send [-] troops to escort food, grass and military equipment, so as to strengthen the army!

After hearing the news, Brother Yeluxiu led tens of thousands of elite soldiers and cavalry, preparing to intercept the Song army on the way.

Yin Jilun, the inspector of the northern capital, led the patrol, and happened to meet Yeluxiu's army, so he hurriedly led the army to hide in the woods.

Brother Yeluxiu saw that Yin Jilun's men were few and it was not worth fighting, so he simply treated them as air and let them escape, while he still led his troops south.

After Yin Jilun and other Khitan soldiers passed by, the soldiers under his opponent said one after another:

"The Khitan people are really deceitful! They obviously despise our army's few generals, so they ignore it. If they return from victory, they will definitely come back to attack our army.

For the current plan, it is better to burn the boat and sneak behind them. They will attack forward with all their heart, and they will definitely ignore the rear team.We took advantage of their unpreparedness and hit them head-on.If you win, you can still make meritorious deeds; if you can't win, even if you die in battle, you can be regarded as a loyal and righteous man serving the country~, it is better than being slaughtered by Khitan thieves, what do you think? "

After hearing this, the sergeants were very excited, and finally had the opportunity to make contributions, and they all shouted in unison: "I will obey my orders!"

(To be continued)

Chapter 1414

Yin Jilun ordered the soldiers to eat and drink enough to wait until evening.

Let them each hold a short knife, file and walk quietly for a few kilometers, and it is still dark at this time.

Yin Jilun climbed up and looked, and saw Xuhe in front of him, Khitan was stationed by the riverside, and there were faint strands of cooking smoke floating in the sky.

Four or five miles across the river, there was also a large camp stationed, which must have been Li Jilong's troops.

Yin Jilun pointed to the front:

"The Khitan soldiers must be here to bury the pot to make food, we just happened to kill them, so that they can't sleep or eat!"

After hearing the order, the sergeants rushed forward, rushed to the river, and smashed into the enemy camp.

The enemy army was eating, and suddenly saw the Song army coming, and they didn't know where they came from. They hurriedly left their jobs and prepared to fight.

The Song army charged forward without waiting for the Khitan soldiers to fight.

Yin Jilun rushed to the front, his face was dark, he was wearing a black helmet, he was wearing a black battle armor, and he was sitting on a black horse, like a black cloud, with a shining big knife in his hand, he slashed left and right, killing countless enemies .

The Khitan general, Pi Shi, came out to resist, and before three rounds were fought, his head fell to the ground.

The Khitan soldiers exclaimed: "The black-faced king is here, run for your life!"

Yin Jilun's surname is Yin, not Yan. Why are the Liao people so afraid of him taking his life?

After Song Jun killed the tent, Brother Yeluxiu hurriedly turned around and ran away. Unexpectedly, his right arm was slashed, and he couldn't help crying out in pain.

It is just that the strong have their own strong hands, and the wise will have to be urged by the wise!

Brother Yeluxiu was injured in his right arm and was about to be captured by Song Jun.

At this critical juncture, his guards tried their best to save him, and Brother Yeluxiu was able to escape.

He jumped on the horse and ran wildly all the way. When his subordinates saw the coach fleeing in a panic, they also ran away.

Li Jilong looked at the Khitan barracks, he saw the flames rising into the sky, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

Only then did he come to his senses, and hurried across the river to aid in the battle.

The sky was slightly bright, and the enemy army fled, some died, some were wounded, and the Song army won a complete victory.

Li Jilong never expected that the mighty Yeluxiu would also suffer defeat.

Now meeting with Yin Jilun, the soldiers admired Yin Jilun's courage very much, and this battle greatly boosted the morale of the Song army.

After the two armies bid farewell, Li Jilong was able to safely escort the grain and grass to the destination.

Yin Jilun was awarded the governor of Changzhou for repelling Yeluxiu, and he still serves as the inspector of the capital.

The Khitan army fled in embarrassment this time, and they couldn't help being afraid when they talked about the "black-faced king" in private. Even the Khitan warrior Yeluxiu would not dare to attack rashly again.

In the second year, Zhao Guangyi issued an imperial edict to change the Yuan Dynasty to Chunhua.

Zhao Pu wrote to resign, but Zhao Guangyi refused.

Zhao Pu begged again and again, and Zhao Guangyi let him take a post in Xijing, and he still served as the Taibao and Zhongshuling.

It turned out that Zhao Guangyi hired Zhao Pu again because of Lu Mengzheng, and Zhao Pu gradually realized the emperor's intentions, so he didn't want to serve for a long time.

At that time, many people accused Zhao Pu of letting the tiger go back to the mountain. Zhao Pu felt very guilty, so he always called sick leave.

After the imperial decree sending him to Xijing came down, Zhao Pu repeatedly backed down and insisted on resigning.

Zhao Guangyi handed down the letter and said: "The only founding father left is Aiqing. If other people can't take on this important task, you should not push back. When I am free, I will go to your house to talk to you in person." Have a good time talking about the old days."

Zhao Pu held the handbook and was very moved.

The next day, when Zhao Pu entered the court, he talked with Zhao Guangyi about the military career of Taizu, Zhao Guangyi and him. He was full of emotion and burst into tears.

When Zhao Pu left for Xijing, Zhao Guangyi went to his house in person, shook hands and said goodbye, and both of them were reluctant to leave.

In the spring of the second year of Chunhua, Zhao Pu asked the left-behind judge Liu Changyan to go to Beijing on the grounds of old age and sickness, hoping to retire and return to his hometown to take care of his life.

Zhao Guangyi was worried about Zhao Pu's health, so he sent envoys to condolences, and granted Zhao Pu the grand master, the Duke of Wei, and the prime minister's salary.

Zhao Guangyi also asked him to take good care of his illness, and after he recovered from his illness, he would take time to see him.

Zhao Pu burst into tears of gratitude, and planned to hold on to his sick body, work hard to heal the disease, and try his best to repay the emperor's kindness.

Unexpectedly, the sick body can barely sustain it, but the unjust ghost haunts him every night.

At night, Zhao Pu would have nightmares, and would often call out to the Queen Mother or His Royal Highness King Qin, sometimes filled with righteous indignation, and sometimes pleading bitterly.

Woke him up from left to right, he was afraid that the people next to him would know, so he refused to say anything.

When he fell asleep dimly, he continued to babble.

This continued for more than a month. Zhao Pu became more and more in a trance, ate less and less, and finally became bedridden.

Later, as soon as he closed his eyes, Zhao Tingmei, the King of Qin, would sit beside the bed, skinny and bleeding from his orifices, wanting to demand his life.Zhao Pu had no choice but to burn incense and pray.

It's a pity that praying is useless at all, and the condition is getting worse and worse.

Because Zhao Pu's condition worsened day by day, he had to hand over the precious Pisces rhinoceros belt that he usually wears to his confidant Zhen Qian, and asked him to ask Jiang Daoyuan, the Taoist priest in the Taiping Palace, for help.

Jiang Daoyuan burned incense and paper, opened an altar, and pretended to be a ghost for a long time. Finally, he invited the pen fairy to pray for Zhao Pu to solve it.

I saw that the target pen wrote neatly on the letter paper:

"Although Zhao Pu is the founding father of the country, but his injustice is too deep to escape."

Jiang Daoyuan kowtowed again: "Who is that injustice?"

The target pen drew another big sign, on which many characters were written in disorder, most of which could not be read clearly, only the word "fire" at the end of the sign was recognizable.

Jiang Daoyuan didn't understand the meaning, so he had to tell Zhen Qian to go back and report to Zhao Pu.

After Zhao Pu learned about it, he sighed deeply:

"This wronged soul must be King Zhao Tingmei of Qin! But he colluded with Lu Duoxun for rebellion, and when the matter was revealed, he was imprisoned. I am not responsible for this matter. I don't understand why he keeps pestering me."

Zhao Pu wept bitterly, and drove west of Hexi in the evening!At the age of 71.

Zhao Pu is dead, and people have rumored that it is the soul of a wronged person who is killing him.

Whether it is or not, there is one more ghost.

In this way, there are more and more lonely and wild ghosts in Lanxing, most of them are caused by the war, and their arms and legs are broken, which is very miserable.

So many souls are wandering in the world, not daring to come out during the day, but at night, they let out horrible howls.

What's even more frightening is that as soon as the sun goes down, no one dares to go out.

Because in the wilderness or sparsely populated places, ghosts often haunt, very scary!

Even in the middle of the night, some ghosts want to go home to visit their living relatives, but if they accidentally go wrong, they will go to other people's homes.

Therefore, there are many people who are scared to death in the middle of the night.

In this way, many ghosts have been added.

Due to successive years of wars, the common people had no means of living, large tracts of land were left uncultivated, and countless people died of starvation.

At this time, the number of people alive in Blue Star is less than a million, but the number of innocent souls is several times more than the number of people alive!

(To be continued)

Chapter 1415 Intercepting the Body

Chaos Biyou Palace.

After the Master Tongtian said something to the two children, the eye circles of the two children were red.

When they came out again, they all had weird expressions on their faces.

Qin Hao was surprised: "Master, what's wrong with you?"

For the first time, the leader of Tongtian sect concealed something from Qin Hao, and even led the two children to the inner room to avoid himself.

This is very abnormal.

Master Tongtian didn't answer his question, but only asked the two children: "Good grandson, do you remember?"

"Yeah! Grandpa, we remember!"

"We will definitely live up to Grandpa's hope! We will definitely do it!"

The two children nodded confidently, assuring Master Tongtian.

"Good! Good!"

Master Tongtian held the two children in his arms, tears welling up in his eyes!

I really didn't expect that the Master Tongtian would entrust his two children with his wish for so many years!

I hope!

These two kids were able to do it.

Well, trust these two kids to do it!