For the emperor

After two days and two nights of pursuit, the battle line was very long. Duan Yu was busy gathering his subordinates, reorganizing into a team, and circling the entire barracks in sweat.

Cang Tiansu couldn't get in the way at all, so he simply became the hands-off shopkeeper, nestling in the main tent and reading information leisurely.Before he came to Yulan Town from the imperial capital four years ago, Yi Hao had secretly slipped him a note, which stated the manpower placed by Cang Kingdom in Qi Kingdom.

This time, the plan was successfully completed only by cruelly using a nail that had been buried for more than [-] years.Naturally, it was impossible for Emperor Cang Jing to tell him all the people in his team. Yi Haosai came over and said it was a list, and there were only a few people on it. I didn't expect that the generals who came to conquer Qi Guo this time would be on the same number. lucky.

If the lieutenant general hadn't eliminated the enemy general Ding Ningsong before the battle and completely disturbed Qi's army, it is still unknown who will win and who will lose this time.

Xu Zhi, Li Renqiang and the others received the news of the great victory, and after discussions among the generals, they had resolutely abandoned their original plan and instead stationed in place, hoping to wait until they joined up with the 2 horses before moving forward in one fell swoop.

Cang Tiansu was calculating in his mind, Duan Yu had already rushed in straight, and while taking off his soaked foreign clothes, he complained: "I'm going to be exhausted to death!"

It was already autumn, and the cool breeze was blowing, the sky was afraid that he would catch a cold and fall ill, so he hurriedly took a clean coat and put it on for him, and said, "Did you find the thousand lanterns?"

Duan Yuzheng let him fiddle with it happily, and nodded hastily after hearing this: "The three teams I sent all came back, and their reports were the same. They all said that a total of a thousand bracket wreckages were found at the scene, and none of them Quite a few."

Cang Tiansu heaved a sigh of relief.It stands to reason that the outer cover of the Kongming lantern is best made of bamboo grates, but firstly, it is troublesome to make it, and he is too busy to do it alone. , if someone discovers the mystery, things will go bad.

After thinking about it, Cangtiansu chose cotton paper to paste it, because it can burn itself after being released for a while, and can destroy the evidence without much effort.

The tissue paper has been soaked in the juice of crane lice in advance, and the smell of burning can make the horses feel manic when they smell it.He purposely let the horses of the Cang Kingdom camp cover their mouths and noses to ensure that they would not lose their footing.

As for whether he can fall into Qi Guo's army smoothly, it all depends on the wind direction of the day, and it's just a gamble.Cang Tiansu made preparations based on the principle of waste utilization, but he didn't expect that when a blind cat met a dead mouse, it would actually play a very important role.

Cang Tian has always hated uncertain factors before, and when marching troops, he also hoped that there would be no variables, and wished that every day would be a good weather without wind, rain, and clouds.

After he devoted himself to arranging a perfect script for a long time, he naturally paid more attention to seizing the location and boosting morale, and he didn't pay so much attention to the weather.

After this battle, there were a lot of luck, and it was only after a chance encounter that I suddenly realized that the right time, place and people are really the primary factors of war, and they are really indispensable.

Qi State's standing army has a total of one million troops in all parts of the country, and they have been scattered and exhausted in the small battles of the previous year or so.

This time, in order to stop the Northwest Army, they have been forced to arrest the strong men. Amidst the complaints of the subjects, they managed to gather 50 people. They thought that even if there was no way to wipe them out, how could they beat the mere 10 people to pieces? .

Unexpectedly, the results of the casualty statistics of the two countries came out in the end, and 50 people were sent like food, and they were chopped up like watermelons and never returned.When Emperor Qi got the news, he was so angry that he dropped his teacup in Dexin Hall.

If it is not the worst to say that the 50 people who can be relied on in the end have been exhausted in two days, the "Mandate of Heaven" gradually spreading in the two countries almost drove the Emperor Qi to death.

After two days of scuffle, the wicked eldest prince of Cang Kingdom gathered his troops and ordered to stop the pursuit, as if deliberately leaving 1 people behind to flee back to Qi Kingdom.The surviving 1 people were crazy, throwing away their helmets and armor along the way, yelling endlessly, talking about "the gods appearing" and "the lights flying in the sky".

The common people don't have much culture, and all of them listen to one side and believe it. Seeing the people who escaped by chance say the same thing, their faces are insane, and they look like they are about to die. They don't seem to be lying. They also heard that 50 soldiers were defeated by a mere 2 people, and they all panicked. , actually believed this ridiculous statement.

Unexpectedly, the few generals who came back alive naturally wanted to exaggerate the situation at that time in order to mitigate their crimes. If it was God's will, then naturally they cannot be blamed for the defeat.

In the end, there were only gimmicks such as tossing copper coins and a thousand Kongming lanterns. When the pleading papers were handed over to the Emperor Qi, apart from these two items, the sky was full of blood, the wind was shaking, the mountains were shaking, and the dragons and tigers were leaping and leaping.

For a time, the whole country of Qi was shrouded in the shadow of fear, and the anti-war sentiment was unprecedentedly strong-it was only two years before and after, counting the soldiers who died in the battle and the people of Pingye City, they had already lost millions of people. The lessons learned are harsh enough.

——Is the emperor still going his own way, insisting on going against the "law of heaven"?Could it be that in order to protect the Qi family's country, all the people have to resist in vain and stick their heads under the butcher's knife?Does the emperor have to shed the last drop of Qi people's blood before he can accept a predestined ending?

In such a situation, Emperor Jing, who was sitting in the imperial capital of the Cang Kingdom, received the third peace letter from the Qi Kingdom.He lazily opened his eyes and took a look.

In the first two times, Qi Guo insisted that he could only cede the land and pay compensation, and that he would not be called a vassal or pay tribute to the old age, which Emperor Cang Jing rejected without hesitation.

Xu Shi finally recognized the situation, but Qi Guo softened his tone in this letter of peace.However, they said at the same time that the annual tribute can be handed in every year, and the title of the dependent country can also be settled, so the land cession should be exempted.

Cang Jinglan knew very well why Qi Guo insisted on refusing to cede the land.The Promise Continent lived up to its name, with a vast territory. It took a month and a half to send this letter from Qi Guoguo.

For a month and a half, Cang Tiansu's Northwest Army was in full swing, hardly encountering any resistance.The army marched forward triumphantly, and the current land area of ​​Qi State, in real terms, is only one-half of the previous one.

Even if Cang Jinglan agrees to the peace talks between the two countries, it will take at least one month for the truce order to be sent to the expeditionary General Zhenbei.At that time, even if Qi Guo wants to cede the land, he may only be able to look at the ocean and sigh.

No matter how fierce the quarrel between the war faction and the peace faction is, Cang Jinglan himself is unwilling to negotiate a peace.Everyone standing in the court understands that under the current circumstances, it is only a matter of time before Qi Guo is subdued, but whether to subdue it or not has become the key issue.

Cang Jinglan still has no intention of sending anyone to take over the Northwest Army from Cang Tiansu, which made many courtiers understand that his own emperor has not yet thought of sharing the merits.

Putting military merits on one person's head is a taboo of imperial power concentration.Single-handedly destroying a country that has stood on the Wuji Continent for hundreds of years will push a person's prestige to the peak. Fortune and misfortune depend on each other. Many people don't understand what Emperor Jing thinks.

Worried about the situation that someone with too much military merit would control the government, many people chose to oppose the continuation of the war, and wrote to Emperor Jing that he should recuperate and restore the power of the people.

At the same time, because the situation has become more and more out of control, Chengguo and Yueguo also sent envoys to lobby and put pressure on Cangguo in all aspects. It has changed the balance of the Promise Continent for hundreds of years.

Judging from the current situation, Qi State and Cang State are immortal, and Cheng State and Yue State are also mortal enemies.Neither of the two countries would like to see the loss of a Qi State to contain the Cang State, which has become more and more powerful in the past ten years.

This is also the concern of many members of the anti-war faction. They are afraid that if the Cang Kingdom continues to go its own way, it will inevitably go to war with the Three Kingdoms. Such consequences are not acceptable to the current Cang Kingdom.Cang Kingdom borders all three countries, and has the largest area of ​​direct contact with Yue Kingdom. If it is attacked on three sides, the situation will not be optimistic.

Even during the most intense battle between the Northwest Army and the Qi State Army, Cang Kingdom still did not dare to use the other four armies stationed on the frontier to support it, because they were afraid that someone would take advantage of the fire and loot, and the gain outweighed the loss.

When Cang Tiansu received the military order delivered by the court, he stared at the words on it for a long time.Cang Jinglan not only ordered the Northwest Army to stay where they were, but also ordered Duan Yu to lead his [-] soldiers and Duan De's [-] troops back to Beijing as soon as possible.The military order was vague and did not explain why.

After entertaining the envoys and returning to the military tent, Cang Tiansu checked the flickering candlelight over and over again, his heart sank heavily.The imperial court actually specified that Duan Yu should lead the soldiers that Duan's father and son had cultivated over the past ten years?

At the meeting of the generals half a month ago, because of the great victory, everyone was in a good mood, and the atmosphere was not as dignified as before.

Zhu Erda once joked that, except for the commander-in-chief and General Li who stayed behind and did not go to the battlefield, the biggest reliance of each of the other generals was the thousands of personal soldiers under him.

The so-called personal soldiers are good at fighting, not only because of their excellent equipment and rigorous training, but also because of their wholehearted trust and support for the generals, so that they can have no worries when fighting on the battlefield and have more energy.

Of the 5 Northwest Army, 2 are personal soldiers of various generals.The biggest feature of the soldiers is that if the commander disagrees with the general one day, at least [-] of the [-] ordinary soldiers will choose to support the commander, and at least [-] of the [-] soldiers will choose to follow their direct subordinates. General away.

Now that Emperor Cangjing ordered Duan Yu to lead his soldiers back to the imperial capital, he already showed a little intention to let go of the pain and kill the donkey. He chose to accept the soldiers first in order to prevent his subordinates from rebelling after Duan Yu's death.

Duan Yu didn't realize that he was about to face a catastrophe at all, so he tidied his clothes excitedly, and hummed: "Susu, didn't you say that you like to eat the Yanyan cake made by the imperial dining room in the palace? I must remember to give it to you when I come back." bring!"

As for whether the pastry will go bad after a month, it is completely out of the scope of General Duan's consideration.

Cang Tiansu pulled him to his side with a dark face, and after sending his confidants to watch outside, he explained the pros and cons to him clearly in a low voice.

Duan Yu was stunned for a long time after hearing this, and then waved his hands carelessly: "Why, we just won the battle, and the emperor couldn't possibly use a knife to me so soon for the sake of his own face, he is not afraid of the cold broke the hearts of the soldiers?"

Cang Tiansu was silent.Emperor Cang Jing could never use common sense to judge.In all fairness, at this time, cutting the mess quickly and killing people before everyone reacts, although it will destroy their reputation, it can really save a lot of trouble.

In the heart of the eldest prince of the Cang Kingdom, the man who he wants to call "Father Emperor" is a complete lunatic, but this lunatic's greatest joy in life is to make trouble for himself.In Cang Tiansu's 16-year-old life, every trough he experienced was caused by his good father.

In many cases, what Cang Jinglan did was harming others and not benefiting himself. He would rather lose his country's [-] ever-victorious troops than make his eldest son feel better.From the initial framing and poisoning, to Xiaosi's leaking of secrets, and the delay of Liu Yansi's food and grass, it is all indispensable for him to contribute to the flames, and I am happy to see it succeed.

Even Cang Tiansu, looking at the military order received today, wondered whether the so-called personal soldiers entering the capital was just a clumsy joke made by Emperor Cang Jing to make himself uneasy on purpose.

Cang Tiansu himself likes to act according to the rules, calculating step by step, every move, every word and deed, has his own clear purpose, but there is an old man like Cang Jinglan who messes around, does things as he pleases, completely reckless of consequences, Do not compare gains and losses.

"Ah Yu, I'll go with you tomorrow." Cang Tiansu thought for a long time, but was finally worried about letting Duan Yu go by himself, and decided to temporarily let Li Renqiang take his place.

Duan Yu scratched his head in doubt and said, "But didn't your father give you a clear order to stay where you are?"

Cang Tiansu looked at the military tent shared by himself and Duan Yu for a week, pointed to a set of old armor he threw on the ground and said: "I can pretend to be your personal soldier, as long as I don't go to the imperial capital, no one will find that there is one more person in it." of."

"Is it really necessary?" Duan Yu was extremely puzzled.From his point of view, this is obviously an impossible matter, and he can't help but feel that his prospective daughter-in-law is purely like an enemy, and is afraid of being plotted by his father.

Cang Tiansu himself was not sure, but he really didn't dare to take it for granted to conclude that Duan Yu's trip was safe, so he had to make extra preparations just in case.

Emperor Cang Jing wanted to get rid of the obstacles, he couldn't do it blatantly, he would definitely set a trap, waiting for Duan Yu to get inside.Not to mention anything else, just after getting drunk and arranging him to lie down on the same bed with a concubine in Emperor Jing's harem, he could be charged with adultery in the harem and be executed immediately.

Cang Tiansu understood very well that it was too easy for Emperor Cang Jing to kill someone on his own territory, but Duan Yu was still such a stupid and simple-minded person, if something really happened, if he couldn't rescue him in time , I really don’t know how he died.

Even if Emperor Cang Jing was not afraid of the lofty prestige of the Duan family in the northwest for more than [-] years, if he just wanted to touch Cang Tiansu, Duan Yu would definitely be the first to get rid of.

It was rare to lie down on the bed early, Cang Tiansu listened to Duan Yu's long and even breathing, and forced himself to close his eyes, but no matter what, he couldn't smooth out his complicated thoughts.

Emperor Cang Jing's military order seemed to open the floodgates of his childhood memories.The past and the past are all crowded into my heart, the memories rush in, and then rush away, like the tide, leaving no trace.

After four years, Cang Tiansu was finally forced to admit that, just like when he was young, the three characters "Cang Jinglan" still have unspeakable magical power.The childhood yearning has never disappeared, just lying quietly in the torrent of years, just waiting for the day when he looks back and looks far away.

He was clearly an accomplice in killing the nanny.

However, Cang Tiansu tried his best, but he still couldn't classify these three characters with "Jingtian", "Zhang Yunsong", "Queen" and "Liu's family".

The palace is magnificent, the palace is majestic, the prosperous age is full of songs, and the avenue is on the top.The emperor who looked down on the country, the knight who ruled the world, and the swordsman who enjoyed the rivers and lakes.His father is an indomitable hero...

Cang Tian never had the courage to push down the idol that had been erected in his heart for more than ten years with his own hands.