MTL - Poor Family-v2 Chapter 994 running dog to cook

  Chapter 994 Running dogs need to cook

When the crossbowmen from the east and west arrived, the number of crossbowmen in the south had reached 30,000. The powerful rain of arrows caused heavy losses to the attacking army. More than 8,000 people were killed and injured in just a few impacts. The powerful thunder made the attacking army terrified, and their morale gradually lost. Miao Fu ordered the attack several times, but it was ineffective, and the soldiers showed a tendency to resist the order.

   Miao Fu suddenly realized that something was wrong. The soldiers' resistance was a sign of mutiny or a complete collapse of the army's morale. He immediately ordered the whole army to stop attacking and retreat slowly, trying to stabilize the soldiers' emotions.

  At this moment, several reporting soldiers from the south came galloping on horseback, shouting: "General, something is wrong!"

  Miao Fu glared at the two reporting soldiers, and said angrily, "What's the matter, what a fuss!"

   "General Qi, our camp was attacked by the enemy and suffered heavy casualties. General Zhang begged the general to lead his army back immediately!"

"ah!"

   Miao Fu was stunned for a moment. He came to attack Li Yanqing's camp, but his own camp was attacked. Miao Fu suddenly realized that Li Yanqing knew that he was coming tonight, so he made special preparations.

  At this time, he no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered: "The army quickly withdraw to the capital!"

   At this time, it is meaningless to go back to rescue the camp. Miao Fu only feels that there is a crisis on all sides, and the only way out is to withdraw to the capital, the sooner the better.

The morale of his army had long been exhausted. Hearing that the barracks had been attacked, the soldiers were extremely panicked. Lighten the burden on your body.

   Miao Fu couldn't stop the army, so he had no choice but to hurry up and rush towards the capital with thousands of confidant troops.

  But after running for more than ten miles, there was a thunderous sound from the west, and the ground began to tremble. Cao Meng led 20,000 cavalry to kill.

Seeing the endless cavalry attacking, the retreating soldiers were so frightened that they cried for their parents and ran for their lives, but a group of 5,000 cavalry cut off their retreat, and thousands of cavalry shouted in unison: "Surrender without killing! Surrender without killing!"

  A large number of soldiers knelt down and surrendered immediately. At this time, the morale of the army had completely collapsed. A very spectacular scene appeared on the land more than ten miles west of the canal. Nearly 30,000 soldiers knelt on the ground and begged for surrender, surrounded by countless cavalry. ． ． ． ． ．

  At dawn, the cavalry of the enemy camp also escorted more than 15,000 prisoners of war northward, and joined the 30,000 prisoners of war in the north.

This battle between stealing camps and anti-stealing camps was very classic. Except for about 10,000 people who escaped from the 70,000 new imperial guards, more than 13,000 people were killed or injured, and 45,000 people were captured, while only 3,000 soldiers escaped. The rest of the soldiers fled back to the capital with Miao Fu, and the rest of the soldiers fled back to their hometowns.

  The 70,000 army was wiped out in the northern part of Lin'an Mansion. When the news reached Lin'an, the people of Lin'an City cheered, as if they had won the battle themselves.

Not long after the news of Miao Fu's entire army's destruction reached the palace, Zhao Ji came to Taiyi Palace. In the inner hall of Taiyi Palace, Zhao Huan in Taoist robes sat expressionlessly on the futon, but Zhao Ji tried hard to persuade him to come out and take the throne .

"You are my eldest son, and your ninth younger brother has passed away unfortunately. The country cannot live without a king. I have considered for a long time, and it is more appropriate for you to inherit the great rule. How about it? As long as you nod, I will arrange the enthronement ceremony tomorrow morning. "

   Zhao Huan said coldly for a long time: "Didn't the father always want to reset? Now that there is such a good opportunity, why not?"

Zhao Ji sighed, "I'm getting old and don't have so much energy to deal with court affairs. I just want to spend my old age peacefully and stop meddling in state affairs. In the past, I was sorry for you in some ways, but we are father and son after all, and our blood is stronger than Shui, I have considered it again and again, and it is most appropriate to return you to the throne."

  Zhao Huan smiled lightly, "My son understands father's feelings, but I have already become a monk, and I have already broken the world. I don't want to be involved in worldly disputes. Father, go find another prince!"

   After finishing speaking, he didn't care about Zhao Ji, he got up and left. Looking at his back, Zhao Ji became angry for a while, and said through gritted teeth, "Do you think you can escape?"

  Early in the morning of the next day, Supreme Emperor Zhao Ji officially announced that the emperor Zhao Gou died of a serious illness, and that King Zhao Xu was established as the new emperor.

In the Zhizheng Hall, more than a dozen important officials loyal to Zhao Ji were discussing the countermeasures nervously. Du Chong knocked on the table in dissatisfaction, "What is this? , there is no explanation at all, is this the end of allegiance to him?"

   "Stop whining!"

  Huang Qianshan gave him a hard look, "What's the point of saying these useless words, now we have to come up with a feasible way to save our lives!"

  At this time, Qin Hui asked: "What does the new emperor mean?"

  Beside Wang Boyan snorted, "Who knows where the new emperor is? He ascended the throne like a puppet, without saying a word from the beginning to the end, how can you expect him to come up with a solution?"

   "If he doesn't express his opinion, we will force him!" Qin Hui also said a little bit harshly.

   "What can you force him to do?" Huang Qian asked puzzledly.

"Force him to negotiate with Li Yanqing. Now only negotiations can solve our crisis. Agree to Li Yanqing's conditions. If it doesn't work, support him as the right minister, or hint that he can separate the Northwest. Let us pass a Northwest document in the name of Zhizhengtang. Five military and political autonomy plans."

At this time, Lu Yihao, who had been silent all this time, said coldly: "You think Li Yanqing is too simple. If he wants to separate the Northwest, he will leave during the coup. How can he still use the slogan of helping the Song Dynasty? Negotiations are still difficult." Necessary, let's see what his conditions are?"

  At this moment, there was a commotion outside, and some officials shouted: "Get out quickly, the prime ministers are discussing matters, what do you want to do?"

  Finally, the voice became terrified, and everyone looked at each other, wondering what happened?

  At this time, the door' bang! ’ was knocked away, and a dozen soldiers rushed in from the outside in an instant, and then a general walked in. He looked at the meeting hall, nodded and said: "Very good, they are all here!"

  Huang Qianshan recognized this general as Zhou Tao, the chief of the personal bodyguard of the Supreme Emperor, and he said angrily, "General Zhou, what do you want to do?"

  Zhou Tao said coldly: "You treacherous ministers bewitched the Supreme Emperor and killed the officials. You deserve death. You have come to the Qing Emperor's side on the orders of the Supreme Emperor!"

  He turned back and shouted: "Leave none, take them all!"

In an instant, a large group of soldiers rushed in again, pushed more than a dozen ministers to the ground, and tied them up with ropes. Huang Qianshan's face changed color, and he yelled: "Bastard, he killed his son himself, and now he wants to plant it on our heads!" Come on, die a terrible death!"

   Zhou Tao stepped forward and slapped Huang Qianshan twice, knocking out several teeth of Huang Qianshan, and Huang Qianshan's voice suddenly became hoarse.

  Qin Hui asked anxiously: "General Zhou, what does the Supreme Emperor want to do with us?"

Zhou Tao narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Let me tell you the truth! The Supreme Emperor wants to negotiate with Li Yanqing, but he has to show some sincerity, since Li Yanqing's flag is on the side of the Qing emperor, then I have to wrong you, you go and give it to me." Li Yanqing explain it!"

  The faces of all the people suddenly turned gray, and Lu Yihao let out a long sigh, "Flying birds are gone, good bows are hidden, cunning rabbits are dead, lackeys are cooking, that's not a bad idea!"

  Zhou Tao waved his hand, "Take it away!"

  The soldiers covered the heads of the ministers with black cloth bags and escorted them into several carriages, which drove to the outside of the palace.

  At the same time, Zhao Ji appeared in front of the gate of the Cao Mansion. He came to express his condolences to Cao Ping. At this time, he had to put down his figure and come to apologize to the Cao family.

  Cao Yan and several brothers all refused to come out to see Zhao Ji on the pretext of being unwell, and only asked a Cao family member to accompany Zhao Ji to offer incense to Cao Ping's spiritual seat.

  Zhao Ji originally wanted Cao Yan to be his special envoy to negotiate with Li Yanqing, but the Cao family refused to give face, and he had no choice but to visit Gaoshen again.

  In the living room, Gao Shen silently listened to Zhao Ji's tearful complaint, and Zhao Ji unceremoniously shifted various responsibilities to Huang Qianshan and others, as if he was also a victim.

  Finally, Gao Shen calmly said: "Your Majesty, I can go to negotiate with Li Yanqing, but I need to know what your Majesty's bottom line is?"

Zhao Ji sighed and said: "The winner is the king, and the loser is the bandit. I have nothing to say now. I only need one request, please let me go and let me live the rest of my life peacefully. In return, I can grant all his requests."

  (end of this chapter)