si-mexico Chapter 451 Dare to touch my soldiers?
Chapter 451 Dare to touch my soldiers?
Emperor Qi was sighing with his head down, and the amusement in Tong Xuan's eyes only flashed by for a moment, and was replaced by respect. Emperor Qi did not notice the change in his eyes.
"Alas, the Yan thief is really going too far!"
The Emperor of Qi sighed heavily and gritted his teeth.
Tong Xuan said,
"Your Majesty must be tired after the long journey. I have already ordered a banquet to be prepared. Please enter the city."
"Okay, okay, I've been eating dry food all the way and I'm almost starving to death. Let's go quickly!"
After saying this, the Emperor of Qi turned around and got on the dragon chariot.
Tong Xuan also mounted his horse and stood guard beside the dragon chariot, doing his duty conscientiously.
After thinking about it, the Emperor of Qi felt that he was now relying on Tong Xuan, so he should try to win him over to show his favor, so he said,
"My dear Tong, riding a horse is so uncomfortable. Come and sit next to me."
Tong Xuan immediately clasped his hands and said,
"How dare I! This is your majesty's chariot. How can a humble servant defile it? How can I disregard our official duties as monarch and subject?"
"Oh, what are you afraid of? It's not like no minister in the court has sat here before."
Emperor Qi frowned.
Tong Xuan laughed and said,
"Your Majesty, the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers have not sat on the dragon chariot. If I, a mere third-rank general, sit on the dragon chariot, won't people point fingers at me?
All the civil and military officials in the court and the people in the city are watching.
Later, sit down later."
"OK then."
The Emperor of Qi lowered the curtain again without saying anything more.
There was a gleam in Tong Xuan's eyes, and it was unknown what he was thinking about.
Soon, Emperor Qi and his ministers arrived at the Xuzhou government office.
When Tong Xuan arrived, he urgently ordered the servants in the mansion to prepare a banquet.
At this point, everything is almost ready.
Everyone took their seats. The Emperor of Qi sat in the front center, with the Three Dukes and Nine Ministers on both sides, including Tong Xuan.
After eating delicious food and drinking a few glasses of wine, everyone's tense nerves finally relaxed.
Tong Xuan first toasted the emperor and then toasted a few glasses of wine to the ministers before he had the opportunity to ask questions.
"Your Majesty, what is the situation in the north right now? How is the fighting going?"
The Emperor of Qi put down his wine glass, sighed heavily, and said,
"The Yan army is worthy of the name of a tiger and wolf army. In the north of our country, the Yan army is unstoppable.
"Lord Tong, the defense line of eleven cities you left in the north was originally said to hold off the Yan army for two months, but they were all destroyed as soon as the Yan army passed through. It didn't affect the march at all."
"Oh? How could this happen?"
"The Yan army split up their forces, dividing their 500,000-man army into legions of 50,000 each. Each legion attacked a city, and they all took the city in a day. In general, 400,000 to 500,000 people died, but it only stopped the Yan army for a day."
Tong Xuan fell into deep worry upon hearing this and said,
"The Yan army is surprisingly so vigorous."
"Who said it wasn't? Seeing that the Yan army was about to enter the capital, I followed your instructions and left half of my men to guard the capital Linzi, and brought the other half south to find you.
But my queen insisted on staying behind to lead the troops to defend the city. This is ridiculous. No matter how much I try to persuade her, she won’t listen.
"The Queen is guarding the city?"
Tong Xuan was shocked when he heard this, and at the same time, he looked at Emperor Qi with a bit more contempt, but he still said comfortingly,
"Your Majesty, the Empress is the daughter of General Yu. She has studied military tactics and practiced martial arts since she was young. Her military skills are no less than mine. She is a true talent.
With the Empress guarding the city, perhaps a miracle can be created, and we can wait until the day when we can unite and attack the Yan army."
The Emperor of Qi just sighed.
Everyone knows that that day will never come.
His queen was probably going to die in the chaos of war.
Everyone sighed and fell silent for a moment.
They were silent, but Tong Xuan couldn't remain silent. He still wanted to know what the situation was in the north.
"Your Majesty, didn't you lead an army of 150,000? And you say you were being pursued by the Yan army? How dare the Yan army bypass the heavily guarded Linzi and catch up with your troops to engage them?"
Hearing this, the emperor felt even more aggrieved and said,
“It’s not the Yan army’s infantry, their infantry can’t catch up, but the 100,000 Zhennan Army.
If the spies in Linzi had not discovered it and the Queen had not sent a pigeon to remind me, I would probably have died at the hands of the Zhennan Army.
I am not too clear about the current situation in the north. Minister Tong, please send someone to investigate and report all the information to me promptly."
Tong Xuan nodded and said,
"Your Majesty, rest assured. You can stay here for the time being. I will take care of the military affairs. I will train them into elite soldiers and generals to recover our country!"
Upon hearing this, the Emperor of Qi nodded, but the Grand Marshal was not happy.
The emperor and all the civil and military officials are here. Can you, Tong Xuan, still control the military power alone?
The general rolled his eyes and said with a smile,
"Your Majesty, it's really tiring for General Tong to be in charge of 400,000 troops alone. We must not let our commander-in-chief get tired.
Now all the civil and military officials are here, including many generals from aristocratic families, who can help relieve some of the pressure on General Tong."
Hearing this, Tong Xuan sneered.
These people really have forgotten the pain once the wound has healed.
They had just gotten safe, but they immediately started thinking about fighting for power and profit.
If you associate with such people, you will probably never be able to recover the lost territory in your lifetime.
He would not give up an inch of military power.
"Master Taiwei, that's wrong. Now, the 400,000-man army, whether it's the corps commanders, regiment commanders, or captains, has been deployed and is familiar with military affairs. The soldiers below are also very convinced of them.
If we rashly replace them, I'm afraid they'll become resentful, which will be detrimental to unity."
Hearing this, the general snorted coldly and said,
"All their power and authority were bestowed upon them by Your Majesty. Thunder, lightning, rain, and dew are all grace from heaven. Your Majesty can arrange whoever He wishes, so how could He allow them to have any say?
If they're already resentful just because someone's been replaced in a position, how can we expect them to be loyal to the emperor and the country? Is this their loyalty?"
Tong Xuan slowly picked up the wine glass and raised it towards the general opposite him from a distance, which was a toast.
The general frowned when he saw this, but he also raised his glass and clinked it with his from a distance.
However, the next second, Tong Xuan threw the wine glass in his hand to the ground in front of him.
The general's face changed. What a humiliation this was.
Tong Xuan stood up and said coldly,
"I've said that those soldiers have great faith in their commander. If someone else were to replace him, things would go wrong."
The words have been made so clear. All the civil and military officials in the court are smart people. Who can't hear it?
Those soldiers are not convinced by their generals, but by you, Tong Xuan.
In other words, these are Tong Xuan's troops.
If you want to seize Tong Xuan's soldiers, first let me see that you don't have the strength to do so, nor do you have the confidence to overturn the table.
Tong Xuan looked at the civil and military officials in the court at this moment with eyes as if he was looking at a group of dead people.