Chapter 52 Chapter Fifty-Second

General Zuo Wuweiwei, Governor of Tongzhou, and Wang Wu Youyi of Jian'an led the treasury soldiers of various states in Shandong and established cavalry regiments.He served as the general manager of the Qingbian Road Marching Army, and went to crusade against Khitan in a hurry.Wu Youyi's staff officer is a scholar, and Wu Youyi hates him very much.This guy opposes Wu Zetian's use of domestic slaves and prisoners as soldiers to fight wars, and he also pays a military country and society one by one. "The brothers who went out suffered heavy casualties, can't you listen to my advice?" Wu Youyi glanced at the person beside him in disgust.Chen Ziang, can you shut your mouth?Wu Youyi said: "The Wu Zhou Dynasty now has generals. A few years ago, the Emperor of God held martial arts to select strategic talents. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense!"

"Now using domestic slaves and prisoners to fill the army is just to die!" "Shut up! If you don't shut up again, I'll scold you." At this time, the army was in Youzhou, and Chen Ziang was alone on the Youzhou stage, looking helpless, and the autumn wind was blowing.Who can understand this desolation? The ancients have never been seen before, No one came after. Thinking of the long distance of heaven and earth, Alone sad but tears. ("Dengyouzhou Taiwan Song") Chen Ziang was very sad, but he must do what he can, so he said: A wise king who presides over the world must know how to use all available resources.Fortunately, Wu Zetian adopted his suggestion.In October, Comrade Mo Chuo made such a move for the old lady he just recognized: he led a large army to confiscate Songmo City, the hometown of Khitan, and at the same time, he did not forget to carry forward the spirit of the Turkic soldiers, and robbed the wives of Li Jinzhong and Sun Wanrong He ran away, making these two very angry.

Sun Wanrong felt the worst. Seeing that his subordinates were sluggish, he rallied and spoke some thought-provoking words.Afterwards, he ordered his lieutenants Luo Wuzheng and He Axiao as forwards to attack Jizhou frantically.After Lu Baoji, governor of Jizhou, was killed, the Khitan massacred thousands of innocent Hebei civilians.Taking advantage of his joy, Sun Wanrong captured Yingzhou again, and there was a commotion in Hebei. Next stop, Weizhou! The former governor of Weizhou has retired. In order to protect the people, he let the people hide in the city, repaired the city wall, and enriched the army.This is such a good man, the new governor of Weizhou took office with a difficult task.Seeing the protection measures of the former governor, he felt that it was unnecessary. As soon as he took office, he confronted the former governor, released all the people, and let the people go home to farm.

The common people are naturally happy when they can cultivate the land and keep the harvest. But is this just a joke? The new governor said: "What are you in a hurry for? Is this necessary? If the thieves come, I will stop them!" The former governor looked at Di Renjie with a serious face, and believed that Di Renjie was not joking.Yes, with Di Renjie around, the recent 200,000 troops are reassuring. This is the evaluation of him by the people of the world, and it is also the trust of the local people in him.Di Renjie was right, the Khitan's next stop was not Weizhou at all, the Khitan army followed Sun Wanrong to set up camp near Jizhou, preparing to take Youzhou by force, and the battle dragged on until the spring of the following year.

In March, Wang Xiaojie, the general manager of Qingbian Road, led an army of 170,000 to fight. Wang Xiaojie met the Khitan halfway, and the Khitan was defeated and retreated. But this was a joke made by God on Wang Xiaojie, the Khitan people ran and found that Wang Xiaojie was not familiar with the local terrain, and even led the army to the vicinity of the cliff.The Khitan was overjoyed and bravely killed him back.Comrade Su Honghui, Wang Xiaojie's partner, saw the Khitan people coming back and led the troops to flee for his life.Wang Xiaojie and his subordinates fought desperately, and the entire army was wiped out.Wang Xiaojie didn't want to die under the Khitan knife, so he jumped off a cliff and died.

Upon hearing this, Wu Zetian bestowed on Wang Xiaojie an official title (he was a common general during the war) and sent someone to kill Su Honghui.When Su Honghui saw that someone was going to kill him, he was afraid of death, so he chased after him and killed Khitan's corpses all over the field, thus avoiding his death.Wang Xiaojie died, and the army lost its motivation.Under the leadership of Wu Youyi, the reinforcements stagnated and even hid in the south of Youzhou, not daring to move half a step forward. The Khitan rebel army marched into Youzhou, captured the city and massacred the residents.

Wu Youyi didn't care about the massacre, all he knew was that he didn't dare to fight and wanted to send others.He didn't listen to Chen Zi'ang's persuasion, but he wrote a letter to Wu Zetian asking for help even though he had a large army under him, saying that there were too many rebels and he asked for the support of other large troops.Wu Zetian had never been on the battlefield, so naturally he didn't know anything about it.She sent someone to support Wu Youyi, and this person was Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Yizong. Wu Yizong was short in stature, violent in temperament, with a gray face and extremely wretched appearance.The rescue army led by Wu Yizong came, and he ran to Zhaozhou first. Hearing that the Khitan people led thousands of cavalry to rob Jizhou, he was very scared and wanted to flee south.Someone suggested: "The enemy army has no supplies and can only rely on looting. If they hold their troops and defend them, they will inevitably be scattered, and they will attack again, and great success will be achieved!"

Wu Yizong refused and retreated to Xiangzhou. Wu Youyi and Wu Yizong, two gods and men, led an army of hundreds of thousands of monkeys there, watching the Khitan massacre the city. The Khitan people originally thought that there was a large army in Zhaozhou, but later they found that there was no one in Zhaozhou, so they boldly rushed in and massacred the city.In order to unite all the forces that can be united, Sun Wanrong sent five envoys to find Mo Chuo.Sun Wanrong said, my daughter-in-law, you can play however you like, which is easy to discuss, but Khan should think twice about destroying Tang together.Mo Chuo is a person who knows the current affairs. Seeing the arrival of the three envoys, he was overjoyed. He first gave a few sets of scarlet robes, and then said that if he had money, he would make money together.

Comrade Sun Wanrong is a very considerate person. In order to prevent embarrassment halfway, he specially sent out five people.As for why there are only three people here in Mochuo, it's because he gave them different horses.Three good horses (BMWs) and two bad horses (bicycles), so they walked for a while, the second could not catch up with the third, and the third was afraid of getting involved, so they galloped first and came to Mo Chuo.Mo Tuo said, "The cooperation between Khitan and Turks must be long-term. The three of you have worked very hard and have made great contributions."

The three said proudly: "We have killed Wang Xiaojie's million soldiers, and the Tang people are terrified. I hope Khan will cooperate with us to take Youzhou together!" Silently, he was overjoyed and asked the three of them to go down to rest. However, when the first two arrived, Mo Chuai thought that the two looked down on her, so she deliberately slowed down on the broken bike.Mo Chuo was furious and threatened to destroy these two ignorant things.The two were dragged out. In order to survive, they shouted: "Please listen to what we have to say, and it will not be too late to kill!"

Sip silently and let them talk about it.So, the two dear friends talked about how Wang Xiaojie led a hundred-man army to jump off the cliff, and how Sun Wanrong and Tang Jun were indiscriminate.Mo Chuan had an epiphany, and ordered people to release the two riders, pulled out the three who came first and cut them down, and took the red robe and gave it to the two. Mochuo asked them to be guides, led the troops to copy the Khitan's back route, captured the new city, killed Xu Qinming, the governor of Liangzhou, sacrificed Xu Qinming's blood to heaven, and threatened to avenge the godmother for the Khitan.He collected all the population and supplies in the new city, and swaggered back to his old lair. Sun Wanrong escaped, and Tang Bing captured Sun Wanrong's confidant He Axiao, the guy who killed the most people alive. Zhang Jiujie, the former general of the army, would never give Khitan any chance. There are Turks in the west, Xiren in the north, Yang Xuanji in the south, and Zhang Jiujie in the east. A net has been laid long ago.When Sun Wanrong left the army and fled, his subordinates cursed in their hearts, this Sun Wanzhan, can he survive by following him? After running tired and exhausted, rest under a wood.Sun Wanrong sighed and said: "I want to submit to the Tang Dynasty now, the crime is already too great. If I want to submit to the Turks, the Turks will sacrifice my head. If I want to go to Silla, Silla is also from the Tang Dynasty!" He looked at it affectionately. The subordinates are extremely provocative and extremely sad to ask everyone: "What should I do? What should I do?" Before he finished speaking, a sharp knife cut off his head. Countless people from Hebei were killed by He Axiao, but the dead still had an enemy, and that was Wu Yizong. After the defeat of the Khitan, the people who had been captured by them returned to Hebei, Wu Yizong arrested and beheaded them all regardless of the reason.Countless people were killed in front of his eyes. These people were disemboweled, their livers were cut, their skins were skinned, their muscles were cramped, and even more were flayed alive to extract gallbladder.Wu Yizong was a cold-blooded animal. While making people do this, he sat on the Hu bed with his colleagues (relatives of his family) to watch, pointing out the country, talking and laughing. Therefore, there is a saying in Hebei: Only these two things kill the most people. He Axiao slaughtered the people, so what does Wu Yizong have to do with "He"? The answer lies in his official rank. He is Wu Zetian's nephew. Although he is not close, he has become a king, and he is still the king of Hanoi.After returning to the court, Wu Youyi was commended by Wu Zetian.Wu Yizong felt unhappy, and wrote a letter: "There are many people in Hebei who have rebelled against the thieves. Please punish them all!" Just a few words fully demonstrate the ideological consciousness of an outstanding cadre, and the merits are made in this way.King Zuo Shiyi was so angry that he ran up to Wu Zetian and cursed: "If the people can live, who will betray the country? Wu Yizong had hundreds of thousands of troops to rescue Hebei, but fled. The thieves slaughtered the city, and Wu Yizong forced the crime on the people What kind of beast did this! Wu Yizong is disloyal and devoid of conscience, please kill Wu Yizong first to thank Hebei!" Wu Zetian stared at Wang Qiuli in astonishment, speechless. Si Xingqing Du Jingjian stepped forward to rescue, "These people were coerced, please forgive them, Your Majesty." Wu Zetian came back to his senses, said something for Wu Yizong, and said something for Hebei, and nothing happened.But at this time, Mo Chuai jumped out and insisted on asking Wu Zetian to marry him.Of course, Mo Chuo also asked for a lot of land and people with a big mouth. Wu Zetian decided to give him thousands of households from six states, and gave him 40,000 dendrobium seeds, 50,000 pieces of miscellaneous colors, and 3,000 pieces. Agricultural tools, tens of thousands of catties of steel. Let's make love! Comrade Mo Chuo discussed the matter of proposing marriage to Wu Zetian for a long time, and finally had some results.One group is represented by Chunguan Shangshu Yan Zhiwei, who believes that only by accepting Mo Chuo’s request and fulfilling his wishes can the border security be guaranteed; Take marriage too seriously.Wu Zetian decided to adopt the first plan and sent Wu Yanxiu to Turkic to marry Mochu's daughter. Wu Yanxiu's father, Wu Chengsi, was a little uncomfortable, but he had to obey this order. Cry father, Wu Yanxiu, who let you and Yan Zhiwei be together? Yan Zhiwei, Tian Guidao and others, carrying the betrothal gifts, went to Turkic in a bumpy journey. On the way, they happened to meet an envoy from Luoyang. Yan Zhiwei was overjoyed and gave the Turkic envoy some red robes and silver belts.Tian Guidao felt that there was something wrong with Yan Zhiwei, so he wrote a letter secretly, "The Turks have been dishonest all these years, and they just repented today, so they should be more tolerant. It is already the highest courtesy for Yan Zhiwei to give them their robes today. The little captive envoy is not worthy of our extravagance." When giving gifts, you should be restrained, people are insatiable, this time you gave the best gift, what will you do next time?Therefore, Wu Zetian agreed with Tian Guidao's view. This didn't stop Yan Zhiwei. When the team arrived in Turkic, he offered gold, silver and jewels, danced and knelt down, and put his lips on the toe of silently sipping boots.Seeing Wu Zhou's envoy being so lowly, Mo Chuo felt neglected, and seeing Tian Guidao standing aside, just bowing and not coming to lick his shoes, he felt very uncomfortable.So, he kicked Yan Zhiwei on the chest, kicked all fours to the sky, and said angrily: "I have received Li Tang's grace for generations in Turkic, and I don't want to marry a daughter named Wu! I heard that you are still going to marry me now!" There are two remaining princes, and I will take my troops to welcome them!" Yan Zhiwei apologized repeatedly. Seeing this, Wu Yanxiu burst into tears in fright. Tian Guidao was angry and impatient, wishing to destroy Yan Zhiwei. Silently accepted the dowry, did not mention the matter of marriage, withheld the marriage group from being repatriated, and did not let Wu Yanxiu go. A long time later, Wu Yanxiu married Mochu's daughter, and Tian Guidao was able to return, but Wu Yanxiu, Wu Chengsi's son, was held hostage in Turkic.After returning to the court, Tian Guidao wrote a letter asking Wu Zetian to strengthen his defense.Yan Zhiwei believes that Mo Chuo is a good person, and getting married will surely bring peace for several lifetimes. Yan Zhiwei, now Nanmian Khan, is no longer an official in Luoyang. If Yan Liben and Yan Lide knew that they had such a grandson, they would probably be so angry that they would jump out of the coffin. It would be too embarrassing.Yan Zhiwei, the Second Turkic Khan, is indeed very stupid. Many people have studied it all their lives, but they have never figured out why he went to that place where the birds don't shit to suck carbuncles and hemorrhoids.