75. National Pillars
In a blink of an eye, it is the last day of the deadline, and the army will attack the city tomorrow.
Bad news came when I woke up early, and dozens of people fled last night.
No one knew how they walked. The gatekeepers insisted that they had never opened the door last night, and the soldiers guarding the waterway claimed that they had never seen anyone pass by on a boat.
The fugitives were recruited by young and powerful refugees. Cai Xing concluded that they must have been sent to the opposite side, because the Red Eyebrow thief was originally a group of refugees.
Now his eyes were full of suspicion when he looked at the refugees in the city. Perhaps they were the next one to escape. Among his personal guards, there was a tall and strong refugee who was beaten up for a minor mistake in the morning and almost lost his life.
Not long after, the escaped refugees appeared brightly under the dock and shouted to the soldiers on the dock wall to persuade them to surrender. They described their preferential treatment after surrendering, recounted His Majesty the Emperor's promise to pardon the surrendered, and accused them of helping the evil and working for the Cai Xing family.
Although the words are noisy, they are very effective. The city is already filled with people and now they have no fighting spirit.
In order to stop them from continuing to make noise, Cai Xing ordered the Wu soldiers to shoot arrows down. He did not hit a few arrows, but instead angered a general of the enemy. He bent his bow and arrow, and shot a Wu soldiers who were aiming with one arrow to kill him. He shot two more arrows in a row, and all of them hit the wall. The Wu soldiers bent down and hid behind the wall, and never dared to show their heads again.
The general shouted, "Listen, I won't surrender again tomorrow, and I will flatten your little Dongwu!" As he said that, he stopped persuading the surrender and took a group of calls and machines to leave.
The tranquility finally returned to the ground under the dock wall, but everyone's hearts were extremely noisy, and an invisible pressure was pressing on everyone's heart like a mountain.
The flags moved back and forth in the opposite military camp, and the shouts of sergeants training continued to come. From time to time, soldiers walked around the camp and galloped on horseback. Several military camps seemed to be sharpening their knives and preparing for war.
Panic is contagious. The frightened Wumen began to escape one after another. Not only the refugees and gentlemen recruited, but even the Cai clans began to escape. The waterway became the best way to escape. Good water quality did not even require a boat. After slipping out of the narrow waterway, you could swim for a while before you landed. The Shili Army was always cruising on the shore. After getting ashore, they were taken to Dawu for unified resettlement.
Cai Xing was trapped in Wucheng, with no choice but to do anything. His son said, "Why not use thunder to punish deserters and kill one to warn a hundred people, so as to shock everyone and fight the enemy to the death?"
Cai Xing sighed and said, "Cai cannot protect the clan, but instead wants his clan members to die for me?" He refused to stop his escape by killing.
At dusk, countless people fled, and the entire dock wall fell into chaos. Except for dozens of people Cai Xing was close to his command, the rest of them no longer followed his command and went out to surrender.
Suddenly there was a noise at the door, and a group of people came in. The leaders were two small sect leaders, who waved their swords and shouted: "Cai Xing, why don't you open the dock gate to welcome His Majesty the Emperor?"
Cai Xing shouted: "Do you want to commit the following crime and coerce Zongzi?"
Those people didn't talk to each other and directed everyone to attack and kill. Cai Xing and others couldn't resist and retreated one after another. They were fighting fiercely. Dozens of people rushed in from the door, and they were too brave to take charge, but the leader was his planner, Mr. Tian.
Mr. Tian led the people to kill everyone, rescue Cai Xing, and said, "Mr. Cai, the matter is urgent, let's break through together!"
Cai Xing said: "The little emperor said that he would only kill the evil ones, and that those who surrender would not be killed. If the enemy comes, Cai will die. Why should he save his life?"
Mr. Tian laughed: "Mr. Cai, even if the Red Eyebrow thief lets you go, he will not let Tian go?"
Cai Xing did not understand his intention, and Mr. Tian said: "Cai Gong knows the Qing Dynasty of Daxin, and the governor of Xu Erzhou Prefectures explored the Tianqu situation of Tanghou? It's just the only one who can do it!"
The visit to Tanghou Tian Kuang was the leader of Yiping Lian during the Wang Mang period, that is, the prefect of Yiping County. Yiping County was on the current Shandong Peninsula. At that time, the Red Eyebrow Army was in a big trouble. The local commander could not send troops without a tiger talisman. The prefects in various places dared not take any action. Only Tian Kuang secretly recruited 40,000 men over 18 years old in the county, formed an army to defeat the invading refugees and protect the people of a county.
Fan Chong and others did not dare to provoke him. They walked around Tian Kuang's land, but Tian Kuang was still not satisfied. They wrote to Wang Mang and pretended to apologize for the unauthorized army. In fact, they wanted Wang Mang to allow him to cross the border to attack the thieves, which meant that he would take all the thieves in Xuzhou, Qingzhou. Wang Mang was worried that the Red Eyebrow Army was too fierce and allowed him immediately.
When Tian Kuang came out, who would compete with him? Fan Chong and others were beaten so hard that they could only escape. Tian Kuang was named the Marquis of Tan Tang for his merits and was the governor of the two prefectures of Qingxu.
If Tian Kuang had been tormenting, the Red Eyebrow Army would have finished playing, but Wang Mang was worried that a local official would hold heavy troops, so he summoned him back to Chang'an and appointed him as the chief of Shiwei, the prefect of Shiwei County. The area was ten counties north of Gaoling, just under the emperor's nose.
Now Wang Mang was relieved. He was so close that he could manage it. Fan Chong was so relieved that he could not manage it when he was far away. Qingxu and the other two provinces had no opponents from the Red Eyebrow Army, and his troops quickly grew to hundreds of thousands.
Tian Kuang's rise is because of his strong ability and his decline is because of his strong ability, which is so powerful that the emperor is worried that he will not be able to control it, so he has to stay idle and become useless.
Tian Kuang still did a great job in the position of Shiwei Doctor, but unfortunately Wang Mang no longer gave him the opportunity to re-control the troops. When the Xin Dynasty was destroyed, the powerful and powerful people in Chang'an were killed one after another. Tian Kuang took his family to escape the chaos and lived in seclusion in the countryside near Shiliwu. The world was in chaos and thieves were everywhere. Most of the nearby villagers were attached to Caixing and went to the dock to take refuge, and Tian Kuang's family was also among them.
Although Tian Kuang was hiding his identity, his ability could not be hidden. He was appreciated by Cai Xing and forced to be the leader. At that time, the country was in chaos and there was nowhere to settle down. Tian Kuang had to live here for the time being, but he didn't expect to stay there for a few years.
Cai Xing knew that Mr. Tian was a man with great ability, but he never knew that he was a storm of the world and the pillar of the Great New Year. It was not until this critical moment of life and death that Tian Kuang spoke out.
Tian Kuang said: "I have fought with the Red Eyebrows for nearly a hundred battles and won them in a hundred battles. Fan Chong and Xu Xuan and others are all incompetent people. The Zhuge child outside the city is even more worth mentioning. I didn't expect that he would be defeated by the emperor's child today!"
Seeing Tian Kuang's heroic appearance, Cai Xing suddenly felt a little bold. He laughed and said, "I have admired Mr. Tang for a long time. I didn't expect that I would have such a fate with Mr. Tang. It's all because Cai couldn't listen to Mr. Zhen's words. It hurts his reputation and is a crime for Xing!"
Tian Kuang said: "I am the mortal enemy of the Red Eyebrow. If Mr. Cai tied up Tian and offered it to the emperor's child, he would be able to redeem your sins and save your life!"
With the person who accompanied him to die, Cai Xing suddenly felt much more open and he seemed to be more energetic. He stood up suddenly and said, "Your Majesty has not abandoned Cai, how can Cai defeat you? No need to mention this, you and I will fight out together!"
Liu Pengzi was eating barbecue alone in the big tent.
He was still young and was growing up. When it was dark, he suddenly recalled the past when he was eating skewers on the streets at night in his previous life. The grief came from it and he must not stop it. He wanted to pick it up quickly. So he waved his hand and wanted to eat roasted whole lamb.
As an emperor, this kind of requirement was easily met. The kitchen immediately killed a sheep and roasted it on the fire, making the roasting aroma full of the roasting. Everyone around the emperor swallowed hard.
Liu Benzi likes this kind of appearance of eating meat by himself and others being jealous. He grabbed a sizzling lamb leg, neither cut nor sliced it, and tore it up in big mouthfuls. Although there was no cumin and chili, it lacked some taste, but the sheep were good at that time. They all grew up eating grass and had never eaten any added feed. The meat was tender, safe and environmentally friendly, and it was so fragrant that it wanted to swallow it with your tongue.
Liu Pengzi shouted at the people around him to eat together, but Wu Gai stood respectfully and refused to come forward to share the food with the emperor. Niu Decao was also a rule-abiding person. He had previously stood upright in the tent, but later he couldn't stand the fragrance. Harazi flowed all over the ground and had to run outside the tent and stand up at the door.
On the contrary, Banden was not polite, wiped his snot and came up to grab food. Liu Penzi slapped his hand in disgust, "Go, wash your hands, wash your face! Wash all the snot!"
Banden laughed and didn't go to wash. Suddenly, he reached out, grabbed a lamb chop and ran away, hiding alone in the corner and gnawing happily.
Liu Penzi waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's eat together. Your cat is like a stray dog there."
The two were laughing and joking, and someone came to report that they intercepted the fleeing ship from Dongwu on the water and took the dock owner Cai Xing.
Liu Penzi put the lamb legs and wiped his mouth and said, "This old guy dares to escape. Come on, bring him in, let me see what the old guy looks like!"
Cai Xing fell to the ground after entering the tent, and had no courage. Tian Kuang stood upright. Just now, the two of them had been struggling with hundreds of people and wanted to escape from the waterway. As soon as they left the waterway and entered the Wei River, they were surrounded by dozens of small boats. Two large boats were descending from a high place and forced everyone with crossbow arrows. Both Tian Cai and others were captured.
The little emperor pointed at Tian Kuang with a greasy finger and said, "Are you Cai Xing?"
"Report to Your Majesty, it's Cai Xing." Cai Xing trembled and kowtowed: "Cai Xing offended His Majesty the Emperor and deserves to be killed. Please let Your Majesty go out of the net and spare..."
"Stop, you are ugly, don't talk," the emperor interrupted him, pointing to Tian Kuang, who looked extraordinary, and asked, "Who are you?"
"Da Xinqing, Xu Erzhou Prefecture Governor, Jingwei Doctor, and Tian Kuang, who is willing to lead the death in front of His Majesty!"
Chapter completed!