Liu Xie, when he was concerned about getting out of that bad breath, obviously did not expect Ma Teng Han Sui to fail him so much favor, and was able to do so much as to be so blind to the king and the emperor and unable to discipline his eyes.
However, Ma Teng and Han Sui were so unreasonable that they blatantly used the residents of Chang'an as hostages to threaten him, the emperor, to hand over the money and grain that had not yet been warmed up in his hands.
With them being so unconventional, the one who was in trouble became Liu Xie.
He was both panicked and regretful for his impulsive forgetfulness at the time, and unspeakably ashamed and afraid of the hatred he felt for them.
The son of heaven, but take this kind of dilemma at his wits' end.
Rarely, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are willing to fight to the end for the defense of the Han Dynasty, but with the 3,000 imperial guards, how can they be the opponent of tens of thousands of Xiliang iron horsemen? But it's just a waste of life.
Liu Xie at least grew up a few years old, understand some things, did not bear to let the two loyal to the old generals of the Han in vain, he knows very well, Ma Teng they may be on him this famous emperor, there are a few scruples to convergence, but on Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, there will not be half a bit of mercy.
Is he really going to bow down to an unruly and rebellious minister?
Then what face is there to speak of!
Liu Xie is still hesitant, shameful, while the heart of the lucky, urged fast horses to chase just a few days away Yan Qing, attempting to move him to help, this period of time, then called the people of the city suffered a lot of suffering, down to the depths of the fire.
To the proliferation of famine can still hold back not to go, most of the family has some surplus food family, thinking of saving food can still make do after this winter, so do not want to risk their lives to go to the displaced.
As a result, the rations they saved with great difficulty were completely cheapened to the Liangzhou soldiers who dared to come to the foot of the Son of Heaven to burn, kill, loot and plunder in broad daylight, and were lawless.
Yan Qing had known that this scene was destined to happen as early as the day Liu Xie had smugly led the wolves into the house.
Ma Teng Han Sui is not a good person, and by the stupid white sweet to feed the wolf as a dog Liu Xie fed a big appetite, spoiled out of the habit of reaching out to ask for, in the case of Liangzhou did not survive the locust plague, they have no money and no food, they must not covet just got a large number of supplies of the small court's granary, thinking of running to take advantage of a cheap?
But Yan Qing knew very well that the little emperor would never be able to give it this time.
Even during the dark period when Dong Zhuo was in power, there was no shortage of food and clothing for Liu Xie, and it was only this time that Liu Xie tasted the real flavor of starvation.
That's a hardship that can't be compared to hearing that 10,000 people are suffering.
Having experienced the hardship of begging for food to no avail and having to drive away the palace staff to save food, how could Liu Xie be so foolish as to give a small share of food to a subject who abandoned him in the moment of crisis?
Ma Teng Han Sui, however, will not sympathize with his grievances. After being rejected, then sorry, they were never about honoring the king's morality.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is clearly recorded that when Ma Teng's personal request did not get the consent of Li X, the four people who were holding the government at that time, he was furious, but without saying a word, he directly raised an army to attack Chang'an.
This may seem tactless and reckless, but in fact, as a means of coercion, it is rough and effective enough.
After all, they were only interested in the official positions that were out in the open, and did not vainly pursue the illusory reputation that was always no better. The notoriety of coercing the king, to them, is no more than painless, and can even give people the impression that they are brave and not to be messed with.
They didn't really want to take over Chang'an; if they did, wouldn't they have to feed a bunch of idlers who only ate, drank, and quarreled instead?
Killing the emperor is even less feasible - if they really dared to do so, those vassals who pretended to be deaf and dumb even when Liu Xie was starving and in distress could instantly take over the righteousness of the two usurper ministers and unite to attack them.
Yan Qing as the manipulation of all this outsider, can see both sides of the mind clearly, but in the center of the storm Liu Xie, watching the huge Chang'an city was fierce Western Liang soldiers surrounded by a water, woe, people can not help but be full of despair, and bottom of the heart, the Ma Han two potential this time is to come to his life.
According to history, the 100,000 or so Liangzhou iron horsemen led by Ma Teng and Han Sui, their fighting ability can be described as enigmatically high and low, one moment they were beaten by the remnants of Dong Zhuo's party, Li Catalyst, and the other moment they were able to beat Cao Cao to the point that they cut off their whiskers and abandoned their robes, and fled in the face of the wind.
Nonetheless, Yan Qing did not want to show off for no reason, taking the lives of himself and these thousands of cavalrymen, who were not at all good at leading armies into battle, to take a risk and gamble, to see if this was the peak level of the Liangzhou cavalry, or the rock bottom level.
Not to mention the people in his hands plus the three thousand imperial army, but also still a disparity in strength, and on his level of command of the battle, after detaching from the cheating of the hangers on, it is not likely that even Li catalyzed are not as good as it!
There is nothing wrong with telling the little emperor who has eaten his own evil to be afraid for a while, it is precisely a big lesson to be bought for free.
So that he recognizes ahead of time who he should listen to in the future and who can keep him safe and well.
Thinking so, Yan Qing stayed in the Hongnong area, ready to honestly wait for Lu Bu, who had finished settling the battle over at Liyang Harbor, to come over, and after the rendezvous, he would go back to save the Emperor.
He didn't have to wait long.
Lu Bu dusty with just from the Liyang harbor side of the battlefield to chase down the fugitive Yuan Shao remnants of the 50,000 cavalry, all the way non-stop hoofed westbound, anxious to Hongnong city, finally saw his fear of half a bit of damage to the baby priest is still in the original state, a hanging heart before finally let go.
And Yan Qing took Lu Bu's hot and sweaty appearance, the bottom of his eyes covered with blood, suddenly his heart ached so much that he could not help but force him to enter that as a temporary place of residence of the people's house, first sleep for a while.
The area around Sili has been hit by repeated wars, and the small court in Chang'an has always been inactive. The famine has just begun, and Hongnong's population has also been lost very seriously, and all of them would rather die on the road to escape than sit and wait for death.
The residential buildings are mostly empty, but the local officials are very lazy and half-hearted.
As the assassin of Yangzhou, one of the counties favored by the displaced people, Yan Qing was undoubtedly the one who benefited from this kind of migration of families in order to avoid the disaster, and while he was happy to see it happen, he also inevitably felt a little bit of pity for the displaced people.
Lu Bu was also indeed exhausted to the extreme, so he obediently fell asleep. When he woke up, a day and a night had actually passed.
Yan Qing was sitting quietly at the head of the bed, the soft candlelight spilling over his warm jade-like face, and was fiddling with the sand table with his full attention, being awakened by the rustle of him getting up before raising his eyes to look and say, "My lord is awake? How about washing up and coming back for dinner?"
Having just gotten up, Lu Bu was still a bit numb, staring unseeingly at Yan Qing's side face that was so beautiful that it didn't look like a person in the world for a while, with a kind of bewilderment that he didn't know where he was, and it was only after a long time that he reacted to Yan Qing's words, and got off of the couch while letting out a big yawn, "Everything will be arranged by Chongguang."
Yan Qing disrupted the sand table and put it to one side, raising his voice to call people in to wait for this big tiger who had just had a good night's sleep to change clothes and wash up, and then set up the meals before slowly and methodically sitting down at the other end of the table, dismissing the bystanders, half flirting, half blaming: "The body is not made of iron, it can't withstand this kind of tossing and turning. What is the Lord's hurry? Ma Teng Han Sui did not have the guts to rob the emperor, and His Majesty will not die because you arrived a moment late."
Lu Bu snorted coldly, "Whether Liu Xie's son is dead or alive, what does it have to do with Bu?" On second thought, he changed his words, "It's better if he's dead, sooner or later, he'll do it."
With Lu Bu's character of being so vindictive as to be comparable to Fazheng, where would he easily forget Liu Xie's behavior of giving him trouble at critical moments three or four times?
"In that case," Yan Qing said in amusement, "what's your hurry?"
Lu Bu said with an expressionless face, "Since I'm worried that Shiguang is risking his life again. If you insist on messing around, none of these thousands of people will be able to stop you."
Yan Qing was helpless and hurriedly defended himself with a few words, "When did Qing become that reckless!"
Lu Bu pulled the corners of his mouth, knowing that Yan Qing was so eloquent in arguing that he was far inferior, so he did not bother to make a fool of himself, but honestly picked up his bowl and drank congee in large mouthfuls, not counting the sins of the past in detail.
Yan Qing watched as he swept up the several plates of meat, but the green vegetables remained untouched, so he couldn't help but frown and give him a few chopsticks.
Lu Bu narrowed his eyes slightly, and despite disliking vegetarian food, he still naturally ate all that Yan Qing chucked into his bowl.
Yan Qing was originally not hungry at all, so she was quite interested in admiring Lu Bu's gushing eating style, and without realizing it, she was also aroused a little appetite, and casually took a piece of omelette to nibble on.
Only after Lu Bu had eaten and drank his fill did Yan Qing ask, "The battle ahead is completely over?"
Lu Bu nodded and said, "The vertical Yuan Shao has withdrawn his troops."
Yuan Shao has not seen any grain delivery from the rear, nor has he heard a word from the judge, so even if Yuan Shao is slow to react, he realizes that there may be a change in the most important city of Yecheng, and even if the grain can still last for a period of time, he will not be able to sit comfortably in Liyang.
Yuan Shao, after some hard thinking, a rare decisive hand, while the night immediately withdrew not to mention, but also to ensure that the retreat can preserve more military strength, listened to the advice of Xu You, came to a play in the Cao Cao had made to deal with his army of the broken tail survival, the rest of the inconvenient provisions thrown all over the place.
Lu Bu, however, has long been preventing him from fleeing without a fight, and with the reminder of Guo Jia Jia Dang and other strategists, he has emphasized to the generals underneath them beforehand that no matter what tricks the enemy army comes up with to intervene, they should not pay attention to it, but listen to the orders wholeheartedly, and focus on pursuing the attack.
The armaments are lying on the ground and no one else dares to touch them, so when can't you pick them up? Let's catch up with the enemy who can move first.
After seeing that Yuan's army had lost their armaments all the way, the soldiers were indifferent, and following their own lord, who was in the lead, they continued to urge their horses to go after them, and soon bit into the tail of the troops who had no intention of fighting, and tore open large openings.
The pursuing side tends to be demoralized and sharpened, and this ministry led by Lu Bu himself, which was born from the parallel state wolf riders, is even more indestructible and intimidating.
Yan Qing had seen the image of them gathering up and charging, and sighed on the spot, the shocking power of the scene was no less than 10,000 majestic bulls brutally charging through the wild plains.
In front of this crazy trampling force, endless fear was born in the heart of Yuan's army, just short of collapsing in a thousand miles.
This chased all the way, then killed all the way, before and after, was killed Yuan soldiers, until almost killed Yecheng city gates, Lu Bu only braked his footsteps, without love of war back to the camp.
One is to prevent a backup ambush, the second is to drive to the end is not their goal, the third is ...... even if this time all the strategists unanimously agreed, he personally ordered a few thousand elite cavalry escort, Chang'an look is not particularly dangerous place, since the military priest is more intelligent like a demon, Lu Bu also still can not rest assured that have to go to the stakeout in order to I'm not worried about it, I have to go and keep an eye on it to be safe.
Yan Qing curiously said, "Isn't Gongsun Zan already on his way, he hasn't even arrived at the place yet, so he's willing to return without any success?"
Lu Bu lazily said, "If he refuses to return empty-handed, Bu would be happy to give him a big gift."
Yan Qing, however, felt that there must be something else going on in this matter, so he gazed at his mind and asked, "At Gong Jin's place, is there any news coming in?"
Lu Bu nodded, "According to Bo Fu, Gong Jin delivered a letter to him, telling him to go pick up the man."
"Indeed." Yan Qing laughed, "I wonder how Gong Jin operated to make Gongsun Zan give up so dryly midway."
Speaking of Gongsun Zan, Yan Qing could not help but think of another person, "What about Liu Bei and his two righteous brothers? Qingzhou will be in chaos, so they must have found a reason to move out of the area long ago."
Lu Bu was used to his own Priest's brilliant calculations, and only nodded calmly at his words, "It seems to be heading towards Xu Zhou Bo's place."
Yan Qing slightly stared, shook his head and said, "They are really pervasive. Never mind, Liu Bei's movements will be discussed later, the Lord has rested well now, so let's start the army and head to Chang'an to save the Emperor?"
Thinking that his beloved military advisor didn't act without authorization this time, but fulfilled his promise and waited for him to come before making plans, Lu Bu couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips slightly, and picked up a sentence in a good mood: "Save the driver? Bu is clearly as a husband, for that 'concubine' to do the Lord to go, and that the emperor's child what?"
Yan Qing: "......"
It seems that this Lu big dog than is endless, look at this situation, I'm afraid to play this terrier over and over for a lifetime, probably do not feel tired.