Chapter 6 First Meeting with the King of Chu
"Bang bang bang!" A white feather arrow was nailed to the door panel, and the wolf teeth pierced the door panel, revealing its head from behind.
Guan Wei took a deep breath and quickly looked at the situation in the house. It was a closed wing room, and only this door was blocked and he couldn't rush out at all.
"You are the ones who are the Liao soldiers in the official family, break through the back wall and escape. I will block the enemy."
Zhao Guangyi and others looked at the adobe wall behind and were stunned. How to use this to hit it? Use your body?
But now there is no other way. Several close ministers gritted their teeth and rushed towards the back wall together.
"Boom!" The house shook twice, and the ground was rolling gourds, and there was no sign of collapse at all.
"The Emperor of Zhao is going to escape. People from behind block them. Don't let them go!" The Liao people guessed their thoughts, and some people shouted and sent out a few people to intercept them.
"This is over. I've been caught by someone! Zhao Guangyi should have escaped smoothly in history. Why is he so unlucky this time?" Guan Wei cursed secretly.
"Where is the official family?" At this time, a loud shout was heard, and suddenly there was a chaos outside. With the sound of huge horse hooves, someone rushed in.
Guan Wei was still a little confused about who he was. Cui Han shouted: "Cui Han, the military chief in front of a certain hall, is now protecting the official family here. There is the general outside. Come and rescue the emperor quickly!"
"A certain horse army leader Gao Qiong."
"Fan Yanzhao, the head of the army of the army of a certain infantry army."
"We will follow the King of Chu to rescue the car!"
With a few loud shouts, the sound of horse hooves outside made a loud noise and a cavalry rushed in. They attacked the Liao soldiers from behind. The Liao soldiers were no match for them, so they were quickly killed and fled everywhere.
Soon a young man in his 20s wearing golden armor walked in with big strides, followed by two generals in their 40s who were energetic.
The young man looks 70 to 80% similar to Zhao Guangyi. He carries a bow and arrow on his back and a blood-flowing military stick in his hand, looking majestic.
"Where is Dad?" The young man looked very anxious, and rushed in and shouted loudly.
"Your Highness, the official family is in the house!" Cui Han quickly agreed.
"But my son Yuan Zuo!" Zhao Guangyi finally asked in the room with relief.
"Dad! The child is coming to save him late, please atone for his sins!" King Zhao Yuanzuo of Chu immediately threw away the military stick in his hand, and quickly ran forward and knelt in front of Zhao Guangyi.
Guan Wei suddenly remembered who this guy was? He was Zhao Guangyi's eldest son, named Zhao Yuanzuo.
Historical books record that Zhao Yuanzuo's original name was Zhao Dechong, and his courtesy name was Weiji. He was from Kaifeng, Tokyo. He was a royal minister of the Song Dynasty, the eldest son of Zhao Guangyi, Emperor Taizong of Song Dynasty, and the same brother as Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty. His mother was the Empress Li of Yuande. Yuanzuo was smart and alert, and good at riding and shooting.
Zhao Yuanzuo was smart and alert when he was young, and looked like Emperor Taizong of Song. Emperor Taizong loved him very much. At the age of thirteen, he followed Emperor Taizong of Song hunting in the suburbs. A rabbit ran in front of Emperor Taizong of Song. Emperor Taizong of Song asked Emperor Taizong of Song to shoot and kill him. Emperor Taizong of Song shot him and hit him. The envoy of the Liao Kingdom was next to him, and he was deeply surprised. Later, Emperor Taizong of Song followed Emperor Taizong of Song to fight against Taiyuan and Youji.
Zhao Yuanzuo has been fighting with his father since he was a child, and he envied his uncle Zhao Kuangyin, who is a rare general.
Moreover, this person is a real person with temperament. He was very dissatisfied with his father killing Zhao Kuangyin's eldest son Zhao Dezhao and forcing his uncle Zhao Tingmei to death. In the end, he became depressed and went crazy.
At the end of the Double Ninth Festival banquet, because Zhao Guangyi did not allow himself to attend, he set fire to the palace in the evening after getting drunk. Emperor Taizong of Song ordered the censor to capture Zhao Yuanzuo and sent him to the Secretariat for interrogation, and was abolished as a civilian.
However, some people also say that the book records that Zhao Yuanzuo deliberately pretended to be crazy to avoid harm, and finally restored his title of King Chu in the Zhenzong Dynasty, and died at the age of 62.
Later historians commented on Zhao Yuanzuo: "Zuo, King Yuanzuo of Chu, was the eldest son of Emperor Taizong. Zhao Tingmei died, and Zhao Yuanzuo was also deposed with madness. Alas, Taibo made his traces hidden, Ji Zha made him deeply worried. Zhao Yuanzuo's move can be said to have been chasing his traces for the ages, and isn't it really crazy! Taizong's cruel and meanness would rather not be warned and warned at this point!"
"After three generations, he will follow his true nature and be loyal to his great integrity. He will pass without losing it. The faint light is hidden inside and has been hanging for more than five hundred years. If no one can win, is the King of Chu Yuan Zuo!"
"This is a person with the most affectionate nature. Maybe the Song Dynasty gave it to him, which is another scene!" Guan Wei thought in his heart, and he couldn't help but shake his head. Why are he, a hunter, doing so many major national affairs?
While he was thinking about it, Zhao Yuanzuo had already paid homage to Zhao Guangyi and said, "Dad, please get on the horse, I will escort you out of the siege."
"Okay! With Yuan Zuo, my son, why am I afraid of it?" Zhao Guangyi still loves his son very much now. He said to Zhao Yuanzuo: "Dalang, come and thank Cui Aiqing, he is the first hero who protects me this time."
Zhao Yuanzuo bowed to Cui Han and said, "Your Highness of the King of Chu has ruined the villain, and I am ashamed of you. But this is the first achievement of saving the Lord, so I must be this young man Guan Wei."
"Brother Guan first shot and killed the Liao knights and saved the lives of the weak ministers; then contributed a donkey to protect the official family and broke out of the siege. He also used his magic skills to heal the official family, and was still remonstrating the example of Liu Kun to seize Shi Le, defeating his uncle Ta Liege, and shooting him into the water and his life and death.
When we chased us here, Mr. Guan Wei used a trick to alert the snake to drive the Liao army out of the village, shoot Han Deyuan, rescue His Majesty, and protect us to escape here and resist the Liao army. Finally, he waited for His Highness to come to rescue him."
As Cui Han said that, he was a little shocked. Is this what a hunter in a mountain village should do? Although he didn't know the life and death of his uncle Talie, Guan Wei injured two senior officials of the Liao Kingdom in a row, and the achievements of saving the emperor were enough for him to rise to the top.
"Thank you, Brother Guan!" Zhao Yuanzuo bowed his fists to Guan Wei, expressing his gratitude.
Guan Wei also imitated him and said politely: "It's okay! It's okay! King Chu is polite, this is what I should do."
When Zhao Guangyi saw the king and his ministers, they frowned slightly. What does it mean? This is the eldest son of the royal family, the prince of a country, and may also be the future 95th Lord. If you don’t care about it, it will be over? But after thinking about it, they will let it go. Guan Wei is just a hunter after all, so how can he know the etiquette?
Zhao Yuanzuo was very interested in Guan Wei. This young man was full of passion and was not very law-abiding. On weekdays, people around him saw him respectfully. When he suddenly met Guan Wei, a person who was unruly and capable, he immediately felt like a close friend.
"Okay! I won't say much. This place is not a place for a long time. Let's retreat quickly!" Zhao Yuanzuo asked Zhao Guangyi for instructions, and then asked him to get on his own war horse. The close ministers also got on the horse. They hurriedly left the village and fled.
"Dalang, how do you know that I am here? How is the situation in Zhuozhou now?"
"Dad, Zhuozhou has been lost. We also encountered the deployment of all the troops. Shi Gui, the governor of Zhuozhou, only knew about this. After Cao Bin's defeat, he lost his binding force on his opponents. The soldiers could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers. The entire army was disintegrated and could not withdraw in time. Shi Gui was unable to support his independence and had already withdrawn from Jintaitun behind."
Zhao Yuanzuo has a lot of opinions about Cao Bin, the general in the army. He should bear the main responsibility for this failure!
The Song army originally planned to use Cao Bin's Eastern Army as the main force to capture Zhuozhou to restrain the main force of the Liao army led by Yelu Xiuge. Pan Mei on the west road and Tian Chongjin on the east road were responsible for attacking the mountain. After the strategy behind the mountain was completed, they would turn from behind the mountain to plunder the mountain. Finally, the three Song armies that gathered in the Song Dynasty fought a decisive battle with the Liao army under the city of Youzhou.
Cao Bin was old and persistent, so he used him as his shield to restrain the main force of the Liao army. Pan Meirui used him as his spear to conquer the city and territories. Moreover, in order to restrain Yelu Xiuge, most of the famous generals of the Song army were concentrated in the Eastern Army.
At the beginning of Yongxi's northern expedition, all the Song army was defeated: Cao Bin conquered Gu'an's southern city, Tian Chong advanced to the north of Feihu to defeat the Liao army, Pan Mei defeated the Liao army in Xixing, conquering Liao to Huanzhou. Soon, Cao Bin conquered Zhuozhou again, Pan Mei captured Shuozhou, and went to Yingzhou to defeat Yunzhou. In the Mixin side, the Song army defeated the Liao army in Xincheng again.
The mature and steadfast Cao Bin was actually caught by the enemy's plan to lure the enemy into depth, and was cut off from the food route by Yelu Xiuge. Cao Bin's 100,000 troops stayed in Zhuozhou for only more than ten days, and then ate all the military rations and had to retreat to Xiongzhou to provide assistance.
There was nothing wrong with doing this, but when Cao Bin heard that Pan Mei, Tian Chongjin and other troops won consecutive battles, they were deeply ashamed of their failure, so they planned to rise up, which was even more contradictory. The gathering of generals of the Eastern Route Army became the root of the defeat of the Song army. The veteran Cao Bin could not restrain the generals, so he obeyed the wishes of the generals and took five rations to attack again.
Unexpectedly, Cao Bin sent people to retreat before, and he led the army behind the palace.
Due to the large number of people and exhaustion of soldiers and lack of food and water, the combat effectiveness of the Song army was extremely reduced, and even a decent rear army formation could not be organized. Yelu Xiuge led the Liao Dynasty's new cavalry to follow along, killing and chasing, chasing and killing, and chasing until Qigou Pass. The Liao army launched a general attack and the Song army was defeated.
Cao Bin packed up the remaining troops, crossed the Juma River overnight, and set up camp on the south bank of Yishan, preparing to rest and take a breath. Fortunately, the Song general Li Jixuan fought to the death, causing a small group of Song troops to escape. However, tens of thousands of Song troops were either killed, fell into the river and drowned, or captured, causing huge losses. The remaining Song troops were also dispersed, and they retreated all the way back to Jintaitun behind.
After hearing the report, Zhao Guangyi was not angry, but sighed a long sigh, which contained a strong sense of helplessness and fear.
Chapter completed!