Chapter 283 Cut in front of the army
Xu Huaide settled his military uniform and stood outside Xu Pingshuai's tent, feeling nervous.
Yeli Wangrong, Cheng Keshang and others abolished Yuanhao in the name of Ning Lingge, and surrendered Weizhou City. The official war between Dangxiang was over. In this war, Xu Huaide's main force of tens of thousands of imperial guards had not fought a single battle, and the occupied Qingyuan army also took the initiative to offer the city. Now that the war ended, Xu Ping asked him to Lingzhou, and Xu Huaide was inevitably worried.
Not long after, the personal soldiers came out and told Xu Huaide that Xu Ping was waiting in the commander's tent and asked him to enter.
As the personal soldiers entered the commander's tent, they saw Xu Ping sitting in the main seat, Wu Zunlu was sitting in the guest seat, and there was Fan Xiang, who had been newly transferred to Lingzhou as the governor. The three of them sat upright, with no expression on their faces.
He stepped forward and sang the promise with his hands respectfully, Xu Huaide said, "I will see the Protector!"
Xu Ping nodded and ordered him to sit down. Xu Huaide was cautious and sat opposite Fan Xiang.
When Xu Huaide sat down, Xu Ping said: "The former Dang Xiang Moning ordered Ye Li Wangrong to join forces with a group of powerful chiefs to comply with the imperial edict of the court. The traitor Yuan Hao had abolished the traitor Yuan Hao and the whole country had joined the court. According to the previous edict, Ye Li Wangrong was appointed as the governor of the Dingnan Army and recruited the remaining tribes of the Dang Xiang. The day before yesterday, the traitor Yuan Hao, who refused to submit to the imperial court, had been taken to Lingzhou. According to the imperial edict, I punished them with the traitor and sentenced them to the city of Lingzhou to show the Chinese and foreign countries! Xu Xiang, you are a general in charge of the army and an important official in the court. Tomorrow, you will be sentenced to the city of Lingzhou. How about you behead the official?"
Xu Huaide never expected to summon him to do this job, so he quickly stood up and crossed his hands: "I will follow the order of the guardian husband!"
Xu Ping nodded and pointed at Fan Xiang and said, "Tomorrow, you will be executed and the prefect Fan will be the deputy. There will be no mistake!"
Xu Huaide and Fan Xiang received the order together, but after sitting down, his heart was still jumping. As a general of the Imperial Guard, the execution was a good job for Xu Huaide, and his last achievement for Dangxiang fell into his hands.
There was no battle, and the Qingyuan army was waiting for Lingzhou City to be destroyed. Yuan Hao was captured. Xu Huaide was laughed at by other generals and complained by his subordinates. After passing Huanzhou, it was obvious that the autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves. The army should have run to the front to grab military merits. As a result, Xu Huaide almost collapsed the army. The military merits he picked up were gone because the general was incompetent, so the soldiers would not blame him for anyone.
Xu Huaide's position in the army is very embarrassing. Whether it is to compare official positions or the number of soldiers under his command, he should be the number one general under the Longyou Protectorate. As a result, because the battle was not good, he became the lowest-ranking one. Not only could he not compare with Cao Keming, Zhang Kang and Liu Jianji, but even their deputy Zhang Sheng, Tian Kuang and Zhong Shiheng all over Xu Huaide. In his army, because he had achieved military merits that were within his reach, the soldiers also had great complaints.
After giving instructions to Xu Huaide and Fan Xiang, Xu Ping turned to Wu Zunlu and said, "The ruler will kill Yuanhao tomorrow, and this matter cannot be changed. Taking advantage of the leisure today, will we be able to examine him in the first trial? He will make his crime clear and let him die clearly."
"It's great, everything is up to the guardian." Wu Zunlu bowed his hand to agree.
After a while, Tan Hu brought two personal soldiers of the Protectorate's Mansion and escorted Yuan Hao into the commander's tent.
When Xu Huaide saw Yuan Hao covered his face with a cloth towel, there were blood stains on it, he realized that the rumors were rumored to have his nose cut by his son. It was true that the law of heaven was circulating, and he was unhappy in retribution. He stole his son's fiancée and deserved the suffering.
When he reached the stairs, Yuan Hao looked up and glared at Xu Ping.
Xu Ping ignored Yuan Hao and said to Wu Zunlu: "Master, do you have something to ask about this guy?"
Wu Zunlu bowed: "The thief treason treason and abuse the people, and his crimes are for death. The Protector has already revealed that he was guilty of being in various places, so there is no need to ask any more?"
Xu Ping nodded and said to Yuan Hao at the foot of the stairs: "You are a minister of the Song Dynasty and have been kind to the Song Dynasty for generations. The court treats you very well. Even beasts know that they are favored by others and are given revenge, let alone people? You betray the court for disloyalty, betrayal to internal tyranny, and harm the people is for crimes. Any one is the word death. Today, death is coming, what are you saying?"
Yuan Hao said with a high voice: "I originally had a family of emperors. My ancestors once created the foundation of the Later Wei emperor's business. My distant ancestor Sigong split the land and divided the feudals, and established a foundation for a country. Even if I have an family of emperors and this country, what's wrong with me proclaiming emperor to the south!"
"After Yanhuang, the dynasty will be replaced, and countless people who came from imperial eunuchs are born! Don't talk about Kaifeng Prefecture, go to any county in the mainland to ask how many ancestors had once sat in the royal court! According to the local area, if you have troops and horses, you must be independent, and the court will not appoint any officials!" Xu Ping couldn't help laughing, "With your origin, you can't even rank in Lingzhou City now, and you dare to compare yourself with imperial eunuchs! You are so proud of being a monkey! But this is the case! The barbarians have no way of doing things, and they think things are like children. I'm sincere!"
Yuan Hao hated being said to be a monkey and captain the most. After hearing this, he couldn't help but open his eyes widened and said loudly: "I am a foreigner, I don't know the rituals of the Han Dynasty! I have countless soldiers and horses under my command. If I want to be emperor from the south, who dares to say that I did something wrong!"
Xu Ping spread his hands: "Since that's the case, your troops were destroyed by me and everyone was betrayed and separated from each other. Today, I deserve to die! According to what you said, killing you is natural, and you can't explain it if you keep your life!"
What else can Yuanhao say? When it comes to his origin, he will take any Han people out, but his ancestors don’t know how noble he is than him. If a Xianbei remnant seed is true or false, he dares to say that he is the descendant of the emperor. Among the Han people, from Yan, Huang, Shang and Zhou, to various countries and dynasties after the Qin and Han dynasties, there are tens of millions of descendants. When will it be Yuanhao’s turn to be a big shot? He wants to be an emperor when he talks about strong soldiers and horses, which is even simpler. The soldiers and horses have been destroyed by Xu Ping, and Yuanhao must die.
Based on his impression in his previous life, Xu Ping always thought that Yuan Hao was a hero, and he also thought so when he came to the northwest. Because in the eyes of the ministers of the Song Dynasty, Dangxiang was a small clan, and it was not ordinary people to make such a big noise with a small clan. When he attacked the hinterland of Dangxiang and had more and more information about Dangxiang, Xu Ping realized that he was very wrong.
Dangxiang is not a small tribe, it is said that the small tribe is just compared with the Han people. In fact, in East Asia, Dangxiang is one of the largest tribes second only to the Han people. Even the Khitans had to add the Xi allies who came from the same source and the same language as them to be compared with the Dangxiang tribe. With such a large tribe as the foundation, Yuan Hao's father and grandfather fought for forty years before he could produce such a strange thing.
If Yuan Hao continued his father Deming's policy, surrendered to the Song Dynasty and the Khitan at the same time, integrated the Dangxiang, and then expanded to the west and north. Then, after one or two generations, it would be entirely possible that an empire comparable to the Khitan in the northwest would appear in the northwest.
However, Yuan Hao brazenly proclaimed himself emperor not long after his father died, and offended the Song Dynasty and the Khitan at the same time. In the foreign war, all the major forces around Dangxiang were offended. He attacked Dasi Luo first, but was pulled back by Dasi Luo. He offended the Song Dynasty again. He fought several victories in history, but he had not obtained any land, and only Yuan Hao was relieved for a while. He went to provoke the Khitan and fought several victories that looked very majestic. But from then on, the Khitan was vigilant, and the border fence was tightened, which not only cut off the road to expanding east and north, but even the Shannan Dangxiang and Shanbei Dangxiang, which were most likely to support Dangxiang, had no relationship with them since then.
Such a large clan could have been able to get along with the power in the confrontation between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan. Because Yuan Hao was so angry that the surrounding major forces joined forces to suppress them, he lost the possibility of his rise from then on. Even the surviving Dangxiang royal clan became a puppet of domestic major forces after Yuan Hao, with only one name left.
If this is also the King of the King, then the King of the King of the King would be too worthless. In fact, Yuan Hao was useless to both the inside and the outside except for becoming emperor. Even if he became emperor, he had not persisted for a few years and had to change it himself.
Yuan Hao has been struggling for more than ten years in history. In the internal period, the people have lived a much more miserable life than during the Deming period. The Weiming clan has been dominant in the Dangxiang family, and his prestige was completely defeated by Yuan Hao. He could no longer suppress other tribes within the clan. It seems that he won many victories and lost two major forces in a row. It is better to say that Yuan Hao is powerful than to say that the Dangxiang clan has a deep foundation. Once such a large clan is integrated, he has the capital to confront the Khitan and the Song Dynasty. However, those victories were of no use to Dangxiang. He did not expand the territory outside, and the Song and Khitans integrated the Dangxiang people in the territory through war. It can be said that since Yuan Hao, the foundation for the rise of Dangxiang was gone, and he exchanged the prospects of the entire Dangxiang clan for his own temporary glory.
From the time of Qinzhou, Xu Ping was highly vigilant about Dangxiang who was about to face, believing that Yuan Hao was a strong enemy. As a result, he proved that he was thinking too much, Yuan Hao was a loser. Whether it was the Song Dynasty or the Khitan, without the restraint of the other party, he could even kill Yuan Hao with his brute force. He had been in Sanshi for several years, and now the national strength of the Song Dynasty is no longer comparable in history. In fact, if he didn't come to the northwest, he would change a general. The process might be a little tortuous and took a longer time to destroy Dangxiang.
If Xu Ping had to summarize the war against Dangxiang himself in recent years, there would be nothing to boast about defeating Yuan Hao and destroying Dangxiang. Who would have made him face a madman who was exaggerated? The truly valuable one should be the Longyou Army.
Looking at Yuan Hao, Xu Ping couldn't help it, smiled and shook his head, and said to Wu Zunlu: "Since I arrived in Qinzhou, I can say that I have worked hard and tried my best to pacify the northwest and destroy this bold and arrogant thief. Today I was taken to him, but I knew that he was a crazy man in the world. Alas, I worked hard for several years, but I felt a little lost at this time!"
After saying that, he waved to Tan Hu and said, "Go down and take care of it carefully. Lingzhou will be killed in front of the army tomorrow!"
It is difficult for others to understand Xu Ping's current mood.
Chapter completed!