klisemfg Chapter 329: Escorting Emperor Kun into the Yan Army
Chapter 329: Escorting Emperor Kun into the Yan Army
Like Yu Huatian, Chen Qing is not only a talented general, but also has a very sensitive political mind.
He is even stronger than Yuhuatian in one aspect, that is, his personal martial arts are also outstanding and extremely powerful, much stronger than Yuhuatian's weak appearance.
He actually always suspected that Yu Shuai was a woman, but he had no evidence, and it was impossible for Yu Shuai to let him accompany her when she took a bath or urinated.
Chen Qing was stationed in Shengjing and had been commanding the army to search the residences of officials and royal nobles, and take all of them to the camp outside the city.
It was not until dawn that Chen Qing left Shengjing and rushed to the military camp outside.
After the entire army had breakfast, Chen Qing asked them all to stay in the barracks and not move, and then he came out.
They pulled out all the thousands of royal relatives, tied them up with ropes and dragged them to the parade ground.
Chen Qing, whose clothes were covered in blood, prepared to set off without even changing his clothes.
A captain said,
"General, other generals who surrender would tie their hands and carry a bundle of thorns to apologize. You are just pretending, why don't you tie your hands as well?
Even if it means kidnapping one's own emperor, it is still a crime. A minister who destroys his master is a sinner and must be forgiven by the Yan army."
After Chen Qing thought about it, he felt that it made sense.
Although he had never killed any Yan people and had made contributions to the State of Yan, so many people were watching him. Since ancient times, it has been a crime for a minister to destroy his lord. If he defected to a new country, he would need the new monarch's forgiveness.
After all, nowadays, it has not reached the point where rituals and music are in decline.
"Get some rope and tie me up."
"As ordered."
After the two captains tied up Chen Qing, they helped him onto a horse-drawn cart.
Since it's a show, let's do the whole thing. It's a bit inappropriate to ride in a luxurious carriage.
As for the captives, they were not so lucky and were pushed over by Kun's army.
After leaving the camp, Chen Qing looked at the fluttering flags of the Kun Army camp, frowned, and said,
"Quick, go burn all the Kun flags in the military camp and Shengjing. I was thinking I'd forgotten something."
"As ordered!"
Someone immediately ran over to pass on the message.
Half an hour later, Chen Qing brought the captives and two thousand soldiers to the outside of the Yan army camp.
The Yan army had already received the news and sent a large group of soldiers to greet them.
The leaders were Yu Huatian, Yuan Chu and Nie Bei.
Because these three people were familiar with Chen Qing, they were asked to come and greet him.
In fact, Shen Changgong wanted Tang Xinyi to go to greet him, but after being punched several times, he gave up the idea.
Anyway, Tang Xinyi is too embarrassed to see Emperor Kun.
After all, that was her husband...
Yu Huatian and the other two stood in front of the door, welcoming them.
Chen Qing jumped off the carriage and strode towards Yuhuatian. Although his hands were tied, it did not affect his walking.
"I pay my respects to Marshal Yu, Marshal Nie, and the Prime Minister."
Chen Qing came up to them and was about to kneel down while talking.
"General Chen, please don't be so polite. You don't need to salute us. We are all family."
The three of them hurriedly helped him up.
Prime Minister Yuan Chu said with a smile,
"General Chen, you've worked so hard. I didn't expect you to be so quick. In just one night, you captured the tyrant and brought him here. That's truly remarkable.
You have done so much. You have saved countless people in Shengjing and Kun Kingdom."
Chen Qing said,
"It is good that you three have given me such advice. Without your trust, I would not have dared to start a rebellion and would have been a coward and sinner for eternity.
I only dared to raise an army because of the support of the three of you."
"Well done, well done, the Second King will definitely reward you."
The Prime Minister laughed.
Nie Bei leaned over to Chen Qing's ear and said,
"I'll tell you a little secret. You've made a great contribution this time. According to the military system of Dayan, you will be granted a title.
Capturing the emperor alive, offering the army, and voluntarily surrendering are all great military achievements. When the two kings enter Shengjing, they will be rewarded according to their merits.
Unlike me, I haven't achieved anything, so I'm afraid I won't get the title."
The relationship between Chen Qing and Nie Bei is average, but definitely not bad. After all, both of them are unsuccessful and not valued. It's just that Nie Bei is more than 20 years older than him, so the two rarely interact with each other.
Since they would be serving in the same court in the future, Chen Qing would naturally not remain isolated from them as before, and he quickly said,
"You're too polite, Marshal Nie. Everyone knows that your talent surpasses mine a hundred times."
"Okay, we can save the pleasantries for later. Let's get down to business first."
The Prime Minister smiled and said,
"General Yu, could you please verify my identity?"
Yu Huatian nodded and strode over, followed by fifteen people, who were the fifteen generals of the Tianyu Army.
Liang Kai, Zheng Xiong, Wang Qian and others were all there.
If we were to say who hates Emperor Kun the most in this world, it would probably be the generals of the Tianyu Army.
Look, they all came to the front of Kun Huang, who was wearing a dragon robe, with bloodshot eyes, as if they wanted to eat him alive.
"Yu Huatian?"
Kun Huang sat on the ground with his fat body, looking up at Yu Huatian, with only numbness in his eyes.
"Oh, another traitor. I also saw the two in the distance. They are all traitors.
If you all hadn't betrayed me, how could I, Da Kun, have ended up in such a situation.
It’s all your fault, it’s all your fault…”
Yu Huatian placed his hands in front of him, looked down at Emperor Kun, and said in a cold voice,
"Even now, you still think that these things are all others' fault, but never think about your own mistakes?"
"What have I done wrong? I am the true Son of Heaven, I am the Great Emperor, what have I done wrong?
Long live the emperor, and may your subjects die!
It's you who are wrong, it's you!"
"Haha, since Your Majesty feels that he is not wrong, then I will enumerate Your Majesty's faults.
After occupying Yaoguan Pass, our 300,000-strong army should have joined forces with Han Xuan's troops and assembled superior forces to attack. However, you repeatedly urged our army to march, and in the end we were defeated and had no choice but to retreat.
Our army was only defeated, not surrendered, but you listened to the slander of the villain and wanted to remove my position as commander-in-chief and make me return to Beijing to apologize.
They also killed my family and the families of those thirty generals.
Wasn't it you who forced us to surrender to the Yan army because of this irreconcilable blood feud?"
As soon as Yu Huatian said this, the dozen or so generals behind him gritted their teeth and clenched their fists, wishing they could punch his head in.
But they held back.
They knew that when Emperor Kun was finally executed, the prince would definitely let them do it.
Emperor Kun snorted coldly.
"If the king wants his subjects to die, they must die. I am not wrong, it's all your fault. Do you think you are right to lose the battle?"
"These words are just polite words from the ministers, do you really take them seriously?
Ministers are also human beings, they can distinguish between good and evil, and they can seek benefits and avoid harm. If you don't even understand this, what kind of emperor are you?