Chapter 947 Soul Returns
Since the Chinese and Foreign Mansion had not been completely cleaned up, and the family members of the former Otsuka Prime Minister Yu Wentai still lived in the inner mansion, and King Taiyuan had a very large entourage, it was difficult for the old residence in the city to accommodate them, so they simply stayed in the city temporarily. In a military city outside.
I don't know whether Yu Jin intended it or not, but the military city that was cleared out in advance was the military residence where Li Tai served as the commander-in-chief of the rear army in Taifu. Li Tai did not reject this. The reason why he arranged for Yu Jin to return early was to send a slightly humane signal to the people in the same state, so as to prevent anyone from making any big mistakes during his return. trouble.
Today's King Taiyuan is already popular among the people at home and abroad, and Emperor Tuoba Kuo has made no secret of his dependence on King Taiyuan.
Although they didn't get along with each other for a long time, Tuoba Kuo has been deeply shocked by the former Otsuka Prime Minister Yuwentai since he came to the throne. In the past period, he suffered many frights. For Taiyuan King Li Boshan who can compete with Yuwentai's hegemony, he feels deeply in his heart. Naturally, he was full of good feelings and expectations.
And unlike Yu Wentai and other forces that suppressed the army, the Li family of Longxi, where King Taiyuan was born, also had a deep friendship and close contacts with their Yuan and Wei clans.
Therefore, in the process of welcoming King Taiyuan, the emperor could not help but make many intimate actions that violated the etiquette of the emperor and his ministers. When he moved to the military city, he repeatedly invited King Taiyuan to accompany him in the chariot. When Li Tai refused repeatedly, the emperor simply abandoned his chariot and rode his horse, and entered the city side by side.
The civil and military people from Tongzhou City, who belonged to the imperial court and the Chinese and Foreign Governments, naturally followed him all the way into the city. At this time, a banquet had already been arranged in the city to honor King Taiyuan.
After Li Tai entered the city lord's palace here, he saw some overly fancy and festive decorations, including some drinks prepared for the banquet, and ordered them to be removed. Of course, this may not necessarily mean that the officials who prepared the matter were negligent and made such an inappropriate arrangement. After all, it was still up to the King of Taiyuan himself to decide whether it was appropriate or not.
Because of the removal of these arrangements, the atmosphere also dropped a bit, and no one dared to grin and show their back teeth to show their enthusiasm for the return of King Taiyuan.
The people in the hall were sitting in attendance, while more people were queuing up outside the hall. It was not until the word came out in the hall that everyone outside the hall dispersed and sat down in the cottages on the left and right sides.
"This time the Eastern Campaign was unfavorable, but the king was able to resolutely lead the army north without regard to the past, turn the war into victory, and severely punish the traitors in the east. It can be described as heroic! I and the people of Kansai all admire the king's power and enjoy peace. As the king A spoonful to wash away the wind and sand stained by the journey!”
The emperor and Li Tai sat at the table together. Because Li Tai ordered the drinks to be removed, the emperor himself spooned the spoon and served it to Li Tai.
Li Tai quickly took it with both hands, but did not drink it directly. Instead, he held the soup in one hand and pointed at the Feng and other generals sitting in the hall and said: "I dare not take advantage of the merit of defeating the enemy. We all killed them side by side." It is a blessing for Your Majesty to have such a loyal and brave man to defend the country from the enemy."
After the emperor heard this, he quickly ordered the waiter to serve soup, and he distributed the soup to a group of Shannan Dao generals who followed Li Tai back home.
A total of 10,000 soldiers entered the customs with Li Tai this time, as well as Shi Lutong, the Chinese and foreign governor who had previously stayed in Tongguan, and others. As for Gao Le, Li Bi and others, they remained in Tongguan to meet and arrange for the defeated Chinese and foreign troops who were still returning from Heluo.
Although it was not a formal court meeting at the moment, Li Tai also knew that the people in Guanzhong were quite curious about the outcome of this battle, so he gave a brief introduction to the emperor and the people present.
This war was divided into two stages. Before the arrival of Li Tai and his troops, the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office suffered heavy defeats along the way. The specific losses were impossible to estimate.
As for Li Tai, he achieved fruitful results after various battles with the Northern Qi Dynasty. The first was to regain the previously lost territorial cities such as Xin'an Hanguan and Yiyang Jiuqu City, so that the front line basically returned to the situation before the war.
The second and most important thing is to rescue a large number of scattered and captured Chinese and foreign soldiers. The number of soldiers rescued and negotiated from the Northern Qi army alone reached nearly 30,000 soldiers. As for those soldiers from the Chinese and Foreign Governments who took the initiative to attach themselves after fleeing, there were about 20,000 people.
These people are the essence of the soldiers accumulated by the Zhongwai Mansion for many years of continuous military construction. In other words, if Li Tai had not gone to Heluo to participate in the war, even if we did not take into account those who died in the war, the more than 50,000 dead and captured I'm afraid it will be difficult for the soldiers to return to Guanzhong.
After the people present heard this data, they couldn't help but feel scared for a while. They couldn't even imagine what the Kansai regime would be like after such a huge defeat without King Taiyuan joining the war and bringing about a turnaround. situation.
Although the Battle of Mangshan many years ago also suffered heavy losses, at least there were still soldiers from the strong and powerful people in Guanxi who could supplement the troops with weapons. But if all the hundreds of thousands of troops in this eastern expedition were lost in this battle, the blow to the Kansai regime would be fatal!
Some Guanzhong Shiliu who had been persecuted by Duke Lueyang and Li Zhi before had some vague complaints in their hearts that the King of Taiyuan did not go directly to Guanzhong to take power, but went to Heluo instead of going directly to Guanzhong. They allowed Duke Lueyang to cause trouble, so they Even the great Sima Duguxin was brutally killed, and he felt that the King of Taiyuan had failed to make a choice in this incident.
But after hearing that King Taiyuan had saved so many Guanxi Erlangs in Heluo, such thoughts in these people's minds suddenly disappeared.
If the King of Taiyuan had gone directly to Guanzhong at that time, of course he would have been able to take over power smoothly, but what he would have taken over was a dilapidated and desolate Guanzhong with a weakened youth. Moreover, it would be very difficult to expand the army in the future. Even if the people fled to the mountains and fields, they would be afraid that I won’t let the sons and daughters enter the camp and die again.
While the crowd here was still lamenting the great achievements of King Taiyuan in this battle, another team arrived in Tongzhou City not long after, which was the team escorting the coffin of Otsuka Zai Yuwen Tai.
Unlike the excitement of hundreds of thousands of troops marching to the east a few months ago, and the scene where the emperor and his civil and military ministers greeted the King of Taiyuan not long ago, Yuwentai's coffin was guarded by only a thousand armored soldiers in front and back, and it was also guarded by Li The soldiers of Shannan Road led by Qu Ji.
Yu Wenhu was dressed in sackcloth, with his hair disheveled and barefoot, walking on foot beside the cart carrying his uncle's coffin. The corners of his lips were cracked and his throat was dry and hoarse. When he looked up and saw the gate of Tongzhou City, he suddenly felt sad again. Come, hold the coffin and whisper in a dry and weak tone: "Uncle, the soul is back, back... we are home!"
In front of the gate of Tongzhou City, when a large group of people followed the emperor and Wang Yi of Taiyuan to the military city, Yu Jin arranged for Yu Wentai's children and concubines to wait here.
Yuwentai had many children, but the eldest daughter died together with the deposed emperor Yuanqin. The two eldest sons also died in infancy. The third son Yuwenjue was in prison. The fourth son Yuwenyong, the Duke of Fucheng, was only 12 years old. The other sons They are even younger, and some are even held in swaddling clothes by servant women.
These young men and women did not know the cruelty of life and death. Some of them were still stamping their feet and complaining in the cold wind. When they saw their father's coffin, they had no idea what was going on. They just saw the older brothers and sisters weeping and crying, and there were two young and innocent endurers. He couldn't help covering his mouth and laughing.
Yu Jin was still holding back his grief, but when he heard the ignorant laughter of the children, he finally couldn't help but burst into tears. He stepped forward and held down the two children who were unaware of their father's coffin and said sadly: "Silly boy, in the car. It’s you, Aye. From now on, you don’t have a father anymore…”
In this world, sorrow and joy are never connected. Tongzhou City, the city that witnessed Yuwentai's rise in Kansai and his monopoly on hegemony, now only greets the return of its old master with silence and desolation.
As the new leader of the Ba Mansion, Li Tai naturally has personnel matters that he needs to deal with. It is also a good intention to leave the Zhongwai Mansion to the Yuwen family to take care of the funeral.
In front of the Chinese and Foreign Affairs Office, Yuwen Jue, Yu Chigang, Cai You and other people who had been imprisoned before were all released by Kai En at this time, and returned to the mansion to welcome Yu Wentai's coffin back to the mansion.
Yu Wenjue had been in a state of numbness since he was captured by Yu Jin. When he saw his father's coffin, he rushed forward and lay on the coffin and cried: "Ah, I was wrong! Ah, save me." I, save me, I don’t want to die, I don’t want to..."
Yu Wenhu, who was already weak from grief and fatigue, suddenly became furious when he saw Yu Wenjue, and a surge of strength surged up in his heart. He stepped forward and pulled Yu Wenjue off, still yelling in a hoarse tone: "Nie Zi, Nie Zi. Son! My uncle has been a hero for half his life, so why did he give birth to a scoundrel like you... But if you can keep yourself a little, why do you have such trouble with your family..."
A soldier came forward and separated the two people who were fighting. Yuchigang, who was extremely haggard, stepped forward to help Yuwenhu, who was on the verge of collapse. He still refused to give up and whispered to Yuwenhu in a low voice: "Cousin, Li Boshan is still willing to stay with you. Whether, whether you are willing to..."
He wanted to ask Li Boshan if he would appreciate his old love and be open-minded, but after hearing this, Yu Wenhu just shook his head sadly and said: "Don't think too much, shouldn't think too much... He just, just can't bear the deserted uncle's mourning hall..."
We can't escape, not even one of us can escape. For the sake of my uncle's honor after his death, we must die! I deserved it and was not afraid of death. I just hoped that he would keep his promise. He promised me that as long as the funeral for my uncle was properly completed, he would let me see my Amodun again. "