After Li Hong shot another arrow, the city gate finally opened slowly. The defenders of Shangyi City led their soldiers and stood on both sides of the city gate. No weapons were in their hands. A white flag was He held it behind him and shook it toward the Tang army.
"Your Highness...the guard general..." Hua Meng raised his telescope, glanced at the guard general and the lieutenants, and said doubtfully.
"He's been replaced. Pay attention to the soldiers around him. They must be among them. Control them as soon as they approach the city gate." Li Hong tucked his horse under its belly and took the lead towards the city gate.
The letter of surrender is an indispensable document for abandoning the city and surrendering. It needs to be handed into the hands of the superior generals, so as to ensure that the soldiers defending the city will not be slaughtered by the superior generals in anger.
The three thousand troops behind them were still taking their time, keeping a distance of about a hundred steps from the three people in front, but the bows and crossbows in their hands were all on the strings, ready to shoot at all times.
Euljihou, the guard of Hanyi City, saw that although the Tang army was peaceful but extremely cautious, he poked the guard behind him and signaled him to step forward immediately and hand over the surrender document, so as not to make the Tang army suspicious.
Li Hong sat on his horse, looked at the guard running over, and took the surrender document from his hand. During the whole process, he did not even look at the real guard behind the guard who was pretending to be a soldier.
Sitting on the horse with a leisurely expression, he naturally let the fake guard hold the reins for him and walked into the city step by step.
At this time, the rapid sound of horse hooves sounded behind him. Lieutenant Tuqi, the captain of His Royal Highness's personal guard, looked at the Goguryeo soldiers who turned around and shouted: "I am the captain of the general's personal guard. I am entering the city this time. It’s my turn to defend the general.”
After finishing speaking, without waiting for the reaction of the fake guard general of Goguryeo, Yu Tuqi took the lead. By coincidence, he, Hua Meng, Jingzhe, and other guardsmen behind him surrounded the fake guard general, the real guard general, and others. surrounded.
The real guard general Eul Jihou and the two lieutenants next to him who were also pretending to be soldiers looked at each other and felt their eyes go dark. The man who was like an iron rod and said he was the captain of the general's personal guard grabbed him. shoulder, and a bright and sharp blade was already placed on his neck.
Yutuqi's hand as big as a leaf fan held a small dagger, which made other Goguryeo soldiers unable to see it. His guard general and lieutenant general had completely controlled the Tang army before they completely entered the city. Guarding General, and their disguise as a general was discovered by Shang Guo before it started to work.
Eul Jihou and his two guards were shocked. Three pairs of eyes were filled with surprise and confusion at the same time. How could this be possible? How did they find themselves swapping clothes with the soldiers
Even if he and others had appeared on the top of the city, they were still more than 500 steps away from the Tang army. Could they be clairvoyant? Can you see yourself and others clearly from such a distance
They never imagined that there was indeed something called a clairvoyant in the Tang Dynasty, and their identities were already confirmed when they first climbed onto the tower.
Li Hong continued to sit upright on the horse, looking at the generals who had been actually controlled, with a sneer on his lips. Behind him, there was also the deafening sound of horse hooves. At this time, three thousand soldiers and horses had entered the city and began to march towards Go with their officials.
Just when Li Hong entered the humiliating city and began to actually control the entire city and 50,000 Goguryeo soldiers, in a palace in the Daming Palace in Chang'an City, Princess Wencheng and Princess Honghua were invited to the harem by his dragon mother.
Together with the two royal clan princesses, His Majesty's biological sisters Princess Chengyang and Princess Xincheng, and the late emperor's nineteenth daughter Princess Lanling, the five daughters were currently engaged in a verbal exchange accompanied by King Pei Li Xian.
Naturally, their argument from the beginning was over the prince Li Hong, who was taking over the humiliating city in Liaodong.
Wencheng and Honghua, who were divided into two factions, naturally had a bad impression of Li Hong. One was actually controlled by Li Hong in Tubo, and the other was occupied by Li Hong and refused to return their land.
In this case, it would be strange for Wencheng and Honghua to have a good impression of Li Hongneng.
As for Chengyang, Xincheng and Lanling, because they had been close to Li Hong in recent years, they naturally criticized Wencheng and Honghua's scolding of Li Hong.
"Isn't it right for Sister Wencheng to say that? Tubo Zampu is still your grandson Mansong Mangzan, how come you became the prince Li Hong and forcibly occupied Tubo? Then Pei Xingjian, Dai Zhide and Na Mazai, in Tubo Isn’t it to help the people of Tubo who are in dire straits? Even if you make suggestions and work hard for Tubo, you can’t say that you are doing harm to Tubo, right? Since last year, there has been a famine in Guanzhong, and Tubo has eaten all You can't turn a blind eye to these things and just criticize them," Xincheng said calmly as he looked at his newly dyed nails.
Xincheng was the late emperor's favorite royal princess when he was still alive. She was born in the eighth year of Zhenguan and is only thirty-seven or eighteen years old now. However, she was the biological daughter of the late emperor and the empress's eldest grandson, and she was the last princess of the late emperor. You can imagine how deeply affected she was. Pampered.
Even the current emperor, His Majesty Li Zhi, treats Xincheng, his biological sister, much better than other princesses.
So when Wen Cheng started to accuse Li Hong, with her temperament, she was naturally the first to stand up and come to Li Hong's rescue.
Wen Cheng, dressed in green monk robes, raised his head and glanced at the new city, sighed and said: "The country is no longer a country. Mangsong Mangzan is now just Tubo's puppet Zampu. The real power has been divided between Pei Xingjian, Ma Zai and Dai Zhide. Do you think these facts are right? Don’t admit it? Tubo has always been on good terms with the Tang Dynasty, but this is the first time I have heard of the Tang prince treating his allies like this.”
"Friendly country? If it were really a friendly country, then the Tang Dynasty would not have been forced to send the prince to the desolate Anxi to guard against other people's ambitions, and he had been there for four years. I don't know why. Whoever went there is actually helping others to speak up." Lan Ling would not sit idly by and after hearing Wen Cheng's words, he mocked Wen Cheng and made fun of Hong Hua.
Tuyuhun in Honghua was occupied by Tubo back then, and since Li Hong went to Anxi, he suppressed Tubo and took back Tuyuhun and other places from Tubo. Now Honghua hopes to let the Tang Dynasty conquer the country without spending a single soldier. Hand over Tuyuhun and other places to them and restore the country again.
Wen Cheng glanced at Lan Ling coldly. It was okay for others to say so. What did she think was going on? Back then, I was married to Tubo. Who didn’t know that when Tubo proposed marriage, they hoped that the princess they would marry would be her, Lanling!
"Lan Ling, don't forget who I married for. If you hadn't cried so hard in front of the late emperor that you didn't want to, your country would have been invaded by the prince now. If it were you, would you be happy? Get up?" Wen Cheng retorted coldly.
Honghua's face turned green and red at this time. Both sides had the benefits she wanted, but neither side took her seriously. In the end, she made up her mind to join Wen Cheng in crusading Li Hong, hoping to use this opportunity Opportunity to get what you want.
After all, if His Majesty agrees to return the actual control of Tubo to Tubo, then he must also agree to his request and return Tuyuhun's land to himself.
Lan Ling seemed not to have heard the irony in Wen Cheng's words. He shook his head, with the shiny golden steps dangling on his head, and said nonchalantly: "Tubo's proposal of marriage back then was just wishful thinking on Tubo's part. I am willing, will my father be willing? So when you married Tubo, it was your business, not to replace me, Lanling. To put it bluntly, Tubo is as good as the royal family of the Tang Dynasty? "
Lan Ling's words were like knives, making Wencheng's face immediately filled with frost. If the royal family couldn't reach such a high level, could the clan also be able to achieve such a high level? With such slander and ridicule of Tubo's low status, Wencheng, the mother of Tubo's holy savior and Buddha, could no longer hold back and stood up in anger.
"What? Did I say something wrong? If you still admit that you are the royal family of the Tang Dynasty, you should forget about the distant Tubo and eat fast and chant Buddha in Chang'an instead of trying to gain benefits for Tubo, weaken the Tang Dynasty, and destroy Anxi The people are in the flames of war!" Lan Ling also stood up and looked at Wencheng without giving in.
"Isn't it bad now? No matter it's Anxi or Tubo, no matter who it is, at least the people's lives are becoming more and more comfortable. Compared with the tense situation in the past few years, I don't know how much peace there is. Could it be that Sister Wencheng only wants to see Tubo Are we always at war with Datang?" Chengyang pulled Lan Ling's sleeves, motioned for her to sit down, and looked at Wen Cheng, whose face was ashen.
The Tang Dynasty is definitely a strange country. Especially after entering the Gaozong period, feminism was not as popular in any dynasty as during this period. Even before Wu Zetian ascended the throne and became the empress, there were no royal princesses in the Tang Dynasty. A few peaceful masters.
Among the well-known royal princesses of the Tang Dynasty in the previous life, there were many who carried out their consorts' affairs on their backs.
And these people who are now sitting in the Tang Dynasty Palace, Chengyang and Xincheng, their current husbands are their second princes-in-law.
As for those involved in political affairs, or in the overt and covert struggles between royal family members, most of them were initiated by the princesses of the royal family members.
During the period when the Sui Dynasty was just overturned and the country was founded, Princess Pingyang, the princess of the great ancestor Li Yuan, made great contributions to Li Yuan's founding of the Tang Dynasty by relying on her daughter to defend Niangziguan.
If he hadn't died early, maybe Li Shimin would have had to wrestle with his sister before launching the Xuanwu Gate Revolution.
In any case, we have to say that feminism at this time was definitely the most popular era in Chinese history. Especially after Wu Zetian ascended the throne as the emperor, whether it was Princess Taiping Li Lingyue, the gentle and intellectual Shangguan Wan'er, or Li Zhe's Queen Wei, which one was more economical
Li's Tang Dynasty has been able to last for nearly three hundred years. The reality of weak men and strong women definitely exists. This makes people have to wonder whether Li Tang Dynasty relied on most of its brilliant achievements. luck
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