Chapter 257 The Consequences of Making a Deal with the Devil
Lengge’s originally mottled hair turned completely white in just ten days.
After realizing that something was not going well, he immediately withdrew his troops from Tongquan Fort, which frustrated Li Dachui's original hopes.
If Lengge delayed leaving for a few more days and Chen Liang's side captured Longgou Fort, the army would leave Longgou Fort and directly cut off Lengge's retreat.
This is the reason why Li Dachui placed his confidants Fang Maomao and Xia Zhi in Tongquan Fort.
It's just that Lenge's experience is too rich.
And he did not try his best to attack Tongquan Fort, which gave him a lot of room for tactical choices.
As soon as he heard that Longgou Fort had been lost, he immediately ran away.
The speed was so fast that before Chen Liang's troops, who had just occupied Longgou Fort, could even clear out the remaining enemies, Lengge had already run back to Qingtongxia.
As soon as this old boy returned, he began full-scale mobilization.
All the strong men in the surrounding area who were over fourteen and under sixty years old were recruited and trained into the army. Even the strong women were not spared, and they were all brought into the city to do some auxiliary work.
As for the elderly and children, Lengge has no control over them. Being alive is luck, and being dead is fate!
Lenge’s intuition is that once you leave, you will never come back.
The Anxi Protectorate's victory will inevitably drive the army to attack Qingtong Gorge and Yezhu Ridge and capture these two strategic locations.
Lengge has done quite well in these tasks,
But what he never expected was that his boss, His Highness Tie Le, would suffer a huge setback in Yandu.
Akedun came to power, and he also received the support of the Renduo family in the southern camp and the Xifeng family in the northern camp. This forced Tiele to retreat to Zhending and start over again there.
Of course Akedun would not forget the tens of thousands of troops in southern Xinjiang. The imperial envoy came to Qingtongxia immediately and offered Lengge a price. As long as Lengge was willing to be loyal to Akedun, Then Lengge became the commander-in-chief of southern Xinjiang on the spot.
At the same time, Tiele also sent people to Qingtongxia and told Lengge that he must guard Qingtongxia and Yezhuling. Tiele wanted to outline the southern Xinjiang territory with Zhending and Dading. Integrated.
Tie Le has been operating in southern Xinjiang for many years. He does not want to give up. Moreover, there is another advantage of continuing to occupy this place, which is to maintain strategic pressure on the Anxi Protectorate outside the pass. Although Tie Le also knows very well that the next step is to For many years after he came down, he had no spare energy to attack outside the customs. But by occupying these two places, he could control the commercial exchanges with outside the customs.
On top of the economy, this is definitely a great benefit to him.
In the confrontation with Akdon, it seems that Tiele is indeed at a disadvantage.
After the two major camps in the north and south expressed their attitudes, the powerful factions in various places in the Yuan Kingdom also successively sent envoys to Yandu.
Although they also secretly sent people to Tiele, the overt and covert actions showed who they were more optimistic about.
Sending people to Tiele was just a matter of convenience, just to prepare for an eventuality.
Lengge expelled the imperial envoys sent by Yandu.
The envoy sent by Tiele asked Lengge to kill the imperial envoy.
But Lengge didn't want to do anything too extreme. After all, he also had relatives in Yandu. If he killed the envoy, Akedun, a petty person, would take revenge.
Lengge was prepared for all wars and was just waiting for Xiao Changche and Li Dachui to lead the army to attack Qingtong Gorge and the wild boar line. However, he never expected that Xiao Changche and Li Dachui did not come. It's Zhebie.
Standing on the city wall, looking at the more than 10,000 cavalrymen coming with billowing smoke and dust in the distance, Lengge did not come back to his senses for a long time.
How could Zhebie break out of the heavy siege of Xiao Changche, Li Dachui and the others?
Lenge couldn’t figure it out.
“Open the door!” A roar frightened Lengge who was deep in thought. When he looked carefully, he saw Zhebie yelling and cursing outside the city gate.
Looking around, the soldiers were confused and all their eyes fell on Lengge.
Can you open the door?
This is a problem.
If you open the door, you will lose your dominance. This is inevitable, but now Zhebie is still the serious commander-in-chief of Southern Xinjiang, appointed by the late Emperor Yingzhuo himself.
The new emperor came to power, and he didn’t know whether he had forgotten or thought that Zhebie would definitely die in the hands of the Anxi Protectorate, but he didn’t even mention Zhebie.
This is very embarrassing.
The officials and soldiers up and down Qingtongxia all knew about Zhebie, and they refused to open the door, shutting out the great prince of Dayuan and the commander-in-chief of southern Xinjiang. Is this a rebellion?
Moreover, there are still Zhebie's remaining troops in the city. At this time, those people are already ready to make a move.
After hesitating for a long time, Lenge finally gave the order to open the door!
As more than 15,000 cavalrymen poured into Qingtongxia City, Lengge's fate was already sealed.
Zhebie stood high in the lobby with a stern expression. With the sound of drums, officers hurried here one after another. After saluting, they found their positions and stood.
Everyone has uneasiness on their faces. Because at this moment, Jebe's army is taking over all the key positions in the city.
Outside the lobby, the leader of the Barbarians, An Xuan, was carrying two bare sticks and patrolling around with murderous intent. Around the lobby, thousands of Barbarians were fully armed and seemed to be selecting people. And the appearance of eating.
Zhebie’s cold eyes swept across the hundreds of generals, big and small, in the lobby for a long time.
Whether it was the commander-in-chief of Southern Xinjiang, the identity of the Great Prince of Dayuan, or Zhe Regardless of past achievements,
for these people in the lobby, they all have crushing pressure,
Except for Lengge and a few others, the others lowered their heads involuntarily.
"I lost this battle!" Zhebie's cold voice echoed in the lobby. "We lost our troops and generals, and the defeat was extremely miserable. Even General Che Zhe had his head chopped off by the enemy!"
Many people raised their heads in shock.
Che Zhe was also a famous warrior in Dayuan. He never expected that he would never come back after leaving.
"There is no general who is always victorious in the world. Victory and defeat are common on the battlefield. But this time, I am not convinced at all by losing!" Zhe said goodbye: "Because my defeat was too frustrating and too infuriating. Yes. Do you know why?”
Zhebie stood up abruptly, glared at the afternoon, and shouted: "Because our army has not set off yet, all military plans have been sold out. An Xuan met Li Dachui, and Che Zhe bumped into After getting on Xiao Chang's car, haha, they were surrounded by a desperate situation. An Xuan barely escaped with his life, but Che Zhe never came back!"
Lengge turned to look at his superiors! Zhe said goodbye angrily: "Commander, victory or defeat is a common thing for military officers, but failure cannot be attributed to something that does not exist. Li Dachui and Xiao Changche are famous generals outside the pass. It is not unfair to lose to them. In the past, the Second Highness also We often lose to them."
Zhebie laughed, "Well said, Lengge, God is watching what people do. Things that they think are perfect are actually full of holes. There are loopholes everywhere, don’t you have anything to say to me?”
Lengge looked at Zhebie with a surprised expression: “Commander, what can I say to you?” We were deceived, and not only did we pay a large amount of money and food in vain, but in the end, Chang's army and Chen Liang's army were dispatched to steal the retreat. It is an extremely risky thing to conspire with the tiger. In the future, we must be more careful. "
Zhebie leaned forward, his eyes full of murderous intent: "Lengge, I gave you a chance, you don't want it!"
Lengge and Zhebie looked at each other, but they were not afraid of each other at all.
Zhebie sat down slowly and clapped his hands.
The sound of footsteps was heard outside, and a moment later, several people who were tied up were dragged into the lobby by barbarians, and were thrown in front of Lengge.
Lengge was stunned.
How could these people fall into the hands of Zhebie?
He suddenly looked up and saw Zhebie's sarcastic face.
You could collude with the Anxi Protectorate to sell out Dayuan's interests, but you didn't expect that you would be completely sold out by the Anxi Protectorate backhand, right?
"Lengge, what else do you have to say?"
At this moment, Lengge had countless things running through his mind and figured out the whole story. I also understood why Zhebie was able to come back with half of his army under such circumstances.
Sure enough, there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, only eternal interests.
His Highness and himself were making a deal with the devil, and now that they have been betrayed by the devil, there is nothing to complain about.
The coup in Yandu, His Highness the Second Highness and His Highness the Third Highness met each other in battle. Naturally, His Highness was not willing to become a spectator. He must have reached a deal with the Anxi Protectorate.
The price of the transaction must be Qingtong Gorge and Yeboar Ridge.
Zhebei doesn't care about these two places because his base is in the north. When he returns this time, he will definitely return directly to the north.
So he really doesn’t care whether Qingtong Gorge and Yezhu Ridge are lost or not.
Those affected were Tiele and Akhtun, especially Tiele, who lost the territory he had managed for many years.
Of course, Dayuan will be the one who suffers in the end.
No matter who wins the final victory in the battle for the Great Yuan throne in the future, it will be extremely difficult to regain these two places.
More than twenty years ago, the late Emperor Yingzhuo took advantage of the chaos in the Qin State and the large-scale purge of the Qin State's border troops to obtain these two places.
The world reincarnates, and retribution is unpleasant!
Now it was the turn of the Yuan Dynasty to have civil strife, and the Qin people took advantage of it.
Zhebie waved his hand, and several barbarians stepped forward and pressed Lengge to the ground with his arms folded behind his back.
Lenge did not struggle.
There are only a few people who really know about the transaction with the Anxi Protectorate. Just looking at the surprised, shocked and angry eyes of the generals in the big tent, Lengge knew that he did not There is no room for counterattack.
And when it comes to cultivation, whether it is Zhebie or An Xuan, they are all existences that can crush him.
"Your Highness, please don't give up Qingtongxia Yeboar Ridge! For Dayuan, for Dayuan!" Lengge raised his head hard and looked at Zhebie and said loudly.
“I don’t need a traitor like you to teach me how to do things!” Zhebie said coldly.
(End of this chapter)