sjar Chapter 260 How the Queen Wants Me to Reward You
Chapter 260 How the Queen Wants Me to Reward You
The wall of Yuchengguan was blown up?
At this moment, everyone looked at each other with a hint of trance in their eyes.
Even if they had never been to the border, they knew the significance of thick city walls in defending against the enemy.
But what is that explosive?
Is that thing really that powerful?
Doubts flashed through everyone's mind, and even the emperor was concentrating on waiting for Lu Xin's next words.
Lu Xinran was flipping through the pamphlets of several deputy generals. During the siege of Yucheng Pass, the queen had been on the south gate side, farthest away from Ma Linyuan, so the news she knew was told to her by others afterwards.
Two of the six deputy generals happened to be following Ma Linyuan. Xie Lang was worried that Ma Linyuan would lose all the 50,000 men he sent over from the north gate.
They just happened to see the whole process. Lu Xinran flipped through the book and then sighed.
[When attacking the city, the Queen and General Xie specifically mentioned that the use of explosives was not allowed. The walls of Yucheng Pass had been in disrepair for a long time and could not withstand the flames of war. However, Ma Linyuan was eager to win, and after learning the formula and production method of explosives, he made hundreds of them privately.]
[He exchanged almost all the resources he brought from the capital for materials that could be used to make explosives, and even took away most of the food and fodder.]
[Just to have an absolute advantage after victory so that General Xie and General Qi can give up their positions as the commander of Yucheng Pass to him.]
[Unfortunately, man proposes, God disposes. His reckless and uncaring approach caused the foreign tribes in the city, who were already frightened by the gunpowder, to fall into complete panic.]
[Even Chahar was ready to abandon the city and flee at the repeated requests of his subordinates.]
【Originally, Chahar was planning to escape from the west gate, and General Qi led his troops to attack that side. However, due to General Qi's injuries, the attack was the slowest.】
[But Ma Linyuan was too clever before the battle. When he arrived at the border, he tried his best to bribe one of Chahar's men. If he wanted to gain military merit, he needed Chahar to escape from the north gate.]
[That subordinate teamed up with several other people and successfully persuaded Chahar to open the north gate despite the power of explosives, preparing to escape from Yucheng Pass and return to the outside of the pass to plan the follow-up.]
[But Ma Linyuan had made so many preparations in order to capture Chahar alive and escort him back to Beijing in exchange for a reward, so he led his troops to charge up as soon as the city gate opened.]
[The soldiers who had not yet withdrawn from the city wall launched a hail of arrows, and Ma Linyuan was pierced like a sieve. The two lieutenants following him did not even have a chance to stop them.]
[When the rain of arrows stopped, Ma Linyuan had already fallen off his horse, and Chahar's warhorse had trampled over his body.]
[All this happened too quickly. Once Ma Linyuan died, all the soldiers he brought with him became headless flies and had no way to stop Chahar.]
[When General Xie and General Qi received the news and rushed over, they only saw Chahar and his men running away, and the city wall was half collapsed by the explosion.]
[General Xie has already given Ma Linyuan some respect by not reporting his suicidal behavior in the military newspaper.]
[It's a pity that he was willing to give Ma Linyuan the last bit of dignity, but he forgot that the emperor was suspicious. The more he covered up for him, the more suspicious the emperor would be, thinking that they took advantage of the chaos to kill him.]
[Tsk, the emperor's political tactics... are really ridiculous. ]
After Lu Xinran flipped through the booklets of several people, he sighed and sat up straight.
She quietly pulled Lu Xinlan beside her: "Why is it so quiet all of a sudden?"
Why does the emperor act like everyone in the world owes him ten taels of silver?
Lu Xinlan came to her senses. When she was at Yucheng Pass, she heard many people talking about how Ma Linyuan died in the battle. There were also some people in the city who took the opportunity to discredit Xie Lang and Qi Yu.
She had some doubts about the cause of Ma Linyuan's death, but she didn't expect the truth to be so ridiculous.
"Maybe... because His Majesty hasn't spoken yet."
We must always give the emperor some face.
The queen looked at the emperor calmly. This was the truth.
He carefully selected a fool to go to the border, who not only failed to help at all, but also blew up the city wall of Yucheng Pass.
Once the city wall was blown up, the city was like it had not been conquered. The soldiers defending the city needed to stay alert at all times to guard against Chahar leading his troops back again.
The emperor closed his eyes and slowly exhaled. He still couldn't accept that what he had just said was the truth.
Malinyuan!
How can you be so stupid!
Doesn't his behavior make the person who sent the person look particularly stupid?
"Minister of War!"
The reward could not be delayed any longer, so he calmed down and called out.
Zhang Yongping, who had just arrived at the square, did not bother to go back and sit down. He walked to the side of the queen with the draft decree of reward in his hands.
"His Majesty."
He bowed and handed the draft edict to Eunuch Fu, then calmly stood up and watched the emperor take the edict and glanced at it coldly.
"Just give the rewards according to your plan. As for the queen..."
He rubbed his fingers gently on his knees: "How does the Queen want me to reward you?"
"I beg Your Majesty to allow the younger generation of the Zhang family to join the army again and do their part for the country of Great Chu."
He asked, and the queen begged without hesitation.
This is what the younger generations of the Zhang family deserve, and she just wants to help them get it back.
The emperor's eyes suddenly became sharp. He thought that with the queen's intelligence, she would say that it was her duty to share the emperor's worries.
From beginning to end, he never thought about rewarding the queen, let alone letting the younger generation of the Zhang family return to the army.
His eyes swept back and forth between the Queen and Zhang Yongping. Just as he began to suspect that the father and daughter had conspired to regain military power, that inappropriate voice in his mind reappeared.
[How could the Queen be so stupid? Given the dog Emperor's suspicion and pettiness, if the younger generation of the Zhang family really went to the border, wouldn't he find all kinds of reasons to get rid of them all? ]
[The emperor clearly cannot tolerate the Zhang family, so why should she be so foolish? Even if she feels sorry for the people living on the border, she cannot harm her own family.]
[Doesn't Ma Linyuan have sons? He's quite fertile, with eight or nine sons, including legitimate and illegitimate ones. Throwing so many of them into Yucheng Pass will at least fill up one of the holes in the city wall.]
[You are loyal to the king, but the king cannot tolerate you. Why bother?]
The contemptuous voice made the emperor instantly change the rejection that was about to come to his lips. He glanced at Lu Xinran who was lowering his head and complaining about him madly, and replied with a "OK".
The Queen clenched and unclenched her hands at her sides.
Fortunately, she knew that Lu Xinran would not be able to help but stand up for her at this time, and even if the emperor had doubts, he would agree to her request.
Everything was just as she had imagined before returning to Beijing. All her goals were achieved, except for one last thing.
"Your Majesty, the walls of Yucheng Pass have been severely damaged. If they are not torn down and rebuilt, the border will be difficult to protect. I beg Your Majesty to mobilize supplies to help Yucheng Pass repair the walls and resist foreign invaders."