Chapter 1824: The Third Battle of Luoyang (II)

After learning that the grain and grass in Pingxian County had been burned, Li Shimin was also so angry that he gritted his teeth, but it was to no avail, so he could only order the people in the city to hand over the grain, only the basic rations were allowed to be kept, and he promised that he would return the full amount in the future.

Tang Jun, who was born in the Liang family, has a bad image in the hearts of the people of Sizhou, and of course it is impossible to hand over the precious grain because of Li Shimin's words.

Li Shimin saw that not many people were willing to take the initiative to pay food, so he had no choice but to set up troops to grab food.

Although Li Shimin loves his reputation very much, in today's situation, it is not the time to cherish his reputation.

Although Li Shimin repeatedly ordered the soldiers not to harm the people, but once the robbery started, where could the soldiers take care of so much? Naturally, it caused a lot of killings to the people of Ping County.

When Li Shimin learned about it, he was naturally furious, and executed dozens of soldiers in one fell swoop, including a captain, wanting to deter other soldiers.

Sure enough, after the rest of the soldiers learned about it, their hearts were all in shock, and when they grabbed the food again, their hands and feet were also much cleaner.

"Lord Qi, the patriarch of the three major local families asks to see me."

"Oh?"

Li Shimin showed a look of surprise, and then nodded and said, "Let them in." ”

Li Shimin thought that the three patriarchs came to see him in order to protect the family, but he didn't expect that the three of them were here to send grain and grass, and they didn't want anything in return.

"The Zhang family is willing to support the Tang King with 15,000 stones of grain and grass."

"My royal family is willing to give 13,000 stones."

"My Li family paid 12,000 stones."

Pingxian is just a small county with a population of tens of thousands, and the Tang army only grabbed 50,000 stone grain and grass in the whole city, and now only these three families in Ping County have contributed 40,000 stone grain and grass to the Tang army, accounting for four-fifths of the total grain and grass in the city, which shows how rich the family is.

Li Shimin resisted the urge to rob other families, and secretly estimated in his heart that this should be the limit of the three major families in Pingxian County, after all, it is not a big family, it is just a small family living in a small county, and it is already very good to be able to take out 40,000 stones at one time.

For the more than 60,000 Tang troops, 90,000 stone of grain is just a drop in the bucket, and it cannot completely solve the grain and grass crisis of the Tang army, but there is no problem in responding to emergencies in a short period of time.

"Your kindness, this king remembers, after the attack on Luoyang, your benefits will be indispensable."

Li Shimin said with a smile, and directly said that he had empty white teeth, and he spent a big cake for the three family heads.

Hearing this, after the three of them looked at each other, the head of the Li family stood up tremblingly and said, "We are also following the orders of Lord Yang Jun, as long as the Li Tang army arrives in Ping County, we will provide food and grass for the Li Tang army." ”

"Yang Jun?"

Li Shimin chattered, and the image of an elegant middle-aged man appeared in his mind, and this person was Yang Jun, who was born in the Yang family of Hongnong and was one of the officials of the Imperial Party.

Yang Jun, as an imperial party, would support the Tang army to resist Qin, Li Shimin was not surprised, but he didn't expect that the other party could predict that he would be short of materials, which made Li Shimin feel a little incredible.

"Did Yang Jun come to tell you in person?" Li Shimin asked.

"No, no, Lord Yang Jun is a big move, how can this kind of big event of raiding the family and exterminating the clan come in person, it is two teenagers who came with the token of Lord Yang Jun, and one of the teenagers also said: If the Tang army is short of food and grass, it can divide the troops to take Wen County."

"Wen County is not a big county of grain and grass, even if you take it, how much grain and grass can you get?" Li Shimin frowned.

"My lord, although Wen County is a big county in Tuntian, there are many big families, such as: Sima family, Wei family and other families. These families should have a lot of grain reserves. ”

"Sima's family?"

Li Shimin's eyes lit up suddenly, he patted his head suddenly, and said with a smile: "By the way, Wen County, Sima's family is also in Wen County." ”

A hint of playfulness flashed in Li Shimin's eyes, and he said with a smile: "Interesting, these royalists are really hidden, no wonder Jia Xu Lao'er has never attacked the imperial party."

That's it, since someone took the initiative to send food to my army, then the king will laugh at it.

Hou Junji, you lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to Wen County. ”

"No."

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With the fall of Pingxian, Qin Yu abandoned the city and fled back to Luoyang, bringing back the news that Li Tang's army was approaching Luoyang, and the whole Luoyang was suddenly in chaos.

Qin Chan, in fact, is Ying Zheng's younger brother, Chang'an Jun Ying Cheng Chan, after his debut, he served as the county commander of Ping County in Yin, Henan.

When he learned that Li Tang's army was approaching Pingxian, Ying Chengcheng was also very confused, and he didn't understand what Li Tang's army was doing in his small Ping County, but after thinking about it, the only thing that could make Li Tang look at Pingxian was the grain and grass in the grain depot.

Realizing that Li Tang might be short of grain and grass, Cheng Cheng decisively burned the grain depot in Pingxian County, and took advantage of the fact that the Tang army had not yet besieged the city, and fled all the way back to Luoyang with more than a dozen personal guard cavalry.

For the matter of abandoning the city and escaping, Cheng Chan did not have any psychological burden, after all, the three hundred county soldiers in Pingxian County could never stop the tens of thousands of Li Tang's army, and staying was simply looking for death.

After pouring a large mouthful of water, Cheng Chan said to the Qin family disciples around him: "Let me tell you, if it weren't for luck this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come back......"

Cheng Chan added fuel to his experience along the way, of course, the truth is not as thrilling as he said, at least Li Shimin did not send five thousand elite horsemen to pursue more than a dozen of them, he would say this to reduce the guilt of abandoning the city.

The disciples of the Qin family are not all fools, Qin Jian took care of Cheng Cheng Zao at a glance and bragged about it, and said with a speechless face: "Brother Chan, your cowhide is too outrageous, just a dozen of you, Li Shimin will send 5,000 cavalry?" You think your lordship is the lord. ”

"Hahaha......" Everyone burst into laughter.

Seeing this, Cheng Chan was also anxious: "Really, if you don't believe it, you can ask my personal guards." ”

"Come on, those guards are all your people, can they help you speak? However, you did a good job of burning down the grain depot in Pingxian County, and it is estimated that it can offset your guilt of fleeing without a fight. Qin Si said with a smile.

"Brother Si, how do you speak, am I running away without a fight? That's called not making unnecessary sacrifices. There are only 300 county soldiers in Ping County, but there are tens of thousands of Li Tang's army who came to attack, even if Bai Qi is the governor of the capital, he will definitely not be able to win. ”

"If you're reasonable, you can't say it."

"That's what it was."

"Okay, don't talk about it, the fourth uncle is here."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was not discussing, they all returned to their respective positions, waiting for Qin Jian to arrive.

After Qin Jian arrived, he patted Cheng Zhi's shoulder: "Jiao'er, it's good to come back, although it doesn't sound good to run away without a fight, but this time I can't blame you, but I did a good job of burning grain." ”

Hearing this, Cheng Chan suddenly exhaled a long breath of turbidity, he was afraid of death before, for fear that fleeing without a fight would affect his next career, but now it seems that it should have no impact.