Chapter 640: Defection
In fact, no matter what Li Po thinks, he has taken advantage of it.
Wang Shichong and Li Jiancheng undoubtedly made a loss-making deal, Shan Xiongxin defected, Zhang Shigui also disappeared, this war that began with temptation started very suddenly, and ended inexplicably.
But the course of the war will not change because of this, but Li Jiancheng seems to see the ugly face of his father after receiving the news, and the gloating face of King Qin, so he becomes more and more cautious, and the idea of not seeking merit but seeking no fault finally completely prevails.
Therefore, the Tang army in the direction of Tongguan quieted down suddenly, as if putting on a look, let you wind and rain, I will not move.
Wang Shichong is diametrically opposed to Li Jiancheng, he was very intense after being stimulated hard.
Of course, there is no need to expect him to play any new tricks, only to kill people.
Wang Shiwei, the king of Chu, was naturally fine, and the generals who fled back were unlucky, one counted as one, and in Wang Shichong's roar, their heads fell to the ground.
That is, Shan Xiongxin runs fast, otherwise, his head will definitely fall much faster than others.
It didn't take long for dozens of human heads to be bloodily pierced on several high poles of the Chinese army, and they kept moving with the emperor's chariot, and the terrifying scene looked at the soldiers in the eyes of the soldiers, as if there was a demon king from hell living here.
The soaring hell black flame is gathering and burning above the head of Emperor Zheng Guo, which can not only burn others to ashes, but also roast himself, only Wang Shichong himself thinks that this is the breath of a serious emperor.
He didn't pay attention to the whispers of the generals, just enjoying the frightened eyes they looked at him, and he was still swimming in his dreams, there was only one emperor here, who could they follow if they didn't follow him?
Speaking of this, he actually understands that he feels that he can still bear the loss of 50,000 troops, and Shan Xiongxin will have to catch that thief sooner or later, and peel off the skin and bones like Li Mi, and those Wagang generals will be honest.
This descendant of the Hu people of the Western Regions is undoubtedly a little crazy, and in essence he is no different from Yang Guang nine years after the Great Cause, they are paranoid, and they refuse to admit any failure, so failure follows.
There was no shortage of brutal and crazy guys in the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and Wang Shichong can undoubtedly be called the best among them.
But some people are still stimulating him one after another, that night, Wang Shichong's army was stationed in Hongnong, and the killing during the day made everyone in the army tremble, and even people like Chen Guogong Duan Da did not want to approach the bloody Chinese army tent anymore.
In the night, the army was silent, and some figures quietly left the barracks with the horses that had already been wrapped in horses' hooves and plugged horses' mouths, and only when they left the army did they turn over their horses and gallop westward.
It wasn't until dawn that Wang Shichong was carefully woken up from his sleep by his attendants, and stammered to tell him that the Duke of Jiguo, the hussar general Cheng Zhijie, the Duke of Liguo, and the general Qin Qiong of Longxiang were gone.
Wang Shichong, who was a little confused, was still thinking, how could these two generals whom he had always respected not see? Did you go to inspect the barracks, and this little thing also bothered him, and he was impatient?
The attendant struggled to control his fear, and presented a letter, which was a letter left by Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong.
The gist of the letter is that the two of us have surrendered to the prince, and you treat us well, and we are grateful, but we are also heroes and heroes, and we were going to help the Maven and make meritorious achievements, but look at your current appearance, who would dare to continue to follow you when you are so brutal and crazy?
As the old saying goes, if you are together, you will come and go, so let's leave first, and you don't have to send it.
Well, the two Shandong thieves ran away quietly, and what is more hateful than Shan Xiongxin is that the two guys didn't make a mistake at all, and they slipped away when they were about to be reused.
The naturally angry Wang Shichong was smoking, tore the letter to pieces, and then pulled out a knife to kill the attendants, fortunately, Duan Da came in time, otherwise the angry Wang Shichong might have to wash the Chinese army's big tent in blood.
In fact, what Wang Shichong didn't know was that Qin Qiong and the two of them were harmed by Shan Xiongxin, and fortunately for them, Shan Xiongxin's biography happened to fall into the hands of Qin Qiong's henchmen, leaving the two of them with the initiative.
Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong have always maintained a "good" relationship, mainly because the two of them are fellow villagers in Shandong and have known each other in the early years.
The experiences of the two people are very different, Cheng Zhijie was born as a smuggler of salt, and later pulled a group of veterans who came back from the expedition to Liaodong to make trouble in their hometown.
And Qin Qiong was already following Zhang Xutuo's side at that meeting, so the two of them were enemies, but Cheng Zhijie's noise was too small, and he couldn't let Zhang Xutuo come to the door.
Later, the two of them voted for Li Mi, and finally came to one place, under the "sympathy for each other", the friendship has been relatively close, and under the command of Wang Shichong, the two of them stood completely in one place, resisting the exclusion and attack from the Luoyang Gate Valve and the old Wagang Department.
So there were a lot of people gathered around them, and their official positions were also rising, and they finally had the meaning of becoming famous.
It's just that the good days don't last long, and Shan Xiongxin, who was the most powerful suppressed by the two of them, gave them a hard blow when he defected, which made the two of them jump in shock.
Of course, in fact, the two of them have already had the heart to leave, and Wang Shichong, who has no food and grass, and is very treacherous and irritable, looks precarious, and they don't want to do anything to cover the nest, but the glory and wealth that the two have been reluctant to get hold of, have been delayed until today.
Otherwise, according to their officials and the unstoppable realm of rampant Luoyang, it is really much easier to escape from Luoyang than others.
What about this, they don't care about it so much, who the hell knows if Shan Xiongxin didn't write a letter and send it back?
If the letter falls into Wang Shichong's hands, both of them know what the result is, Wang Shichong is already crazy, and they don't want to use their own lives to try Wang Shichong's madness.
So the two discussed it a little, and then defected with their henchmen, not caring about the life or death of those who followed them, the people who came out of Shandong, and experienced the war in Henan, this little bit of heart is simply a necessary quality, not worth making a fuss.
A very strange thing happened, the subordinate generals defected one after another, and before they reached Tongguan, Wang Shichong's army had shown a tendency to fall apart.
Because whether it is Shan Xiongxin, Cheng Zhijie, or Qin Qiong, they all have words and labels such as Wagang General and Li Mi's old department, which does not refer to one person or two people, it is a relatively large group of military generals, and it is a collective that is enough to compete with the Henan Shiba in Henan.
They fled one after another, in fact, like sticks waved on Wang Shichong's head, beating him dizzy and at a loss.
The usual methods gradually lose their effectiveness in the face of immediate results, and even play a role in fueling the fire, and the impression of indiscriminate killings is too bad.
The rewards and punishments are unfair, and they are crazy about killing, and the Henan generals who are already full of ambitions, once they make a mistake, the first thing they think of is not to stretch their necks and wait for the emperor to cut them, but to turn around and run, or resist on the spot.
Wang Shichong, who wanted to kill people again, was finally persuaded by Duan Da, and Li Mi's old troops led many elites, and they were scattered all over the army, which was difficult to pull out.
In fact, this is also where Duan Da's resentment lies, even if those Luoyang princess children are counted, it is nothing for us to fight with them, but a group of bandits are popular in Luoyang, what kind of reason is this?
Of course, a smart Duan Da would not fail to understand that the main culprit for this situation was this Emperor Supreme.
So, Duan Da, who had been holding a grudge for a long time, came up with a more vicious idea, since these Li Mi's old troops were unstable, why don't they send them to attack Tongguan, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to consume them under the fortified city?
And the prerequisite is that concealing the defection of Cheng Zhijie and Qin Shubao is a very simple and effective suggestion, speaking of which Duan Da is calm at this time, but he is much stronger than Wang Shichong, the emperor.
Wang Shichong held back the fire and adopted Duan Da's suggestion, and when he convened everyone to discuss the matter, he informed his subordinates that he sent Cheng Zhijie and the others to raise grain and grass.
Barely maintaining the integrity of the army, Wang Shichong finally remembered that someone seemed to say that someone could give him some ordnance by the river, and would contain Li Shenfu's army by the Yellow River.
Wang Shichong has always been above the top, and was forced to marry Li Ding'an, which made him regard it as a great shame.
In addition, with hundreds of thousands of strong Henan troops in hand, the ambition is high, so the "good news" has been hidden until now.
But at this moment, his rhetoric changed again, and he told his subordinates that Li Ding'an of Jindi already had the intention of being a minister, and he only needed to capture Tongguan, and Li Ding'an would be my subordinate.
The reason why Wang Shichong has a treacherous reputation is because of this, he often deceives people, and it has become the norm to go back on his word, it is estimated that it is a problem when he served Yang Guang, or it may be the nature of the Hu people in the Western Regions, who knows.
Anyway, since he killed a large number of rebels in Huang Tingjian, this kind of character is out of control, he lied to you on major matters, and it can be attributed to strategy, but he also lied to you in small matters, which is a bit too much.
For example, Duan Da suffered a lot, for example, once again Wang Shichong entertained Duan Da in the palace to drink, and when he was drunk, he said that he wanted to reward him with the two palace maids that Duan Da had long coveted.
But a few days later, Duan Da didn't receive a fragrant gift, not to mention, when he entered the palace, he was angry and crooked his nose, and they accepted the two palace maids.
This kind of thing emerges endlessly, maybe Wang Shichong himself thought that this was the emperor's means, but in the eyes of others, the emperor's words could not be believed at all.
So when he said the good news, everyone was skeptical, but they still had to pretend to be excited, and in the midst of the black smoke and miasma, the army finally overflowed Hongnong and entered under Tongguan.