Chapter 742: The Wishes of the People of Liang Kingdom
Youzhou, Imperial Palace.
Liang Du sat in the main hall, and a eunuch told the news that Wucheng had been broken.
"Shengshang, the city of Wu was broken, the Turks slaughtered the city for three days, and the prime minister, Lord Chen, crashed and died at the city gate......"
Every word that came out made people's hearts ache, and when the eunuch finished saying all the news, Liang Du suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood.
Seeing this, the ministers of the court hurriedly shouted: "Holy ......"
"The sky is going to kill my Liang country, the sky is going to kill my Liang country......"
Liang Du's eyes were a little glazed, he had never been so desperate as he was now.
It's only been a long time, and the two lines of defense of his Liang State have been broken through by the Turks and the Tang State, so next, in less than a month, they will attack Youzhou City.
"Ladies and gentlemen, what is the plan now?"
Liang Du still allowed himself to slowly calm down, because he knew that he couldn't give up, and giving up would be equivalent to death and the fall of the Liang Kingdom.
"Shengshang, we can only gather soldiers and horses from all over the country to defend Youzhou, Tang and Turks have their own ghosts, maybe they won't risk their lives to attack, at that time, we still have a glimmer of life."
Whoever attacks Youzhou City first will give the other person a chance to reap the benefits of the fisherman, but I am afraid that neither the Tang State nor the Turks will want to do this, so they can go around between the two countries at that time, seeking vitality.
Now, that's all they can do.
Liang Du ordered to go down, mobilize soldiers and horses from all over the country, and enter Youzhou to defend it.
And at this time, the news of the Turkic massacre had also spread among the people of Liang State.
After the news spread, the people of Liang were shocked.
"The Turks are really barbarians, and they slaughtered the city, which is really hateful."
"Yes, in comparison, it is better to Tang Guo, there is no offense against the people, and it also exempts each captured place from one year of labor and servitude, which is simply a great thing."
"That's not, if the Liang Kingdom is really destroyed, I still hope to be able to become the people of the Tang Kingdom......"
It's not that these people don't have a sense of belonging to the Liang State, they were originally the people of a small country that was destroyed by the Liang State, and in such an era of war between the countries, patriotism is a bit of a luxury word, especially for these ordinary people.
They will only be patriotic if the country gives them a sense of pride and belonging, but Liang Guo obviously did not give them these feelings of belonging and pride.
In this way, they naturally don't need to abide by anything for Liang Guo.
Generally speaking, some people have been the people of a country for ten years, and if life gets better and better, they will have a sense of belonging to such a country. The people of Liang have a lot of discussions, even the people of Youzhou City, there are discussions, in the face of these discussions, Liang is angry and wants to vomit blood, but now in this situation, he can't control the discussions of these people, anyway, let them say what they want, who doesn't have the heart to seek profit?
It's just that after listening to it, my heart doesn't feel good.
Stone Gate City.
After Li Yu stayed in Shimen City for more than ten days, he also heard about the Turks capturing Wucheng and slaughtering the city for three days, and after hearing this, Tang Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as the Turks slaughtered the city, or even as long as they captured the Wucheng, then the Liang State would not be far from being destroyed.
Because, it is impossible for the Turks to stay only in Wucheng, even if they don't get close to Youzhou and don't attack Youzhou, they will be very close to Youzhou, and then wait and see what happens.
"Shengshang, now that Wucheng has been broken, the Turks are bound to continue to march towards Youzhou, what should we do now, do you want to go to Youzhou City too?"
If you go to Youzhou City first, you may have to face the possibility of confronting the Liang State, and whoever fights the enemy first will be disadvantageous to yourself, so some people are more inclined to wait and wait for the Turks to arrive first. However, Xu Maogong shook his head: "Shengshang, the Turks plundered, the purpose of their trip has been achieved, even if it is not achieved, it is almost the same, Youzhou, they may or may not covet it, so they have more patience to wait, but we don't, so the minister thinks, this."
Although the journey is difficult, our army cannot wait any longer. ”
The war of annihilation has never been simple and easy, since they have the determination to destroy the Liang State, they must approach the capital of the Liang State when the time is ripe and destroy the Liang State.
After Xu Maogong finished speaking, he looked at Li Yu, and Li Yu nodded without too much hesitation: "Send troops to Youzhou!" ”
The Tang army marched to Youzhou, about half a month later, they finally came to Youzhou City, at the same time, the Turks who captured Wucheng also marched all the way, and continued to plunder the Liang State, but although they no longer killed, they still captured many people.
The people on the side of the Liang State were miserable and fled to the places occupied by the Tang State.
When the Tang army came to Youzhou, the capital of Liang State, the Turks were still fifty miles away from Youzhou, and it was only a day or two away.
However, at this time, Jieli Khan suddenly stopped.
"Your Majesty Khan, aren't we going to Youzhou?"
"Wait, let's see the reaction of the Tang Army, the current Liang State is at the end of the road, and it is a matter of time before it perishes, but we just want their money, just wait."
The Turks stopped, and every day spies came to report the letter, and the Tang army set up camp in Wuli outside Youzhou City, waiting for the opportunity.
In the large camp in the army, the Tang army will look at each other.
"Holy Lord, it's already here, why don't you send troops?" Cheng Yanjin was puzzled, he was already a little impatient to wait, he could come to Youzhou early tomorrow, why did he have to wait so long.
Now that I'm finally here, but I haven't done it yet, I'm really anxious.
Li Yu was not in a hurry at all, and said: "Now, there are 100,000 soldiers and horses in Youzhou City, and my Tang army is only 60,000, and it is still a siege, how easy is it to attack it?" ”
"Even if we don't attack the city and fight with their 100,000 army, our Tang army will suffer heavy losses, and at that time, if the Turkic 100,000 army is outflanked from behind, then our Tang army will be in danger."
Li Yu is not afraid of not being able to capture Youzhou City, what he is really afraid of is the revenge of the Turks against them.
The Turks are barbarians, and now although they have attacked the Liang State, they may turn their guns and aim at them, and at that time, they will be flanked by the Liang State and the Turks, and the situation will probably be very bad.
So, although they came, they couldn't rush before there really wasn't a better time.
"Holy Lord, do you mean that we should first urge the Turks and the Liang army to move, or force the Turks to retreat before we take action against the Liang State?"
Cheng Yanjin finally understood the meaning of Li Yu's words, and Li Yu nodded: "Yes, that's right." But Cheng bit Jin but pouted: "What the saint said is light, if you want to wait for the Turks to make a move with Liang Guo, it is not easy to talk about, they are now waiting to reap the benefits of the fisherman, and it is impossible to leave, both of these situations are unlikely to happen." ”