Chapter 234: The Battle of Chang'an (II) Li Shimin's Fall
In the autumn of the first year of Emperor Wu, Imperial Marshal Li Jing broke through the Tong Pass, and the puppet Tang Dynasty was only left in the land of Jingzhao County, struggling to make a final battle with the Imperial Tiger and Wolf Division! In the same season, Pei Renji broke Jiangling and captured the puppet Liang Emperor Xiao Mill, so far the puppet Liang was established less than half a year before it died dramatically, Xiao Mill committed suicide by jumping into the river on the way to Luoyang, and the emperor allowed him to be buried in Jiangling.
Xinfeng, the two armies have been facing each other for a whole day, except for the engagement in the morning, ** has not been able to shrink, no matter how Cheng bites Jin to provoke, there is no movement, and the soldiers on the gate have found broken steps to plug their ears, and they don't listen to it.
"General, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will withdraw the troops!" A messenger came to Hou Jun's tent.
"Why, once the troops are withdrawn, won't the enemy go straight to Chang'an?" Hou Junji shouted, is the prince crazy?
"The prince asked me to tell the general that the enemy's cavalry of tens of thousands of horses is coming from the north, and the front has reached Liquan, and the prince asked the general to return to defend it! The prince also instructed the general not to spread the word! The messenger whispered in Hou Junji's ear.
"What!" Hou Junji was taken aback, when did the enemy go to the north again? Although he was surprised, Hou Junji knew that this news was true, and Chang'an was definitely in a state of emptiness at this time, and it was not as simple as defending to transfer them back, it was estimated that someone was secretly doing it. Taking advantage of the night, Hou Junji quietly withdrew his troops.
On the second schedule, when he went to scold Jin again, he found that the enemy had long since disappeared, and he could only wait in Xinfeng because of the agreement with Yang Yin.
"Good! General Zhang really lived up to my expectations, he had already reached Liquan, directly threatening Chang'an, and the puppet Tang had withdrawn all his forces to defend Chang'an, it was time to launch the final blow! Yang Yun got the information and was in a good mood, this chaotic era is finally coming to an end, and a new era will be opened by him.
"Order all the armies to gather in Daxing! I want to take back everything that belongs to my Great Sui! Yang Xuan ordered, the army immediately pulled out, to Xinfeng and Cheng Biting Jin Department after the rendezvous of more than 300,000 mighty towards Chang'an at this time Chang'an has already been in chaos, anti-Sui Shitang people have prayed that the army can not come in, some are even ready to run away, but the people who have been thinking of the old and young of the Great Sui are happy, waiting for the army of the Great Sui to recover Chang'an, under the efforts of the hidden and Feihong lurking personnel, there are many ministers and big families who are secretly loyal to the Great Sui, ready to do internal response when the army attacks the city. And all this was seen by Li Shimin, but he couldn't do anything about it.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, Tongguan has been lost, and King Yuan has been martyred; The soldiers and horses of the counties have retreated, and now there are only 300,000 horses left in the city plus the newly recruited reserve troops, and the ministers are afraid that these 100,000 reserve troops will fight back! Zhang Liang's face was full of worry, Tang was powerless to return to the sky, anyone could see it.
"Lone knows, go down!" Li Shimin pinched his forehead and said, but he was shouting in his heart, since he was born to the people, he was born! thinks that his ambition to govern the world has not yet been implemented but there is no opportunity, and all this is Yang Yong's fault! If I can't get it, then don't think about it! Li Shimin clenched his fists tightly!
"Daxing, I'm back, you're haggard!" The first words Yang Xuan said after seeing Chang'an City made countless soldiers cry. Who would have thought that in just a few years, Chang'an would wither into such a shape, the once tall and strong city wall is now like an old man in the middle of the wind, as if the wind will blow his back will step over a version.
"Please rest assured, I will definitely return your youth and immortality when I come back this time!" He doesn't have a deep affection for Daxing, but seeing that Daxing is now dilapidated like this, and he doesn't see the appearance of the world's largest metropolis back then, he deeply regrets and grieves, how long will it take to recover? And if he doesn't move the capital back to Daxing in the future, then Daxing will never be able to regain prosperity.
"Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Cheng Yanjin, you each lead 50,000 horses to surround the remaining three gates of Daxing, and you must not launch an attack without my order!" Yang Xuan ordered, since Li Shimin transferred all the troops into Daxing, then it would save him from solving them one by one, and it would be best to be able to do it once and for all.
"Li Shimin, I know that you are in the city, why don't you dare to see me? If your Li family has the courage to steal my land of the Great Sui, don't you have the courage to come out to see me?! I look down on you! Yang Jian knew that Li Shimin was watching him in the city, and he once recruited Fang Du and the others with Li Shimin, Li Shimin was young after all, although he had already emerged, but he was nothing compared to him, he thought that he could grow up by giving him a few years, but he didn't expect to even dare to see him now. Li Shimin has the ability to do it, which has been proved by both reality and history, but he is not the kind of person who can be tamed, because he is also a natural king, but he is just a king born at the wrong time, so he is destined not to surrender to anyone, so he never had the idea of recruiting Li Shimin and the Li family from the beginning.
Yang Jun's words made Li Shimin very angry, he also looked down on Yang Jun, the prince who had fallen out of favor, not only him, but who in the entire court would know that a prince who had fallen out of favor for many years could finally sit on the master of this great river and mountain, which can only be said that they are all blind.
Li Shimin didn't come out in the end, he didn't want to say anything more to Yang Jun, they didn't know each other, Yang Jun wanted to attack the city, and he would follow.
The war was not fought as the people in Chang'an City thought, the Sui army surrounded Chang'an, but did not attack, which made the people in the city feel more relaxed, and a news came out of nowhere that the emperor wanted to settle the matter of Chang'an peacefully, after all, this was the original national capital, and did not want to see it destroyed by the war.
The next day, Li Jing led the army to Chang'an, and the matter of Tongguan was left to Yang Yichen to deal with, anyway, Yang Yichen didn't want to fight for so little credit, and Tongguan had tens of thousands of soldiers, and it took one of the two of them to deal with it, and it was really not safe to hand it over to others. Of course, there is another person in Chang'an with Li Jing, that is, Yang Jin's brother-in-law, the eldest grandson Wuji's elder brother. The eldest grandson Wuji was left in Hongnong Palace by Li Shimin to manage logistics, and was captured after the city was broken, but after learning that he was the brother of Concubine Xian, Su Dingfang was very polite to him, and this time he heard that the army was going to Chang'an, so he wrote to Li Jing that he was also going, and Li Jing sent someone to send him to Tongguan to go to Chang'an.
"The chief minister of sin, Sun Wuji, has seen Your Majesty!" The eldest grandson Wuji immediately knelt down and called himself a criminal minister after seeing Yang Jun, indeed he still decided to follow Li Shimin after knowing that his sister was Yang Jun's concubine and Yang Jun threw an olive branch at him, so it was indeed the identity of the criminal minister.
"What is this for? Hurry up, if this is innocent, the girl will not be blamed if she knows? Yang Jun helped the eldest grandson Wuji, it seemed that Yang Jun was so polite to the eldest grandson Wuji because of the eldest grandson's innocent face, but several people present knew that Yang Yong was in love.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The eldest grandson Wuji knew that this was an alternative solicitation by Yang Jin, but he was still very moved, at least to prove that Yang Jin really valued him.
"I don't want Daxing to suffer the ravages of war again, but Li Shimin has been hiding from me, I don't know what he is going to do, you have been by Li Shimin's side for a long time, I want you to try to see if you can convince Li Shimin, if not, I can only use soldiers!" Yang Yan said earnestly to the eldest grandson Wuji.
"Your Majesty can have such a heart for the sake of the people, it is really a blessing for the common people, and the minister is willing to give it a try!" The eldest grandson Wuji bowed to Yang Jun, Li Shimin's life for the world is just staying in the ideal, but Yang Yong's has already been implemented, and the effect has already been achieved, but he can't see through what Li Shimin has become now, and he can't guarantee that he can convince Li Shimin, so he can only try.
"Shimin, I know that you are above, the trend of the reunification of the Great Sui can no longer be violated, how long do you want to stop it, have you forgotten that you said that you would fight for the common people in the world, but what you are doing now is to put the people in Chang'an City into the flames of war, stop it, Your Majesty agreed, as long as you give up resistance, Your Majesty will not be responsible for what the Li family has done in the past!" The eldest grandson Wuji stood under the city and shouted at the city.
"The eldest grandson is Mowgli! What did you do to you? Who helped you when you were at your worst? And you don't know how to repay the favor, but instead take refuge in the enemy, what qualifications do you have to stand here and talk to Lone?! Seeing the eldest grandson Wuji Li Shimin was already very angry, but when he heard the eldest grandson Wuji say a bunch of words that made him surrender, he finally couldn't help jumping out.
"Shimin, don't be obsessed anymore, you have changed, since you introduced the Turks into the customs, you have not been you, but I still had a glimmer of hope for you at the time, but I didn't expect you to really change, become not even aware of yourself, if you really haven't changed, then you should think about the hundreds of thousands of people behind you!" The eldest grandson Wuji is still persuading.
"Don't say it, I'll kill you! Archer, kill him for me! Li Shimin couldn't stand being told by the eldest grandson Wuji, and directly ordered the archers to shoot the eldest grandson Wuji, but no one obeyed the order.
"What? You all dare not listen to Lone's orders, do you? Is it? Li Shimin said to an archer beside him, and suddenly pulled out his sword and stabbed the archer, who had lost consciousness before he knew what the situation was. See! This is the end of not obeying Lone's orders, and those who violate the order will be killed! Li Shimin's face was very hideous, and his long sword pointed directly at the corpse lying on the ground.
Seeing that Li Shimin was so crazy, Yang Jun immediately asked people to bring the eldest grandson Wuji back, otherwise the eldest grandson Wuji would not hate him to death if there was an emergency, and at this moment, there was a sudden riot in Chang'an City, and it turned out that the people in the city who wanted to respond to the Sui army outside the city were attacking the city gate, and Li Shimin took people to suppress it.
"It seems that Li Shimin is planning to resist to the end, there are still 300,000 troops in the city, and it is not so easy to take it if it starts, and once the fight starts, the damage to the people in the city and the city is immeasurable, and we have to pay a lot of price! The tunnel leading to the city has been blocked, otherwise it can come in handy, but if it doesn't work, it can only be attacked, it's almost winter, and it can't be delayed any longer. Yang Jun said firmly, since it can't be solved perfectly, then it can only be broken and then stand.
"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that you can wait for two more days, Li Shimin will figure it out, he is not the kind of person who doesn't care about the lives of the people." The eldest grandson Wuji said that with his understanding of Li Shimin, it is estimated that Li Shimin can't accept that kind of failure, so he behaves so crazy, which needs to give him time to think about it.
"Okay, I'll wait two more days!" Yang Jun decided to believe in his eldest brother.
"Yang Jun, you come out!" Early the next morning, Li Shimin shouted at the head of the city.
"What? Do you dare to see me at last? Tell me, what do you really want to save Daxing from war! Yang Xuan heard the soldier's report that Li Shimin was looking for him, so he took the eldest grandson Wuji and Li Jing and others to the city of Chang'an.
"What do you want? Can you give your life alone? Don't talk nonsense, order your army to withdraw from Guanlong, or don't blame you for being alone! Bring people in! ”
"Brother Huang, save me!" At this moment, a cry for help came from the city wall, and before he saw anyone, Yang Yun heard who the owner of the voice was.
"Li Shimin! I warn you not to mess around, if Nanyang is hurt even a little, then I will let the lives of all of your Li clan be returned! Li Shimin touched Yang Jun's scales, and what he hated most was that someone threatened him with his family.
"If you want to save her, then do what Gu says!" Li Shimin grabbed Princess Nanyang and put his sword on her neck.
"Okay, I'll withdraw my troops, if you dare to break your word, don't blame me for being ruthless, I will do what I say! Withdraw troops! With a wave of his hand, Yang Xuan ordered the army to retreat.
"Your Majesty......" Seeing that Chang'an is the last lonely city, if you withdraw your troops now, then it will be equivalent to giving up your previous efforts, and some generals are a little unwilling.
"It's an order!" Yang Jun said categorically that Princess Nanyang was the first person he came to this era to make him feel family affection, and she was also his sister, and he must save her life.
"Shimin, admit defeat!" Just when Yang Jian was about to withdraw his troops, there was a sudden commotion at the head of Chang'an City, it turned out that Li Yuan came, of course he was not willing to come, he was under house arrest by Li Shimin and couldn't come out at all, it was the No. 1 who led the people lurking in Chang'an to attack the place where Li Yuan was under house arrest and put Li Yuan out, and happened to meet Jin Wuwei, who was guarding the palace, so there was no confrontation, but helped escort Li Yuan to the city, otherwise someone would have come to report to Li Shimin.
"Lose? Lone didn't lose, no one can beat Lone! Looking at Li Yuan, Li Shimin didn't have any expression, after all, Li Yuan was under house arrest by him, and he didn't care whether he was dead or alive.
"We didn't lose to the Sui Dynasty, but we lost to the timing, and we also lost to ourselves, we didn't see the situation clearly and rashly got up, failure was already doomed, we also lost to the desire for power in our hearts, it was he who made us lose!" Li Yuan has already seen through it, it is the desire for power that has made his family lost, flesh and blood cannibalism, and he can't blame others, he can only blame themselves.
"You talk nonsense! There's nothing wrong with being alone! Lone didn't lose, it was you who said that Lone has the ability to govern the world and the people! But why did you give the crown prince to Li Jiancheng again, and still suppressed me everywhere, why! Li Shimin danced wildly with a sword, and Yang Xun was nervous to death, afraid that Li Shimin would accidentally stab Nanyang.
"Bring me my bow and arrows!" Li Shimin's spirit was already confused, and Yang Jun decided to take the risk of shooting Li Shimin.
Yang Jun's strength was once again displayed in front of all the soldiers, and the six-stone iron tire bow was pulled by him in a full circle, aiming at Li Shimin, and seizing the opportunity to shoot this arrow!
"Ding!" Li Shimin flew wildly and the long sword in his hand saved his life, but the power of the bow and arrow was too great, the sword in Li Shimin's hand was not only shot down, but also the person was pushed back a few steps, and No. 1 seized the opportunity to snatch Princess Nanyang away and protect him behind him.
"It's a pity!" Seeing that an arrow failed to shoot Li Shimin, Yang Jun felt sorry. However, this arrow made Li Shimin sober up.
"Hehe, Lone lost, Lone really lost, Yang Jun! You won, not only robbed my most beloved woman, but also robbed this country that originally belonged to Lonely! If you lose in this life, you will definitely be able to win in the next life! Li Shimin picked up the sword that had fallen to the ground, and took one last look at the place where his dream was born and where his dream was buried.
"Lonely, didn't lose!" Li Shimin shouted, put the long sword on his neck, and blood splattered five steps! A generation has fallen. The false purple microstar in the sky was also dim and irrelevant, and gradually disappeared.