Du Danqing disappeared, no one was born, no one died, no corpse was seen, no matter how the Tang Dynasty entered the city could find it, it couldn't be found!

You must know that Du Danqing is an important role, and his importance is more important than those ministers in the former Ming Dynasty among the generals of the Tang Army.

Because he is the commander of the Left Army of the Governor, he held an army of 60,000 before the war, and this 60,000 army is still the absolute main force of the Governor! left

In addition, this person is also the governor of Huguang, the imperial history of Zuodu, and the prince Shaobao in King Jing's regime, and in the supervision system, this person's power can be said to be second only to Zhang Yue!

However, such an important person has disappeared!

After entering the city, the Tang Army also took some of the Ming army prisoners, especially the supervising officers and soldiers in the commander's yamen, they are very likely to know Du Danqing's whereabouts, but after interrogation, most of them have the same caliber, and they have basically seen Du Danqing in the afternoon today.

But after noon, the situation was too chaotic, some of them had seen it, some of them had not.

And the last person to see Du Danqing was one of his staff, saying that it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and he had seen Du Danqing, but he hadn't seen him since.

Immediately, they also interrogated several Du Danqing's personal soldiers, they said, in the middle of the night last year, Du Danqing just locked himself in the study, during which he also asked Jean to send wine and food, in the morning Du Danqing looked very depressed, at noon, Du Danqing said that he wanted to take a nap, in the afternoon, the Tang Army had already entered the inner city, and Du Danqing did not speak for a long time.

Later, they hadn't seen Du Danqing either!

Is Du Danqing dead? Did he run? Where did you go?

Nobody knows!

Anyway, now there is no one alive and no corpse dead!

But many generals of the Tang Army believe that this person is very likely to take advantage of the chaos to make up and escape, after all, the city was too chaotic at that time, and there were rebels everywhere, and it was entirely possible for him to disguise himself as an ordinary standard soldier, and then escape from many people, or simply become an ordinary prisoner and hide in the captivity, or he was still hiding in a dark corner of the city.

Although Du Danqing was not found, the senior generals of the Second and Fifth Armies were a little disappointed, but it was just that Du Danqing disappeared, and it had no impact on the overall situation.

The most important thing is that in this encirclement and annihilation operation, they successfully annihilated a total of 50,000 people of the Left Army of Dubiao!

And the battle report of the Battle of Huangzhou was also quickly delivered to Li Xuan, and Li Xuan saw the relevant situation of the battle.

In this battle, the Second Army and the Fifth Army flanked the front and rear, fought steadily and steadily, and used the absolute superiority in firepower and strength to force the attack.

In this battle, the left army of the governor was completely annihilated, of which about 25,000 were killed, and the rest were all taken prisoner, and at least a few people took advantage of the chaos to escape.

And other weapons and equipment, naturally, have become trophies of the Tang Army.

The total casualties of the Second Army and the Fifth Army involved in the offensive were about 4,000, and most of the casualties occurred in the last two days of the general offensive!

When attacking the outer city and the inner city walls, although the Tang Army had an absolute advantage, it still inevitably suffered a lot of casualties.

But before the assault on the walls, their casualties were not significant!

The defense system that Du Danqing had high hopes for did not actually cause too many casualties to the Tang Army, but it was true that a large amount of ammunition was consumed by the Tang Army.

In this battle, the Tang Army fired more ammunition than it consumed in the entire Northern Expedition at the beginning of the year!

There are as many as fifty or sixty pieces of artillery just to be scrapped!

The artillery in many artillery battalions has almost been changed after the battles of Susong and Huangzhou!

There is no way, although the life of the iron cast five-pound field guns in the Tang Army is relatively low, and the life of the body tube of less than 500 rounds can only support a few large-scale battles at most

However, the price of this artillery is not too expensive, and scrapping it does not mean that it is thrown away directly, and directly on these scrapped artillery, some of which are not too serious, most of them will be retired from active service, and then equipped with those reserve divisions.

However, most of them will be recycled directly on the spot scrap iron, and recast after returning to the furnace.

In these years, artillery, whether it is iron cast artillery or bronze artillery, in fact, the biggest cost is the cost of materials, and the waste artillery is recast, although there will be a lot of transportation costs, but it is better than throwing it away.

took Huangzhou and annihilated the Left Army of the Governor, which made Li Xuan feel very good!

Li Xuan, who is in a good mood, naturally doesn't have too many scruples when he starts doing things, and he was worried about the bad impact some time ago, but he doesn't care so much these days, and has continuously met with several girls with very talented dancing talents secretly sent by Wang Wenhua, and in his busy work, he took time out to personally guide their dancing skills.

Li Xuan is always happy with this kind of thing, and it seems that he will never get bored!

Of course, there are still some external influences to be taken into account when doing these things, but Wang Wenhua is a smart person, he will never bring people to the temporary palace openly, which will have a bad impact.

He's all sneaking people in!

Li Xuan, who was in a good mood, felt that Wang Wenhua, a loyal minister, had good ability, and wanted to reward him with one or two, so he deprived Wang Wenhua of his bachelor's title, and then deprived him of the title of secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture.

Why, so there are too many people who have impeached Wang Wenhua recently, as the only three scholars in the Tang Dynasty, they don't learn all day long, they are thinking about currying favor with the Son of Heaven, and they are still messing with some messy things, many courtiers in the court are quite dissatisfied with Wang Wenhua, and even Liu Bagou and other ministers on duty in the technical imperial study are dissatisfied with Wang Wenhua.

According to the impeachment of Wang Wenhua by many courtiers, killing him 10,000 times is not enough!

But Li Xuan thinks that although Wang Wenhua's ability to do other things is poor, his ability in some things is still good, such as when he is collecting dance seedlings, he has a unique vision and his ability is quite outstanding!

And this person is loyal enough, every time he has a court meeting, he speaks very well, which makes Li Xuan feel comfortable every time he listens to it!

How could such a powerful and loyal courtier be killed? No!

But if you don't make a little statement, it is estimated that those courtiers will not be convinced, so Li Xuan simply took off his title of Wang Wenhua's bachelor.

Anyway, in the Tang Dynasty now, the title of scholar is useless, it is just an honorary title, and he can't enter the imperial study and become a minister on duty, and Wang Wenhua's scholar is useless.

As for the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, to be honest, Wang Wenhua has long been ignorant of the affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture, and he can't manage it, the affairs of the Ministry of Agriculture are basically handled by two waiters, and he Wang Wenhua is basically thinking about how to ask the emperor to change every day!

However, after taking off the titles of scholar and secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Li Xuan still gave Wang Wenhua a lot of compensation, such as giving his eldest son, who had just turned four years old, as the prince, officially confirming the son's inheritance of Wang Wenhua's title.

Nowadays, the inheritance of nobles in the Tang Dynasty requires the approval of the imperial court, not that you want that son to be the son of the world, you want that son to be the son, usually in strict accordance with the elder system of inheritance, and at the same time, the son needs to be canonized by the court, and after being canonized as the son, he can become the heir to the title.

Of course, Feng Shizi is just one of them, and more importantly, Li Xuan also upgraded his title by one level, from a viscount to an earl.

Although it is said that the title of scholar is gone, and the title of the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture is gone, he has obtained the title of earl, and the emperor has not taken away his title of minister of the imperial study.

Wang Wenhua himself knows in his heart that this is already his best ending.

What kind of goods he is, no one knows better than himself, dealing with government affairs has nothing to do with him at all, and he has been able to be in the center of the Tang Dynasty in the past few years, it is because of Cong Longzao, and he is thick-skinned enough.

The title of a university scholar and the title of a scholar of the Ministry of Agriculture, a bunch of people have long been unaccustomed to it!

It's okay to take it now, anyway, he knows that he is not an official, as long as he can still gain the trust of the emperor, he doesn't have the title of scholar, and it won't get in the way if he doesn't have the title of scholar.

What's more, His Majesty the Emperor also gave himself the title of earl!

Wang Wenhua, who is unofficial and light, is now thinking about how to please the Holy Son of Heaven.

The last time the Son of Heaven said by chance, he said that he had never ridden a large ocean horse, and he didn't know what it was like, and now it seems that he needs to put this matter on the agenda.

Nowadays, the sea trade is developed, and there are many foreigners who come and go to the Tang Dynasty, and it is entirely possible to find a Western woman with good looks through the sea trade.

In addition, he also heard that there are many blonde and blue-eyed people in the Western Regions to the west, and it can also become a new channel.

Wang Wenhua is not good at government affairs, but in these messy things, it is not an exaggeration to say that he has good ability, he quickly called in a few henchmen, and then asked them to take people to various coastal ports, and even go deep into Malacca and the Western Regions in the South Seas.

There is only one purpose, to search for young and beautiful Western women!

Li Xuan naturally didn't know what Wang Wenhua thought, in fact, he didn't think about what Wang Wenhua felt, he just felt that the people outside scolded Wang Wenhua a bit badly, the situation was a little serious, and in order to maintain his image as a Mingjun, he had to do something.

But seriously, he doesn't want Wang Wenhua to get out!

That's why this arrangement was made!

Putting aside Wang Wenhua's matter, he began to discuss the next strategy with the generals of the Navy and Army!

After conquering Huangzhou and annihilating the Left Army of Dubiao, what will the Tang Army do next, it is naturally to kill Hanyang!

The 80,000 army went to Hanyang, and Zhang Yue would be hell if he could block it low, and now the only thing to worry about is whether he will run away with the superintendent!