After October, the leaves of the west foot of Longshan will fall and the grass will be yellow, and the cold wind will howl.

Behind him is the remnant city of Changdao County, Li Zhihe sits on the tall jujube red war horse, he is outside the armor, tied a blue-black big coat, to protect against the wind and cold of the northwest after the winter.

In the past six months, the local forces of the two states of Chengzhou and Wu have been quite smooth, and Hou Mo, the assassin of Chengzhou, who had previously accepted the reward of the Mengwu people, finally surrendered out of the city, and was named the deputy commander of the soldiers and horses of Longyou by Han Qian, and gathered more than 2,000 tribes in the two states of Chengwu to listen to Li Zhihe's moderation.

Li Zhihe initially only led more than 5,000 soldiers and horses into Longyou, absorbing the descendants of the Han army stationed in Longyou in the early years, and collecting a large number of military horses on the spot, and now has 8,000 horse infantry.

However, in addition to Wang Xiaoxian sending more than 3,000 Shu soldiers to Tianshui to strengthen the defense of the city, Wusu Dashi also ordered Li Yuanshou to lead the Qiang cavalry of the Pingxia Department to the south, and the war in the south of Qinzhou became stalemate.

The Qiang cavalry annexed by the two states of Chengwu is far from being firm, and at this time it is nothing more than the mentality of the grass on the wall and who is strong and dependent on whom, so naturally it is not how strong the combat effectiveness is.

However, in the valley at the western foot of Longshan, if they wanted to continue to advance to the territory of Qinzhou, which was more flat, the main force of horse infantry led by Li Zhihe wanted to compete with the elite cavalry of the Pingxia Department in such a terrain, but they were still unable to catch it for the time being.

At present, it is only with more sophisticated armor and crossbow weapons, which is comparable to the Qiang cavalry of the Pingxia Department, and it is impossible to intersperse it in a roundabout way to Qinzhou or even the Longyou region further north.

At this time, Li Zhihe could only return to the old routine, along the western foot of Longshan Mountain, occupy the steep terrain to build fortresses, and extend to the north step by step.

This can not only strengthen the control of the two states of Chengwu on the south side, but also gradually compress the range of activities of the elite cavalry of the Pingxia Department to the north.

It's a stupid way, but it's also an effective way.

Han Qian also supported his strategy of fighting in a daze, and specially sent a team of engineers and craftsmen from Luoyang to Chengzhou, and Li Zhihe recruited Han craftsmen from Chengdu and Wuzhou, so that the Western Expeditionary Army had a much greater advantage than the Zhuqiang tribe in building the walled city.

The generals have more sophisticated armor and crossbows, and they also have more advantages in defending the walled city.

Building a walled city, and at the same time, gathering the scattered Han people and a part of the Qiang people to live and cultivate around the walled city, truly unite them and become a usable force loyal to the Great Liang.

Although the rhinoceros road is treacherous and narrow, more than 4,000 stone tea wine, cotton cloth, ironware, salt, soap and other materials are transported into Longyou every month, in addition to sending 6 or 700 fine war horses to the interior every month, they can also exchange more than 20,000 stone grain and corresponding horses to support the construction of fortresses and war consumption.

Li Zhihe looked at the vast Longshan Mountains in the northeast, and he thought that the battle to attack Xingyang should have been carried out at the most critical moment at this time, and whether Xingyang could be captured or not would directly determine the next step of the Liang's counteroffensive against the Guanzhong area.

At this time, Li Zhihe sat on the saddle, and he was also full of emotion, who would have thought that in just two years, the situation would be reversed step by step so quickly.

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"Roar!"

Since the middle and late period of the previous dynasty, Wei Bo's elite soldiers and strong generals have been in the Central Plains, and since Liang Shixiong served as Wei Bo's envoy, nearly 20 years before and after, as if the mountains are strong, making it difficult for the Heshuo Jin army to go south, and it also depends on the local martial arts and warriors in Weizhou.

And when it comes to the first general under Liang Shixiong, it is not his three sons, but Liang Xing, a nephew who followed him in the southern and northern wars when he was a teenager.

Liang Xing had courage when he was a teenager, and single-handedly tore through the encirclement of hundreds of Jin cavalry and rescued Liang Shixiong, who was in a heavy siege; After the age of thirty, it is the culmination of Heshuo and Wei Bo's gunners, creating a dragon and a gun, and he is Wei Bo's first marksmanship.

Since the Heshuo Shock, although he is a general under Liang Shixiong, he still likes to take the lead and charge into battle, and countless souls have died under his gun.

At this moment, he just looked down unwillingly at the two long crossbow arrows on his chest that were slightly longer than ordinary feather arrows, and the tail was still making a fierce and vibrating sound.

His armor is made by the secret method of the Qingqiang Department, which is lighter than the ordinary mountain ring chain mail, but the protective power is doubled, Liang Xing himself has opened a three-stone strong bow to test the shot, and the armor cannot be broken within fifty steps.

He didn't expect that Liang Jun shot two crossbow arrows in the siege nest car of one hundred and sixty or seventy paces, not only shooting through the strongest chest armor leaf on his chest without hindrance—his perception became extremely acute at the moment of death—the arrow cluster also penetrated his body, revealing an inch from his back, and resisting the iron armor leaf behind him; And his thigh and left armpit had already been shot with several arrows, and the blood had already stained his battle robe red.

Looking at the Liang Jun who was stabbed to death by him on the left and right, the corpses were lying on the city wall, blood was flowing along the cracks of the city bricks, Liang Xinghu roared, and held the ground with a gun, thinking that even if he died, he would stand on the city wall.

It's just that the generals of the Liang army who swarmed up like a tide, like a huge wave, ruthlessly pushed down and trampled on his tiger-eyed corpse, and even some people went up and stabbed twice in disunderstanding.

In the eyes of countless old generals and soldiers of the Liang army, he and Liang Shixiong were shameful, and they were traitors who almost buried the fortunes of the Great Liang and dragged the land of Hehuai into a monstrous war.

In order to strengthen the combat power of the Xingyang Forward Battalion, the Huaiyang Armor Ordnance Institute built 50 individual spring arm crossbows this year, when all departments were vying to be the first to break the head, Han Qian personally issued an edict to allocate them to Xingyang City for use.

After tens of thousands of militia auxiliary soldiers, braving the enemy's arrows and stones, spilling hot oil, and transporting soil regardless of casualties, opened up the moat of six or seven zhang and filled in four offensive passages directly under the city, the offensive and defensive warfare of Xingyang City entered the final critical stage.

Although the west city wall has been bombarded by stone bullets in the past month and a half, there are cracks everywhere, and the urn city of the west city gate has also completely collapsed, blocking the west city gate, but the defenders are still fighting and showing a terrifying fighting spirit.

Among the 20,000 defenders, most of the generals were Wei Bo's elite who had followed Liang Shixiong in the southern and northern wars for many years.

Liang and Jin have not stopped fighting in the Central Plains for more than 40 years, the number of martial veterans is extremely large, Wang Yuankui and Tian Weiye are all Heshuo and Hedong elites, and the Wei Bo elite soldiers led by Liang Shixiong over the years are strong in combat effectiveness, and they are by no means under any family; The armor is also quite complete, and almost everyone wears fine armor and is not afraid of arrows.

What's more, they are also fighting a backwater battle with no way out at this time.

Heshuo's shocking change was that they followed Liang Shixiong and Zhu Rang to rebel and launched a deadly attack from behind, which completely destroyed the situation in Hehuai, which also doomed Han Qian to surrender them even if he gave Zhu Yu under Jiuquan an explanation.

On the west city wall that was more than two miles long, there were bloody battles in every corner, like meat grinders, devouring the lives of the elite soldiers on both sides.

There were more than 100 nest carts approaching the front of Xingyang City, but more than half of them were destroyed by the whirlwind cannons constantly created by the defenders, but on the remaining nest carts, more than 30 individual recoiled arm crossbows were sharp weapons that constantly harvested the lives of the defenders.

The accuracy of the individual soldier's spring arm crossbow, even if it did not meet the requirements put forward by Han Qian at this time, but between one hundred and fifty steps and two hundred steps, it accurately pierced the armor and sniped the enemy general's big killing weapon.

Especially when your own soldiers climb the city wall and fight with the enemy, the individual crossbow can also provide additional long-range shooting support, which plays a very vital role in increasing the morale of both sides.

Liang Xing, known as Wei Bo's first brave general, was shot at the head of the city, and the counterattack of the Liang army never drove the Xiandeng elite led by Chen Kun himself off the west city wall.

Night fell, but the city was full of burning houses and fires, and the light of the fire reflected the sky, illuminating the dilapidated Xingyang City as bright as day.

Liang Shixiong dug out a deep and wide inner wall on the inner side of the city wall, and set up a wind cannon in the city, and threw the bricks and stones obtained from the demolition of houses and houses into the city as stone bullets.

Chen Kun ordered to lift the wooden fence one by one on the city wall, support it as a wooden shed, resist the stone bullets, and personally led the leading elite to the city like an iron nail, even if there were casualties at every moment, he resolutely did not retreat.

Although the gap opened by the collapse of the city wall had been filled by the defenders with wooden fences and earth and stones, it was not mixed with lime after all, and it was still very loose.

Chen Kun guarded the western city wall, and hundreds of people climbed the city wall overnight to dig the gap, forming a passage to the city to march directly into the city.

Although the inner side of the city wall is blocked by the inner hao, the inner hao is not as deep and wide as the outer hao after all.

At the expense of casualties, he not only shifted the whirlwind cannons close to the foot of the city wall to bombard the trebuchet positions of the defenders in the city, but also put more than 20 spring-arm bed crossbows on the head of the city, blocked the long street connecting the west city gate, and restricted the defenders from counterattacking the west city wall.

At this time, regardless of the casualties of the civilians in the city, the spring-arm scorpion crossbow threw the canister of fire oil into the city, igniting the entire streets and alleys and courtyards, causing the west city to fall into a sea of fire, and by the afternoon the fire continued to spread, so that the defenders' trebuchet positions in the city were also caught in it.

At this time, Chen Kuncai ordered to drag more than a dozen heavy trench trucks directly into the city from the gap, and placed them horizontally on the inner hao, and a heavy rain that night extinguished the fire in Xicheng, the fire did not continue to spread, but the passage into the city to annihilate the last defenders was completely opened.

Light and sturdy ironclad carts were pushed into the city, sheltering the soldiers along the streets and alleys to advance deep into the city.

On the Yu River in the north of Xingyang City, the river water is also wrinkled by the cold wind, and there are white waves.

Wusu Dashi personally rushed to Mengzhou to supervise the battle, and the Mengzhou water battalion also broke out with extremely strong combat effectiveness, taking advantage of the advantage in the number of warships to swarm to the south bank.

In order to avoid the retreat of Liang Shixiong and his remnants at the last critical moment, the Luoyang Navy also dispatched all of them to fight fiercely on the Yu River between Xingyang and Mengzhou.

At this time, the water battle on the Yu River was also coming to an end.

Dozens of warships were burning with embers and were slowly and irretrievably sinking into the river.

The remnants of the Mengzhou Water Camp are retreating to the north bank, hoping that the defense wall in front of the Water Camp Village can give them the last shelter.

Luoyang|The navy still has less than half of the warships left, and at this time they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue.

In addition to continuing to block the dock outside the north gate of Xingyang, which had fallen into a sea of fire, they were more concerned about salvaging and rescuing their colleagues who had fallen into the water after the warship was knocked over.

The battle was so fierce that countless soldiers were killed, and they did not have the heart to save the captives as they watched the enemy soldiers struggle in the river, or to shoot them with bows and arrows, or to sit back and watch them be swallowed up by the raging river......

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"Liang Shixiong, you dog thief, you betrayed Your Majesty at the beginning, have you ever thought about today?"

Chen Kun personally led the elite and forced a remnant army to the northeast corner of Xingyang City to retreat, staring at Liang Shixiong covered in blood with tiger eyes, and roared angrily.

Liang Shixiong's shoulders and arms were pierced by the crossbow, and he barely stood up by the two guards on his side.

He watched as the tiger warriors behind Chen Kun gathered more and more, and his face also showed a hideous face that wanted to be eaten alive.

He once went to Liang Jing as a privy envoy, and the faces of these people were more or less familiar to him, so it can be seen that the tiger ben selected by Chen Kun to attack the city were all old soldiers of the Liang army who had a deep hatred for him, so he would not hesitate to stare at him in the city and chase him all the way, so that he never had a chance to escape from the east city gate and the north city gate.

However, after such an elite team ascended first, more than half of them had fallen in a pool of blood forever after entering the city, but the remaining tiger soldiers still killed the elite soldiers of the tooth army around Liang Shixiong.

Liang Shixiong looked up at the city wall behind him. The two groups of Liang generals quickly marched west along the north city wall from the west, and marched north along the east city wall from the south, destroying and killing the routed soldiers on the city wall that were not large in size but had nowhere to escape, and were attacking the last tower on the northeast corner of the city wall.

Liang Shixiong looked behind him again, he was too confident that he didn't rush to transfer hundreds of women and children of the Liang Mansion out in advance before the Yuhe River was blocked, and watched them tremble under the protection of the Ya Army.

Liang Shixiong knew that he was at the end of his rope today, and shouted: "Chen Kun, the old man might as well use this immortal body today to fulfill your order, but the women and children of the Liang family are all burdened by the old man, and you must not dare to disobey the strict order of the lord of the Great Liang State not to kill the prisoners and surrender......"

Liang Shixiong said, took out the last sword on his waist that was decorated with many actual battles, crossed his neck, and pulled it diagonally back, and a blood line spurted out.

"Enemy chieftain, shoot with a crossbow, there is no forgiveness!" Chen Kunhu's eyes were red, and he ordered hideously.

The strings collapsed like thunder, and the crossbow arrows covered the corners of the city wall like swarms.

The sound of arrows piercing through the flesh and constantly opening the strings and firing them spread one after another in the corners of Xingyang City, as if it was a clearer timbre of the miserable howls of women and children between heaven and earth - more than 100 Wei Boya's soldiers had been killed, and it was difficult to even raise the knife and bow in their hands, Chen Kun did not give them a chance to surrender, and in the midst of their falling, corpses and blood, the next was the turn of the women and children who moved into Xingyang with Liang Shixiong with the Liang Mansion in recent years, and became the souls of the dead under the rain of arrows at a faster speed.

The last corner of Xingyang City was also completely soaked in a pool of blood at this moment.

At this time, the generals on the city wall also captured the last tower, and the city wall let out earth-shaking cheers.

Chen Kun seemed to be out of strength, sitting in the corner of the city wall, guarding a pile of dead enemy corpses that could no longer die, and the corpse of a young girl rolled over, and there was still fear on her immature face.

Chen Kun took off his helmet and rested it on the bloodstained mud on the side, and held the war spear across his knees, like an old monk in his meditation.

Zhao Wuji rode over, looked at the dead bodies in the place, turned over and dismounted.

Chen Kun took off the tiger talisman and seal letter on his waist, and said: "These women and children are ordered to be shot by me against the strict order of the king, and I have no face to see the king. ”

"General Fu Chen went back to the barracks to bandage his wounds." Zhao Wuji motioned to the guards beside Chen Kun to send him to recuperate first.

In addition to the people who assisted in the siege of the city, not to mention, the elite of the various departments in order to seize Xingyang before the Yuhe River froze, the battle killed no more than 10,000 people, and the generals can be said to be red-eyed in the end, and in the end, if it is not for the supervision team to enter the city, I am afraid that even the last more than 2,000 prisoners will not stay, and they will all be slaughtered.

In the eyes of Chen Kun, the old generals of the Liang army, Liang Shixiong was the first culprit of the Heshuo mutiny, and it was determined that if it were not for Liang Shixiong's instigation and planning behind the scenes, Zhu Rang would have neither the courage nor the ability to contact the Mengwu people to mutiny.

is also the hatred that has accumulated in his chest for many years, and Chen Kun finally did not even leave a living mouth for the women and children of Liangfu.

Zhao Wuji can know the hatred in Chen Kun's heart, but how to deal with it, he will not decide on his own, the most important thing for him now is to clean up the mess after the victory.

Before the siege, the defenders had 20,000 elite Wei Bo, but in the end only more than 2,000 prisoners were captured, and the remaining nearly 18,000 soldiers were all killed, and there were as many as 20,000 strong people who were forced to participate in the defense of the city and civilians who died in the fire in the city.

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In order to give Zhao Wuji, Li Xiu, Chen Kun and Han Donghu the greatest command and space to play, when the battle in Xingyang was at its most intense, Han Qian restrained the urge to go to Tiger Prison Pass to supervise the battle, and stayed in Luoyang from beginning to end.

The news of Xingyang's victory was also sent to Shangyang Yuan by fast riding a day later.

Han Daoming, Zhu Juezhong, Gu Qian, Feng Yi, Gao Shao, Jing Hao, Han Yuanqi, Chen Youzhen, Zhou Daoyuan and other ministers will sit on both sides of the main hall.

Xingyang was a great victory, but Chen Kun took more than 200 generals to brutally and mercilessly shoot more than 100 women and children in the Liang Mansion, and it was also placed on Han Qian's desk.

As long as a soldier and horse can strictly enforce military discipline and practice diligently, its combat effectiveness will not be bad, and after a few more vicious battles, it is possible to temper it into the elite of a hundred battles, but an elite soldier and horse will be corroded and destroyed from the inside, and it only needs to be simply not strict in law and discipline.

In addition to the previous three orders and five reaffirmations strictly prohibiting the killing and abuse of prisoners and the killing of women and children, Han Qian also officially promulgated a national edict before the attack and defense of Xingyang, abolishing the criminal laws such as Zhu and Lian Sitting, and abolishing other tortures except for the limited death penalty such as hanging, poisoning, and cane death.

Chen Kun, as a figure at the level of the command army in the town, shot and killed Liang Shixiong's women and children in front of everyone, and replaced Zhu Juezhong to enter the supervision mansion as the right governor Chen Youzhen, and did not dare to shield Chen Kun, and took advantage of today's court meeting to submit the decision on the disposal of Chen Kun and others to Han Qian's imperial case.

Han Qian looked at the Supervision Office's disposal decision, sighed lightly, picked up the pen and poured the ink, and wrote the reply directly to the Supervision Office's letter as he spoke, saying:

Zhao Wuji led his troops back to Chenzhou and served as the ambassador of Yingxi; Chen Kunhu was removed from the post of commander and commander of the Hu Prison Pass, the Tiger Prison Pass Camp was abolished, and the Xingyang Camp was set up to control the soldiers and horses of Changge, Xinzheng, Mixian, and Tiger Prison Pass, so that Han Donghu was appointed as the commander of the capital and the Xingyang system. Since Chen Kun has no face to see me, Yichuan County lacks a master, tell him to go directly to his post, in addition, all the generals who participated in the shooting of women and children will be repatriated to the local area, and the exploits of the attack on Xingyang will not be recounted, and they will be resettled according to the local ...... according to their discretion."

Chen Kun was one of the commanders and generals of the nine major towns before, and now he is directly demoted to the lord of Jiupin County; The other generals who participated in the shooting of the women and children of the Liang Mansion were also dismissed.

Even if Han Qian asked the local authorities to accept and properly resettle them, Han Qian's approval of the words "no longer reused" directly blocked their future career in military and political affairs.

Everyone was silent, Han Yuanqi, Gu Qian, and Jing Hao were all inconvenient to intercede for Chen Kun, and the punishment proposed by the Supervision Office was not much lighter than this, and Chen Youzhen was still responsible for proposing it.

"The siege casualties were too heavy, and the generals were all killed in the end, and the general of the left guard was also impulsive; And with the crime of Liang Shixiong's great rebellion, according to the precedent, the extermination of the nine clans is not enough to calm the hatred of the generals. It was inconvenient for everyone else to intercede for Chen Kun, Feng Yi stood up and said.

Han Qian ignored Feng Yu's words, and directly put aside the approved recital, and then said to Gu Qian, Zhu Juezhong and others: "Brother Zhu Yu doesn't want a big burial in front of him, and the coffin is still parked in Qianxi Temple. I look at the scenery of Yichuan Wolongling is very prosperous, I want to come to Zhu Yu Brother Jiuquan, and I also hope to see the prosperity of the Yiluo two rivers and boats like a forest, I intend to build a mausoleum in Wolongling to bury Zhu Yu, this errand is also called Chen Kun to do it together. ”

Seeing Han Qian arranging Chen Kun like this, everyone couldn't say anything......

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