Chapter Twenty-Four: The Fall of Luoyang
(Today's first update, trouble brothers and sisters!) )
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He took Dou Jiande to the south, and along the way, he saw the captured or killed soldiers of the Xia army. Thousands of ** soldiers scattered, raised knives and guns, and guarded nearly 50,000 soldiers.
Seeing Zhang Yunwen with a big man in gold armor, the eyes of those ** captains and soldiers flashed with deep envy.
The most important military achievement of the Tang Dynasty, capturing the enemy chieftain, is undoubtedly a great achievement.
After crossing the river and returning to the ** camp, Zhang Yunwen and those soldiers escorted Dou Jiande into the big tent.
As soon as Li Shimin saw Dou Jiande wearing gold armor, he was immediately overjoyed.
Dou Jiande stood in the tent, standing without kneeling.
Li Shimin didn't care either, and asked Dou Jiande to loosen his ties, and sneered: "I am crusading against Wang Shichong, what are you doing here?" Crossing the border and attacking my soldiers, what is it like today? ”
Dou Jiande was disheartened and ashamed, where could he withstand this cynicism, so he had to bow his head and reply: "If you don't come now, I'm afraid you will be far away." ”
Hearing this, Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but smile, this Dou Jiande is too spineless! I thought that he would stand proudly in the big tent and would say something amazing, but he actually said such a nonsense.
Hearing this, Li Shimin couldn't help but be happy, he wanted to humiliate this opponent, but seeing that he was so depressed, he lost his mood, and waved his hand to let people escort him down.
When Zhang Yunwen saw Li Shimin's expression, he immediately knew the psychological activities of this King of Qin. Originally, he was able to defeat Dou Jiande's 100,000 army with 3,600 people, and he was overjoyed, seeing this opponent, he wanted to show off and see the expression of this opponent, but this opponent was too cowardly, so that Li Shimin didn't even have the mood to show off.
After reading Dou Jiande, Li Shimin gave Zhang Yunwen an approving look, and said loudly: "Since Yunwen has captured King Xia today, his contribution is great, this king should be the emperor of his father, please seal Yunwen as the general of Mingwei from the fourth grade, and the captain of the fifth grade!" In addition, the silk silk woman obtained from this war was given Yunwen to the one who chose her beauty. The rest of the soldiers who assisted in the arrest of Dou Jiande were all promoted to Xuanjie Lieutenant and rewarded with a thousand taels of silver! ”
Zhang Yunwen didn't look back, and he heard the sound of the soldiers behind him swallowing saliva.
After speaking, Li Shimin smiled at Feng Deyi beside him: "I didn't listen to your words to have today's results." The so-called wise man has a thousand thoughts, and there must be a mistake! ”
Feng Deyi was ashamed.
Li Shimin no longer spoke to Feng Deyi, but began to deal with the matter of the captivity.
This prisoner of war captured 50,000 enemy troops, and in fact, all the people of ** plus Xu Yuanlang's more than 10,000 people were only 20,000. Among these 50,000 people, most of them are soldiers from Hebei, and it is difficult to leave their homeland and it is difficult to recruit them.
If you kill a prisoner, you are afraid that it will hurt the name of benevolence and righteousness, so after thinking about it, you have to repatriate these 50,000 people.
After two days of rest, plus other matters, it took a total of five days. Five days later, the army marched to Luoyang.
The army was slow all the way, and in the team, more than ten prisoner carts were staggering forward, and those locked up were Dou Jiande, Wang Wan and other important figures. As for the other ministers under Dou Jiande's account, those who killed and those who were imprisoned were killed, and the rest staggered slowly in the ranks.
Walking on the tall horse, looking back at those imprisoned, a wave of emotion of becoming a king or losing a king spread in Zhang Yunwen's chest.
However, not long after arriving outside Luoyang, Li Shimin heard bad news: Lu Junge, the head of the march, had died in battle.
"Why didn't you tell me then!" Opposite Li Shimin sat Li Yuanji, who looked into Li Yuanji's eyes and asked.
Li Yuanji smiled lightly: "At that time, the second brother was fighting fiercely with Dou Jiande, and the younger brother was afraid that letting the second brother know and affecting the battle!" ”
Li Shimin suppressed the anger in his heart: "Oh, since that's the case, forget it!" You go with me to persuade Wang Shichong first! ”
More than ten prisoner cars lined up in Luoyang City, and after the prisoner cars, more than 10,000 soldiers lined up neatly.
Li Shimin slapped the horse's buttocks lightly, and the green BMW under his crotch took a few steps forward. "Wang Shichong, let's see, who is in this cage?"
Wang Shichong stood at the head of the city, looking at the familiar and unfamiliar people in the cage under the city in horror. After a while, he asked a person in a prisoner's car, "Is the person in the car the King of Xia?" ”
Dou Jiande said in a sullen voice: "Needless to say, I came to save you, I will be a prisoner first, you really hurt me so much." At the end of the speech, he choked up.
When Wang Shichong saw this, his eyes couldn't help but turn red. Looking at the other prisoner cars, there are his nephew Wang Wan, the envoys sent to the Xia army, the eldest grandson An Shi and Guo Shiheng, and some people who don't know each other, I am afraid that they are Dou Jiande's cronies.
Wang Shichong suddenly lost all his thoughts, what is the idea of competing for the world and winning the championship, the only thing he thinks of is to live.
Silently walked down the city wall and disappeared into the eyes of **.
Li Shimin smiled freely: "Wang Shichong will fall!" ”
Sure enough, within a few days, Wang Shichong, with his family and the subordinates, dressed in plain clothes, went out of the city and surrendered.
Li Shimin treated Wang Shichong with courtesy, and let some soldiers enter Luoyang City first, guard the city, and prohibit plunder.
Zhang Yunwen's reconnaissance battalion was also among the first to enter. As soon as he arrived in Luoyang City, Zhang Yunwen came to the military camp in his memory. The reason why it is said to be in memory is because after he woke up, he only stayed in the Luoyang military camp for half a day, then sneaked out of the city, and only now did he return to Luoyang.
When I came to the barracks, there were already ** soldiers stationed here. Zhang Yunwen looked at it, but he was a member of the Xuanjia team. After saying hello twice, he smoothly entered the barracks.
I followed the road in my memory to the barracks where I lived, but I saw three faces living in the tent, and the original Liu brothers didn't know where they went.
Zhang Yunwen was strolling in the barracks a little disheartened, and suddenly heard a voice say, "Zhang Yunwen? ”
He turned his head sharply, only to see a young Zheng Jun soldier looking at him with hesitation. Seeing Zhang Yunwen wearing iron armor, a phoenix-winged helmet, and a general's dress, he was suddenly a little surprised: "Huh? It's really you! I didn't even dare to recognize you when I saw you wearing this armor just now! ”
After searching in my mind for a long time, I remembered that the soldier in front of me was more like Ma Wangshan, but he was a hunter in the northern mountains, and he had a good relationship with the Liu brothers.
"It turned out to be Wangshan! Well, Wangshan, do you know where my eldest brother and second brother have gone! Worried about the Liu brothers, Zhang Yunwen asked directly.
Na Ma Wangshan heard Zhang Yunwen ask about the whereabouts of the Liu brothers, was silent for a moment, and said: "Since Yunwen you left Luoyang that night, the two brothers of the Liu family have been looking for you everywhere, but they have not found them all over Luoyang. Later, someone said that they saw you leaving the camp late at night, and we guessed that you were out of town. Brother Liu said that he wanted to go out of the city to find you, but we stopped him! At this time, the Jiang family came to ......"
"The Jiang family? What the Jiang family! When Zhang Yunwen heard this, he immediately became puzzled.
"That day, when you woke up and said that you wanted to drink gruel, Brother Liu Wu rushed into the Jiang family's grain store in order to find rice and grain for you, and grabbed some rice and grain back. Later, the Jiang family found out that this matter was done by Liu Wu's eldest brother, so they sent someone to get the eldest brother and the second brother. The eldest brother and the second brother ran away from the camp overnight! There is a woman in the Jiang family, who is working as a maid for King Zheng, and the Jiang family relies on this relationship to do whatever they want, and even hoards grain and grass during the siege of the city, refusing to sell it to the people......"
Seeing that Ma Wangshan was still babbling, Zhang Yunwen interrupted him suddenly: "Then do you know how my eldest brother and second brother are now?" ”
Ma Wangshan hesitated for a moment and nodded: "The two elder brothers of the Liu family are messing around in Luoyang, they have been hiding for a few days, and the Jiang family has sent hundreds of people but have not found it." Later, the king of Qin left with his troops, and Wang Shichong was about to go out of the city to attack **, so the Jiang family reined in some ......"
Zhang Yunwen couldn't help but interrupt him for the third time: "Don't talk nonsense, take me to my eldest brother and second brother!" ”
"Oh!" Ma Wangshan is much more concise this time.