Chapter 170: There will be no compromises, no concessions

Li Jiancheng's eyes, sharp eyes, were firmly fixed on Du Jingtong's body, and he said slowly: "There is no basis for what you say, do you have evidence?" ”

Du Jingtong raised his head suddenly, took a deep breath, and said with full breath in his voice: "Yes——! ”

Li Jiancheng said with a cold face: "Submit it." ”

A standing hall general, holding a package in his hand, slowly walked into the main hall.

The general of the station hall slowly opened the package he was holding in his hand, revealing a piece of letterhead. With both hands, the general held up countless letterheads.

The eyes of the ministers were involuntarily absorbed by the letterhead.

Chen Ying looked at these letterheads, and a casual smile appeared on his face.

"Vote for the name, form a brotherhood!"

"Life and death are entrusted, and good luck and evil are rescued!"

"Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and adversity depend on each other!"

"If outsiders mess with my brother, they will be killed!"

"Brothers who mess with my brothers, depending on the name, will be killed!"

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When the old ministers saw the letterhead, their faces were pale, their bodies trembled like chaff, and their sweat was like grout, and they wished they could be like Chen Shuda, and they would die a hundred times.

These letters, if nothing else, are all letters of their affiliation to Li Shimin, and they are also letters of allegiance written by them to Li Shimin.

Words can be denied directly, but letters cannot be falsified. At the beginning, the family gate lord cooperated with Li Shimin, and in order to win Li Shimin's trust, he did everything he could.

In particular, the truth of the defeat of Longyou Dao also slowly surfaced. Not only did Li Daozong surrender to Li Shimin, but he also commanded the governors of 21 prefectures, including Chengzhou, Linzhou, Hezhou, Langzhou, Shanzhou, Shazhou, Wuzhou, Minzhou, Weizhou, and Qinzhou, all of which obeyed Li Daozong's command.

Nearly half of the Longyou Dao army, familiar with the details of the strategic arrangement of the Longyou Dao, directly took advantage of the situation to take control of the Longyou Dao without much effort.

What's even more hateful is that they used their power to sell the armor depot of Longyou Dao to the bottom, especially the 70,000 parts under the command of Xue Yantuo, who almost instantly changed their guns and obtained the standard armor of the Tang Army. To add insult to injury, the officers and men of the Tang Army in Longyou Road did not have complete equipment, and they could not even eat enough to eat, so they took water (arson), bandit robbery, or heavy rain soaking, etc., destroying most of the baggage warehouses in Longyou Road and Guannei Road......

Every word, every sentence, was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, exploding in the Taiji Hall, shaking everyone dizzy and almost unconscious! They also knew that the Tang army was defeated in Longyou, Jiangnan, and Lingnan, but they didn't expect the truth to be so terrifying, it was terrifying!

The faces of the old ministers were pale, they knew that they were finished, and when these letterheads were released, even if they were not torn to pieces by the angry Tang Army soldiers, they would be ruined! The most important thing is that Chen Ying will never let them go!

How so?

At this time, the officials who still have some conscience look at the old and important ministers with resentment and hatred, even if Chen Shuda's head has fallen off, even if he has already become a corpse, they can't wait to pounce on it immediately, drink his blood, and eat his flesh......

Du Jingtong said slowly: "What happened, in fact, this is the case, our elite troops who have worked hard to train in the Tang Dynasty, under the command of their group of selfish and selfish, sent the strong bows, crossbows, hard bows, armor, horizontal knives, and spears in their hands to the enemy respectfully, and the enemy threw away the stinky leather armor and stone tooth arrows, replaced them with these sophisticated equipment, and slaughtered the soldiers and civilians of the Tang Dynasty unscrupulously, and their group of traitors followed the enemy to take advantage of the fire!" Those literati even criticized our soldiers for being too belligerent and murderous, unable to be kind to their neighbors, slaughtering gentry, disrespecting scholars, and really bringing about their own destruction...... Hahaha, do you think it's fun? Isn't it funny, you say? The soldiers shed so much blood and died so many people, just to defend this territory for the Tang Dynasty, but in exchange for the sentence 'self-destruction'? ”

Li Jiancheng's face was as cold as water, and he was torturing the ministers: "Why is this happening?" ”

Wei Zheng also had a headache: "Why is this happening? ”

Fang Xuanling's face was also frighteningly pale: "Why is this happening?" ”

Several veteran ministers still roared hysterically: "You are talking nonsense, blood spurts!" ”

Chen Ying came out of the queue and said slowly: "Because they have always boasted that they are the masters of this world, since Chen Qun founded the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, since Emperor Wu of Jin, the emperor is a puppet in their hands, as long as they are willing, why not Sima Zhen, who eats minced meat, can not do anything with dementia, but can stand out among the twenty-five sons of Emperor Wu of Jin, pass the heavy assessment of Emperor Wu of Jin, and finally become the emperor." Since Emperor Yuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was scared to death in the palace, which emperor can really be in power? No? There is no one, for the sake of interests, they can let Emperor Wu of Zhou Yuwen Yong die violently, they can also let the former Sui prince Yang Yong lose his virtue and go to the throne, and they can also support Yang Guang to ascend to the throne, but after Yang Guang saw through their hypocritical nature, they began to gradually retract the power in their hands, and these shameless people began to subvert the entire world...... They would rather bury the whole world than let this world act fairly, because they are afraid that His Majesty will take the imperial examination and the children of the poor will gain the right to speak, which will eventually threaten their status. ”

At this time, the combat effectiveness of the Tang Sergeant was still strong, but the claws of this male division had been tied to death, and his mouth was also sealed, and he was about to move his claws and couldn't roar.

I believe that the mood of the Tang Army officers and soldiers at this time is the same as that of the Tang Army soldiers who still stick to the four towns of Anxi and the Hexi Corridor more than a hundred years later after the Tang Dynasty was greatly injured, angry, sad, and desolate.

They obviously have such a powerful fighting power, no enemy dares to confront them head-on, guarding such a vast land but unable to do anything, they can only watch as the iron horses outside the Saiwai come like a tide and drown them!

"Kill these traitors! Kill this group of traitors......"

The imperial history of the epiphany, and the angry roar of the young officials, hundreds of people roared angrily, the momentum was terrifying, and the entire Taiji Hall was shaken and rumbled.

Li Jiancheng raised his hands and pressed down slightly, the officials stopped roaring, glaring at them viciously, as long as Li Jiancheng made a gesture or coughed, they immediately rushed up and tore those old immortals to pieces!

However, Li Jiancheng didn't do this, just stared at Dugumou and the others with sharp eyes and asked coldly, "What else do you have to say?" ”

Lonely Mou stood up tremblingly and said sharply: "These letterheads are all fake, they are forged, and we will never admit it!" ”

Li Jiancheng's expression changed, his tone softened, and he turned to look at Wei Zheng and said, "Wei Xiangguo, what do you think?" ”

Wei Zheng came out of the class, bowed down and said: "Liu Hongji, Chen Shuda, Dugumou, etc., rebel ministers, ministers, Zhongshu, and Menxia provinces, all have the crime of negligence......"

Li Jiancheng said with a cold face: "Proposed edict, dismiss Chen Shuda, seize his lord, Yi three clans, confiscate the family property, and sell the wife and daughter to the officials of the teaching workshop......"

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty looked shocked.

Li Jiancheng continued: "Draft an edict, dismiss Li Daozong, seize his lordship, raze the three clans, confiscate the family property, and sell the wife and daughter to the officials of the teaching workshop to sell ......."

"Strike Dugu and conspire, seize his lordship, raze the three clans, confiscate the family property, and sell the wife and daughter to the officials of the teaching workshop!"

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Li Jiancheng seems to be addicted to copying his family, and he issued one hundred and fifty-seven holy decrees one after another, all of which were dismissed from the official and sent to the lord, razed the three clans, and raided the house.

Of course, this is because of a story that Chen Ying told him.

In Chen Ying's dream, there is also a small story. is the Ming Dynasty, there was once a big traitor, and he was also a famous minister.

This traitor is Yan Song, and the famous minister of the generation is Xu Jie.

Yan Song killed the first assistant Xia Yan, who had the grace of knowing Xu Jie, out of his own selfish desires, killed the loyal and patriotic generals, killed the loyal ministers who were righteous and upright, and allowed the Tatars to drive straight into the border areas and plunder, and even hit the capital city for a time, bringing disaster to the country and the people, and nothing more.

Xu Jie saw all this clearly, but he kept holding back, and after fifteen years of preparation, he finally overturned this powerful tyrant in one fell swoop.

Everyone thought that he would avenge those who fell in front of him and paved the way for him to victory with their lives, but he didn't, he didn't move Yan Song's hair, let him take his grandson home, but killed Yan Song's son, ransacked Yan Song's home, and made this once powerful traitor destitute, and finally became a beggar, and after two years of food, he froze and starved to death in a deserted village.

When Li Jiancheng heard this story, he shuddered, this kind of revenge is really too cruel, a hundred times more cruel than directly killing the other party!

But now, Li Jiancheng did not hesitate to use this set on the veterans and nobles, and only this kind of revenge can make hundreds of thousands of innocent soldiers die in vain.

It should be said that the Shizu Gate Valve welcomed Li Shimin's strong return, and made sufficient preparations in order to uproot Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying.

On the one hand, he used this defeat to smear Chen Ying and the Tang army, hit his reputation, and tried to discredit him; On the one hand, he forced Li Jiancheng to force the palace and forced him to remove Chen Ying's military power;

On the other hand, these old guys were preparing for martial arts while fighting Wendou, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops loyal to the clan lords, and also employing hundreds of thousands of hired men to attack from east to west Yizhou. At this time, the Anxi army was under tremendous pressure, and in the west, it was the Sassanid Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Western Turkic Empire, the Gothic Empire and other countries led by Cheng Zhijie, and the number was more than 2 million.

At this time, the Anxi army successfully attracted the attention of more than 2.5 million men and horses of Li Shimin's forces. They firmly believe that such a powerful military strength is enough to crush the entire Anxi Army group!

It's not easy to be well prepared, well-planned, and take almost everything into account.

It's a pity that they only take almost everything into account, they can only be almost, they are not gods after all, nor are they Kaishen Gong, they can't do everything under their control, and there are three points that are out of their control.

First, in an era of poor communications, it is impossible to unify command in a battle of this magnitude. Therefore, the entire coalition army is fighting on its own. There are sporadic rebellions of allied forces in the Tubo Snow Plateau, and they are almost oppressed by the Anxi army and survive in various poor mountains and remote areas.

As for the more than 2 million allied forces led by Cheng Zhijie, they launched a frantic offensive in an area of 3,000 miles from north to south. It's just a pity that the geographical advantage of the Green Ridge is too strong, and the only places that can attack on a large scale are Geluoling, Xia Shule and the South Kunlun Grand Canyon, but in these three places, there are strong fortresses built by the Anxi army, which has almost become flesh and blood, mills, although the rebels attacked frantically, except for leaving a corpse and consuming a large number of arrows and oil of the Tang army, they did not achieve any results at all.

Second, they never dreamed that the logistics and materials of the Anxi Army were so abundant, and in their minds, they could exhaust the arrows and equipment of the Anxi Army by desperately killing and wounding tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

It's just a pity. Datang's Anxi has entered the era of industrialization and the age of steam. Like in primitive times, it took thousands of craftsmen to work day and night to create a million crossbow arrows.

However, now in Anthy. Only a few blast furnaces, a dozen or dozens of mold casting machines, plus steam grinders, and hundreds of workers are needed to meet the daily consumption of millions of Anxi Tang Army.

Like armor, horizontal knives, crossbow machines, and even refined fire oil, the Anxi army can use one day's production capacity to produce their high-intensity consumption for a month. For the Anxi Army, the biggest difficulty was not production, but transportation.

Even if it is transported by train, it always needs to be transported by manpower, and now it is simply impossible to fully mechanize.

Third, they did not expect that the army loyal to them would be scum to this extent. Those improvised coalition forces were not even as good as the rabble that was temporarily pulled up by the 36 anti-kings and the 72 roads of dust and smoke in the late Sui Dynasty.

After finding that they had paid a heavy price in casualties and could not gnaw at the defense system of the Anxi army, they began to stop attacking, they were here to make money, not to send them to death! It's fun now, the clan gate valve is urging Cheng Zhijie to open a breakthrough in the west, and Cheng Zhijie is also difficult to speak, which can only mean that the Green Ridge fortress system is easy to defend and difficult to attack, unless the allies make a breakthrough from the east.

This creates an endless loop, a dead knot that cannot be untied. The two sides blamed each other and quarreled so much that they almost didn't tear their faces.

As the saying goes, if you go outside, you must first settle inside.

After killing the old diehards of the clan gate, General Chen Ying Chen began to shine.

The first place to attack was Licheng.

Li Jiancheng's holy purpose was read out outside the city: "Those who are of the same heart as the imperial court will go, and those who are not of the same mind as the imperial court will be allowed to do so!" ”

Luo Shixin, the general of the cavalry army sent by Chen Ying, painstakingly advised them not to quarrel and to be harmonious, of course, General Luo's eloquence is not good, and they can't directly agree with these troops and gentry who are loyal to the clan lords, but he has a way to make these guys understand the spirit of the imperial court, that is, to use the horse's hooves to step on the brains of these guys and make them enlightened!

Sixteen regiments of hook and sickle cavalry, nearly 10,000 cavalry, arranged in a twenty by five hundred cavalry wall in tacit understanding, flattened the hook and sickle, and rolled forward.

Luo Shixin still has lingering feelings about the Tongye Protector Detachment Army that has passed for several years, and he opens the film completely according to the treatment of the most elite Annexed Army of the Western Turks.

As a result, without waiting for the hooves of the hooked and sickle lancers to step on the corpse of the other party, the army under Liu Hongji collapsed, and even the "old immortal" who was invited by the clan gate lord at a great price was no exception! In the face of the swarming cavalry wall, these old immortals immediately changed their appearance as if they were about to die, and ran away, only hating their parents for having two legs less.

Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin looked at each other, these guys are also, right? Lao Tzu hasn't even posed yet, and the army will collapse, but this group of old immortals actually ran so fast, and they actually crossed the group of soldiers, which is not unscientific!

This group of old immortals doesn't care so much, these calves are too ferocious, and even the Turks, in front of them, are simply little white rabbits, good babies.

What a! With their urine nature, if they can muster the courage to fight such a terrible opponent, it is really unscientific!

So, they chose to surrender very scientifically.

What awaits them will be servitude, indefinite servitude until death, without which it will be possible to atone for their sins.

In Licheng, with the help of Luo Shixin, Su Dingfang's trouble was completely solved.

Moreover, he brought back Chen Ying's latest instructions and informed the whole army.

In fact, this instruction is that Chen Ying, the general of the Tang Dynasty, should hold a speech at the Tang Military Headquarters for all officers at the rank of captain and above of the 16th Wei Zhaowu.

Chen Ying said eloquently to the generals: "Soldiers, Datang is facing the deadliest crisis since the founding of the country!" Due to the outstanding performance of the Shizu Gate Valve, our initial war was completely defeated, hundreds of thousands of soldiers fell in the hands of their own people, and they did not look away, Lingnan has been lost, the Sword Pavilion was no longer owned by the Tang Dynasty before, the rebel army has crossed the Huai River and advanced to Xuzhou, the Tang Dynasty is in danger, except for the Sixteen Guards, the entire Datang has no troops with combat effectiveness! ”

The Sixteen Guards, for a long time, served as a mascot. In particular, there is the Anxi Army in the west, the Anbei Army in the north, and the Andong Army in the east.

For seven years, the days of Gentle Township made the soldiers of the Sixteenth Guard quickly slack off.

Chen Ying looked at the generals and continued: "I believe that after this time, everyone has realized that Datang only has two allies, that is, the horizontal sword and the horse lance in our hands. We need to make all the enemies realize that although they have won one or two battles by chance, the war is not over yet! There will be no more compromises, no more negotiations, no more concessions, no more power to abstain in this war! This war will not end until we, or one of them, fall completely! ”

The generals felt their blood begin to boil, and their faces flushed with excitement. Their fists clenched tightly.

Chen Ying slowly raised his arms and clenched his fists: "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood!" ”

The generals raised their arms and shouted: "The blood debt must be paid with blood!" ”