Chapter Seventy-Six: Death Without Turning a Blind Eye
In the city of Fengzhou, black smoke rose from the beacon tower outside the country. Three days ago, Luo Yi, the king of Yanjun, falsely rumored that the Son of Heaven had secretly admonished him into the city and rebelled, called "Qingjun's side." ”
However, at this time, the rebels standing on the city wall were all panicked, and their wheezing voices were endless. If you don't know the reason for the incident, you still think that they made dolls on their mother-in-law last night and made all their physical strength, lying on the ridges of the field like old cows in the fields, dozing off, and lazily driving away mosquitoes and flies with their tails.
Thousands of meters away, the shadows of the Tang soldiers were densely packed, like small black dots on the vast earth, and they were steadily advancing on the deafening drumbeat, seeing that their scale was more than tens of thousands.
In front of it, there are still tens of thousands of light cavalry sweeping the formation, holding well-made horse lances, and carrying longbows on their shoulders, these are elite soldiers and good generals who have fought for more than ten years at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and they are the pillars of the Tang Dynasty - Guanlongfu soldiers!
The soldiers of Guanlong Mansion were all good sons of small and medium-sized landlords, and they bought horses in the east market and saddle sheaths in the west market in Chang'an. Equipped with a family heirloom horse lance and armor, he joined the government soldiers with the congratulations of relatives and friends.
Just like Cen Shen said, "Fame only goes right away, what a hero and a husband!" Guanzhong and Longxi have been the production areas of elite soldiers since ancient times, although the Tang army did not have the impulse of the Qin army to hear the war and rejoice. But in the Tang Dynasty, men are determined to serve the country and make meritorious contributions, and since ancient times, they have obtained military merits on the battlefield!
Although the soldiers of Guanlongfu are proficient in the world, the Youzhou soldiers under the command of Luo Yi, the king of Yanjun, are not much different, and the reason that really makes the rebels timid before fighting is that on the marching chariot, the banner fluttering with the cold wind.
There is a great reputation for embroidery with exquisite craftsmanship on the flag, which is the three big characters of "British Gong"!
"Stop!" British Duke Li Ji is in the prime of life, with a three-inch beautiful hair under his chin, his posture is as tall as a cedar, and his eyes are as bright as cold stars under his sword eyebrows, shining with the light of wisdom, his eyes are staring at the head of the city of Fuzhou, and he slightly raised his right hand to signal the army to stop.
Fenzhou is located at the node of Guanzhong and Longxi, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Luo Yi, the king of Yanjun, also relied on treacherous tricks to enter the city and occupy Fenzhou, not to mention that Luo Yi's rebellion seems to be justified.
"If the name is not right, the word is not good, and you must not conquer the place." Li Ji smiled faintly, he was more like a teaching Hongru than a general who drank blood on the battlefield.
In addition to Luo Yi's old division of Youzhou in this rebellion, the rest of the original defenders of Jingzhou City were the rebellion. And most of the original defenders of Jingzhou City were unwilling to follow Luo Yi to rebel, but the choice was not in their hands, not to mention that Luo Yi's rebellion also occupied the righteousness - the side of the Qing monarch!
Everyone in the world knows that the throne in the hands of the current emperor is robbed of his brother, and he also imprisons the emperor. Although these behaviors did not cause the anger of the people in the world, the people did not have a good impression of Li Shimin, and in addition, they nominally wanted to eliminate Li Shimin, a traitorous minister and rebel, and welcome back the Emperor Taishang to re-ascend the throne.
Therefore, my heart followed the rebellion half-yielding and half-submissive.
"Tie the three hundred books to the arrow and shoot them into the city of Fengzhou!" Li Ji shouted.
There are many famous generals in the Tang Dynasty, but Li Shimin chose Li Ji's generals, which is not accidental, but inevitable.
This winter, there has been a rebellion of the prince of Pengguo, although the momentum is very small, less than 100 people, and he was also arrested by Wei Chigong and returned to Chang'an. Although this matter came to an end, the hearts of the people inside and outside the Tang Dynasty were fluctuating, and at this moment, in less than half a month, Luo Yi, the king of Yanjun, occupied Jingzhou City and rebelled.
The momentum of this rebellion was very huge, not only blocking the Silk Road, but also disconnecting the imperial court with the Western Regions, so that the restless people in the world saw the signs.
British Gong Li Ji must use the power of thunder to crush the rebels and deter the Tang Dynasty inside and outside.
His Majesty the Emperor wanted the way of the Son of Heaven and rebelled....... It's going to die!
And in the entire Tang Dynasty, except for Li Ji, the Duke of Weiguo, Li Ji is the most fierce and stable as an old dog, and others such as Qin Qiong and others, although they have great achievements, they are undoubtedly still one level worse than the two.
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The city of Fenzhou, the governor's mansion.
"The king of the county, the king of the county, the Tang army led by Li Ji stopped five hundred meters away, and it was slow to attack the city." A rebel general hurried into the main hall of the Governor's Palace.
"What? Li Ji was slow to attack the city. Luo Yi knelt on the front desk, his face was gloomy, he looked around the hall, and everyone had different faces when they heard this.
Although he was afraid of his former majesty and did not act rashly, the people in the Tianjie Army were already unstable. If Li Ji makes a slight move, I am afraid that when he leaves the Governor's Mansion, someone will open the city gate and go out to surrender.
Helplessly, the British Duke Li Ji is in the prime of life, and he is a famous person. It's like he Luo Yi is old, and he has left Youzhou, which was once divided, just like a fish without a source of water, even if he can live for a while, he can only barely support it.
Unlike the desire for profit when he rebelled half a month ago, he was on pins and needles at this moment, he didn't regret it, but he hated why the news of the rebellion reached the imperial court so quickly, so that he was not fully prepared, and the British Duke Li Ji led the Tang army to suppress the border.
You must know that the merchants' goods seized in Jingzhou City are hundreds of thousands of yuan. If he is given time to use this money, he can recruit foreign cavalry in Turkic and Western Regions, or buy good horses from the Western Regions, and he can also recruit poor children in Longxi...... (Most of the government military system is recruited by small and medium-sized landlords, only these families can be equipped with weapons and equipment, and the better horse lance starts at least ten times in Chang'an City, not to mention the huge cost of armament such as good horses and armor, and the cheapest is the bow and arrow.) )
Three quarters of an hour later, another general came in and knelt down and said, "King of the county, the Tang army outside the city still did not attack the city, but ...... Constantly shoot into the Epistles with bows and arrows. ”
After speaking, he pulled out a small rolled piece of paper from his waist, and the handwriting on it was clear and dense.
Luo Yi frowned, asked the waiter to present the letter, and after reading it for a while, he was shocked: "The thief Li Yuan really has no ambitions, and he mistook me!" ”
When he and Li Yuan were in the late Sui Dynasty, they had similar positions, and they were colleagues, but later Li Yuan became powerful and took refuge in the Tang Dynasty. In this anxiety in his heart, he blurted out the old word "thief".
The generals of the Tianjie Army under the hall looked at each other, not knowing what the letter was written, but when they heard Luo Yi shouting like this, they also understood a little bit in their hearts, and glanced at each other, and the two generals who had a good relationship got up from their seats together, and approached Luo Yi a little closer, their words faintly threatening, and said in unison: "Please also ask the king of the county, let the last general and others read the letter that Li Ji shot into the city." ”
Luo Yi's face changed slightly, and he seemed to be casually preparing to hand the letter to several generals, but his eyes had already signaled that the guards were ready to move.
Dozens of guards understood and rushed in from outside the hall, killing the two generals with their swords before they could react.
"Generals must know that rebellion is a big crime for the nine clans, and when the king of this county enters Chang'an City, you are all the founding princes of the country, isn't it beautiful, why should you be a prisoner?" Luo Yi smiled slightly and promised.
When he learned that the British Duke Li Ji was approaching Fengzhou, he convened the generals in the Governor's Mansion, not to discuss how to win, but to fear that someone would turn against him.
But the generals of the Tianjie Army were not so easy to fool, and they all drew out the swords they carried with them to guard against Luo Yi's personal guards.
One of the generals stood up and said: "Since the county king is confident, why kill the two generals Zhou and Wu, and ask the county king to let me wait to read the letter, whether to leave or stay, we have to decide!" ”
However, Luo Yi didn't dare to reveal the letter, took a step back, and said fiercely: "Since you have to force the king of this county, then you will live and die!" ”
After a stick of incense, the sound of fighting in the Governor's Mansion gradually died down, and the hall was covered with bloodstains, like a Shura field, with armored Tianjie army generals lying on the ground, as well as guards equipped with elves, and waiters who died innocently.
And Luo Yi also escaped from Fengzhou City with a few remaining guards through the secret passage, he had the same idea as Wang Junkuo, he couldn't get along in the Tang Dynasty, and was ready to go to the Turks to survive.
An hour later, the Tang army entered the city of Fengzhou without a single soldier.
In the Governor's Mansion, Li Ji bent down and picked up a blood-stained letter from the clenched hand of a dead Tianjie army general, and closed his dead eyes by the way.
The bloodstained letter reads: "Li Shimin, the king of Qin, is obedient and virtuous, and he is very happy with the poor road, and he does not want to return to the government, and the Qing monarch is determined to be a lie....... Li Yi, the king of Yanjun, led the crowd to rebel against Jingzhou, abolished his national surname, and re-established himself as Luo Yi......"
The letter book did not have such a big effect, but when tens of thousands of Guanlong elite soldiers came to the city, this was the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Luo Yi categorically did not expect that the Emperor Taishang would be so shameless that he could stand up and write such a letter.
As for someone falsifying?
How could the letter of the Son of Heaven be forged by the British Duke Li Ji?
PS: This morning, the code word hand is cheap to lock the small black house, and it can't come out without 6,000 words, so the update is over, please ask for a recommendation ticket, and comfort me.......