Liu Lancheng's cavalry did not attack the Tang army, but confronted the Tang army ten miles away, the Zhou army formed an attack formation and maintained strong pressure, while the Tang army was in a defensive formation, with bows and arrows in front, infantry in the rear, and three thousand cavalry distributed around the left.

The confrontation between the two sides lasted from early morning to noon, and then from noon to afternoon, but the Zhou army still did not attack, and still maintained a state of readiness, which lasted from afternoon to evening.

This is a strong willpower contest, depending on who is more elite and who can hold out to the end, and the side that cannot hold on is likely to cause the collapse of the army's morale.

But at night, Liu Lancheng received an order from the Son of Heaven, and he began to collect his troops and slowly retreat, but he did not retreat, and still kept a distance of thirty miles.

The Tang army almost collapsed, and after a day of confrontation, almost all the Tang soldiers lost confidence, they were desperate for the future, and their war-weariness was high, and many soldiers began to flee under the cover of night, and the generals couldn't stop drinking, and thousands of people fled in just one hour.

In a lonely tent, Li Shentong saw his brother Li Shenfu who had fled from Chang'an.

"Big brother, Chang'an is over, the saint died of illness the night before yesterday, Li Yuanji is dead, Datang is over, surrender with me! Jang Hyun personally promised me. ”

Li Shentong glanced at his brother and said dissatisfiedly: "I asked you to come out early, but you didn't listen, and as a result, there was nothing, and you were actually captured." ”

"Big brother, I wanted to come out, but the generals refused! They all want to surrender and refuse to leave Chang'an, what should I do? In the end, the Zhou army was killed so quickly, I thought it would be too late to go alone, but fortunately, Zhang Xuan promised that as long as the eldest brother surrendered, we could live. ”

"It's just about surviving?"

"Big brother, not only to live, our whole army surrendered, he promised our county duke to ensure our glory and wealth for the rest of our lives, I am already very satisfied."

"As long as you have a woman, you're satisfied!" Li Shentong glared at him fiercely.

Having said that, Li Shentong was also moved, it was impossible for him to attack the Great Dispersion Pass, today Liu Lan could defeat them in a battle, and finally let them go, needless to say, it was because of the arrival of his brother Li Shenfu, if he didn't make a decision tonight, Liu Lancheng would attack tomorrow.

In fact, the county prince is not bad, it seems that Zhang Xuan wants to leave a few Li royal families to show his benevolence, his brother is sleek and mediocre, so he can survive, what about himself?

Thinking of his own bunch of sons and a few beloved wives and concubines, Li Shentong couldn't say hard words anymore, he was determined to surrender Zhang Xuan, but there was still a Li Xiaogong who was making an obstacle from it, which would ruin his own good deeds, thinking of this, he was secretly ruthless in his heart, no poison and no husband, so he said to Li Shenfu: "You go down first, I will deal with one thing, and then you come again." ”

He asked his soldiers to take Li Shenfu down, and asked his eldest son to invite Li Xiaogong, and after a while, Li Xiaogong was anxious, and asked when he entered the account: "Second uncle, has it been decided?" ”

Li Shentong was drinking alone, and he waved his hand, "Sit down!" I'll discuss something with you. ”

Li Xiaogong sat down opposite him, Li Shentong poured him a full glass of wine, and said with a smile: "I have thought about it repeatedly, and I plan to accept your previous suggestion and go to Bashu instead." ”

Li Xiaogong was happy and worried, the joy was that Li Shentong was finally willing to listen to his own opinions and go to Bashu, but the worry was that they were gone, what should the people do?

Li Shentong said with a smile: "I have thought about it, although Shimin's army can't come, but if he can give up the army and only bring a few generals and retinues, he can go over the mountains to Guanzhong, and then go to Bashu to find us, and we will start from scratch." ”

This plan made Li Xiaogong overjoyed, why didn't he think of it before? He hurriedly said, "Second Uncle can send someone to inform Shimin?" Let me send someone to inform. ”

"I have already sent someone to Yongxian County to reply to the people of the eagle, so Xiaogong will not have to bother."

Li Shentong raised his glass and said with a smile: "I wish us to seize Bashu, rebuild the foundation, and do this cup!" ”

Li Xiaogong was in a good mood, he didn't have any doubts, and drank it all.

Li Shentong put down the wine glass, looked at Li Xiaogong and said apologetically: "Virtuous nephew, I'm sorry!" ”

"Second uncle, what did you say?" Li Xiaogong suddenly felt a little bad in his heart, and his hand quietly grasped a short sword hidden in his waist.

Li Shentong said calmly: "I didn't send anyone to inform Shimin, I don't actually want to go to Bashu, I have decided to surrender Zhang Xuan, nephew, I have poisoned the wine." ”

"You bastard!"

Li Xiaogong scolded angrily, pulled out an unusually sharp short sword and threw it at Li Shentong, Li Shentong was shocked and hurriedly retreated, still a step too late, 'Click! The sharp short sword actually cut off Li Shentong's right arm at elbow.

Li Shentong screamed, turned over and fell to the ground, kicked the small table at Li Xiaogong, Li Xiaogong was blocked, he was about to pounce again, suddenly there was a strong sharp pain in his abdomen, and he screamed in pain, fell to the ground, and shrunk into a ball.

At this time, several of Li Shentong's personal soldiers rushed in when they heard the movement, and they were immediately shocked, and they drew their swords together to kill Li Xiaogong.

"No need to kill!"

Li Shentong stood up with pain, two soldiers stepped forward to bandage his broken arm wound, the poison was violent, Li Xiaogong had already bled to death at this time, Li Shentong hated in his heart, he knew that he would kill him directly with a knife and axe, and he wanted to keep him a whole corpse, but he injured himself.

At this time, a general outside the tent hurriedly reported: "Lord Wang, the soldiers are fleeing seriously, please make a decision as soon as possible." ”

Li Shentong sighed and said: "Don't decide, pass my order, and the whole army will surrender!" ”

Li Shentong's surrender made the last main force of the Tang army in the Guanzhong area also disappear, and at this time, the entire Tang Dynasty was only left with Li Shimin's 6,000 remnants of the army trapped in Yuanliang County, and the food in the city was not enough to support half a month, and the 200,000 troops of Li Jing and Luo Shixin besieged Yuanliang County.

Five days later, Zhang Xuan personally led an army of 100,000 to arrive in Yuanliang County, the flags were overwhelming, and the 300,000 troops shouted long live, the momentum shook the heavens and the earth, and the defenders on the city were shocked.

Zhang Xuan met with the generals one by one, and finally smiled at the main general Li Jing: "The pharmacist did not disappoint me and defeated Li Shimin, which shows that my decision to let you be the commander is completely correct." ”

Li Jing said modestly: "Your Majesty, Li Shimin is very powerful, but his troops are too small, less than thirty percent of ours, 200,000 against 50,000, Weichen does not dare to boast." ”

"But you defeated him with 100,000 troops, not 200,000, I admit that Li Shimin has a strong army, but we don't have to be arrogant, the war is originally written with victory."

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your teachings!"

Zhang Xuan asked Luo Shixin again: "I heard that you met Qin Qiong on the battlefield?" ”

Luo Shixin nodded, and said with a gloomy expression: "I persuaded him to surrender, and he left without saying a word." ”

Jang Hyun patted him on the shoulder, "He will surrender, because his lord is still here, and he will not surrender on the battlefield." ”

Luo Shixin sighed, "Actually, Brother Qin is very talented, but he doesn't have the opportunity to show his talent, which is embarrassing." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled: "In the future, there will be a time when he will show his talent, and he will still have a chance." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Xuan put away his smile and said solemnly to the generals: "Although the civil war of the Great Zhou is over, the outer neighbors are not peaceful, there are Turks in the west and north, Wa and Baekje in the east, Annam in the south, and the gradual rise of Tibet, these are the goals of our Great Zhou Empire to conquer one by one, and it is also an opportunity for our Han men to serve the country." ”

The generals were enthusiastic, knelt down on one knee and shouted: "I am willing to serve Your Majesty!" Willing to serve the Great Zhou Empire! ”

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Li Shimin failed to break through the siege and almost completely wiped out his army, and he finally fled back to Yuanliang County with only 6,000 remnants.

But Yuanliang County is only a small county, the circumference is only more than ten miles, the city is more than two zhang high, the city width is only one zhang, the moat is also very narrow, the city is old, even the city gate is a wooden gate that has been used for 30 years, and there are only thousands of people in the county.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Shimin had a little grain in Yuanliang County, they would have been cut off from food, but even if they had a little grain, they could only support the Tang Army for half a month at most.

An army of 300,000 besieged this dilapidated city like an iron bucket, and only 20,000 troops were needed to completely destroy this small city, but Li Jing had to wait for the Son of Heaven to come before he did not order the siege.

Li Shimin sat alone in the county office and drank a cup of stuffy wine, he was already seven or eight points drunk, what his fate would be in the end, he actually understood it in his heart, but he still wanted to know the ending of Chang'an and wanted to know the news of his father.

At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji walked over with a letter and stood beside Li Shimin for a long time without speaking.

"But Jang Hyun gave me a letter?" Li Shimin asked drunkly.

"Yes."

"What does the letter say? Is there any mention of Chang'an? ”

"I mentioned it, saying that Li Yuanji and Cui Wenxiang both died in the chaos, and the saint also died five days ago, and the Li Shentong brothers have surrendered, and Zhang Xuan persuaded His Royal Highness to surrender and inherit the title of Duke of Tang."

Hearing that his father had died, Li Shimin's tears flowed, and he slowly said to his eldest grandson Wuji: "Put the letter here, let me think about it, you go!" ”

"Your Highness!"

"Go ahead! I'm in a mess, and I'm going to get my thoughts in order. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji put the letter on the table, he was not at ease, and took Li Shimin's sword away casually, slowly closed the door and retreated, the eldest grandson Wuji just walked to the middle door, and suddenly felt wrong, he just saw a bright red bottle on the small table in front of His Highness, that is......

As if his heart was about to burst, he hurried back and shouted at the door: "Your Highness! Your Highness! ”

didn't answer for a long time, he slowly pushed the door open, his body suddenly froze, and the eldest grandson Wuji fell to his knees, and couldn't help crying loudly.

[End of the book]

postscript

In December of the eighth year of Baoding, Zhang Xuan, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, led hundreds of civil and military officials, Hu Cong's honor guards, as well as the princes and queen's concubines, under the escort of 100,000 Yulin Army, arrived at the foot of Mount Tai in Bocheng County, Yanzhou, which was also the first time since the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Feng Chan car ride for hundreds of miles, accompanied by Hui Hui, Bayegu, Tongluo, Khotan, Gaochang, Shule, Persia, Tianzhu, Wa, Tubo and other countries stationed in the envoys and chieftains.

On the tenth day of December, Yuwen Chengdu, the general of the Yulin Army, personally led the army to deploy a strict guard in Mount Tai, and the mighty sacrificial team gathered under Mount Tai, and Wei Yunqi had sent people to build the altar of worship, the altar of Dengfeng and the altar of Zen descending.

Zhang Xuan, the son of the Great Zhou Dynasty, worshiped the heavens at the foot of the mountain.

Zhang Xuan slowly knelt down and prayed silently to the heavens: 'Xuan inherits the holy will of heaven to unify the world and quell the war, until thousands of years later, Xuan and his descendants will work hard to rejuvenate China, let the people of Li be peaceful, let the four seas surrender, no longer have external troubles, and the sword soldiers cannot afford it. ’

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The next day, Zhang Xuan led hundreds of officials and queens and concubines to the top of the mountain, and sealed Jince in the 'Dengfeng Altar', and on the third day, everyone went to Sheshou Mountain to 'descend to the Zen Altar' to worship the earth god.

After the end of the Feng Chan, Zhang Xuan accepted the congratulations of the ministers in the Dai Temple, and erected the 'Feng Chan' tablet, officially changed the year name to Yongning, and changed Chang'an to Xijing.

Since then, the Great Zhou Empire has been peaceful and peaceful, the four seas have surrendered, and all countries have come to court.

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