readx; Jianmen Pass was built in the mountain plank road about two zhang wide, which could accommodate not many soldiers, and could only accommodate more than 1,000 people for defense, and similarly, the attacking side could only put more than 2,000 people at most, and the two armies carried out small-scale attacks and defenses again and again in the narrow mountain road. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

A battle to attack Jianmen Pass has just ended, the Northern Tang army has withdrawn, the narrow plank road is full of dead soldiers' corpses, the corpses are full of arrows, the blood-stained plank road and the stone wall on the side of the road, several small catapults have fallen apart, and the air is filled with a pungent bloody smell.

The city tower and the wall of Jianmen Pass are also scarred, most of them were hit by stones, a wooden pillar was broken, half of the city tower collapsed, the Southern Tang soldiers also had hundreds of casualties, the corpses and wounded soldiers were carried down, more than a thousand soldiers were exhausted and leaned on the city, this is the first battle since the Sui Dynasty, Jianmen Pass encountered, many soldiers are fighting for the first time, every soldier's heart is heavy, and the fear of death is shrouded in the heart of every soldier.

In the corner of the city tower, a soldier was counting the number of dead in the Northern Tang Army, he had been counting for a long time, and several soldiers next to him were impatient.

"Wang Sanlang, do you know how the fuck you count!"

"Don't make a noise!"

The soldier waved his hand, and he was so engrossed in counting that the results were almost there.

“．．．．． One hundred and fifty-four, one hundred and fifty-five! ”

When the soldier finally counted, he excitedly shouted to the crowd, "Count it, there are one hundred and fifty-five corpses in all." ”

"What a fucking shit!"

Several soldiers couldn't help but scold, "Those who defend the city die much more than those who besiege the city, what kind of natural danger is this?" ”

"Maybe you should count the enemy troops who fell into the deep ravine!"

"Count a fart, people haven't messed up at all, don't you see it, there are only two people who fell in total, or fell after being hit by an arrow, plus only one hundred and fifty-seven people, how many of us died, it seems like how many three hundred?"

The soldier couldn't remember a little clearly, and asked in a loud voice, "Captain Zhang, how many of us died?" ”

"Three hundred and twenty-five, more than 400 wounded."

"Did you hear it, twice as many as others, if it weren't for this natural danger, we would have died a long time ago, and we would have been a husband, and we wouldn't open it!"

"There's no way around this, everyone is experienced in a hundred battles, who of us here has ever fought? One person died, two hundred family members were compensated, and there were fifty acres of land, what did we have to die in battle? ”

The soldiers at the head of the city were silent, and then someone shouted: "The governor is here!" ”

The soldiers stood up one after another, only to see a large group of soldiers rushing from the plank road, in front of a general, it was Chen Xuanli, the chief general of Jianzhou, Chen Xuanli has always been the general of the forbidden army in the palace, following Li Longji for decades, this year is more than 60 years old, last year Gao Lishi died of illness in Yuzhou, Chen Xuanli ran to the funeral, as a result, he annoyed Li Fuguo, and was demoted to the governor of Jianzhou.

In this prince's dispute, he supported Peng Wang Li only because he hated Li Fuguo, and in the joint letter of the hundred officials, he ranked fourth, as a result, King Peng was killed, the prince ascended the throne, Chen Xuanli's heart was heavy, he just got the news, in the Chengdu purge, many of his old relatives and friends have been raided and imprisoned, he knows that if it is not for the Northern Tang Army to attack the Southern Tang, he will not escape the purge.

Chen Xuanli is usually stationed in Jianmen County, but since yesterday, he has moved his command to Jianmenguan Town, which is only a dozen miles away from Jianmen Pass, where he has stationed 20,000 troops and can support the battle for Jianmen Pass at any time.

As soon as a battle ended, Chen Xuanli rushed to inspect the pass, and he had already heard the report, and there were more than 700 dead and wounded, while only more than 100 people were killed on the other side, which really surprised him.

"See the Governor!"

The guard of Jianmen Pass is a general, named Hong Yun, who was originally also a general of the Yulin Army, who has followed Chen Xuanli for many years and is his confidant and favorite general.

Chen Xuanli nodded, "What is the situation of the Northern Tang Army?" ”

"It's already retreated, but the drums can be faintly heard, and it is estimated that there will be another attack today."

"Did the Tang army thunder?"

"No, it hasn't been useful, it's strange, I don't think Tang Jun really wants to tackle the problem, what do they seem to be waiting for?"

Chen Xuanli didn't speak, he walked up to the city, and saw that the plank road was full of corpses of soldiers of the Northern Tang Army, and couldn't help frowning, "Collect all those corpses and burn them immediately, on such a hot day, it is easy to break down and cause a plague." ”

"Yes!"

Hong Yun agreed, and immediately ordered the soldiers to collect the corpses, Chen Xuanli stopped him again, "Give each of them a clay pot to hold bones, I heard that each of them has a military badge, so put it in the jar." ”

"But ......"

Hong Yun felt that Chen Xuanli was a little too kind to the enemy army, and their own soldiers did not have this treatment, so they were directly buried.

"Nothing, this is my order, go quickly!"

Hong Yun didn't dare to disobey the order, and hurriedly ran to arrange it, Chen Xuanli looked at the mountains and mountains in the distance, his heart was full of worries, he just got the news before going up the mountain, Li Sheng's 50,000 elite army has entered Guozhou, and it is only one Zizhou away from Yizhou, where Chengdu is located, at most four or five days, Li Sheng's army will arrive in Chengdu, the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty is imminent, what is the point of him guarding the Sword Pavilion here?

But he didn't want to bear the reputation of surrendering in battle, and his only hope was that Chengdu would die first, and then he would surrender to the Northern Tang Dynasty, so that he would not be disgraced.

"Dudu, it doesn't seem good!" Hong Yun ran back and whispered beside him.

Chen Xuanli was stunned, "What happened?" ”

"My subordinates went to check the grain just now, and found that there was not much grain in stock, so I asked Jin Sima again, and he said that there has been no grain in Jianmen County for two days, and he is a little worried, there will be no accident in Jianmen County!"

Chen Xuanli has been in Chengdu for the past two days, and he didn't care about food, hearing this, he was also a little stunned, Jianmen Guan Town is stationed with 20,000 troops, and the food consumption is huge, Jianmen County must transport grain every day, and it is not possible to be a day late, and now it is obvious that there is no food for two days, why didn't the marching Sima report to himself, he was extremely unhappy and said: "Let Jin Sima come to see me!" ”

In a moment, the marching Sima hurriedly came over, "See the governor!" ”

"Let me ask you, why didn't you report to me that there was no food for two days in a row?"

"Back to the governor, I want to report, but the governor only came yesterday, no one is seen, I went to the barracks twice and was stopped, this morning I went to the governor to report, but the governor came out early in the morning, and he was also very anxious."

In the past two days, Chen Xuanli was worried about the affairs of Chengdu, and he really had no intention of asking about military affairs, and he couldn't completely blame the marching Sima, so he asked again: "Well, I don't blame you, I only ask you, why didn't the military rations come?" Besides, how much more rations do we have? ”

"I'm also very strange that the military rations are not coming, I have already sent someone to check, and we can still support the military rations for two days now, and I hope that the military rations will be delivered today."

Chen Xuanli had a bad feeling in his heart, something must have happened in Jianmen County, could it be that Guo Yingyi took over his army?

At this moment, a soldier rushed in the distance, shouting in terror: "Governor, something has happened!" ”

When the sword gate closed, all the soldiers stood up, looking at the terrified soldier, not knowing what was wrong?

"Panic what!"

Chen Xuanli was afraid of disturbing the morale of the army, so he angrily reprimanded.

The soldier climbed up to the pass with a rolling belt, and said with a crying voice: "Dudu, 20,000 Northern Tang cavalry came out of nowhere, attacked the camp in Jianmen County at night, General Fu couldn't resist it, and he had already led the army to surrender, and the grain road was cut off the day before yesterday." ”

This news was like a thunderbolt from the sky, which stunned Chen Xuanli, and there was a lot of discussion on the pass, and the news instantly spread throughout the army, and the feeling of despair spread among the soldiers.

"Governor, has Chengdu been captured?" Hong Yun asked nervously.

Chen Xuanli was confused in his heart and shook his head, "Chengdu has not been captured, the cavalry of the Tang Army should come from Lychee Road, I said a long time ago that there is a problem with the defense over there, but the imperial court will not listen." ”

"That's... So what do I do now? ”

"I don't know! We defended the Sword Pavilion, but in the end we were trapped on the mountain. ”

Chen Xuanli sighed, "The enemy soldiers are coming to the city, and the East Palace is still fighting for power. ”

At this moment, the plank road has been north and there is a "Boom! Boom! Boom! The sound of the muffled drums, this is the Northern Tang Army is about to attack again, the defenders of Jianmen Pass look at each other, and now, there is no need to resist.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, a Northern Tang galloped up the mountain, stopped a hundred steps away from the Sword Gate, and he stretched out his bow and arrows, 'Whoosh! An arrow from the ground went up to the city, and a letter was stuck in it.

A soldier picked up the letter and handed it to Chen Xuanli, Chen Xuanli took the letter, he was stunned for a moment, and saw that the envelope read: 'General Tiance, Anxi Jiedu envoy, and Li Qing'an, the king of Zhao, to General Chen Xuanli. ’

This is Li Qingan's handwritten letter! He scrambled to open the letter.

'Farewell to Chang'an, don't come to General Chen's harm? After a few years, the carp of the Weihe River is fattening, the wine of Pingkangfang is mellow, and the old willow of Zhuque Street has sprouted, and I don't know when the public will return to Chang'an......

After a few words, the corners of Chen Xuanli's eyes moistened a little, the deepest string in his heart was quietly plucked, and he sighed, only feeling that he had never been so weak as today.

"Governor, Brethren....."

Chen Xuanli turned his head and looked around, only to see more than a thousand defenders each looking at him blankly, their eyes full of anticipation and pleading.

"You ..... Do you really not want to fight? Chen Xuanli asked in a hoarse voice.

The soldiers all nodded silently, and I don't know who took the lead, put down their bows and arrows, put their weapons on the ground one by one, and the soldiers all knelt down, which was a silent plea.

"Okay!"

Chen Xuanli let out a long sigh, "Listen to my orders, the whole army lay down their weapons, and follow me down the mountain to surrender!" ”

With the surrender of Chen Xuanli, Jianmen Pass, the north gate of Shuzhong was finally opened, Li Guangbi led an army of 100,000 to cross the Jianmen Pass and march towards Chengdu, and at the same time, Li Sheng's 50,000 troops on the East Road also entered Zizhou and forced Chengdu.

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Chengdu city has been a chaos, the purge of hundreds of officials has not ended, there is a news that 170,000 Tang troops entered Bashu, although the Li Department ordered to block the news, but the Northern Tang intelligence officers are extremely active, one by one the news has spread to thousands of households, the Southern Tang regime at this time has lost the hearts of the people, every household closed their doors, prayed in front of the Buddha, praying that the Northern Tang army would enter the city as soon as possible.

The officials of the Southern Tang Dynasty also set off a wave of resignation, the resignation is very simple, write a letter of resignation, the health is not good, and then fold the official uniform and put it on the desk, and hang the official seal on the beam of the court, which means that it is no longer the official of the Southern Tang Dynasty, everyone can see that the general trend of the Southern Tang Dynasty has gone, and no one is willing to stay on this big broken ship that is about to sink.

Even the new emperor Li Department was desperate, he locked himself in the deep palace, every time he drank wine and silver music, debauchery, in his words, even if he did not have the power of the emperor, he also needed the pleasure of the emperor, Li Fuguo was still dedicated, he wrote a letter to Xu Guan, pinning his hopes on every Taishou or county order in Shu, so that they could organize the people to resist the Northern Tang Army to march into Chengdu.

The last 100,000 troops in Chengdu also withdrew into the city the next day the news came, and immediately, the city began to be martial law day and night, the door of the square was closed, and the military discipline was also strict, and 3,000 military discipline inspectors patrolled the streets and alleys, and the soldiers who caught the private houses and looted were beheaded on the spot.

In the Yanying Hall of Nanming Palace, more than a dozen little eunuchs were busy packing and packing, and the eighteen night pearls hanging in the Yanying Hall had all been picked off and packed into boxes.

'Bang! With a loud bang, the side door was kicked open, and the emperor Li Xiang rushed into the palace drunkenly with a sword, he had just received a secret report from a eunuch that Li Fuguo was looting the palace belongings and preparing to escape.

He was furious, and used the strength of wine to find Li Fuguo, and wanted to kill this eunuch with a sword, and more than a dozen little eunuchs were stunned, they immediately reacted and fled in all directions, one of them seemed to have been immobilized, and his legs were weak and motionless.

Li Xie overturned the little eunuch, trampled him under his feet, and said viciously: "Where is my night pearl!" ”

The little eunuch pointed to the box, Li was furious, and killed the little eunuch with a sword, he kicked open the box, and more than a dozen night pearls rolled to the ground.

"Holy One, what are you doing?"

Li Fuguo's shrill voice came from the door, and he walked into the main hall with dozens of eunuchs and surrounded the Li family.

"You eunuch!"

Li pointed at him and scolded, "Do you want to take advantage of the chaos to steal my royal treasure?" ”

Li Fuguo picked up the night pearls, one of which was already stained with blood, which made his heart ache, and the night pearls did not light up when they encountered blood.

"Holy Lord, you are too surnamed, I am always helping you, but you don't appreciate it."

"Help me?"

Li Ji looked up to the sky and laughed, and the sound of wild laughter echoed in the main hall, "I'm just a poor puppet, am I still the emperor?" Who is the emperor exactly? ”

He suddenly laughed, pointed at Li Fuguo and scolded: "You eunuch, you want to be the emperor, you have issued hundreds of wills in my name, which one has told me?" ”

Li Fuguo snorted coldly, pointed at him and said, "He drank too much, take him down, lock him in a quiet room and sober up!" ”

Dozens of eunuchs rushed up and threw Li to the ground, and Li struggled desperately, "Let go of me!" Let me go! ”

But to no avail, the eunuchs tied him up, gagged him, stuffed him into a sack, and carried him away in a large box.

At this time, Li Fuguo's adopted son, Li Xianluo, stepped forward and asked, "Father, shall we leave tonight?" ”

Li Fuguo nodded, "The Northern Tang Army will be killed tomorrow, and we will leave tonight." ”

"But..... I heard that there are a lot of bandits on the Annam side, we don't have an army, who will protect us. ”

"You fool, who said that I was going to Annam, we went to Qinzhou to sea through the middle of the Qianzhong Road, I have a manor by the sea, I built a big ship two years ago, we went to sea from there, and went to a foreign country to be a rich man."

More than a dozen eunuchs returned, and reported: "Locked him up!" ”

"Good! To prepare the carriage, we set off from the harem overnight! ”

That night, Li Fuguo left Chengdu with more than 100 henchmen and more than 40 carriages full of palace wealth, and fled along the official road in the direction of Jianzhou, where he prepared to board a boat in Yang'an County, Jianzhou, and take a boat to the Yangtze River.

Li Fuguo thought that the Northern Tang Army was coming from the north and east, and the south of Chengdu should be safe, but he did not know that Tian Qianzhen's 20,000 cavalry had already circled to the south of Chengdu.

In the night, forty-five carriages were speeding on the official road, more than 100 eunuchs and guards were dressed in black, and the guards on horseback were on both sides of the carriage, all the carriages were full of property, these were the wealth that Li Longji and Li Heng brought to Chengdu from Chang'an, except for the large items and silver ingots that could not be carried, the rest of the gold, jewelry, jade, etc. were all swept away by him.

He wanted to keep all these riches for himself, Li Fuguo also changed into black clothes, riding on a horse, he was in a particularly happy mood, at this time they had successfully left Chengdu, which was fifty miles away from Chengdu City.

Just when Li Fuguo was getting carried away, his adopted son Li Xianluo found out that something was wrong.

"Father, look!"

I saw two cavalry teams in the darkness coming towards the official road, one left and one right, these were two scout cavalry patrolling the official road, a total of 300 soldiers, they found this suspicious horse convoy and began to intercept it.

"Stop! Don't stop us and let us shoot the arrows! ”

"Father, what should I do?"

Li Xianluo was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and Li Fuguo's face became hideous, how could he be arrested.

"Everybody rush over!"

The carriage sped up, trying to rush over before the two cavalry teams were not closed, the cavalry team released arrows, hundreds of arrows shot at the horse convoy, and suddenly there was a miserable scream, dozens of eunuchs were shot by arrows and fell off their horses, Li Xianluo was shot in the throat by an arrow, and died tragically on the spot, the horses that rushed to the front were also hit by arrows, the two horses neighed and fell, the carriage overturned, and several carriages behind also overturned, and the horse convoy finally stopped.

The cavalry gathered around and shouted: "All dismount and kneel, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

The eunuchs and guards were so frightened that they dismounted and knelt on the ground, but Li Fuguo refused to dismount, he suddenly accelerated, rushed out of the cavalry encirclement, and fled south.

The captain of the cavalry snorted coldly, raised his crossbow and aimed at him, 'Click! A crossbow arrow whistled out, hitting Li Fuguo's heart, Li Fuguo screamed softly, fell from the horse, but his right foot hung in the stirrup, the horse was frightened, dragged him forward and continued to run, until the cavalry caught up, Li Fuguo was already blurred and unrecognizable.

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The next morning, the moment that made some people happy and some worried in the Southern Tang Dynasty finally came, Li Guangbi's 100,000 army and Li Sheng's 50,000 army met under the city of Chengdu, and the army immediately set up a large camp and ordered Guo Yingyi to surrender immediately.

Guo Yingyi finally chose the middle strategy, ordered the soldiers to open the city and surrender, he personally led the army to Nanming Palace to arrest people, the eunuchs and palace maids of Nanming Palace have run out, Empress Zhang knew that the general trend had gone, hanging beam suicide, and the emperor Li was tied up by the eunuchs in a box, and had suffocated to death in the night, and Li Fuguo was nowhere to be found, Guo Yingyi was anxious, and he asked for the surname to arrest all the clans in the city, as his capital in exchange for life.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The dull drums of the Northern Tang Army sounded, and Li Guangbi, the marshal of the Northern Tang Army Zhengnan wearing a golden helmet and wearing iron armor, waved his sword and gave the order to enter the city.

"The army is in the city!"

The Northern Tang Dynasty army marched into Chengdu City, July 15 of the second year of Qingping, with the Northern Tang Dynasty army entering the city, the Southern Tang Dynasty regime in Shu was officially destroyed, this day is the Zhongyuan Festival of the Tang Dynasty, and it is the son of the ancestors who worship them.

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(To be continued)