Nearly ten days have passed since the siege of Chang'an, the Sui army has never launched an offensive, from the beginning, Yang Yuanqing did not plan to attack the city, the Tang Dynasty has gone, the Tang army has no hope, maybe they were a little at a loss at first, but as time goes by, they will only become more and more desperate.......

On the morning of the tenth day, outside the eastern, western, and southern walls of Chang'an, ten huge trebuchets appeared on each side, and the giant trebuchets were as high as two feet and five feet, and were dragged by dozens of oxen, rumbling towards the city wall.

The soldiers at the head of the city suddenly became nervous, and when the alarm bell sounded, the soldiers of the Tang Army, who had already been exhausted from torture, rushed to the head of the city again, stretched their bows and arrows, and looked at the trebuchets slowly approaching under the city with anxiety in their hearts.

"Prepare the bed crossbow!"

Duan Decao shouted loudly, and one by one the bed crossbows mounted the battlements and aimed at the trebuchet hundreds of paces away.

"Shoot!"

The sound of drums rang out, and thousands of bed crossbows were fired at the head of the city at the same time, and a dense number of long arrows were fired at the trebuchets, with great force, and the shots crackled on the wooden frames, and the cattle were constantly being shot and falling in a pool of blood.

The giant trebuchet stopped three hundred paces away, and a trebuchet was pulled by more than 100 soldiers, and the throwing arm pole that was several long lengths was bent down, and several Sui soldiers put the spherical leather bag into the trebuchet.

"Put!"

Dozens of big leather balls were thrown to the head of Chang'an City one after another, in the air, the balloon burst, a group of leaflets fell all over the sky, and they were blown into the city by the wind, and the Tang soldiers on the head of the city also stopped shooting, staring blankly at the falling pieces of paper in the sky, many soldiers took advantage of the officer's unpreparedness, grabbed one and put it into their arms.

"No private possession. All flyers are turned in! ”

Duan Decao rode his horse and shouted at the top of the city, but soon he also despaired, and the Sui army continued to throw, and there were hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper floating over the entire city......

The Dugu family set up 24 porridge sheds in Chang'an City, and helped the hungry people in Chang'an day and night, so that many poor families who had no food and were already desperate saw hope again, and the endless crowd lined up in front of the porridge shed every day. Accept the relief of the Dugu family.

Only in front of the gate of Liren City, three porridge sheds were placed. Every day, thousands of people came to line up to receive porridge, and at noon, a carriage, escorted by more than a dozen knights, slowly stopped in front of the gate of Liren City. The door opened, and Li Jiancheng, dressed in ordinary clothes, walked out of the carriage.

In just ten days, Li Jiancheng lost a lot of weight. The calls for surrender in the imperial court came and went, exerting great pressure on him, and he gradually became a little desperate.

In the distance, he saw three huge porridge sheds. There is a large flag next to the porridge shack. It is written 'Dugu Porridge', four big characters. The Dugu family actually used all the food to help the civilians, which made Li Jiancheng sigh in his heart.

He clearly knew what the intentions of the Dugu family were, but he couldn't accuse them, although the Dugu family did not participate in the courtiers' forcing the palace, but what he did hit Li Jiancheng's heart more than forcing the palace.

At this time, it was noon, and there was a huge crowd in front of the three porridge sheds, and thousands of poor people came from all directions, and a long queue formed in front of the porridge sheds.

Li Jiancheng also lined up in the line, several guards wanted to stop it, but he waved his hand and rushed to the other side, the team was noisy, it seemed that they were all talking about something, Li Jiancheng found that each of them was holding a colorful piece of paper in their hands.

"This old man, what is this piece of paper?" Li Jiancheng asked an old man next to him curiously.

"Huh! This is the list that the Sui army threw into the city this morning, and there are thirteen promises on it, which is exciting! ”

Li Jiancheng was surprised, borrowed the list and looked at it, and there was a line of big characters written on the front, 'The Great Sui Dynasty told Chang'an Military and Civilian Letter', followed by thirteen promises, the first is to promise to implement the uniform field system in Guanzhong, and the same as Hedong Hebei, Ding men will grant 100 acres of land, and Ding women will grant 80 acres of land.

The second article promises to implement low taxes and light labor, and recuperate with the people; The third article is that all officials of the Tang Dynasty will not be blamed in the past and all will be pardoned; The fourth is a promise not to kill the Li Tang clan and not to kill him Li Jiancheng; The fifth is that the Sui Dynasty will set the capital of Chang'an, restore the prosperity of Chang'an, defeat the Western Turks as soon as possible, and restore the Silk Road; The sixth is to open warehouses and release grain, promising to reduce the price of grain to below 100 cents of doumi.

Almost every one of them is targeted, which can very touching people's hearts, and Li Jiancheng felt a chill in his heart.

The old man smiled: "To be honest, everyone in Chang'an is looking forward to the Sui army entering the city and restoring the prosperity of the emperor's heyday, and this Tang Dynasty will end quickly!" It's really a bit annoying. ”

"That's it!" A woman next to her said angrily: "It's definitely going to be over, what's the point of staying on it with a dead face, dragging it down day by day, isn't that Li Jiancheng boasting that he loves the people like a son?" If he really loves the people, he should obey the will of the people, end the war, and stop killing each other. ”

"The summer harvest is about to begin, but the gates are closed, what will happen to the wheat outside the city?"

"My second uncle's family is in Jiangxian County, the family has 150 acres of land, and he also divided cattle and sheep, built a new house, the Tang Dynasty has been in Guanzhong for a few years, and he has given us nothing, no fart!"

Everyone, you say a word, I say a word, Li Jiancheng's heart is extremely heavy when he hears it, he can't stay any longer, and leaves the team, at this time he has no heart to inspect the market anymore, he let out a long sigh, and said to the guards: "Go back to the palace!" ”

Li Jiancheng returned to the East Palace, and as soon as he entered his study, a eunuch stepped forward and reported: "Your Majesty, Xiao Xiangguo and Chen Xiangguo ask to meet." ”

"Announce them in."

After a while, Xiao Yu and Chen Shuda hurriedly walked in, their faces solemn, and they stepped forward and bowed, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Did something happen?" Li Jiancheng asked calmly, he had experienced too many things during this time, and he was already a little numb.

Chen Shuda stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, Dou Liang, Pei Lin and Feng Deyi led the collective resignation of hundreds of officials, and a total of one hundred and fifty-six officials submitted their resignations. ”

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly, there are only 170 people in total, and there are 156 people who want to resign? ”

He asked Xiao Yu again, "Is this also the case for Xiao Xiangguo?" ”

Xiao Yu shook his head: "Your Majesty, just now there was news from Chai and Ma, and there was internal strife in Xicheng. More than 1,000 soldiers wanted to open the city and surrender, but they were stopped in time by firewood and horses. ”

Li Jiancheng let out a long sigh, came to the window with his back hand, he looked up at the long white clouds in the sky, the hearts of the people, the hearts of the ministers, and the hearts of the army have gone, is Datang over like this?

"Two Xiangguo!"

Li Jiancheng said slowly: "I plan to open the city and surrender." ”

Chen Shuda and Xiao Yu glanced at each other, the two did not object, in fact, they also wanted to persuade Li Jiancheng to surrender. The Sui army launched a powerful psychological offensive. It is estimated that the army will mutini and surrender tonight, except for Duan Decao and Changsun Shunde, it is impossible for the officers below to be loyal to the Tang Dynasty anymore, and the hearts of the people and the army are gone. There will definitely be officers who surrender and sacrifice the city, and it is better to negotiate surrender than to be breached by the Sui army. Get a little political advantage.

Xiao Yu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to go to Sui Ying to negotiate with Yang Yuanqing for the envoy." ”

Li Jiancheng nodded, took out a gold medal and gave it to him, "You can negotiate with the Sui army on behalf of me with full powers." ”……

The Golden Light Gate of Xicheng slowly opened, and Xiao Yu rode out of the city gate with two guards and headed towards the Sui army camp. Tens of thousands of soldiers in the city watched him. They all understood that this was going to negotiate with the Sui army.

Xiao Yu came to the Sui camp. shouted loudly: "I am Xiao Yu, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and I have come to see His Royal Highness the King of Chu on the order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, please inform me." ”

The soldiers rushed to report, and after a while, the camp gate opened, and a team of Yang Yuanqing's personal soldiers drove out of the camp and bowed his hand to the first lieutenant: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu has an invitation, please Xiao Xiangguo come with us." ”

Xiao Yu took a deep breath and followed them into the camp, he walked slowly along the horse road, both sides were heavily guarded, a group of Sui soldiers with guns and bows, stared at him coldly, until they came to the big tent of the Chinese army, several personal soldiers came forward to search him, and invited him into the big tent.

There is only Yang Yuanqing in the big tent, standing in front of the sand table with his hands behind his back, this sand table is the sand table in the world, five zhang in length and width, almost half of the big tent, Xiao Yu stepped forward and bowed down, "See His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at him and said with a slight smile: "Xiao Xiangguo is exempt from courtesy, I hope my personal soldiers are not rude to Xiangguo." ”

Xiao Yu shook her head, "They are not rude. ”

Yang Yuanqing smiled and said, "I'll tell Xiangguo a good news first!" My general Su Dingfang led 60,000 allied troops to break through the Western Turkic tent, beheaded more than 40,000 enemies, and shot the Khan by Su Dingfang himself, capturing more than 500 Turkic nobles, how about it, is this good news? ”

Xiao Yu had a bitter smile on her face, "This is indeed good news, and as a Han person, I am deeply grateful." ”

"Xiao Xiangguo can say this, which shows that he is broad-minded, however, there is also bad news, Duan Zhihong has led the army to surrender to the Sui army, I hope this news will not hit Xiao Xiangguo too much."

Xiao Yu bit his lip, this was originally a bargaining chip for him to negotiate and make the Bashu army surrender, but this bargaining chip is now gone, he took a deep breath, "Your Highness, let's talk about the future!" How to solve the dilemma in front of you? ”

"Xiao Xiangguo thinks there is any need to talk about it?"

Yang Yuanqing took out a stack of letters and threw them in front of him, and said lightly: "This is the letter of allegiance of your fourteen city guards, all of whom shot down the city with arrows, and eight of them expressed their willingness to surrender the city tonight, to be honest, I can not see you at all." ”

Xiao Yu only felt dizzy in front of him, and after a while, he struggled to say, "Okay!" We have only one request, please give His Majesty the Tang Emperor the last dignity. ”

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Close the treasury, keep the archives, close the palace gate, as long as Li Jiancheng can do these three things, I can give him the last dignity, and he doesn't have to go out of the city to surrender." ”

"Then what will His Highness do with him?"

Yang Yuanqing took out a letter and handed it to him, "This is my handwritten letter, you give it to him, I will crown him as the Duke of Tang Guogong and take his family to Tang County for the elderly!" ”

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The Mingde Gate of Chang'an slowly opened, and 100,000 Sui troops marched into Chang'an, and with the dull bell of Taiji Palace, it meant the end of an era. (To be continued)

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