There is no time to transfer the family members to transfer the army immediately, Li Jiancheng did this is of course to make a decision on the spot, calm choice, but it is still a little late to do so, the only Yang Wen cadre of the Taiyuan Army in the West City who has maintained a complete structure has just withdrawn to the East Gate City, and the Sui Army soldiers led by Luo Shixin have already hit the East Gate Tower, while fighting with the East Gate defenders for control of the city gate, while using the defenders' materials to hit the Taiyuan Army under the city with sheep's head stones and wood, desperately cut off the Taiyuan Army's eastward escape road.

The battle is so fierce that it can't be described with pen and ink at all, the city wall is full of killing sounds, the impact of swords, guns, gold and iron is deafening, the defenders of the city are desperately resisting in order to cover the transfer of the main force, the soldiers of the Taiyuan army under the city smoke and burst into the fire, and rush into the city gate with all kinds of sundries and heavy objects smashed down, trampling on each other in the chaos, accidentally falling and being trampled on one after another, the iron knife continues to cut the person, the spear and spear are pierced one after another, the soldiers of the two armies who were killed and seriously injured are like hailstones, falling and rolling down from the city wall one after another, Many of them embraced the enemy and fell off the city wall and into the dense crowd below.

It is also a loss that the Taiyuan army did not install a jack gate on the top of the east gate, and it is also a loss that the defenders of the east gate showed unimaginable perseverance and fighting spirit at this critical moment to resist desperately, and withstood the impact of the Sui army several times in a row with flesh and blood and meager troops, so that the famous general Luo Shixin of the Sui army was covered in blood and failed to grab the city tower, otherwise, the Yang Wen cadres of the Taiyuan army who took the lead in transferring may not even be able to get out of the city. But even so, the frantic attack of the Sui soldiers still caused huge casualties to the hurriedly transferred Taiyuan army - in order to attack the enemy under the city, the Sui soldiers smashed the corpses of the Taiyuan soldiers off the city wall, and the corpses at the city gate were stacked on top of each other, piled up more than half a person high, so that every Taiyuan soldier who escaped into the city gate was covered with blood on his legs.

With the continuous ignition of the Sui army and the burning of the building, the Taiyuan soldiers in the city tower gradually have no chance to resist stubbornly, and can only roar and launch a suicidal charge against the Sui soldiers who are constantly killing, and use the last glory of life to fight for the last transfer time for the main force. Seeing this tragic picture in the chaotic army, Li Jiancheng had tears in his eyes, but he had no choice but to choke and order the army to move as soon as possible, and with tears in his eyes, under the protection of Yang Wengan and others, he rushed to the gate of the city, stepping on the carpet of flesh and blood paved mostly by the corpses of his own soldiers.

With a loud sound, a dead body suddenly fell in the sky, impartially smashed on the top of Li Jiancheng's head, although the human body was soft, but the human body weighing more than 100 pounds fell from a height of more than ten meters, and still smashed Li Jiancheng to the point of bleeding from the mouth and nose, fainting on the spot, Yang Wengan and others were shocked, and quickly carried Li Jiancheng into the city gate and rushed into the road, and temporarily fled into a safe place in danger.

The wooden bridge at the city gate is already thick with smoke, the fire is soaring to the sky, the Taiyuan soldiers are desperately advancing while extinguishing the fire, the burning boats on the river continue to come from the upstream, the Taiyuan soldiers are desperately throwing arrows, but they still can't stop these fireboats from leaning on the wooden bridge under the swimming push and pull of the Sui army sailors, Yang Wengan and others did not dare to have any hesitation when they saw it, and hurriedly protected Li Jiancheng to advance in flames, stepping on the corpses of the soldiers of the army to cross the river, and also escaped the wooden bridge very luckily, and the defenders in Dongcheng fled into Dongcheng, Then he took time to rescue Li Jiancheng.

It was also rubbing his chest and pinching people for a long time, and Li Jiancheng was hit the head Li Jiancheng finally woke up quietly, and after waking up, the first thing Li Jiancheng did was to endure the headache and condescendingly observe the battle situation on the west bank. However, what was very cruel to Li Jiancheng was that what he saw on the city wall was the wooden bridge that had already burned to the sky, as well as the equally blazing east gate tower of the west city, and the chaotic east gate road. Anxious, Li Jiancheng hurriedly yelled and asked, "Did Feng Li cross the river?" Wang Jue: Did they cross the river? How many of our soldiers have been withdrawn? ”

No one could answer Li Jiancheng's question, and no one dared to answer Li Jiancheng's question, but this was enough, just seeing the desperate expressions on the faces of Yin Kaishan, Yang Wengan and others, Li Jiancheng already knew that the situation was not good, and couldn't help but kneel down on his knees towards Taiyuan Xicheng, which was still in the fierce battle, and cried loudly, "Soldiers, I'm sorry for you!" ”

On the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of July, it was undoubtedly the most tragic and cruel night for the Taiyuan army soldiers headed by Li Jiancheng, because of the shameless rebellion of the Li clan, 20,000 defenders of Xicheng, only less than a quarter of the army escaped from Fenshui and fled back to Dongcheng, and nearly half of the remaining soldiers were killed in battle, surrendered and captured more than 6,000 people, and only a few successfully escaped; Among the general managers, only Yang Wengan protected Li Jiancheng to cross the river, and among the remaining three, Xie Shufang was killed in battle, Feng Li was seriously injured and captured by the Sui army, and Liu Dewei surrendered shamelessly to the Sui army under the coercion of the Li clan.

Li Jiancheng's wife Zheng Guanyin, eldest son Li Chengzong, and second son Li Chengdao also failed to escape Fenshui, and they were scattered in Xicheng and did not know whether they were alive or dead. But these are not the worst, what is worse is that the Taiyuan army can easily support more than five years of grain and grass reserves are all in the west city, with the Jinyang Palace and the arsenal fell into the hands of the Sui army, Taiyuan Dongcheng is because of the small city and the large enemy face, the Taiyuan army is used as a buffer that can be given up at any time, and does not hoard too much grain and grass, even if the emergency transfer of nearly 10,000 stone of grain, plus civilian grain storage, it is difficult for the Taiyuan army soldiers to support more than three months.

In addition, the eastern city also did not stock up on bows, arrows, fire oil, etc., which were very important in the defense of the city, and it was possible that they would be exhausted in a few major battles. Therefore, when he saw the wooden bridge connecting the east and west cities collapsing in the flames, Li Jiancheng cried bitterly and vomited blood and passed out directly, Yin Kaishan and Yang Wengan and other Taiyuan army generals were also full of sadness, knowing that the self-army not only could no longer defeat the main force of the Sui army this time, but also could not even defeat the main force of the Sui army, unless they broke through and fled for their lives, otherwise the destruction of the whole army was a foregone conclusion.

Diametrically opposed to the Taiyuan army in mourning, the Sui army was elated and cheered, the reason was of course the successful capture of Xicheng and the heavy damage to the Taiyuan army, and more importantly, the Sui army soldiers also successfully took the main granary of the Taiyuan defenders, completely solved the difficult problem of grain and grass transportation in the Bird Mouse Valley, even if this war was fought for another year or two, there was no need to worry about the grain and grass problem, so even if the Taiyuan army suffered a lot of casualties because of the stubborn resistance of the Taiyuan army, the Sui army and the military all thought that such a price was definitely worth it, and the harvest was far greater than the pay. Take advantage of it.

However, the most joyful and happy were not the soldiers of the Sui army, but the members of the Li clan led by Li Er and Li Yuanji, although three members of the Li clan died during the surrender of the city, although several Li clans were not lightly injured during the escape, and although Chen Fuliang did not immediately meet them, it was enough for Li Jing to order them to be treated well on behalf of Chen Fuliang - this is also a good credit benefit, Chen Fuliang has previously treated those who surrendered well and selected talents to reuse has established a good reputation, so the Li clan who has made great contributions this time all believe that they will definitely mix better under Chen Fuliang than under Li Jiancheng!

Let Li Yuanji and others rejoice is still behind, when the sky is light, the Sui army basically cleared the remnants of the enemy in the city, and Li Yuanji, who hijacked Li Jiancheng and fled in a hurry, remembered that his beautiful wife Yang and a large number of beautiful concubines were still in the city, and quickly begged Li Jing to allow him to enter the city to find his family. As a result, Li Jing not only agreed, but specially sent someone to escort Li Yuanji into the city to find the family members of the Li clan, but also specially ordered to strictly protect the property of the Li clan in the city, and then Li Yuanji also found his beautiful wife and many concubines in his secret room as he wished.

The matter is not over, Li Yuanji, who was anxious to establish more meritorious deeds in front of Chen Fuliang, suddenly remembered that Li Jiancheng's family members may not have had time to get out of the city, and quickly volunteered to take the Sui soldiers to Jinyang Palace to search for Li Jiancheng's family, and then Li Yuanji really found his sister-in-law and two nephews who did not escape in Jinyang Palace, not only did the uncle and sister-in-law not feel a little sad when they met, Li Yuanji also personally knocked down the dagger in the hand of his sister-in-law Zheng Guanyin to stop his sister-in-law from committing suicide. And personally snatched his little nephew Li Chengdao, who had just turned one year old, from the hands of the maid and handed it over to the soldiers of the Sui army, and got his wish and made a great contribution to Chen Fuliang's capture of Li Jiancheng's family.

It was not until the afternoon of the eighth day of the seventh month that Li Jing, who completely controlled the whole city of Xicheng, sent people to find Li Yuanji and the members of the Li clan, saying that Chen Fuliang had decided to meet them at the camp of Chongsheng Temple. What made Li Yuanji and the Li family overjoyed was that when they arrived at the Chongsheng Temple, Chen Fuliang personally led the Sui army to meet them in the camp. ”

"General Li, you have an injury, please get up quickly." Chen Fuliang politely picked up the injured Li Shentong with his own hands, and smiled at everyone in the Li family and said: "Everyone, please get up, I think you should have heard that this king doesn't like to be polite, in front of me, there is no need to be so polite." ”

Li Yuanji thanked Li Er and the others together, and then stood up carefully, and Chen Fuliang smiled at Li Yuanji again: "Duke Qi, hard work, this time this king can take Taiyuan Xicheng in one fell swoop, you are the first credit!" You can rest assured, what this king promised you will not only not deduct the slightest bit, but will only increase it. ”

Li Yuanji was even more happy when he heard this, and hurriedly saluted Chen Fuliangji again, modestly saying that he had no small merits. Chen Fuliang smiled and asked him to stand up again, and then Chen Fuliang turned his gaze to Li Er, who had a deep hatred with him, and his eyes were still very complicated, Li Er also knew very well that he was too deep with Chen Fuliang, so he hurriedly knelt down on one knee to Chen Fuliang, and said: "The sin general Li Shimin, I have seen His Royal Highness the King of Tang, the sin will have offended His Royal Highness in the past, and the crime deserves death, please ask His Highness to punish the crime he deserves." ”

"It's all gone, what are you going to do?" Chen Fuliang said in a very sincere tone: "When Brother Sichang forced me to hang myself and almost die, I still relieved him, let alone you?" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Fuliang raised his voice a little more, and said solemnly: "Li Shimin listens to Feng, this king now appoints you as the Duke of Wei, the general of the Right Xiao Cavalry Guard, the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, reward 1,000 taels of gold and silver, and give a gold coupon to avoid death, except for rebellion, you will be spared death for life!" Pick it up! ”

In the middle of the singing, a soldier of Chen Fuliang held a gold medal that was made overnight in front of Li Er, and Chen Fuliang smiled again and said: "Take it, this is what you deserve." ”

was so excited that even his hands trembled a little, and in the envy of the Li clan and Li Yuanji's jealous and almost crazy gaze, he took the gold medal with both hands, Li Er bowed to Chen Fuliang and said respectfully: "Your Highness Xie, Your Highness's great grace, the last general will go to the soup and go to the fire, and it will be difficult to repay the bones." ”

Picking up Li Er with his own hands, Chen Fuliang patted the back of his hand, and said with a smile: "I believe in you, you can rest assured, as long as you can serve the country loyally, I will definitely not treat you badly, your fiancée Liu Xiaoyan is in the camp at the moment, I will let you go to meet her in a while, if you want, you can officially get married tonight!" ”

Li Er was even more overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked Chen Fuliang again, Chen Fuliang smiled, and then personally went to support the injured Li Shentong, and greeted everyone: "It's windy outside the camp, let's go to the big tent of the Chinese army to talk, this king has already set up a banquet in the big tent of the Chinese army, and today I want to be with you without getting drunk or parting, and celebrate the victory of Xicheng together!" ”

Everyone in the Li family agreed together, and hurriedly entered the camp with Chen Fuliang and the Sui army, and respectfully entered Chen Fuliang's handsome tent, and the banquet was indeed set up in the big tent. At the same time as the banquet began, Chen Fuliang ordered Zheng Guanyin's mother and son and Li Jiancheng's henchman Feng Li to be escorted into the tent, and the Sui soldiers sang the promise, and soon, Feng Li, who was tied up with five flowers, and Zheng Guanyin, who had tears on his face, were escorted to everyone, and Li Jiancheng's two sons were also brought into the tent together.

Seeing Zheng Guanyin's mother and son enter the tent, Chen Fuliang unexpectedly got up and left the table, personally took over Li Chengzong, who was only one year old and still babbling, from the arms of the Sui soldiers, hugged him in his arms, kissed him on the face, and said with a smile: "Call uncle, call uncle." ”

Li Chengzong, who was only one year old, looked at Chen Fuliang with innocent eyes, and said hoho in his mouth, although he couldn't call out his uncle, he was curious to touch Chen Fuliang's ugly face with his little hand, Chen Fuliang laughed happily, and kissed his nephew on the face, and then turned to Zheng Guanyin, who was crying pear blossoms and rain, and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, when we meet for the first time, I am Chen Yingliang, the king of Tang, and Brother Jiancheng used to be confidants and friends, Brother Jiancheng should have told you about me, right?" ”

Nodding with tears in his eyes, Zheng Guanyin choked up and said: "Your Highness, Da Lang used to often mention you, and he always said that he would invite you to our house as long as he had the opportunity and let the concubine meet you, but he was wrong and never got his wish, and Da Lang regretted it several times." ”

"I also feel sorry." Chen Fuliang nodded, smiled and said: "But now it's okay, our uncle and sister-in-law have finally met and met, if you don't mind, I'll call you sister-in-law, and you can call me brother or uncle." ”

"The concubine doesn't dare." Zheng Guanyin wiped his tears and refused, and choked up and said: "Your Highness, the matter has come to this, the concubine doesn't dare to survive with a cheeky face, she just begs His Highness to let my two children live, they are still young and don't understand anything." ”

"Sister-in-law, why are you talking like that?" Chen Fuliang was a little unhappy, and said: "The younger brother and Brother Jiancheng are both confidants and friends, and he has helped me several times, how can I harm your life?" I asked people to bring you here to see you, to call you sister-in-law, to meet my two little nephews, and there is no other meaning. Don't worry, I'll send you back to Dongcheng in a while, so that you can return to Brother Jiancheng? ”

"Your Highness, are you going to let us go back?"

Zheng Guanyin couldn't believe his ears at all, Feng Deyi, Qu Tutong and the others over there were in a hurry, and hurriedly got up to object, but before their words could be spoken, Chen Fuliang had already waved his hand and said: "Needless to say, I have made up my mind, and I will send my sister-in-law and my two little nephews back to Taiyuan Dongcheng in a while, so that they can reunite with Brother Jiancheng." ”

Qu Tutong and Feng Deyi, who knew that Chen Fuliang and Li Jiancheng had a relationship, shut up and sat down again with great regret, while the Li clan and Li Yuanji and others quietly exchanged glances with each other, and their eyes were full of joy - because Chen Fuliang could be so benevolent to Li Jiancheng, who refused to surrender, they would naturally not be treated badly. Li Er sneered in his heart and said secretly: "The kindness of a woman is beyond the reach of foolishness, and it is indeed the second Fu Jian." ”

At this time, Chen Fuliang turned his gaze to Feng Li, who was covered in blood and tied up with flowers, and said with a smile: "Manager Feng, we have finally met." In the past, I have always wondered, why would Brother Jiancheng reuse you, a general with a little-known surname, and actually entrust the military power of Taiyuan to you when he was far away from Taiyuan City? But I heard that you fought until there were only more than ten people left around you and refused to surrender, and finally you were seriously injured and fell to the ground before being captured alive by our soldiers. ”

With a heavy snort, Feng Li twisted his face away, too lazy to look at Chen Fuliang's ugly face, but Chen Fuliang refused to let him go, and pointed to an empty seat in the tent, and said with a smile: "General Feng, do you see it?" That seat has been specially prepared for you by the king, and if you wish, you can sit on it now and have a feast with us. ”

Chen Fuliang reminded him, and everyone in the Li family found that there was indeed an empty seat full of wine and food in the tent, and while they were surprised by Chen Fuliang's carefulness, Li Er suddenly found that there seemed to be something wrong, but he would remember that it was wrong for a while. And Feng Li only glanced at the seat, and immediately spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and sneered: "Thank you, the loyal ministers don't care about the two masters, if you want to kill, you will kill, if you want me to surrender, dream!" ”

"General Feng, why are you doing this?" Chen Fuliang persuaded: "You are a general, loyal and brave, as long as you are willing to serve this king, this king can guarantee that he will not be able to treat you badly." Haven't you heard that good birds choose trees to perch ......? ”

"Shut up!" Feng Li angrily interrupted Chen Fuliang's persuasion and roared, "Don't talk nonsense!" Although Feng Li is not talented, he also knows the word loyalty! Zuo Du Du has a great kindness to me, and he is reinvented, how can I follow the example of these shameless people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and surrender to you? ”

Hearing this, Li Yuanji and the others looked very ugly, and they all hoped that Chen Fuliang would cut Feng Li, the puppet who made them lose face, as soon as possible, but unfortunately although Chen Fuliang had a regretful expression, he did not immediately order the killing, but just shook his head, sat back in his place with Li Chengzong in his arms, and then turned to Sun Fujia next to him, and ordered: "Fujia, call him in." ”

Everyone was inexplicable, but the reaction of Chen Fuliang's confidential secretary Sun Fujia was even more inexplicable, not only did he not immediately sing the promise, but also asked hesitantly: "Your Highness, are you ......, too anxious?" ”

"There's no hurry." Chen Fuliang shook his head, Sun Fujia was helpless, so he went outside the tent to order the order, and then immediately after, a Sui army general immediately strode into the tent, and after seeing the appearance of the Sui army general, everyone in the Li family present was taken aback, and Li Er's eyes were so shocked that they almost stared out of their sockets - because this Sui army general was the Taiyuan army marching division armor who made a strong contribution to the Li clan rebellion this time to join the army - Wu Shi Tong!

"How are you?" Shocked, Li Er's words almost blurted out, and then immediately after, Li Er's whole body was shocked, and he finally remembered what he had found out was wrong-it was this samurai tong! Wu Shitong, who is also a great hero of the city, did not come with the Li clan to visit Chen Fuliang and ask for merit and reward!

When everyone in the Li family was surprised, the civil and military forces of the Sui army were also looking at each other—because none of them had ever seen a warrior. Chen Fuliang saw the surprise of the lackeys under his command, so he smiled and said: "Everyone, let me introduce to you, this warrior Tongwu general is the king's Tang Guohu Cao Shen military, the official residence is the sixth grade, half a year ago he has abandoned the dark and joined our army, is the most important inner line that this king has placed in the Taiyuan army, and is also the great hero of our army's success in capturing Taiyuan Xicheng and Taiyuan granary this time!" He has returned in triumph this time, and you must get along with him. ”

Although Zheng Liupin was not a high-ranking official, the courtiers of the Tang State were equivalent to Chen Fuliang's confidants, so the civil and military forces of the Sui army were shocked, and hurriedly got up and bowed to the warriors, who smiled and returned the salutes one by one. Over there, Li Yuanji couldn't help but exclaim: "Wu joined the army, you turned out to be a person from the Tang King?" Then why didn't you tell us earlier? ”

"Duke Qi forgave the crime, and the last general did not dare to reveal his identity at that time, so he has been hiding it until now." Wu Shi Tong replied with a smile: "If you offend, I hope that the Duke of Qi will forgive you." ”

Li Yuanji hurriedly waved his hand and said I dare there, but when his hand was halfway through, Li Yuanji froze violently, because Li Yuanji suddenly thought of a possibility, and immediately couldn't help but sweat coldly. Then when Li Yuanji secretly looked at the faces of Li Er, Li Shentong and others, he saw that more than a dozen of his relatives were already as pale as earth, even the second brother Li Er, who was the best at disguising and acting, was already as pale as paper, and cold sweat was dripping on his forehead............