Seeing Zheng Guanyin's mother and son walk into the east city of Taiyuan from afar, Chen Fuliang, who felt the impermanence of fate, was shaking his head and sighing, when an urgent Tang Bao with chicken feathers was suddenly rushed to the front by his own soldiers, Chen Fuliang once thought it was a Tang Bao of the left-wing war, and asked casually: "Is it Liu Heimin's Tang Bao?" Got rid of the stone? ”

"King Tang, it's not General Liu's Tang Bao, it's General Yun's Tang Bao." The soldiers hurriedly corrected it and reported: "It was the Tang newspaper sent by General Yunding Xingyun from Xin'an in an urgent 500 miles. ”

"Five hundred miles in an emergency? Something happened in the eastern capital! ”

Chen Fuliang's conscience sank, and he quickly took the Tang newspaper and opened it to watch the content, and the Sui army and civil and military forces present also guessed that there must have been a major change in the eastern capital Luoyang, and they all nervously observed Chen Fuliang's reaction, and found that Chen Fuliang was obviously taken aback at first, and then frowned, with a worried look on his face, and he didn't say a word for a long time. Qu Tutong couldn't hold back his curiosity, so he cautiously asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong?" ”

"Li Mi is defeated." Chen Fuliang frowned and replied: "The defeat was very miserable, the main force west of the Tiger Prison Pass was almost lost, and Luokoucang was also snatched away by Wang Shichong. Yun Dingxing also found unconfirmed information that Li Mi may have been seriously wounded in the battle, unable to command the defenders of Hujiao Pass to launch a counterattack to recapture Luokoucang, and has fled east to Baima. ”

"Li Mi lost so badly?" Qu Tutong was a little surprised, and said suspiciously: "This is unlikely, right?" Even if Wang Shichong is a treacherous and slippery person who is difficult to deal with, Li Mi's strength is also above Wang Shichong, even if he accidentally loses a battle for a while, it is impossible to lose so badly? ”

"Li Mi made the mistake of underestimating the enemy, and the internal contradictions accumulated from the previous internal strife with Zhai Rang always broke out at a critical moment, and he lost a little unjustly, but it was not unjust." Chen Fuliang sighed, and then handed the Tang Bao to a gang of accomplices and lackeys to watch, and when Yuan Tiangang and others hurriedly stepped forward to look at it with Qu Tutong, they understood why Chen Fuliang said that Li Mi was both unjustly lost and not unjust.

After confirming that Chen Fuliang personally led the Guanzhong Sui army to the northern expedition to Taiyuan, Li Mi, who felt that his strong strength was worry-free, ignored the fact that his main army suffered the greatest losses and suffered the most casualties in the decisive battle with the Xiaoguo army, and rashly launched a frontal attack on Luoyang Jiancheng, in a vain attempt to seize the time to eliminate Wang Shichong and dominate the Central Plains. In the case of alleviating the food shortage and replenishing his strength to a certain extent, Wang Shichong not only did not rush to launch a decisive battle, but also deliberately showed weakness and abandoned the outer city of the eastern capital, gathered elite soldiers and strong generals to defend the imperial city of the eastern capital, and consumed Li Mi's strength and morale with a stronger imperial city and palace city.

Li Mi, who successfully captured the outer city, really hit the plan, regardless of casualties and stormed the imperial city of the eastern capital at any cost, Wang Shichong's army suddenly became very sufficient because of the large shrinkage of the position, and the various armies took turns to fight in the city, and consumed a lot of Li Mi's army strength at a relatively small cost in the defense of the city, and also made Li Mi's army tired and demoralized in the case of attacking the city for a long time, and then Wang Shichong seized the appropriate opportunity to counterattack comprehensively, and defeated Li Mi, who was caught off guard, recovered the outer city of the eastern capital in one fell swoop. He took advantage of the victory to pursue and attack Li Mi's defeated army with all his might, and in turn wanted to eat Li Mi's army in one bite.

At the critical moment, Li Mijun's internal contradictions broke out, and Pei Renji, a professional in the pit father, was dissatisfied with Li Mi's refusal to adopt his suggestion of trying to lure the enemy into a decisive battle in the field, and when he was defeated, his head was watered again, and he refused to carry out the mission of the palace, and led the army to flee back to Los Angeles to break away from the main brigade, which once again severely damaged the morale of Li Mijun's army; Then Zhang Tong'er, the general of the Xiaoguo army who succeeded Pei Renji's palace, turned against the water again, led the army to surrender to Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong took the opportunity to catch up with the main force of Li Mi's army, and was defeated again before Li Mi's army entered Luokoucang, and then Zhai Rang, who guarded Luokoucang, gave Li Mi a fatal blow again, opened the gate of Cangcheng and surrendered to Wang Shichong, and Li Mi's army, which was defeated in successive battles, suddenly collapsed completely, and surrendered one after another, Yang Jishan, who hurriedly led the Tiger Prison Pass defenders to aid west, was also defeated by Wang Shichong's army with high morale, Li Mi saw that the general trend had gone, He could only lead a small number of cronies to escape into the Tiger Prison, and Wang Shichong successfully captured Luokoucang and completely solved the problem of food shortage.

By the way, Pei Renji, a professional household of the pit father, was afraid that Li Mi would investigate his responsibility for leading the army out of the battlefield, so he took the initiative to ask Wang Shichong to surrender as soon as he received the news of the fall of Luokoucang, and immediately ran to Heyang to defeat Yu Wenhua's advance team to cross the river, burned down the Heyang Bridge, and destroyed Yu Wenhua's dream of robbing while the fire was burning. There are also Zhai Rang's other two deputies, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shixian, who also surrendered to Wang Shichong in the fierce battle. Collapsed, leaving only a handful of remnants of the defeated army to survive east of Tiger Pass.

After carefully reading the report on the battle in the Eastern Capital that Yun Dingxing had painstakingly collected and sorted, Qu Tutong, Yuan Tiangang and others were shocked by the Black Eight Miracle created by Wang Shichong and the rapid collapse of Li Mi, and inevitably asked Chen Fuliang a little strangely: "Your Highness, Li Mi is a strong enemy of our army, and his fiasco is a great thing for our army no matter what, why are you worried?" Are you worried that after Wang Shichong's victory, it will pose a huge threat to our hinterland in Guanzhong? ”

Chen Fuliang shook his head, and said in a somewhat heavy tone: "After Wang Shichong's victory, there will be some threats to us, but his foundation and character are there, even if he is a little threat to us, I don't care about it yet." I'm not happy because I'm worried about my friends, and I don't know if they've been hurt in the war or what the situation is now. ”

"Your Highness, your friend?" Qu Tutong was stunned and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, since you have friends who have been affected by this war and are worried about their situation, then you will send someone to contact Wang Shichong and ask Wang Shichong to help find their whereabouts?" Wang Shichong and you are the relatives of Weng's son-in-law, this little favor will not be unhelpful, right? ”

Chen Fuliang smiled, and said that it was so easy? But after thinking about it, Chen Fuliang said again: "It's not necessary to ask Wang Shichong to help find someone, but there is no shortage of courtesies." Fu Jia, in my personal honor, you write a letter to my father-in-law, Wang Shichong, to congratulate him on his great victory in the eastern capital, and to express my willingness to get along with him amicably. ”

Sun Fujia sang a promise, promised to write a book as soon as he returned to the account, Chen Fuliang nodded, looked at Taiyuan Dongcheng for a moment, and ordered: "Transporting eighteen artillery pieces to Taiyuan Xicheng, together with the two artillery pieces sent over before, twenty artillery pieces will be set up at the head of Xicheng, and if you find a suitable target, you will open artillery to bombard Taiyuan Dongcheng, so that Li Jiancheng will not be able to live day and night, forcing him to make a choice!" ”

Yuan Tiangang, who was in charge of the weapon, sang a promise, and asked Chen Fuliang again: "Your Highness, do you want to continue to build the embankment?" ”

"It's not going to be built." Chen Fuliang replied: "There is not much food in Taiyuan Dongcheng, and the scale of the city is much smaller than that of Xicheng, it can be taken by force, and building a dam will only waste time, and Li Jiancheng will not be able to escape if he wants to, and prepare siege weapons to attack the city by force, the sooner he takes Taiyuan Dongcheng, the better." Wang Shichong's side has already won a decisive battle, and it is time for us to speed up our actions. ”

Because of Chen Fuliang's order, although the innocent Taiyuan soldiers and civilians got rid of the flood, but from the night of the same day, the poor Taiyuan Dongcheng soldiers and civilians fell into constant fear, 20 artillery pieces were erected on the Taiyuan West City Wall only more than 200 steps away from the Taiyuan East City, first a salvo blasted the East Gate Tower into rubble for demonstration, and then saw that there were many people there and fired cold cannons there. Qian Xiangmin, who was very talented in mathematics, commanded the Sui army artillery team, and fired one or two cannons into the eastern city of Taiyuan at irregular intervals, and bombarded the Taiyuan army defenders on the eastern city wall to the point of crying wolves, with continuous casualties, and was forced to squat and crawl to walk, and also bombarded the slightly decent buildings in the eastern city to the point of shattering and collapsing one after another. The poor defenders of Dongcheng and the people shouted and screamed in the city, running back and forth to avoid the artillery, living in fear all the time, and their morale and fighting spirit were greatly affected.

At the same time, in addition to sending shrimp toad carts to fill the moat of Dongcheng, Chen Fuliang also sent Liu Dewei and Wu Shi Tong to the city to shout and surrender, so that the Taiyuan defenders knew the Sui army's capture policy, encouraged the Taiyuan defenders to surrender out of the city, and further undermined the confidence and morale of the Taiyuan army. On the night of the ninth day of the seventh month, more than a dozen officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan Army quietly slipped down the city wall and surrendered, bringing a lot of important information to Chen Fuliang and the main force of the Sui army.

Among the information provided by the surrendered troops, Chen Fuliang was of course most concerned about the psychological impact of his own killing of the Li clan on the defenders of Dongcheng, and what made Chen Fuliang feel very emotional was that Li Jiancheng did not use this opportunity to intimidate and force the defenders of Dongcheng to fight to the death, and gave up the opportunity to coerce the soldiers and civilians of the city to give him the opportunity to accompany him to the funeral, and let the officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan Army listen to the explanations of Feng Li, Liu Dewei and others on Chen Fuliang's killing of the Li clan, so the officers and men of the Taiyuan Army all knew that the Li clan was killed by himself, not that Chen Fuliang broke his faith and surrendered. In this regard, the civil and military forces of the Sui army were also very happy, and they all said that Li Jiancheng had been moved by Chen Fuliang's sincerity, and there was hope for the peaceful liberation of Taiyuan Dongcheng.

It is precisely because of this hope that Feng Deyi suggested Chen Fuliang? The next time he came to the city to recruit Li Jiancheng, but Chen Fuliang shook his head and refused after only a little consideration, and said: "Don't waste your strength, Li Jiancheng is not a person who succumbs so easily, as long as he makes up his mind, I just say that he will not waver when the sky is broken, it is better to attack the city by force according to the original plan, and can no longer pin hope on the enemy to give in on his own." ”

After more than eight days of careful preparations, and after repeated attacks and battles that constantly sent soldiers to the city to shout and surrender, on July 17, under the personal command of Chen Fuliang, the main force of the Sui army officially launched a frontal attack on the east city of Taiyuan, and ten artillery pieces bombed the east gate of the east gate of the city into ruins in a moment, and as many as more than 500 trebuchets kept at all times, throwing stone bullets weighing dozens of catties onto the city wall, smashing the rammed earth city wall into a thousand holes, hundreds of bed crossbows were fired one after another, and thick arrow shafts were inserted all over the city wall. The soldiers of the Sui army did not need any ladders and ladders, and they could directly climb to the top of the wall by stepping on the crossbow arrow shaft of the bed with thick arms, and there were tens of thousands of Sui army crossbowmen pouring feather arrows on the city, and the arrow feathers collected at the head of the city were like hedgehog hair, as if they were overgrown with reeds.

The Xicheng side is also pouring artillery fire into the east city like crazy, so that the Taiyuan army reserves can not assemble in the middle of the city at all, they can only be as close to the east wall as possible, and the Sui army's feather arrows and stone projectiles flew over the city and flew into the city, and they continued to hit these reserves, and the Taiyuan army officers and soldiers were attacked left and right, and the pain was unbearable, and the fierce battle of the ants was not opened, and the casualties were quite small.

After noon, the Sui army's ant siege officially began, the queue of the attack was as turbulent as the waves, the light ladder in the first wave of attack there were hundreds of bridges on the city wall, the Sui soldiers stepped on the ladder and shouted, stepping on the arrow shaft of the bed crossbow to climb up, at the same time there were more than 20 ladder cars and the same number of crash cars slowly approaching the city wall under the impetus of the Sui army soldiers, the goal of the crash car was of course the rammed earth city wall that was not very strong in this era, and the ladder car only had one to ride the city wall, It will soon become the biggest nightmare for the defenders of the city.

Under the personal command of Li Jiancheng, the Taiyuan army also showed admirable courage and will to resist the Sui army's attack, and used a variety of city-defending weapons to meet the Sui army's soldiers, but the disparity in strength is too great, and the most important long-range weapons have a huge generation gap of hundreds of years, so no matter how heroic the Taiyuan soldiers resisted, they still could not completely kill the Sui army's repeated attacks, and the fierce battles on the city wall continued, and the Sui soldiers who were obviously more effective than the Taiyuan army rushed to the city wall one after another. The Taiyuan army was completely filled with human lives in order to stop the Sui soldiers from expanding the city's position, and even if they had a condescending advantage, the casualties of the Sui soldiers in the battle were basically similar.

The feather arrows in the sky are endless, but the arrows of these feather arrows are all with the stamps of the Taiyuan army, and the ladder cars and crane cars of the Sui army are also constantly burning under the attack of the dovetail torch and the oil pot, but it is very regrettable for the Taiyuan defenders, most of their fire oil reserves are in Xicheng, and they have fallen into the hands of the main force of the Sui army. Therefore, even though they burned ten hundred ladder trucks and crashing vehicles of the Sui army, they still had more heavy siege weapons slowly moving towards their positions.

When the sun gradually set, the bottom of the city wall dug by the city truck and the infantry of the Sui army suddenly broke out with a loud bang, a section of the rammed earth city wall at least four zhang wide collapsed in response, it turned out that the Sui army soldiers dug a suitable cave, a coffin filled with gunpowder was stuffed into the hole and ignited and detonated, in this era can not accumulate similar experience at all Taiyuan army officers and soldiers can not cope with the situation, by the Sui army soldiers blasted successfully, more than ten soldiers on the city fell down in the explosion The city wall was rammed and buried, and a gap was also exposed on the city wall.

Fortunately, a similar situation occurred in the cold weapon war before, the Taiyuan army officers and soldiers who had been prepared immediately pushed the Saimen knife car into the gap, and at the same time quickly established a wooden fence to repair the gap, but unfortunately, although such a contingency strategy was too correct in the cold weapon war, the poor Taiyuan army officers and soldiers ran into the main force of the Sui army, which was already equipped with quite advanced gunpowder weapons - ten artillery guns only one salvo, the Saimen knife car was bombed into a part state, and the Taiyuan army soldiers worked hard to build the fence into a sawdust shape. The soldiers of the Sui army shouted upwards and entered the city from the gap.

Extremely desperate glanced at the fatal gap, Li Jiancheng desperately ordered the army to launch a counterattack, to drive the Sui soldiers out of the city again, Yang Wengan led the army to shout, and the Sui soldiers in the gap to start a hand-to-hand melee, the battle was fierce and abnormal, but the gap in strength was destined to be difficult for Li Jiancheng to get his wish, the war continued, under another section of the city wall, there was once again a gunpowder explosion, and another section of the city wall more than two zhang long collapsed again.

By the way, the reason why Chen Fuliang dared to squander so much precious gunpowder in the first all-out attack was because of the blessings of Li Jiancheng and Li Er - Li Er got the gunpowder formula for the Taiyuan army through the relationship between the Eastern Capital Imperial Court, and Li Jiancheng, who attached great importance to war preparedness, took out a lot of money and grain to produce a large amount of gunpowder, but unfortunately most of these gunpowder were stored in the Xicheng arsenal, and after being captured by the Sui army, it became a sharp weapon to kill the soldiers of the Taiyuan army.

Chen Fuliang does not like the huge frontal battle in all aspects, which is the greatest confidence that Li Jiancheng and Yin Kaishan and other Taiyuan army officers and soldiers dare to resist stubbornly in Dongcheng, but when Chen Fuliang really launched a frontal attack very rarely, Li Jiancheng and Yin Kaishan and others found that Chen Fuliang's offensive methods were more and stronger than they imagined, and they were so strong that they could not resist at all. Stunned to see the endless stream of Sui soldiers who entered the city from two gaps, Li Jiancheng, Yin Kaishan and others couldn't help but feel complete despair, and muttered together: "Is there still a need to fight this battle?" ”

At the same time, the civil and military officials of the Sui army beside Chen Fuliang were ecstatic, dancing with their hands, and congratulated Chen Fuliang one after another: "Your Highness is mighty, invincible, invincible!" It only took one day to break through this Taiyuan fortified city, which is really unheard of, and if the subordinates and others hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they would never have dared to believe that His Royal Highness's divine might could be so sharp! ”

"Is it sharp?" Chen Fuliang sneered, and said to himself: "The cost of a feather arrow is more than 30 yuan, so far, we have used more than 500,000 pieces, more than 15 million Wen and more than 15,000 pieces have been spilled, wood, gunpowder and weapons, just heavy consumption, today our military expenditure is at least more than 30,000 yuan, so it is the hard-earned money of the common people, tens of thousands of strong men can not earn a year without eating or drinking." Also, our soldiers have suffered more than 1,800 casualties, more than 1,800 lives have been lost, and nearly 2,000 pairs of gray-haired ones? Mother, they will never see their son again. Such sharpness, I would rather not. ”

Sui Jun Wenwu closed his mouth, and then understood the real reason why Chen Fuliang, who was actually very good at fighting tough battles, didn't like to fight frontal battles, fortunately, Chen Fuliang was also very good at regulating his emotions, and quickly got rid of the heartache of huge consumption, and said comfortingly: "But it's worth it, Li Jiancheng is too stubborn, don't hurt him at any cost, subdue him, his stubbornness will only bring us more casualties." Pass the order down, continue to attack, and before dawn, be sure to take Taiyuan Dongcheng for me! ”

With the Sui army soldiers again fierce attack, the Taiyuan army finally can no longer parry, to the sky is dark, the Taiyuan army Yang Wen cadres who blocked the gap first collapsed, was killed and defeated by the Sui army, forced to flee into the depths of the city, the Sui army soldiers sang and marched, constantly advancing towards the city, the Taiyuan army was forced to start a street battle with the Sui army soldiers. Seeing that the situation was extreme, forced to be helpless, Li Jiancheng could only order to prepare to abandon the city and break through, and decided to lead the remnants of the army to flee to Mayi to join Liu Wuzhou's two brothers-in-law, Song Jingang and Yuan Junzhang, although Yin Kaishan and Shi Wanbao knew very well that it would be difficult to have any hope of revival if they fled to Mayi, but they still gritted their teeth and accepted the order, and immediately began to arrange for the army to break through and retreat.

Li Jiancheng finally did not forget his wife and children this time, and took advantage of the soldiers under his command who were still fighting in the streets to resist, Li Jiancheng hurried back to his temporary residence in Dongcheng with his own soldiers, and asked Zheng Guanyin to take the children and go out of the city with him immediately. Zheng Guanyin agreed without hesitation, but said to Li Jiancheng: "Da Lang, it's okay for the slave family to go with you, but your two sons, you must leave one here and let someone hand him over to his uncle." ”

"Why?" Li Jiancheng was a flute.

"Because my uncle had long expected that you would run to the north of Mayi Mobei, he had already explained to the slave family, and asked you to leave one of your sons to him, so that he could raise the child for you, pass on the lineage for you, and inherit the incense." Zheng Guanyin replied calmly.

"When did this happen? When did he tell you this? Li Jiancheng was shocked, and Zheng Guanyin also told Li Jiancheng the final explanation that Chen Fuliang gave her when he sent her out of the camp, Li Jiancheng was even more shocked when he heard it, and hurriedly asked: "Then why didn't you tell me earlier?" ”

"I told you the other day, does it work? Would you say yes? Zheng Guanyin asked rhetorically.

Li Jiancheng was completely stunned, and Zheng Guanyin said calmly: "Da Lang, you don't forget the revenge of killing your father, you must fight to the death with your good brother, Uncle Yingliang, who is closer than your own brother, I don't blame you." But have you ever thought about it, how many people did my father-in-law kill on the battlefield, and those who were killed by my father-in-law on the battlefield, their sons, should also seek revenge on us for killing their father? If it was the father-in-law who killed his uncle on the Daxing battlefield at that time, and the uncle's son grew up, should he also find the father-in-law to take revenge on him? There are no eyes on the battlefield, and the father-in-law died on the battlefield where he fought with his uncle, can he blame the uncle for not showing mercy to his father-in-law's subordinates? If it weren't for the uncle's rescue, my father-in-law would have died in the prison by the eleventh year of the great cause, right? ”

The shouting and killing sound in the city became more and more intense, and it was getting closer and closer, and the soldiers outside the door kept urging Li Jiancheng to leave quickly, but Li Jiancheng sat down instead, and lowered his head and fell into deep thought. Zheng Guanyin saw her husband's vacillation, so she said again: "Da Lang, your brother is as ruthless as a jackal, but your brother with a foreign surname is as close to you as a sibling, and your vicious brothers are all dead, do you still want to be hostile to your brother with a foreign surname who is like a sibling forever, and be a lonely man forever?" ”

"If you decide that you must go to Mobei to eat and drink sand, I will accompany you." Zheng Guanyin said again: "But I must beg you for the children, and for the ancestors of your Li family, I beg you to leave one of your sons and keep a little incense for your Li family." ”

Li Jiancheng didn't say a word, but the corners of his eyes were already full of tears, and he never moved. I don't know how long it took, Yin Kaishan and Shi Wanbao suddenly broke in, and shouted in unison: "Zuo Dudu, go quickly!" The thief army has already killed the nearest place, and it will be too late if you don't leave! ”

"Da Lang, let's go." Zheng Guanyin stood up and asked Li Jiancheng, "You say, do we leave Chengzong behind, or do we leave Chengdao behind?" ”

Li Jiancheng continued to hang his head and did not move for a long time before he choked up and said, "No, don't go, let's ......, let's stay." ”

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