Chapter 174: Showing Favor
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In the Daming Palace, Li Zhi, who was dressed in a dragon robe, sat on the dragon chair, and His Royal Highness was full of civil and military officials, among whom there were two old men who were eye-catching, both of them were wearing dark green official robes and high hats.
Standing at the forefront of the ministers, an old man in his sixties, although his black hair was gone and his back was bent, a fine light flashed from time to time in his cloudy old eyes, which made people dare not underestimate this old man.
This person is the last person left among the twenty-four heroes of the founding of the Tang Lingyan Pavilion, the heroic and martial prince Li Ji, who followed Li Shimin to fight in the south and the north all his life, and made great achievements.
On the left side of Li Ji, the old man standing, only in his fifties, with a gray beard, with that resolute face, worthy of Liu Renliang, a general who is feared by foreign races, this momentum alone is enough to overwhelm people.
After Xue Rengui led his troops to attack Goguryeo, and Qin Shubao and other important ministers of the founding of the country died, it was politely said that they were the pillars of the Tang Dynasty.
But at this moment, whether it is the heroic Duke Li Ji, or the general Liu Renliang, the expression on his face is very ugly, not only them, but the fifty-five ministers of the DPRK and China who are present today, the vast majority of them are worried, it is reported that now there are more than a million enemy troops outside the city have surrounded Chang'an City, and the 30,000 patrol battalion iron cavalry stationed around Chang'an, after learning that Chang'an was surrounded, the main general Meng Keren immediately led the whole army to come to the rescue, although Meng Keren is loyal and brave, but what is the use of his 30,000 horses, I heard that the location two hundred miles outside Chang'an City has now become a battlefield, and there are dead bodies everywhere, alas...... I'm afraid that few of these 30,000 soldiers will survive.
But fortunately, the enemy did not attack after capturing the four gates of Chang'an, although it is not known what the intention of the enemy is to move, but at least it gives them time to react.
Li Zhi, who was on the dragon chair, said with a blue face: "Ladies and gentlemen, can you find out where these enemy troops outside the city are coming from?" โ
Everyone was silent.
Only the general Liu Renliang stood up and said: "Emperor Qi, just now the minister has gone to the front line to investigate, but the minister is clumsy, and he can't see whose soldiers and horses they are at all. โ
Liu Renliang continued after a pause: "Moreover, the emperor, you should also know that it is already a peaceful and prosperous era, and the so-called anti-king rebels have long been wiped out, and in recent years, even the mountain bandits have decreased a lot, if it is said that the Turks outside the city attacked Chang'an........" Liu Renliang sighed, shook his head and said: "This is also impossible, because the enemy troops outside the city are all our atomic people, and it is impossible for them to be Turks at all." โ
Li Zhi frowned and said, "Could it be that the victims in Xuzhou rioted?" โ
Li Zhi is still okay when he is young, but he is a little stupid when he is old, can the victims of your family continuously break through the four gates of Chang'an, which are guarded by hundreds of thousands of powerful Imperial Forest Army, within an hour? There is also Xuzhou, which is so far away from Chang'an, why are these victims hungry and crazy, and they are not far away to grab some food?
Liu Renliang was also choked by the word Li Zhi, a disaster victim, and continued: "Your Majesty, the minister has just carefully observed the enemy troops who have come to attack, these enemy troops are well-founded, the pace is neat, the soldiers are all wearing fine armor, and the combat effectiveness is not weaker than mine, and even stronger than us, it must be a well-trained regular army that has experienced many life and death battles, they can't be disaster victims at all, even if the assassin of which state capital rebels, it is impossible to gather such a group of soldiers with strong combat strength in such a short period of time. โ
Wu Zetian interjected: "Yes, Your Majesty, you also heard what Liu Aiqing just said, after all, it is difficult for millions of people not to get noticed, and before that, we didn't receive any news, how could it be a local rebel mob." โ
Li Zhi sat down on the dragon chair and said, "Then what is the origin of these people, and why do they seem to appear silently." โ
Liu Renliang had a sentence that he had not been embarrassed to say just now, or he didn't dare, because he had carefully surveyed the three sergeants of Wei, Shu and Qin, and he found that the armor and their dress on these enemy soldiers were not what they should have in their era at all, and there were weapons, Liu Renliang actually saw the Qin crossbow that had long disappeared in history, and the war knife Changge in the Three Kingdoms period, which ....... Liu Renliang had a bold guess in his heart, what was outside the city would not really be the soldiers and horses of the Qin Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, right? As soon as this thought grew, it was erased from Liu Renliang's heart.
No way, it's absolutely impossible, but ...... It seems that only this explanation is the most reasonable now, because in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, there is really no way to find any soldiers and horses that can match them, but this is too ridiculous, right?
Liu Renliang can think of this not to say how smart he is, and everything in the family is on the bright side, people with a little common sense will find a little clue, because the people under Qin Shihuang and Cao Cao and Liu Bei are a little too big and the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty, and the difference between the two is hundreds of years, and the changes in these hundreds of years are not like the actors in the TV series, who say that they are ancient people when they wear a coat.
It's a series of transformations from costumes, weapons, and so on.
Li Zhixin, who was on the dragon chair, waved his hand hurriedly and said: "Okay, okay, I don't want to talk about this useless nonsense now, I'll ask you, who can solve the current siege of Chang'an?" โ
Liu Renliang: "Your Majesty, the minister suggests that the document of King Qin be issued immediately, summoning the generals from all over the country to come to King Qin in Chang'an, and at the same time transfer back the 450,000 expeditionary army of General Xue Rengui who was on an expedition to Goguryeo. โ
Wu Zetian frowned and said: "Liu Aiqing, what you said is far water, how can you quench your thirst?" Not to mention the kings and divisions in various places, the nearest defenders from here will take three days to arrive, and it will only be 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers from the state capital, and the elite soldiers of my Datang who have been fighting at the border pass for a long time will take at least ten days to arrive, and the soldiers and horses of the old general Xue Rengui will take a month to return to the court, and now nearly a million enemy troops outside the city have taken the outer city of Chang'an. โ
"The mourning family knows that the soldiers of the Imperial Forest Army have the heart to defend Chang'an to the death, but you just said that the enemy army outside the city is not only not weaker than ours in combat, but also stronger, even though the Mourning family has retained 400,000 strong, but these people are all recruits, not even recruits, even if you add 200,000 Imperial Forest Army, can you really guard until the moment when the reinforcements come?"
Liu Renliang couldn't say a word, Wu Zetian said it all right, the closest to Chang'an The strongest combat effectiveness is the 300,000 border guards who fought against the Turks, and most of the rest are some government soldiers, guarding the city and maintaining order, if this is pulled to the battlefield, it will only increase casualties.
The Tang Dynasty is strong, there are millions of soldiers and horses, and the standing army is at least maintained at 1.5 million, but 300,000 of these 1.5 million people are state soldiers from all over the country, as well as 300,000 border guards who fight against the Turks all year round, as well as 200,000 imperial forest troops in Chang'an, and then the 450,000 expeditionary force led by Xue Rengui this time, and the rest are some miscellaneous.
In fact, the defensive strength of Chang'an City is very strong, but there is no way, Huang Xiaowei was so good when they came, originally Xue Rengui led the 450,000 expeditionary force, 250,000 were originally stationed near Chang'an, but as soon as the war on Goguryeo's side started, these 250,000 horses were transferred, and under normal times, the defenders of Chang'an City were at least 500,000, and now they are ...... There are only 200,000 left, less than half, although the Imperial Forest Army of Chang'an City is known as the most brave and warlike soldier in addition to the Xuanjia heavy cavalry and border guards.
But this so-called elite is a little too unsightly in front of the millions of heroes of Qin Shihuang and others.
As for the 400,000 ordinary people retained by Wu Zetian, they all said that they were ordinary people, how could they be compared with the kings of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Qin, these ordinary people were simply lambs to be slaughtered in front of the soldiers of the coalition army.
In other words, Wu Zetian and Li Zhi had to rely on the 200,000 Imperial Forest Army and 400,000 ordinary people to hold Chang'an for ten days before they could wait for the border guards to come to help.
But which one of the people present doesn't know it, it's still ten days, and if you can keep it for five days, you have to burn high incense, if it really starts, those ordinary people don't know if they can hold their weapons steadily, and it is estimated that they will all have to pee their pants in fear, and they have a virtue with the recruits, no, it's not as good as the recruits, the recruits have been trained, and what about these strong men who are forcibly escorted? Is there that time to train them?
All in all, the current situation is so bad for Datang.
At this moment, Li Ji, the heroic prince who had not spoken, spoke.
Li Ji had been closing his eyes before, but now he opened his cloudy old eyes, and said hoarsely: "Your Majesty, Weichen dares to ask, how long has it been since the four gates of Chang'an were broken?" โ
Li Zhi was stunned: "It seems that an hour has passed." โ
Li Ji continued: "An hour ago, they captured the four gates of Chang'an, but why didn't they continue to attack then? You must know that they have a million soldiers, and the commander of the unified army will naturally know the truth that one blow, then decline, and three exhaustion. โ
"But they just didn't attack, the old minister also heard that they even released back the hundreds of soldiers who were captured in the Royal Forest Army before, not only that, after breaking the city again, none of the enemy troops stepped into the people's homes without permission to do evil, Your Majesty, why do you think they did this, they have no offense against the people, we can think that they want to buy people's hearts, but release the prisoners in the battle between the two armies, can we think that this is their ........"
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