Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Bloody War

After defeating 3,000 reinforcements, Ashina also wanted to inquire about the situation in Huazhou, but encountered reinforcements from Tongzhou, cutting off their westward road and could only return to Tongguan.

After so many days, Li Ye actually figured it out.

As long as Chang'an and Tong are in their hands, Han Jian is a rat in a cage, and sooner or later he will be taken down by himself.

Chang'an has Zhang Chengye in charge, even if Han Jian defeats Gao Xingzhou, what can he do? What's more, there is also Zhou Yunyi sent out by himself in the same state, for so many days, he has not received any news, which is good news.

The empty Tongzhou can't swallow Zhou Yunyi in one go, right?

He was really worried before, but after seeing Ashina Zhenyan's performance, he really didn't believe that anyone could help this spirit fox!

Three more days passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Ye stood on the southern city of Tongguan and finally saw an army slowly coming from the west.

The flag has a big "high" character written on it. Li Ye let out a long sigh and finally won!

Gao Xingzhou entered Tongguan with three thousand gods, and bowed when he saw Li Ye, this time it was not a half-kneeling salute of the general, but kneeling on the ground, his appearance scared Li Ye a little, isn't Huazhou not beaten down?

"I'm sorry for Your Majesty."

Li Ye's heart sank, and he encouraged: "Why does General Gao need to be like this, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers." ”

Li Ye is now concerned about Chang'an, Chang'an has fallen, and he, the emperor, will be the end, Han Jian can easily unite all parties in the court to go undercover and select a new emperor from the Li Tang clan.

Gao Xingzhou didn't dare to look at Li Ye, "Your Majesty, Huazhou has been captured, but the last general lost his troops and was almost counterattacked by Han Jian, if it wasn't for the critical moment, General Zhou led the army to kill, and Huazhou was still in the enemy's hands." ”

General Zhou, Zhou Yunyi?

is worthy of being the general he values the most.

Li Ye even suspected that Gao Xingzhou was deliberately scaring himself, helped Gao Xingzhou up, and said warmly: "Han Jian Caizhou Dental School, no less brave than Li Cunxiao, has been famous for more than ten years, General Gao can be with this person regardless of victory or defeat, enough to be famous in the world!" ”

Gao Xingzhou had the courage to face Li Ye at this time, but when he said the number of casualties, it still made Li Ye feel a pain in his flesh.

In the cold weapon war, if the battle loss exceeds one-third, the army will collapse, but this is the end of the Tang Dynasty, the warlords are fighting, and the fate of the soldiers is cruel, which also leads to the soldiers' will to war.

It is very different from the rich Great Song Dynasty. Gao Xingzhou talked about the battle in general.

At the time of the sneak attack, Li Yun and Neiying opened the city gate, and 8,000 Shence troops poured into Huazhou City unhindered, and everything went smoothly at first.

Until the time of attacking Han Jian's mansion.

Han Jian has been fighting for many years, and his mansion is actually a small fortified city, Gao Xingzhou secretly thought that he had taken the outer city, thinking that the dust had settled.

Unexpectedly, in the small city, there are 900 Caizhou soldiers, who have followed Han Jiannan to fight in the north for many years, what battles have they never seen?

People didn't think about defending the small city at all, but suddenly killed, Gao Xingzhou was caught off guard, the Shence soldiers turned on their backs, the army was disheartened, and Han Jian fought back frantically.

Fortunately, Li Yun occupied the city wall, and Gao Xingzhou gradually gathered the defeated army, breathed a sigh of relief, and was not driven out of the city by Han Jian.

didn't have time to catch his breath, the reinforcements from Tongzhou arrived, and the internal and external attacks were flanked, and the Shence army retreated to the city wall, fighting for five days and five nights, barely holding on.

But in addition to Han Jian, there was also a strategist Li Juchuan in Huazhou City, gathered the remnants of the army, came to help the battle, Gao Xingzhou gradually lost the enemy, fought to the death on the city wall and did not retreat, and his subordinates suffered heavy casualties.

At the critical juncture, Zhou Yunyi fell from the sky and defeated the reinforcements from Tongzhou, and the two armies combined to defeat Han Jian.

But even though he knew that the general trend had gone, Han Jian still fought to the death.

Gao Xingzhou led the Shence army to surround it with great effort.

Han Jian was covered with dozens of wounds, his intestines flowed to the ground, and he still slashed with a knife.

In the end, Gao Xing pierced the head with a gun to put an end to the mad tiger. Li Ye sighed, what a bloody battle, what a Caizhou Han Jian.

You can't blame Gao Xingzhou for his ineffective fighting, if it weren't for Gao Xingzhou, if he was replaced by someone else, he would probably be killed by Han Jian.

This is a narrow victory, full of crises, to sum up, Li Ye's decision-making is no problem, the Shence Army is not a big problem, the Praetorian Guard is no problem, and even the performance exceeds Li Ye's estimates, the only problem is that Han Jian is too fierce, Caizhou soldiers are too fierce, and nine hundred Caizhou soldiers almost turned over.

It is no wonder that Qin Zongquan led the Caizhou soldiers to single-handedly challenge Zhu Wen and Li Ke with a two-way army.

However, Li Ye's strategic intention was finally completed.

Two days after the repair of Tongguan, Li Ye left Zhang Xingjin and Li Xiaoqi 2,000 Janissaries to guard Tongguan, and he took 500 guards to Huazhou.

After entering Huazhou City, Li Ye knew how cruel this bloody battle was.

It was winter, the whole Huazhou city was full of corpses, and there were blood stains on the city wall, which extended from the west city gate all the way to the Jiedu Envoy's mansion. The eyes of the people peeked out of the crack in the door with hatred and horror.

Even if he knew that he was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, the hatred of the people had not weakened.

Piles of corpses were piled directly in the middle of the road.

White maggots were everywhere, and severed fingers were seen in the stone cracks in the walls from time to time.

Li Ye held back his nausea and went to the camp for the wounded, which was also filled with the smell of corpses, the seriously injured soldiers and soldiers groaned in pain, and the living and dead were lying together, making Li Ye feel as if he had entered hell. This place is even worse than Tongguan, if it goes on like this, a plague will break out, and the whole Guanzhong will be unlucky.

Like Tongguan, Li Ye personally took care of the wounded soldiers, ordered the army to clean up the city, bury enemy soldiers, collect the corpses of soldiers and soldiers, and post notices to reassure the people.

The guards all followed Li Ye.

Li Ye felt that doing these things was more tiring than fighting, but there was always a reward for the effort.

The emperor's actions were seen by many captives and the common people.

In the two hundred and eighty years of the Tang Dynasty, how could there have been such an emperor?

In the two hundred and eighty years of the Tang Dynasty, how could ordinary soldiers have been treated like this?

Many wounded soldiers regarded Li Ye as a saint.

Saints, Li Ye is not uncommon, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji also proclaimed himself a saint.

But Datang has today's disaster, and the primary responsibility lies with this Tianbao sage.

Due to the arrival of the emperor, the whole city was under martial law, and many generals of the Shence Army demanded that the city be slaughtered to vent their anger.

Li Ye understood their feelings, but couldn't do so.

After all, he is a person who has experienced civilized society and cannot accept such barbarism.

In order to avoid a mutiny, Li Ye transferred the Shence army out of the city, and at the same time opened the treasury and vigorously rewarded the Shence army and the Praetorian Guard, each person with ten horses of silk and three stones of grain, and the soldiers who died in battle were also registered, twelve horses of silk and five stones of grain.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the economy was also in chaos, copper money has long lost the basis of circulation, many times, money can not buy things, the most effective in kind, a horse of silk can be exchanged for half a stone of rice, can also be made into new clothes, is hard currency.

Not to mention food, life-saving things.

As a result, the treasury that Han Jian had operated for many years was squandered by Li Ye, and Li Ye did not plan to take away the remaining grain and distribute it to the people in the city.

If Gao Xingzhou hadn't taken Huazhou, it was likely that Huazhou would have become Suiyang City back then.

Cai Zhoubing is a group of humanoid beasts.

In addition to grain and silk, there are also many weapons and equipment in the treasury.

Han Jian has been in the army for many years, and has been well prepared in this regard, including 3,000 pieces of armor of various types, 1,500 horizontal swords, 10,000 spears, 2,000 bows, and 30,000 arrows.

These are not the most important things, the most important thing is that Li Ye saw more than a hundred weapons with strange shapes.

It looks like a sword and not a sword, the sword body and the hilt are the same length, three meters long, Li Ye picked up a handful, it was quite heavy, and it seemed to be about twenty catties.

"Your Majesty, this is Modao." Behind him, a Shence army general said calmly.

Li Ye was stunned for a moment, this is the legendary Mo Dao?

This is one of Datang's two divine weapons, Mo Dao?

Li Ye can't put it down, twenty pounds of things is not impossible for a warrior to play.

Li Ye threw the Mo knife to Xin Shilang.

Xin Shilang weighed it, and said angrily: "It's okay, but I don't have an axe to take advantage of." ”

Li Ye rolled his eyes, this guy doesn't know the goods, Li Siye had a strange knife in his hand back then, and no one in the world could beat him.

It seems that this guy is a turtle.