At the same time, the Liang army was also besieging the city.

In front of Zhu Wen, Pinglu is a piece of fat.

The father and son of the Wang family ruled Pinglu for thirteen years, and in the Huangchao Rebellion, Wang Jingwu, the father of Wang Shifan, mutinied and took refuge in Huangchao, which occupied Chang'an at that time, but Zhang Jun entered Pinglu alone, reprimanded Wang Jingwu in person, and comforted the soldiers of the Pinglu army, so that Wang Jingwu's soldiers turned to the Tang Dynasty and attacked Huangchao's forces in Shandong.

In the first year of the Dragon Era, Zhaozong had just ascended the throne, and the sixteen-year-old Wang Shifan also ascended the throne with the support of the Pinglu soldiers, captured the rebel general Lu Hong, defeated Zhang Chan in Dizhou, and forced out Cui Anqian, the envoy of the Pinglu Jiedu appointed by the Tang court.

After careful governance, the training of soldiers, five or six years, Ziqing territory like a paradise, the people are stable, the people are rich, with 100,000 armor.

But Xanadu is vulnerable in front of the wolf-like Liang army.

After Ge Congzhou recuperated in Yunzhou for three months, he struck lightning and captured Qizhou in one fell swoop.

Wang Shifan's army counterattacked Qizhou, but was broken by Ge Congzhou, and the army retreated to Qingzhou.

Wang Yanzhang took advantage of the situation and led the army to attack Zizhou, and in less than ten days, the city of Zizhou was broken.

Wang Fan was frightened and asked Zhu Wen to surrender again.

But Zhu Wen sharpened his knife, how could he tolerate Wang Shifan to stay behind? Determined to annex Pinglu and occupy all the fertile land south of the Yellow River.

Bochang.

Zhu Youning's 20,000 troops have been blocked in the city for more than a month.

With Ge Congzhou and Wang Yanzhang's Zhuyu in front, his incompetence became more and more apparent.

The last time he attacked Pujin with Li Si'an, Li Si'an was defeated and died, but he was born alone, and the bigwigs in Bianzhou complained about him, and even his own uncle Zhu Wen was quite dissatisfied, and specially sent Liu Han to supervise the war.

Zhu Youning was terrified, drove more than 100,000 people, carried wood and stones, morning glory and donkeys, and built a soil mountain in the south of Bochang City.

Fill the ravine with the carcasses of the people's cattle and donkeys, the mountains are formed, condescending, and finally capture Bochang City, kill the people in the city, and the Qinghe River does not flow.

Wang Shifan was trapped in Qingzhou, the last stronghold, and the Liang army surrounded him on three sides, so he could only ask for help from his ally Yang Xingmi, and Lu Yanwei, the envoy of Yichang Jiedu in the north.

Yang Xing secretly ordered Zhu Jin to send troops to Xuzhou to contain it.

But Zhu Wen personally led an army of 70,000 to sit in Xuzhou, and Zhu Jin had few soldiers and could not move Xuzhou.

The Yichang Festival made Lu Yanwei afraid of offending Zhu Wen, and he did not have the courage to engage the Liang army and did not move.

Ge Congzhou and Wang Yanzhang, who had no worries, marched under Qingzhou. As the attacking side, the Liang army was only 30,000, and the defenders in Qingzhou City were at least 80,000, not counting the people of Qingzhou.

Wang Shifan did not dare to fight with him and held the city.

Puzhou.

Street fighting lasted from dusk to dawn.

In the face of the superior strength and high morale of the Tang army, most of the Liang army in the city was finally wiped out, and only Xu Huaiyu led the last force to resist stubbornly.

Li Ye looked at the charred grain, and his heart was like a knife.

The good mood of breaking through Puzhou was swept away.

The streets were littered with corpses, Liang Jun, Tang Jun, and ordinary people.

The fire raged, more than half of the houses were set on fire, and the smell of wheat and burnt meat filled the air.

And the fire continues, in the middle of summer, like a stove.

Extinguishing fires is no longer possible, and there is no point in extinguishing them. The people were driven out of the city, staring vacantly as the fire engulfed their homes.

Even if the Tang army conquered Puzhou, what they got was a blank land.

The war continued to this point, there was no point in resisting, the city gates were blocked on all sides, the Liang army did not fight to the end, and there were many people who knew the times, and they were all stripped of their armor and weapons by the auxiliary army and guarded.

Li Ye was sweating profusely and looked at Xu Huaiyu who was like a trapped beast.

Xu Huaiyu had a deep knife cut on his face, and the blood stains had been dried by the fire, as if he was wearing half a red mask.

When he saw Li Ye surrounded by the crowd, his tired eyes lit up, and he shouted in a hoarse voice: "Bozhou Xu Huaiyu to meet Your Majesty." ”

Li Ye was also weak, and he didn't even feel like scolding, "What did Zhu Wen give you?" ”

When Zhang Guihou committed suicide, he wanted to ask this question.

Xu Huaiyu laughed, "The father of the last general joined the army in Xuzhou, went to Guilin, guarded the frontier for six years, fought bloody battles with the Nanzhao thieves, lived up to the country, did not live up to the Tang Dynasty, and then the whole family was hungry and cold, Xiantong nine years of Jianghuai drought, locust plagues broke out, His Majesty Yizong welcomed the Buddha bones in Guanzhong, repaired the Buddhist temple, and levied Jianghuai taxes, and the last general and the whole family to the Xu family, all of them were not in trouble, and the father also died in the Pang Xun rebellion, and the last general was lucky to avoid death, growing up in the Cao Song wilderness, competing with wild beasts for food, and defecting to King Liang, only to usher in a glimmer of life. ”

Speaking of this, his voice became more and more hoarse, paused, swallowed the blood in his mouth, and stared at Li Ye.

This lone wolf-like look pierced deep into Li Ye's heart like an invisible knife.

As the saying goes, the poor must have something to hate, but how can the hateful have nothing to be pitied?

Xu Huaiyu's eyes were aggressive, "Why doesn't such a Tang Dynasty die?" How can such a Datang not die! ”

"Presumptuous!" Li Juchuan roared, "It's a big rebellion, the armies will quickly kill the traitors!" ”

Tang Jun fired thousands of arrows, Xu Huaiyu opened his arms and laughed wildly.

Hundreds of Liang soldiers, along with Xu Huaiyu, were shot into hedgehogs.

Though a man is dead, the sound remains.

Li Ye looked at Xu Huaiyu's corpse and couldn't be relieved for a long time.

"Your Majesty should listen to his nonsense, the shortcomings of the Tang Dynasty for two hundred years are not in Your Majesty." Li Juchuan saw that Li Ye's face was gloomy, and whispered comfort.

There are a thousand and ten thousand reasons for the decline and fall of the Tang Dynasty.

When each dynasty reaches the end of the world, all kinds of shortcomings and contradictions will be revealed, and Li Ye, as a traverser, naturally knows that there is no immortal dynasty.

Xu Huaiyu's words really gave him too much impact.

This kind of impact can't be found in the pile of old papers.

Is it just that Datang really deserves to die?

For the first time, Li Ye's belief in reviving the Tang Dynasty was shaken.

"Are you willing to follow me to revive the Tang Dynasty?"

I couldn't help but blurt out the thoughts in my heart.

Li Juchuan took the lead and knelt down, "Your Majesty, why did you say this, Zhu Wen and Li Keyong are both national thieves, although they are heroes for a while, they are by no means the masters of the world, only Your Majesty can return the world to a bright future!" This is the minister's heartfelt words! ”

The surrounding guards also knelt down, and the kneeling movement spread out like a wave.

Li Juchuan took the lead and shouted: "I am willing to revive the Tang Dynasty with Your Majesty and pacify the world!" ”

Tens of millions of Tang troops shouted: "May you revive the Tang Dynasty with Your Majesty and pacify the world!" ”

Words may deceive, but eyes cannot.

The blazing and fanaticism in Tang Jun's eyes gradually drowned out the haze in Li Ye's heart.

If the Tang Dynasty dies, its successors will be Zhu Youli, Li Cunxun, and Shi Jingjiao, and will continue until Zhao Er.

The once fierce, inclusive, and impassioned will all disappear.

"The heavens testify that if you don't abandon me, I will return the world to a prosperous world!" Li Ye's fingers are long.

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a thunderclap in the sky.

Li Ye was taken aback, and 10,000 mud horses galloped past in his heart, although it was bragging, but God didn't have to be so serious, right?

In the blink of an eye, the clouds converged, the lightning flashed, and the thunder roared.

Countless transparent water arrows fell from the sky, flooding the heavens and the earth.

"Your Majesty, it's rain!" Li Juchuan was ecstatic.