Chapter 23: Sun Chuanting's defeat
At the same time, in the chat group, the quarrel about the Emperor of the Ages did not end, but intensified.
Ming Sizong Zhu Youzhen: First Emperor, I admit that your merits are great, but during your reign, you burned books and pit Confucianism! Parade for immortals!
Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng: Ridiculous! When did I cheat! This is all a smear by the Han Dynasty!
Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng: I killed the warlock! Not Confucianism! Moreover, isn't the chat group a fairy fate?
Ming Sizong Zhu Youzhen: The death of the second Qin Dynasty is not a smear of the Han Dynasty after all, right?
Ming Sizong Zhu Youzhen: Hu Hai was extremely poor and luxurious, and he also killed his brothers and sisters.
Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng: In terms of merit, could it be that I can't be called an emperor through the ages?
Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng: I don't believe that in the dynasty established by the group masters, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are not many unfilial children and grandchildren?
Ming Dynasty Hongwu plane.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this scene, his face suddenly darkened, and he tapped the system interface and said:
"Ahem, we think that the merits and demerits of the merits and demerits can be commented on by future generations, the first emperor of the ages is just a false name."
"By the way, Emperor Shi, let's listen to your voice, I feel a little weak, do you want us to help you?"
The first emperor of the Qin Dynasty.
Seeing this, Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng said lightly:
"If you don't bother with the group leader, if I am here, those remnants of the Six Kingdoms will never dare to rebel."
Just as Zhu Yuanzhang's prestige in the Ming Dynasty is unmatched, in the Great Qin Empire, Yingzheng also has this self-confidence.
As long as he is alive, those remnants of the Six Kingdoms will always be able to hide like rats in the damp cellars, shivering.
……
Ming Dynasty Hongwu plane.
Zhu Yuanzhang was not surprised to see that Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng rejected his kindness.
He could feel that Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng was the kind of emperor who was extremely proud, and he seemed to take those false names very seriously.
Moreover, I always want to live forever.
It's just that thinking of the actions of those later emperors recorded in the history books of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly had a headache.
……
Ming Dynasty Chongzhen plane.
Zhu Youzhen saw that his grandfather had spoken, so he naturally didn't dare to talk nonsense, closed the system interface, and re-reviewed the folds.
In my mind, I was thinking quickly.
Through a deal with Tang Taizong Li Shimin and Qin Shi Huang, Zhu Youzhen found that he seemed to have found a way to make a fortune...... No, it's a shortcut to food.
Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at the chat group, the Holy Empress of Zetianshun, Wu Zetian, and muttered:
"Wu Zetian, is she on the throne now?"
"If I trade Tang Dynasty history books with her, will I be able to trade 200,000 stone of grain again?"
……
Before Tongguan.
I saw a group of unclothed routs rushing to the gate of Tongguan City like a swarm of bees, intending to forcibly break in.
The defenders on the walls of Tongguan were clad in armor, bent their bows and arrows, and paid no attention to the cries of the rout.
Gradually, more and more routs gathered under Tongguan, and from a distance, there were tens of thousands of people.
A moment later, Sun Chuanting came to the city wall of Tongguan with hundreds of people, raised his head, and shouted:
"Open the gates!"
"The general Sun Chuanting, the army of the thief Li Zicheng is almost here!"
on the city walls.
Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, looked at Li Banghua, the imperial historian of the left capital beside him, and asked:
"Master Li, take a closer look, that person is Sun Chuanting?"
Li Banghua, the imperial historian of the left capital, poked his head out from the city wall, saw the dense rout soldiers gathered together under the city, and couldn't tell who was who, and shouted:
"Where is General Sun?"
Sun Chuanting raised his head, and after seeing Li Banghua, he shouted:
"Master Li?"
However, seeing that someone on the wall of Tongguan finally responded, everyone pleaded loudly.
Wei Guogong Xu Da quietly watched this scene and asked:
"Master Li, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in later generations, have they weakened to this point?"
"I thought that Sun Chuanting would be able to support him for a few more days, but I didn't expect that he would be defeated so soon."
After Xu Da led an army of 50,000 to leave Shuntianfu, he rushed all the way, who would have thought that they only arrived at Tongguan last night, and they encountered a rout today.
Li Banghua smiled awkwardly and said:
"Wei Guogong, today's Ming Dynasty, after all, is not the Hongwu period."
Dozens of seconds later, after seeing Sun Chuanting relying on his prestige to subdue the rout, Xu Da ordered the soldiers to throw down a basket and said:
"General Sun, come up and talk about it."
Seeing this, Sun Chuanting was confused, and in desperation, he had no choice but to sit on the basket and be pulled to the city wall.
When he saw the defenders on Tongguan, Sun Chuanting's pupils shrank and he muttered:
"Is this really the Ming Army?"
After stepping off the basket, Sun Chuanting looked at Li Banghua and asked suspiciously:
"Master Li, what's going on?"
"Could it be that His Majesty has sent reinforcements again?"
Xu Da looked Sun Chuanting up and down and asked:
"You just said that the army of the thief Li Zicheng is about to arrive? How many people are there? ”
Thinking of the causes and consequences of his hasty exit this time, as well as the heavy rain that had been falling for seven consecutive days, Sun Chuanting said with an ugly face:
"The thief Li Zicheng now has an army of one million, but most of them are desperate homeless."
"As long as we stick to Tongguan, within May, the million-strong army of the thief Li Zicheng will surely collapse without a fight."
In fact, before sending troops, Sun Chuanting had mentioned this method in the compromise, but what could he do......
Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, called a personal guard, looked at Sun Chuanting, and said:
"General Sun, lead your soldiers and set up camp outside the city, if the thief Li Zicheng attacks, just guard the camp."
When Sun Chuanting heard this, he glanced at the soldiers standing on both sides, and then at the defeated soldiers under the city wall, and said with a wry smile:
"That's fine, there are still tens of thousands of routs behind, if the thieves take this opportunity to break through Tongguan, we will all be sinners of the Ming Dynasty."
Subsequently, Xu Da ordered thousands of soldiers to send half of the grain carried by this expedition out of Tongguan and handed it over to Sun Chuanting.
And Sun Chuanting also relied on those grains to quickly stabilize the morale of the army, and arranged for the army to set up camp and make a fire to cook.
on the city walls.
Li Banghua saw that there were constantly routs coming from afar, and asked suspiciously:
"Wei Guogong, are you planning to defend Tongguan to the death?"
"With an army of 50,000, can you hold it? Why don't you let General Sun and them into the city? ”
Xu Da looked into the distance and explained:
"Lord Li, if I were Li Zicheng, I would definitely send people to infiltrate the rout, open the city gate, and take advantage of the situation to break through Tongguan."
"That's why we didn't let those routs enter the city."
While speaking, Xu Da was very calm, even if he was alone in command of an army of 50,000, those old brothers followed Lan Yu to crusade against Zhang Xianzhong.
He also has the self-confidence to fight and win.
A moment later.
Outside Tongguan City, the smell of food overflowed, and the hungry defeated soldiers all the way finally had a full meal, and they worked hard to build camp tents.
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In the evening.
A rout of thousands of people came from a distance, and Sun Chuanting was standing at the gate of the camp, preparing to send someone to pick up these soldiers into the camp.
When he heard the sound of horses' hooves behind those soldiers, his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly gathered the army in the camp.