Chapter 241: Battle of Xiangji Temple! Li Heng: Why are there so many machetes!

Datang to German time and space.

In the second year of Zhide, the autumn harvest in September.

Tianzhu has the country of incense, and the name of the Buddha is fragrant.

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West of Chang'an City, north of Xiangji Temple.

The midday autumn sun shone in the sky, sprinkled on the armor of the two armies.

The bleak and cool autumn wind blew across this battlefield, and the hoarse sound seemed to be mourning for the coming soul.

And above the very center of this battlefield, in the clouds and mist, there are dozens of figures, floating in the wind, and dozens of pairs of eyes are watching the changes in the battle situation of the battlefield below.

Fortunately.

At the moment, the attention of both sides is on the battlefield, and no one cares about the figure between the clouds and mist above.

Otherwise, you will be surprised, these people are all wearing dragon robes of different standards, and they are carrying half-human machetes in their hands, which looks really terrifying.

"This and this, this time it's not an illusion, it's really flying!"

"I'm really a dragon grandson, and I can go to heaven and earth!"

"The Art of Soaring Clouds and Fog!"

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These great princes of heaven felt the sound of the wind passing by in their ears, and their eyes were surprised.

Especially the Jiajing Immortal and the young Zhu Houxi, the excitement of the two is beyond words, this will be a pinch of the standard Dow finger, as if to seize this rare opportunity to comprehend this cloud control technique.

Same as they say.

This time, Daming's group of princes of heaven is not a real experience brought by 36D projection, but a real floating in the sky.

Ji Boying used the anti-gravity function to hang these people in the sky above the battlefield of Xiangji Temple.

Have a good vision, and be able to look at the overall situation of the entire battle of Xiangji Temple.

The reason why I didn't go directly to Fengxiang Mansion in Xijing, where Li Heng was located, but came to this Xiangji Temple first, was because the process of the battle of Xiangji Temple was really too amazing, and the battle damage miracle of the ancient war.

Even Ji Boying wanted to take a look.

Since the time is just right, people have to take a look.

On the battlefield of Xiangji Temple, a total of 260,000 people were invested on both sides.

In this blood-stained battle of mountains and rivers, there was no trickery, no sneak attack or anti-water, and there was no luring snakes out of their holes, encircling points to send reinforcements, halfway ambushes, and so on.

From beginning to end, the two armies were upright, and the face-to-face stiffness lasted for eight hours, and the soldiers on both sides completely exchanged their lives for their lives, and the final battle losses reached an astonishing eighty percent, which is equivalent to six people dying in battle every second.

This is the era of cold weapons, even in the era of hot weapons in later generations, once the army's battle losses reach three achievements, it will face collapse.

Of course, this battle damage crash ratio only represents everything but the rabbit.

The great rabbit, supported by firm faith, can achieve 100% battle damage, which is the power that comes from faith.

"Brother, look, the rebels have begun to counterattack on all fronts."

Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu Di, Zhu Lao Si and some other warlike emperors of the Ming Dynasty frowned, staring at the battlefield below, always paying attention to the changes in the battlefield situation.

Although they had all read about this battle at the pinnacle of the Cold Weapon Era from the history books, they still couldn't help but feel frightened when they saw it with their own eyes, and they subconsciously wondered if the Ming Dynasty encountered either of these two armies, would they have a chance of winning if the equipment was not much different?

The fierceness of the Tang army, in this battle in Xiangji Temple, played to the fullest.

As the saying goes, a slight injury does not get off the line of fire, but the Tang Army in the first battle of Xiangji Temple, regardless of whether you are lightly injured or seriously injured, as long as there is still a breath and you can move your legs, you will never retreat from the battlefield.

It's just a pity that this is a civil war.

Whether it is the 150,000 counterinsurgency army with the crown prince Li Yu as the main commander and Guo Ziyi as the deputy commander, or the 110,000 rebels under An Qingxu, they are actually Tang troops and the military force of the Tang Dynasty.

"Hmm."

Ji Boying bowed slightly, also looking at the battlefield below.

Looking down at a height of 100 meters, the figures are surging back and forth like a tide.

Fang only fought twice, first the vanguard of the Tang army won for a while, and then the rebels recaptured for a while, and then the rebels suddenly attacked on all fronts, and the 110,000 troops launched a fierce attack on the Tang army, and the Tang army fell into chaos for a while.

"Li Siye."

At this moment, Li Er's family of four, Li Longji's eyes fell on the body of the Tang Army's front army.

Of course, Li Sanlang knew this, after all, in his time and space, Li Siye was the hussar Zuo Jinwu general he personally appointed.

"This person can be a generation of fierce generals."

"If it is in the Wude period, the merit will not be lower than that of Lu Gong."

Li Er's gaze also fell on the body of Li Siye, the former vanguard commander of the Tang Army, and his eyes were full of light and praise, and the 'Lu Gong' in his words referred to Lu Guogong Cheng Zhijie.

I saw that under the impact of the rebels on all fronts, the front army of the Tang Army, which was in a state of collapse, and the former army commander Li Siye personally went out into battle, took off his robe, revealing his strong upper body, holding a human Gao Mo knife in his hand, straddled the horse with a horizontal knife, and stood in front of the formation.

Loud yelling.

"Whoever blocks the heir to the sword, kill!"

"We lure the enemy with our bodies today, and we will die without regrets!"

After that, Li Siye rode his horse, waved the Mo knife in his hand, and rushed forward with his Mo Dao military array, but wherever the Mo Dao military array passed.

Under the Mo knife, everyone is broken.

It was also at this time.

Guo Ziyi, who was nominally the deputy commander in the Tang Army, was actually the commander of the three armies.

The order was decisively given, and the whole army attacked.

The 100,000 people of the Tang army, including the middle army and the rear army, rushed up in an instant, plus Li Siye's front army, the three armies totaled 150,000 people, and began to face An Qingxu's 110,000 rebels.

A battle of blood and fire was completely launched in the north of Xiangji Temple.

The tactics of the two armies have no tactics at all.

The general process is that the first echelon of the Tang Army overthrew the first echelon of the rebels, and the second echelon of the rebels rushed up to overthrow the first echelon of the Tang Army, and then the second echelon of the Tang Army immediately took over and defeated the second echelon of the rebels, and then the third, fourth, fifth, and N echelons of the two sides.

The last batch, the dead batch, the previous batch, the dead batch.

This style of play is purely desperate for human life.

The two armies fought from daytime to sunset, the corpses were like mountains, and the blood flowed like rivers, and after both sides suffered more than half of the casualties and battle losses, they still did not collapse, and the whole army still fought to the death and fought bravely, which can be called a miracle in military history.

In the sky above the battlefield, Ji Boying's brows furrowed slightly, as the battle heated up, the rich smell of blood fluttered up with the wind, even if he was in this 100-meter altitude, he could clearly feel the pungent bloody gas.

The mind moves.

Ji Boying accelerated the flow of time in this space-time.

The original eight hours, as time accelerated, and under the feelings of Ji Boying and others, only eight minutes passed.

The sun is dying, and this battlefield is finally coming to an end.

In the battle of Xiangji Temple, the Tang army purely relied on the numerical advantage to achieve the final victory, and the losses of both sides amounted to eighty percent, and tens of thousands of people were killed, and all of them who were alive were colored.

After almost all of An Qingxu's rebels were annihilated, they led tens of thousands of remnants to retreat eastward.

But the Tang army also paid an extremely painful price, and after the battle of Xiangji Temple, the most elite Anxi Army and Beiting Army in the empire were almost killed and wounded.

"Such a victory that is purely based on the lives of soldiers is too costly."

Li Er took a deep breath and looked at the battlefield full of corpses below, with a look of regret in his eyes.

Since his debut, he has been leading the army to fight all his life, and he has been mixed in the army all the year round, Li Er has a different love for the soldiers than other emperors, and when he saw nearly 200,000 Tang soldiers dying here, his mood was like a knife cutting blood.

Li Zhi, Little Pheasant, Wu Cao, and Li Longji also frowned as they looked at the battlefield below.

They all understand a little.

After such a large civil war consumption, Datang's comprehensive military strength will inevitably decline qualitatively, and perhaps, it will no longer be possible to restore the glory of the old Heavenly Khan.

And Lao Zhu, the prince of the great tomorrow, looked at the scene of the river of blood flowing below, and then recalled the tragic battle he saw in those eight minutes, and he gasped.

"It is only now that I understand why the Tang Army is invincible in the world."

"If my Ming army meets the Tang army, I am afraid that there will be no chance of victory."

Old Zhu Di took a deep breath and sighed.

can make Emperor Yongle, who has always been proud of martial arts, say such a thing, it can be seen that he was indeed shocked by the Tang Army's fearlessness of death.

It is better to read history a thousand times than to see it with your own eyes.

As the old saying goes, those who are stunned are afraid of the horizontal, and those who are horizontal are afraid of not dying.

This gang of Tang troops is completely a bunch of lifeless things, they can be so ruthless in fighting a civil war, if they fight a foreign war, they must not dig up the other party's ancestral grave before stopping, no wonder at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, no country in the world dared to argue with the Tang Dynasty.

The other descendants of the Ming Dynasty, such as Wuzong Zhu Houzhao, these martial geniuses, all frowned calmly and nodded.

Obviously, they all agreed with what Lao Zhu Di said just now.

And what Lao Zhu Di said is indeed true.

Throughout all dynasties, from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the only one who can truly be invincible in the world is the Tang Army.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty sages were powerful in all directions, and no country around the Tang Dynasty dared to compete with the Tang Dynasty, even those nomads on the grassland did not dare to harass the Tang Dynasty border, and they could only kneel and bow their heads and shout Heavenly Khan.

Ji Boying glanced at the group of people behind him, his eyes flickered, and after a little thought, some information related to the battle of Xiangji Temple flashed in his mind.

About this battle of Xiangji Temple.

There are many reasons why it will fight so badly.

But the most important thing is that Suzong Li Heng is eager to take back Chang'an and stabilize the throne under his ass.

Since Lingwu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor in the north, there were two counterinsurgency strategies in front of Li Heng.

The first is known as Peng Yuan's countermeasures proposed by Li Mi, the prime minister of cloth.

Li Mi's strategy is to the effect that Su Zong will ignore Chang'an and Luoyang for the time being, and will not be in a hurry to restore the Beijing division, but instead let Guo Ziyi lead the army into Pinghedong, Li Guangbi will guard Taiyuan and enter Datong, and the emperor Li Heng will be pro-town Fengxiang, and the Third Route Army will pull the rebels back and forth, walking back and forth like walking dogs, commonly known as fighting guerrillas, and when the rebels are tired and relaxed, all the armies will go out together and destroy the traitor's nest Fanyang (Youzhou, now Beiping) in one fell swoop.

The second is Li Heng's own strategy, to gather all the troops that can be collected at the moment, and to return to Chang'an regardless of everything.

If the first strategy proposed by Li Mi is adopted, once the strategy is fully successful, the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty will be completely quelled, and the division of the Tang Dynasty for more than a hundred years will most likely not occur.

However, the first strategy took too long for Suzong Li Heng, and the period was full of unpredictable variables.

He was originally the son of heaven who ascended the throne in troubled times, and Yu Lingwu established himself as emperor.

Although it was later recognized by the jade seal sent by the Emperor Taishang of Shu, the Emperor Taishang who would be in Shu was still giving orders, such as obeying the orders of the Emperor Taishang and controlling the Jiangnan Provinces.

As long as there is any problem with him, the Emperor Taishang can immediately stand up and abolish him.

And according to Li Mi's estimation of the implementation of this strategy, it will take two years to complete this strategy.

The question is, where did the military spending come from for these two years.

After Li Heng Lingwu became emperor, he first took a look at his waist bag, which was cleaner than his own face.

Looking around the world again, I want to make some money to do things, but I don't know if I don't know this, and I suddenly feel cold when I see it.

With the loss of the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, Suzong completely lost the possibility of collecting taxes in Guanzhong and the Central Plains, as for the Hebei region, it was the inherent territory of An Fatzi, and it was already a dream to collect taxes from Hebei, and the taxes in the rich Sichuan and Shu regions were 100% intercepted by his father, Emperor Taishang, after all, the Emperor Taishang was still chic in Shu.

Looking at this area of Shanxi, this area is currently on the front line of the battle between the Tang and Yan armies, and the people are running everywhere to seek a living, so naturally they cannot collect taxes normally.

After thinking about it and taking a circle, Li Heng found that the only stable source of tax revenue was the Jianghuai region, which had not been affected by the war for the time being.

However, due to the loss of the two capitals, the transportation was cut off, and the grain of Jianghuai could not be transported, so it could only be used as military expenses by collecting cloth, silk, silk and silk from Jianghuai, but the amount was also extremely limited, and it could only be used for half a year at most.

Later, it was proved that these taxes of Jianghuai did only last for half a year.

wanted to rely on Jianghuai's military expenses to support him for two years, Li Heng squatted down and washed his face, feeling that it was more realistic for him to dream.

However.

Make a bold assumption.

Even if Li Heng can really get enough military support for two years.

But at present, the strongest force in the Tang Dynasty, Fanyang, Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, and Hedong, the five major festival envoys, of which Fanyang and Hedong have become rebels, and the main forces of Hexi and Longyou have basically followed Ge Shuhan to Tongguan, but Guo Ziyi's main force of Shuofang's army still exists.

Moreover, according to the distribution method of the logistics of the Northwest Army, it has always been a complete chain system of "civilian property, commercial transportation, government collection, Hedong transportation, Shuofang transfer, Shuofang branch, Hexi Longyou army collection, and the imperial court monitoring the whole process".

But now, Hedong has rebelled, Longyou has been abolished, and the imperial court has become an exiled court, and there is no supervision at all, and the original set of scientific chains has been broken.

This is tantamount to the formation of a logistics management model of "Shuo Fang collects, Shuo Fang transports, Shuo Fang transfers, Shuo Fang supports, and no one supervises", which is the model used for military logistics during the period of Li Heng's government-in-exile.

In this context, the logistics of the Hedong and Longyou departments have to be highly dependent on Shuofang, after all, people hold your grain, grass and military salary in their hands, if you dare not listen to the greeting, I will dare to deduct your military rations.

A few months is fine, if this situation is prolonged, will the Shuofang army mutiny and stand on its own? Will Guo Ziyi become the next An Lushan?!

As the emperor, Li Heng did not dare to gamble.

In this troubled world, he can't trust these temperance envoys who are in charge of the army.

Therefore, he was anxious to recover Chang'an and Luoyang Erjing, return his exiled government to the imperial division, and at the same time open the Yellow River transportation line of Wugong, Xianyang, Chang'an, Tongguan, Shaanxi County and Luoyang as quickly as possible, and restore the blood supply of the empire.

Only by returning to Chang'an can he return the world's military power to the emperor, and only by returning to Erjing can the world's Cao Yun operate, and he can have a steady stream of military support, and he can truly become the son of the Tang Dynasty with wealth in his hands.

Of course, there are some things that cannot be said in the open.

What Li Heng declared to the outside world was that the reason why he was in such a hurry to take back Chang'an was to give his dear Emperor Taishang's father a warm home, so that the Emperor Taishang could return to Chang'an as soon as possible and retire with peace of mind.

Ji Boying thought about the deeper reasons for the battle of Xiangji Temple for a while, and activated the "Understanding" function, which was simultaneously packaged in txt format and directly packaged to everyone present, including these Great Tomorrow Princes.

Ji Boying glanced at Li Er.

It was clearly visible that Li Er, who was familiar with this information, frowned.

"If the imperial capital is recovered in this way, although it can gather momentum for a short time, the rebellion of the feudal town will never be peaceful."

Li Er is Li Er, worthy of being a genius military strategist, and he can see the crux of it at a glance.

"Use it as bait to hang the rebels in the Chang'an area, and then personally lead the light cavalry to attack Fan Yang, this is the strategy once and for all."

This strategy was also the strategy that Guo Ziyi offered to Li Longji back then, and the bait used by Guo Ziyi at that time was Chang'an, but unfortunately Li Longji was already stunned at that time, and he just wanted to run away in his mind.

The voice fell.

Lao Zhu smiled and patted Li Er's shoulder.

"Xiao Tang, not everyone in this world is a general of Tiance, the light cavalry goes straight to the rebel base camp, if you fail to overcome it in one fell swoop, your return will be indefinite."

As soon as the words were finished.

"I think what Don Jr. said is a great idea."

Lao Zhu Di and Zhu Lao Si spoke almost at the same time.

After all, when the two of them were in trouble, they played this trick, turning things around and winning with one blow.

As soon as the two Zhu Di spoke, Lao Zhu's eyes swept over, and the knife in his eyes instantly shut up the two of them.

Son of a bitch! Dare to show off when you rebel? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu beat you two!

"The battle of Xiangji Temple is over."

Ji Boying said a word, stopped the increasingly divergent discussion of several people, and looked at the sunset that was now twilight.

The light curtain in front of me opened in an instant.

"Notice: Li Heng's spatial coordinates have been locked"

Now that the teaching war has been watched, it's time to get down to business.

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Xijing Fengxiang Mansion, the Palace of the Son of Heaven.

This will be Su Zong Li Heng is wandering in the hall, from the morning to now, three meals have not been eaten, and a pair of legs have not stopped for a quarter of an hour.

If Li Heng has a mobile phone on his body to record the number of exercise steps, the cover of a certain letter of the middle father today must be Li Heng, and the number of steps is more than 50,000 steps.

Accompanying Li Heng to go hungry here were also a group of executives from the Tang Dynasty in exile.

Everyone will have a solemn face, and their faces will not look very good, and of course, some of them will be hungry.

And more nervous, after all, this time is a one-time stud, gambling on the blood, and even Li Heng borrowed 40,000 foreign aid, promising sky-high conditions for this group of foreign aid.

If you lose, you're all done.

It was not easy to go to the court in exile, and in order to make up for this wave of old books, his legs were about to break.

"Good news, good news, good news, saint!"

At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the temple.

Including Li Heng, everyone subconsciously looked at each other.

I saw that from outside this hall, an ugly black monkey with pointed ears and cheeks, squinting eyes and crooked mouth, and a big nose and thick mouth walked into the hall quickly, this ugly person who resembled a black monkey was the first eunuch of the Tang Dynasty in the future, Li Fuguo.

"Protector, how?"

When Li Heng saw Li Fuguo, his face was overjoyed, and he stepped forward quickly.

Li Fuguo is not called Li Fuguo, he has just been named Li Huguo by Li Heng, which shows how much Li Heng loves this black monkey.

"Great joy, great joy, great joy, saint! Judging from the battle report just got, An Qingxu's 100,000 rebels have begun to disperse, and our army is already victorious! ”

"Even, if your subordinates are not mistaken, our army should have won a great victory by now."

In order to be able to keep abreast of the battle situation in Xiangji Temple on the front line, Li Heng specially ordered that a battle report be sent every quarter of an hour on the front line, and the distance from Fengxiang to Xiangji Temple would be half an hour.

In other words, this battle report came from half an hour ago.

"Okay, okay!!"

As soon as he took the battle report from Li Fuguo's hand, Li Heng read it several times in succession, and then the whole person trembled with excitement.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Heng took a deep breath.

"Defend the country."

"In the first battle of Chang'an, the contribution to protecting the country was indispensable."

"The special Jin Kaifu Yi is the same as the three divisions, and he is given the title of Duke of Yuguo."

The voice fell.

The executives of the court in exile were all confused.

What the hell?

Although this ugly monkey has the title of Sima of the Marshal's Mansion, he has never left Fengxiang from beginning to end, where did he come from? !

But everyone didn't dare to let out one more fart, after all, after the new emperor ascended the throne, this ugly monkey was the No. 1 celebrity in front of the new emperor, and the major military policies were all from his hands.

Who dares to say that one is not ordered, you have to be careful when you walk at night.

"Thank you, saint!"

Li Fuguo saluted, his face was full of spring breeze pride, and he had no intention of shirking it at all.

"The victory in the fierce battle is the result of the bloody battles fought by the front-line soldiers regardless of their lives, and they should be given the title of generals who charge ahead, the sergeants who sacrifice their lives to die, and the strong men who sacrifice their lives for the country."

"Once castrated, how dare you be greedy for military merits?!"

The cold sound exploded the entire hall.

This time, Suzong Li Heng was stunned, the ugly monkey Li Fuguo was also stunned, and the other ministers of the Tang Provisional Court were even more shocked in their eyes, thinking that they had heard it wrong.

Good guy, there is still a purple father-in-law Li who dares to be hard and red this year.

In an instant, everyone looked back in unison.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm scared to pee when I see it.

The gate of the temple is bright and shining, and it is all machetes!

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