Chapter 118: The Final Battle Enters Daxing

Previously, according to Li Yuan's arrangement, Liu Hongji and Yin Kaishan led an army to cross Weishui south and seize the ancient city of Daxing, after the news reached Li Shimin's ears, Li Shimin arranged for the newly attached local armed leaders Li Zhongwen and He Panren to be stationed in Acheng, and he himself personally led his troops to the vicinity of Sizhuyuan to wait for Li Yuan's next instructions.

At this time, Li Yuan, who was in Changle Palace, received Li Shimin's news, and couldn't help but applaud continuously, looking at the military map in front of him, Li Yuan sighed long, thinking that since Li Shimin's ministry had completed the established strategic deployment, the next step would be up to him and his eldest son Li Jiancheng.

Thinking of this, Li Yuan hurriedly summoned a herald and said slowly: "Order Li Jiancheng's troops to select elite soldiers and go straight to Changle Palace through Xinfeng; Li Shimin will lead the newly attached troops back to the ancient city of Tun Daxing; and inform them to go down tomorrow morning, and the whole army will march west from Feng Yi through Xiaqi and Liyang. ”

After listening to Li Yuan's instructions, the herald hurriedly retreated, and after Li Yuan's order came out, Li Jiancheng, who was far away in Yongfengcang, left a part of the men and horses to support Liu Wenjing, who was guarding the southern city of Tongguan, and the rest of the headquarters all set off and marched to Changle Palace along the Xinfeng line.

And Li Shimin, who was in the area of Sizhuyuan at this time, did not take action as soon as he received the order, but hurriedly found Chu Mofeng, who was training in the field, and wanted to discuss with him before making a decision.

At this time, in the camp of Li Shimin in Sizhuyuan, where the black-armored cavalry was stationed, Chu Mofeng was commanding a group of black-armored cavalry armed with crossbow arrows to train, and saw a few arrow targets sporadically set up on the field, which seemed to be chaotic and disorderly, but in fact implied some kind of rule.

Chu Mofeng rode the wind and held a bow and crossbow and shouted to the crowd watching from the field: "Come up one by one to practice in a while, follow the route I drew on the ground, and during the march, you will pass the front of each arrow target, and ask you to shoot the arrow target with the crossbow arrow in your hand, this is to exercise your ability to move and shoot." ”

The black-armored archers in the audience couldn't help but talk when they heard this, only to hear one person stand up and say loudly: "Chu Shaoxia, we are archers, we use longbows instead of crossbow arrows, which archers have you ever seen who still shoots while riding a horse?"

Hearing this person's words, Chu Mofeng sighed, suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "Don't you know who is in the north of us? That's the Turks, the Turks' riding and archery skills are first-class at the moment, one day after we start a war with the Turks, when your robe Ze charges in front, do you still have to tell your master that you use a longbow instead of a crossbow arrow?"

Hearing Chu Mofeng's words mixed with a trace of anger, the soldier sat down with his head down, and the rest of the people suddenly realized when they heard this, and at this time Chu Mofeng's voice came from their ears again, "Don't think that after this time with the marshal stationed in Daxing, you can enter Kuma and put Nanshan." There is still a long way to go, and our ultimate goal is to build a world where the people of the world can truly live and work in peace and contentment, so the Turks are the biggest obstacle to achieving this wish, and I hope this is the first and last time you will question my point of view, do you understand?"

After listening to Chu Mofeng's words, a prosperous scene gradually appeared in their hearts, and they hurriedly nodded yes when they thought of this.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng clamped his legs around the horse's belly and said: "Watch me walk through, and then come one by one, the clerk will make a record, and finally report everyone's results." After saying that, he rushed out along the route drawn on the field with crossbow arrows in hand.

Due to the long-term battle between Treading Wind and Chu Mofeng, a tacit understanding has already been established, only to see that after Chu Mofeng loaded the crossbow arrow, he held the reins in one hand and the crossbow in the other, and at the moment of passing the first arrow target, his finger lightly pulled the trigger, and the crossbow arrow flew out and was firmly tied to the red dot in the center of the arrow target.

Then Chu Mofeng put the reins in his hand to his mouth and bit it lightly, and then loaded the crossbow arrow again, and rushed towards the next arrow target.

At this time, everyone in the audience was stunned by Chu Mofeng's superb riding skills and shooting skills, and for a while, the field was silent, and after a while, it suddenly broke out into thunderous applause.

Seeing this, Chu Mofeng stretched out his hand and pressed down, and the field was silent again, and after turning over and dismounting, Chu Mofeng said to everyone: "There is no shortcut to martial arts in the world, when I was learning art, I had to run five laps around Zhangye County every day, and I had to practice splitting, eyesight, riding, and light skills every day, what I want to say is that as long as you are willing to work hard, there is no bad practice." ”

Hearing Chu Mofeng's words, and thinking that the young man in front of him may not be as old as himself, but he has done great things in the rivers and lakes that he can't achieve in his life, the fire of not admitting defeat in everyone's hearts gradually began to burn.

Looking at the group of black-armored cavalry in front of him, Chu Mofeng said with a smile: "Let's start, I hope you take every training as if it were a real battle on the battlefield." ”

After speaking, he turned his head and was about to go back to his tent to drink some water, but as soon as he turned around, he saw Li Shimin on the side looking at him with a smile, Chu Mofeng was stunned and hurriedly greeted him and said: "At this time, you don't make a plan in your tent, what are you doing here?" I'm afraid that I will train the black-armored cavalry you have taken in too hard?"

"What's the matter, the more ruthlessly you drill them, the more satisfied I will be. Li Shimin shook his head with a smile, and then said with a straight face: "My father has sent a letter, ordering us to return to the ancient city of Daxing and wait for his arrival, and it is estimated that we will start attacking Daxing at that time." ”

Hearing that Li Yuan ordered Li Shimin's headquarters to return to the ancient city of Daxing, Chu Mofeng pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said: "It's not impossible to return to defense, you can start tomorrow, but you have to tell your father-in-law that the army moves frequently, and you must be careful of Qu Tutong's sudden attack." ”

"Well, I'm going back and writing to inform my father, then you can clean up early after today's training, and we'll be ready to start tomorrow morning. After speaking, Li Shimin turned around and ran towards his camp.

Looking at Li Shimin's distant figure, Chu Mofeng smiled, as if he was talking to someone, and said as if talking to himself: "Hewei? Daxing City is not a piece of fat that anyone can eat if they want to. ”

In the early morning of the second day, in the preparation of the army and the drowsiness of Hua Ling'er, Li Shimin led the men and horses of the headquarters to walk towards the ancient city of Daxing.

As the army slowly moved forward, Hua Ling'er on the horse said to Chu Mofeng with a sleepy-eyed look: "Brother Chu, why did you start so early today?"

"Yesterday, I received an order from the marshal to return to the ancient city of Daxing, so after consulting with the second son, I decided to start early today, so that the army could arrive at the ancient city of Daxing and camp earlier. Looking at the lovely appearance of the beautiful woman in front of him, Chu Mofeng couldn't help laughing.

The army arrived at the ancient city of Daxing after a one-day march, and Li Shimin immediately ordered the whole army to set up camp and bury pots to make rice, and scattered a large number of probe horses in the direction of Daxing to inquire about the situation, while waiting for the arrival of Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng's army.

In the early morning of the fourth day of October, Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng's army arrived at the designated position one after another, and Li Yuan led the headquarters to be stationed in the east of Daxing City, looking at Daxing City opposite, Li Yuan couldn't help but feel full of emotion in his heart.

Daxing City, in history, there have been many names such as Hojing, Xianyang, Chang'an, etc., and it has been the capital of emperors since ancient times. After Yang Jian usurped the throne as emperor, he changed his name because his first title in the Northern Zhou Dynasty was the Duke of Daxing County.

For this majestic city, Li Yuan also has deep feelings. He was born in Chang'an, under the rule of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and spent a carefree childhood here. As a teenager, he witnessed how his uncle, Yang Jian, established the Sui Dynasty.

And now, Li Yuan firmly believes that he will soon become the new master of this great city.

Remembering that there had been no crimes along the way, Li Yuan immediately ordered that the generals of all departments strictly restrain the soldiers under their command, prohibit invading the residents of the surrounding villages and towns, and prohibit burning, killing and looting.

Li Shimin, on the other hand, continued to move out of the 10,000-year-old murderous five killing order, and at the same time implemented the system of supervision and joint sitting, in which all departments supervised each other, and if a soldier commits a crime and the chief officer fails to stop it, all the soldiers of the whole team will be beheaded, and the chief officer will be sentenced to 100 yuan; if the chief officer takes the lead in committing the crime, the whole team will be beheaded together with the chief officer, the superior chief officer will receive a 100 punishment, and the whistleblower will be rewarded with five hangings and promoted to one level.

As soon as this order came out, the whole army was stunned, and the commanders of various departments went out one after another to count and educate the soldiers under their command every day, lest they fall into the hands of Li Shimin.

On the other hand, Li Jiancheng's ministry followed Li Yuan's previous regulations on the Jinyang Army, and those who disturbed the people for no reason were expelled from the location except for their own beheading, and they were all expelled from the location and were not allowed to enter forever.

At this point, although Daxing City and the surrounding villages and towns received the news that Li Yuan's army was coming to attack the city, the villages and towns outside the city were not affected in any way, but because of Li Yuan's move, they all had a good impression of this army.

Looking at the nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses under the city, the Yin Shi Shi on the city wall frowned, with a sad face, and even showed a trace of timidity, others may not know the reason, but the Yin Shi himself is clear.

There is no other reason, after Li Jiancheng fled from Hedong, he left the young Li Zhiyun in Hedong, thinking that the imperial court would not do anything to this fourteen-year-old child, but Daxing sent someone to escort Li Zhiyun back to Chang'an.

thought that the imperial court would use Li Zhiyun as a hostage to blackmail Li Yuan, but who knew that the imperial court ordered Li Zhiyun's head to be shown to the public, and sent people to Li Yuan's hometown to dig his ancestral grave, and the driving force and executor behind all this was Yin Shishi himself.

Originally, I thought that before Li Yuan's army did not form an encirclement of Daxing, he left Daxing with Yang Yu, the acting king, and went to Jiangnan to join Yang Guang, but who knew that Yang Guang, who was far away in Jiangnan, ordered Daxing to stick to the city in the direction of Li Yuan's army.

After receiving the order, the Yin Shi Shi completely cut off the way to retreat, and he looked like he didn't think about tea and dinner all day long, and outsiders thought that he would be like this because of his suffering, and they praised him one after another, who would have thought that at this time, the Yin Shi Shi was thinking about how he could get out of the whole body.

In the palace of Daxing City, Yang Yu, the acting king, sat on the hall, looked at the ministers who stayed at the bottom of the steps, and said slowly: "The thieves have already come to the city, do you have a good strategy to retreat from the enemy?"

I only heard Wei Xuan's background say: "His Royal Highness the Acting King, the thieves are powerful, and we can only defend the city to the death, hoping for the arrival of reinforcements from the counties in Hedong, and at the same time secretly sending people out of the city to the surrounding counties for help, which is really the best policy." ”

"The old general is reasonable, and at this time the old general will be fully responsible. Acting King Yang Yu knew in his heart at this time that everyone present except for Wei Xuan was concerned about the imperial court, and the rest of the people had their own careful thoughts, thinking of this, Yang Yu said slowly: "General Yin, the heavy responsibility of defending the city this time is entrusted to you, I hope you don't let Your Majesty and myself down." ”

As soon as he heard that Yang Yu handed over the life of sending him to death, the Yin Shishi secretly scolded in his heart, knowing that Li Yuan played the slogan of abolishing the faint and respecting the virtuous and supporting the king, you kid can't die, but Lao Tzu definitely has to die in the hands of Li Yuan, no, I have to think of a way to leave Daxing City quickly.

Thinking of this, the Yin Master said loudly: "Your Royal Highness the Acting King, please rest assured, the old minister will definitely defend Daxing City to the death." ”

When everyone was discussing countermeasures, someone suddenly came to report that Li Yuan's envoy was coming outside the city, and when the Yin Shishi heard that he was about to stop it, Yang Yu suddenly said: "Yo, if you don't attack the city and send a messenger first, then bring it in, this king wants to see what this messenger can say." ”

After a while, someone led a man in, and as soon as he entered the main hall, the man respectfully bowed to the acting king and said, "The grass people have seen His Royal Highness the acting king. ”

"Excuse me, get up. When Yang Yu saw this person enter the palace, he was disdainful of the rest of the people, but he only performed the etiquette of paying homage to the emperor, and suddenly there was a trace of joy in his heart, and he hurriedly motioned for this person to get up, and said slowly: "I don't know what you are doing this time? Could it be that Li Yuan is going to surrender?"

His Royal Highness the Acting King laughed, and the grass people came to inform His Royal Highness the Acting King that Tang Gong said that he was not leading troops this time, not to ascend the throne as the emperor himself, but to sincerely want to support His Royal Highness the Acting King to ascend to the throne, so as to create a new world for the people of the world. I saw this person slowly explain his intentions, and as soon as the words fell, he raised his head and looked at Yang Yu intently.

Hearing this person's words, Yang Yu was about to say something, but who knew that the Yin World Master on the side suddenly spoke: "Bold thief, who rebelled but can still spit lotus flowers and say such noble things about his dirty deeds, it really pollutes everyone's ears, aren't you afraid that I will arrest you and kill you?"

Hearing the Yin Shishi's threatening words, this person turned to look at the Yin Shishi and said, "General Yin, Tang Gong has something to ask you, where is the fifth prince Li Zhiyun at this time? ”

Hearing this person mention Li Zhiyun, the Yin Shishi sighed in his heart, and said angrily: "You said Li Zhiyun, that little thief has been executed by the old man, you go back and tell Li Yuan, later the old man will arrest and kill all his Li family, let his family wash their necks and wait to cut off their heads." ”

Hearing the words of the Yin World Master, the envoy also knew that it was no longer necessary to lie in this situation, so he secretly remembered the words of the Yin World Master in his heart, turned to Yang Yu and made another big salute and said: "His Royal Highness the Acting King, the grass people of Tang Gong's intention have been brought, and the grass people will retire for the time being." After saying that, he turned around and strode towards the outside of the main hall.

Who knew that he hadn't taken two steps, and was suddenly stabbed in the back of the heart by a sword behind him, only to see the Yin Shishi say viciously: "Since the two armies are fighting, how can I let you go." After speaking, he drew his sword hard, and then shouted outside the door: "Throw the corpse off the city wall, so as to stop Li Yuan's sharp energy." ”

Li Yuan, who was outside the city, looked at the city wall in the distance at this time, anxiously waiting for the envoy he sent to return, who knew that he suddenly saw a corpse left on the city wall, Li Yuan suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered someone to step forward to snatch the corpse back, and found that it was the messenger he sent out, Li Yuan angrily pointed to the city wall and scolded: "These two armies are fighting and not killing, you are insulting me Li Yuan?"

After scolding for a long time, there was no response from the city wall, and in desperation, Li Yuan had no choice but to order someone to bury the envoy, and then returned to the camp to begin to formulate a siege plan.

On October 14, the armies of all walks of life formed the final encirclement of Daxing City, so far the four gates of Daxing City were guarded by Li Yuan's army, and Daxing City at this moment became a lonely city. Seeing that the siege had been formed, Li Yuan immediately ordered the siege to begin on the 27th, and sent people to drop the siege time in the city by letter.

Wei Xuan knew that in the face of the 200,000 troops outside the city, he couldn't hold on to the few defenders in the city, so he immediately resigned from Yang Yu and closed his door at home and did not go out.

The Yin Shishi, who was entrusted with the important task by Yang Yu, had no choice but to start dispatching the defenders to prepare for the attack of Li Yuan's army. At this moment, the people in the city were panicked, everyone hid in their homes and closed their doors, and the prices in the city suddenly soared, and some daily necessities were almost out of stock, and the people complained one after another.

On October 27, the final battle that marked the Jinyang army finally kicked off in the early morning, and Li Yuan's troops launched an attack on Daxing City at the same time in four ways.

Immediately, the various departments began to attack towards the target according to the plan formulated, and the siege vehicles of the four gates came to the city gate smoothly under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers and archers, and as the siege vehicles continued to hit the city gate, the four gates of Daxing City suddenly had a crumbling feeling.

The defenders on the city walls also threw gold juice, bricks, and stones down at any cost, hoping to prevent the soldiers under the city from climbing the city walls.

At this time, in the palace of Daxing City, the acting king led a group of left-behind ministers to gather in the main hall and waited anxiously, and from time to time someone came in to report the battle situation.

Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng were leading the black-armored cavalry under his command to charge towards the West City Gate at this moment, only to see Chu Mofeng taking the lead again, holding the Burning Sky and wearing a mask to rush to the front, behind him were fifty black-armored cavalry armed with maces, followed by a hundred pikemen, these one hundred and fifty cavalry quickly rushed into the enemy formation under the leadership of Chu Mofeng, like a hot sharp knife piercing into butter, tearing the enemy formation on the opposite side in an instant.

And Li Shimin is leading the remaining 150 archers, constantly harvesting the lives of the remnants of the enemy with longbows and crossbows, for a time the battlefield blood is splashed, wailing constantly, at this time there is no skill, only the most primitive fighting, whether it is the enemy or yourself, there is only one belief in your heart, kill you, live.

This battle lasted for nearly ten days, in the early morning of the ninth day of the first day of November, Li Yuan once again led a large army to launch an attack on Daxing City, after several days of attrition, the defenders in the city have long been left, and the remnants are just struggling to support.

At the beginning of Shen, as Li Jiancheng's army leader Lei Yongji ascended to the top of the city, the four gates of Daxing City were also broken, and as the city gate slowly landed, this also marked the fall of Daxing City, and then all the armies poured into Daxing City and began to sweep away the remnants of the enemy in the city.

At this time, Yang Yu, the acting king in the main hall who received the news of the city break, slowly sat on the ground as if he had been drained of his soul, and looked out of the hall gate in a daze.

In the city, Li Shimin and Chu Mofeng kept looking for something, only to see Li Shimin grab a soldier and ask, "Who has seen the Yin Shishi?"

I saw the soldier pointing to a man in the crowd with a crooked helmet and covered in blood, and said, "He is the Yin World Master." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he stepped forward and grabbed Yin Shishi's collar and said, "Old thing, let me ask you, did you kill my fifth brother Li Zhiyun?"

As soon as he heard this person call Li Zhiyun the fifth brother, Yin Shishi had already guessed the identity of this person, and said with a smile: "Second son Li, Li Shimin, go back and bring a message for me to your son Li Yuan, Li Zhiyun's little beast was indeed killed by me, and I also sent someone to dig the ancestral grave of your old Li family." He burst out laughing.

Chu Mofeng, who was on the side, heard that this person had done such a vicious thing, and couldn't help but be furious, and after pulling Li Shimin away, he lifted the Yin World Master up, and said coldly: "Absolute heirs, digging up ancestral graves, you can also do such things that have lost your conscience, people like you shouldn't stay in the world, go and die." ”

After speaking, the Yin World Master threw it upward, and the whole person jumped into the air with the Yin World Master, pulled out the burning sky behind him and slashed at the Yin World Master, only to see the Yin World Master's originally upward body suddenly fall downward, fell to the ground and spat blood, and then disappeared.

Looking at the corpse of the Yin World Master, Chu Mofeng said to Li Shimin: "If you still can't relieve your anger, hang his body at the city gate to show the public, but let his family go, the disaster will not hurt the family, since he didn't do this, we still have to do it." ”

Li Shimin nodded and said: "Don't worry, I still have a sense of proportion, but I pity the fifth brother, this matter must not be mentioned to Feng'er in the future, Feng'er has the best relationship with him, I'm afraid she won't be able to accept it after she knows it." ”

Chu Mofeng nodded, turned to look at the palace that was faintly visible in the distance, and thought that the next step should be to honor Yang Yu to ascend the throne......

There is a way that Li Yuan captured Daxing Zun Lidai King, Tongguan Qu Tutong came to King Qin regardless of his life, but Liu Wenjing was a husband who was not open, and he actually captured Qu Tutong, I want to know what happened next, and listen to the next decomposition......