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Volume 1 Chapter 588 Warrior Xun

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    Li Jiancheng immediately moved the army before he had time to move his family members. Although Li Jiancheng made a prompt decision and made a calm decision, it was still a little late. Yang Wen, the only cadre of the Taiyuan Army in the west city that maintained a complete organization, had just withdrawn to the east gate city. Luo Shixin led the  The officers and soldiers of the Sui Army had already reached the east gate tower. While fighting for control of the city gate with the east gate defenders, they also used the defenders' supplies to attack the Taiyuan Army under the city with sheep's head stones and hammered wood, desperately cutting off the Taiyuan Army's eastward escape route.  .  The battle was so fierce that it cannot be described in words. The sound of killings was heard up and down the city walls, and the clash of swords, guns, gold and iron was deafening. The defenders on the city desperately resisted in order to cover the transfer of the main force. The Taiyuan Army officers below the city were bursting with smoke and fire.  All kinds of fallen debris and heavy objects rushed into the city gate corridor desperately. They trampled each other in the chaos. They accidentally fell down and were trampled to death one after another. Iron knives kept cutting people's bodies, and spears and spears pierced their bodies one after another. They were killed and seriously injured.  Like hailstones, soldiers from both armies fell and rolled down the city wall one after another. Many of them hugged the enemy and fell off the city wall into the dense crowd below the city.  It was also a good thing that the Taiyuan Army did not install a thousand-jin gate on the top of the east gate. It was also a good thing that the east gate defenders showed unimaginable perseverance and fighting spirit to resist at this critical moment. They withstood the Sui army one after another with their flesh and blood and thin troops.  After several attacks, Luo Shixin, the famous fierce general of the Sui army, was covered in blood but could not seize the city tower. Otherwise, Yang Wen, the cadre of the Taiyuan army who took the lead in moving, might not even be able to get out of the city.  But even so, the frantic attack by the Sui Army soldiers still caused huge casualties to the Taiyuan Army that hastily moved away. In order to attack the enemies under the city, the Sui Army soldiers smashed the corpses of the Taiyuan Army soldiers off the city wall. The corpses at the city gate  The layers were piled up one on top of another, as high as half a person, so that the legs of every Taiyuan Army soldier who had the chance to escape into the city gate corridor were stained with blood.  No matter how hard they resisted, the weak East Gate garrison could not escape the tragic fate of being annihilated. As the Sui army soldiers continued to set fire to the tower, the Taiyuan army soldiers in the tower gradually lost the chance to resist.  , they can only roar and launch a suicidal charge towards the endless stream of Sui army soldiers, using the last glory of their lives to buy the final transfer time for the main force.  Seeing this tragic scene among the rebellious army, Li Jiancheng had tears in his eyes, but he had no choice but to choke and order the army to move as soon as possible. With tears in his eyes, under the protection of Yang Wenqian and others, he rushed to the city gate corridor, stepping on the steps of Dadu.  A carpet of flesh and blood paved by the corpses of our own soldiers marched forward.  With a shout, a dead body suddenly fell from the sky. It hit Li Jiancheng squarely on the head of Li Jiancheng. Although the human body was soft, the human body weighing more than 100 kilograms dropped from a height of more than ten meters, which still hit Li Jiancheng badly.  His mouth and nose were bleeding, and he fainted on the spot. Yang Wenqian and others were shocked when they saw it. They quickly carried Li Jiancheng on his back and rushed into the city gate corridor, and temporarily escaped to safety in a dangerous situation.  Thick smoke was already billowing from the wooden bridge at the city gate, and fire was rising into the sky. The Taiyuan Army soldiers were fighting the fire while advancing desperately. The burning boats on the river kept coming from upstream. The Taiyuan Army soldiers fired arrows desperately, but they still could not stop these fire boats.  The Sui army sailors pushed and pulled them to the wooden bridge. Yang Wenqian and others did not dare to hesitate at all. They quickly protected Li Jiancheng and advanced in a hurry. They stepped on the corpses of their own soldiers to cross the river and luckily escaped from the wooden bridge.  Bridge, the defenders in Dongcheng fled into Dongcheng, and then took time to rescue Li Jiancheng.  After a long time of resuscitation by rubbing his chest and pinching, Li Jiancheng was hit hard on the head and finally woke up. After waking up, the first thing Li Jiancheng did was endure the headache and observe the battle situation on the West Bank from a high position.  However, what was very cruel to Li Jiancheng was that what he saw on the city wall was the wooden bridge across the river that was already ablaze, the east gate tower of the West City, which was also in flames, and the chaotic chaos.  The east gate road of the regiment.  In anxiety, Li Jiancheng quickly shouted and asked: "Has Feng Li crossed the river? Have Wang Gui and the others crossed the river? How many of our soldiers have withdrawn?" No one could answer Li Jiancheng's question, and no one dared to answer Li Jiancheng's  question, but this was enough. Just seeing the desperate expressions on the faces of Yin Kaishan, Yang Wenqian and others, Li Jiancheng knew that the situation was not good, and couldn't help but kneel down towards Taiyuan Xicheng, who was still fighting fiercely.  Weeping loudly, "Soldiers, I'm sorry for you!" The night of the Open House Festival on the seventh day of July was undoubtedly the most tragic and cruel night for the Taiyuan Army soldiers headed by Li Jiancheng, because of the shameless rebellion of the Li family  , of the 20,000-strong West City garrison, less than a quarter of the army managed to escape Fenshui and return to the East City. Nearly half of the remaining soldiers died in the battle. More than 6,000 people surrendered and were captured, and only a handful managed to escape;  Among them, only Yang Wenqian protected Li Jiancheng across the river. Among the remaining three, Xie Shufang died in battle. Feng Li was seriously injured and captured alive by Sui soldiers. Liu Dewei shamelessly surrendered to the Sui army under the coercion of the Li clan. The army was already weak.  The Taiyuan Army suffered another heavy blow and completely lost its ability to fight back in front of the main force of the Sui Army.  Li Jiancheng¡¯s wife Zheng Guanyin andThe first son Li Chengzong and the second son Li Chengdao also failed to escape Fenshui, and were separated in Xicheng.  But these are not the worst. What is worse is that the grain and grass reserves that the Taiyuan army can easily spend for more than five years are all in the West City. As Jinyang Palace and the arsenal fell into the hands of the Sui army, the East City of Taiyuan was  Because Xiaohe was exposed to a large number of enemies, the Taiyuan Army used it as a buffer that could be abandoned at any time. It did not hoard too much grain. Even if nearly 10,000 shi of grain were urgently transferred and coupled with private grain storage, it would be difficult for the Taiyuan Army to  The soldiers supported it for more than three months.  In addition, Dongcheng does not have much stockpile of bows, arrows, kerosene and other items that are very important in defending the city, and they may run out in a few battles.  So when he saw the wooden bridge connecting the two cities collapsed in the fire, Li Jiancheng cried bitterly and vomited blood and passed out. Yin Kaishan, Yang Wenqian and other Taiyuan Army generals also looked sad, knowing that their army would not be able to survive this time.  However, they could no longer defeat the main force of the Sui army, and they could not even defeat the main force of the Sui army. Unless they broke through and escaped, the annihilation of the entire army was a foregone conclusion.  In contrast to the Taiyuan Army, which was in mourning, the Sui Army was jubilant and cheering. The reason was of course the successful capture of the West City and heavy damage to the Taiyuan Army. More importantly, the Sui Army officers also successfully captured the main body of the Taiyuan garrison.  The granary completely solved the thorny problem of difficult transportation of grain and grass. Even if this war lasted for another year or two, there would be no need to worry about the grain and grass problem. Therefore, even if the Taiyuan Army suffered a lot of casualties due to its tenacious resistance, the Sui Army's civil and military forces  They all believe that such a price is definitely worth it, and the gains far outweigh the costs, and they are a big advantage.  However, the people who were most happy were not the Sui soldiers, but the members of the Li clan headed by Li Er and Li Yuanji. Although three members of the Li clan died during the surrender and dedication of the city, and although several Li clan members were on the run,  They were seriously injured during this period, and although Chen Sangliang did not receive them immediately, it was enough for the members of the Li family that Li Jing ordered to treat them well on behalf of Chen Sangliang - this was also the benefit of having good credit, Chen Sangliang  Sang Liang has already established a good reputation by treating all surrenderers kindly and selecting and reusing their talents. Therefore, the Li family, which has made great achievements this time, all believe that they will definitely fare better under Chen Sang Liang than under Li Jiancheng!  The joy for Li Yuanji and others was yet to come. When the sky was dimming, the Sui army had basically cleared away the remaining enemies in the city. Li Yuanji, who had taken Li Jiancheng hostage and fled hastily, then remembered that his beautiful wife Yang and a lot of beautiful concubines were still in the city.  He quickly begged Li Jing to allow him to enter the city to look for his family.  As a result, Li Jing not only agreed and sent people to escort Li Yuanji into the city to find the family members of the Li family, but also ordered that the property of the Li family in the city be strictly protected. Then Li Yuanji also got his wish and found his beautiful wife and his wife in the secret room of his home.  Many concubines and polygamists hugged each other and cried. The scene was very touching.  Before the matter was over, Li Yuanji, who was anxious to establish more meritorious deeds in front of Chen Sangliang, suddenly remembered that Li Jiancheng's family might not have had time to leave the city, so he quickly volunteered to take the Sui army officers to Jinyang Palace to search for Li Jiancheng's family, and then Li Yuanji returned.  Zhen found his sister-in-law and two nephews who had not fled in time in Jinyang Palace. Not only was his uncle and sister-in-law not at all sad when they met, Li Yuanji also personally knocked the dagger out of his sister-in-law Zheng Guanyin's hand, stopped his sister-in-law from committing suicide, and personally cut the dagger into his hands.  The one-year-old nephew Li Chengdao snatched it from the maid and handed it to the Sui army officers. He got his wish and made a great contribution to Chen Sangliang in capturing Li Jiancheng's family.  It wasn't until the afternoon of the eighth day of July that Li Jing, who had completely controlled the entire city of Xicheng, sent someone to find Li Yuanji and members of the Li clan, saying that Chen Sangliang had decided to meet them at the Chongsheng Temple camp. Li Yuanji and others were overjoyed when they heard the news  , all quickly changed into clean clothes, and under the protection of the Sui Army officers and soldiers, rushed to the main camp of the Sui Army to meet Chen Sangliang. In addition, Li Jiancheng's family members, Feng Li and others were also taken by the Sui Army officers and soldiers to accompany the Li clan.  .  What made Li Yuanji and everyone in the Li family overjoyed was that when they arrived at Chongsheng Temple, Chen Sangliang personally led the Sui army's civil and military forces out of the camp to greet them. Li Yuanji and everyone in the Li family were overjoyed and hurried forward to salute.  They all said in unison: "Greetings to His Royal Highness the King of Tang." "Old General Li, you are injured, please get up quickly." Chen Sangliang politely picked up the injured Li Shentong with his own hands, and smiled at everyone in the Li family.  Said: "Everyone, please get up. You must have heard that this king doesn't like false gifts on the mattress festival. You don't need to be so polite in front of me." Li Yuanji, Li Er and others thanked each other, and then stood up carefully.  , Chen Sangliang smiled at Li Yuanji again and said: "Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Qi. This time, I was able to take down Taiyuan West City in one fell swoop, and you were the first to do so! Don't worry, not only will I not deduct any of my promise to you,  He can only add more." Li Yuanji was even more happy after hearing this, and hurriedly bowed to Chen Sangliang again, modestly saying that he had done nothing.  Chen Sangliang smiled and asked him to stand up again. Then Chen Sangliang turned his eyes to Li Er, who had a deep hatred for him. His eyes were very complicated. Li Er also knew that he and Chen Sangliang were too close.  He hurriedly knelt down on one knee and looked at Chen Sangliang.He said: "Li Shimin, the guilty general, has met His Highness the King of Tang Dynasty. The guilty general has offended His Highness many times in the past. He deserves death. Please punish him for what he deserves." "It has already passed, why are you still mentioning those things?  Chen Sangliang said in a very sincere tone: "Brother Sichang forced me to hang myself and almost died, but I still forgave him, let alone you?" At this point, Chen Sangliang raised his voice again,  He solemnly said: "Li Shimin listens to the title. I will now make you the Duke of Wei, the General of the Youxiao Cavalry Guard, and the Doctor Jin Ziguanglu. You will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold and silver each, and you will be given a death certificate. Except for treason, you will be exempted from death for life! Bring it up!"  " As he sang the promise, one of Chen Sangliang's soldiers held up a golden death-free medal that he had made overnight in front of Li Er. Chen Sangliang smiled again and said, "Take it, you deserve it."  He was so excited that his hands were trembling. Under the envious eyes of the Li clan and the almost crazy jealous eyes of Li Yuanji, he took the death-free gold medal with both hands. Li Er bowed to Chen Sangliang and said respectfully: "Thank you, Your Highness,  His Highness's great kindness will eventually end in fire and death, and it is hard to repay him." Chen Sangliang picked up Li Er with his own hands, patted the back of his hand, and said with a smile: "I believe in you, and you can rest assured, as long as you can serve the country loyally.  , I will never treat you badly. Your fianc¨¦e Liu Xiaomou is in the camp at the moment. I will ask you to meet her in a moment. If you are willing, you can officially get married tonight!" Li Eryi heard the update!  He was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked Chen Sangliang again. Chen Sangliang smiled, then went to help the injured Li Shentong in person, and greeted everyone: "It's windy outside the camp, so go to the Chinese army tent to talk."  Well, I have already held a banquet in the Chinese army's tent. I will stay drunk with you today to celebrate the victory of Xicheng!" Everyone in the Li family agreed and hurriedly followed Chen Sangliang and the Sui army's civil and military personnel.  Camp, and respectfully entered Chen Sangliang's commander's tent. As expected, a banquet had been set up in the big tent. Chen Sangliang sat down in the middle and invited everyone to take their seats. Wei Chi Jingde and other guards were guarding the left and right.  At the same time as the banquet began, Chen Sangliang ordered Zheng Guanyin, his mother and son, and Li Jiancheng's confidant Feng Li to be escorted into the tent. The Sui army officers sang a promise, and soon, the tied-up Feng Li and the tear-stained Zheng Guanyin were escorted into the tent.  In front of everyone, Li Jiancheng's two sons were also brought into the tent.  Seeing Zheng Guanyin and his son entering the tent, Chen Sangliang unexpectedly stood up and left the banquet. He personally took Li Chengzong, who was only one year old and still babbling, from the arms of the Sui army soldiers. He hugged him in his arms and held him in his arms.  He kissed him on the cheek and said with a smile: "Call me uncle quickly. Call me uncle." Li Chengzong, who was only one year old, looked at Chen Sangliang with innocent eyes and said "ho ho" in his mouth. Although he couldn't call his uncle, he was curious.  Touching Chen Sangliang's ugly face with his little hand, Chen Sangliang laughed happily and kissed his nephew again on the face. Then he turned to Zheng Guanyin who was crying with tears in his eyes and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, this is the first time we meet, I am  Chen Yingliang, the king of the Tang Dynasty, and brother Jiancheng were once close friends. Brother Jiancheng must have mentioned me to you, right?" Zheng Guanyin nodded with tears in his eyes, and said with a choked voice: "Your Highness, Dalang always mentioned you before, and he still mentioned me.  I always said that I would invite you to our home whenever I had the chance, and let my concubine meet you, but due to some strange circumstances, I never got the chance to do so. Dalang regretted it several times. " "I feel sorry for it too," Chen Sangliang nodded.  He shook his head and said with a smile: "But it's okay now. Our uncle and sister-in-law have finally met and got to know each other. If you don't mind, I will call you sister-in-law, and you can call me brother-in-law or uncle." "I don't dare, I don't dare.  "Zheng Guanyin refused while wiping her tears, and choked up and said: "Your Highness, the matter has come to this, I don't dare to live in shame, I just ask Your Highness to let my two children live. They are still young and don't understand anything." "  Sister-in-law, why are you talking like that?" Chen Sangliang was a little unhappy and said, "My brother and Brother Jiancheng are close friends, and he has helped me several times. How could I harm your lives?  I just want to meet you and call you sister-in-law. I have no other intention of meeting my two nephews. Don¡¯t worry, I will send you back to Dongcheng in a moment and let you return to Brother Jiancheng?¡± ¡°Your Highness,¡±  Are you going to let us go back? " Zheng Guanyin couldn't believe his ears. Feng Deyi, Qu Tutong and others were so anxious that they quickly stood up to object. However, before they could say anything, Chen Sangliang waved his hand and said:  "No need to say more, I have made up my mind. I will send my sister-in-law and my two little nephews back to the east city of Taiyuan in a moment to reunite them with Brother Jiancheng." Qu Tutong and Feng Deyi, who knew the friendship between Chen Sangliang and Li Jiancheng  Then he shut up and sat down again with great regret in his heart. The Li clan, Li Yuanji and others quietly exchanged glances with each other, their eyes full of joy - because Chen Sangliang could be so kind and righteous to Li Jiancheng who refused to surrender.  Naturally, they will not be treated badly for those who have made great contributions.  Li Er sneered in his heart and said to himself: "A woman's kindness is beyond stupidity."??, it was indeed the second Fu Jian.  " At this time, Chen Sangliang turned his attention to Feng Li, who was covered in blood and tied up with five flowers. He smiled and said: "Manager Feng, we finally meet.  I have always been curious before, why would Brother Jiancheng re-appoint you, a little-known general with a foreign surname, and actually entrust you with the military power of Taiyuan when he was far away from the city of Taiyuan?  But when I heard that you fought hard until there were only a dozen people left around you and still refused to surrender, and in the end you were seriously injured and fell to the ground before being captured alive by our soldiers, I realized that Brother Jiancheng is indeed a good judge of people, and he was not wrong about you.  " With a heavy snort, Feng Li turned his face away, too lazy to look at Chen Sangliang's ugly face. Chen Sangliang refused to let him go. He pointed to an empty seat in the tent and said with a smile: "General Feng,  Did you see that?  That seat was specially prepared for you by my king. If you are willing, you can sit on it now and have a banquet with us.  " After being reminded by Chen Sangliang, everyone in the Li family discovered that there was indeed an empty seat filled with food and wine in the tent. Surprised by Chen Sangliang's attentiveness, Li Er suddenly realized that something was wrong, but again  For a moment, he remembered that something was wrong. But Feng Li only glanced at the seat, and immediately spit out a mouthful of phlegm, and sneered: "Thank you, my loyal minister has nothing to do with the two masters. If you want to kill me, I will surrender. Dream!"  " "General Feng, why are you doing this?  Chen Sangliang advised: "You are a talented general, loyal and brave. As long as you are willing to serve me, I can guarantee that I will not treat you badly."  Haven't you heard that good birds choose trees to roost in?  "    "shut up!  Feng Li angrily interrupted Chen Sangliang's attempt to persuade him to surrender, and roared: "Stop talking nonsense!"  Although Feng Li is not talented, he still knows the word loyalty!  Governor Zuo has shown me great kindness and kindness, how can I imitate these shameless people who are greedy for life and afraid of death and surrender to you?  " Hearing this, Li Yuanji and others looked very ugly. They all hoped that Chen Sangliang would kill Feng Li, a common man who had embarrassed them, as soon as possible. Unfortunately, although Chen Sangliang looked regretful, he did not immediately order the killing.  He just shook his head, hugged Li Chengzong and sat back down in his seat, then turned to Sun Fujia next to him and ordered: "Fujia, call him in.  " Everyone was baffled, but the reaction of Sun Fuga, Chen Sangliang's confidential secretary, was even more baffling. Not only did he not make a promise immediately, but hesitantly asked: "Your Highness, are you too hasty?  " "No hurry.  "Chen Sangliang shook his head, and Sun Fujia was helpless. Then he went outside the tent to give orders. Immediately afterwards, a Sui Army general strode into the tent. After seeing the appearance of the Sui Army general, the Li family present  Everyone was shocked, and Li Er was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out of his sockets - because this Sui army general was the Taiyuan army marching Si Kai who played a great role in the Li family rebellion this time - the warrior Yu  ! ¡°Why is it you?  "In shock, Li Er almost blurted out these words. Immediately afterwards, Li Er's whole body was shaken. He finally remembered what was wrong with him - it was this warrior Yu! He was also a city-dedicated master.  The hero, the warrior Yu, had not come to see Chen Sangliang with the Li family before to ask for rewards! When everyone in the Li family was surprised, the civil and military officers of the Sui army also looked at each other - because they had never seen the warrior Chen Sanliang.  Seeing the surprise of the lackeys under his command, he smiled and said: "Everyone, let me introduce to you. This warrior, General Tong Wu, is my Tang Dynasty household member Cao Shenjun. He is an official of the sixth rank. He abandoned the dark side and joined the bright side half a year ago.  The army is the most important insider that I have placed in the Taiyuan Army. It is also the major contributor to our army's successful capture of Taiyuan West City and Taiyuan Granary this time!  He returns in triumph this time, so you must get along well with him.  " Although the sixth-grade Zheng was not a high-ranking official, the ministers of the Tang Dynasty were tantamount to Chen Sangliang's confidants. Therefore, the civil and military personnel of the Sui army were frightened and hurriedly stood up and offered their hands to the warrior Xun. The warrior Xun returned the courtesy one by one with a smile. Over there  Li Yuanji couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wu Canjun, you are actually a member of the Tang Dynasty?  Then why didn't you tell us earlier?  " " Qi Gong forgives the sin. At that time, the general did not dare to reveal his identity, so he has kept it secret until now.  "Warrior Xun smiled and replied: "I hope Duke Qi will forgive me for any offense I've committed.  " Li Yuanji quickly waved his hand and said, "I dare you there." However, in the middle of the wave, Li Yuanji suddenly froze because Li Yuanji suddenly thought of a possibility, and he couldn't help but sweat rolling all over his body. Then Li Yuanji secretly went there again  When he looked at the faces of Li Er, Li Shentong and others, he saw that all of his more than a dozen relatives had pale faces. Even the second brother Li Er, who was the best at hiding and acting, was already as pale as paper, with cold sweat dripping on his forehead  ¡­
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