Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Hu Kui pointed to Yang Dazhuang and said, "This Yang Dazhuang, he is the owner of the cave."

Liu Tong asked puzzledly: "Master Yang Dong, what's going on? These officers and soldiers..."

Yang Dazhuang kicked the disfigured corpse of a Zheng army officer and soldier far away, and said angrily: "To tell you the truth, we escaped from Hedong and Hebei. She lived in a shack, kept company with wild beasts, lived on tree bark and grass roots, spent time in hardship, and made a living by mining ore soil. After mining the ore soil, transported it to Luoyang to sell, and bought some food for a few dollars to make ends meet. Although life was difficult, But there is always something to look forward to. But today, these beasts came to the mining area in a murderous spirit, wanting to conscript us into the army, and they didn’t give us a chance to survive. They killed us with a knife! The decapitated, a few slow-running children were caught by them, and they were so used to falling on the stones! Are they soldiers of the imperial court or butchers? We just want to dig some mines for some money, never What crimes have you done, why are they killing us!"

Speaking of this, the burly man's voice was choked up, and tears came out: "Poor my wife, who couldn't get out of bed because she was pregnant, hid in the shack, and was burned alive by them, beast , all of them are beasts!"

Xun Xiang patted Yang Dazhuang on the shoulder and said, "Master Yang Dong, please express my condolences..."

Talking about Xunxiang and gesturing to retreat, all the soldiers of the Beiwei army retreated one after another.This battle that wiped out more than [-] people in the Zheng army was considered a big victory in other ordinary times, but it was not a military achievement in the Beiwei army, because their goal was to take down Luoyang City.

Looking at the soldiers of the Beiwei Army who were retreating in an orderly manner, Hu Kui said: "General Liu, General Xun, please wait!"

Xunxiang put his hand on the handle of the horizontal knife, looked at Hu Kui suspiciously and asked: "There is only so much we can help, you can do it yourself!"

Hu Kui said: "The two generals are the generals of the Tang Dynasty?"

Liu Tong became vigilant, and said coldly, "You know us?"

Hu Kui quickly explained: "The two generals must not misunderstand. Hu's father is the general who protects the country of Daqi and the general manager of Yizhou. Back then, Yang Jian broke Qi and broke his promise and became fat. My Hu family in Yizhou swears that I will never serve in the Sui Dynasty. Hu Although you have never been an official, you still have this bit of insight. You have evidence to advance and retreat. Hundreds of people are the same. It may not be easy to sneak into Luoyang!"

Liu Tong asked, "Do you have a solution?"

Hu Kui nodded and said: "Now the gates of Luoyang City are closed, and the inside and outside are not connected. Now no one can enter Luoyang City. Luoyang City is not allowed to leave or enter at this time!"

Xun Xiang was shocked when he heard this.

How can they complete this task if they cannot enter Luoyang City.

He was not naive enough to take Luoyang City with more than [-] people.

Liu Tong looked at Hu Kui and said with a cold smile: "Mr. Hu, please speak up if you have anything to say, and you don't need to go around in circles."

Hu Kui said: "According to Hu's knowledge, there are 37 caves in all sizes, with a total of more than [-] mouths, and almost half of them are young and strong. Now Wang Shichong is crazy about pulling young men. Why don't General Liu make up his mind and unite all the caves? , ambushing Zheng’s conscripting troops, but holding them hostage…”

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When Xun Xiang and Liu Tong led the Beiwei Army to recruit refugees and miners who could not survive in the Songshan Mountains, Chen Ying also led his subordinates to launch a tentative attack on Yanshi City.

Because Zhao Jiqing, under Wang Shichong's command, improved the trebuchet and fired red-hot stones as stone bullets, the power of the stone bullets was brought into full play, and within [-] steps of the Yanshi City Wall, it became an insurmountable life forbidden zone.Chen Ying hated the behavior of using human life to consume the enemy's weapons and equipment, so the soldiers of the Tang army just lined up outside Yanshi City.

Then, Chen Ying divided the troops into a brigade and launched a tentative attack on Yanshi City. Rather than saying that this is an attack, it is better to say that Chen Ying is experimenting with new tactics.Compared with the customary phalanx in ancient times, Chen Ying is more used to this formation of skirmishers and assaults. Each soldier is more than ten steps away from each other, and the brigade of more than one hundred people is fully deployed, almost scattered. Five or six miles.

Since then, General Zheng Jun and Wang Shiyun, who were guarding Yanshi, felt extremely painful, because Tang Jun's arrangement was too scattered, and instead of attacking in a straight line, they took a serpentine position, and there was no way for the trebuchet to do anything. Aim, as for the bed crossbow, there is also no way to aim.

Seeing this scene, Wang Shiyun was so angry that he almost vomited blood: "Child Chen Ying is too despicable and shameless to use barbarian tactics!"

Wang Shiyun's lieutenant asked strangely: "Is this actually a barbarian tactic?"

"Yes, I can't be wrong!" Wang Shiyun nodded and said: "Back then, my Majesty and I went to the Yanmen Pass and fought against the Turkic people. This is how the Turkic people fight. , repeatedly harassing, consuming our arrows and physical strength, when our army's arrows and physical strength are exhausted, we will use heavy troops to attack and smash our army's forward positions in one fell swoop. Unbelievable..."

The lieutenant general said in disbelief: "If this goes on like this, how long will this battle last?"

"I don't know, it depends on Chen Ying's mood!" Wang Shiyun said depressedly: "Maybe a month, maybe two months, maybe half a year, God knows how long it will take!"

The deputy general murmured: "Your Majesty wants to destroy Li Shimin's remnants. It will take ten days and a half months at most. We only need to keep Chen Ying outside Yanshi City for half a month, and it is enough for Your Majesty to destroy Li Shimin!"

Seeing that Zheng Jun neither fired the bed crossbow nor the trebuchet, Chen Ying looked at the sky and ordered: "It's almost noon, call back the troops!"

Li Xiuning asked strangely: "Are you going to withdraw the troops?"

"I didn't intend to storm Yanshi City at all, the casualties would be too great!" Chen Yingdao: "Pass down the order, all the soldiers have worked hard to attack the city today, and the whole army will have extra meals!"

All the generals and soldiers of the Tang army cheered like thunder.The head of the Tang Army cut the dried horse meat marinated with salt into thin slices, and put it directly into the pot, then poured the washed millet, millet, wheat, and bean into the pot, boiled it and cooked it directly. They added vegetables, and the Tang army officers and soldiers also scattered around, looking for wild vegetables in the wild.

Seeing all the soldiers beaming with joy, Li Xiuning asked half understandingly: "Chen Lang, are you planning to attack the city?"

Chen Ying smiled and said: "That's okay. Wang Shichong is expanding his army crazily now. He must be short of supplies. It would be nice if the Yanshi defenders can eat half full. Now they are watching us Tang soldiers on the city wall. I'm afraid he will be full of complaints if he eats and drinks, and when the time comes, hehe, it's hard to say whether Wang Shiyun can calm down the soldiers!"

The efficiency of Tang Jun's gang leader is very high, and the meal is ready in less than half an hour. Of course, Chen Ying doesn't have to eat with the big soldiers. Li Xiuning's favorite food is beggar's chicken. Li Xiuning looked at the slightly sumptuous meal and sighed: "It would be great if there were no wars, if there were peace and prosperity..."

Before Li Xiuning could finish speaking, Chen Ying interrupted Li Xiuning and said, "Is it rare in a peaceful and prosperous age?"

Li Xiuning said: "Why is it not rare? But who doesn't want to live in a prosperous world? But who doesn't want to be able to create a prosperous world for a country's monarch?"

"Actually, it's not difficult at all to want a prosperous world!" Chen Ying said with a slight smile, "Just go to a war and kill all the people, and then distribute the land to those who survived, and save a few more years." Taxes, the prosperity will come soon."

Li Xiuning was stunned, and Chen Ying said with a blank look: "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't know how many people have to die in every prosperous age, and how much effort has been devoted to creating it. Looking at thousands of years of history, there are only a handful of eras that can be called prosperous ages..."

"Every dynasty is prosperous for quite a long time after the founding of the country, and this thing is not rare at all!" Chen Ying pulled the beggar chicken away, looked into Li Xiuning's eyes, and said seriously: "Every prosperous age is It was built on the bones after the collapse of the previous dynasty. Without great chaos, there will be no great order. It has been like this since ancient times. I know, you must say, the sages will tell us that a certain monarch is so talented and generous, and he created this world. Sheng Shi, in fact, these are all lies."

While eating beggar chicken, Li Xiuning asked vaguely: "Then tell me, how did this prosperous age come about?"

Chen Ying shook his head, and said with a chuckle: "Sanniang, you have read a lot of books and understand the historical materials, so tell me, why did Xia die, why did Shang die, why did Zhou die? Why did Qin die? Death? Why did Han die? Why did Sui die?”

Li Xiuning said: "Does this need to be said? Naturally, the emperor's licentiousness and excessive construction made the sky angry and the people resentful.

"In the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the king divided the feudal lords, and the world was divided into nine uniforms!" Chen Yingdao: "According to the "Zhou Li·Xiaguan·Zhi Fangshi" cloud: it is a state that distinguishes the nine obediences: Fang Qianli is called Wangji, and the outside Five hundred miles outside is called Houfu, and five hundred miles away is called Dianfu, and five hundred miles away is called Nanfu, and five hundred miles away is called Caifu, and five hundred miles outside is Weifu. Fu, and its five hundred miles away is called Manfu, and its five hundred miles away is called Yifu, and its five hundred miles away is called Zhenfu, and its five hundred miles away is called Fanfu. Xia, Shang, In the Zhou Dynasty, Fang Qianli called Wang Ji. In fact, the place that the king can manage is a thousand miles around the capital. I looked at the history and summed up the reasons. It’s a lie, it’s all deceptive nonsense. For example, the emperor Zhou of Shang, do you also think he is a tyrant?”

Li Xiuning said: "Why isn't he a tyrant?"

Is Di Xin actually a tyrant? *** once commented on King Zhou of Shang Dynasty: "In fact, King Zhou is a man of great ability, literary and military skills. He managed the southeast and consolidated the unity of Dongyi and the Central Plains. He has made great achievements in history. Emperor Xin conquered Xuzhou Zhiyi won the battle, but lost a lot, and there were too many prisoners to digest. King Wu of Zhou took advantage of the emptiness to attack, and a large number of captives defected. As a result, the Shang Dynasty perished."

There are many subjugated kings in Chinese history, and there are also many who can be called tyrants. In fact, the subjugated kings are not tyrants at all, and there is also a lack of objective and fair judgment.Whether Di Xin is a tyrant or not, we must first look at the root cause of the demise of the Shang Dynasty.Basically all the tyranny of Emperor Xin is the history written by the Zhou Dynasty, and its credibility is very low.According to the history books of the Zhou Dynasty, in the later period of Emperor Xin's reign, he took credit for his pride and spent huge sums of money to build deer towers, wine pools, hang meat for forests, build luxurious palaces and gardens, live a life of extravagance, and empty the treasury.He was self-willed and refused to listen to correct opinions. He formed an opposition group at the top and used torture such as Pao Lao (Pao Pao was invented by Xia Jie and Si Lu Gui) to suppress the people.Kill Bigan (in fact, Yin Bigan was not killed but died of old age), imprisoned Jizi, fought every year, and lost the hearts of the people.When he crusade against the Dongyi, he did not pay attention to the precautions against the Western tribes. He used troops for years, and his national power was exhausted. (This paragraph has long been unable to be studied, it was written by Zhou Wu, so the historical credibility is extremely low.)

In fact, the reasons for the demise of the Shang Dynasty, such as corrupt officials, pro-villains, and distant and virtuous ministers, are all bullshit.The Shang Dynasty was a slavery country. In terms of political system, there was no management at all levels from the central government to the local government. At that time, it was a feudal country divided into five categories: Gong, Hou, Bo, Zi, and Nan. They all manage the place by themselves, and they only need to pay taxes to the King of Shang.If the court of the Shang Dynasty was constantly decreeing and could not govern the vassal states below, then there would be the only situation where the vassals would not listen to their greetings, like in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, the Son of Zhou was just a deaf ear, just a decoration.

Chen Ying found that if he argued with Li Xiuning on this issue, he might not be able to explain it clearly for three days and three nights.

"The demise of all dynasties has a common feature. The people are in dire straits, right!"

Li Xiuning nodded.

Chen Ying asked: "Why do the people live in poverty? Historians will point the finger at the emperor without exception, thinking that the emperor has lost his morals, which is why he made the people's lives difficult. The specific method of losing morals is what you just said. Building large-scale construction projects, emphasizing cruel officials, relying on cronyism, emphasizing villains and far away from virtuous ministers...the number is too numerous to count."

Li Xiuning asked in surprise, "Isn't it right?"

"Don't talk about anything else, let's talk about Yang Guang. Does he have one queen and seven concubines? Four sons and three daughters?" Chen Ying said with a smile: "I remember that one of Yang Guangda's crimes in the "Sui Shu" is licentiousness. If he is considered absurd and obscene, then how many emperors are not obscene and obscene?"

Li Xiuning was stunned, she really couldn't say anything.Others don't mention it, but after Li Yuan became emperor, more than 100 women were blessed in the harem, and Li Yuan's children were more than ten times that of Yang Guang.

"You also found the problem?" Chen Ying smiled and said, "The pens are in their hands, and they can write whatever they want."

Speaking of this, Chen Ying unconsciously thought of future generations.Some well-known big Vs are talking nonsense, saying that the mother-in-law brought up housing prices in China, and saying that China's carbon dioxide emissions are caused by more bicycles.And so on, there are so many strange speeches. In fact, there are too many bottomless principles and media. They dare to say anything in order to win the attention of their bosses, especially those who write all kinds of soft articles for money to deceive ignorance. People who live by the people are even worse than prostitutes, it's too shameful.

Chen Ying saw that Li Xiuning had no intention of eating anymore, so he continued to explain: "But there are two things that they didn't write down, that is, government exploitation and land annexation... Yes, at the end of the dynasty, officials were corrupt and land annexation, This is the real reason why people are living in dire straits.”