Traveling through the troubled times of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Let’s talk about Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, and Shan Xiongxin being rescued. Faced with such a great favor from the Tang Dynasty, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, who originally intended to surrender, planned to return to Wagang after meeting Qin Wang Li Shimin to pick up their family members. , and then went to the Tang Dynasty together, but Shan Xiongxin refused.

Shan Xiongxin is still brooding over Li Yuan's mistaken killing of his brother.Leng was angry and refused to submit to the Tang Dynasty.All the brothers persuaded one after another, even the corporal Li Shimin respected the virtuous and even knelt down to beg for the general, but Shan Xiongxin was unmoved, and there was nothing they could do.

The three bid farewell to Li Shimin, and after Luo Cheng, they went straight to Wagang. When Li Mi first saw Qin Qiong and others, he was shocked, thinking how could they come back alive?To be honest, in the past few days, he has just tasted some joys of being an emperor. He doesn't have to look at the faces of Qin Qiong and others, drinking and having fun with the harem concubines captured by Yang Guang all day long, so uncomfortable.Who would have thought that within a few days, Qin Qiong and the others would come back alive——

Before Li Mi could figure out how to deal with Qin Qiong and the others, Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin spoke first, and they wanted to leave with their relatives.

Of course Li Mi didn't allow it, but it was up to him alone.As soon as Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin came back, the brothers seemed to have regained their backbone, and this call was all answered, and there was no room for Li Mi to speak.

Qin Cheng and the others said they wanted to leave, Wang Junke, You Junda, Xie Yingdeng and others all wanted to leave, didn't you see clearly what kind of person Li Mi was at this time?

Everyone was about to leave, and now Li Mi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and immediately issued an imperial decree, saying that whoever dares to take the lead in provoking troubles and disrupting the court will be punished without pardon.But it was such a decree that finally broke out the conflict between the monarch and his ministers.Compared with Qin Qiong Cheng Yaojin's prestige, Li Mi is really a worthless character.You want to beheaded, who will be beheaded?Aren't they the two of Qin Cheng who plan to leave?Then who will agree!

After hearing this order, everyone was furious, and immediately joined the fight.Li Mi, are you going to chop off someone's head?All right, the whole army will go, the law does not blame the public, let me see whose head you chop off!This imperial decree also angered Qin Qiong, who has always been good-tempered, and reprimanded Li Mi's crimes in front of everyone: first, he had no tolerance for others, and forced the Luo family and his son away; second, he offended Queen Xiao for Yang Guang's sake. thirdly, because of Empress Xiao's incident, he forcibly mobilized the defenders of Wagangzhai, which almost caused the Wagang City to be destroyed. The founder of Wagang, the little overlord Zhai, let General Zhai make everyone feel cold... These four items alone are enough, not to mention that Li Mi made a mistake in command this time, which caused Qin and Cheng to be imprisoned first. Consolidate the power and let Qin Cheng and the two of them live or die.

What Qin Qiong said made all the brothers excited, Li Mi was at a loss this time, it was fine to leave a few generals, but now he angered the generals, not only left by himself, but also brought soldiers and food go!

As soon as everyone left in such a lively manner, there was really not much talent available on Wagang Mountain. In the past, Jiajialou sworn brothers, but Wang Bodang stayed behind. Leaving the former residence, the rest of the people waited to go today and tomorrow, and they all dispersed, and Li Mizhen became a loner.

As for the brothers who followed Qin Qiong and others down the mountain, some of them were discouraged by the world, and they didn't want to fight anymore. The two of Cheng took refuge in Li Tang.But because of his brother's death, Shan Xiongxin still couldn't forget it, and he was unwilling to join Li Tang for life and death, and everyone saw that persuasion to him was fruitless, and they had no choice but to do so.In the end, Shan Xiongxin insisted on going his own way and led the Shan family and his subordinates, hundreds of people, to part ways with everyone.

Now, Li Tang's national strength has grown a lot, and Li Yuan is overjoyed.And Wang Shichong, who occupied Luoyang, the eastern capital, and Dou Jiande, who was entrenched in Hebei, should not be underestimated. For a while, the world formed a three-legged posture, and among the three, because Wang Shichong lost his brother in the last battle, it was like breaking one The strength of the arm is slightly weaker among the three.In addition to these three forces, Liu Wuzhou's troops supported by Turks from other countries are also ready to move. They are stationed near Mayi County, Shanxi. Although Li Mi's Western Wei Dynasty is not as powerful as it was when Qin Cheng and others were there, it is difficult to defend by relying on Wagang. The terrain of the attack, even under the repeated melee of the anti-kings, was able to survive.

In 620 A.D., Li Tang's army was strong and his horses were strong, and good generals gathered together. At this time, Li Yuan deeply felt that the Tang Dynasty had the power to rule the world.Therefore, they first sent Li Shimin and Luo Cheng to lead the army to conquer Wang Shichong, and then sent Xu Maogong to make peace with Dou Jiande in order to keep Dou Jiande neutral in the battle of Luoyang. ), to prevent the Turkic South from committing crimes.

Luo Cheng, as the marching chief of this Eastern Expedition, was ordered to lead the army to encircle Cijian in the west of Luoyang.

When Li Yuan was about to attack Luoyang, Wang Shichong had already begun to make careful arrangements.Not only did he mobilize elites from the various states and counties below to guard Luoyang, he also secretly sent people to seek help from Xia Wang Dou Jiande and the Turks to fight against the enemy together. It stands to reason that they are all prepared, so there should be no need to worry too much, but I heard someone report this morning It was said that Li Tang's advance troops did not directly attack Luoyang City, but settled in the Cijian in the west of Luoyang. However, when the opponent's vanguard general was still Luo Chengshi, Wang Shichong felt a little bit drummed, really hated and afraid.The reason for the hatred is that my elder brother was killed by Luo Cheng's design, and this revenge is not in vain. On the other hand, I am a little afraid, because that boy Luo Cheng is really not easy to deal with.

After Wang Shichong ordered all the generals to perform their duties, he personally led 3 elite soldiers to line up in Cijian, west of the eastern capital, as if he was facing a big enemy, posing for a decisive battle with the Tang army.

Compared with Dou Jiande and his ilk, Wang Shichong still has some strategies. He has a lot of experience in classics and history, and he is especially good at the art of war, tortoise strategy, and push step.

Seeing that Tang Jun had just arrived at Cijian, his heels were not yet firmly established, and he had not yet had time to set up camp, so he attacked the camp by surprise.

Taking advantage of the night, Wang Shichong sent his nephew Wang Honglie to lead 5000 elite soldiers to attack the Tang army at night when the Tang army had just arrived and before they could set up camp in the future, in an attempt to disrupt the pace of the Tang army's offensive.But who would have thought that just when Wang Honglie led his troops to sneak close to the Tang army, he was surrounded by black soldiers.

The innermost circle is the infantry with a shield in one hand and a spear in the other. All of them put up their shields, like a wall of iron and steel, surrounding Wang Honglie and others in the middle. There is only a little crack in the junction of the shields, and the design is faintly visible. Strange crossbows, it turns out that the soldiers in the second circle are crossbowmen, hiding behind the shields.At this time, the hilltop not far away was also lit up instantly. Some light cavalrymen held torches, and some held sharp weapons, waiting for orders, as if they would drive straight in and kill them one by one.

Wang Honglie was immediately dumbfounded - who said that Tang Jun hadn't even set up his camp at this moment, so he would definitely not be on guard?Who said that only by taking advantage of the present, when they are not on their guard, if they are not prepared, they will surely win by surprise?

With this kind of defensive arrangement, he still sneak attack a ghost!

Before Wang Honglie could think again, the torches were instantly divided into two teams, and three or four people flashed out from the crowd.The leader was dressed in chain mail, with a handsome appearance, but he was on the double tenth day, and looked at himself jokingly with a foolish expression on his face.

Wang Honglie's eyes were burning with anger, and he said viciously, "You are Luo Cheng?"

Wang Honglie became even more angry, pointing at the man, he said: "My father was killed by your trick! How dare you fight me one-on-one, I want you to die on the spot!"

Luo Yong laughed out loud, glanced at Luo Cheng who was standing behind him, and said with a smile: "General, this man doesn't even know anyone, and he still wants to take revenge. Is there such a fool? He's just talking in sleep."

Wang Honglie was taken aback for a moment, but his face was still full of anger: "Aren't you Luo Cheng?"

Luo Yong turned to the side, pouted his mouth towards the side, and was playing with something in his hand, the helpless Luo Cheng stood out on his face.

Seeing this posture, Luo Yong touched the general with his elbow, and said softly: "General, don't let it go, I caught a small fish tonight."

Luo Cheng stopped the wooden objects in his hands, and was still muttering: "Where did Li Yuanji get this thing? It's really interesting. I've been solving it for three days. Untie it, and send him a letter tomorrow to ask."

Yan Lang on the right curled his lips, everyone knew the heart of His Highness Sima Zhao.Originally, one of these two stayed in Chang'an City, and the other guarded Taiyuan.It stands to reason that there should be no connection.But who knows where His Royal Highness King Qi heard that his general likes some weird things, likes to study hidden weapons and so on. No, he specially brought some exquisite hidden weapons from Taiyuan. All the power is attracted by these hidden weapons.Besides, I don’t know if he did it on purpose. The exquisite design of this hidden weapon and the difficulty of cracking it really make the general embarrassed. No, the two people who have never communicated before have already exchanged three letters this month. Lang privately felt that Li Yuanji was much more insidious than Yuwen Chengdu, but he hadn't seen him fight very hard, but he used devious tactics well.

Luo Cheng reluctantly put away the things in his hands, handed them to Yan Lang, raised his head, as if he had just discovered that a group of uninvited guests broke into his team, he was a little shocked, turned his head and said to Luo Yong : "Wang Shichong's army?"

"It looks like they plan to launch a night attack before our heels are fixed." Luo Yong added.

"Oh, let's unload the weapon, tie the person first, and then hand it over to His Highness King Qin." Luo Cheng said lightly, then took the improved Luban lock from Yan Lang's hand, turned it upside down, turned and left.

"...Is this the end?" Luo Yong and Yan Lang looked at each other.

"Luo Cheng, you are too arrogant! Are you running away? Do you dare to challenge me one-on-one? I want to avenge my father—"

Luo Cheng paused slightly, turned around and asked, "Who is your father?"

"My father was fooled by you. He was caught in a trap when he was chasing him, and Wang Shihui was accidentally killed by Dou Jiande's army."

Luo Cheng looked at Luo Yong: "Didn't you do this? Go and make gestures with him."

Luo Yong immediately jumped out with a bluff and said, "General, you came up with the plan to make the two armies kill each other, and I'm just implementing it." After Luo Yong finished speaking, he whispered, "If you want to fight, you will fight with him."

Luo Cheng stared: "Are you going?"

Luo Yong gritted his teeth: "Okay, okay, I'll go. Hey, let me go, isn't it overkill? It's so easy... General, can you find me a difficult one next time?"

"I will tell His Highness King Qin, if Wang Shichong is caught next time, I will definitely let you go." Luo Cheng left after saying a word, holding Lu Bansuo again.

"Luo Cheng, come back to me! I want to fight one-on-one with you!"

"Why are you arguing? It's enough to give you face if I play with you, young master. Please be content." Luo Yong turned around, changed his foolish appearance just now, and was full of evil spirits.

The two fought three or two rounds. Luo Yong fell once and fell twice. The third fall directly pushed him into the mud and he couldn't get up no matter how hard he struggled. Luo Yong stood up and clapped his palms. Wang Honglie, who had passed out, said: "With your military strength, you still have the nerve to tell people to fight alone." After that, he said to Wang Shichong, who had no leader among the dragons, "Hurry up, the prisoners will be scattered after tying them up. What, it’s late at night. You guys are so patient! A group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals, really think that our Luo family army is easy to bully? You think there is an opportunity to take advantage of it before camping! I don’t know that our generals have this habit. Even if you don’t cook, you have to set up your defenses first. These days, it’s even more fun to send them to your door to seek death—”

The next day, when Wang Shichong saw Wang Honglie, who was tied by Luo Yong as a banner, he was almost not fainted.

All of a sudden, the soldiers said everything, and some said that they had heard that the Luo family's army was all brave, like magic soldiers, how can we who hold hoes be their opponents?It is better to surrender early; some people also say that the Tang army is besieging Luoyang this time, and it is said that there are 30 troops.Didn't we die in vain?

Some people also said, I heard from my cousins ​​who lived in Chang'an City that the Chang'an City under Li Yuan's governance is now a city where people don't pick up things, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, but they are at ease.

Going back and forth like this, rumors spread everywhere, and the guards and soldiers of Cijian County lost their minds about fighting, and all they could think about was how to surrender and how to escape.

Two days later, there were news that Tang Jun had been found in Longmen in the south of Luoyang, Beimang Mountain in the north of Luoyang, and Luokou in Luocheng.

Longmen was led by Qin Qiong, Beiman Mountain was led by Cheng Yaojin and You Junda, and Luocheng Luokou was led by Tang generals Shi Wanbao, Liu Dewei, Wang Junkuo and others.

After Wang Shichong thought about it carefully, he understood Li Shimin's plan, which was to trap him to death in Luoyang City!Li Shimin spent a lot of money in besieging Luoyang this time.

The soldiers in the city were even more frightened when they heard the news.At the beginning, Wang Shichong ordered his cronies to send people to monitor the various generals, but he couldn't keep an eye on the soldiers. It was not easy to keep an eye on the soldiers. There were so many people, who knew who had the same intentions, and more and more soldiers fled to the opposite Luo In the end, in order to prevent the soldiers from escaping, Wang Shichong simply formulated such a rule that a group of five people would monitor each other. Once anyone who wanted to surrender to the Tang army was found, the informant would be rewarded with a hundred taels of money, and the informant would directly Beheaded for public display.

In this way, the morale of the army was completely lost, and even the soldiers who had no intention of surrendering were worried. If they were framed by some turtle bastard who usually had a grudge against him, they would be beheaded without question. Injustice?Therefore, those who had no thought of running away now also had the desire to run away.

When Wang Shichong was at a loss and the situation in Cijian became more and more out of control, Dou Jiande on the other side of the Hebei border and Liu Wuzhou supported by the Turks both received letters from Wang Shichong's envoys and hesitated for a while.