Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1826 The Third Luoyang War
Chapter 1824: The Third Luoyang War
Li Shimin gritted his teeth angrily after learning that the food and grass in Ping County had been burned, but it was of no avail. He could only order the people in the city to hand over the food, and only the basic rations were allowed to be kept, and he promised to return it in full in the future.

Tang Jun, who was born in the Liang family, had a bad image in the hearts of the people in Sizhou. Of course, it was impossible to hand over the precious food just because of Li Shimin's words.

Li Shimin saw that not many people were willing to take the initiative to hand over the grain, so he had no choice but to send troops to grab the grain.

Although Li Shimin cherishes his reputation very much, in this situation, it is not the time to cherish his reputation.

Although Li Shimin repeatedly ordered the soldiers not to harm the people, but once the robbery started, how could the soldiers care so much?Naturally, it caused a lot of killings to the people of Ping County.

Li Shimin was naturally furious when he learned about it, and executed dozens of soldiers who committed the crime, including a school lieutenant, in order to deter other soldiers.

Sure enough, after the rest of the soldiers learned about it, they were all shocked, and when they grabbed food again, their hands and feet were much cleaner.

"My lord, the patriarchs of the three local families are asking to see me."

"Oh?"

Li Shimin showed surprise, then nodded and said, "Let them in."

Li Shimin thought that the three patriarchs came to ask him to see him in order to keep the family, but he didn't expect that the three of them came to deliver food and grass, and they didn't want anything in return.

"The Zhang family is willing to support Tang Wang with [-] shi of grain and grass."

"My royal family is willing to offer [-] stones."

"My Li family paid 1 stone."

Ping County is just a small county with a population of tens of thousands. The Tang army only took [-] shi of grain and grass when they robbed the whole city. Now only these three families in Ping County have contributed [-] shi of grain and grass to the Tang army, occupying the entire city. Four-fifths of the total amount of grain and grass is enough to show how rich the family is.

Li Shimin resisted the urge to rob other families by force, and secretly estimated in his heart that this should be the limit of the three major families in Ping County. After all, they are not big families, but just a small family living in a small county. Forty thousand stone is already very good.

For the more than [-] Tang troops, the [-] shi of food is just a drop in the bucket, and it cannot completely solve the Tang army's food and grass crisis, but there is no problem in responding to emergencies in a short period of time.

"I will remember your kindness. After Luoyang is conquered, your benefits will definitely be indispensable."

Li Shimin said with a smile, he just drew a big pie for the three Patriarchs.

Hearing this, after the three of them looked at each other, the Patriarch of the Li family stood up tremblingly and said, "We are also following the order of Master Yang Jun, and as long as Li Tang's army arrives in Ping County, we will provide food and grass for Li Tang's army." .”

"Yang Jun?"

Li Shimin muttered, and the image of a refined middle-aged man came to mind, and this person was Yang Jun, one of the imperial party officials who was born in Hongnong's Yang family.

Li Shimin was not surprised that Yang Jun, as an imperial party, would support Tang Jun to fight against Qin, but he did not expect that the other party could predict that he would be short of food, which made Li Shimin feel a little incredible.

"Did Yang Jun come to tell you personally?" Li Shimin asked.

"No no, Mr. Yang Jun is very popular. How could he come in person for such a big event of ransacking his family and exterminating his family? It was two teenagers who came here holding Mr. Yang Jun's token. One of the teenagers also said: If the Tang army is short of food and grass, We can divide our troops to take Wen County."

"Wen County is not a big county for food and grass, even if we take it, how much food and grass can we get?" Li Shimin frowned.

"My lord, although Wen County is not a large county, there are still many big families, such as the Sima family, Wei family and other families. These big families should have a lot of food reserves."

"The Sima family?"

Li Shimin's eyes lit up immediately, he slapped his head suddenly, and said with a smile: "By the way, Wen County, Sima's family is also in Wen County."

A hint of amusement flashed in Li Shimin's eyes, and he said with a smile: "Interesting, these royalists are really hiding something deep, no wonder old Jia Xu has never attacked the imperialists.

Forget it, since someone took the initiative to deliver food for our army, then this king will accept it with a smile.

Hou Junji, you take five thousand soldiers and horses to Wen County. "

"promise."

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With the fall of Ping County, Qin Yu abandoned the city and fled back to Luoyang. After bringing back the news that Li Tang's army was approaching Luoyang, the whole Luoyang suddenly became chaotic.

Qin Yu is actually Ying Zheng's younger brother, Chang'an Lord Ying Chengyu, who served as the magistrate of Ping County in Henan Yin after he became an official.

When he learned that Li Tang's army was attacking the county, Ying Chengxue was also very confused. He didn't understand why Li Tang's army came to his Xiaoping County, but after thinking about it, the only thing in Ping County that Li Tang could take a liking to was probably There is only grain and grass in the grain depot.

Realizing that Li Tang might be short of food and grass, Cheng Yu decisively burned the Pingxian grain depot, and fled back to Luoyang with a dozen guard cavalry before the Tang army besieged the city.

Regarding the matter of abandoning the city and fleeing, Cheng Yu didn't have any psychological burden. After all, relying on the [-] county soldiers in Ping County, it is absolutely impossible to stop the tens of thousands of Li Tang's army, and staying here is simply courting death.

After taking a big sip of water, Cheng Yu said to the children of the Qin family around him, "Let me tell you, if I hadn't been lucky this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to come back..."

Cheng Yu recounted his experiences along the way, embellishing them.

Of course, the truth is not as thrilling as what Cheng Yu said, at least Li Shimin didn't send five thousand fine cavalry to chase them and a dozen of them, he would say this just to escape the crime for himself by abandoning the city.

The disciples of the Qin family are not all fools. Qin Ji could tell Cheng Xu was bragging at a glance, and said with a speechless face: "Brother Xu, your boasting is too outrageous. There are only a dozen of you, and Li Shimin will send Five thousand cavalry? You think you are the lord."

"Hahaha……"

Everyone immediately burst into laughter.

Seeing this, Cheng Yu also became anxious: "Really, if you don't believe me, you can ask my personal guard."

"Come on, those personal guards are all yours, can you speak for you? But you did a good job in burning down the Pingxian grain depot. It may offset your guilt of fleeing without fighting." Qin Si smiled. road.

"Brother Si, how do you say it? Is that called fleeing without fighting? That is called not making unnecessary sacrifices.

There are only [-] county soldiers in Ping County, but there are tens of thousands of Li Tang's army coming to invade. Even if Bai Qi is the governor, he will definitely not be able to win. "

"You are right, but you can't do it."

"It was."

"Okay, stop talking, fourth uncle is here."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone stopped discussing and returned to their respective positions, waiting quietly for Qin Jian's arrival.

After Qin Jian arrived, he patted Cheng Xu on the shoulder: "Xu Er, it's good to be back. It doesn't sound good to flee without fighting, but this time I can't blame you, but you did a good job of burning food."

Hearing this, Cheng Yu breathed out a long breath. He was terrified to death before, and he was afraid that fleeing without fighting would affect his future career, but now it seems that it should have no effect.

　Yesterday's guarantee update...

　　Regarding Li Yuanba's arm, most people think that it will never recover anyway, so it's okay to connect it.

　　However, there are also many objections. If this is the case, then don't connect.

　　The content of the previous article has also been revised.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)