Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2521

Chapter 2517: Shu, Sui, Qin and Three Kingdoms Divided into Tang Dynasty (final)

How high was Liu Yu's price for Li Siyuan?
First of all, after gaining the throne and independence, Li Siyuan will leap from a general to a warlord. In terms of status, he sees a leap in class, and he will develop power justifiably.

Secondly, if Li Siyuan went it alone, even if he declared himself king independently, with his prestige and power, there would definitely not be many people who would pay attention to him.

But the situation is completely different when it becomes a vassal state of the Southern Han Dynasty.

Bearing the signboard of the Southern Han Dynasty, under the protection of the Southern Han Dynasty, he does not have to be afraid of being targeted by other forces, which is a great umbrella for Li Siyuan.

Finally, and the most important one, Li Siyuan will get an excellent opportunity, an opportunity to absorb the remnants of Li Tang and grow stronger.

Now that the three kingdoms of Shu, Sui, and Qin are sending troops together, the broken ship of Li Tang is destined to sink, but there are still many inheritances on the broken ship.

Most of the Tang generals resented Shu's ungratefulness and breach of the covenant. Therefore, compared with Shu, most Tang generals were more willing to take refuge in other forces.

This is also why the Kingdom of Shu invaded Hanzhong first in the Ming Dynasty, but why so many cities hung the Qin flag.

Most Tang generals still have their hearts on Li Tang, but the demise of the Tang Kingdom is basically doomed, and if there is a continuation force of Li Tang at this time, it is similar to Li Tang continuing the Xiliang Army, and can be in the cracks between the major forces. Surviving is also a new choice for those Tang generals who do not want to surrender to Shu.

No matter which one of the above three points is of great benefit to Li Siyuan, but Liu Yu gave Li Siyuan all at once. Such a price is obviously much heavier than Yangping Pass.

The reason why Liu Yu paid such a high price and gave Li Siyuan such preferential treatment was not only to obtain Yangping Pass, but also had another purpose, which was to win allies who would unite against Qin.

Now that Li Tang is doomed to fall, Li Tang's remnant forces should be reorganized into a new anti-Qin force. Even if they don't completely belong to the Shu Kingdom, they still belong to the anti-Qin alliance. This is beneficial to Liu Yu. outweighs the disadvantages.

What's more, as long as Li Siyuan accepts the enfeoffment of the Shu Kingdom and hands over Yangping Pass to the Shu Kingdom, then his road to the Qin Dynasty will be completely cut off, and he can only go to the end on the road of opposing the Qin Dynasty.

Although Li Siyuan was desensitized by Zhang Song, he still guessed Liu Yu's intentions. After all, it is impossible for a pie to fall from the sky, and it is still such a big pie.

If Li Siyuan had no ambition, Liu Yu's condition would be ten times that of Bunghou, and it would still be nothing to him.

But Li Siyuan had hidden great ambitions, and now he was hooked out, completely out of control, so naturally he couldn't bear the temptation of such conditions.

"Yangping Pass has only [-] defenders, and there are no strong generals. If there is no reinforcements, Li Cunxiao's army will definitely not be able to hold back.

It is better to take this opportunity to hand over Yangping Pass, not only to preserve the strength, but also to win a lot of benefits, and let Qin and Shu countries lose both sides in the fight, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone. "

After thinking up to this point, Li Siyuan already had a decision in his heart, opened his eyes and said seriously: "Mr. Zhang Song, please tell the King of Chengdu after you go back. As long as he keeps his promise, Li Siyuan will follow his example from now on."

Hearing this, Zhang Song smiled immediately, he knew that Li Siyuan had accepted their terms, Yangping Pass was saved, and his life was also saved.

At the same time that Zhang Song was lobbying Li Siyuan, Li Cunxiao's [-] troops had also assembled and officially marched in the direction of Yangping Pass.

At the same time, the battle in the three counties of Longxi officially started. After all, the Qin army had gathered its troops early, so the three armies moved much faster.

Li Tang now has only [-] troops in the country, of which [-] are in Hanzhong, [-] are in Longxi, and the last [-] are in Qiang.

The total strength of Longxi was no more than [-]. Facing the offensive of [-] Qin troops coming from three directions, even though the governor of Longxi, Ji (Ji) Chang, had been prepared, he was still caught off guard by the Qin army and lost in a row.

The soldiers of the Qin army came in three directions, and Ji Chang couldn't take care of each other. In addition to recruiting recruits, he could only transfer most of his troops to Longxi County.

Ji Chang was already ready for a decisive battle with Gongsun Xuanyuan in Di Dao, the governor's office, but he didn't want to be caught by Xuanyuan's Mingxiu plank road and secretly plotting Chen Cang.

Xuanyuan pretended to lead the army straight to Didao, but halfway the soldiers turned around and pointed directly at Heguan, Jiancheng, Longxi County.

The guard didn't expect Xuanyuan to come, so he was caught off guard and only held on for half a day before being defeated by Gongsun Xuanyuan himself.

At the same time, Ayang City in Hanyang County was captured by Longqie, and the two cities of Gudao and Hechi in Wudu County were also contributed by Wu Qi and Sun Lingming respectively.

After the war started, on the first day only, even if the four cities fell, the morale of the Tang army in Longxi fell to the bottom in an instant.

Things didn't get any better after that.

After Long Qie captured Ayang City, he successively captured Chengji and Lueyang cities, leading his troops to Long County, the seat of Hanyang.

Wu Qi and Sun Lingming who invaded Wudu County, after capturing Shanglu City, did not leave Biancheng under Wudu rule, but went northward to attack the boundary of Hanyang County, and connected Xiaxi County, Wangyuan, In the three cities of Shangguo, the front of the soldiers was approaching Longguan.

Longguan is the east gate of Longxi. It was established in the early Han Dynasty. Because it is located in Longshan, it is named Longguan, also known as Dazhenguan.

Longguan was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Not only was it guarded by five thousand Tang troops, but the guard was also the general of Li Tang's clan, Li Kai.

Long Qie sent an envoy to persuade him to surrender early, but this person directly beheaded the envoy to show his determination not to surrender to the death.

Li Kai's move directly changed the Qin army's strategy plan, forcing Wu Qi to go north to cooperate with Longqi, and the two armies worked together to gnaw down the hard bone of Longguan first.

When Wu Qi's army arrived at Longguan, Long Qie had already captured Long County, the seat of Hanyang, and the two important places of Qinting and Jieting, and he sent troops to Longguan without any worries.

Wu Qi's army was in the south, and Longqie's army was in the north. The two armies attacked Longguan from the north and the south, and stormed Longguan for three days.

The three-day onslaught caused nearly half of the casualties of the Longguan defenders, but Li Kai still refused to surrender.

In order to survive, the defenders in the pass finally attacked and beheaded Li Kai, the deputy general Li Yue, and then surrendered to Longqie.

Since then, the two major passes in the northeast of Longxi, Longguan and Heguan, have all fallen into the hands of Great Qin.

Daqin got Longguan and Heguan. In Longxi, it is already a stable win situation where it can advance, attack, retreat and defend.

Therefore, both Xuanyuan and Longji's armies slowed down their offensive rhythm, and Wu Qi also led his army back to continue to attack Wudu.

After a series of defeats, the morale of the Tang army in Longxi continued to decline, and a large number of signs of surrender began to appear.

Longxi County: Zhang County, Xiangwu;
Hanyang County: Ayang, Pingxiang;
Wudu County: Qiang Road;

A total of five cities, nearly ten thousand defenders, have chosen Kaesong to surrender.

In this regard, Ji Chang has nothing to do. He can't solve Gongsun Xuanyuan alone, let alone prevent the guards of the cities from surrendering.

"Damn it." Ji Chang gritted his teeth.

"Commander, the three counties of Longxi, there are only [-] cities in total, and now the war has only been going on for ten days, and nearly half of the land has fallen. If you continue to fight, you will be like a mantis' arm, sacrifice in vain, why not..."

Before the county magistrate Ji Xuan could finish his sentence, Ji Chang slashed his head with a sword.

After shaking off the blood stains on the sword, Ji Chang glanced at the crowd, and said coldly, "Anyone who dares to surrender will be killed without mercy."

Seeing this, all the people present were silent, and they didn't dare to mention surrender any more.

Ji Xuan was from the Ji family, Ji Chang's cousin, and Ji Chang was killed without saying a word. Outsiders like them dared to mention it, so there must be no way out.

Regarding Ji Chang's opposition to surrendering to Qin, all the ministers present also understood the reason in their hearts. It was nothing more than that several sons all died in battle with the Qin army.

Just two days ago, Ji Fa, the second son of Ji Chang, escaped from Guanzhong and brought news that his eldest son Ji Kao had been killed by the swordsmen of the Black Ice Terrace while fleeing.

Since then, among the more than [-] sons born to Ji Chang, except for Ji Dan who returned to Qin early, Lei Zhenzi who was forced to surrender to Qin, and Ji Fa who fled back, all of them were killed by the Qin army in the Battle of Guanzhong. kill.

After more than 20 sons died in a row, Ji Chang sent a white-haired man to a black-haired man, and had already formed a blood feud with Da Qin, so how could he still surrender to Da Qin?
"Report to the governor, and the envoy of Qin to see me." A soldier came to report.

Hearing this, Ji Chang said directly, "No, let's kill him directly."

San Yisheng stood up at this moment, and said: "Um, this envoy cannot be killed, you should meet him, Commander."

Ji Chang was startled, a little confused, but still nodded and agreed.

It wasn't until he saw the envoy that Ji Chang understood why the envoy could not be killed, because the person who came was his youngest son, Lei Zhenzi, Ji Lei.

"My son, you are back. I am afraid that you will not come back just like your brothers."

When Ji Chang saw Lei Zhenzi, he rushed up, hugged his son and burst into tears, crying so heartbroken.

Lei Zhenzi was sent to Kunlun before he could remember anything, and was brought up by his master Yun Zhongzi. He spent less than a month with Ji Chang at home, so his feelings for Ji Chang were actually very weak.

But no matter how weak the relationship was, Ji Chang was also his biological father, and he couldn't let go of this blood relationship.

"Father, Lei Zhenzi came here in the capacity of Qin envoy to persuade father that you give up resistance and surrender to Great Qin." Lei Zhenzi said indifferently.

Ji Chang's body froze immediately, his tears stopped instantly, he pointed at Lei Zhenzi "you" for a long time, he was so angry that he couldn't speak, and finally he just replied "Don't think about it".

A strange look flashed in Lei Zhenzi's eyes. He surrendered at first because he couldn't do it. Even if the brothers and Ji Dan persuaded him in turn, he still didn't let go of his hatred, so naturally he didn't want his father to surrender to Qin.

As the envoy of Qin this time, the task of persuading surrender in Longxi should have been undertaken by Ji Dan.

Lei Zhenzi knew that the fourth brother was eloquent, and if he really saw his father, he might be able to persuade him to let go of his hatred, so he snatched this task from Ji Dan on the grounds that his father preferred younger sons.

"Your 22 older brothers were all killed by Tyrant Qin. This hatred is irreconcilable. As a father, it is absolutely impossible to surrender to Tyrant Qin."

Ji Chang said in a deep voice, he did not blame Lei Zhenzi for surrendering, nor did he blame Ji Dan for defecting to Daqin.

After all, Lei Zhenzi would die if he didn't surrender, and when Ji Dan surrendered to Qin, the two sides had not yet feuded, and Ji's family also agreed.

With Ji Dan here, at least it can guarantee that the Ji family will not be wiped out.

"Father, Longguan and Heguan have been lost, and the three counties of Longxi are doomed to be unable to defend. Father is unwilling to surrender, so why not give up Longxi as soon as possible while he still has troops in his hands, and retreat into the Qiang land." Lei Zhenzi said.

When Ji Fa heard this, he also said: "That's right, Commander-in-Chief, Father gave up Longxi to avoid the advance of the Qin army, and to gather the military power of the Qiang land.

Now the Qiang land has not been completely occupied by the Sui Kingdom, father, you have gone to the Qiang land, at least we father and son still have a place to live, and we will make a comeback later. "

The words of the two sons made Ji Chang stunned. He had never thought about the idea of ​​giving up the three counties in Longxi and retreating into the Qiang land.

"But can Yang Guang accommodate our father and son?" Ji Chang said hesitantly.

"There must be a war between Qin and Sui, and it will be soon. As long as we are willing to surrender and follow his order, Yang Guang will definitely accept it." Ji Fa said seriously.

Ji Chang nodded, then looked at Lei Zhenzi, and said, "Son, are you a false surrender?"

"That's right, the revenge of killing a master is irreconcilable. Even if the master's family has fallen to Daqin, I, Lei Zhenzi, will never give up."

Lei Zhenzi knew that if he insisted on taking revenge, he would be expelled from the school, but even so, he did not regret it, and he must avenge the blood revenge of his teacher Yun Zhongzi.

"Since this is the case, the three of us, father and son, will avenge your elder brother and master, and fight against Tyranny to the end."

As he spoke, Ji Chang held Ji Fa and Lei Zhenzi's hands.

The father and son looked at each other with six eyes, and their eyes were full of determination.

(End of this chapter)