Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

There were many people in the silent hall, but almost no sound could be heard, only the whining sound of the north wind entering the hall. Qu Silang thought of the words Li Shan said a quarter of an hour ago, good luck finally came.

Li Shan opened his hands, enjoying the warmth from the charcoal basin to his heart's content. After a day of forced marching, he was physically and mentally exhausted. He finally came back alive and could finally feel the presence of every part of his body.

Unconsciously moaning softly, Li Shan turned his head slightly, scanning every corner of the hall one by one.

The overturned table case, the overturned wine jar, the food that had run out of heat, Xin Liao'er kneeling on one knee in front of him covered in blood, Feng Duan's head offered with both hands, and Liang Liang who knelt down on his knees behind him. Army generals.

"On New Year's Eve, are you keeping watch?" Li Shan asked with a smile, as if reuniting with old friends.

Xin Liaoer lowered his head even lower, and the faces of the generals below were ashen. Just an hour ago, everyone was still mocking the King of Handan, but they were still looking forward to Liang Luoren's defeat of the Tang army. The county king had already led his troops to kill him.

Such a change made everyone dumbfounded and at the same time terrified. Liang Jiang, who had drunk too much, swayed slightly, with confusion in his eyes, as if he was trying to judge whether it was a dream or not.

In fact, Xin Liaoer was the most terrified in his heart. When the Tang army entered the city, he beheaded Feng Duan and surrendered. He frightened the generals with the title of King of Handan, but when he greeted him outside, he was more shocked than others.

I was just pulling a tiger's skin, who would have thought that the Handan King would actually personally lead his troops into Xiaoguan.

"You are a smart man." Li Shan said lazily while warming up the fire: "The famous wines in the north have never been better than Yuhuchun, but on New Year's Eve, they use these dirty wines..."

"Remember, when you watch the old age, you should drink the jade pot spring."

Xin Liaoer breathed a sigh of relief, which obviously recognized and accepted his surrender, "Your Highness will definitely follow what you say."

"Get up." Li Shan pouted his chin down, "Is it all here?"

"Nine times out of ten." Xin Liao'er put down Feng Duan's head, got up and replied, "There are two or three people in the camp, and the nephew of Jihu leader Liu Nucheng led five hundred cavalry to Xiaoguan two days ago. , originally to aid Guyuan, but due to wind and snow blocking the road, we stayed at Xiaoguan for a while."

"Oh?" Li Shan was a little surprised, and asked with interest: "How many nephews does Miss Liu have?"

Xin Liaoer was at a loss, "The three nephews are all the sons of Liu Nv's brother. The eldest son Liu Hei'er is in Guyuan, and the second son is stationed in Tongxin County with Liu Nv. This time it is the third son Liu Zhao .”

"Hu's surname?"

"Han surname." Xin Liaoer explained: "The Jihu clan is descended from the Xiongnu. The ancestor was Liu Yuan, Emperor Guangwen of the former Zhao Dynasty. During the Northern Wei and Eastern Wei Dynasties, he was restored to the country, and was wiped out by the Northern Qi Dynasty and fled into the grassland."

Li Shan wasn't worried about the war, Liang's army had no leader, how could Zhang Zhongjian's [-] sharp men fail to take it down, let alone Liu Heier.

Seeing Li Shan pondering, Xin Liaoer said cautiously: "The Jihu clan is led by Liu Nvni, followed by Liu Heier. Now that Xiaoguan has returned to the Tang Dynasty, he only needs to be comforted. Liu Heier must not dare to defy Tianwei. "

Li Shan shook his head with a smile, and began to think about how to use the five hundred cavalry. Of course, no matter how to use it, the first thing to see is whether Liu Hei'er can subdue those tribesmen.

At this time, in the Liang Jun camp on the east side of Xiaoguan, the fighting was fierce. Hundreds of Tang Jun chased Liang Jun's buttocks to kill, and there were corpses everywhere on the ground.

The flames mixed in the wind and snow, and the hurried figures reflected by the flames caused the entire camp to fall into chaos.

Su Dingfang once commented that Zhang Zhongjian was not as good as him in commanding a large army, but Zhang Zhongjian was slightly better than him in commanding a small force.

But at this moment, Zhang Zhongjian's face was ashen, and he tightly grasped the horsewhip in his hand. From the moment when eight hundred sharp men entered Xiaoguan and the flag of Tang Dynasty fluttered, it was certain to win Xiaoguan.

New Year's Eve, late at night, drunk, in a dream... These factors allowed Tang Jun to enter the camp without any effort, disintegrating Liang Jun's fighting spirit.

But Zhang Zhongjian did not intend to kill them all, but would choose to keep his hands, especially after knowing that Liang Jun’s generals were basically wiped out. Brings a lot of risk.

But Duan Decao led those Yanzhou soldiers to slash and kill, and the heads of the people who killed them were still refusing to stop. Even if a large number of Liang soldiers knelt down and begged for mercy, they would inevitably be hacked to death... In this case, the trapped beasts' reluctance to fight directly led to this situation. A battle that should have ended is still going on, which directly caused Tang Jun's casualties to be much greater than Zhang Zhongjian estimated.

How could Zhang Zhongjian not be angry for resisting orders on the battlefield and killing captives without authorization? If not for the many Yanzhou government soldiers under his command, he would have had Duan Decao's head beheaded long ago.

In the school grounds not too far from here, hundreds of cavalry were ready to go, and dozens of people in the corner were whispering something, and someone scolded them from time to time.

After Liu Heier appeared, he only said two words, one was "The King of Handan has entered the pass", Liu Zhao was dumbfounded, although he already knew that the Tang army had broken through the pass, but he did not expect that the commander of the Tang army would come in person.

Liu Heier's second sentence is "commanding His Royal Highness's personal guard".

As soon as these words came out, Liu Zhao knew that the fall of Xiaoguan was unstoppable, and the elder brother in front of him was determined to descend to Tang. For the people like them, there was no essential difference between Liang Guo and Datang of.

Liu Zhao also knew what Xiaoguan's gains and losses meant, and it was obvious what choice to make.

And then the five tribesmen selected by Liu Heier are telling others what Liang Luoren and Suo Zhou did. Some cavalrymen can't hold back anymore, their horses are spinning around in place, and the scimitars at their waists have been pulled out. .

Liu Zhao asked in a low voice: "All are assigned by the elder brother... But uncle, do you want to go first..."

"No rush." ​​Liu Heier said quietly.

Liu Zhao was a little anxious, "Since I surrendered to Tang, I have to offer something... Uncle is stationed in Tongxin County, once he is persuaded..."

"No rush." ​​Liu Heier repeated, "His Royal Highness Xu Jihu Neifu, resettled Lingzhou or Liangzhou, Huizhou after the war, Xu built a house, Xu Hushi."

"Then you have to persuade uncle..."

"You take three hundred cavalry to quell the fighting as soon as possible." Liu Heier ordered directly, "The remaining two hundred cavalry follow me."

"where to?"

Liu Heier didn't say anything, and specially assigned one of Zhang Zhongjian's generals to take Liu Zhao to join the battle, and he quickly rushed to the north gate with two hundred cavalry.

Duan Decao was crazy about killing, but generals like Zhang Zhongjian and Liu Heier obviously considered more comprehensively, and their eyes were not only on the battle in front of them.

"Ah Hei?" Wang Junhao first watched hundreds of cavalry galloping vigilantly, and then found the leader Liu Hei'er.

"Is there any omission?"

"I've asked, but no one is guarding the top of the city. When a certain guard arrived, the city gate opened wide, and more than a dozen people escaped." Wang Junhao didn't care.

Liu Heier's face turned cold, "Open the city gate."

"what?"

"Open the city gate!" Liu Heier emphasized: "Never leak any news!"