Emperor Zhenguan

Chapter 126 No one is reliable

From the very beginning, Zhu Can had no intention of defending Nanyang. His king was the Caotou King, and he knew that he had already provoked the wrath of others, so he never thought of establishing a reliable base.For him, the sky is big and the earth is big, and home is everywhere.

As long as you are alive, you can do anything.

Whether Nanyang loses it or not, does it have something to do with him?
Therefore, there is almost no difference between Li Shuliang conquering Nanyang and directly entering Nanyang.

It was very relaxed, even the relaxed Li Shuliang found it incredible.

This feeling is like when he went to Pingkangfang to learn body art, the teacher there did not resist at all, and taught him all kinds of wonderful posture skills very carefully.

"Your Majesty, Nanyang has ten rooms and nine empties, the granary is empty, and the local big households have disappeared." Zhou Chao said beside him.

Li Shuliang put his hands on his knees and said with righteous indignation: "If Zhu Can is caught by this king, he must be burned!"

These words are true, but everyone feels that the ogre king Zhu Can is disgusting and damned.Although Li Shuliang is a crouching dragon, he is also a human being, and there is still a basic bottom line for being a human being.

"Your Majesty, we made a surprise attack on Nanyang and did not bring food and grass. What should we do next?"

"Don't worry, the king has already sent someone to inform Yu Yongning and Zheng Yuanxuan that as long as they pursue Zhu Can, the event will be settled." Li Shuliang looked confident.

Zhou Chao frowned and reminded: "Your Majesty, the scouts have not found any sign of Zhu Can returning to help."

Ok?
Li Shuliang frowned, and said with a sneer, "Hmph, after all, it's bandits, and the defense of this heavy city is so lax, no wonder it loses again and again. It doesn't matter, I believe that Zhu Can will come back soon, we'll wait for him to die."

Seeing King Changping's confident look, Zhou Chao wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he decided not to.In his heart, he was actually a little uneasy.

Because Nanyang's defense is basically useless.If Zhu Can really valued Nanyang, would he despise him so much?
The emptiness in the rear is not so empty. Basically, they entered Nanyang without firing an arrow.

This feeling is a bit like an empty city plan.

Zhu Can knew the news that Tang Jun had captured Nanyang soon after, but he didn't feel it at all.

Nanyang has long been ruined by him, and there is nothing to be done if you take it back, so it is better to continue to rob it in another place.

After beating the Tang army back to Wuguan, Zhu Can planned to go south. After all, there were Tang army soldiers and horses before and after this time, and it would not be safe to stay in Dengzhou for a long time.

When he left to retreat, Tang Jun came again!
This made Zhu Can very angry. Can I finish it all at once? I'm so annoyed.

This time it was Lujiang King Li Yuan who led the army. He had already received the news that King Changping had captured Nanyang, so he specially led his army to chase and kill Zhu Can.

The banners of the Tang army were unfurled, and there was a sound of hunting.

"Duan Zhixuan!" Li Yuan shouted.

"The end is here!"

"This king ordered you to lead three thousand soldiers and horses to attack, and you must win without any mistakes!"

"The last will obey!"

Duan Zhixuan's eyes were slightly condensed, he glanced at Xue Shou, the two of them got on their horses, gathered their soldiers and horses, and rushed towards Zhu Can's army.

Afterwards, Li Yuan reprimanded Fang Qiu and assigned tasks to Yu Yongning and Zheng Yuanxuan successively.After the end, he led the Chinese army to rush directly to Zhu Can's army.

"Kill!"

The Tang army rode their horses and galloped aggressively towards Zhu Can's army.

Zhu Can pondered, Tang Jun is really tenacious, he just lost to him and came again, it seems that if Tang Jun is not completely dealt with, he will go unsteadily.

Dry!
The war broke out, and the two sides fought in a daze.

Li Yuan originally thought that he was 'chasing and killing' Zhu Can this time, but he never thought that Zhu Can had no intention of returning to aid Nanyang at all.

The two sides fought for two days and one night, and Li Yuan finally realized that something was wrong.

Zhu Can didn't look like he was going to rush back to help Nanyang at all.

It is true that Zhu Can's troops are all stragglers, but the hundreds of thousands of stragglers are not so easy to fight.

In particular, the two coaches of Tang Jun were Li Shuliang and Li Yuan respectively.

On the third day of the battle between the two sides, the Tang army suffered a small-scale defeat, but it did not affect the frontal battlefield.

But on the fourth day, things went wrong. Li Yuan made a few blind commands, and with Duan Zhixuan's "deliberate cooperation", the Tang army began to lose.

It was a defeat first, followed by three consecutive defeats, and the losses of soldiers and horses were extremely heavy.

Li Yuan was afraid, he didn't have much military talent, he belonged to the kind of person whose heart is higher than the sky, and life is thinner than paper.

After one defeat after another, he was worried that he would die under Zhu Can's hands, so he decisively withdrew to Wuguan.

This time Zhu Can lost his temper and once stormed Wuguan, beating Li Yuan in fear.

"King of Lujiang, please ask the imperial court for help." Yu Yongning looked at Zhu Can's soldiers and horses retreating slowly under Wuguan, and said to Li Yuan.

Ask for help?

Li Yuan's face darkened, once he asked for help, the task assigned to him by the crown prince would not be completed.

Never ask for help!

"What are you panicking!" He reprimanded, "This king has already written to Uncle Changping, and soon the Uncle will lead an army to encircle Zhu Can, and we will surely win!"

Yu Yongning jumped angrily, why didn't any of these clans be reliable, they were all idiots!
"King of Lujiang, do you know that once Wuguan is lost, the pass will be threatened!" Yu Yongning told Li Yuan almost in a roar.

"Of course this king knows!" Li Yuan yelled back, "This king said, with Uncle Changping coming back for help, we haven't reached the point of asking the court for help! If you are afraid, go back by yourself!"

"You!" Yu Yongning was so angry that a mouthful of old blood was stuck in his chest, and he was in pain.

Zheng Yuanxuan was busy trying to smooth things over, and asked someone to drag Yu Yongning down first.

He looked around and found no one else, so he said in a low voice, "King Lujiang, what's going on!"

"What's the matter?"

"Why didn't the prince stop King Changping from attacking Zhu Can?" Zheng Yuanxuan had been asking Li Yuan this matter all this time, why the prince didn't stop King Changping, but instead asked Li Yuan to lead the army to support King Changping from attacking Zhu Can.

However, Li Yuan kept silent.

Now, he stopped pretending, and directly began to question Li Yuan.

Li Yuan also knew that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he said directly: "His Royal Highness doesn't care whether King Changping wins or loses."

"What do you mean?" Zheng Yuanxuan frowned, feeling that the matter was not simple.

Li Yuan said indifferently: "His Royal Highness wants the Yunyang Army."

Hearing this, Zheng Yuanxuan's pupils shrank suddenly.

Although both he and Yu Yongning wondered why the King of Chu didn't lead the Yunyang Army to support Shangzhou, they didn't think much about it.After all, the king of Chu was escorting food to Hebei, and he was at a loss for resources, and the war in Shangzhou was urgent, so it was normal for the sage to ask the Yunyang army to come to support him.

But now that Zheng Yuanxuan heard what Li Yuan said, he suddenly understood that the reason why the Yunyang army was transferred to Shangzhou might not be so simple behind it.

"what happened?"

"The specific things, when I return to Chang'an, His Royal Highness will tell you. Now, you have to help me defend Shangzhou well. This is the greatest credit, even greater than the credit for defeating Zhu Can. At the same time, this It is also what the crown prince wishes to see." Li Yuan said.

Zheng Yuanxuan was stunned and didn't know what to say for a while.

On the other side, Duan Zhixuan and Xue Shou were also discussing the follow-up.

Xue Shou said: "Right now Li Yuan is hurt by Zhu Can's beating, and he is definitely not willing to continue attacking Zhu Can in a short time. I think he will rest for a while."

"No way, I heard that he wrote to King Changping, maybe he will encircle Zhu Can with King Changping." Duan Zhixuan swung his horsewhip.

"If that's the case, it would be great." Xue Shou smiled.

What they want is for Li Yuan to keep attacking.

Duan Zhixuan immediately understood what he meant, smiled and continued, "So, now we have to worry that he won't attack Zhu Can?"

Xue Shou said: "It's not that simple. King Changping will definitely attack when he finds that Zhu Can will not return to aid Nanyang. At that time, Li Yuan will definitely follow. No matter what, he will not escape failure. The only thing I am worried about now is that Zhu Can directly Leave Dengzhou, so that our plan cannot continue to be implemented."

Duan Zhixuan thought about it carefully and found that it was indeed the case.

Once Zhu Can leaves, there will be no battles, and the plan will definitely be interrupted.

"Then what can you do to make Zhu Can stay?"

"Yes." Xue Shou smiled confidently.

(End of this chapter)