Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 693 Iron Ore
The battle lasted for an hour.

An hour later, the rebels retreated steadily, and many rebels began to abscond, no matter how Li Hedong tried to stop them, it was useless.

These people didn't want to leave Datang, and now they are killed like this, what are they doing if they don't run away?
The rebels were defeated, and the Mad Demon Army fought their way out, directly deciding the final situation.

Li Hedong and the remaining dozens of rebels were surrounded by Qin Tian and the others.

"Prince Chu, you have no other choice."

Li Hedong looked at Qin Tian, ​​hehe smiled: "You want me to surrender?"

Qin Tian shook his head: "No, this Marquis has already given you a chance, but you didn't cherish it."

The meaning of the words is already very clear, now, even if it is too late for Li Hedong to surrender, he can only die.

Li Dong's eyebrows were solemn, and he laughed again: "This king has never thought of surrendering, let alone dying in your hands."

As he said that, Li Hedong suddenly drew his sword and killed himself.

His movements were fast, and Jiang Buhe reached out to stop him, but after his finger was cut off, he couldn't stop him either.

Li Hedong suddenly fell to the ground, Jiang Buhe's fingers were still bleeding.

The weather was unbelievably hot, and after a big fight, everyone felt a little overwhelmed.

"My lord..." Jiang Buhuo didn't seem to have expected such a result. The situation, which was originally good, turned out to be like this in a few days.

After he yelled loudly, without the slightest doubt, he immediately drew his knife and killed himself.

Both Li Hedong and Jiang Buge died.

Qin Tian looked at the two of them, and didn't have any thoughts about Li Hedong. A prince became a prisoner. This kind of gap was unacceptable to him. What touched him was Jiang's disagreement.

He was just a counselor, but he was willing to be buried with Li Hedong, which is rare.

After the war ended, Qin Tian led his people back to Jingzhou City.

At this time, Jingzhou City has gradually calmed down, and many people have come out of their homes one after another.

Of course, more importantly, they all received disaster relief food from the imperial court.

Jingzhou City will recover slowly, and maybe in the future, it will still be very prosperous here.

"Brother Qin, now that the rebel army is gone, are we going back to Beijing as a class teacher?"

Cheng Chumo asked, and Hou Junji and Su Dingfang also looked over. Now, they are the heroes who put down the rebel army, and they will be rewarded after returning to Beijing.

Not only them, but also the soldiers were anxious to go back.

Qin Tian shook his head: "It's not the time yet. The reason why King Chu was able to rebel is because his fief has iron mines, which allow him to manufacture a large number of weapons. We need to find the iron mines, and then report to the court to send People mined."

Hearing Qin Tian's attention to mining iron ore, a sneer appeared on the corner of Su Dingfang's mouth: "My Tang Dynasty has enough weapons, why do we need to mine iron ore again, wasting people's money?"

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty all had weapons. Now that the rebels are eliminated, the tens of thousands of weapons of the King of Chu have become theirs. Even if the Tang Dynasty is expanding its army now, it is enough to distribute weapons to them of.

As for weapons, Datang has no shortage.

For a long time, Datang has been fighting, and this thing has not yet arrived for storage.

Qin Tian shook his head: "There is indeed no shortage of weapons, but the weapons of my Great Tang are of poor quality. This Marquis wants to use the iron from this iron mine to forge a batch of high-quality weapons to completely improve my Great Tang soldiers. The strength of the horse."

Hearing that Qin Tian wanted to strike iron, Su Dingfang pouted again, disapproving, but didn't say much.

Soon, Qin Tian found someone who knew about the iron mine, and Weapons asked that person to lead them to check it out.

The iron ore is very hidden in a mountain in the fiefdom of the King of Chu. When the King of Chu sent people to mine the iron ore and make weapons, it was also there. Before that, he had ordered the mountain to be closed and no one could approach it.

Therefore, the king of Chu conspired for a long time to rebel before anyone noticed.

Qin Tian led people into the mountain, and after walking for a long time, he finally saw the iron mine. The iron mine was very large. Although the iron stored in it had been used a lot by Li Dongdong, there was still a lot left.

After seeing these iron mines, Qin Tian was even more delighted. With these iron mines, he could double Tang Jun's strength.

On the same day, Qin Tian sent people to block the iron mine, and after he came out, he directly recruited miners to mine. Here, he sent people to the capital to deliver a letter to Li Shimin about the situation.

Qin Tian was a little fanatical about iron ore, but Hou Junji and Su Dingfang were not interested at all. Weapons, if you don't have them, you will be nervous, and if you have them, you don't think there is anything.

Therefore, they did not want to stay in Jingzhou City.

On this day, two people came to look for Qin Tian.

"Lord Qin, now that the rebel army is gone and our mission has been completed, what's the matter with you staying here and not leaving?" Hou Junji's tone was not particularly friendly.

Su Dingfang was even more straightforward: "If you refuse to go back, then we will go back to the capital first."

The two came to force Qin Tian to leave today. Qin Tian saw that the two of them were so eager to go back to receive the merit, and smiled: "Since you two want to go back, then go back, the head of King Chu, if you two want If you want, you can also take it back, I won’t take this credit with you.”

Hearing this, both Hou Junji and Su Dingfang were taken aback for a moment, killing the King of Chu, what a great contribution, Qin Tian didn't want it?

The two looked at each other, a bit confused about what Qin Tian meant.

"Don't you two want it?"

What Qin Tian said was calm, Hou Junji curled his lips: "Why don't you want it? If you want to give it, we naturally want it, and we have a share of the credit."

"General Hou is right. Our credit for suppressing the rebellion is the same. Take the head of Chu King Li Dong and return to Beijing."

After saying this, Hou Junji and Su Dingfang left directly.

After they left, Qin Wu, Cheng Chumo and others were a little puzzled.

"Brother Qin, don't you want to give us the credit for killing King Chu?"

"That's right, if you give it to me, maybe the Holy Majesty can give me a title." Qin Wu complained a little, the brothers followed Qin Tian to kill the enemy, and finally made a great contribution, but was sent away by Qin Tian casually out.

A group of people looked at Qin Tian, ​​completely unable to understand what he was thinking. Qin Tian smiled wryly: "If killing the king of Chu is really a credit, I won't give it to them. Putting down the rebellion is an attack, but killing the king of Chu is not. Congratulations, the current Holy Majesty still cares about family affection. Although he will not say anything, he will not reward the person who killed the king of Chu. Therefore, this contribution is optional. Stay here and wait for the news from Chang'an. , as long as the Holy Majesty agrees to my plan, after returning, you will be credited."

As long as Li Shimin agrees to make iron and send people to take charge of mining here, they can go back. Now, he must protect this iron mine.

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