The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 934 The general trend is irreversible

After taking over the defense of Baishuiguan, in order to meet the fierce battle that may come at any time, Li Xizhi worked hard to strengthen the city wall, hoard all kinds of defense supplies, impose training on the soldiers, and check omissions and flaws around Baishuiguan more times. He has considered the lessons of Jieting, and put a lot of drinking water in Guancheng, but many times, when you have really worked hard, you will understand what despair is!
Li Xizhi is in this mood now. The battle between the enemy and us is not at the same level. The Flying Army is too advanced and too scary. For now, Tang Jun can only be beaten passively. In fact, Baishuiguan If it has enough depth, it is not impossible to deal with the Flying Shenzhou. After all, that thing does not fly too high, and its speed is relatively slow. The key is that it is too big. People who are not in the pod can also shoot through the cowhide, making it unable to fly and falling down, but in a narrow military fortress like Baishuiguan, there is not much strategic depth for them to maneuver, and there is no special crossbow Go deal with this thing.

Li Xizhi expected Yang Tong to send people to surrender. Now that even the city wall has been taken down, and the Sui army has cut off the rear, even if he doesn't surrender, the fearful Tang soldiers will probably surrender.

Li Xizhi never thought of using death to complete loyalty. He is indeed a courtier of the Li Tang Dynasty, but his family also needs him. If the integrity is really widely recognized by the world, the deeds of death and loyalty will not be so valuable up.Moreover, he is Li Xiaogong's former subordinate, and he is also very loyal to Li Jiancheng, but he has nothing to do with Li Shimin. It is absolutely impossible for him to repay Li Shimin who has no kindness at all with his death.

Speaking of it, Li Xizhi is a man of integrity. When he was the Prime Minister of Shi'an County in the Sui Dynasty, he led the army and the people to fight against the bandits for many years. He persisted until the last moment before he was forced to defect to the Li Tang Dynasty. He is worthy of the position of Prime Minister of Shi'an County. , even Yang Tong couldn't criticize him.

The current situation is very similar to that at the beginning. The reason why he did not agree to Xie Yingdeng immediately is because Li Xizhi heard another meaning from Xie Yingdeng's words, that is, he needed to help the Sui army capture Pu'an, Yicheng, Jinshan and other counties, and even Ask him to take the Sui army into Shu County.

Although Li Yuan and Li Shimin successively focused on suppressing Li Jiancheng's faction and distributed power to his cronies, Li Xizhi was very disgusted, but he was his old master after all. If he turned around and attacked the old master after surrendering, It is not a small blow to his reputation to spread it out, and it is also inconsistent with his conduct in the world.

"General, Xie Yingdeng is gone!" At this moment, deputy general Tang Jiao came in from the door and bowed to Li Xizhi who was frowning.

"I see." Li Xizhi nodded worriedly, life and death are only in Yang Tong's mind, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a dead end.
"General..." Tang Jiao, who did not leave, hesitated to speak.

"Is there anything else you want to say?" Li Xizhi asked with a frown.

Tang Jiao said bitterly: "Back to the general, many soldiers in our army have secretly surrendered to the Sui army. Although I sent people back and forth to stop them, we couldn't stop them from showing their hearts to the Sui army."

This kind of thing was already expected by Li Xizhi, he waved his hand a little disheartened and said: "If you can't stop it, then you don't have to stop it."

"General, we are now not only cut off from the back road, but also in danger. We don't even know how to fight the Sui army. The lives of thousands of us are all in the Sui Emperor's thought. Moreover, the Sui Emperor has experienced countless battles. Hundreds of games, but he has never lost in the universe. Such a person is really not something we can win. The general thought..." Tang Jiao took a careful look at Li Xizhi, and continued: "I can't wait. Let’s surrender too. Although the Sui Emperor was easier to kill, he killed all the damned people, as well as foreign nationalities, and he was kind to ordinary soldiers and common people. One citizen of the Great Sui Dynasty is fine. Moreover, since I entered Shu on a pilgrimage, I have persecuted the people in Shu in every possible way, causing public resentment. It will not be difficult for the general."

Hearing this, Li Xizhi gave Tang Jiao a cold look, and said, "General Tang's main purpose here is to persuade me to surrender to the Sui Dynasty, right?"

"That's right!" Tang Jiao gritted his teeth and said bravely, "Even after the loss of Jingzhou, the general trend of the world has been fixed. Even if we can keep the Sui Emperor's army out of the pass, we can't change the general trend of Sui's rule of the world. Just because the ancient Three Gorges Road, which was relied on as an iron wall by the Li and Tang Dynasty, has now fallen, and the counties and counties in the south of Yizhou have surrendered their cities one after another. The war is only one step away from the city of Chengdu. In terms of the current situation, My Great Tang Dynasty basically persisted in the next year. I waited here to fight stubbornly, but it would only increase casualties. These soldiers, before the Holy One entered Shu, were mostly ordinary people in the fields. How could such soldiers who had not experienced much actual combat Opponents of the Sui Emperor's army? Does the general have the heart to make them make unnecessary sacrifices?"

"What you said is not unreasonable." Li Xizhi was silent for a while, then sighed: "I also know that resisting the Sui army is meaningless to Datang except for casualties. It's not that I don't want to surrender, but that we Can't drop!"

"Why can't we surrender?" Tang Jiao said in a deep voice: "General, we didn't surrender because we heard the news and feared the wind, and it wasn't because we were disloyal to the Tang Dynasty, but because we couldn't deal with this weird Sui army at all. It has been reduced to the point where the entire army will be wiped out if it does not surrender, and we have an explanation for the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, when the general fought against Zhu Can and Xiao Xian in Jingzhou, he made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, but not only did he not get He was promoted, but because of the faction of His Royal Highness, he became a frontier guard, and the Holy One and King Jin treated the generals so poorly."

"Although the Holy Majesty employs people improperly and makes frequent mistakes in decision-making, the Great Tang has failed to become what it is now. However, the Crown Prince and King Jin are both talented and bold people. It is a pity that they were not born at the right time. If any one of them was the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty , my Tang Dynasty would not be defeated like this. It is even more unfortunate that Datang met the even more powerful Emperor Shengwu of the Sui Dynasty..." Li Xizhi had the heart to surrender, and he dared to criticize Li Yuan without hesitation. Shaking his head, he asked, "Does General Tang also think we should surrender?"

"Our Tang Dynasty has come to this point, and there is really no cure. General, the situation is irreversible! General please make a decision early." Tang Jiao replied with a bow.

Li Xizhi took a deep breath and said. "Forget it, let's go out and surrender tomorrow."

"The general is wise." Tang Jiao was overjoyed.

(End of this chapter)