Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 429
Chapter [-]
Naturally, Luoyang City was not a piece of paper, but the fire was out of control, which was beyond everyone's expectations.Wang Shichong listened to the little eunuch who had just returned from inquiring about the news and said that Wang Lanzhu had gone crazy. While crying, he took a torch and lit the champion's mansion, which caused the fire.

If it was someone else, Wang Shichong naturally wouldn't mind killing people to gain power.As the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat children, and this is a daughter who has no interest in him. Wang Shichong didn't think too much about it. After all, Wang Lanzhu, who was pregnant with Liujia, couldn't bear the news of Shan Xiongxin's suicide. of.

Wang Shichong said coldly: "Order Wuhou Mansion to put out the fire immediately!"

But the fire was getting bigger and bigger, with the sound of weapons clashing and screams, which made Wang Shichong's face turn livid. For more than 40 years, I have lived on dogs.

In fact, it was a very unexpected move.

After the battle of Taichu Palace, the Beiwei army was broken into pieces and dispersed to counties and counties around Luoyang.When Wang Lanzhu set fire to the Champion General's Mansion on Duanmen Street, a Beiwei army ordered to scout the situation in Luoyang happened to stay in several inns where the intersection of Duanmen Street and Tianjin Street crossed.

At that time, the champion general's mansion was on fire, and Luoyang City was in chaos. This Su Chong's team was seeing the opportunity.He calmly ordered the five gang leaders under his command: "This is a good opportunity. Now that Luoyang City is in chaos, we will separate, one by one, and set fires scatteredly. Then Luoyang City will have fun!"

When the five gang leaders heard it, it was true.Anyway, the reconnaissance mission has been completed, and the places where the garrison troops in Luoyang City are stationed and the Pingyang patrol habit have already been scouted by the Beiwei Army before Zheng Jun's martial law.The task has been completed, and Su Chong has the mentality of earning something.

Since Wang Shichong issued a strict order to extinguish the fire in the mansion of the champion general, five and ten corporals under Su Chong's command easily stole some lamp oil or even vegetable oil from inns or ordinary people's homes. Of course, lamp oil Whether it is vegetable oil or vegetable oil, they are not very good materials for starting fire, but the main buildings in Luoyang City are mostly made of pitch pine wood. In just one stick of incense, Duanmen Street and Tianjin Street, the two main The streets were centered on Duanmen Street, and the fire spread to all directions.

The night and chaos gave Su Chong's troops great cover. Wang Shichong's nephews Wang Tai, Wang Jundu, Wang Qianshou, Wang Honglie, Wang Xingben, Wang Wan, Wang Renze, Wang Daocheng, Wang Daoxun, and Wang Daokui counted as one of them. , Everyone's mansion was set ablaze.

However, at this time, the whereabouts of Su Chong's troops of the Beiwei Army were also discovered by Wang Daoxun's subordinates. Wang Daoxun accidentally burned a large piece of his hair. Wang Daoxun was furious and ordered to pursue Su Chong's troops at all costs. .Su Chong's troops retreated while fighting, and when they retreated to Shangchunmen, they saw the mansion of Wang Shichong's Chen Guogong and Situ Lingshangshushi Duan Da. In the middle, even if he was hacked to death by random knives, Su Chong also became ruthless.

He didn't stop doing anything, and he even ordered Duan Da's mansion.

If it weren't for the fire in Luoyang City, countless people flocked out of the city, as long as Wang Shichong ordered the city gate to be closed, no one from Su Chong's troops would be able to escape.

In the end, there were 52 people under Su Chong's troops, and 23 people escaped from Luoyang City, and 29 people were killed or captured. However, the losses they caused to Luoyang City were astonishing. There are about three hundred people, but most of them are headed by Zheng Wang Shichong's confidant nephew.

In the early morning of the next day, Wang Shichong got the exact news that the mansion of the champion general was burned to the ground, and the princess Wang Lanzhu was buried in the sea of ​​flames. Thirteen people were found in the mansion of the champion general, including a charred female body pregnant with Liujia. Wang Shichong was very sad.

However, Wang Shichong didn't need to grieve because he had no time to grieve.On the fifth day of the first lunar month in the third year of Wude, Wang Shichong received the news that Li Yuan, the lord of Chang'an Li Tang in Guanzhong, officially appointed his son Li Shimin, the king of Qin, as the Minister of the Eastern Shaanxi Province and the Marshal of the Eastern Shaanxi Provincial Army and Horse Marching Army. Qu Tutong and Chen Ying respectively As the left and right deputy commanders, he led 15 soldiers and horses to conquer the state of Zheng.

There is no detailed battle report yet, but Wang Shichong has already received an urgent report from Wang Renze that the 5 forwards led by the deputy marshal of Tang Jun and the champion general have arrived at Hangu Pass.

……

In order to excuse his incompetence, Wang Ren gave Wang Shichong an urgent report and reported to Wang Shichong that Chen Ying's [-] army was the best of Li Tang's elite.

However, the actual situation is that Chen Ying did not bring [-] troops to the Hangu Pass at all, but divided his troops into the Hangu Pass with five troops led by the most powerful East Palace Prince Zuowei.After the five Zhechong mansions were strengthened by Chen Ying, each Zhechong mansion had five regiments under its jurisdiction, and each regiment had three brigades under it, with a total of more than [-] troops.

As for the other Zuowei rate and the left and right imperial rate, they seized the land of Fenglin, Hongnong, Yanxiang, Hucheng, Lushi, Changshui, and Taolin counties respectively.

As for the results of the battle, almost without exception, seeing Chen Ying's Datao banner, the county lieutenants and county magistrates of Fenglin, Hongnong, Yanxiang, Hucheng, Lushi, Changshui, and Taolin led the main force. Bo and the county magistrate voluntarily surrendered.

Chen Ying's purpose of attacking Hangu Pass was very clear. He didn't want to steal Li Shimin's limelight. What he wanted was Taolin County, Taolin County's rich resources and Taolin's gold mines.

After occupying Taolin County, Chen Ying didn't even enter the county seat, and directly led his personal guard Zhechong Mansion and nine regiments of Modao Army, who were proficient under his command, to fight all the way to the gold mine in Xiaoshan outside Taolin County.The surface of Taolin is composed of mountains, soil plains, and river terraces. The landform is roughly divided into "seven mountains, two plains and one sub-river". In terms of fertility, it can almost be compared with the desert in the northwest, and there is never enough food.

However, the gold in Taolin is very abundant. It has been mined since the Han Dynasty, and it has not been reduced for hundreds of years.Not only did it not decrease, but new mines were continuously discovered. In the high-tech mining of later generations, the gold output actually exceeded [-] tons.Of course, for such a gold mine, no matter who gets this gold mine, they will pay attention to it.

Hearing that Chen Ying wanted to pay attention to Taolin Gold Mine, Taolin County Magistrate Xia Dongxu frowned and said, "General Chen, Taolin Gold Mine is not easy to deal with!"

Chen Ying asked, "How many defenders are there in Taolin Gold Mine?"

Although Taolin County only has more than thirty yamen servants, not a single soldier.However, no matter who owns this gold mine, he will not take it lightly.When Wang Shichong did not usurp the throne, this place belonged to the Dugu family and the Hongnong Yang family, and of course the big head still belonged to the court.However, after Wang Shichong killed Yang Tong and blatantly usurped the throne, he broke his face and sent his Wang Xuanqiong to personally take over thirteen gold mines in Taolin County, large and small, and sent [-] elite soldiers to station here.

These [-] armored soldiers did not belong to Wang Renze's command at Hangu Pass, but directly belonged to Wang Shichong. Of course, any gold mined was directly transported to Luoyang City.

Xia Dongxu said: "There are thirteen gold mines in Taolin County, large and small, and each gold mine is stationed with at least 300 people and as many as [-] people!"

When Fan Hu, who had just surrendered, heard this, he said disapprovingly: "This number of people is not enough to fit between the teeth!"

Chen Ying's gaze was like lightning, and he stared at Fan Hu fiercely, making Fan Hu shrink back and dare not speak anymore.

Xia Dongxu said: "Any gold mine is not difficult to fight, but what is hard to fight is the five thousand soldiers stationed by Wang Xuanqiong in Jinsha Town. ten……"

Chen Ying nodded and said: "This amount of troops is not enough for this general to get between his teeth. I will take gold mines one by one. This general does not have the skill. The target is Wang Xuanqiong's camp in Jinsha Town!"

Although the words were the same, when Fan Hu said it, people thought he was bragging, but when he said it in Chen Ying's mouth, people thought it should be taken for granted.

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Xiaoshan gold mine is very famous in later generations, of course, it is also famous in this era.More than forty miles away from Taolin County, Xiaoshan Jinsha Camp is a permanent military camp where Wang Xuanqiong's 62 Jia soldiers are stationed.The thirteen gold mines in Xiaoshan are scattered around Jinsha Town in an oval shape. Jinsha Town is [-] miles away from the farthest gold mine and seven miles away from the nearest one.No matter which gold mine is attacked, Wang Xuanqiong can provide effective support in the first time.

At this time in the Chinese Army Festival Hall, Wang Xuanqiong was like an ant on a hot pot. All the news he received recently was bad news. First, his brother-in-law Shan Xiongxin was defeated and captured in Beiyuan. Later, it was rumored that Shan Xiongxin would rather die than surrender. , news of suicide and martyrdom.Then Wang Renze was captured by the Tang army while camping in the Taichu Palace, and more than half of his soldiers were lost. When he retreated to Hangu Pass, there were only less than 8000 troops left.

Now, Wang Renze no longer has the strength to provide support. Once Jinsha Town is ambushed, his [-] soldiers will be a lone army.

But the problem is, he is powerless now.

Since the beginning of winter last year, the roads were not smooth, so he stopped transporting gold to Luoyang City. In the vault in Jinsha Town, there were 2 boxes of gold. For convenience, concealed gold.There are fourteen large boxes of these golds, weighing more than 20 catties, more than [-] taels, and the value is equivalent to [-] copper coins.

At this time, Wang Xuanqiong was also very angry.He yelled at Wang Renze: "It's just a pig, with more than 3 horses, and it was lost in just a few days. It is impossible for [-] pigs to be killed in just three days at Hangu Pass." ..."

However, as the saying goes, you can come to whatever you are afraid of.When Wang Xuanqiong was worried about his own fate, Chen Ying led his personal guard Zhechong Mansion and nine regiments of Modao Army, and they had already appeared in the sight of the sentinels on the watchtower in Jinsha Town.

At the mouth of the valley after turning the bend, there appeared densely packed Tang army soldiers, led by six banners, and written in a large official script.

"Champion General Chen!"

"Eastern Palace Prince Guest Chen"

"Chen, Minister of Industry!"

"Jiejie Shanzhou Chen"

"Deputy Marshal Chen, Deputy Marshal of the Army of Eastern Shaanxi Province"

"Shaanxi Xingtai School Prosecutor Right Servant Shoots Chen"

Seeing the six banners, Wang Xuanqiong's face turned ashen, his body trembled like chaff, and he murmured: "It's over, it's over, Chen Ying is here, it's all over now!"

(End of this chapter)