Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 493 Li Shimin Vomits Blood

Chapter [-] Li Shimin is vomiting blood

It was already very late at night, but in Dou Jiande's temporary palace in Xingyang, Dou Jiande didn't feel sleepy at all.Dou Jiande proclaimed himself in court, but he did not completely lose himself in power and desire like a poor man suddenly rich.Dou Jiande is still the former Dou Jiande, he has a very good habit, no matter how late he will finish today's work, and will not leave it until tomorrow.

Even if Yu Jia went to the front line personally, not only did he have to worry about the military on the front line, but also the incidents in the 39 states of Hebei in the rear.Although his Nayan Song Zhengben was only a county magistrate, he was a great talent and managed the 39 prefectures of Hebei in an orderly manner.

When he learned that Li Shimin was conquering Wang Shichong in the east, Dou Jiande led an army of [-] to march westward. He wanted to rescue Wang Shichong, but in fact, he was more concerned about fighting outside the country, avoiding the war from spreading to Hebei, and bringing peace and stability to the folks in Hebei. living environment.

The memorials that Dou Jiande looked at were actually the completion of spring plowing in various places.Because of Yang Guang's three conquests of Goguryeo, Hebei's material and human resources were almost exhausted, and Dou Jiande's defeat of Hebei was actually a mess.In order to improve the livelihood of the people in the 39 prefectures of Hebei, Dou Jiande also took great pains.

Accepting words, the official of the mouthpiece, listens to the words of the lower and accepts the words of the superior, and accepts the words of the superior to the lower, and must believe them.Song Zhiben did not disappoint Dou Jiande's trust. He implemented the land equalization system in the 39 prefectures of Hebei, and adopted the same lease adjustment as Li Tang. The difference from Li Tang was that Dou Jiande stipulated that Ding Nan was sixteen (Tang Dynasty) years old and above, and granted There are [-] mu of land, of which [-] mu is Yongye farmland and [-] mu is koufen farmland.Return to the field after death.The government collects rent and adjustments from the people based on the land grant records.Regardless of rich or poor, all pay a fixed amount of rent.

Slightly different from Li Tang, Dou Jiande's civil and military officials are not as bloated as the Tang Dynasty, and the nobles are far less than Li Tang. The Li family in Longyou is a very large family. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan canonized the fourteen founding heroes , fourteen Dukes of the country, however, Li Yuan only made 24 of his sons kings, nineteen princesses (without titles) and more. brothers.If you count the cousins, the king of the county and the Duke of the state, they are no less than forty.

Li Tang's clan is more than a hundred times that of Dou Jiande's Dou's clan. If you count the extravagance of the clan, the gap is more than ten thousand times.In fact, in the entire Dou clan, only Dou Jiande had one wife and two concubines, more than a dozen maids, and no eunuchs.

It is precisely because the clan hardly consumes taxes that Dou Jiande's land rent is only half that of Li Tang's.Renting one stone for a hundred mu of land is equivalent to one bucket per mu.Almost one-thirtieth of farmers' income is handed over, and the rest is taken care of by themselves.However, it is precisely because of this low tax system that the fugitives from Hebei who had hidden wars or famines returned one after another.

How did Liu Heikai raise his flag against Tang after Dou Jiande was killed, and in just half a year not only restored the 39 prefectures of Hebei and Central Plains during Dou Jiande's time, but also almost overthrew Li Tang?Everyone must have understood by now, because the common people are the most pragmatic, they don't care who is the emperor, but they can clearly distinguish who treats them well.

The memorial sent by Song Zhengben made Dou Jiande seem to have eaten honey. In the words of later generations, the situation is very good.There are 460 million registered Dingkou people in Hebei, which means that even if there is only one shi tax per 460 mu, Dou Jiande can still get 30 million shi of grain, which is more than enough to feed his [-] army.

However, when Dou Jiande saw that there was only the last memorial left, Ling Jing's voice sounded outside the palace: "Your Majesty, it's late at night, please rest early!"

"Ling Jijiu, I happen to be a little hungry, let's have some supper before going to sleep!" Dou Jiande suddenly felt a little hungry, and said to the attendants beside him: "Go pass two bowls of soup cakes!"

Soup cakes are the noodles of later generations.However, the soup cakes at this time are a bit like the belt noodles in Xi'an, which are wide and thick, but the taste is really good.

Ling Jing wasn't too surprised, after all, Dou Jiande usually doesn't have any airs.Not to mention that he is a son of a country offering wine, even if he is an ordinary soldier, Dou Jiande will make homework for them, and he will also give them the same food and lodging.

After a while, the attendant came in slowly, carrying two bowls of steaming pancakes.

Ling Jing took the soup cake and put it on the table, and arranged the chopsticks separately.Ling Jing suddenly noticed that Dou Jiande's face became very ugly.

"Your Majesty, it's time to eat!" Ling Jing realized something was wrong, and his heart skipped a beat.Did Wang Shichong lose again?
Dou Jiande said angrily: "I can't even eat a meal in peace!"

"Your Majesty, could it be that Zheng Guo suffered another defeat?" Ling Jing asked cautiously.

Dou Jiande shook his head and said with a wry smile: "The situation is worse than Zheng Guo's defeat!"

Ling Jing's heart sank, and he said solemnly: "Hebei...change!"

Dou Jiande sighed long and long: "Although I missed the mark, it's not far away!"

Talking about the memorial in Ling Jingjiang's hand, it is precisely a letter of credence.

Ling Jing opened it casually, only looked at the beginning, and his eyelids twitched: "Is Chuluo Khan dead?"

Dou Jiande nodded and said: "Yes, Chu Luo died. According to Turkic tradition, after Chu Luo died, his son should succeed him, but Turkic Ke Dunyi became a princess. He despised Aosheshe as ugly and cowardly, so he did not stand up. He is the Khan, and established his younger brother Dobi. Now Princess Yicheng has the second most powerful Turkic power and has won the allegiance of the four Khans. She supports Doubi, and Osheshe has no choice. No. Jieli Khan."

Ling Jing hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty is worried, duh... Jieli Khan might be bad for us Daxia!"

"Impossible, but sure!" Dou Jiande was actually hesitant, after all, he really didn't want to give up the opportunity in front of him. Although he had suffered a small setback before the Mo Dao Army, now he has found a way to restrain the Mo Dao Army.That is the attack of fire. No matter how strong the armor of the Modao Army is, it cannot be cut with a knife or pierced with a spear. However, in the face of fire, the soldiers of the Modao Army are also flesh and blood. They must not be able to withstand the heat and burning of the flames.

As long as Hulao passes suddenly and Wang Shichong pinches Li Shimin, Li Shimin will be defeated. In that case, he can compete with the Turks.

Ling Jing murmured: "Your Majesty wants to withdraw the troops?"

"Oh... I am not reconciled." Dou Jiande sighed and said, "This matter cannot be delayed like this. Now the Twelve Turkic Khans have gone to Dingxiang, not only to express condolences to Luo Khan, but also to meet the newcomers. Khan, these Shekhans will definitely not go empty-handed, they will at least bring more than 20 parts, so that in just one month, the Turkic army gathered near Dingxiang will exceed [-] horses. Turn your face, we in Hebei are also under the vanguard! The most important thing is that I have lost patience with the chaos in this world, and I can't delay it any longer! It's time to end the chaos once and for all!"

Ling Jing said with a solemn expression: "Your Majesty issued an order that Liu Heikai, who is also the commander of the army and horses, will leave the town of Juyongguan with the fish amulet.

Dou Jiande's face froze immediately.

Jundu is also the eighth Xing of Taihang Mountain, named Jundu.Being in charge of the military capital means letting Liu Heitai command the entire defense of Hebei.

Dou Jiande hesitated for a moment and said: "But...but, Liu Heita has only [-] soldiers and horses, and if he wants to defend thousands of miles, I'm afraid..."

Ling Jing frowned and said: "Your Majesty, I heard that there is a knight named Su Dingfang in Liu Heikai's army. He can break five stones and is strong. He is brave enough to win the three armies. You can send a representative to His Majesty. Congratulations to Jieli Khan, who has just ascended the Khan throne." .With the entourage, wait for the opportunity to emulate Fu Jiezi's past!"

Fu Jiezi was a famous diplomat in the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, the most brilliant thing he did was to kill Loulan King and make Loulan King Proton the king.

Dou Jiande naturally listened to Ling Jing's words. This was for Su Dingfang to use the name of congratulating Jieli Khan to take the opportunity to steal Aushe from Turkic. A certain foundation of people's hearts, since Turks can support puppets, such as Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou, and Xue Ju, why can't I support Turkic puppets?
No matter how incompetent Ausheshe is, as long as he is in his hands, he can at least create some troubles for Xieli.

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In the hedgehog formation Li Shimin set up, Wang Shichong was like a dog biting a hedgehog and had nowhere to bite. Just when Li Shimin thought that Wang Shichong had nothing to do with him, at this time, dense potholes appeared on the official road.These potholes are neither too big nor too deep, at most no more than two feet deep. They don't have much impact on people's walking, but they have a fatal impact on Li Shimin's cart.

The worst thing is that these potholes are dug vertically downwards, and once the wheels sink in, there is no way to push them out.Li Shimin only needs to move forward and fill the road.In this way, the originally slow hedgehog formation is almost like a tortoise crawling.

In a whole day, Li Shimin only advanced thirty miles.At this time, there are still about forty miles away from Xin'an.

However, when Li Shimin was so angry that there was a lot of refusals on the official roads (if you don’t know about refusals, you can use Baidu, I won’t explain them here).The generals of Zheng Jun sealed off the official road with Juma and Luzhai, and the archers shot at the back of my body, and kept firing arrows at Tang Jun.

As the so-called military power is like chess, when Li Shimin did not fall into the trap set by Tanlonggu under the temptation of Heluo Zuojun as Wang Shichong expected.Wang Shichong also adjusted his deployment in time. He placed the battlefield on flat ground thirty miles east of Xin'an.

When the generals of the Tang army were thinking about how to solve the troubles created by the generals of the Zheng army, they heard ear-piercing whistling sounds, and several sharp arrows more than six feet long pierced the air and were nailed to the shield of the cart. One shot and it bursts open!
"It's a bed crossbow!" Cheng Zhijie broke out in a cold sweat. If he hadn't flashed so fast, this crossbow could penetrate him. Don't look at him wearing two layers of heavy armor. Below, the armor is a joke.

In fact, without Cheng Zhijie yelling, the soldiers had already understood.Only the bed crossbow can shoot such a sharp arrow like a short spear!

Before he could recover, another bed crossbow opened fire, and three more arrows fired at once. The head of a horse pulling a cart was smashed to pieces, and the skull was smashed into pieces, and the mules and horses fell down. The cart couldn't move.This is not the most terrible thing, the most terrible thing is that a bed crossbow even shot a six-foot-long crossbow gun, which passed through the gap between the carts and shot into the middle of the Tang Army infantry.

The upper body of a soldier of the Tang Army was torn apart, and the rain of blood splashed five or six feet high. After flying a few meters, it became a string with a spearman behind!
Wang Shichong is not a Turkic. Although he is a Hu, he has inherited a large amount of inheritance from the Sui Dynasty. For example, the military supervisor in Luoyang, the eastern capital, moved the political center of the Sui Dynasty from Chang'an to Luoyang, the eastern capital after Yang Guang ascended the throne. , so Luoyang City was the most powerful city in the Sui Dynasty. For example, most of the excellent craftsmen were concentrated in Luoyang, not Chang'an.

Successive bed crossbows roared from Zheng Jun's formation, attacking Li Shimin's army formation, Li Shimin shouted hurriedly: "Lie down, get down!"

Li Shimin reacted very quickly, but no matter how fast he was, he was not as fast as the bed crossbow.Although Li Shimin also knew that the bed crossbow could not cause damage to targets below three feet, but before all the soldiers of the Tang army had time to react, they were pierced into blood gourds.

"Bang!" Qin Qiong raised his steel halberd and threw it at a flying crossbow, but the crossbow was only knocked crooked, but Qin Qiong's tiger's mouth burst open.The bed crossbow is also known as the eight-ox crossbow, which means that it claims to have the power of eight oxen. Of course, it is a bit exaggerated. There should still be five or six oxen. The Jin Dynasty also called it Wanjun, which is equivalent to the power of four hundred stones, which is Qin Qiong five Eighty times that of a stone and iron fetal bow.

Seeing Qin Qiong's mouth dripping with blood, Li Shimin hurriedly shouted: "The bed crossbow strikes back!"

Tang Jun's bed crossbow took advantage of the reloading of Zheng Jun's bed crossbow to complete the adjustment of the shooting range. With the loud bang bang bang, the bed crossbow in Tang Jun's army made a deafening roar.

The six-foot-long crossbow guns shot out. Since the generals of the Zheng army did not form a dense formation like the Tang army, most of the hurried bed crossbows missed due to lack of accuracy, but there were still two that hit those obstacles. The picket will break as soon as it is hit, and the horse will fall apart when it is rubbed!There was also a crossbow gun who didn't know how lucky it was. It was so accurate that it shot at a bed crossbow. With a loud click, the bed crossbow was shot into pieces, and it shot at Zheng Zheng like a sharp sawdust. The soldiers of the Zheng army suddenly cried and howled. Several soldiers of the Zheng army had wooden thorns all over their faces, covering their blinded eyes and wailing.

However, at this time, Zheng Jun's bed crossbow, which had been loaded, roared again, and Li Shimin's soul came out.

However, luck once again favored Wang Shichong this time, and a thick crossbow gun accidentally shot Li Shimin's Da Tao.The flagpole, as thick as a goose egg, snapped at the sound.

To say that the crossbow is aimed at the flagpole is pure nonsense.The bed crossbow, which was [-] paces away, was shot by feeling, but the luck of Zheng Jun's bed crossbowman was really unlucky, and a bed crossbow broke Li Shimin's flagpole.This time, it really cost the lives of Tang Jun soldiers.

All the generals of the Tang army didn't know why Li Shimin's Da Tao was dropped, but there was only one case for the downing of Da Tao, and that was the death of the main general.

Li Shimin's face turned pale and then turned red again when he saw all the soldiers of the Tang Army around him showing fear and worry. Li Shimin just opened his mouth, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

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