Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 930 Who is Liu Rengui?
Chapter 52 Who is Liu Rengui

Xiazhou, Tongwan City.

When Chen Ying arrived in Tongwan City, it was already the first ten days of November in the first year of Kaiyuan.

Snow flakes are flying, and the cold air is piercing the skin.

The Hetao area has long been covered in silver makeup, the trees are covered with snow flakes and ice edges, the mountains dance with silver snakes, and the original Chi wax figures are too beautiful to behold.

Thanks to the arrival of Chen Ying, coal has been used on a large scale in this time and space.In fact, not only Datang is using coal for heating, but even Tongwan City in Liangshidu is also using coal for heating.

There is no way, Xiazhou has always been the capital of mining resources in China, where coal, oil, natural gas, rock salt and other energy and mineral resources are rich in one place, with an average of 620 million tons of coal, 4000 tons of oil, and so on per square kilometer underground. [-] million cubic meters of natural gas and [-] million tons of rock salt.The combination of resources is well configured, which is rare at home and abroad.

In fact, as early as the second year of Wude, Chen Ying wanted to take Xiazhou and eliminate Liang Shidu.

Faced with such a piece of fat, no one would not be tempted.However, at that time, he was only a general manager of Lingzhou, and he was not yet ranked high in the Tang court.Political decision-making is not about him. In fact, during Li Yuan's administration, even Li Jiancheng could not influence Li Yuan's opinion.

At that time, in order to create a buffer zone with Eastern Turks, Li Yuan let Liang Shidu just fight back instead of chasing him. As long as Liang Shidu invaded, he would beat him up, but he absolutely couldn't beat Liang Shidu to death with a single blow.

After all, beating a dog still needs to see the owner.

However, when Li Jiancheng was in power, Li Jiancheng had already waged a national war with the East Turks, striving to destroy the country in one war, so there was no need for this strategic buffer.

Wuding platform on the plateau.

More than [-] Dingyuan troops and [-] Hedong troops from Zhechong Prefecture, totaling more than [-] troops, lined up majestically. Hunting and dancing in the wind, it is extremely spectacular.

Thousands of troops and horses were silent, and there was a chill between heaven and earth.

Although the Tang army hadn't launched the siege yet, the murderous aura rushed towards them like a stormy sea.

Speaking of which, Liang Shidu is also unlucky enough.As one of the 36 anti-kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, all the anti-kings who raised the flag and rebelled with him at the same time either died or surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.Only Liang Shidu continued to call himself a widow, but now he is Wang Xiaoer's Chinese New Year——every year is not as good as every year.

Don't look at him changing the Yuan to "Yonglong", which means eternal prosperity.But there is no anti-king who is as bad as him, except that he overthrew Sui general Zhang Shilong when he raised the flag to rebel.At other times, he was beaten up by Tang Jun all the way.

On the fourth day of July in the first year of Wude (618), Liang Shidu invaded Lingzhou and was defeated by Lin Xingcan, the hussar general of the Tang Dynasty (Captain Zhechong).On the first day of March in the second year of Wude (619), Liang Shidu invaded Lingzhou again, but was repelled by Shi Yangze, the governor of Lingzhou.When attacking Lingzhou for the third time, Chen Ying pressed him on the ground and rubbed him.

Ever since Chen Ying was in charge of Lingzhou, Liang Shidu's army has not dared to rob across the border. As long as Chen Ying catches him, all his parts will be thrown into the coal mines to dig coal, and there is still no wages. free labor.

Liang Shidu is adjacent to Lingzhou, but he does not have the ability to make money like Chen Ying.In Lingzhou under Chen Ying's rule, the people were rich and had no worries about food and clothing, but the people under his rule were worse than beggars.

I begged my grandpa to tell my ancestors that they got some cattle and sheep from the Turks, but Chen Ying plucked a lot of wool.

It was not easy for Chen Ying to leave Lingzhou. Master Liang felt that he could stand up and be a man. Who would have thought that after leaving Chen Ying, Li Daozhen would come.

This vicious and domineering woman is more ruthless than Chen Ying when she starts to go crazy.Chen Ying just captured his soldiers and threw them in the mine to dig coal for free.But Li Daozhen doubled down and led the self-defense warriors of the Eighteenth Town of Lingwu under her command. She took care of the whole village and the whole village.

Well, in the end, Li Daozhen also went back to Anxin to be her concubine. Has the matter been resolved?No, Li Daozong appeared again. After Li Daozong was transferred, Qin Qiong came again.Liang Shidu's opponents were fiercer and darker than each other.

Liang Shidu was not surprised to find that the Tang Jun who appeared outside the city was beating the hussar general "Chen" Da Tao.

After dealing with each other for so long, they have already figured out the temper of this deadly enemy. The whole thing is just a piece of dog skin plaster.

Among the four Yehu Khans of the East Turks, and the twelve She Khans, none of them faced Chen Ying without a headache.

Seeing Chen Ying appear, Master Liang reacted calmly.

He didn't have the intention to drive Chen Ying away while Chen Ying's foothold was not stable.

Unless his head was kicked by a donkey, he wouldn't have had a field battle with Chen Ying at all.Ye Hu Khan, the leader of the Western Turks, was a typical example of being kicked in the head by a donkey. As a result, the 20 army was almost wiped out in the battle, and he was also trapped in the battle, which became a point of Chen Ying's insignificant credit.

The tall, majestic, majestic and sturdy Tongwan City is the last reliance of Liang Shidu.After five years of his renovations, Tongwan City is taller and stronger than the Tongwan City in history. No matter how strong Chen Ying is in field combat, he will definitely be smashed under Tongwan City.

What puzzled Master Liang was that Chen Ying did not build siege equipment.Instead, they braved the severe cold and started the entire permanent military camp.

This military camp is very large, fully surrounding Tongwan City in all directions.Because it is the cold winter season, the construction is said to be very difficult, and when one goes down, only a white mark is left on the frozen ground.

However, the generals of the Tang army did not work so hard.Put the coal stove directly on the frozen ground, and use the fire to bake the frozen soil layer. After the frozen layer melts, the frozen soil on the ground becomes thin mud.The soldiers of the Tang army put the wooden shells into the shell boards like the construction teams of later generations poured reinforced concrete, and threw the mud into the shell boards. After an hour, even the shell boards were frozen on the mud wall and merged with the mud wall.

A huge battalion wall rose up around the Commanding Army City.This seems to be the posture of building a city, not just building walls, like arrow towers, enemy towers, everything.

With the silhouette of a huge military camp, under Chen Ying's order.The people and merchants in Lingzhou, Shuozhou, and Bingzhou in the rear were all mobilized.

A large amount of food, medicine, clothing, weapons, crossbow arrows, armor... are continuously transported out of the warehouse, loaded on sleds, and transported directly to the Tang Army camp outside Tongwan City.

Standing on the wall of Tongwan City, Master Liang looked at the Tang army camp outside the city, and the grain and grass were piled up into hills.Master Liang was thinking while chewing the beef jerky.

The beef jerky at this time is not like the practice of later generations. Instead, the water in the beef is squeezed out with a stone roller, and the beef is dried with salt. The taste is not flattering, but the key is that it is very hard.The beef jerky of the generals of the Tang Army is all stone-ground into jerky powder. When eating, it is soaked in fried flour and rinsed with boiling water.

The beef jerky in Liang Shidu's mouth can't be chewed no matter how hard he chews it, even if it's chewed, he can't swallow it, even if he swallows it, he can't pull it out...

In short, it is very hard.Others don't know how, anyway, Master Liang absolutely doesn't like this thing, he chewed it up, threw the beef jerky, and scolded angrily: "Killing people is nothing more than nodding, if you want to kill them, you have to caress them Fu, they don't fight or caress like this, what's the point of consuming blindly?"

Liu Sheng, Shangshu of Liang Shidu, was originally a fat man. Due to lack of food, he also managed to lose weight. He lost more than [-] catties, which was really enough for him.He looked at the beef jerky on the ground, sour water gushed out of his stomach, and he gritted his teeth: "Child Chen Ying has vicious intentions, and he intends to starve and freeze us all to death in Tongwan City!"

Liang Shidu was indeed not afraid of Chen Ying's emergency attack, but afraid of Chen Ying's stalemate.

Because he didn't have much food in store.An emperor like him relied on unpalatable beef jerky for food, while ordinary soldiers could only eat grass roots, miscellaneous grains, and wild vegetables mixed with water.

……

In fact, not only Master Liang couldn't figure out what kind of medicine Chen Ying was selling in the gourd, even Li Xiaogong, the chief officer of Hedong and the king of Hejian, couldn't figure out Chen Ying's pulse.

Li Xiaogong is a model of a family, responsible, capable, and likes a luxurious life.Even when he was in war, he had more than 100 attendants by his side, always adorning his life.In terms of ostentation, three Chen Yings are not as good as one Li Xiaogong.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other in Tongwan City for half a month.

Until the beginning of December in the first year of Kaiyuan, Chen Ying finally started to make new moves.

Early in the morning, the battle drums in the Tang Army camp shook the world.

After the assembly of the whole army, Chen Ying finally issued his first order since he surrounded Tongwan City.

This is an order that makes people laugh and cry.

"The forty supply teams of the whole army are on the way, leading the troops forward, to the place where Tongwan City is a stone's throw away, and cooking!"

Although the generals did not understand Chen Ying's order, none of them dared to question Chen Ying's order.

With the sound of rumbling war drums, Tang Jun began to dispatch.

The first to appear were more than [-] four-wheeled carriages pulling coal-fired stoves. The four-wheeled carriages slowly advanced along the frozen ground and entered the place where Tongwan City was within a stone's throw. These four-wheeled carriages stopped immediately.

One side of the carriage is opened and the brackets are installed.

The soldiers of the gang leader put coal into the stove, and then started to step on the foot blower.The flames of the fire jumped more than a foot high, and a row of four to five hundred large iron pots began to cook.

Steamed steamed buns, steamed steamed buns, steamed steamed buns, rice-washed rice, and vegetables-washed vegetables, were extremely busy.

Li Xiaogong didn't understand Chen Ying's intention at first, but now he understood.

There was a shortage of food in Tongwan City, and the entire army, including Liang Shidu, could not eat enough.

Once the smell of food wafts from the outside of the city, will the troops of Liang Shidu in Tongwan City still have the will to fight?

In Chen Ying's central army tent, Chen Ying sat comfortably on the soft couch, looked at Li Xiaogong and said, "I have already sent envoys to persuade Liang Shidu to surrender. The condition I gave them is to let the past go, But they have to surrender unconditionally, I am a straightforward person, I don’t want to coax them with good words, and then play a bunch of tricks after they surrender.”

Li Xiaogong was a little helpless, in front of Li Jing, Li Xiaogong could still suppress him as an old leader.

However, in front of Chen Ying, none of this worked.

On the battlefield, pay attention to the fact that soldiers are not tired of deceit!How can we spread out everything from the beginning?
Li Xiaogong pondered: "Master Liang is far from exhausted, if they are asked to surrender unconditionally, they will not agree."

Chen Ying smiled wryly and said: "When they reach the end of the mountain, they will probably die...Didn't the scouts find that they dug out the leftover bones to make soup two days ago?"

Chen Yingying grinned and said with a smile: "If they don't agree, we will fight until they agree! Isn't it that although Liang Shidu claims to have 10,000+ troops, more than 10,000% of the [-]+ troops are water, and they can fight directly. Thirty to forty thousand is not enough for us to fight in the first battle!"

All the generals laughed,

Because of the cracked lips, no one dared to laugh too loudly, the laughter was a bit weird.

Chen Ying stood up, pointed to the map, and said: "This time, the general planned to surround the points to fight for reinforcements. I didn't expect the East Turks to be discouraged. Liang Shidu sent sixteen waves of rescue messengers. However, the East Turks People have not moved for a long time, it seems that they are ready to abandon Liang Shidu's pawn!"

Li Xiaogong nodded and said: "Actually, we and the Turkic people both understand that the meaning of Master Liang's existence is to prevent the two sides from tearing each other up. Now, both our Tang Dynasty and the Eastern Turkic people have lost patience. Therefore, Master Liang There is no need to exist anymore!"

"Master Liang has never been the target of this great general!" Chen Ying said with a faint smile, "He is not worthy!"

Having said that, Chen Ying picked up a charcoal pencil and drew an arrow on the map. Chen Ying turned to look at Li Xiaogong and said, "General Li, I have a task for you!"

Li Xiaogong immediately put away his cynical attitude, got up with a serious face and said: "The end is here!"

Chen Yingdao: "Liang Shidu still has 28 counties in three prefectures. You don't need to pay attention to Tongwancheng. Take all the counties and give them an ultimatum. Surrender or die!"

Li Xiaogong said: "General Chen, as long as Liang Shidu dies or surrenders, other counties will decide. Why bother?"

Chen Yingdao: "Next year at the latest will be the opportunity for our decisive battle with the Eastern Turks. Master Liang is very ghostly. He must have many confidantes in the counties. If the situation is not good, he will immediately burn the food stored in the counties and keep his clothes light. If you run away, if you only lead a few cronies, you still have a chance to escape. What's more, if there is a shortage of food, there will be tens of thousands more mouths, can we just watch them starve to death?"

Li Xiaogong clasped his fists and said: "The last general takes orders!"

Chen Ying turned to look at Luo Shidao: "Luo Shixin, you lead the Lancers, push flat on the front line, make a strong attack on Dingxiang, and lure the Turks to block it!"

This is a very safe method. Whether it is fighting on foot or on horseback, neither the Later Sui Dynasty nor the Liang Kingdom can compare with the Tang army who fought with the Turkic cavalry force one by one. Once squeezed to a flat and open area, the guns The cavalry came roaring, waiting for them, will be a terrible massacre.

Whether it is Chen Ying or Jian Jiancheng, they do not want to see such a massacre in their hearts. They hope that the envoys can persuade Liang Guo or Hou Sui to surrender, or annihilate Liang Jun and Hou Sui in a dignified main battle. The main force of the Sui army was not killed until blood flowed into rivers and corpses filled the field.

After all, most of the soldiers of Liang Guo and the later Sui Dynasty were honest farmers who were forced to die and followed Liang Shidu and Yang Zhengdao to the dark side. Killing tens of thousands of such enemies would not add Their honor does not help to solve practical problems.

The cold wind was blowing, and it was terribly cold.

Thousands of soldiers of the Liang army watched envoy Chen Ying come riding on a white horse with only two attendants with dull eyes, without any expression on their faces.The envoy was handsome and majestic, both in appearance and temperament. The two attendants behind him also held their heads high, neither humble nor overbearing. Just these three people entered Tongwan City without a trace of fear, as if they were shopping.

Some of Liang Jun's little bosses were amazed, such characters are rare.Of course, what attracted their attention the most was the three big bamboo baskets in their hands. It was unknown what was inside, and they were tightly covered with a clean white cloth. The scent went straight into everyone's nose, but before they could smell it enough, the cold wind blew it away.

Liu Sheng looked at the three people who came slowly before him, turned to look at Liang Shidu and said, "Your Majesty, these three people who came here are not good, what is the way?"

Liang Shidu shook his head and said: "I don't know, anyway, I won't be someone who is waiting for nothing... Wait, look, the leader doesn't even have an official uniform, what does Chen Ying mean?"

The leading young man does not have an official uniform, because he is still not an official.This person is none other than Liu Rengui, Chen Ying's personal army.

Liu Rengui's starting point was too low. Even if Chen Ying wanted to promote him, he still needed achievements that matched his position.

Historically, Liu Rengui was able to offend Li Yifu, a despicable villain with a sweet belly and a sword, and he could live to be 84 years old. Obviously, there are still two brushes.

When Chen Ying appointed Liu Rengui as an envoy, he also reminded Liu Rengui of the danger.

Liu Rengui smiled disapprovingly and said, "It's just the capital of Liang Shi, what's the point!"

Liu Rengui jumped off the horse, handed the bamboo basket in his hand to his followers, stepped forward quickly, Liang Shidu and others bowed their hands, and said: "Under Liu Rengui, see Master Liang."

Neither humble nor overbearing, with a calm and elegant demeanor, he is worthy of being an outstanding person.

Liang Shidu blinked his eyes, his head was full of doubts: "Liu Rengui?"

All the Liang Guo officials looked at me and looked at you, but none of them knew who Liu Rengui was.

(End of this chapter)