Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 835
Hedong, Linfen County.

Under the city of Huoyi.

The crimson and white flag fluttered under Guancheng.

A soldier galloped to the foot of Guancheng.

"King Zhao is here, quickly open and close the city!"

Close the city.

It was also a crimson and white flag, and a defender pointed his head out, asking someone to throw the seal into a basket and hang it up for inspection.

After a long time, the closed door finally opened slowly.

An official in Guancheng, wearing a scarlet cloak outside and bright armor inside, will come out to greet him.

"The next official, Gao Deru, the Prime Minister of Linfen County, didn't know that King Zhao was coming, so he was late to welcome you. Forgive me."

Under the red and white banner, Li Shimin looked at Gao Deru.

"Why are you guarding the pass?"

"Recently, many thieves and bandits who have been recruited before are about to make trouble again. Many of them are instigated by the puppet Qin to make trouble. My soldiers and horses from Linfen County have been sent out to suppress the bandits and stabilize the place. Therefore, there are few soldiers in the city, so we have to be cautious. Be careful."

After hearing this, Li Shimin felt that Gao Juncheng was reliable in his work.

"These capricious thieves and villains, after I enter Taiyuan to stabilize the situation in Hedong, I will send troops to wipe them out one by one."

Gao Deru welcomes Li Shimin into the city.

"Let the army be stationed outside the city, Gao Juncheng, and immediately supply food and grass."

Sending troops from Tongguan, Feng Yi went north first, crossed the Yellow River from Pujin Bridge, landed at Puban in Hedong County, and marched all the way.After crossing the river, it only took nine days to pass through Hedong County, Jiang County, and most of Linfen County, and arrived at Huoyi, the border between Linfen and Xihe counties. exhausted.

Now Li Shimin just wants to take a hot bath after entering the city, change into clean and comfortable clothes, eat a warm meal, sleep well, and continue on his way to Taiyuan tomorrow.

Huoyi City is not big, so Li Shimin left tens of thousands of troops outside the city, and only brought some officers and Qingqi into the city to prevent the soldiers from disturbing the people.

"Soldiers and horses are stationed outside the city, and anyone who dares to go out to disturb the people will be killed!"

Li Shimin confessed to the generals who stayed behind.

It can be said that it has been very difficult for him since the Li family raised an army, trying to survive in the cracks.Especially now that the Li family has replaced the Yang family to establish the Tang Dynasty, in order to gain more momentum, the flag of the Li family has even adopted red and white. The purpose of using these two colored flags is to let people in the Central Plains know that although the Li family replaced the Yang family in the Sui Dynasty, there will be no policy changes for noble officials in the court and the powerful gentry in the world. Like the Sui and Zhou Dynasties, the Zhou and Wei Dynasties expressed the same lineage in order to gain their support.

The addition of white is to show favor to the Turkic people, hoping to borrow the strong support of the Turkic people.

After all, Luo Cheng's strength is too strong, and Li Yuan's current strength is still far behind.

This time when they came to Hedong, the father and son of the Li family made up their minds to take advantage of Yang Yichen's death to swallow Hedong completely and hold it firmly in their hands. Therefore, Li Shimin attaches great importance to military discipline. Hedong people's hearts.

Riding on the street in Huoyi City, Li Shimin was a little absent-minded. He was thinking about how to fight Luo Cheng's massive invasion of Hedong this time.

Fortunately, Taiyuan City is connected by three cities, and the city is strong and dangerous. Although the world has been in turmoil in the past few years, fortunately, Taiyuan City has never been captured by rebels or bandits.

There are also a large number of armor and weapons transferred from various places after the emperor was encircled by Yanmen. It can be said that if the Li family wins Taiyuan, they will be able to occupy the highlands in Hedong, so that they can resist Fanyang and Mayi in the north. Next, you can find a way to defeat the Qin army in Henan.

To defeat the Qin army in Henan, the current Tang Dynasty alone is definitely not enough. It is necessary to unite with Xiao Xian from Jianghan, and finally to bring Lin Shihong and Shen Faxing from Jiangnan to fight together.

Only when several families work together to seize Luocheng's Henan, Huainan, and Shandong provinces first, will it be possible for Luocheng to no longer be able to overpower each other.

Huo Yi's city gate slowly closed behind him.

Gao Deru was retreating quietly.

Zhang Gongjin frowned, looked around, and found that the figure was vague and something was wrong.

"Gao Deru!"

Zhang Gongjin roared.

Gao Deru panicked, and drew his sword out, "Do it, anyone who captures and kills Li Shimin, no matter whether he lives or dies, he will be rewarded with a thousand pieces of gold!"

Suddenly countless arrows shot from all around.

"King Zhao, there is an ambush!"

While roaring, Zhang Gongjin took off his horse's shield and jumped in front of Li Shimin's horse to shield him.

All the guards of King Zhao also moved closer to this side.

Arrows rained down.

In an instant, more than a dozen Zhao Wang's personal soldiers will arrive.

At this time, there were shouts of killing, and the Huoyi County soldiers from the brigade rushed out in all directions, and scuffles broke out on the long street.

"Gao Deru, dare to recite Tang?"

Li Shimin held up his shield to block the arrows, and at the same time he slashed left and right with his sword.

Gao Deru had retreated to the back, stood behind a group of spearmen, and said with a sneer, "I, Gao Deru, was originally a minister of the Sui Dynasty. When did I become a minister of your Tang family? Although Yang Shuai is dead now, we will not surrender you." The Li family, let me tell you, we have already joined Daqin, and today we are going to take your life."

"court death!"

Li Shimin was furious.

Lieutenant Dugu Yanyun took out a Ming Dy from his quiver and shot it into the air.

Ming Dy and the arrow made a sharp sound.

He fired arrows one after another, and all the nine sounding arrows were shot.

outside the city.

The four generals Liu Shili, Gongsun Wuda, Li Mengchang, and Zheng Rentai heard the shouts of killing in the city, and heard several arrows blasting into the sky, all of them changed their expressions drastically.

"Damn it, Gao Deru must have rebelled, follow me to attack the city!"

The war drums were rumbling, and they didn't care about the formation of troops. The four generals let people beat the war drums and sound the horns, and tens of thousands of troops surrounded Huoyi City and started attacking the city like a swarm.

Although unprepared, 5 people and horses launched an attack together, which was still extremely violent.

It's just that the gate of Huoyi city was closed tightly at this time, and the suspension bridge was also pulled up. Although the city is not big, it is dangerous and difficult to capture for a while.

Outside the city, there were only shouts of killing in the city, but it was still difficult to enter the city.

In a hurry, Liu Shili and the others jumped.

Li Mengchang even held a big sword in his mouth, and climbed up on a simple ladder with a big shield in his hand.

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Two hours later.

Liu Shili finally jumped onto the top of Huoyi City.

More and more Tang troops jumped to the top of the city, and Huoyi's defenders could no longer resist, and retreated into the city one after another.

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"Your Highness?"

"Big guy!"

"King Zhao!"

Gongsun Wuda took people to kill Huoyi County soldiers, and finally found Li Shimin in a courtyard.

"I'm not dead yet!"

Li Shimin came out with a knife covered in blood. Although he was not dead, he had several wounds on his body. The blood covered in his body was both the enemy's and most of it was his own.

But among the two hundred guards and dozens of generals he brought into the city, less than 20 of them died.

If they hadn't escaped into this courtyard, hid in the underground secret room, and waited for a long time to guard the secret passage, Li Shimin and others would have died no matter how powerful they were.

"Where is Gao Deru?"

"Retire to the county government office!" Li Mengchang, covered in blood, replied.

Li Shimin gritted his teeth, "Slaughter Huo Yi!"

The red-eyed Liu Shili and the others immediately turned around and came out, "King Zhao has an order to slaughter Huoyi City without leaving any chicken or dog behind!"

In the second year of Qin Kaiyuan, March [-]th.

Li Shimin, King Zhao of the Tang Dynasty, was ambushed in Huoyi City and suffered several wounds. His soldiers and guards were killed and wounded. Li Shimin was furious and ordered the entire city to be slaughtered.

On that day, more than [-] soldiers and civilians in Huoyi City were all slaughtered, leaving no chicken or dog behind.

After the massacre, Li Shimin led his troops to continue northward to Taiyuan.

　According to historical records, Li Shimin once slaughtered Xia County
　　
　
(End of this chapter)