Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 885
Shenwu City.

A city in the north of Saibei on the banks of the Sanggan River, a hundred miles away from Mayi City and 120 miles away from Yunzhong City.It is located in the middle reaches of the Sanggan River, the southern end of the Datong Basin, and the Hengshan Mountains in the south. It is the watershed between the Sanggan River and the Hutuo River. The Yanmen and Longshou mountains in the territory correspond.

It can be said that if it is not close to the border and has been turbulent for many years, the conditions here are actually pretty good. There are several rivers such as the Sanggan River in the territory, with sufficient water sources, and the topography of the basin makes it very flat and fertile land.

Just because it is too close to the border, the advantage of Shenwu City has turned into weakness, and there is no danger to defend. Once the barbarians invade, Shenwu City will inevitably be destroyed.

In Shenwu City, stationed here is Gao Manzheng, Liu Wuzhou's brother-in-law. At this time, he was named Dai Guoxingtai Shangshu Ling and Mayi County Prefect.

At the beginning, he was also one of the backbones who encouraged Liu Wuzhou to rebel, but now he is a little hesitant.Before the rebellion, he was the founding earl of Daqin, and the emperor wanted to transfer him to Hebei to serve as the prefect.After the rebellion, although I was very excited to become a general and Daxingtai, the excitement did not last long.

Emperor Qin Huang personally marched to the north, and the coalition forces, which seemed to be extremely powerful, were defeated again and again.

Now that the emperor is besieged in Yanmen, Loufan Yanmen counties are almost completely lost. Gao Kaidao, Song Jingang, Zhen Zhaier, etc. have all been defeated, and even Li Tang's [-] reinforcements have also been defeated.

Gao Manzheng persuaded Liu Wuzhou to rebel because he wanted to be a bigger official and a higher noble, but the high-ranking officials of this generation can only be a few days now, so it is worthless.

"General, those who know the current affairs are heroes. You see, Liu Wuzhou is about to perish. This ship is about to sink. Does the general have to go all the way to the dark and die together with him?"

In Shenwu City, in Gao Manzheng's study, two men were persuading him.

One of them was an acquaintance of Gao Manzheng, who once persuaded them to kill Wang Rengong's warrior Xun, and the other was Hu Dayen of Xia Jun.

This combination is very surprising. After all, it is not surprising that the samurai Xun, as a member of the Qin Qin army's captain's mansion, appears here, but it is not surprising that Xia Jun Liu Heita's subordinates appear here, and they still come with the samurai Xun.

"You see, General Da'en is more aware of current affairs. He took the initiative to ask us to join us. After receiving his letter of surrender, my emperor immediately gave him the country's surname and changed his name to Luo Da'en, and conferred him the title of Founding Marquis of Dingxiang."

Hu Dayen was originally a general under Liu Heita. He withdrew from Yunzhong to Lingqiu Road. He served as the rear of the palace. Then he also kept in touch with the spies of the Qin army quietly. In the end, he was instigated to rebel, so he led his troops to leave Liu Heitai.

Emperor Luo Cheng was also very happy that Hu Dayen led 5000 people to vote. He generously conferred the title of Marquis of the founding of the country, and also gave him a military rank from the third rank, and even gave him the surname of the country.

However, on the bright side, Hu Dayen did not openly vote for Qin, but led his troops to the southwest to the vicinity of Shenwu, saying that he was here to vote for Gao Manzheng.This operation was actually carried out under the guidance of Qin Jun. After all, Hu Dayen originally planned to go northeast to Fanyang, but Qin Guo thought he might as well go south.

If Gao Manzheng can incite rebellion, he will enter Shenwu City and besiege Mayi together.If Gao Manzheng does not submit, then attack Shenwu City.

Gao Manzheng was a little hesitant.

What he was more worried about was that he was different from Hu Dayen after all. Hu Dayen was a member of the Xia State before, and he was a soldier of the Sui Dynasty. Later, he killed Wang Rengong and joined the Qin army, and then persuaded Liu Wuzhou to turn against Luo Cheng. I am very worried about whether the old account will be liquidated in the end after surrendering to Qin Dynasty.

"General Gao, please accept the imperial edict."

At the critical moment, the warrior Xun took out an imperial edict.

This is the emperor's reward to Gao Manzheng.

The champion general Wu Sanjie of the third rank was awarded, and the general Zuo Wuwei of the third rank, the prefect of Mayi, and the founding marquis of Shanyin County were conferred.

Moreover, the emperor also gave Gao Manzheng a death certificate, which can save him from death in the future, and let the past be forgotten.

This is asking an official to an official, and asking a noble to a noble, not only exempting the past crimes, but even giving an extra death-free coupon, which can be used to pay for death if he commits any capital crimes in the future.

With such a guarantee, Gao Manzheng couldn't help but be moved.

The founding marquis of Shanyin County, a real feudal founding marquis, the samurai said that the nobility system is currently being revised.

This is much more valuable than the founding uncle before him.

Not to mention, the real third-rank official rank.

"Does the general have any worries? My emperor is magnanimous. Look at the many generals and nobles in the court today. They were also enemies of my emperor before. Don't they gather in front of my emperor's throne now? Li Mi, Wang Bodang, Chen Leng, Wei Wensheng, Pei Renji, etc. are all highly valued after joining, so why should the general be worried?"

The samurai Xun used his clever mouth when he was a businessman, dispelling Gao Manzheng's last little hesitation.

"If the general leads his troops now and makes another contribution, the Founding Marquis may soon be promoted to the Founding County Duke or even the Founding County Duke."

Luo Da'en also encouraged Gao Manzheng, saying that we are just vulgar people, and we don't have the ambition to fight for hegemony. We just want to earn a wife and son with our fists in this troubled world, and become a nobleman of the new dynasty.So, why don't we keep our eyes open and support this real dragon emperor together?
"I joined forces with General Gao, and we have more than [-] soldiers and horses. Now the Turks are leading [-] troops to the south to go to Yanmen to reinforce Liu Wuzhou. If we follow the example of General Siye in the first battle of Dali, we will also come to the urn to catch turtles and close the door to beat dogs." Wouldn’t it be a great achievement to kill all the Turkic troops in order to submit to Emperor Qin?”

At this time, the samurai Xun told Gao Manzheng the latest military situation.

"General Gao may not know that both Gao Tancheng and Gao Kaidao have been beheaded in Huairong, and now not only the [-] vassal soldiers are coming to the foot of Hezhen Mountain, but also the more than [-] Zhao Gui who are rushing to come later. The main force of the general's army. Also, Zhao Wang and Wei Wang also defeated Xia Jun one after another in Hebei, and now Dou Jiande is too busy to take care of himself."

"Furthermore, the King of Jin has already defeated the Tang army one after another, winning Feng and Ling prefectures in succession. He is about to join forces with Li Gui, who is attached to Hexi, and send troops to fight against Chang'an in Guanzhong."

It was the first time for Gao Manzheng to hear this information, and he was stunned.Leaving aside the fact that Gao Tansheng and Gao Kaidao from Huairong in Zhuo County actually died?
Not long ago, he met Gao Kaidao at the city of Yunzhong.

Night falls.

The [-] Turkic army led by Jie led the company formed a long line and passed through Shenwu City.

The Turks had already sent people over to ask Shenwu City to prepare food and grass.

Wherever these Turkic people passed by, it was like locusts crossing the border. A few years ago, hundreds of thousands of Turkic troops went south to surround Yang Guang in Yanmen, and once broke through more than [-] cities in Mayi, Yanmen. Now they come again, although people change A batch, but the virtue is still the same.

Wherever you go, grab what you want.

Gao Manzheng personally took people out of the city to welcome Jie led the society into the city, and said that he would prepare a banquet in the city to welcome him.

"Hahaha, I didn't expect you to be quite filial." Jie led the president to be very fat, and he spoke Chinese with a stutter, and Gao Manzheng's eyes flashed murderous intent as soon as he spoke.

"Please enter the city!"

That night, [-] Turkic troops camped outside Shenwu City. Gao Manzheng sent food and grass, and prepared a lot of wine and meat to reward the army.And in the city, there was a rich banquet, and many kabuki and dancers were prepared to add to the fun.

The joyful banquet lasted until the second half of the night. Jie Shuishe and his Turkic army were very happy and fell asleep drunk with satisfaction.

At four o'clock, a fire broke out in the city, and the mansion where the Turkic generals such as Jieshishe lived suddenly caught fire.

As the fire broke out, more than [-] soldiers from Gao Manzheng's Mayi and Hu Dayen's troops attacked the Turkic camp outside the city.Many Turkic people died under the random arrows before they were drunk.

Fighting until dawn, warriors Qiao, Gao Manzheng, and Hu Dayen led an army of [-] against the Turkic camp at night, killing more than [-] people and taking more than [-] prisoners. The rest of the Turks fled to the cloud, less than [-].

(End of this chapter)