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Chapter 432: Marching West to Chang’an Yang Gong’s Treasure House
Looking at Li Shimin's body on the ground, Zhao Mingyuan suddenly felt extremely lonely.

Without a strong opponent like Li Shimin, who else in the world could pose a threat to him and deserve his vigilance?

No more.

Invincibility is so, so lonely.

Zhao Mingyuan suddenly felt this way.

This sudden feeling of loneliness made Zhao Mingyuan lose all interest for a while, so much so that he had no intention of paying attention to the battle in front of him with 200,000 people fighting desperately.

However, in fact, the current situation does not require Zhao Mingyuan to pay more attention.

This war has entered garbage time.

The Tang army had collapsed for a long time, and Li Shimin's death was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Seeing that Li Shimin was dead, the Tang army surrendered and fled, and no one could resist desperately.

Seeing this scene, everyone understood that Li Tang was doomed, and the future leader of the world would most likely be Zhao Mingyuan.

The remaining one or two uncertainties are naturally Dou Jiande in the north. As for Li Yuan in Chang'an, no one takes him seriously anymore.

The generals around him felt that they had followed the right person, and they would become the founding fathers of the country without much effort. They all gathered around Zhao Mingyuan excitedly, congratulating him on the victory of this battle.

But at this time, Zhao Mingyuan could not empathize with them at all. He just waved his hand and left the next task of cleaning the battlefield to them, and left alone.

Perhaps this is what it feels like to be alone.

The next day, count the results.

Zhao Mingyuan was not surprised to see that the Ming army wiped out 4 enemies, captured 5, and more than 2 Tang troops broke up and escaped. The Ming army's losses were only a few thousand casualties. Zhao Mingyuan was not surprised.

This is the crushing power of technology.

What's more, Zhao Mingyuan still didn't use thermal weapons, otherwise the battle damage ratio would be even more exaggerated.

Under such a huge gap, even a living god of war like Li Shimin could not influence the situation of the battle and could only suffer from hatred on the spot.

Ugh!
Zhao Mingyuan couldn't help but regret, maybe he shouldn't have killed Li Shimin like this.

Without a son of destiny like Li Shimin, who else would be worthy of taking action?
Zhao Mingyuan could no longer be interested, so he assigned his generals to lead a large army to attack the city and seize the territory. He led the main force to march towards Chang'an and went straight to Huanglong.

The overall situation of this war has been decided. Li Tang can no longer make any waves, so it is better to end it as soon as possible.

The facts were as Zhao Mingyuan thought. As the news spread, the battle at Tongguan shocked the world.

Although they had known that the Ming army was tyrannical, no one expected that the Ming army would be so strong. They suppressed the Tang army for almost the whole battle and effortlessly destroyed the Tang army. Even Li Shimin died on the spot.

No one knows how frightened the civil and military officials in the court were when Li Tang learned the details of this battle.

They naturally know best what level Li Shimin is.

At first, Li Shimin was blocking the way, so he didn't think anything of it.

After all, Li Shimin's record is obvious to all. They always feel that as long as Li Shimin is around, no matter how corrupt the situation is, there is still a glimmer of hope.

Now, having lost Li Shimin and facing the front line of the Ming army, everyone just feels like a light is on their backs.

However, it is too late, there is no resurrection after death.

What's more, even if Li Shimin faced the Ming army, didn't he die in one battle?
Facing such a powerful enemy, who else dares to stand up and resist the Ming army?
Not to mention, in this battle, almost all the elite troops of the Tang Dynasty were wiped out.

Without soldiers or generals, how could they resist?

The defeat of the Tang army had already spread the details of that battle throughout Guanzhong, and also extinguished everyone's resistance.

The armies of the Ming Dynasty fought successively and victoriously. Many times, even before the army reached the city, they found that the flags on the top of the city had been changed and replaced with the banner of the Ming Dynasty.

The army marched straight in and reached the city of Chang'an.

Facing the heavily armed Ming Dynasty Iron Army under the city, Li Tang's reaction was a bit strange.

It was fine that no one sent out an envoy to surrender, but there was not even a single person showing up at the top of the city, which was a bit unreasonable.

Could it be that Li Tang was quarreling internally over whether to fight or to make peace? Isn't it still undecided?

But Li Yuan doesn't have many choices now. Either fight or surrender. Of course, there is also the option of fleeing without fighting.

However, if they choose to escape, they must make a decision immediately, otherwise they will not be able to escape even if they want to when the Ming army sieges the city.

There is no option of trying to fight first and then escaping after losing the fight.

But no matter which one they choose, they shouldn't act like this.

Facing the closed city gate in front, Zhao Mingyuan did not order an attack on the city, but only announced to set up camp on the spot.

That night, Zhao Mingyuan sneaked into Chang'an City alone.

Naturally, he did this for Yang Gong’s treasure house.

After all, there is a secret passage in Yang Gong's treasure house that leads directly to the outside of the city. Zhao Mingyuan can even use this to directly lead his army to attack the palace.

In fact, at this point, Zhao Mingyuan no longer needs to take such risks. As long as the army surrounds Chang'an City for a period of time, Chang'an City will be destroyed without attack.

But the death of Li Shimin made Zhao Mingyuan's long-standing pressure suddenly disappear, and he felt relaxed both physically and mentally, so much so that he developed a desire to take risks.

Since no one can pose any threat to him in the military, let's look for excitement in other things from now on!
It's a pity that Lu Miaozi refused to tell Zhao Mingyuan all the mechanisms of Yang Gong's treasure house due to professional ethics, and even said that this was a test for him.

Humph, you can drive it yourself. Without Butcher Zhang, do you have to eat pigs with hair on them?

Zhao Mingyuan understood that this was because of the rumors he had spread.

Now everyone in the world thinks that he is Lu Miaozi's disciple, and they even got the secret of Yang Gong's treasure house from Lu Miaozi. Obviously, this greatly damaged Lu Miaozi's reputation in the world.

After all, keeping the employer's secret is the professional ethics of craftsmen like Lu Miaozi.

What's more, Lu Miaozi is not dead, but his reputation is ruined. How can he come out to see people in the future?
Helpless, Zhao Mingyuan had no choice but to follow the old path of Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling in the original work and open the mechanism from under the Prancing Horse Bridge.

According to Old Man Lu's habit, there must be a mechanism at the passage outside the city, allowing direct access to the secret passage.

But now, Zhao Mingyuan had no choice but to take a trip to the city first.

Although the Chang'an city wall is high, it cannot stop Zhao Mingyuan's skills.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Zhao Mingyuan flew across the city and headed towards the Leaping Horse Bridge.

Obviously, due to the war, a curfew had already been imposed in Chang'an City, and the people turned off their lights and went to bed early.

There was only an endless stream of soldiers patrolling the streets and alleys.

It may be a bit exaggerated to say "one guard post at five steps, one sentry at ten steps", but it is indeed heavily guarded, and the entire Chang'an City seems to have turned into a large military camp.

Zhao Mingyuan naturally understood that the reason why there were so many soldiers patrolling was to prevent the Ming Dynasty's internal officials in the city from seizing the gate to sacrifice the city.

After all, the strongest cities have always been breached from within.

There are countless such things in the history books.

What's more, ever since the news of Li Shimin's defeat came, the Tang Dynasty has been in turmoil and people's hearts have been floating, with an endless stream of ministers coming to see him to persuade him to surrender.

But all ministers can surrender, can Li Yuan also surrender?

Naturally it is impossible.

Li Yuan naturally knows best what kind of life his subordinate Yang You, Emperor Gong of the Sui Dynasty, lived. Let him live in that kind of fearful life, and he would rather die.

After all, he is a general who has fought in all directions, so Li Yuan naturally has the courage to fight to the death.

However, Li Yuan was not sure what choices the courtiers and the aristocratic families in Guanzhong would make.

No, it should be said that Li Yuan was very sure that once the situation went bad, they would definitely give up on themselves.

Therefore, Li Yuan naturally ordered a complete curfew in Chang'an City and sent large armies to station in various buildings. Any abnormal movement at night would be killed without mercy.

Naturally, these ordinary soldiers could not detect the Grand Master's whereabouts, and Zhao Mingyuan easily bypassed the patrol team and continued to fly forward.

However, Zhao Mingyuan was soon surprised to find that lights were still on in many places, and there seemed to be a lot of people gathering.

Out of curiosity, Zhao Mingyuan took a closer look and found that it turned out to be the Huajie Gambling House.

It’s true that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below!

The army was pressing down outside the city, and Li Yuan had given a death order, but the people below still did whatever they wanted.

It seems that many people think that Li Tang's situation is over and no longer take his orders to heart.

In fact, if Zhao Mingyuan stayed in the camp at this time, he could wait for the envoys sent by the famous families in Guanzhong.

At this time, they were naturally ready to abandon Li Yuan and abandon the dark side for the bright side.

However, even without seeing it with his own eyes, Zhao Mingyuan could guess a thing or two.

After all, there is nothing new under the sun, it is the same in every dynasty and every generation, so why is it so strange?

The reason why they can still enjoy themselves with peace of mind is naturally because they think that even if Zhao Mingyuan becomes the emperor, they will still have to use their people to govern the world.

With all kinds of resources in their hands, they are naturally confident.

This is why Zhao Mingyuan has always wanted to make changes.

The Grand Master's footsteps were fast, and soon Zhao Mingyuan arrived at the Prancing Horse Bridge.

After the patrolling soldiers left, Zhao Mingyuan came to the bridge and turned on the mechanism.

Then, he went to the bottom of the bridge pier and unlocked the second mechanism.

Listening to the subtle sounds of machinery running and water pouring from below, Zhao Mingyuan understood that the mechanism of Yang Gong's treasure house had been opened, and rushed towards the West Garden of Dugu's house not far away.

Although the Dugu Clan had been a minister in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and Dugu Feng was a well-known imperial concubine of the Ming Dynasty, the West Garden was not confiscated by the Tang Dynasty. Instead, it was still in the hands of the Dugu Clan.

This is not difficult to understand.

After all, it’s common sense for aristocratic families to bet in multiple ways. Maybe the Dugu family has some kind of relationship with Li Tang secretly?
What's more, many members of aristocratic families are married, not to mention a family like the Dugu family that is famous for its women. There are countless aristocratic families with whom he is married, and many people in Li Tang have some relationship with him.

It's just some property, why make it so embarrassing?

Keep a line with people so that they can meet again in the future.

In fact, it's not just the Dugu family.

Chang'an was the former capital of the Sui Dynasty, and many official and aristocratic families had old residences in the city. Li and Tang actually managed to make no mistakes.

But sometimes, some things are judged by success or failure.

If Li Tang unified the world, this must be a confident expression of Li Yuanzhai's kindness and virtue. But since he failed, he was stupid.

But no matter what, at least it is convenient for Zhao Mingyuan now.

After successfully opening the mechanism from the ancient well in the north of Xiji Garden, Zhao Mingyuan finally entered Yang Gong's treasure house.

(End of this chapter)