Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 618 Competing in the Central Plains (77)

The winter of the [-]th year of the Yan Kingdom
Twelfth lunar month
Chang'an City/Daxing City

The snow is white, and the earth is plain.

It was originally Daxing City newly built by the Sui Empire, but now it was renamed Chang'an City by Li Yuan.

As for the Chang'an City during the Han Dynasty, it has been turned into ruins during the war.

Inside the palace

"Humph!"

Li Yuan looked at the location of the Hexi Corridor on the map, as well as the location of the Hedong area, feeling very dissatisfied.

Not long ago, Li Gui, the emperor of the Liang Kingdom in the Hexi Corridor, broke with the Tang Kingdom.

Li Yuan promised that as long as Li Gui voluntarily removed the title of emperor, changed Emperor Liang to King Liang, and professed his ministership to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty would allow King Liang to be a prince of the Tang Dynasty forever.

However, Li Gui refused and sent troops to plunder Guanzhong.

This was the first bad thing, and the second bad thing was that Liu Wuzhou suddenly went south and captured Taiyuan, but Li Yuanji, who was guarding Taiyuan, abandoned the city and fled, losing Taiyuan County in vain.

The third bad thing is that someone reported the minister's rebellion.

Li Yuan is very suspicious. The older he gets, the more suspicious he becomes. He no longer has the heroic demeanor of 20 years ago.

He wanted the prince Li Jiancheng to accumulate more military exploits, but Li Jiancheng was not good at fighting, and his fighting skills were mediocre. On the contrary, his second son Li Shimin was too good, and he won every battle.

However, at this terrible time, East Turkic also sent envoys to ask Li Yuan for treasures.

The Tang State had long claimed tribute to the Eastern Turks, so in name, the Tang Dynasty was a vassal state of the Eastern Turks and needed to pay tribute to the Eastern Turks.

Liu Wuzhou was also a member of the Eastern Turkic clan, and the two Eastern Turkic clans were fighting each other.

"Give it! I will give as much as they want!"

Now is not the time to quarrel with the Turkic people. It is Li Yuan's idea to be honest and cowardly, and to grow up insignificantly.

Afterwards, Li Yuan looked at the world intelligence submitted by the secret agents.

First of all, the [China Alliance] has captured Jingxing Pass and is advancing towards Jinyang.

Seeing this news, Li Yuan was very happy. With the help of Yan Guo to hold Liu Wuzhou back, he would be free to deal with Li Gui and solve his worries first.

The second was that Li Shimin had finally captured Xiacheng. He was even more delighted to see the news.

Previously, in order to collect military rations, he ordered soldiers to "collect" food in the Guanzhong area.

It is said that food is expropriated, but in fact it is no different from robbery. The people who refused to hand in the food have been slaughtered by the Tang army.

Doing it like this naturally triggered a peasant rebellion. He personally led the army to attack the peasant rebels, but he hadn't fought yet, so he had to let Li Shimin, the hexagonal warrior, to attack.

Li Shimin was indeed the God of War, and soon captured Xiacheng and subdued the peasant rebels.

Li Shimin reported that he hoped that these peasant rebels would be registered as Qimin, and let these people farm and produce food for the court.

But Li Yuan couldn't be angry, he ordered Li Shimin: "The troublesome people in Xiacheng, without the law of the king, are rampant and arrogant, slaughter them all in the city, so as to imitate others!"

I just expropriated some rations from you, and it's not that I won't return them. When I unify the world, I will naturally return the rations to you. It's unreasonable for you to dare to rebel and resist stubbornly!
This kind of people who have no king and no father must be slaughtered!

A few days later

Li Shimin, who was leading the army at the front, was very helpless when he saw this order. He didn't want to kill innocent people, but his father's order could not be disobeyed.

The bloody massacre has begun, and the people in the city are slaughtered. This is the end of the heavenly soldiers who resist the imperial court!
The massacre in Xiacheng did not cause any big reaction. After all, there are too many massacred cities in this world. These small cities by Li Yuantu are nothing at all.

When Chu and Han were fighting for hegemony, Han Gaodi Liu Bang only burned, killed and looted three cities, so he was praised by the world as a benevolent government, while Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, slaughtered dozens of cities, so he was called brutal.

This is how quantitative change leads to qualitative change. In fact, no one in this era would care if a few cities were slaughtered occasionally. After all, everyone would do this. This is the characteristic of this era, but if too many slaughters, it will naturally arouse the resentment of the people all over the world.

at the same time
Taiyuan County

Shiai County

[China Alliance] After capturing Shiai County, Shiai County was slaughtered by the way. The women in the city became military prostitutes of the Allied Army. The young and strong in the city directly worked as coolies and worked for the Allied Army. As for the old, weak, sick and disabled ?What a waste of food, it has been slaughtered!

"Liu Wuzhou colluded with the Turks, we are teachers of benevolence and righteousness, and we are here to save the common people in the world."

"Now Liu Wuzhou is willing to abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side, and join the Allied Army to resist the despicable and shameless barbaric Turkic people together. He also wants to learn from us. This is our [China Alliance]'s great success in influencing the enemy with benevolence, righteousness and morality!"

On the high platform in the city, Yan Ming was emphasizing the justice of the [China Alliance] over and over again, and believed that Liu Wuzhou was influenced by the truth, goodness and beauty of the [China Alliance], and voluntarily returned to the embrace of China, became a member of China again, and followed China Allies together against the Turks.

As for the matter of Tu Shiai, not to mention that Yan Ming is not interested in meddling it, even if he wanted to, he wouldn't be able to. The people outside did not commit any crimes in autumn. It is true that the sun came out from the west.

These warlords have one thing in common, that is, when they are in their own ruled area, they still barely act as individuals. You're welcome, burning, killing, and looting are all acts of kindness, and it's normal to massacre a city occasionally to ease your mood.

So compared to what the Kanto heroes did, Li Yuan slaughtered a few cities, which is really nothing. It is true that Tamade is very benevolent and loves the people.

Among the heroes of the Kanto, Dou Jiande treated the common people fairly well, but it was limited to the Hebei area.

Liu Wuzhou was unwilling to fight to the death with the [China Alliance]. Therefore, after much deliberation, he thought that if he wanted to resist the [China Alliance], there was only one way, and that was... to join!
As long as I join the Allied Army, the Allied Army will not be able to beat me!

If only Dong Zhuo was as smart as him back then, if Dong Zhuo joined the Anti-Dong Alliance, wouldn’t the Anti-Dong Alliance be unable to attack Dong Zhuo?

Liu Wuzhou sent an envoy to apologize to Yan Ming, and expressed his willingness to join the [Huaxia Alliance], and at the same time, he had a "Let the Teacher" with the Allied Army, which can be regarded as easing the tension between the two armies.

The so-called "Zhishi" refers to the generals fighting in front of the battle, which is equivalent to a friendly match.

Later, Emperor Liu Wuzhou of the Han Dynasty sent generals Yu Chigong, Song Jingang, and Xun Xiang, and Yan Ming, the leader of the Allied Army, sent generals Su Dingfang, Qin Qiong, and Cheng Zhijie (Cheng Yaojin).

Su Dingfang is Dou Jiande's fierce general, Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie are Wang Shichong's fierce generals, and now they are temporarily obeying the orders of the leader Yan Ming.

The first game is Yu Chigong vs. Su Dingfang, the second game is Song Jingang vs. Qin Qiong, and the third game is looking for a match against Cheng Zhijie (Cheng Yaojin).

Regardless of victory or defeat, it is only for friendship, turning hostility into friendship!

(End of this chapter)