A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 623: The Rise of Liu Wuzhou

[Your family gathered the heroes of the world to hold a ceremony to worship the heaven, and gave the tyrant and single husband Yang Guang the posthumous title: Yang. Yang Guang was beaten to death by your family. He was brutally punished and killed without saving any face. Then he was nailed to the pillar of shame in history by your family.

The whole world is applauding your family, and history books record this glorious event of your family.

The existence of your family has maintained the bottom line of Zhuxia civilization. From today onwards, no other emperor will dare to act as wantonly and cruelly as Yang Guang. 】

[Your family has successfully completed the ceremony of worshiping the heaven, ending the destiny of the Sui Dynasty. You have obtained 10,000 luck points, and you have obtained the earth-level prop: Mirage Dragon Pearl]

[Mirage Dragon Ball: An earth-level prop. According to legend, it is the dragon ball of the mirage dragon in the sea in ancient times. It condenses the power of the mirage dragon and can create an illusion. The outside world cannot observe the situation in the illusion. Its use requires the consumption of luck points. The more the value is consumed, the more realistic the illusion will be, and the wider the scope of the illusion will be. 】

The Mirage Dragon Ball can be used for strategic deception. If used properly, it will be easy to control the battlefield.

After Wang completed the sacrifice to heaven, he did not stop at Mount Tai. After chatting with other envoys and princes, everyone dispersed.

After the heaven-sacrifice ceremony ended, the world was not at peace, and there were still wars everywhere.

Even because of Yang Guang's death, the situation became more intense. Several princes in the north continued to fight with each other, causing deaths and injuries everywhere.

Li Yuan raised troops from Jinyang, then went south to occupy Guanzhong, quickly established the Tang Kingdom, ascended the throne as emperor, and then took Chang'an City as his capital and began to conquer all directions.

The Wang family returned to Huai'an City, watching the various princes vying for hegemony in the world, and wanted to see who was the real dragon.

After a large number of soldiers went south, Jinyang was empty. Li Yuan appointed his fourth son Li Yuanji to guard Bingzhou to guard against Liu Wuzhou.

Liu Wuzhou saw that Li Yuan, who was not as good as him before, occupied Guanzhong in a blink of an eye, and founded a country and proclaimed himself emperor. He was envious and jealous.

There were four legitimate sons of the Li family, except for one who died young. Although the eldest son Li Jiancheng was not good at military strategy, he was good at logistics and assisting in government affairs, not to mention the second son Li Shimin. It can be said that Li Yuan's sons are all excellent, but Li Yuanji did not inherit any advantages, but concentrated all the shortcomings of meat eaters.

Although Li Yuanji was brave, he was violent by nature and was even more mediocre when it came to military equipment.

Li Yuanji on the other side was enjoying himself at this time. Originally, when Li Yuan was in Jinyang, although Li Yuanji was also naughty, he was suppressed by Li Yuan and did not dare to go too far. But as soon as Li Yuan left, the eldest and second brothers also left. After no one controlled him, Li Yuanji completely let go.

Li Yuanji didn't think Liu Wuzhou dared to attack, so he often led his people to hunt and liked to trample farmland for fun.

Jinyang had hoarded a large amount of grain, grass and equipment from the Sui Dynasty, and Liu Wuzhou had always wanted to seize it. After seeing Li Yuan's army leaving, he began to send people to investigate, trying to find suitable opportunities.

He even acted as a robber in the city and openly plundered people's property. He even rode his horse and fired arrows at the people, enjoying watching the people avoid them. After plundering the people's property, Li Yuanji had a new idea and directly ordered the army to divide into two teams. Fight and attack each other. Finally, he forced his way into other people's homes at night and raped their wives and daughters.

The whole Jinyang was made into a mess by him.

Yu Wenxin, who assisted him in stationing in Jinyang, saw this situation and could only write to Li Yuan. However, Li Yuan was very tolerant of his children. Even though he issued an edict to reprimand Li Yuanji and remove him from office, he did not No other punishment was imposed. Even the dismissed official was reinstated not long after. Seeing this situation, Yu Wenxin could only turn a blind eye and ignore it.

Liu Wuzhou was originally worried that Jinyang City was high and deep. If he could not conquer it for a while, he would have no choice but to return without success when Li Tang sent a large army to rescue him. He did not expect that Li Yuanji would act so wantonly.

He immediately said with great joy: "This is because God is helping me!"

Immediately ordered people to rectify the troops and horses, and then led the army to attack Jinyang.

Li Yuanji was horrified when he learned of Liu Wuzhou's attack, and quickly summoned everyone to prepare countermeasures. Everyone said that Jinyang City was high and deep, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as he persisted, reinforcements would soon arrive, and Liu Wuzhou would not fight until then. retreat.

He also suggested that Li Yuanji rectify his troops and horses, strictly restrain the soldiers, return the looted property to the people, so as to calm the people's hearts, at the same time strengthen the walls and clear the fields, and strictly guard the city.

However, Li Yuanji was afraid and did not dare to hold on. General Chaoqiu kept saying he would hold on, which made Li Yuanji very angry. He directly ordered Zhang Da to lead a hundred troops to test.

"His Royal Highness King Qi, Liu Wu and Zhou's army are coming. One hundred people can't test it. It will take at least a thousand people." Zhang Da was angry in his heart.

But Li Yuanji didn't want him to test at all, but wanted him to die. How could he give him a thousand men and directly give an order: "The army is currently facing a mountain of military orders. Do you dare to disobey?"

As he spoke, a pair of triangular eyes stared at Zhang Da like venomous snakes. The guards of King Qi in the hall put their hands on the hilts of their swords. As long as Li Yuanji gave the order, they would swarm up and chop Zhang Da to death.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Da gritted his teeth and said loudly: "General, I will obey your order!" After saying that, he took the command arrow and pointed a hundred soldiers to test.

Zhang Da is not a peerless warrior. How can a hundred men defeat Liu Wuzhou's army? Liu Wuzhou discovered him as soon as he showed up. Liu Wuzhou had a close relationship with the Turks and there were many cavalry in the army. Zhang Da had no chance to escape and was immediately captured by Liu Wuzhou. Living.

Zhang Da hated Li Yuanji so much that Liu Wuzhou offered to surrender, and Zhang Da immediately agreed. With Zhang Da, a general who was familiar with Jinyang's environment, to surrender, Liu Wuzhou's army did not waste much effort at all. They defeated several cities in a row and quickly reached the city. .

Seeing that Liu Wu and Zhou's army were overwhelming, Li Yuanji was even more frightened and wanted to escape, so he said to others: "It is not safe to defend the isolated city alone. We need to divide the army into two camps and set up camps outside the city to communicate with each other." For the horns, this is the only way to be safe."

"It's very dangerous to go out of the city to set up a stronghold, so the lonely king will go there in person, and you just need to cooperate in the city!"

So Li Yuanji selected elite soldiers and strong generals, and secretly sent people back to his mansion to pack up Xiruan. When it got dark, he led the army out of the city, took his wife, children, and Xiruan, and fled Jinyang directly. Before Liu Wu and Zhou's army could react, Escape directly to Guanzhong.

Originally there were tens of thousands of defenders, and the army's morale and supplies were sufficient. If they had held on, it would have been difficult for Liu Wuzhou to break through Jinyang. As a result, Li Yuanji led his men to escape first.

The morale of the army defending the city dropped sharply, and they were in panic all day long. Liu Wuzhou was overjoyed when he learned about it. If Li Yuanji hadn't run so fast, he would have thanked him personally.

He immediately ordered people to attack, and the general fled with his wife, children, and property. How could the remaining soldiers hold on? Liu Wuzhou easily captured Jinyang.

(End of this chapter)