Daming Zhu Di: Father, why aren't you dead? !

Chapter 242 The Battle of Xiangji Temple!Li Heng: Why so many machetes!

The time and space of the Great Tang Dynasty.

In the second year of Zhide, the autumn harvest occurred in September.

There is a land of incense in India, and the name of Buddha is Xiangji.

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It is west of Chang'an City and north of Xiangji Temple.

The autumn sun at noon shone in the sky, falling on the armor of the two armies charging.

The bleak and cool autumn wind blew across the battlefield, and the mute sounds seemed to be mourning the coming souls.

And above the center of the battlefield, among the clouds and mist, there were dozens of figures, floating in the air, with dozens of pairs of eyes watching the changes in the battlefield below.

Fortunately.

At present, the attention of both sides is on the battlefield, and no one cares about the figure in the clouds and mist above.

Otherwise, you will be surprised. All of these people are wearing dragon robes of different styles and holding machetes half as tall as a man in their hands. They look really scary.

"This, this, this, this time it's not an illusion, it's really flying!"

"We are indeed the sons and grandsons of dragons, we can ascend to heaven and earth!"

"The art of soaring into the clouds and riding on the mist!"

"…………"

These princes and princes of the Great Ming Dynasty felt the sound of wind passing by their ears, and their eyes were filled with surprise.

Especially the Jiajing Immortal and the young Zhu Houcong, their excitement was palpable. They both held the standard Dow finger with their hands, as if they wanted to seize this rare opportunity to understand the art of soaring into the clouds and riding the mist.

Just like they said.

This time, the emperor and princes of the Ming Dynasty are not experiencing a full-scale experience brought by 36D projection, but are actually floating in the sky.

Ji Boying used his anti-gravity function to float the group of people above the battlefield of Xiangji Temple.

With a good vision, you can have an overview of the entire battle of Xiangji Temple.

The reason why we did not go directly to Fengxiang Mansion in Xijing where Li Heng was located, but came to Xiangji Temple first, was because the process of the battle of Xiangji Temple was really amazing, and the miracles of battle damage in ancient wars.

Even Ji Boying wanted to take a look.

Since the time just happened to come together, people had to take a look.

On the Xiangji Temple battlefield, both sides invested a total of 26 people.

In this blood-stained battle, there were no cunning plots, no sneak attacks or betrayals, no luring snakes out of their holes, encirclement for reinforcements, no ambush along the way, etc.

From the beginning to the end, the two armies were upright and faced each other for eight hours. The soldiers on both sides traded lives for lives. In the end, the battle damage reached an astonishing [-]%, which is equivalent to six people fighting every second. Death battlefield.

This is the era of cold weapons. Even in the era of hot weapons in later generations, once the army's battle losses reach three levels, it will face collapse.

Of course, this battle damage to collapse ratio only represents everything except rabbits.

With the support of firm faith, the great rabbit can achieve 100% battle damage. This is the power of faith.

"Brother, look, the rebels have begun a full-scale counterattack."

Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu Di, Zhu Laosi and other warlike emperors of the Ming Dynasty frowned and stared at the battlefield below, always paying attention to the changes in the battlefield situation.

Although they had all read about this pinnacle battle of the cold weapon era from history books, but now that they saw it with their own eyes, they still couldn't help but feel frightened. They subconsciously thought, if the Ming Dynasty encountered one of the two armies, Will any army have a chance of winning if the equipment is not much different?

The fierceness of the Tang army was fully demonstrated in this battle at Xiangji Temple.

As the saying goes, a slight injury will not leave the line of fire, but in the battle of Xiangji Temple, the Tang army, no matter whether you were slightly injured or seriously injured, as long as you still have breath and can move your legs, you will never retreat from the battlefield. Every time you mention it, The soldiers with swords and horses on horseback all charge fearlessly, facing death or life.

Unfortunately, this is a civil war.

Whether it is the 15 counter-rebellion army with Prince Li Yu as commander and Guo Ziyi as deputy commander, or the 11 rebels under An Qingxu, they are actually Tang troops and the military power of the Tang Dynasty.

"Ah."

Ji Boying nodded slightly and also looked at the battlefield below.

Looking down from a height of [-] meters, figures surged back and forth like a tidal wave.

There were two battles just now. First, the Tang Army's vanguard won for a while, and then the rebels took back for a while. Then the rebels suddenly attacked across the board. The 11-strong army launched a fierce attack on the Tang Army, and the Tang Army fell into chaos for a while.

"Li Siye."

At this moment, Li Er's family of four, and Li Longji's eyes fell on a man in the front line of the Tang army.

Of course Li Sanlang knew this man. After all, in his time and space, Li Siye was his personally appointed General Zuo Jinwu.

"This man can be a great warrior of a generation."

"If he were in the Wude years, his merits would not be lower than Lu Gong."

Li Er's eyes also fell on Li Siye, the former vanguard coach of the Tang Army. His eyes were shining with praise, and the "Gong Lu" in his words referred to Lu Guogong Cheng Zhijie.

Under the full attack of the rebels, the Tang Army's front army seemed to be in a state of collapse. The former army coach Li Siye personally came out of the battle, took off his robes, revealing his muscular upper body, holding a human-high Mo sword in his hand, and straddling the horse with the sword. , standing in front of the formation.

yelled loudly.

"Anyone who blocks Siye's sword will be killed!"

"We will use our bodies to lure the enemy today, and we will die without regrets!"

After saying this, Li Siye galvanized his horse, waved the Modao in his hand, and charged forward with his Modao military formation, wherever the Modao military formation passed by.

Under Mo's sword, both men and horses were shattered.

Also at this time.

In the Tang army, Guo Ziyi was nominally the deputy commander, but actually the commander-in-chief of the three armies.

Decisively gave the order and the whole army attacked.

The Tang Army's 15-strong center and rear troops immediately rushed forward. Together with Li Siye's front army, the three armies totaled 11 people and began to face An Qingxu's [-] rebels head-on.

A battle of blood and fire began to the north of Xiangji Temple.

There is nothing tactical about the fighting methods of the two armies.

The general process is that the first echelon of the Tang Army defeated the first echelon of the rebels, and the second echelon of the rebels rushed up to overwhelm the first echelon of the Tang Army. Then the second echelon of the Tang Army immediately followed up and defeated the second echelon of the rebels, and then the second echelon of the two sides. Third, fourth, fifth, Nth echelon.

The last batch, a batch died, the next batch, another batch died.

This style of play is purely about risking lives.

The two armies fought from day to sunset, with mountains of bones and rivers of blood flowing. Both sides still did not collapse after suffering more than half of the battle casualties. The entire army still fought to the death and fought bravely. It can be called a miracle in military history.

Over the battlefield, Ji Boying frowned slightly. As the fighting intensified, the strong smell of blood drifted up in the wind. Even at a height of [-] meters, he could clearly feel the pungent smell of blood.

Moved by thoughts.

Ji Boying accelerated the flow of time in this space-time.

The original eight hours, as time accelerated, in the eyes of Ji Boying and others, only eight minutes had passed.

The setting sun was setting, and the battlefield was finally coming to an end.

In the battle of Xiangji Temple, the Tang army won the final victory purely by relying on numerical superiority. Both sides suffered [-]% battle losses, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and everyone alive suffered a loss.

After An Qingxu's rebel army was almost completely wiped out, he led tens of thousands of remaining troops to retreat eastward in a hurry.

But the Tang army also paid a very heavy price. After the battle at Xiangji Temple, the Anxi Army and the Beiting Army, the most elite troops in the empire at the moment, suffered almost all casualties.

"Such a victory purely based on the lives of soldiers is too costly."

Li Er took a deep breath and looked at the battlefield littered with corpses below, with a look of regret in his eyes.

Since his debut, he has been leading the army in wars all his life, and has been among the army all year round. Li Er has a love for his soldiers that is different from other emperors. Seeing nearly 20 Tang soldiers died here, his heart felt like a knife cutting blood. .

Li Zhi, Xiao Pheasant, Wu Zhao, and Li Longji also frowned as they looked at the battlefield below.

They all understand a little bit.

After experiencing such a huge civil war, the comprehensive military strength of the Tang Dynasty will inevitably decline qualitatively. Perhaps, it will no longer be possible to restore the glory of the old days of Khan.

As for Lao Zhu and his group of emperors and princes, they all took a breath when they looked at the scene of a river of blood below, and then recalled the brutal fighting they saw in those eight minutes.

"To this day, I understand why the Tang army was invincible in the world."

"If our army of the Ming Dynasty encounters the army of the Tang Dynasty, we may have no chance of victory."

Old Zhu Di took a deep breath, sighed and spoke.

For Emperor Yongle, who was always proud of his martial arts, to say such words, it can be seen that he was really shocked by the Tang army's fearlessness of death.

Reading history a thousand times is worse than seeing it once with your own eyes.

As the old saying goes, those who are stupefied are afraid of being violent, and those who are violent are afraid of dying.

This group of Tang soldiers are just a bunch of lifeless things. They can be so ruthless in a civil war. If they fight a foreign war, they have to dig up the other party's ancestral graves. It's no wonder that in the early Tang Dynasty, no country in the world dared to challenge the Tang Dynasty.

Other descendants of the Ming Dynasty, such as Wu Zong Zhu Houzhao and other martial emperors, all frowned and nodded.

Obviously, they all agreed with what Old Zhu Di said just now.

And what Old Zhu Di said is indeed correct.

Looking at all the dynasties in the past, from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, only the Tang army was truly invincible.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the saints of the Tang Dynasty were so powerful that no country around the Tang Dynasty dared to compete with the Tang Dynasty. Even the nomadic peoples on the grasslands did not dare to harass the borders of the Tang Dynasty. They could only kneel and bow their heads. , shouting God Khan.

Ji Boying glanced at the group of people behind him, his eyes flickered, and after thinking for a moment, some information related to the battle of Xiangji Temple passed through his mind.

About the battle of Xiangji Temple.

There are many reasons why the fight was so brutal.

But the most important thing was that Suzong Li Heng was eager to take back Chang'an and stabilize the throne under him.

After Beishang Lingwu ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, two counter-rebellion strategies were placed in front of Li Heng.

The first one is called Peng Yuan's countermeasure proposed by Li Mi, the commoner prime minister.The general idea of ​​the strategy proposed by Li Mi was to let Suzong ignore Chang'an and Luoyang for the time being and not rush to restore the capital. Instead, he asked Guo Ziyi to lead the army into Pinghedong, Li Guangbi to guard Taiyuan and enter Datong, and Emperor Li Heng to In the town of Fengxiang, the Third Route Army pulled the rebels back and forth like walking a dog, commonly known as guerrilla warfare. When the rebels were tired and relaxed, all the armies came out together to destroy the rebels' lair Fan Yang (Youzhou, Today's Peking).

The second one is Li Heng's own strategy, gathering all the troops that can be gathered at the moment and taking back Chang'an at all costs.

If the first strategy proposed by Li Mi is adopted, once the strategy is fully successful, the chaos of the feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty will be completely quelled, and the separatist rule of the feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty for more than 100 years will most likely not occur.

However, the first strategy took too long for Suzong Li Heng and was full of unpredictable variables.

He was originally the emperor who ascended the throne in troubled times, and he proclaimed himself emperor in Lingwu.

Although he was later recognized by the Emperor of Shu who sent him a jade seal, the Emperor of Shu was still giving orders. For example, Li Lin, the Governor of Jiangling, who followed the orders of the Emperor and controlled the various roads in the south of the Yangtze River, did not listen to his orders. .

As soon as something goes wrong with him, the Supreme Emperor can immediately stand up and destroy him.

And according to Li Mi's estimation of the implementation of this strategy, it will take two years to complete this strategy.

The question is, where will the military expenditure for these two years come from?

After Li Heng Lingwu proclaimed himself emperor, he first looked at his pockets, which were cleaner than his face.

I looked around the world again, thinking about getting some money to do things, but I didn't know this, and my heart suddenly turned cold when I saw it.

With the fall of Chang'an and Luoyang, Suzong completely lost the possibility of collecting taxes in Guanzhong and the Central Plains. As for the Hebei area, it was Fatty An's inherent territory. It was already a dream to collect taxes from Hebei, and the fertile Sichuan Province 100% of the taxes from the Shu region were withheld by his biological father, the Supreme Emperor. After all, the Supreme Emperor was even more stylish in Shu.

Looking at the Shanxi area, this area is currently on the front line of the battle between the Tang and Yan armies. People are running around in search of a living, so naturally they cannot collect taxes normally.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Heng discovered that the only stable source of tax revenue was the Jianghuai region, which had not yet been affected by the war.

However, due to the fall of the two capitals, water transportation was cut off, and food from the Jianghuai River could not be transported. They could only collect cloth, silk and silk from the Jianghuai River to use as military expenses, but the amount was extremely limited and could only be used for half a year at most.

It was later proven that JAC’s taxes only lasted for half a year.

Wanting to rely on Jianghuai's military expenditure to support him for two years, Li Heng squatted down and washed his face, feeling that it was more realistic to dream.

however.

Make a bold assumption.

Even if Li Heng can really get enough military expenditure to support him for two years.

But at present, the five most powerful military envoys in the Tang Dynasty: Fan Yang, Hexi, Longyou, Shuofang, and Hedong. Among them, Fan Yang and Hedong have become rebels, and the main forces of Hexi and Longyou have basically followed Ge Shuhan. In Tongguan, only Guo Ziyi's main force of Shuofang's army still existed.

Moreover, according to the logistics distribution method of the Northwest Army, it has always been a complete chain system of "civilian property, commercial transportation, government collection, transportation to the east of the river, transfer to Shuofang, branch of Shuofang, collection by the armies in Longyou, Hexi, and full supervision by the court."

But now, Hedong has rebelled, Longyou has been abolished, and the imperial court has become a court in exile. There is no way to supervise it. The entire original scientific chain has been broken.

This is tantamount to forming a logistics management model of "Shuo Fang receives, Shuo Fang transports, Shuo Fang transfers, Shuo Fang branches, no one supervises". During Li Heng's government-in-exile, this model was used for military logistics.

In this context, the logistics of the Hedong and Longyou ministries are highly dependent on Shuofang. After all, they hold your food, grass and military pay. If you dare not listen to the instructions, I will deduct your military rations.

It's fine for a few months. If this situation lasts longer, will Shuofang's army mutiny and become independent?Will Guo Ziyi become the next An Lushan? !
As the emperor, Li Heng did not dare to gamble.

In this troubled world, he could not trust these military commanders.

Therefore, he was eager to take back the two capitals of Chang'an and Luoyang, let his government-in-exile return to the imperial army, and at the same time open up the Yellow River water transport line of Wugong, Xianyang, Chang'an, Tongguan, Shaanjun and Luoyang as quickly as possible to restore the empire's blood supply.

Only by returning to Chang'an can he return the world's military power to the imperial army. Only by returning to the two capitals can the world's water transportation be operational. Only then can he have a steady stream of military support and wealth in his hands, and can he truly become the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Of course, some things cannot be said openly.

What Li Heng claimed to the outside world was that the reason why he was so anxious to take back Chang'an was to give his dear Emperor the Emperor a warm home so that the Emperor could return to Chang'an as soon as possible and retire in peace.

Ji Boying thought for a moment about the deeper reasons for the battle at Xiangji Temple, and activated the "Comprehension" function to synchronize and package it in txt format directly to everyone present, including the princes and princes of the Great Tomorrow.

Ji Boying glanced at Li Er.

It was clearly visible that Li Er, who was familiar with this information, frowned.

"Although taking back the imperial capital in this way can temporarily gather momentum, the chaos in the feudal town will never be peaceful."

Li Er is Li Er. He is truly a genius military strategist. You can see the crux of the matter at a glance.

"Use a bait to hang up the rebels in Chang'an, and then personally lead the Qingqi to attack Fan Yang. This is a once and for all solution."

This strategy was also one proposed by Guo Ziyi to Li Longji back then. The bait Guo Ziyi used at that time was Chang'an. Unfortunately, Li Longji was already confused at that time and just wanted to run away.

The voice fell.

Lao Zhu smiled and patted Li Er on the shoulder.

"Xiao Tang, not everyone in this world is a general of genius. The Qingqi will attack the rebel base camp. If they fail to defeat them in one fell swoop, they will never return."

Just finished speaking.

"I think what Xiao Tang said is an excellent strategy."

Old Zhu Di and Zhu Laosi spoke almost at the same time.

After all, when the two of them were in trouble, this was the trick they used to turn things around and win with one blow.

As soon as the two Zhu Di opened their mouths, Lao Zhu's eyes swept over them, and the daggers in his eyes shut them up instantly.

brat!How dare you show off your rebellion?Believe it or not, I will beat you up twice!
"The battle of Xiangji Temple ends here."

Ji Boying said something, stopping the increasingly divergent discussions among the people, and took a moment to look at the sunset, which was now approaching dusk.

The light curtain in front of me opened instantly.

"Notification: Li Heng's space coordinates have been locked"

Now that you've finished watching Teaching War, it's time to get down to business.

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Fengxiang Mansion in Xijing, the emperor's palace.

At this time Suzong Li Heng was wandering in the palace. From morning to now, he had not eaten three meals and his legs had not stopped for a quarter of an hour.

If Li Heng had a mobile phone on him to record his steps, Li Heng would definitely be on the cover of a letter with a step count of more than [-] steps today.

Accompanying Li Heng here to starve were a group of executives from the exiled court of the Tang Dynasty.

Everyone's face was serious at this time, and they didn't look very good-looking. Of course, some of them were hungry.

What's more, he is nervous. After all, this time is considered a one-time stud, and he has put all his money on the line. Li Heng even borrowed [-] foreign aid and promised sky-high conditions to these foreign aid.

If we lose, everything will be over.

It's not easy to be in exile from the imperial court. In order to make up for this wave of profits, my legs are almost broken.

"Saint, good news, good news!"

At this moment, rapid footsteps came from outside the hall.

Including Li Heng, everyone subconsciously looked at it.

From outside the hall, an ugly black monkey with pointed ears and cheeks, squinted eyes and crooked mouth, and a big nose and thick mouth walked quickly into the hall. This ugly man who resembled a black monkey would be the future No. [-] power of the Tang Dynasty. Huan, Li Fuguo.

"How about protecting the country?"

When Li Heng saw Li Fuguo, his face lit up and he stepped forward quickly.

At this time, Li Fuguo was not yet called Li Fuguo, but had just been named Li Huguo by Li Heng. This shows how much Li Heng loves this black monkey.

"Saint, I'm so happy, so happy! Judging from the battle report I just got, An Qingxu's [-] rebels have begun to collapse, and our army is already sure of victory!"

"In fact, if I guess correctly, our army should have achieved a great victory by now."

In order to be able to keep abreast of the battle situation at Xiangji Temple on the front line, Li Hunter specifically ordered that a battle report be sent from the front line every quarter of an hour. The distance from Fengxiang to Xiangji Temple would take half an hour on horseback.

In other words, this battle report came from half an hour ago.

"Okay, okay!!"

Taking the battle report from Li Fuguo's hand, Li Heng read it several times, and then his whole body trembled with excitement.

Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Li Heng took a deep breath.

"Protect the country."

"In the battle of Chang'an, we played an important role in protecting the country."

"Special Jin Kaifu Yitong three divisions were granted the title of Duke of Ning."

The voice fell.

All the executives in exile in the imperial court were confused.

What are you doing?
Although this ugly monkey holds the title of Sima of the Marshal's Palace, he has never left Fengxiang from the beginning to the end. How can he get the credit? !
But no one dared to say anything more. After all, after the new emperor ascended the throne, this ugly monkey became the number one celebrity in front of the new emperor. All military and state affairs were made by him.

Who dares to say anything wrong? If you walk at night, you have to be careful.

"Thank you saint!"

Li Fuguo saluted, his face full of pride, and he had no intention of shirk at all.

"Victory in a fierce battle is the result of the bloody and bloody battles of the frontline soldiers. The generals who charge forward should be given titles, the soldiers who sacrificed themselves to death should be rewarded, and the heroes who sacrificed their lives for the country should be compensated."

"How dare a castrated eunuch be greedy for military merit?!"

The cold voice exploded throughout the hall.

At this time, Suzong Li Heng was stunned, ugly monkey Li Fuguo was also stunned, and other officials in the temporary court of the Tang Dynasty had horror in their eyes, thinking that they had heard wrong.

Good guy, there are people who dare to confront the red and purple Eunuch Li these days.

In an instant, everyone looked back.

You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be scared to death when you look at it.

At the palace gate, there are machetes shining brightly!

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PS: The Ax Gang of the Song Dynasty, the Machete Team of the Ming Dynasty, the Han Dynasty xxx, the Tang Dynasty xxx...

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