Datang New Order

Jiangdu, Wu Palace.

A dense army of soldiers surrounded the dormitory inside and out, and the civil servants and generals of the Wu Kingdom stood at the bottom of the steps, all with anxious faces.

King Wu, who has traveled across the Jianghuai River for 20 years, has a sallow complexion and has long lost his previous pride. Like every old man who is about to wither, he is lying on the bed weakly.

After being unconscious for several times in a row, everyone knew that King Wu was going to die.

After the new Huainan stayed, Yang Wo, the eldest son of the Yang family, knelt on the couch, lowered his head, his eyes swept from side to side. Sweep more than a dozen generals behind.Those who can enter the bedroom at this time are all high-ranking and powerful generals of the Wu Kingdom. The attitude of these people will determine whether they can ascend to that prominent position.

Yang Wo knew that even though he was appointed as the queen of Huainan, it did not mean that he was the successor of the prince.Now it is different from the past, only the knighthood of Hongnong County King can be the justifiable Crown Prince of Wu.For Yang Wo, there is only one real threat, and that is the young second brother Yang Wei beside him.

The father is confused, the second brother is only eight years old, how can he be the king of a country!

Among the generals behind him, Zhang Hao, the commander of the Left Ya Army, and Xu Wen, the commander of the Right Ya Army, are Yang Xingmi's confidantes. Even if Yang Xingmi's body and bones have reached the point where he is today, they are always loyal and never have two hearts.Yang Wo once tried to win them over to join him, but failed, which also made Yang Wo faintly feel a little inappropriate.

Therefore, he transferred his confidants Li Jian, Zhou Ben, Chen Zhang, etc. to Jiangdu in the name of aid. These three people are also kneeling behind him at this moment, and they are Yang Wo's most reliable arms.

The sleeping hall has been silent for a long time, only the occasional sound of King Wu's heart-piercing cough can be heard from the bed.After waiting for an unknown amount of time, King Wu spoke again: "Mi Zhicheng... Mi Zhicheng stepped forward..."

Jiedu Judge Zhou Yin was beside Yang Xingmi, bowed his head and said, "General Mi is leading the troops to guard the city, and now he can't get away. If His Highness has any orders, just send a message."

Mi Zhicheng is known as the magic arrow.He fought for Yang Xingmi for many years, and he is now the most prestigious general in Jiangdu City. After Li Shenfu died in battle, his status in the Wu army was second only to Wang Maozhang.

Since Liu Jinhou's surprise attack on Jiangdu with partial troops, Mi Zhicheng hastily fought several battles outside the city, lost troops and lost all of them, until yesterday he led the remnant army back into the city.With Mi Zhicheng's entry into the city, the entire Wu Kingdom already knew that Jiang could not be kept.No city wall can withstand that earth-shattering thunder!

Hearing that Mi Zhicheng had retreated into the city, King Wu's eyes darkened. Zhou Yin felt as if his heart was being twisted, but he comforted him: "Your Highness is relieved, the soldiers are excited, and I promise that Jiang will have no worries..."

King Wu on the bed raised his arm with great effort, waved it weakly, sighed, and said, "The situation is dangerous. You don't need to hide it from Gu anymore... The end of Gu's life has come... After summoning Yang Wo to stay..."

Yang Wo's heart tightened, and he immediately walked forward on his knees, and listened to Yang Xingmi's words: "If you are staying behind, Zhenjiang is the capital. Help General Mi guard the base...call Yang Wei..."

Yang Wei wiped his tears and crawled up to Yang Xingmi, weeping and shouting: "Father..."

Yang Xingmi's withered fingers rubbed Yang Wei's face for a while, and then he tried to cheer up and said: "Take Yang Wei as the observer of Xuanzhou, and leave today. I will go to Xuanzhou; Zhou Yin, Zhang Hao, Xu Wen and others will lead the army colleagues..."

Before he finished speaking, blood overflowed from the corner of Yang Xingmi's mouth, and he passed out again.There was a panic in the dormitory.

Yang Wo's face was ferocious, the veins in his palms were bulging, and the anger in his heart was beyond words.Yang Xingmi's Jun Ling was like a heavy hammer, smashing his last vestiges of illusion to pieces.It is said that tigers are poisonous and do not eat their offspring, but my father and king are more ruthless than tigers, even wanting my own life!

He got up suddenly, and strode out of the dormitory resolutely. Li Jian, Zhou Ben, Chen Zhang and other generals also followed behind. The rest of the generals of the Wu army watched Yang Wo and the others leave with worry on their faces. With the back view, there are mixed feelings in my heart.

Out of the bedroom, Yang Wo didn't turn his head back, and rushed out with big strides. The soldiers of the tooth army in the palace wanted to stop them. Li Jian, Zhou Ben, Chen Zhang and others immediately pressed their swords and glared at each other. Yang Wo snorted coldly , leading the crowd out of the palace.

When he came outside the palace, he could faintly hear shouts of killing coming from outside the city. Li Jian asked, "Marshal, what should we do now?"

Yang Wo looked up at the sky, and said coldly: "Call the soldiers, let's go back to Xuanzhou! This Jiangdu, whoever likes to defend it! Certain will never defend!"

"But the sergeants are all stationed in the west city. If they are summoned, Jiangdu will be over..."

"Stupid, if we don't leave at this time, we will be finished!" Yang Wo shouted sharply.

This shout suddenly woke up Li Jian, Zhou Ben, Chen Zhang and others, and they all said in unison: "Follow the order!"

At this moment, they suddenly heard a shocking sound coming from the north gate. Yang Wo and others looked around, and saw a large piece of smoke rising to a height of half a sky, rolling towards all directions, the situation was extremely terrifying.

Yang Wo's face was ashen, and he muttered: "Jiangdu is over..."

With the collapse of the north gate of Jiangdu, the Weizhou army of the brigade, wearing iron armor, poured into the city in an orderly formation.In the front row and on the left and right sides are soldiers with swords and shields carrying large shields on their shoulders. They cover the armored spearmen and crossbowmen and walk along the streets, clearing the streets and alleys of the resisters in the city.The whole process is not fast, but very stable.

When Weizhou's army attacked all the way to the outside of King Wu's palace, they encountered the resistance of more than [-] Wu troops who rushed over. This was also the only formation battle of Wu's army in the entire inner city battle.

At dusk, although there were still many streets and alleys in the city that were still in fierce competition, the organized large-scale resistance of the Wu army had all been extinguished. The troops entered Jiangdu and came to the Wu Palace.

The entire palace was controlled by the Weizhou Army. Kneeling in front of the palace gate were a large number of Wu Guowen and Wu who were bound all over their bodies. The leader was a child who was less than ten years old. Yang Wei, the second son of Wu Wang Yang Xingmi, was also Yang Xingmi's favorite Wu Wang. Heir.

Liu Jinhou and others went straight to the inner hall. The trembling waiters and maids crouched down together, weeping softly when they were snatched by the soldiers of the Weizhou army. There were tall dead bodies piled up under the west steps outside the palace, and they all looked like they were killed in battle. soldiers of the Wu army.

Yang Xingmi was lying on the Ganjinbahe white jade bed, half of his body was covered by a gold silk quilt, his mouth was overflowing with undried blood, his face was like gold paper, and his left hand was limply on the side of the bed.It seems to want to grab something...

Liu Jinhou seemed to be asking, and seemed to be talking to himself: "Yang Xingmi? King Wu?" He turned his head, looked at the Weizhou soldiers in the palace, and swept the shivering waiters and maids on the floor, laughing loudly. Have a great time!

Wen Sishuo and Lai Xingguo couldn't help being excited, they looked at each other with excitement!

Liu Jinhou laughed enough, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and ordered: "Report to Sizhou. The Weizhou army has gone to Jiangdu and captured the corpse of the Wu thief Yang Xingmi!"

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From the eighth day of December, the snowflake-like good news spread to Luoyang, and the whole east was in great joy.

The Zhongshao tribe defeated the Wu army in Xuyi, and the Huainan general Wang Maozhang and others all took the lead in the city!

Liu Jinhou's department successfully attacked Gaoyou and opened the passage to Jiangdu!

The Zhongshao tribe occupied Chuzhou, and all the officers and soldiers of Chuzhou surrendered!

Liu Jinhou's troops captured Jiangdu, King Yang Xingmi of Wu, general Mi Zhicheng died, Yang Wei, Zhou Yin, Zhang Hao, Xu Wen and hundreds of civil and military officials of the Wu Kingdom surrendered!

Zhang Yanshou's troops on the left side of the Yanzhou Army captured Shouzhou, and Huo Cun's troops occupied Luzhou!

The Ding Club in the right wing of the Yanzhou Army took Hezhou, and Yang Chongben took Xuanzhou!

Liu Jinhou sent his army south.Seize Huzhou and force Qiantang!

The Yang Group, which had dominated Huainan for 20 years, collapsed suddenly, and the speed with which it destroyed the country was astounding.

Comes with the good news.It is the same avalanche of memorials from the courtiers.

All the memorials have only one content-to urge the newly enthroned Son of Heaven to take the throne less than half a year ago!

The emperor Li Zuo made two decrees in succession, wanting to abdicate the great treasure and pass on the national treasure to Li Chengzhong, but Li Chengzhong rejected them both.

Li Chengzhong's original intention was to wait another six months or a year.Waiting for the world to settle down before ascending the throne with peerless achievements, so he is always hesitating.

But the courtiers couldn't wait any longer, and the new Dragon Crown Dagon Mian had already been prepared.All the etiquettes of the Zen Ceremony have also been secretly practiced several times, and everyone is waiting eagerly. Everyone is longing for the succession of the new emperor and the arrival of a new dynasty and a new atmosphere.

Just when Li Chengzhong was hesitating, another heavyweight report came to Luoyang—Nanyang Great Victory!

Mozhou Army Commander Zhou Xiaolang and Zhaozhou Army Commander Zhao Ba set up an ambush in Nanyang, smashing Zhao Kuangning's Chu Army, beheading dozens of generals below Zhao Kuangning, beheading tens of thousands, and capturing the enemy is useless.Afterwards, Zhao Ba attacked with cavalry, quickly attacked Dengzhou and Xiangzhou, and his troops pointed directly at Jingzhou.At present, the Mozhou Army is catching up with the Zhaozhou Army and preparing to march towards Jiangnan West Road and Lingnan Road.

It was another battle to destroy the country. Such an achievement should naturally be attributed to Li Chengzhong.

Li Chengzhong himself did not expect the progress of the war to be so smooth, which made him suddenly think of the liberation wars of later generations. After the three major battles, the progress of the war was like mercury pouring down the ground, and it was very similar to the current situation.

When the emperor Li Zuo's third abdication decree came down, Li Chengzhong finally stopped declining.

On the first day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Tianyou, Li Chengzhong ascended to the ninth-level golden throne at the Eastern Capital Grand Court Meeting, and officially sat on the Longtao.This year was changed to Yuan Guangxing, which was the first year of Guangxing.

In February of the first year of Guangxing, King Qian of Yue wrote a letter to Luoyang, willing to submit to the imperial court and accept the three laws of leaving the country, reorganizing the army, and closing the government.Li Chengzhong issued an order to comfort him, recruited money to go to Luoyang, the eastern capital, retained the prince, and served in the Honorary Academy of the Tang Dynasty.

In April, Cangzhou Army and Weizhou Army entered Lingnan East Road. Wang Shenzhi gathered troops to resist in Fuzhou. Zhong Shao and Liu Jinhou defeated Wang Shenzhi's troops.

In May, the Mozhou Army and Zhaozhou Army entered Lingnan West Road and encircled Panyu. In August, Liu Yin went out of the city and surrendered.

In October, the Yingzhou army and the Guizhou army entered Shu from Hanzhong, successively captured more than ten important places such as Jianzhou and Mianzhou, and marched to Chengdu.

In December, Wang Jian, the king of Shu, committed suicide in the palace. The fire in the palace lasted for three days.

In April of the second year of Guangxing, the Tang army was reorganized again, resetting the left and right guards, the left and right guards, the left and right guards, the left and right guards, the left and right leading guards, the left and right Jinwu guards, the left and right guards, and the left and right Qianniu guards, a total of sixteen guards. Each guard has more than [-] people. It is a first-class army directly under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council. It is divided into five directions: northeast, north, northwest, west, and southwest.

In addition to the sixteen guards, there are left and right shence army, left and right longwu army, and left and right habayashi army, each with more than [-] people, guarding Gyeonggi, Dongdu and Beidu. functions.

The Guards Division is divided into Guards Division, Dianqian Division and Horse Army Division, with 6000 people in each division, guarding the imperial family.

Each prefecture set up a reserve brigade, and each county set up a reserve battalion, with 250 people in each battalion.

In July of the second year of Guangxing, the left and right Jinwu guards entered Qingzang and set up ministers stationed in Tibet.

In September of the second year of Guangxing, the left and right Weiwei and the left and right leading army guards entered Ganlong to destroy the Uighurs. The army went all the way west, destroyed dozens of countries, and rebuilt the Anxi Dadu Protectorate in Congling.

Since then, Datang has ushered in the third prosperous age, and Megatron Western Regions.

In the fifth year of Guangxing, a fleet of thirty large ships set out from Fuzhou and entered the West.

In the ninth year of Guangxing, [-] Tang troops crossed Congling and appeared in Talas again.

(End of the book) (To be continued...)