The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 236 A Clever Scheme by Li Mi to Take Luoyang
While Yang Yong's rebel army was recuperating, the backer king, who had been hit continuously, relapsed and fell ill in Xin'an. A week later, the backer king Yang Lin, whose condition improved a little, marched east from Xin'an, and the [-] army arrived at the city of Luoyang that day.

However, now Luoyang has become the world of Yang Gan and Li Mijun.Just a few days ago, Yang Gan and Li Mi's 16 troops took Xuchang and went straight to Luoyang.

Prince Yang Zhaowen heard that the two had killed Wang Su, the edict official, and launched a military coup. He was like thunder, and asked the civil and military officials again "what to do".This time, all civil and military officials stopped shaking their heads and offered advice to the prince one after another, but they all advocated abandoning Luoyang. Zhao was a little at a loss.

Gong Chai Shen of Julu County resisted all opinions and said: "Your Highness, abandoning the city and fleeing is definitely not the best policy. Luoyang is the capital of the Sui Dynasty, and we must not give up easily. It was really helpless to abandon Daxing City at the beginning, which has already shaken the foundation of the Sui Dynasty. Now just now If we move the capital and then give up, it will definitely shake the morale of the army and lose the hearts of the people, and the Sui Dynasty will be in danger. None of us can afford to blame the emperor.”

"Ai Qing is right, but don't give up. Luoyang only has 16 soldiers. How can we resist the enemy's [-] soldiers?" Yang Zhao was so anxious that he slid back and forth on the Golden Palace, his fat body seemed a little overwhelmed. of.

Chai Shen saluted and said: "Your Highness, don't worry. The 16 troops of Yang Gan and Li Mi are not terrible. The new capital of Luoyang is high and deep, and there are still [-] elite soldiers. There are millions of residents in the city, and the money and food are sufficient. There must be a lot of money under the reward." Brave man, Your Highness will open the treasury and mobilize the gentry, farmers, businessmen and other people in the city to unite with the soldiers to defend the city. It will not be a problem to hold on to the city for ten and a half months. At the same time, you can send someone to invite the emperor quickly, and send a letter to Hangu Pass and other nearby counties. Ask for help and ask them to lead troops to King Qin quickly. If we can come all the way to King Qin, we will not be afraid of bandits. Although the emperor is far away from here, the soldiers and horses of the king of the mountain are only more than four hundred miles away. This is not considered a distance. If the king of the mountain sends the army of the king of Qin, and we cooperate from inside to outside, the two thieves, Yang and Li, will be defeated."

What Chai Shen said made Yang Zhao nod repeatedly, and other civil and military officials wanted to refute, Yang Zhao glared, "I am determined to live and die with Dongdu, whoever dares to say anything about abandoning the city will definitely be executed." When the prince said a word, all civil and military officials dared not say anything.

Yang Zhao then ordered Chai Shen to be the temporary rebel general and governor of all the soldiers and horses in Luoyang City to defend the city.Then quickly drafted the edict, and ordered people to send it out quickly after it was drafted.Among them, two had the highest hopes and were sent the earliest. One was sent to Yang Lin, the backer king of Hangu Pass, and the other was sent to Yang Guang who had already arrived at Shanhai Pass.

Then follow Chai Shen's suggestion to draw up an imperial edict, the content of which is roughly to offer a heavy reward to those who are willing to help the army defend the city, open the treasury, and cash out part of it on the spot, with money, food, horses, silk, jewelry, etc., as well as land , Even promised high-ranking officials and rich salary, and sent people to paste it around after drafting the edict.This trick really worked, and there was an endless stream of applicants.

Chai Shen ordered the crown prince to back away from the left and right sides and said: "Your Highness, just in case, you can secretly transfer the crown prince's family and heirs to a safe place."

Yang Zhaozhao approved and asked Chai Shen to handle it.Chai Shen recruited his confidants and generals, took the prince's main palace and concubines' children, together with his own family members, a total of several hundred people, and quietly escorted them out of the city in the middle of the night, and fled to Li Yuan in Bingzhou, Shanxi.

There was one exception, Yang Zhao's little Liu Liangdi, who brought her son Yang Tong with her. The mother and son wept to the point of tears, and were willing to share life and death with Yang Zhao. lost their mother and son.

At noon on the second day after Yang Zhao and Chai Shen's family members moved out of the city, Yang Gan and Li Mi's army arrived outside Luoyang City, and when they arrived here, they surrounded the eastern capital with water.

Then Yang Gan and Li Mi ordered the army to forcibly attack the city, intending to use the superior force to take the Eastern Capital quickly.But after three days and three nights of continuous attack, Luoyang City stood still.Instead, Yang Gan and Li Mi lost their troops and generals, losing nearly 5 horses.

The two were so annoyed that they had to temporarily stop the siege and re-discuss the countermeasures in the camp.

Li Mi said: "My lord, there are not many troops in Luoyang City. We have been unable to attack for so long. They must have used the people in the city. Besides, they are standing still and waiting for reinforcements. We have to take a risky move. We will use the strategy, and so on..." As he spoke, he whispered a few words into Yang Gan's ear, and Yang Gan was overjoyed when he heard the words.

After that, there was no siege on the fourth day of the siege, and on the fifth day, late at night, at midnight, outside the west gate of Luoyang, behind Yang Gan and Li Mi's barracks, there was a sudden commotion, shouts of killing everywhere, and lamp balls and torches as bright as day.

Yuande princes Yang Zhao and Chai Shen heard the news and hurriedly climbed to the top of the city to watch. They saw that Yang Gan and Li Mi's West Camp was thrown into chaos. A group of troops came in the light of the fire. "Wang", "Yang" and other words, one of the veterans under his banner has a golden helmet and a red battle robe around his waist, a bow on his back, and a sword hanging from his waist. He sits on a lightning white dragon horse and dances with a prison dragon stick. able to fight.

The soldiers and horses of Yang Gan and Li Mi were killed so that their corpses rolled over, and their blood flowed into rivers.

Yang Zhao and Chai Shen were overjoyed when they saw that the chief general was Yang Lin, the king of the mountain. Then Chai Shen was fully clothed, and led [-] troops into the city to kill them.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Chai Shen's men and horses rushed across the suspension bridge, ambushes were everywhere. Two armies from Yang Gan on the left and Li Mi on the right rushed over and cut Chai Shen's army in three.

It turned out that the war in Yang Gan and Li Mi's West Camp was all fake. In order to confuse the enemy, Yang Gan and Li Mi spent a day making careful preparations. They found a general who looked similar to the backer king. Masquerading as Yang Lin, he brought a big white horse, imitated a prison dragon stick, and led ten thousand soldiers. After the third watch, he suddenly rushed in from the outside holding a torch and shouting.Yang Gan and Li Mi led heavy troops to ambush outside the moat on both sides of the west gate.

The fake Yang Lin's men rushed into Yang Gan and Li Mi's West Camp and killed them all. However, most of their kills were Sui prisoners captured when Xuchang was captured.Meanwhile, Yang Gan and Li Mi's troops in the West Camp shouted on purpose and fled in embarrassment, pretending to be attacked and defeated.Because the sky was dark, this trick really deceived the eyes of Prince Yang Zhao and Chai Shen.

Chai Shen knew he had been duped, but it was already too late.He killed a bloody road and hurried back to the army, but he retreated into the city with the remnants of the defeated soldiers, but before the suspension bridge was pulled up in time, and the city gate was not closed in time, Yang Gan and Li Mi's troops rushed into the west gate.Chai Shen didn't like it, so he guarded the crown prince Yang Zhao and passed through the city, leaving the east gate with only 5000 people and fleeing to Shanxi, but all around were the armies of Yang Gan and Li Mi, and the two monarchs and ministers were killed in the scuffle.As a result, Chai Shen fought a bloody road and fled to Shanxi, while Yuande Prince Yang Zhao was injured and became a prisoner.

Yang Gan and Li Mi led troops into Luoyang, killing anyone they saw, beheading anyone they saw, and setting fire to them. They rushed and killed until dawn, and Luoyang City was completely occupied by Yang Gan and Li Mi's troops.

　I sent it earlier in the afternoon. I'm too busy today, so I won't update it tonight. Thank you for your understanding and support.

　　
　
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