Landlord of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 33 The Battle Against Liu Heita

Xu Qing sent food to Anyang, and because of his military exploits in defeating the enemy, he also donated horseshoes and fried rice. A memorial from Li Shimin was sent to Chang'an, and then the imperial decree was handed down quickly. , This is a lord, not a scattered official like Lieutenant Xuan Jie, who only has a title and a little land, and a special gift.

The lord not only has a large piece of land and money rewards, but also has a monthly salary. The family land is not taxed, and the tenants do not serve in the service.

In addition, the official rank of Xu Qing San was also promoted, and he became a captain of Zhenwei from the sixth rank. Li Shimin also made up for a real vacancy in the army. Yes, but Xu Qing grinned, he had also guarded the door in Zhechong Mansion in Shandong, so he was quite experienced.As for the specific money and land, as well as the rewards of Jianyang Ma Jin and others, they must be determined after the war.

In short, if the current Xu Qing goes to the banquet, the person who rolls the roll should call: Xiaoqi Wei Zhenwei Xiaowei Front Ya General Xu Qing, Master Xu.

Although Xu Qing was guarding the gate, he was at least a general. He basically had to participate in every battle, but according to Xu Qing's temperament, he never took the initiative to go to the front line.When defending, he led his men to hide far behind to guard the gate of the barracks. When attacking, he followed the big troops to wave the flag and shout, occasionally to catch some prisoners or something, and to do some exercises.Every time the battle is over, Xu Qing, this kid, guards a pile of good armor, horses, and horses from the battlefield.

Li Shimin did not disappoint Xu Qing, who had made a lot of money in the war. He commanded well and planned strategies, and victories followed one after another.

In February, Liu Heita also attacked Mingshui City, and all the people were repelled by Tang general Qin Shubao.On the 24th, Li Shimin recovered Xingzhou. On the [-]th, Li Yi led his army to recapture Ding, Luan, Lian, and Zhaozhou, and captured Liu Heita Shangshu Liu Xidao.

Li Shimin's army gathered in Mingzhou, preparing for the next step, but encountered a little setback here.

At that time, Liu Heita rushed to attack Mingshui City. The city was surrounded by water with a depth of three to four feet. Liu Heita built two corridors in the northeast of the city to prepare to attack the city.Li Shimin led troops to reinforce him three times, but all of them were unable to advance because of the stubborn resistance of Liu Heita's army.Seeing that the tunnel was about to be completed and Mingshui City was in danger, Li Shimin boarded the high tomb in the south of the city and used flags to order Wang Junkuo to break out of the encirclement.

After the construction of the tunnel, Liu Heita's army stormed Mingshui City for 8 consecutive days and nights. It happened to be heavy snow, and the Tang army could not reinforce it. Mingshui City fell and Luo Shixin was killed.Then Li Shimin led his army back to Mingshui City.

In March, Li Shimin and Li Yi camped south of Mingshui and divided their troops to the north of Mingshui.Liu Heikai challenged him many times, but Li Shimin stood firm and did not fight in order to defeat him. At the same time, he sent other strange soldiers to cut off his grain roads.

Xu Qing also appeared frequently in this battle. After burning food, there will naturally be good things, but Xu Qing was disappointed this time. Liu Heita's army now has only some bran left in the food.It's like Yuan Shu in history, who rashly proclaimed himself emperor and enjoyed bliss, but in the end he could only eat bran and died miserably.

The two sides held each other for more than two months. Li Shimin thought that Liu Heita had run out of food and grass and would come to a decisive battle, so he ordered people to build a weir on the upper reaches of the Ming River to cut off the river.Sure enough, Liu Heikai led the southward crossing of Mingshui and approached the Tang camp to line up.Li Shimin sent light cavalry to fight first, and then led fine cavalry to defeat Liu Heita's cavalry army, and trampled his infantry with horses.

Liu Heita led his army to resist desperately, and the battle lasted from noon to dusk.At this time, the guards broke the weir, the river rushed down quickly, the water was more than ten feet deep, Liu Heita's army was defeated, more than ten thousand people were killed, and thousands of people were drowned.

Once Liu Heikai was defeated and left, the battle of Hebei was considered settled. Since then, the whole of Hebei has been basically recovered except for some small forces.In the battles of the past few months, Xu Qing was basically just playing tricks, so there is no need to elaborate.When Li Shimin was cleaning up the remnants of the forces, he sent some injured people, older soldiers back to their hometowns to bring rewards first, and Xu Qing was also sent back to his hometown because of his physical injuries.

Huh?Xu Qing is injured, isn't he not going to the front line?It was unlucky to say that during the battle, Xu Qing watched from a distance behind the formation, appraising the situation on the battlefield, so that he could rush up to grab things when the enemy was defeated.It was originally a good thing to make a fortune in silence, but Xu Qing shouldn't be too greedy.He saw a general of the enemy wearing armor, which was shining silver even from Xu Qing's place, but it was pure silver armor.

After the general was knocked down, Xu Qing happily ran over to "deal with the funeral", but he didn't expect the general to come back and slash at Xu Qing with a broken knife. Xu Qing was no match, after several times of resistance, He was cut a little bit, and all his subordinates came to rescue him, so that the general didn't hurt Xu Qing's vitals, and Xu Qing almost risked his life to exchange for a pair of sterling silver armor.

Frightened by this, Xu Qing never dared to "fish for goods" like this again, and kept recovering from his injuries until Liu Heita was defeated.In fact, there is no injury, and it will be fine after a few days of recuperation. Of course, this is also thanks to Xu Qing's proper handling, and there is no infection.

Today, Xu Qing is full of money, fame and fortune, and has also made a fortune when he was promoted.Walking on the way back to his hometown, as a glorious and wounded general, he talked about how he took the lead, how he fought the enemy bravely, how he used one-on-three and so on.Whoever said no, exposed the scar for others to see, and the one who said no was shocked and apologized quickly.

After bragging all the way, Xu Qing walked to the border of Henan, but he was hesitant and didn't go back to Luonan, but went straight to Luoyang with a carriage of good things.After four months in the military camp, although it is not possible for a sow to compete with Diaochan, all he can think about now is Xun Xueer, that little girl, that figure, that pretty face, tsk tsk tsk.

Although he gave Xun Xueer a lot of money, enough for half a year, but after all, he was a girl, with a little kid, and after three or four months, he was most afraid of accidents.And that guy Shangguanyi is just a literati, so it's okay to ask him to swear at people, and there are more than [-] words in a minute without dirty words, but if you want him to protect people, that's another matter.Of course, Xu was afraid that Shangguanyi would be close to the water, so there was something indescribable.

In a hurry, Xu Qing and his party of six arrived in Luoyang in less than three days.The other five people are the guards sent to him by the superiors. After all, they are generals, so they are considered important figures.The closer he got to Luoyang, the faster Xu Qing's heart beat.When he arrived in Luoyang, Xu Qing calmed down instead and found an inn to stay.

The night is quiet, Xu Qing can't sleep, thinking alone, now it's more than six months, and in one month, it will be the year of the Tang Dynasty, right?
It seems that the mix is ​​not bad?

(End of this chapter)