Chapter 131 The house leak happened to rain all day

Luoyang City is naturally not a paper paste, but the fire is out of control, which is really beyond everyone's expectations. Wang Shichong listened to the little eunuch who had just come back from inquiring about the news babbling that Wang Lanzhu was actually crazy, crying and shouting while holding a torch to ignite the Champion General's Mansion, causing this fire.

If it were someone else, Wang Shichong naturally wouldn't mind killing people. As the so-called tiger poison does not eat children, besides, this is a daughter who has no interests entanglement with him, Wang Shichong didn't think much about it, after all, Wang Lanzhu, who was pregnant with Liujia, couldn't bear the news of Shan Xiongxin's suicide, and it was very possible to have hysteria for a while.

Wang Shichong said coldly: "Order the Wuhou Mansion to extinguish the fire immediately!" ”

But the fire is getting bigger and bigger, vaguely mixed with the sound of blades, and bursts of terrible screams, which makes Wang Shichong's face turn blue, if he can't think of someone making trouble now, Wang Shichong has lived to a dog for more than 40 years.

In fact, it was a very unexpected operation.

Since the battle of Taichu Palace, the Beiwei army has been broken into pieces and scattered to the surrounding counties of Luoyang. When Wang Lanzhu was setting fire to the palace of the champion general on Duanmen Street, a backing army ordered to reconnoiter the situation in Luoyang happened to stay in several inns on Tianjin Street, where the intersection of Duanmen Street intersected.

At that time, the Champion General's Mansion was on fire, and Luoyang City was in chaos, and Su Chong's team was seeing the opportunity. He calmly ordered to the five gang commanders under his command: "This is a good opportunity, now Luoyang City is in chaos, we are separated, a group, scattered and set fire, then Luoyang City will have fun!" ”

When the five gang leaders heard this, this was also true. Anyway, the reconnaissance mission has been completed, and the locations where the guards in Luoyang City are stationed and the patrol habits in Pingyang have already been preempted by the Beiwei army, and they have already been detected by the Zheng army before martial law. The task has been completed, and Su Chong has the mentality that he can catch a handful.

Because Wang Shichong had issued a strict order to extinguish the fire in the palace of the champion general, so the five captains and ten captains under Su Chong easily stole some lamp oil or even vegetable oil from the inn or the homes of ordinary people, of course, lamp oil or vegetable oil, it is not a very good fire material, but most of the main buildings in Luoyang City are mainly pine wood, and in just one pillar of incense time, Duanmen Street and Tianjin Street, the two main streets of Luoyang City, are centered on Duanmen Street, and the fire spread to all sides.

The night and chaos gave Su Chong's subordinates great cover, and Wang Shichong's nephews Wang Tai, Wang Jundu, Wang Qianshou, Wang Honglie, Wang Xingben, Wang Wan, Wang Renze, Wang Daocheng, Wang Daoxun, and Wang Daokuo were counted as one, and everyone's mansions were set on fire.

However, at this time, the whereabouts of Su Chong's department of the Beiwei army were also discovered by Wang Daoxun's subordinates, Wang Daoxun was careless, and his hair was burned in large pieces, Wang Daoxun was furious, and ordered to pursue Su Chong's department at all costs. Su Chong's department retreated while fighting, and when he retreated to Shangchun Gate, he saw the mansion of Wang Shichong's Chen Guogong and Situ Lingshang Shushi Duan Da, and Su Chong's department was either shot by Wang Daoxun's servants, or hacked to death with a knife, and Su Chong was also ruthless.

He didn't stop doing it, and even ordered Duan Da's mansion.

If it weren't for the fire in Luoyang City, hundreds of people flocked out of the city, as long as Wang Shichong ordered the city gate to be closed, Su Chong's department probably wouldn't be able to escape alone.

In the end, Su Chong's 52 people, 23 people escaped from Luoyang City, and 29 people were killed or captured, but the losses they caused to Luoyang City were amazing, a total of more than 8,000 houses were burned, and more than 300 people were burned, but most of them were headed by the henchmen and nephews of King Zheng Shichong.

In the early morning of the next day, Wang Shichong got the exact news that the mansion of the champion general was burned to the ground, the princess Wang Lanzhu was buried in the fire, and the corpse of the champion general was found in the chaos of thirteen bodies, among which there was a charred female corpse pregnant with Liujia, Wang Shichong was very sad.

However, Wang Shichong's mood does not need to be grieved, because he has no time to grieve. On the fifth day of the first month of the third year of Wude, Wang Shichong received news that Li Yuan, the lord of Li Tang in Chang'an, Guanzhong, officially appointed his son Li Shimin, the king of Qin, as the generalissimo of the Shaanxi Eastern Dao Xingtai Shangshu Ling and the generalissimo of the Shaanxi Eastern Dao Soldiers and Horses, Qu Tutong and Chen Ying served as the left and right deputy commanders respectively, leading 150,000 soldiers and horses to conquer Zheng Guo.

There is no detailed battle report yet, but Wang Shichong has already received an urgent report from Wang Renze, and the forward 50,000 horses led by the deputy marshal of the Tang Army and the champion general have arrived at Hangu Pass.

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In order to excuse his incompetence, Wang Ren gave Wang Shichong an urgent report and reported to Wang Shichong that Chen Ying's 50,000 troops were the elite of Li Tang's elite.

However, in fact, Chen Ying did not put 50,000 troops under Hangu Pass at all, but divided his troops to the top of Hangu Pass under the five Zhechong Mansion led by the strongest fighting power of the Donggong Prince Zuo Wei. After these five Zhechong prefectures were strengthened by Chen Ying, each Zhechong prefecture was under the jurisdiction of five regiments, and each regiment was under the jurisdiction of three brigades, totaling more than 7,500 men.

As for the other left guard rates and left and right royal rates, they respectively seized the land of Fenglin, Hongnong, Ruxiang, Hucheng, Lushi, Changshui, and Taolin counties.

As for the results of the battle, almost without exception, the county lieutenants and county commanders of the seven counties of Fenglin, Hongnong, Ruxiang, Hucheng, Lushi, Changshui, and Taolin took the initiative to surrender with the lord Bo and the county Cheng.

Chen Ying's purpose in calling Guguan is very clear, he doesn't want to steal the limelight from Li Shimin, he wants Taolin County, Taolin County's rich resources and Taolin's gold mines.

After occupying Taolin County, Chen Ying did not even enter the county seat, and directly led the nine regiments of the Zhichong Mansion and the proficient Modao Army under his command, all the way to the gold mine in the mountains outside Taolin County. The surface of the peach forest is composed of mountains, soil plains, river terraces, and the landform is roughly divided into "seven mountains, two plains and one river", in terms of fertility, it can almost be compared with the northwest desert, and the grain has never been enough to eat.

However, the gold of Taolin is very present, and it has been mined since the Han Dynasty and has not decreased for hundreds of years. Far from decreasing, new mines were constantly discovered, and in the later era of high-tech mining, the gold production actually exceeded 20 tons. Of course, for such a gold mine, whoever gets this gold mine will pay attention to it.

Hearing that Chen Ying was going to pay attention to the Taolin Gold Mine, Taolin County Ling Xia Dongxu frowned and said, "General Chen, it's not easy to deal with the Taolin Gold Mine!" ”

Chen Ying asked, "How many defenders are there in the Taolin Gold Mine?" ”

Although there are only more than 30 officials in Taolin County, there is not a single soldier. However, this gold mine, no matter who owns it, will not be taken lightly. When Wang Shichong did not usurp the throne, this place belonged to the Dugu family and the Hongnong Yang family, and of course the majority still belonged to the imperial court. However, after Wang Shichong killed Yang Tong and openly usurped the throne, he tore his face and sent his Wang Xuanqiong to personally take over thirteen gold mines in Taolin County, and sent 5,000 elite armor soldiers to be stationed here.

These 5,000 armor soldiers did not belong to Wang Ren of Hangu Pass, but belonged directly to Wang Shichong, and of course, the gold mined was directly transported to Luoyang City.

Xia Dongxu said: "There are thirteen gold mines in Taolin County, each of which has as little as fifty or as many as three hundred people!" ”

When Fan Hu, who had just surrendered, heard this, he said disapprerovingly: "This bit of people is not enough to stuff your teeth!" ”

Chen Ying's gaze was like electricity, staring at Fan Hu fiercely, making Fan Hu's head shrink and not dare to say anything more.

Xia Dongxu said: "It is not difficult to fight any gold mine, but it is still Wang Xuanqiong's 5,000 armor soldiers stationed in Jinsha Town, these armor soldiers are all built with Wang Shichong's Jiangdong disciples, brave and good at fighting, each with one block and ten ......."

Chen Ying nodded and said: "This bit of people is not enough for General Ben to stuff his teeth, take the gold mine one by one, General Ben doesn't have that kung fu, the target is Wang Xuanqiong's camp in Jinsha Town!" ”

Although the words are the same, when Fan Hu says it, people think he is bragging, but when it comes out of Chen Ying's mouth, people take it for granted.

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The Kushan Gold Mine was very famous in later generations, and of course, it was also famous in this era. More than 40 miles away from Taolin County, the Jinsha camp in Kunshan is a permanent military camp where Wang Xuanqiong's 5,000 soldiers are stationed. The thirteen gold mines in Kunshan are scattered around Jinsha Town in an oval shape, and Jinsha Town is sixty-two miles away from the farthest gold mine and seven miles away from the nearest gold mine. No matter which gold mine is attacked, Wang Xuanqiong can provide effective support in the first time.

At this time, in the festival hall of the Chinese army, Wang Xuanqiong was like an ant on a hot pot, and all the bad news he received recently was bad, first in the north of the plateau, his brother-in-law Shan Xiongxin was defeated and captured, and then there was news that Shan Xiongxin would rather die than surrender and kill himself. Then Wang Ren was captured by the Tang army when he camped in the Taichu Palace, and his generals lost more than half, and when they retreated to Hangu Pass, there were only less than 8,000 men and horses left.

Now, Wang Renze no longer has the strength to provide support, once Jinsha Town is ambushed, he will be a lone army with 5,000 armor soldiers under his command.

But the problem is that he is now powerless.

Since the beginning of winter last year, the roads were not smooth, so he stopped transporting gold to Luoyang City, and in the vault of Jinsha Town, there were 14 boxes of gold, some of which had just been mined recently, and some of which Wang Xuanqiong had concealed by taking advantage of his position. These gold boxes are 14 large boxes, weighing more than 1,300 catties, more than 20,000 taels, and the value is equivalent to 200,000 copper coins.

At this time, Wang Xuanqiong was also very angry. He scolded Wang Renze: "It's just a pig, more than 30,000 horses, and it's lost in just a few days." Even 30,000 pigs can't be killed in just three days in Hangu Pass......"

However, as the saying goes, whatever you are afraid of comes. When Wang Xuanqiong was worried about his fate, Chen Ying led his personal guard Zhichong Mansion and the Modao Army of the nine regiments had already appeared in the line of sight of the sentries on the watchtower in Jinsha Town.

I saw that at the mouth of the valley that turned the corner, there was a dense crowd of Tang Army soldiers, led by six banners, and the official book of the big book.

"Champion General Chen!"

"The Prince of the East Palace's Guest Chen"

"Ministry of Labor, Lang Chen!"

"Shaanzhou Chen"

"Chen, the right deputy marshal of the Shaanxi Eastern Provincial Soldiers and Horses Army"

"Shaanxi East Xingtai School Inspection Shangshu Right Servant Shoots Chen"

Seeing these six flags, Wang Xuanqiong's face was like earth, her body trembled like chaff, and she muttered in her mouth: "It's over, Chen Ying is here, it's all over now!" Read the latest chapters, stay tuned