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Huzhou, founded in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, governed Gushi County (now northeast of Gushi County, Henan). At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, Huzhou was abolished and changed to Yicheng County, and in the first year of Wude, Yicheng County was abolished and Huzhou was replaced. Huzhou, the state governs the wing city. Huzhou City (Yicheng) is located in the center of the "Qin, Jin, Henan" triangle", known as "the throat of southern Jin, the gateway of Pingyang", since ancient times, it is a place where soldiers must fight.

The prince of the Tang Dynasty and the supervisor Li Jiancheng set up the commander of the Chinese army in Xiangshan in the south of the tent wing city, also known as Soaring Mountain and Xianggao Mountain. In ancient times, it was called Hugao Mountain and Hun Mountain. It is a branch of Zhongtiao Mountain, because it is shaped like a bird and relaxes its wings, and it wants to fly in the air, so the wing city is named.

If Li Jiancheng had set up an artillery position in Xiangshan in the era of hot weapons, there would have been no possibility of holding Yicheng at all. However, Yicheng, which is six miles away from Xiangshan, has no weapons that can be threatened at all in this era.

Xu Shiji, who commanded the siege operation, although Xu Shiji's ability to lead the troops in battle was good, but it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the Tang army troops under the command of Xu Shiji could not carry too heavy equipment, and the main siege method was to suppress the archers in the city with a strong crossbow, and then the cloud ladder continued to advance!

The crossbowmen of the two great powers crawled close with their crossbows on their backs, and shieldmen covered them. When they arrived at the distance calculated by the general, they sat down together and fired the crossbow with their waist strength!

The main force of the Hedong Tang Army was basically lost, and the Hedong Army at this time was basically adapted from the Wagang Army. One of the characteristics of the Wagang Army is that the equipment is very poor. Especially after Li Mi was defeated by Wang Shichong in Bishan, he basically lost the family wealth accumulated by the Wagang Army for several years.

Today, Xu Shiji inherits almost eighty percent of the remnants of the Wagang Army, but there are more than 2,000 strong crossbows in more than 20,000 troops. It is far lower than the regular Tang Army's bow and crossbow equipment. Although the equipment of the Tang Army in Hedong is poor, it is necessary to compare it with whom, if it is compared with Liu Wuzhou's Tianxing Army, the Tianxing Army is more like an army called Huazi.

Xu Shiji still has more than 2,000 strong crossbows, but Song Jingang has more than 5,000 archers under his command, of which there are no more than 1,000 strong crossbows. In terms of the number of strong crossbows, the Tang army on the besieging side was more than a little stronger than the Tianxing army on the defending side.

Xu Shiji was quite a chicken thief, and he ordered: "Cloud ladder gradually!" ”

A group of shield-bearers guarded the infantry and carried dozens of ladders to rush towards the city of Huzhou.

Seeing this scene, the general defending the city immediately ordered: "Prepare the archers!" ”

However, the voice of the Huzhou defenders did not fall, and the order flag in Xu Shiji's hand fell fiercely.

More than 2,000 strong crossbowmen of the Hedong Tang Army subconsciously aimed at the long-marked shooting distance, and pulled the motive.

"Woo Woo ......"

A sharp sound of breaking the air sounded, dense strong crossbows were fired, more than two thousand crossbow arrows tore the air in the air, and countless Tianxing Army archers in the upper city of Huzhou City were hit by arrows almost at the same time, and even Song Jingang was almost shot by accident.

The range of the bow and arrow is actually about the same as that of the submachine guns of later generations, although the rate of fire is much higher than that of the crossbow machine, but both the power and the range are far inferior to the strong crossbow. As soon as the battle began, the Tianxing army suffered a loss, and was shot hundreds of people in an instant, among which Song Jingang vomited the most blood was that his most valuable strong crossbowman lost more than two hundred people.

Originally, his strong crossbow was far inferior to the Tang army, but this time he lost more than 200 people, and the gap in strength between the two sides was widened this time. However, the Tianxing Army is the number of archers, which can make up for the disadvantage of the lack of strong crossbows. Although the Tang army occupies the advantage of the strong crossbow, the Tianxing army is condescending and occupies a geographical advantage that is difficult to get closer.

In short, both sides have their own strengths, arrows come and go, and the fight is inextricable for a while.

Although the infantry who attached ants to the siege of the city could put a ladder on the head of the city, the three attacks were all repelled by the elite troops led by Song Jingang. Seeing that his morale was frustrated, Xu Shiji sighed helplessly and said: "It would be nice if there was a bed crossbow, even if there was only one, as long as it could shoot Song Jingang, Huzhou would be broken." ”

Unfortunately, there are not so many ifs in reality.

Seeing that Xu Shiji ordered the retreat in front of him, Li Jiancheng was also full of disappointment in his heart. However, he also understood at this time that it was useless to fight again when the continuous attacks were fruitless and the soldiers were frustrated.

At this moment, Donggong Lang turned over Er Zhuhuan and dismounted, ran to Li Jiancheng with a sweaty head, bowed down, put his hands over his shoulders, and handed over a thin bamboo pipe.

"Tell His Royal Highness the Prince, Yang Wengan, the governor of Gyeongju, report urgently!"

Li Jiancheng took the bamboo pipe and pulled it out, pulled out a paper roll from it, and hurriedly glanced at it after unfolding it, and a look of joy appeared on his face. Wei Zheng looked at Li Jiancheng and asked curiously, "Your Royal Highness the Prince, there is good news from Gyeongju?" ”

Li Jiancheng shook his head and said: "It's not the good news of Gyeongju, it's the good news of Lingzhou." ”

"Lingzhou?" Wei Zheng said: "Chief Manager Chen repelled the Turkic attack? This is a great joy, Lingzhou is alone, not only to resist the attack of Liang Shidu, but also to face the Turkic troops, the pressure will not be less than Hedong! ”

Li Jiancheng handed the note in his hand to Wei Zheng, and Wei Zheng took it and looked at it: "Minister Wei Zheng congratulates His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

It happened that Xu Shiji returned to the big tent with a depressed face, looked at Wei Zheng with a happy face, and asked, "Did Guanzhong send reinforcements?" ”

Wei Zheng shook his head and said: "It's not the reinforcements in Guanzhong, but General Chen Yingda, the governor of Lingzhou, who captured Liu Wuzhou's old nest Shuozhou!" ”

"What? Shuozhou captured? ”

Xu Shiji said in disbelief: "How is this possible? ”

Liu Wuzhou was originally the captain of Yingyang in Mayi County, and took advantage of the chaos in the world at the end of the Sui Dynasty to kill Wang Rengong, the Taishou of Mayi, opened a warehouse to help the poor, galloped into the territory, and won more than 10,000 soldiers, claiming to be the Taishou. Later, Mayi County (Shuozhou) can be said to be the starting place of Liu Wuzhou, with a very strong foundation of people's hearts, how can it be said that it was conquered?

Not only Xu Shiji couldn't figure it out, but even Li Jiancheng was surprised.

In fact, Yu Qi said that Shuozhou was captured by Chen Ying, but it was better to say that Liu Wuzhou gave Shuozhou away. In order to curry favor with the Turks, Liu Wuzhou allowed the Turks to come and go to Shuozhou. These Turks are not a good thing, they shine gold when they see money, and red when they see women. The people of Shuozhou, regardless of their nobles, were basically affected by the Turkic calamity. The officials appointed by Liu Wuzhou not only did not uphold justice for the people of Shuozhou, but instead aided in the abuse of the people and acted for the tiger.

When Chen Ying led the army to attack Shuozhou, not only did not a single Shuozhou people work for Liu Wuzhou, but also the people Liu Wuzhou recruited were all grass on the wall with milk or mother, seeing that Chen Ying was powerful, he either surrendered, or took off his armor and turned into a citizen.

Li Jiancheng didn't care whether Liu Wuzhou gave it up or not, anyway, Shuozhou took it, and Liu Wuzhou's nest was also lost. Datang lost Taiyuan, Liu Wuzhou lost Shuozhou, and now it's flat.

Shuozhou, thousands of miles away, said that it was lost, and there was no warning in advance. Many people can't even believe it when they hear about it! It wasn't until Li Jiancheng ordered a big reward for the three armies, saying that they would stay up all night tonight to congratulate the victory, that the officers and men of the Hedong Army were sure that the news was true!

"Capture Shuozhou, capture Shuozhou."

This unbelievable news spread throughout the entire Hedong Army in a moment, as if he had grown legs. The whole army is boiling! Originally, Xu Shiji led everyone to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty lost Taiyuan here, and as a result, the situation in Hedong turned down. Datang even lost its last foothold, Huzhou. At this time, it is absolutely false for the officers and men of the whole army to say that there are no complaints.

Now, their complaints are gone. On the contrary, they are glad that they did not follow the wrong person, Datang is really powerful, he took Liu Wuzhou's national capital silently, Liu Wuzhou even lost the national capital, will Liu Wuzhou be far from being defeated like a mountain?

From Xu Shiji downwards, the pride of the former Wagang Army officers and soldiers has increased unprecedentedly!

"General Chen is really powerful, it can be said that one person has turned the tide of the battle!"

Subsequently, Li Yuan of Chang'an City also got the news that Chen Yingqing took Shuozhou and forced Yanmen Pass. Li Yuan was stunned for a long time, and repeatedly decided that he did not have auditory hallucinations, and after repeatedly confirming that the news was correct, Li Yuan laughed heartily, and suddenly laughed breathlessly.

Li Yuan couldn't help but secretly rejoice, glad that he didn't really listen to Ashina Mohe's opinion, and exchanged Chen Ying's head for the Turks to withdraw from Hedong.

Li Yuan was happy for a while and said: "I rule the world with literature, fight chaos with force, praise virtue, and reward its materials." Eunuch Pei, you say, Chen Ying has made such a great contribution now, how should he be rewarded? ”

"Your Majesty" Pei Lin said: "The matter of marriage has to be stepped up. ”

"Marriage?" At the mention of this, Li Yuan hesitated. Li Yuan was born in the gate valve, one of the eight pillars of Guanlong, and now he is a super royal family, while Chen Ying is just a commoner, and he is still from a lowly background. Although Li Daozong's sister is not a princess, she is also his niece, a dignified and beautiful daughter, with a Chen Ying, she is really wronged Li Daozhen.

In ancient China, the concept of "the right person" was very important. There are two pairs of households on the lintel, corresponding to five to seven officials, and there are four pairs of households on the lintel, corresponding to more than four officials, as for the twelve pairs of households, it can only be used by the prince or above, in other words, even if it is a relative of the emperor, not the king does not dare to build three doors, embedding twelve household pairs.

But there is a problem, that is, this is the right family, not only looking at the generation, but also looking at the parents and grandparents. Chen Yingzu has no outstanding characters, and belongs to civilians who don't even have a family pair. But Li Daozhen's father is also the king of the eight households. Even if Li Daozhen marries, he should marry the son of a prince or a county duke, and he must marry the son of a marquis again, and it is impossible to marry a son with a white body.

Seeing Li Yuan's hesitation, how could Pei Lin not know what Li Yuan was thinking, and suddenly said: "Your Majesty, Hou Mochen should be matched with the county lord of Baicheng, and he can be regarded as a good person!" ”

"Hou Mochen?" Li Yuan was slightly stunned, and said in surprise: "You mean that Chen Ying is Hou Mo and Chen Chong?" ”

"To be precise, it should be Hou Mo Chen Chong's grandson!" Pei Lin twisted his beard and said with a smile: "According to the information found by the old minister, this Chen Ying is the fifth son of the Great Sima of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Great General of the Zhu State, and the eldest son of the Marquis of Liang State, Mo Chen Chong, the former Sui Shangzhu State, and the Grand Sima Marquis Mo Chen Rui......"