Chapter 52 Where is Liu Renliang sacred?

Xiazhou, Tongwan City.

When Chen Ying arrived in Tongwan City, it was already the beginning of November in the first year of Kaiyuan.

The snow is flying, and the cold air is on the skin.

In the Hetao area, it has long been covered with silver makeup, the trees are covered with snow and ice ridges, the mountain dances with silver snakes, and the wax statue of Yuan Chi is beautiful.

Thanks to the arrival of Chen Ying, coal has been used on a large scale in this time and space. In fact, not only Datang is using coal for heating, but even Tongwancheng in Liangshidu is also using coal for heating.

There is no way, Xiazhou is the capital of China's mineral resources, where coal, oil, natural gas, rock salt and other energy and mineral resources are enriched, with an average of 6.22 million tons of coal, 14,000 tons of oil, 100 million cubic meters of natural gas, and 140 million tons of rock salt per square kilometer. The resource combination is well allocated, which is rare at home and abroad.

In fact, as early as the second year of Wude, Chen Ying wanted to take Xiazhou and eliminate Liang Shidu.

In the face of such a piece of fat, no one will not be tempted. However, at that time, he was only the governor of Lingzhou, and he was not ranked in the Tang Dynasty. Political decision-making cannot be talked about him, in fact, during Li Yuan's reign, even Li Jiancheng could not influence Li Yuan's opinions.

At that time, in order to create a buffer zone with the Eastern Turks, Li Yuan only put Liang Shi to fight back and not chase, as long as Liang Shi attacked, he would be beaten, but he must not beat Liang Shi to death with a stick.

After all, dog beating also depends on the owner.

However, during the period of Li Jiancheng's administration, Li Jiancheng had already waged a national war with the Eastern Turks, striving to destroy his country in a war, so there was no need for this strategic buffer to exist.

On the plateau of the uncertain plateau.

More than 4,000 Dingyuan troops, 16 Hedong troops of Zhichong Prefecture, a total of more than 30,000 men and horses, towering arrays, the huge army array stretched for more than ten miles, fiery red helmets, purple and black battle flags hunted and flew in the cold wind, extremely spectacular.

Thousands of troops and horses were silent, and there was a slaughter between heaven and earth.

Although the Tang army had not yet launched the siege, the murderous aura like a stormy wave rushed towards the face.

Speaking of which, Master Liang is also unlucky. As one of the thirty-six anti-kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the anti-kings of all walks of life who rebelled at the same time as him either died or descended to the Tang Dynasty. Only Liang Shidu continues to be called a lonely widow, but he is now Wang Xiaoer's New Year———— year is not as good as a year.

Don't look at him changing the yuan to "Yonglong", the meaning is always prosperous. But there is no anti-king like him, except for when he pulled the flag and rebelled, he overthrew the Sui general Zhang Shilong. The rest of the time, he was beaten by the Tang Army all the way.

On the fourth day of the seventh month of the first year of Wude (618), the Liang division invaded Lingzhou and was defeated by Lin Xingcang, a hussar general of the Tang Dynasty (Zhichong Duwei). On the first day of the third month of the second year of Wude (619), Liang Shidu invaded Lingzhou again, but was repelled by Shi Yang, the governor of Lingzhou. When attacking Lingzhou for the third time, he was pressed to the ground by Chen Ying and rubbed again.

Since Chen Ying was the chief governor of Lingzhou, Liang Shidu's army did not dare to rob across the border, as long as Chen Ying caught his troops, all of them were thrown into the coal mine to dig coal, and it was still free labor without wages.

Master Liang is adjacent to Lingzhou, but he does not have the ability to make money like Chen Ying. In Lingzhou under Chen Ying's rule, the people are rich and have no worries about food and clothing, but the people under his rule are not even as good as beggars.

begged his grandfather to tell his ancestors that he had mixed some cattle and sheep from the Turks, but Chen Ying had a handful of wool.

finally survived until Chen Ying was transferred out of Lingzhou, and Liang Shi felt that he could stand up and be a man, who would have thought that Chen Ying would come to Li Daozhen after leaving.

This fierce and domineering woman is even more ruthless than Chen Ying when she initiates madness. Chen Ying simply captured his soldiers and threw them in the mines to dig coal for free. However, Li Daozhen turned into Bengali, and led the self-consolidation warriors of the eighteen towns of Lingwu under her command, and she served the whole village and the whole village.

Well, in the end, Li Daozhen also went back to be her concubine with peace of mind, has the matter been resolved? No, Li Daozong appeared again, and after Li Daozong was transferred, Qin Qiong came again. Liang Shidu's opponents are fiercer than the other, and one is darker than the other.

Liang Shidu was not surprised at all when he found that the Tang army appeared outside the city playing the hussar general "Chen" Daxi.

After dealing with each other for so long, they have long figured out the temper of this sworn enemy, and the whole thing is a piece of dog skin plaster, which will not be let go if it is glued, and they will never stop until they bite the opponent to blood.

The Eastern Turks have four major leaves to protect the Khan, and there are twelve Khans, none of whom do not have a headache in the face of Chen Ying.

Seeing Chen Ying appear, Master Liang reacted calmly.

He didn't have the intention of taking advantage of Chen Ying's unstable foothold to drive Chen Ying away.

Unless, his head was kicked by a donkey, he would not have a field battle with Chen Ying at all. The Western Turkic Yehu Khan is a typical example of being kicked in the head by a donkey, and as a result, the 200,000-strong army was almost wiped out in a battle, and he himself was also trapped in the battle, which became a point on Chen Ying's credit.

The tall, majestic, and sturdy Tongwan City is the last reliance of Liang Shidu. After five years of his renovation, Tongwan City is taller and stronger than the Tongwan City in history, and even if Chen Ying's field ability is strong, he will definitely hit his head and bleed under Tongwan City.

It's just that what puzzled Master Liang was that Chen Ying didn't build siege equipment. Instead, he braved the bitter cold and started the entire permanent barracks.

This military camp is very large, and it surrounds all sides of Tongwan City. Because it was a cold winter, it was said that the construction was very difficult, and when you went down, only a white mark was left on the frozen ground.

However, the officers and men of the Tang Army were less strenuous than others. Directly put a coal stove on the frozen ground, and use the furnace fire to roast the frozen soil, after the frozen layer melts, the frozen soil on the ground will become thin mud. The soldiers of the Tang Army threw the wooden shell, like the construction team of later generations pouring reinforced concrete, and threw the thin mud into the shell board, and then after an hour, even the shell board was frozen on the mud wall, and the mud wall was integrated.

A huge camp wall rose up around the city. This seems to be the posture of building a city, not just building walls, like some arrow tower, enemy tower, everything.

With the silhouette of the huge military camp appearing, under the order of Chen Ying. The people and businessmen of Lingzhou, Shuozhou, and the states of Bingzhou in the rear were mobilized.

Huge quantities of food, medicine, clothing, weapons, crossbows, and armor...... A steady stream of them were transported out of the warehouse, loaded with sleds, and transported directly to the Tang Army camp outside the city of Tongwancheng.

Standing on the wall of Tongwan City, Liang Shi looked at the Tang army camp outside the city, and the grain and grass were piled up into a hill. Liang Shidu was thinking as he chewed beef jerky.

The beef jerky at this time is not like the practice of later generations, but very rudely squeezes out the water in the beef with a stone roll, smears it with salt and exposes it to the sun, the taste is not flattering, the key is very hard. The beef jerky of the soldiers of the Tang Army is all stone ground into jerky powder, soaked in fried flour when eating, and washed with boiling water.

The beef jerky in Liang Shidu's mouth can't be chewed no matter how he chews it, even if he chews it, he can't swallow it, and even if he swallows it, he can't pull it out......

In short, it's very hard. Others don't know, anyway, Liang Shi absolutely doesn't like this thing, he chewed so much that he threw the beef jerky, and scolded angrily: "Killing people is just nodding, if you want to kill it, you want to soothe it, you want to caress it, they don't fight or caress like this, what's the point of blindly consuming it?" ”

Liu Sheng, the scholar of Liang Shidu, was originally a fat man, but due to a lack of food, he also managed to lose weight, and he lost more than 20 pounds, which was really enough for him. He looked at the beef jerky on the ground, sour water was rising in his stomach, and he gritted his teeth: "Chen Ying'er is vicious with all his intentions, that is, he wants to starve us to death and die of cold in Tongwan City!" ”

Liang Shidu was indeed not afraid of Chen's emergency attack, but he was afraid that Chen Ying would be deadlocked.

Because, he didn't have much to store. Emperors like him relied on hard-to-swallow beef jerky for food, while ordinary soldiers could only feed on grass roots, miscellaneous grains, and wild vegetables.

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In fact, not only Master Liang couldn't figure out what kind of medicine was sold in Chen Ying's gourd, but even Li Xiaogong, the general manager of Hedong and the king of Hejian, couldn't figure out Chen Ying's pulse.

Li Xiaogong is a model of a family, has responsibility, ability, and likes to live a luxurious life. Even when he was fighting, he had more than a hundred attendants by his side, who always dressed his life. In terms of posstry, three Chen Ying are not as good as one Li Xiaogong.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other in Tongwan City for half a month.

It wasn't until the beginning of December of the first year of Kaiyuan that Chen Ying finally began to make new moves.

Early in the morning, the war drums in the camp of the Tang army were earth-shattering.

With the assembly of the whole army, Chen Ying finally issued his first order since the siege of Tongwan City.

It's a ridiculous command.

"Forty baggage teams of the whole army are marching forward with their troops, and they will go to the land of ten thousand cities to make food!"

Although the generals did not understand Chen Ying's order, none of them dared to question Chen Ying's order.

With the rumbling drums of war, the Tang army began to move.

The first to appear were more than 200 four-wheeled carriages pulling coal stoves, and the four-wheeled carriages slowly advanced along the frozen ground and entered the land of Tongwan City, and these four-wheeled carriages immediately stopped.

One side of the trunk is opened from it and an upper bracket is attached.

The soldiers of the leading army added coal to the stove and began to step on the foot-operated blower. The flames of the stove burst out more than a foot high, and a row of four or five hundred large iron pots began to cook.

The steamed steamed buns of steamed buns, the steamed buns of steamed buns, the washing of rice, and the washing of vegetables are very busy.

Li Xiaogong originally didn't understand Chen Ying's intentions, but he already understood at this time.

Tongwancheng was short of food, and the soldiers of the whole army, including Liang Shidu, could not eat enough.

Once the smell of food wafts outside the city, will the Liang Shidu Department in Tongwan City still have the will to fight?

In Chen Ying's big tent in the Chinese army, Chen Ying sat comfortably on the soft couch, looked at Li Xiaogong and said, "I have sent an envoy to persuade Liang Shidu's subordinates to surrender." The condition I gave them was that they would not be guilty of the past, but they must surrender unconditionally, and I am a person who likes to go straight, and I don't want to coax them with good words and play a bunch of tricks after they surrender. ”

Li Xiaogong was a little helpless, in front of Li Jing, Li Xiaogong could still suppress him as an old leader.

However, in front of Chen Ying, all this is not easy.

On the battlefield, pay attention to the soldiers and never get tired of cheating! How can you spread everything out at the beginning?

Li Xiaogong muttered: "Liang Shidu is far from the point of exhaustion, let them surrender unconditionally, they will not agree." ”

Chen Ying smiled bitterly: "When they reach the point where the mountains and rivers are exhausted, it is estimated that people will almost die...... Didn't a scout find out two days ago that they had dug up the leftover bones and made soup? ”

Chen Ying grinned and said with a smile: "If they don't agree, we will fight until they agree!" Isn't it that although Liang Shidu claims to have more than 100,000 troops, more than eighty percent of these hundreds of thousands of troops are water, and there are only 30,000 or 40,000 who can directly fight, which is not enough for us to fight in World War I! ”

And all the generals laughed,

Because of the frozen cracked lips, everyone didn't dare to laugh too loudly, and the laughter was a little strange.

Chen Ying stood up, pointed to the map, and said: "In this operation, General Ben originally planned to encircle the point to send reinforcements, but he didn't expect the Eastern Turks to be instigated, and the Liang division sent sixteen waves of rescue messengers before and after. However, the Eastern Turks have not made a move, and it seems that they are ready to abandon the chess piece of Liang Shidu! ”

Li Xiaogong nodded and said: "Actually, both we and the Turks understand that the meaning of the existence of the Liang division is to avoid the two sides directly tearing their faces, and now whether it is our Tang Dynasty or the Eastern Turks, they have lost their patience." Therefore, there is no need for Liang Shidu to exist! ”

"Liang Shidu has never been the target of this great general!" Chen Ying smiled faintly: "He is not worthy yet!" ”

Speaking of this, Chen Ying picked up a charcoal pen and drew an arrow on the map, Chen Ying turned to look at Li Xiaogong and said, "General Li, give you a task!" ”

Li Xiaogong immediately put away his cynical attitude, got up with a serious face and said, "The end will be!" ”

Chen Yingdao: "Liang Shidu still has 28 counties in three states, you don't have to pay attention to Tongwancheng, take all the counties, and give them an ultimatum, either surrender or die!" ”

Li Xiaogong said: "General Chen, as long as the Liang division dies or surrenders, the other counties will spread the word, so why bother? ”

Chen Yingdao: "Next year at the latest, it will be the opportunity of our decisive battle with the Eastern Turks, Liang Shi is very ghostly, he must still have a lot of henchmen in the counties, once he sees that the situation is not good, he will immediately burn the grain stored in the counties, and if he only leads a few cronies, he will still have a chance to escape." What's more, if there is a shortage of food, there will be hundreds of thousands of more mouths, can we watch them starve to death? ”

Li Xiaogong hugged his fists and said: "The last general will take the order!" ”

Chen Ying turned to look at Luo Shixin and said: "Luo Shixin, you lead the lancers, push the line flat, make a strong attack and set the Xiang, and induce the Turks to block!" ”

This is a very safe way, whether it is foot combat or cavalry combat, the Later Sui and Liang States cannot be compared with the Tang army that fought with the Turkic cavalry with a knife and a gun, once it is squeezed into a flat and open area, the lancers roar in, waiting for them, it will be a terrible massacre.

Whether it was Chen Ying or Jiancheng, they didn't want to see such a massacre in their hearts, they preferred that the envoy could persuade the Liang State or the Later Sui to surrender, or annihilate the main force of the Liang army and the Later Sui army in a dignified main battle, rather than killing the blood and bones.

After all, most of the Liang State and the Later Sui were originally honest peasants, who were forced to live and follow Liang Shidu and Yang Zhengdao all the way to the dark, and killing 10,000 such enemies would not increase their honor, nor would it help solve practical problems.

The cold wind was blowing, and it was terrible cold.

Thousands of soldiers of the Liang army watched with blank eyes as Chen Ying's envoy came with two attendants on a white horse, without any expression on their faces. The messenger was handsome and heroic, both in appearance and temperament, and the two entourages behind him were also high-headed, neither humble nor arrogant, just like these three people, entering Tongwan City, there was no trace of fear, as if they were shopping.

I was surprised to see some of Liang Jun's small leaders, such characters are rare. Of course, what attracted their attention the most was the three large bamboo baskets in their hands, what they contained was unknown, covered tightly with a clean white cloth, wisps of heat overflowed from them, and a long-lost fragrance went straight to everyone's noses, but before they could smell enough, they let the cold wind blow away.

Liu Sheng looked at the three people who came slowly in front of him, turned to look at Liang Shidu and said, "Your Majesty, these three people are not good, what kind of road is it?" ”

Liang Shidu shook his head and said, "I don't know, anyway, it won't be an idle person...... Slow, you see that the leader doesn't even have an official uniform, what does Chen Ying mean? ”

The young man at the head really doesn't have an official uniform, because he is still not an official. This person is none other than Chen Ying's pro-soldier team Zheng Liu Renliang.

Liu Renliang's starting point is too low, and even if Chen Ying wants to promote him, he also needs merit that matches his position.

In history, Liu Renliang was able to offend Li Yifu, a despicable villain with a honey-bellied sword, and he could still live to be eighty-four years old, obviously he still had two brushes.

When Chen Ying appointed Liu Renliang as an envoy, he also reminded Liu Renliang of the danger.

Liu Renliang smiled disappreciatively: "Just Liang Shidu, what a way!" ”

Liu Renliang jumped off the horse, handed the bamboo basket in his hand to his entourage, and quickly stepped forward Liang Shidu and others bowed, and said, "Under Liu Renliang, see Lord Liang." ”

Not humble or arrogant, calm and elegant, worthy of a masterpiece.

Liang Shidu's eyes blinked, and his mind was full of doubts: "Liu Renliang? ”

A group of Liang officials, you look at me, I look at you, but none of them know where Liu Renliang is sacred.