Chapter 20: The Battlefield
Li Yuan leaned back on the dragon chair and looked at the letter in front of him in a lost mind. The chapter from the Criminal Department explained the ins and outs of the assassination very clearly. There are confessions, witnesses, and physical evidence, and everything is not lost. Iron case, real iron case.
The impeccable recital made Li Yuan a little confused, and even decadent. He was ready that this matter was done by the crown prince, and even secretly made arrangements. In case the prince dog jumps off the wall in a hurry, or some people with ill intentions want to fish in troubled waters.
When I couldn't sleep last night, I was still wondering what was going on. Will there be a curtain inside, and who is the invisible black hand behind the incident?
Now that everything is spread out in front of his eyes, Wu Tianxi is a giant thief in Hebei, and his identity is not difficult to check. And he also knew what happened to Wu Yunzhao at the beginning. These are just accidents made by a thief who wants revenge, which is too surprising.
There is no secret insider, and there are no black hands behind it. Some of them are just an accident! This made Li Yuan feel like he had smashed his fist on the cotton, and Li Yuan found that as long as things happened to Yun Hao, there would be some kind of change. It seems to be out of one's control!
Glancing at the chapter helplessly, he finally planned to be punished. So do it! Now Erlang is fighting hard in Luoyang, and he has seen that majestic city. Li Yuan knew how difficult it was to capture that city. It is better not to have an accident in the rear, everything must revolve around the war.
The battle in Luoyang was tragic, and there were countless gaps in the horizontal knife in Shan Xiongxin's hand. The horizontal knife was picked up again and slashed deep into the body of a Tang sergeant. The "click" of the broken bones was heard clearly, but the broken bones caught the horizontal knife. He pumped twice, but he didn't pull it out.
Reluctantly, he gave up the horizontal knife and just wanted to pick up the weapon on the ground. There was a sharp pain in his back, and a spear stabbed hard at it. The sharp three-edged armor-piercing cone pierced the light armor, but fortunately there was a layer of chain mail inside, and the spear did not penetrate the flesh by an inch.
He turned around and grabbed the spear in his hand and pulled it into his arms. The soldier was dragged to him, his big hands around his neck. The whole person was kicked and kicked up, and was thrown sideways to the city.
The moment he leaned over to get the blade again, Shan Xiongxin saw Qin Qiong under the city. There were thousands of eyes on the battlefield, and the two of them never looked away when they looked at each other. The guards beside Shan Xiongxin were cut down and let out a howl. The guards beside Qin Qiong were shot, letting out a heart-palpitating howl. None of this can separate the eyes of the two people!
Ten years of friendship, a head knocked on the ground is not a brother, it is better than a brother. In front of the two armies, each has its own master, and a thousand feelings are in my heart. I can't tell the ups and downs, and I can't understand the meaning of the world. One city and one city down, they just stared blankly.
The battlefield of tearing apart seemed to be another world, and they stood like wooden clay sculptures. The Tang army who climbed the city wall frantically pounced on Shan Xiongxin, and the big Zheng soldiers in the city shot Qin Qiong frantically. The guards of the two fell one by one, and the terrible cries failed to pull the two people back from their petrified state.
A siege general, a defender. They looked at each other blankly as if they had lost their souls!
The Tang army withdrew after leaving hundreds of corpses, and the battlefield returned to silence. There was no one in the city to speak, only a loud, frightening gasp. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. There were Tang soldiers and Da Zheng soldiers, and the corpses of the Tang army were thrown into the city. The body of his brother was carried down by the conscripted Minzhuang.
Li Er looked at the majestic Luoyang City and sighed, he had lost more than two thousand people in the past three days. You can't attack like this anymore, at this rate. In less than two months, he will have to attack the city himself.
Looking at Qin Qiong, who looked lonely, Li Er shook his head helplessly. "Uncle Bao, in the future, you and Jinda, Zhijie will not lead troops to attack the city."
"Your Highness!"
"It's a lonely consideration, you and Shan Xiongxin brothers. Now that the soldiers are meeting each other, the embarrassment of meeting each other is understandable. Li Er patted Qin Qiong's shoulder, and walked back to the Chinese army's tent without waiting for Qin Qiong to speak.
"Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, they are fierce generals in the army. If you don't use them, then ......! Back in the military tent, the eldest grandson Wuji said with some worry.
"It's not that I don't need them, it's that I don't plan to attack the city. Look at the appearance of Luoyang City, is that something that can be captured? The sergeants were ordered to be on guard and get some strong men to dig the trenches. Let's plan for a long siege! Li Er sighed, and really let Yun Hao's kid say it right. Siege is simply suicide, and only siege is the only way to take Luoyang.
War is the highest manifestation of human willpower and wisdom. The smoke bomb that worked very well on the first day, and on the second day, Da Zheng Jun thought of a way to deal with it. It's very simple, the burlap is wet and covered with it. In the past three days, Li Er changed various methods of attacking the city, and finally failed.
"The news came from Chang'an Kuaima that the kid and the King of Huainan had been assassinated. Now there are rumors in Chang'an that the prince did this. "Some confidential matters, Li Er handed them over to the eldest grandson Wuji to deal with. After all, he is his brother-in-law. In terms of loyalty, there is no problem.
"Oh, there's such a thing? Immediately let our people in Chang'an keep an eye on it! Li Er didn't give any further orders, he felt that this matter was very abrupt. He didn't believe that Li Jiancheng did it, it's very simple, his eldest brother didn't have the guts!
Yun Hao is just that! Left and right is just an outsider, what is Li Shentong. That is Li Yuan's brother, one of the only two princes of the Li family. If he has three strengths and two weaknesses, Li Yuan will definitely not give up.
"Prepare a 3,000-strong army and stand by at any time!" Li Er gave the second order, and the eldest grandson Wuji immediately answered the promise and walked out.
Qin Qiong returned to his military tent, and as soon as he sat down, Cheng Jinjin walked in with Niu Jinda. The two of them each had two jars of Yunjia steamed wine under their armpits, and they didn't say anything. One person took out a bag of beef from his arms and spread it on the ground, and the big wine bowl was filled and he began to drink.
At this time, nothing is superfluous, and only sweet wine is the best thing.
"Today, I saw Second Brother Shan covered in blood, he was injured!" Qin Qiong took a sip of wine, and her face suddenly turned purple.
"Hey......! What the hell is this world, killing and killing, but in the end, the knife will fall on the head of the brother. Fuck it! Cheng Yanjin threw out the wine bowl, thought that it was wrong and asked the soldiers to pick it up.
"Each is its own master, and we don't blame Second Brother Shan. When the city is broken, a few of us will beg King Qin to protect the second brother's life. In the future, it is better to be a common person than to be in a different place! Niu Jinda drained the old wine in the bowl in one gulp!