Chapter 856: Upheaval
That night, Li Ke invited Yuan Tiangang to his tent and asked, "Military advisor, now our troops are coming to the city, but Chang'an ...... Behind the high walls of the city, it is not so easy to break, and the righteous army is not evenly matched, although there are 380,000 soldiers and horses, but I am afraid that the combat power of 180,000 will not be able to play, I don't know if Mr. has a good strategy to break the city? ”
Yuan Tiangang said: "Your Highness, the snake can't be headless, this group of rebels is so scattered that it is difficult to exert its might, it is better for the prince to invite the leaders of the rebels from all walks of life to form an alliance, and the prince, you serve as the leader of the rebel army alliance and dispatch the armies in a unified manner, why worry about the thick walls of Chang'an City?" ”
"The military advisor has a reason for this." Li Ke nodded and said, "This king will write an invitation and invite the leaders of the Zhulu Righteous Army to come and discuss important matters!" ”
Li Kedang walked to the front of the military case, took the pen and began to write the invitation.
In the afternoon, all the rebels received Li Ke's invitation, and the moment they received Li Ke's invitation, they naturally guessed Li Ke's intentions, but they could only sigh helplessly, no way, who made Li Ke the most powerful of the rebels, if anyone dared not go, then Li Ke would solve them first, and still incorporate their people, besides, among the rebels this time, to say that the royal blood is the most positive, is Li Ke, Li You and Li Zhen, and among them, Li Ke is the most influential, After all, Li Ke was very favored by Li Shimin when he was young, Li Shimin personally praised Li Ke, he was bold and like me, and even had the idea of passing the throne to Li Ke, as for Li You and Li Zhen, they were not very favored at that time.
In the evening, all the leaders of the rebel army came to Li Ke's barracks, and Li Ke held a banquet in the tooth tent to entertain them, and began to discuss the alliance.
This world advocates a truth, whoever has a big fist, who speaks hard, Li Ke is now the biggest fist, so he is the most awesome, what he says, is what, he said to form an alliance, everyone can only nod and agree to the alliance, he said he wants to be the leader of the alliance, okay, everyone elected him as the leader of the alliance, everything is very harmonious, there is no opposition, no way, he has a big fist.
However, not long after the plan was decided, all the commanders of the Eighteenth Route Rebel Army who participated in the banquet fell, and even Xinuluo, Li Ke and his two sons also fell.
There was chaos in the barracks, and immediately a military doctor came to save people, but none of them were saved, and the answer given by the military doctor was poisoning!
Checking the alcohol and food, all of them were highly toxic, and everyone was dumbfounded, what was going on.
At this moment, Yuan Tiangang was sitting in his tent, Hou Junji was sitting opposite him, and Liang Ding was standing quietly on the side, not saying a word.
Hearing the noise coming from the tooth tent, Yuan Tiangang smiled slightly, got up and said, "It's finally time to wait for this moment, let's go, Hou Junji, it's time for us to appear." ”
"Yes!" Hou Jun gathered his head, got up and followed behind Yuan Tiangang, and walked out of the tent.
At this moment, there was chaos in front of the tooth tent, and the generals brought by the leaders of the rebel army were making a fuss, after all, their leader died in Li Ke's tooth tent, could they not make trouble.
The two sides are tense and seem to be ready to go to war at any time.
"Stop it all!" Hou Junji suddenly roared, everyone fell silent, and turned their heads to look at Hou Junji.
Hou Junji turned around and spread his hands: "Strategist, please!" ”
Yuan Tiangang stepped forward slowly and made a grand debut, after Yuan Tiangang appeared, he glanced at everyone with cold eyes, and then asked calmly: "What's going on, what's going on?" ”
Li Ke's entourage hurriedly stepped forward and said with a frightened face: "Military advisor, it's terrible, the prince and the other leaders of the Seventeenth Route Righteous Army are all dead!" Even the two princes and King Nanzhao were not spared! ”
"What?" Yuan Tiangang and Hou Junji exclaimed at the same time, pretending to be quite similar.
The two hurriedly rushed into the tent, only to see a whole row of corpses lined up in the tent.
"What's going on?" Yuan Tiangang asked loudly, his face seemed ugly.
A military doctor stepped forward and saluted: "Back to the military division, it was poisoned, and someone put poison in the wine and food." ”
"It must have been done by Wu Meiniang's demon!" Yuan Tiangang roared angrily when he heard this, "Wu Meiniang, my Eighteenth Route Righteous Army is inseparable from you!" ”
"Inseparable!" Hou Junji responded very cooperatively, and the rest of the people also chanted.
The sound was contagious, and everyone chanted, "No two sides!" "Even the generals of the other rebel armies were infected.......
Yuan Tiangang wanted this effect, he slowly waved his hand to make everyone quiet, and then said with a deep face: "The demon girl is trying to destroy our alliance, we want to form an alliance to show them, King Wu and the prince of the world are immortal, it doesn't matter, we still have a grandson!" Hurry up and invite the grandchildren! ”
Not long after the voice fell, I saw Liang Ding walking in with a five-year-old child, who was Li Ke's grandson - Li Yin.
Li Yin looked at everyone, and then looked at the corpses in a row on the ground, his face was full of ignorance, he didn't even know that all the people on the ground were asleep, he saw his father's corpse, and wanted to go over to find his father, but he was pulled by Liang Ding, didn't let him go, didn't let him find his father, he naturally cried.
Yuan Tiangang said: "Take the grandson down first, you must protect it, don't let the demon girl plot again." ”
"Yes!" Liang Ding hugged Li Yin down.
Then Yuan Tiangang faced everyone and said loudly: "The grandson Li Yin, succeeding to the throne of King Wu, is now the new King of Wu, although the little King Wu is only five years old, but he is the orthodox blood of Emperor Taizong, although Yuan is not talented, he also swears to assist King Wu, defeat the demon girl, and recapture the Li family for King Wu, you and other princes are dead, it is better to come to assist King Wu, in the future, King Wu will ascend the throne, you are all the founding merits!" ”
This sentence is very tempting, and the generals under the command of the leaders of the rebel army from all walks of life bowed down and shouted: "We swear to assist King Wu to the death and recapture the Li family for King Wu!" ”
Yuan Tiangang turned his back, the corners of his mouth raised, and he showed a smug smile, the army of 380,000 was in hand.
At this moment, Li Hao's 100,000 troops have quietly come to Jiuhua Mountain and settled in the mountains and forests, while Li Hao has sneaked into the camp of the righteous army, and he wants to personally investigate to see if Yuan Tiangang is here.
However, it made him see such a scene, after Li Hao was surprised, he had to admire, Yuan Tiangang was still so unscrupulous, and killed all the leaders of the rebel army at once, Li Ke worked hard to plan his life, but he didn't expect to make a wedding dress for him, it turned out that this was Yuan Tiangang's plan.
Li Hao quietly left the camp of the rebels again, and began to approach Chang'an with the army, because he knew that the war was about to break out, and Yuan Tiangang must not be allowed to attack Chang'an, otherwise, it would be difficult to end.
The next day, Yuan Tiangang began to organize the armies of all walks of life, disrupted the 380,000 army, set up 38 commanders, and set up four marching commanders, all the marching commanders were his people, and he wanted to completely occupy the 380,000 troops for himself.
On the third day, the siege began, and the defenders of Chang'an City attacked with 120,000 and 380,000 troops, and they did not take much advantage, mainly because many of these 380,000 troops were recruited temporarily, but it didn't matter, this was just a tentative attack by Yuan Tiangang, and his secret weapon was on the way.
On the fourth day, Yuan Tiangang's secret weapon arrived, one hundred and twenty-two cannons, set up to bombard the city of Chang'an, the Tang army in the city suffered heavy casualties, the west gate was blown up by the cannon, and the army began to pour into the city. When Wu Meiniang heard that the city gate was broken, she turned pale with fright, and sat in the Taiji Palace, trembling all over.
The righteous army and the regular army defending the city had a tragic battle at the west city gate, the regular army is the regular army in the end, although the number is not superior, but the combat power is extraordinary, and there are 40,000 troops in Tiance Mansion, the elite soldiers of Tiance Mansion, known as being able to fight ten enemies with one, but they do not have a good general now, and their combat power is greatly reduced.
At the end of the day, there were only 50,000 defenders left in the city, of which 30,000 were soldiers of Tiance Mansion, and the losses of the rebels were greater, only 250,000 of the 380,000 army remained, a full loss of 130,000.
Although the losses were heavy, Yuan Tiangang had already seen hope, after all, he still had twenty-five major troops, so he ordered the siege of the city overnight, and transferred all the cannons to the front of the Xuanwu Gate, he was ready to break through the Xuanwu Gate and directly attack the Taiji Palace, so as not to have many dreams at night.
And just as he was moving the cannon, a scout suddenly came to report that ten miles away in the northwest direction, there were 70,000 iron cavalry killed, Yuan Tiangang frowned, and immediately sent 100,000 soldiers and horses to intercept.
He had just transported the cannon to the Xuanwu Gate, but he received a report from the scouts that fifteen miles to the east had been killed by 100,000 iron horsemen.
Yuan Tiangang panicked now, the iron cavalry in the northwest, he knew, it was estimated to be Qinghai Wei, but what is the situation of the 100,000 iron cavalry in the east, what is the concept of the iron cavalry, he knows very well that only a sophisticated army like Tiance Mansion and Qinghai Wei can be called an iron cavalry, but in addition to Qinghai Wei and Tiance Mansion, how can there be iron cavalry in Datang? And it's still 100,000, and he feels as if he's fallen into some trap.
Yuan Tiangang was a very alert person, and after hearing this, after a little hesitation, he immediately ordered: "The whole army retreats, retreat to the north!" Ship the cannon away first! The army began to flee in rapid veil.
Li Hao was leading the army to Chang'an to kill, and the scouts suddenly came to report that the rebels had fled.
Li Hao immediately led the iron cavalry to chase, and an hour later, he caught up with the rebels, and when he met, he was killed, Yuan Tiangang had no intention of fighting at the moment, because this iron cavalry was under the banner of Li Hao, and he finally understood that Li Hao was not dead at all, and he was fooled.