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In the fourth year of Li Yizhonghe, the first year of Li Ye Zhenlong, September 13.

It has been a few days since Gao Renhou suddenly turned his face and attacked Wuguan and entered Lantian in the pass. This bad news finally reached the ears of Yang Fugong of Hezhong Mansion, at this time, the commander of the Tang Coalition Army, the commander of the Tenth Army and the Twelve Weiguan Army envoys and the lieutenant of the Left and Right Shence Army and the envoy of the Privy Council, and Yang Fugong, the envoy of the Xuanhui Academy, was shocked, his lips kept trembling, and his eyes were about to fall out. He couldn't believe it, and he couldn't believe it, the bad news that had just arrived.

"Lantian, what's wrong with Lantian?"

Lantian is not 180 miles away from Chang'an, and it is already the last gateway to the southeast of Chang'an. As soon as Lantian is lost, Gao Renhou can directly march to Bashang and come to Chang'an City.

"Your Majesty transferred the commander of the Yushan Battalion, Yang Shouxin and Shen Ce, to reinforce Li Shoujie, the Lantian guard, Hu Hongli, who is currently desperately leading the army to resist Gao Renhou, and the two sides fought fiercely for a day and night, fighting to the death, and suffering heavy casualties to each other. However, the generals of Lantian are outnumbered, and they are afraid that it will be difficult to defeat them. Your Majesty urgently issued an edict to let King Wei immediately return to Shiguanzhong, and King Qin will protect him! ”

Jia Desheng, one of the Langjun outside the Yizi's house under Yang Fugong's account, hurriedly shouted: "King Wei, you must not withdraw your troops at this time. We waited for the coalition army to come out of Guanzhong, and now we are confronting the 100,000 Qin army here, just like riding a tiger on the back, how can we say retreat at this time. At this time, if we retreat in a hurry, I am afraid that we will be taken advantage of by the Qin army, and there will be no place to bury us. ”

It's just that Yang Fugong is in a mess at this time, where can he listen to this. All he thinks about is Chang'an, if Chang'an is lost, then the Son of Heaven who their brothers have finally established will fall behind Tian Lingzi's hands. When Tian Lingzi arrives, he will inevitably abolish Li Ye and reinstate Li Yi. At that time. Without the Son of Heaven in hand, who will listen to his orders? At the beginning of Chengdu, Tian Lingzi abducted Li Yi and left. He had to flee from Xichuan, just because he didn't have the Son of Heaven in his hands, he was just a eunuch. Now that the old thing is about to repeat itself, how can he not be afraid.

"No, I have to go back to Chang'an." Yang Fugong's face turned pale and trembled.

The river under the tent made Wang Chongrong hear this. The face was also dead gray in an instant. His Hezhong Town was only a few counties in Hezhongfu. If Yang Fugong retreats, then the soldiers and horses of Zhuzhen will inevitably retreat immediately, leaving him alone, how to face the elite of the 100,000 Qin army on the other side of the Fen River? Thinking that he was about to become a lost dog, Wang Chongrong was terrified and uneasy.

"King Wei, never, never. If the king of Wei withdraws, it will be difficult to hold on to the river, and then the Qin army will go south to attack Shaanxi, and the west can enter Guanzhong. The court is in danger! ”

It's just that no matter how he pleads, Yang Fugong is like Wang Ba, and he is hard-hearted. And the other towns in Guanzhong, at this time, one by one, still have the heart to stay here. Since leaving the customs, the situation has changed several times by day, and the Qin army has seen the siege of the city. But there was nothing they could do. Especially after Yang Fuguang was captured, there was no commander with enough authority in the coalition army, Yang Fugong led the armies, but he lost several originally good fighters in vain, and the situation has become more and more corrupt. Now that Tian Lingzi has worsened the internal strife in Guanzhong, and Li Jing's two-way soldiers and horses have also moved westward, who can still sit.

Dongfang Kui did not go to the river in person this time, he faked his illness and did not go to battle, and only sent his son to bring 10,000 old and weak to come. By this time, he had already received an urgent letter from his father. Tell him that Li Jing's three elites of the Taibao unified branch suddenly came west, the offensive was rapid, and they had swept through Danzhou, and were attacking Yanzhou, and they were urgently transferring him back to Baoda. Dongfang Kui's letter didn't just ask his son to rush back. He also instructed him to bring back the 30,000 soldiers and horses of Dingnan, Zhenwu, and Tiande, and persuade the generals to bring them back.

"King Wei, you can't stay here for a long time. The Chinese side is our foundation, and if there is a loss in the pass, then it will be the real catastrophe. The generals of the four towns of Baoda, Dingnan, Zhenwu, and Tiande all believed that they should withdraw as soon as possible. If it is delayed any longer, I am afraid that Chang'an will be in danger. And now that Li Jing has gained a firm foothold in Luoyang, and the important places in Hedong have been lost, we continue to sit in this lonely place, but we are afraid that when the Qin army arrives one after another, we can't leave if we want to. ”

"You can't retreat, the Qin army has reinforcements, and we also have reinforcements. Liu Jurong, the commander of Shannan Festival, has just defeated the Qin army Qin Zongquan's department in Xiangyang, and he is about to go north to Luoyang in the near future, and the Qin army will inevitably divide troops to defend at that time."

"Wang Shuai, come on, even if Liu Jurong defeats Qin Zongquan, they may not necessarily go north. Even if he goes north, Luoyang still has 50,000 elites of the Qin Domain personally led by Li Jing, and Xu Su also has tens of thousands of elites led by Zhao Li. Liu Jurong's tens of thousands of horses, even if the whole army went north, it would be impossible to break through Li Jing's defense, let alone reinforce us. Dongfang Xin hurriedly retorted.

"Stop arguing!" Yang Fugong suddenly jumped like thunder, screaming impatiently. "I have made up my mind, and I will not stay in the river for long. Early tomorrow morning, a certain immediately led the Shence army to return to Chang'an for rescue. As for the other towns"

Before his words fell, Dongfang Xin immediately followed, and I will rush back to the domain town tomorrow morning. ”

The generals of the other feudal towns also said that they would withdraw their troops, so that the scene that Wang Chongrong did not want to see finally happened. None of the feudal towns were willing to help him defend the river, let alone retake the other states and counties in the river.

In the early morning of 14 September, the 36 Dushen Ce Army led by Yang Fugong was the first to leave Hezhong Province, and they withdrew from the camp and slowly retreated. They did not retreat to Fengling Pass where they came, but retreated directly to the Pujin Bridge in the west, preparing to cross the river directly from here back to Guanzhong Tongzhou and return to Chang'an. They were followed by the four towns of Baoda, Dingyan, Zhenwu, and Tiande, a rabble of 40,000 people, but they were the most active in retreating. In addition, Tonghua Jiedu Town**, Suining Jiedu Jingnan Army, Jingyuan Jiedu Zhangyi Army, Shaanxi Jiedu Baoyi Army, Fengxiangwei ** and other towns plan to go south to Fengling Pass and return to Guanzhong from Tongguan.

At the beginning, the coalition forces were divided into two large parts and withdrawn, which was quite orderly. But this order did not last long before it was broken.

At noon that day, several messengers galloped in, bringing even greater bad news to the towns.

Lantian Li Shoujie, Li Shouxin and others were outnumbered in the end after holding on for many days and fighting endlessly. Lantian was broken by the army of Gao Renhou, the commander of the Dongchuan Festival, and the defenders of Lantian were almost gone. Only the few troops broke through the siege at night and fled back to Chang'an, and Gao Renhou took advantage of the victory to advance and had already stationed troops. Soldiers besieged Chang'an.

Hearing this news, Yang Fugong was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the Shence army to speed up the time to cross the bridge, and even ordered to throw away most of the baggage materials, just to cross the river and enter the customs as soon as possible. But as a result, a large amount of supplies began to be abandoned on the road. Instead, it caused a blockage of the follow-up troops.

Later, Dongfang Xin also received an urgent report from Baoda Yanzhou, Li Jing's three major Taibao troops crossed the river to 20,000 elites after receiving follow-up reinforcements of soldiers and horses, and they had taken Danzhou as their base and had captured most of Yanzhou, which was seriously threatening Linzhou. Although Dongfang believes that the 40,000 soldiers and horses here are all old and weak rabble, but now Dongfang Kui has panicked, even if it is 40,000 rabble, if he can rush there. I can also hold up the field. Therefore, he urgently ordered Dongfang Xin to rush back for reinforcements immediately.

There is only one river bridge on Kasaka, and although this bridge is very large, it is not a matter of time for tens of thousands of troops and a lot of grain and grass to pass through it. Several armies tried to cross the river first, and finally began to fight for the crossing. The brawls grew in scale and the order on the banks became more and more chaotic, which eventually caused a large blockage and greatly reduced the speed of crossing the river.

Half of the allied forces blocked Pusaka on the Yellow River, while Li Quanzhong and several other soldiers and horses had already reached the bank of the Yellow River in the south.

Tanma reported the news back to Lin Wei, the general of Jiangzhou Zhengnan, and when he heard the news, Lin Wei stared at the sand table for a long time, and finally showed a smile on his face.

"The order was given, and the whole army immediately rested and ate after dark. Cross the Fen River at night! ”

Yang Fugong's coalition forces did not have a unified command at all, and they barely maintained their shelves when they left the customs, and when they withdrew, they were immediately dispersed and chaotic. They didn't even arrange the soldiers and horses behind the palace. The evacuation of soldiers and horses from Hulala in various towns, and the positions on the south bank of the Fen River, did not even have a single person to take over the defense. The soldiers and horses of Hezhong Town were left behind, but the front was already like a sieve, full of holes. At this time, the coalition forces retreated for two days and one night, and some of them had already moved south to Fengling Pass, which was more than 200 miles away. Some of them are still in Puhan, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been stretched on a long line of nearly three hundred miles, and they are scattered into three major parts, how could Lin Wei miss such a good opportunity to attack.

If the commander of the coalition army at this time was Yang Fuguang, or even Li Quanzhong or Li Changyan and other marshals of the feudal towns, they would not have made such a mistake. It's a pity that Yang Fugong didn't know the army at all, and the feudal towns were also in a hurry to withdraw, which led to this already loose coalition army making such a fatal mistake when retreating.

On the south bank of the Fen River, night fell, Yuan Bao and Zhang Lun, the lieutenants of the garrison in the Baibi River, ended their day on duty and gathered in the tent to eat meat and drink wine. While drinking, he cursed Yang Fugong's evacuation, and sighed that it was difficult to hold on to the river, everyone was about to end, and the future was bleak. Halfway through the wine, gongs and drums sounded, and the two of them were startled, knowing that this was an enemy attack.

The two men dropped their glasses, took their helmets and put them on, and hurried out of the tent. Looking up, I saw that on the east and west sides, on the shining Fen River, several pontoon bridges had been quickly erected, and on both sides, there were more Qin army engineers and craftsmen rushing to build more pontoon bridges. The sappers of the Qin army are very professional, and their pontoon bridges have been made a long time ago, and they are carried to the river at this time, and they can be built quickly by docking, and one can be built in a blink of an eye.

On the pontoon bridge that had been built on the Fen River, several Qin troops were riding high-headed war horses and quickly stepping on the bridge, but the river defenders of several Du teams on the south bank in front of them did not dare to meet the front at all, but turned their heads like a swarm of bees and ran to the south, hating their father and mother for having two legs.

Yuan Bao couldn't help but snort in a low voice and scolded: "Flee when you hear the wind, this fucking cowardly mouse, what does it look like!" ”

But when they looked up at the north bank, they immediately saw a fire rising into the sky on the north bank, and countless torches gathered to illuminate the river bank as bright as day. These torches converged into a series of fire dragons, which were sweeping towards the south bank.

The two were stunned.

"This, how many centaurs are here?" Zhang Lun asked in a low voice.

Yuan Bao swallowed his saliva and replied with some difficulty: "At least it has to be more than 10,000 horses!" ”

"This, this!" Both of them have fought a lot of battles, but they used to fight wars between feudal towns, chaotic battles, and melees, and they used to think that they were big wars. But at this time, it's just like a child's nonsense. The impact of tens of thousands of cavalry troops was at night again, and although the momentum of thousands of horses galloping could not be seen, countless torches gathered. Coupled with the thunderous hoof, the neighing of thousands of horses made people's hearts beat faster and more frightened.

Feel the shock of tens of thousands of horses stepping on the ground. Looking at the fire dragons gathered by countless torches, they were already pale with fear!

After relieving themselves, the two of them had already lost half of their calmness on their faces. They looked at each other, screamed, and fled, joining the fleeing soldiers whom they had just despised.

The vanguard of the Qin army. It was led by Lin Wu. He rode his horse and stood on the high slopes of the north bank, watching every move on the battlefield.

Everything in front of him surprised him and surprised him.

In accordance with Lin Wei's military order, he took the lead in launching a night attack, originally preparing to take advantage of the opportunity for the coalition army to retreat and the Hezhong army to fill the loopholes in the defense line before the opportunity to make up for it. It would be best if we could cross the river, and even if we couldn't, we had to seize the opportunity tonight. Teach the army in the river a hard lesson and inflict heavy casualties on them.

No one could have imagined that at this time, there were as many as 50,000 river defenders on the south bank of the Fen River, but they had already crossed the Fen River quickly with just one round of raids on the Baibi line. Set foot on the land of the South Bank. Surprise, big surprise.

Lin Wu couldn't hold back his excitement any longer, drew his sword and pointed forward, and shouted: "The whole army is attacking!" Crossing! ”

On the battlefield, the sound of the military horn sounded excitedly, the sound of the charge horn was endless, and more Qin troops finally entered the battlefield one by one to fight to cross the Fen River.

On the south bank of the Fen River, a military flag embroidered with a black flying eagle fluttered in the wind, in the skyrocketing firelight. Hunting sounds.

With the fluttering of this military flag, a Qin army had already occupied a position on the south bank.

The Fen River has been crossed, and a short distance to the south is a cypress fortress on a high slope. This fortress with a mountain and a river at its back is a famous fortress on the south bank of the Fen River. The Hedong Battle between Li Tang and Liu Wuzhou was the decisive battle here. Now, the Qin army crossed the river and also faced the obstruction of Baibi City.

"Formation!"

Lin Wu shouted with his sword, facing this extremely dangerous high-slope fortress, his expression was solemn, but he was not afraid. The army in the river voluntarily abandoned the south bank, which was the biggest mistake they made. Now that he has crossed the Fen River, Baibi Fort is no longer impregnable.

He did lead the cavalry of the Qin army, and cavalry was indeed not a good type of army for siege in tradition. But this is only in general, and for the Qin army, it has always been an unusual path. Who said that cavalry could not storm a city?

He decided to adopt the advanced tactics of the Qin army.

He divided 10,000 horsemen into two groups of ten each. Each team had five hundred horsemen, and he led a group of them and stood still. Another group of 5,000 horsemen attacked Baibi one after another, but instead of climbing the city, they first covered the blow with a rain of arrows, and then used the flying thunder cannons dragged by horses to carry out shelling in turn.

After the front team had fought for a while, they were replaced by the rear team, and so on they attacked in turn, covering the fort with saturated artillery until they were routed.

Yuan Bao and Zhang Lun, who had finally escaped into Baibi City, stood on the top of the city and gasped in shock. When they saw that the cavalry of the Qin army had crossed the river with more than one momentum and continued to rush towards the castle, they couldn't help but be stunned in surprise, and then laughed. Is Qin Jun stupid? Baibi Fort is so dangerous, they actually use cavalry to charge such a military fort, they are really too conceited.

But they were only happy for less than a moment.

Then it was immediately discovered that the Qin army was not stupid or crazy when it attacked the city with cavalry. Rather, they had a completely new set of tactics, and the bows and arrows they shot at the head of the city could not even reach the opposing cavalry. While their cavalry was out of range of their bows and arrows at each charge, their crossbows were extremely powerful, far outpacing them, sending a rain of arrows into the city each time, knocking swaths of defenders to the ground.

But what frightened them even more was not the bows and arrows, but the steel cylinders that the cavalry dragged with them.

With the ignition of torches, the iron cylinders that were quickly buried on the ground were fired one after another, and the earth-shattering sound sounded one after another. Then the heavens began to crumble and the earth began to shake. Countless screams of astonishment rang out, and more defenders began to fall, many of them were torn apart by the explosion, stumps and broken arms flew everywhere, and blood splattered incessantly

Under this fierce attack of the Qin army, the city was full of defenders, and in just a few rounds, they had almost lost all casualties!

September 16.

Luoyang Shangyang Palace, Xianju Palace.

In front of the full palace of monarchs and ministers, Gongsun Lan informed that Lin Wei, the general of the Southern Expedition, had fully crossed the Fen River and defeated Wang Chongrong in the river. And in just two days, he has won the good news of Hezhong Province. Wang Chongrong's Fenhe, Baibi, and Yubi defense lines did not delay the Qin army at all.

It is a strategic place for soldiers to fight, the throat of Qin and Jin Communications, and the confluence of Guanzhong, Hedong and Henan. It was captured by the Qin army. Wang Chongrong only led more than 10,000 defeated troops and retreated to Shaanzhou.

After this good news, the ministers immediately asked: "Born a sage, I thought that the people, His Royal Highness is the throne, and the mandate of heaven has been returned!" It's been four or five years now. If you are not in the right position, how can you comfort the hope of the subjects of the world? The ancestors of the former Han Dynasty were punished, and the group persuaded them to advance, which was not against their feelings. Today, His Royal Highness exposes the riots, seeks to survive the people, and works on the universe, and the heart of the Heavenly Association, where the destiny of heaven lies, cannot be violated. In the end, they even directly claimed, "Wait for the ministers to dare to die!" ”

It has been persuaded three times. If you don't say yes, we'll die for you!"

This time, it was Prime Minister Zheng Congyan's turn to take the lead in expressing his position: "Your Highness's virtue of humility is written in all directions, and he is grateful to the gods, and he is willing to live for the people, and humble the invitation of the ministers!" ”

After three persuasions. Zheng Congyan didn't have much hope, and according to Li Jing's previous resolute attitude, it seemed that he didn't want to ascend the throne too early. But to everyone's surprise, Li Jing was only modest twice this time, and actually agreed.

I saw Li Jing waiting for Zheng Congyan to persuade him again, pondered for a long time, and then slowly said: "The Central Plains is not peaceful, the army is not resting, my original plan was to wait for the world to decide, and then discuss this matter." But since this is the will of God. The people's requests, you have repeatedly invited, so I will reluctantly obey public opinion and listen to everyone's words! However, this thing. The stakes are high, and we must be solemn and not hasty. I would like to ask you to agree on the etiquette at your discretion. ”

As soon as these words came out, all the ministers were stunned for a moment, and then they were overjoyed. Li Jing finally relented, and everyone's hearts were relaxed.

With King Qin's approval, then the next thing will be logical.

Li Jing then ordered Prime Minister Zheng Congyan and the prime ministers of the political hall to select the auspicious day and good day to ascend the throne.

To ascend the throne, according to etiquette, there must be a complete set of etiquette system, and you can't be sloppy at all. The date is set like ordinary people marrying their daughters-in-law, and they have to solemnly choose a good day and an auspicious day. Getting this task, Zheng Congyan felt very honored, King Qin finally agreed to the persuasion of the ministers led by him, and now let him choose this big day, this is really a supreme honor, and it is really a glory that can only be possessed from Long Yuanzuo.

But before he could calm down the excitement in his heart, Li Jing said another sentence, which once again shocked the ministers of the palace.

"The will has been decided, the capital of the new dynasty is chosen in Yanjing, and Yanjing has been renamed Shenjing! Officials from the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Rites will immediately return to Yanjing to prepare for various matters! ”

At this moment, Zheng Congyan was shocked. Everyone originally proposed that the new dynasty build the capital of Luoyang, and the King of Qin had not raised any objections to this matter before, thinking that this was already a settled matter. Who would have thought that on such an important day as today, the King of Qin finally agreed to the persuasion of his ministers and agreed to ascend to the throne. But he immediately threw out the decision to build the capital Yanjing!

It's amazing.

The most important thing is that no one really thought about it before, and the new dynasty is going to build the capital Yanjing.

Shenjing, Tianjing, Shendu?

Zheng Congyan wanted to oppose it, but after thinking about it, on such an important day today, it was extremely inappropriate to speak out against it at this time. Even if he was the prime minister, as soon as King Qin agreed to persuade him, he immediately refuted it on the spot, which was a bit overstepping. But let him accept the fact that the capital of the new dynasty was set in Yanjing, and he couldn't help but be a little unwilling in his heart.

His eyes inadvertently caught a subtle smile on Li Jing's face, and his heart couldn't help but move. King Qin suddenly accepted persuasion today, and at the same time chose to throw out the decision to set the capital Yanjing at this time, how to look at it is not simple. It seems that he has long considered throwing out the matter of Yanjing, the capital of Dingdu, at this time, and it is difficult for the ministers to oppose it immediately.

Zheng Congyan's heart shook, could this really be King Qin's ambush? If this is the case, then it really shows that Dingdu Yanjing is the choice of King Qin after careful consideration, otherwise, he would not have to think so hard. As soon as I thought of this, the strong opposition to the Dingdu Yanjing in my heart just now inevitably dissipated most of it.

Well, no matter what, the king of Qin finally agreed to ascend to the throne and establish a new dynasty. It's just that he suddenly remembered an important thing, a new dynasty is about to be established, and the national capital has been set, but the name of this new dynasty, King Qin has not yet announced! Could it be that this is to follow the convention of using King Qin's title Qin as the name of the new dynasty?

Great Qin! Great Qin! Great Qin! Zheng Congyan kept reciting two words in his heart, and every time he read it, his heart became more and more excited!