Chapter 644 Internal and external tribulations are successful

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The busier you are, the faster time flies.

A fire at the time of the third watch was not completely extinguished until noon.

And Anyi City, which originally gathered more than 100,000 troops, also evacuated most of them during this time, and now there are less than 50,000 horses left in the city.

At the same time, the sweet and lovely foot trainer left Anyi City with the families of all the generals of the Anyi camp, and the first group crossed the Yellow River south to Hangu Pass, and then most of the family members would return directly to Chang'an.

It was noon, and the city of Anyi guarded the house.

On the steps of the main hall, Li Li lay down on the desk, and then a scroll of bamboo slips was sealed by Li Zhi himself, and then sent out by fast horses.

"Tom tom!"

When Li Li finished writing the last secret order, he heard the sound of hurried footsteps outside the door before he looked up, and then saw Tie Xiao walking into the main hall, followed by Teng Xiao, the chief general of Anyi.

"The last will meet the lord!" The iron flute walked into the main hall with his front foot, and Teng Xiao arrived with his back foot, and then the two bowed down and bowed.

"Well, it looks like the two of you didn't come together, so sit down and talk." Li Li bowed his head slightly, stretched out his arms and stretched his waist, and waved his hand to signal the soldiers to serve tea.

"Tie Xiao, first of all, tell me about the situation in the granary in the west of the city, has all the grain and grass been burned?" Li Li asked with a calm expression.

Hearing this, Tie Xiao's face changed slightly, his expression was solemn, and he said respectfully: "My lord, the situation is not so bad, but it is not optimistic. There were originally 35 hoards of grain and grass in the granary in the west of the city, each hoarding 3,000 stones, a total of more than 100,000 stones of grain and grass, which was enough to supply our Anyi army for a month. However, this morning, a fire on the third watch burned down most of the granary, and when the general arrived with his army, only seven hoards of grain were snatched out, and the remaining 28 hoards were all burned.

Other than that. The hay barn on the north side of the west city was also burned clean by the thieves, and when the general arrived, the fire was too great to be extinguished. Therefore, except for the small amount of forage stored in the stables, from this moment on, tens of thousands of war horses of our army will no longer have a supply of forage. The shape is urgent, there is no delay, please make a quick decision! ”

"Well, it's a little better than I thought." Li Li nodded slightly. A smile appeared on his calm face, and then he picked up the teacup and motioned for Tie Xiao and Teng Xiao to drink tea.

Taking a sip of tea to moisten his throat, Li Li chuckled and said, "Tie Xiao, the more urgent the situation, the more you need to calm down." Don't be in a hurry, there's no hurdle you can't overcome. There is no endless road! ”

Tie Xiao was stunned when he heard this. He said urgently: "My lord, seven hoards of grain are only enough for our army for seven days at most, that is to say, after seven days, my Anyi army will run out of food!" This is not the most urgent matter, the top priority is that tens of thousands of war horses of our army have no fodder. It will last a day at most, and tomorrow the forage will run out.

The lord knew that most of the 130,000 troops in the Anyi camp were war horses, and the soldiers would not starve for a while. But without forage to feed the war horses, it is absolutely impossible! Once the war horse is lost, the combat strength of our army will be sharply reduced by half, and the more than 100,000 troops will not be able to stop the hundreds of thousands of princes and allies. What's more, now that most of the entire Hedong County has fallen, Anyi City is already a lonely city, once besieged by the enemy, we will completely lose the initiative, just like the battle of trapped beasts, sooner or later will be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy. In the face of such a predicament, how could the last general not be in a hurry, and An could sit down and drink tea slowly? ”

"Hehehe!" Li Li laughed when he heard this, waved his hand and motioned for the excited Tie Xiao to sit down, and said with a smile: "Things are not as strict as you say, our army has not yet reached the point of burning eyebrows and exhausting mountains and rivers, but it has lost the opportunity for a while, and the situation is very passive." ”

After a pause in his voice, Li Li raised his hand and pressed down to signal that the iron flute did not need to be excited, and then continued: "Our army still has seven days' food, as the saying goes: there is food in the hand and there is no panic in the heart. Besides, our army is fully equipped with weapons and armaments, and the city of Anyi is thick and thick, and the allies want to completely besiege our army, but it is a bit whimsical and foolish! The reason why our army adopted the tactics of shrinking the defense this time was because the lords and heroes of the Shizi clan in the various counties of Sili were supportive, and they wished that the allies would annihilate our Xiliang army in one fell swoop.

Because of this, our army did not have much advantage in fighting against the allies in the territory of Sili, not only did the soldiers and horses suffer heavy losses, but also always beware of these warrior clan lords from behind our backs. Just like last night's burning of the granary, I am sure that there must have been someone in the city who secretly responded to the thieves, and then they joined forces to attack the garrison of the granary, and then burned down our granary. Fortunately, all the horsemen of our army are stationed outside the city, otherwise if the thieves sneak into the stables and set it on fire, the consequences will be unimaginable, and tens of thousands of frightened horses will run rampant in the city, which is enough to destroy the entire Anyi City! ”

"What the lord said is very true!" Before Li Li's words fell, Teng Xiao said with anger on his face: "The truth is indeed as the lord said, at the end of this morning, he was ordered to lead the army to block the city gates, and when he arrived at the north gate, he happened to see the arson thieves forcibly attacking the city gate. At that time, there were 5,000 rebels who seized the city gate with the thieves, including more than 300 cavalrymen wearing our armor, and I think the remaining 300 should have died in the battle of burning down the granary. In addition to this cavalry, the remaining more than 5,000 people were all the servants of the major clans and Haoqiang mansions in Hedong County, and they led the thieves to find our army's granary, and then attacked the granary defenders under General Hu Zhen, and then burned our army's grain and grass in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, when the last general arrived with his troops, they had already seized the city gates, and then fled in a hurry. The last general immediately led the army to chase and kill, killing more than 4,000 people along the way, capturing more than 700 people, and pursuing more than 50 miles, but finally let the more than 300 cavalry escape. From the mouths of the captured Hu Cong, it was learned that these gang thieves set fire to the Hu Cong, who originally had 7,000 people, and more than 2,000 people were killed in the battle when they seized the granary. Among all the subordinates, 4,000 people are the attendants, family members and guardians of the Hedong Wei family, and the remaining 3,000 people are soldiers and horses from the major clans and Haoqiang in the county.

After learning the truth, the last general beheaded all these subordinates, and then led his army to confiscate all the mansions of the noble clans in the city. However, it was found that there were only a few maids and handymen in the house, and no one else was nowhere to be found, and there were no valuables in the house. Seeing this, the last general immediately searched the whole city, and finally found out all these people in the slums in the south of the city half an hour ago, with more than 2,000 men, women, and children, as well as more than 70 carts of gold and silver. In the end, I am here to ask the lord, what should be done with these beasts who eat inside and out? ”

Li Li's expression changed slightly, his sword eyebrows frowned, and he groaned: "Wei family? Is Hedong's largest Weishi gate valve? ”

"Exactly!" Teng Xiao nodded and responded: "This Wei family is the largest family of gate lords in Hedong, it is said that after General Wei Qing, the family is prominent, a century-old family, and there have been many prominent figures in the three princes and nine kings. However, after hundreds of years of development, the Wei family has long since branched out, and the children of the clan are all over the states and counties of the Han Dynasty, and only the descendants of the descendants are still in the ancestral home. The Wei family has many mansions and wealth, with an ancestral house and twelve other courtyards in the city, and several manors outside the city, and more than half of the shops in the entire Anyi city are under the name of the Wei family. For a whole morning, the last general mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses to confiscate all the properties of the Wei family in the city, and more than 400 of the more than 2,000 people arrested in the slums were from the Wei family. How to deal with it, please also make it clear to the lord! ”

Li Li bowed his head slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Speaking of which, the Wei family is also loyal and good, and the lintel is prominent, inherited for hundreds of years, and can be regarded as one of the most prominent families in the world. It's a pity that they have too deep a prejudice against me Li Li, and they spare no effort to put our army to death. ”

After sighing, Li Li caught a glimpse of Teng Xiao's expression of wanting to speak and stopped, and said softly: "Does Yunlong want to say that the Wei family and I have a deep grudge and cannot be reconciled at all?" ”

"The Lord is a wise man." Teng Xiao nodded lightly and said in a low voice: "Forgive the last general's courage to say bluntly, Mrs. Cai Yan once married Wei Zhongdao, the second son of the Wei family, and after Wei Zhongdao died, Mrs. died without a child, and then left the Wei family alone. Now Mrs. Cai Yan is the wife of the lord, which invisibly made the Wei family lose face, and then formed a grudge, but they can't help the lord and have always held a grudge. This time, our army retreated to Anyi, because it also carried a large number of civilians with them, so these gangsters had an opportunity to secretly collude with the enemy army and burn down our army's granary. From this, it is not difficult to see that the Wei family has a deep hatred for the lord, and is eager to get rid of it as soon as possible, hoping that the allies will annihilate us in one fell swoop. Hence 、、、、、、"

"So how?" Li Li muttered: "It seems that Yunlong has already made a decision, I don't know how you want to deal with these gate lords who are secretly colluding with the enemy army?" ”

After Teng Xiao heard the sound, he continued without thinking: "Cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and never suffer in the future!" ”

"Oh?" Li Li's expression changed slightly, his eyes closed slightly, and he nodded lightly: "This matter is handled by you with full authority, and you don't have to report it afterwards." ”

"No!" Teng Xiao received the order respectfully, and then asked softly: "I don't know how our army will fight the enemy next, please make it public!" ”

Li Li opened his eyes when he heard the sound, got up and walked to the brocade silk map on the left side of the handsome case, beckoned Teng Xiao and Tie Xiao to step forward, and then pointed to the map and said: "From the geographical point of view, Anyi guards the east bank of the Yellow River, backed by the Yellow River, with mountains stretching for hundreds of miles in the north, and counties in Hexi in the south.

If the princes and allies want to attack Chang'an in one go, there are only two paths, one is Hangu Pass, and the other is Wuguan.

Needless to say, Wuguan is located at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, surrounded by mountains, once hundreds of thousands of allied troops enter Wuguan, it is equivalent to asking for a dead end, and it is easy to enter and difficult to get out. Our army only needs to send 50,000 foot soldiers to guard the pass, and the allies can be kept out of the pass, and the allies can be dragged to death in the mountains.

Therefore, apart from Wuguan, the only attack path available to the princes' allies was Hangu Pass! ”

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