Chapter 19 The fragrance of Chang'an

Although Li Jun, Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, still often issued edicts, ordering the vassals and towns to draw troops to attack the army of the Qi Dynasty. For a time, the military situation in the two capital was tight, and there was a tendency for black clouds to crush the city.

In the face of the crazy attack of the Li Tang court, the new soldiers of the Daqi Dynasty fought bloody under the command of the Daqi command to defend the hard-won victory. The revolutionary and counter-revolutionary forces are engaged in a life-and-death battle every day, which is thrilling.

One day, Huang Chao and Daqi Wenwu discussed military and political affairs in Hanyuan Hall and walked out of the hall together. Everyone walked faithfully, but they saw the ** in the royal garden competing for beauty, either white and plain, yellow and elegant, red or purple, calm and rich. A gust of autumn wind blows, ** presents a different strange posture, either floating like a cloud, or like a dragon. Huang Chao suddenly stopped and looked at the ** in front of him. The poem burst into bloom and blurted out: "When autumn comes September 8th, I will kill a hundred flowers after bloom. The fragrance penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of golden armor.

Chai Cun listened and praised: "Brother Huang's poem has brought ** to life. I seem to see that the whole city of Chang'an is full of ** with golden armor. They emit bursts of strong aroma, straight to the sky and permeate the whole city. The words are magnificent and the artistic conception is magnificent, which can be said to be unprecedented!"

Noble concubine Jin Long said, "Your Majesty, I feel great after listening to your improvised poems. Since Pangu opened the world and the three emperors and five emperors have passed down to this day, I don't think any emperor can write such a heroic poem!"

All the Wenwu of the Qi Dynasty praised Huang Chao's ** poem.

Huang Chao smiled shyly: "I just felt it, which made my brothers and sisters laugh!" However, after reciting this poem, I developed a fighting spirit to fight against Li Tang's army!"

"Sriors, it's a sway! Li Yan started to use Zheng Wei and Wang Duo. Zheng Wei's main force was in the west and Wang Duo's main force was in the east. The Tang army took an east-west approach, gradually compressed the main force of the Qi army in Chang'an and Luoyang, and gathered again to annihilate it! They thought that the Qi army was defeated in the two armies of Longweipi and River, and did not dare to compete with the main force of the Tang army, but we had to attack the main force of the Tang army!" Gaihong analyzed.

"Yes, you must be based on fighting! Only when Li Tang's main force is beaten and disabled can the Tang army dare not approach Erjing, which is conducive to Daqi's implementation of the strategy nationwide!" Huang Chao said loudly.

Shang Rang said, "Your Majesty, not long ago, someone wrote anti-poems on the gate of Daqi Shangshu Province and mocked Daqi officials. I conducted a city-wide search and found dozens of suspects who could write poems, and all of them were beheaded. Humph, I think who dares to talk to the Daqi government in the future!"

Huang Chao sighed: "You can use some extraordinary means in extraordinary times, but don't be innocent. Cutting the head with a knife is not like cutting leeks. If the head is cut, it can't grow any longer. If the leeks are cut, it can still be regenerated.

Shang Rang nodded and blamed himself, "Your Majesty, I did a little recklessly this time, but these poor scholars are too ridiculous! It is difficult to consolidate the Daqi regime without severely punishing these poor scholars!"

Huang Chao was silent.

Zhao Zhang said, "Your Majesty, now that Li Tang Zhengqi and Wang Duo lead a large army to approach Chang'an, they will definitely launch an attack in the near future. I think we can give up some areas in Chang'an City, paralyze the Tang army, and then look at the weaknesses of the Tang army, and then send troops to attack them, and we will win a complete victory!"

Huang Chao said, "Zhao Aiqing's plan is very good, and I think it can be implemented. In my opinion, Huang Siye's army of the Third Army of Daqi was ordered to contain Zheng's soldiers and horses in Yinzhou. I transferred Wang Mei, the general of Jianwei of the First Army, to lead 30,000 troops and attack Pizhou. Cao Min's department of the Second Army of Daqi entangled Wang Duo's army and horses. Meng Kai's main force of the First Army continued to fight in the Central Plains, and other armies implemented strategies in their own combat areas. Attack and harass the Tang army. I personally led the Chinese army to fight a decisive battle with the attacking Tang army, and strive to completely annihilate the main force of the Tang army that invaded Chang'an!"

The great Qi Wenwu shouted: "Your Majesty, Shengming!"

As expected by the commander-in-chief of Daqi, since the victory of the second battle between Longweipi and Hezhong, the Tang army made his wisdom faint and thought that he could recover the two capitals, so he made a big move to invade Chang'an, and then captured Luoyang and destroy the main force of Daqi in one fell swoop.

Tang general Cheng Zongchu led his army to attack Chang'an City from Yanqiumen, and the generals of Daqi withdrew from the battle with slight resistance according to the deployment of Daqi's command. Tang Hongfu then led the army to arrive, and Wang Chucun led 50,000 elite soldiers to attack Chang'an from the North Gate at night.

Huang Chao led his army out of Chang'an City to retreat to Dongcheng. The residents of Chang'anfang City closed their doors. After the Tang army entered the West City and North City of Chang'an, they burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil. The residents of Chang'an were furious and attacked the Tang army with rubble. Cheng Zongchu and others who entered the city were afraid that other generals who entered the city to divide their achievements, but did not inform Fengxiang's envoy Zheng Wei and Xia Sui's envoy Tuoba Sigong. The Tang soldiers who entered the city put down their weapons and entered the residents' private houses, robbed gold and silk, and plundered prostitutes.

Wang Chucun ordered the sergeant to wear white silk heads as a mark, but many rogue teenagers in the city also wore white silk heads, still plundering people and looting goods, causing chaos in Chang'an City. Huang Chao led the Chinese army to station in Ba, Nancheng and Dongcheng, and detected that the Tang army in Xicheng and Beicheng was not ordered, and the Tang troops surrounding Chang'an did not contact each other, so he led the army to attack Chang'an.

The Qi army entered the West City and the North City respectively from the gates. At this time, the generals who were ambushed in the West City and the North City were also killed and fought with the Tang army in the West City and the North City. Kang Shiming waved the seven-treasure single dragon shovel and met Cheng Zongchu. Kang Shiming roared and used the unique skill "the mythical beast to kill evil spirits". The seven-treasure single dragon shovel drew an arc in the air and directly patted Cheng Zongchu's spiritual cover. Cheng Zongchu could not dodge and was hit by Kang Shiming's shovel. The skull was smashed by the seven-treasure single dragon shovel, and his eyes protruded. , fell down from the horse and died.

When Tang Hongfu saw that Cheng Zongchu was killed, he embattled the six gods and was about to run away. Unexpectedly, the horse's hoofs were shot by the archers of Daqi. As soon as the war horse was lifted, Tang Hongfu turned over and fell off his horse. Daqi soldiers rushed up and cut Tang Hongfu to death.

In the fierce battle, Li Xiaozhang was killed by Jin Wan and Jin Lu, and Kang Shi was trapped in the battle by Jin Yu, Jin Yu and Jin Lin. Kang Shi rushed left and right and could not get out of the siege, so he was killed by the three sisters Jin Yu, Jin Yu and Jin Lin.

Wang Chucun saw that most of the Tang army in the city was damaged, his liver and gallbladder were cracked, and he was running wildly. He was intercepted by a man and horse led by Huang Chao and Chai Cun. In the firelight, Huang Chao jumped up his horse and went straight to the king's place.

Wang Chu had no intention of fighting, so that he opened the gossip and reluctantly fought with Huang Chao for more than ten times. He made a false move and fled. Huang Chao chased after him closely. Zhang Gongqing, a general under Wang Chucun, saw that the main general was in danger and hurried to rescue him. Zhang Gongqing rushed to roll eight cloud guns and resisted Huang Chao's fight. Wang Chucun rushed out of the siege, gathered the remnants and fled back to the Weibei camp.

When Zhang Gongqing saw that Wang Chucun had escaped from danger, he abandoned the yellow nest and rushed out of the city at night and went to Wang Chucun.

Wang Chucun saw Zhang Gongqing's blood-stained robe and was seriously injured, so he quickly asked the military doctor to treat Zhang Gongqing. Zhang Gongqing lay on the sickbed and said to Wang Chucun with great effort, "General Wang, in this war, the main force of Dingzhou has been lost. I have a word. I hope the general will adopt it!"

"Gongqing, say it, as long as I can do it, I will listen to you!" Wang Chucun said with tears in his eyes.

"General Wang, leave some blood for the Dingzhou generals and soldiers. You can't rely on Dingzhou soldiers alone. We have done our best this time. I suggest that we immediately lead the remnants to retreat to Dingzhou and let the soldiers and horses of other towns fight with Daqi!" Zhang Gongqing's tearful advice.

"Yes, Huang Chao's martial arts skills are excellent, and the generals of Daqi are extremely brave. The fighting power of Dingzhou soldiers is so strong that they are also defeated by the Daqi army. I am convinced Huang Chao this time. OK, Gongqing, I agree to your suggestion. I will order the class teacher to return to Dingzhou tomorrow!" Wang Chucun said with sobs.

In this war between the west city and the north of Chang'an, the soldiers of the Tang army were defeated by the Qi army because they robbed too much property and couldn't walk. They were killed by the Qi army, and ten points of the dead*.

The next day, Wang Chucun packed up the remnants and retreated to Dingzhou, so all the road troops of Li Tang retreated, and the momentum of the Qi army was more powerful!

After Zheng Yu received the news of the death of Cheng Zongchu, Tang Hongfu, Li Xiaochang and Kang Shi, he was like an electric shock. For a long time, Zheng Yu burst into tears: "My Majesty, the old minister has tried his best to restore the capital, but Daqi's military strength is too strong. This time, I was hit by Huang Chao's in-depth trick to lure the enemy. Most of the elite soldiers lost, and they were unable to counterattack in at least a year. Now they can only stick to Fengxiang and other strategic places.

Zheng Ningji advised, "Dad, don't be discouraged. Although Huang Chao defeated us this time, there are still hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in other towns of the Tang Dynasty, and they are fully capable of recovering Beijing!"

Gao Zhou Yi made a suggestion: "Lord Zheng, Huang Siye's department of the Third Army of Daqi has been trying to take revenge since it was repelled by our army in Longweipi. Recently, I have been sending troops to harass our army. I'm afraid that Huang Siye will come to fight Fengxiang, so I must urge Zhu Mei to enter the army as soon as possible to contain the Qi army!"

"General Gao's words are reasonable. I will now write a letter and send a messenger to Zhu Mei, so that he must lead the main troops and take Pangzhou! Now that Puzhou has been captured by Wang Mei's troops, our army's side is seriously threatened. This must be pulled out!" Zheng Yu shouted.

After Wang Mei occupied Pyongzhou, she comforted the people in the Pyongzhou area and adapted the submissive Li Tang generals, which was very busy. One day, Wang Mei was immersed in reviewing military and political documents in the government office of Puzhou. A personal soldier came to report: "General Wang, Li Tang, Tongzhou Tongsai Town brought more than 3,000 soldiers and horses to Zhu Mei and asked to submit to Daqi. Now the north city of Puzhou is waiting for you to reply!"

As soon as Wang Mei heard it and didn't think much about it, she put down her brush and took a few personal soldiers to the north city of Pangzhou to see Zhu Mei.

Wang Mei climbed onto the north wall and looked out. Sure enough, she saw Zhu Mei leading a man and horse to line up in the north of the city. Wang Mei shouted, "Who is General Zhu Mei?"

"It's Zhu Mei! General Wang is famous, and Zhu Mei is willing to lead a brigade to serve under General Wang!" Zhu Mei said immediately.

Wang Mei asked, "What is the basis for General Zhu to return to Daqi?"

Zhu Mei smiled and replied, "We are all generals. I will fold the arrows in front of the generals of the three armies!" If Zhu Mei doesn't keep her word, she will be killed!" After saying that, he pulled out the carved arrow and broke it into two pieces.

Wang Mei was overjoyed and said, "General Zhu is really a happy person. I believe you, come here, open the gate and let Zhu Mei's military horse into the city!"

The volunteer soldiers obeyed the order to open the gate, and Zhu Mei took the Tang soldiers into Pangzhou. Wang Mei was about to walk down the tower to greet her. Suddenly, Li Chonggu, a Tang general who surrendered to Daqi, walked to Wang Mei and slashed Wang Mei with a knife. Wang Mei was caught off guard and was cut down by the wall.

When Li Chonggu saw that Wang Mei had not yet cut his breath, he glared at him, so he came forward and raised his knife to cut Wang Mei. General Wang Mei, a general of Jianwei, quickly closed his stomach and rolled aside. He tried his best to use the unique skill "golden sand palm" and hit Li Chonggu with his chest. Li Chonggu heard the palm wind and quickly dodged his chest, but left The arm was hit by Wang Mei's palm. Wang Mei's five fingers of her right hand suddenly passed through Li Chonggu's left arm muscles. Li Chonggu's left arm was broken and was unspeakable in pain. He shouted and fainted.

Wang Mei, the hero of Daqi, died of excessive blood loss.

Seeing this, Zhu Mei quickly greeted Wang Xingyu, the general, to lead the troops into Pyongzhou. The Daqi army lost its main general and did not have a unified command. In addition, Li Tang's surrendered troops echoed Zhu Mei's soldiers and horses in the city. The Daqi army was finally defeated by the Tang army. Thousands of Daqi soldiers were killed outside the city and retreated to the barracks of Wang Juan and Liu Tang in Tuqiao.

Huang Chao was shocked to hear the news of Wang Mei's death. His eyes were dark, and he fell down on the golden throne and fainted. Wenwu hurried forward to rescue him, pounded his chest and patted his back. After a long time, Huang Chao came back and cried loudly: "Brother Wang Meixian, you died so miserably. I must avenge you!"

Huang Chao hated Zhu Mei, let out the wind, and vowed to lead troops to destroy Zhu Mei's military horses. Zhu Mei was shocked and led the troops to shrink in Pizhou, and wrote an emergency document to Zheng Yu and Wang Duo, asking Zheng and Wang to send troops to reinforce Pizhou.

Huang Chao appointed Zhu Wen as the southeast camp and led the army to attack Dengzhou. Soon, Zhu Wen captured Dengzhou and captured Zhao Jie, the assassin of Dengzhou, so he led an army to garrison Dengzhou to control Jingzhou and Xiangzhou. After the Battle of Dengzhou, Zhu Wen gained a lot. The three green forest heroes Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guiben near Dengzhou defected to Zhu Wen; Ge, a good man from Zhou, Huo Cun and Shi Shucong, and Xie Tong, a resourceful scholar, also served in Zhu Wen's army. In addition, martial arts heroes such as Xu Tang, Li Hui, Ding Hui, Deng Jiyun and Wang Wu also took the children of the people in their hometown to Zhu Wen. Zhu Wen's military strength increased rapidly, reaching more than 100,000.

In this offensive and defensive battle between Daqi and Li Tang, Wang Pu, the assassin of Tongzhou, Qiao Qian, the assassin of Huazhou, and Song Yan, the assassin of Shangzhou, heard that Huang Chao had given up Chang'an, so he led his troops straight to Dengzhou.

Huang Chao was furious when he heard the news and scolded: "Wang Pu, Qiao Qian and Song Yan were afraid of death and lost the city. They ordered Zhu Wen to kill these three people!"

After receiving Huang Chao's edict, Zhu Wen did not dare to disobey and immediately beheaded Wang Pu and Qiao Qian. Because Song Yan had some friendship with Zhu Wen, and Song Yan begged bitterly and sent a lot of money and goods to Zhu Wen, Zhu Wen's wife Zhang Hui advised Zhu Wen to let Song Yan go. Zhu Wen repeatedly considered releasing Song Yan and let him lead the army back to Shangzhou. He also wrote to Huang Chao, saying that Song Yan did not deliberately give up Shangzhou, but was affected by rumors.

Tuoba Sigong stationed in the military martial arts and wrote to Zheng Wei, asking him to fight with Huang Siye's troops of the Third Army of Daqi. Zheng Wei was weak and sick at this time. He strengthened his disease, wrote a military letter, and agreed on a date with Tuoba Sigong to conscript Huang Siye's army.

Song Wentong said to Zheng Wei, "Lord Zheng, although Tuoba Sigong's party soldiers are strong, they may not be the enemies of the Daqi army. I think it's better to wait for the main forces of other towns of the Tang Dynasty to enter the vicinity of the capital, and then make an appointment to send troops!"

Zheng Yu waved his hand and said with hard, "Wen Tong, I know you are both wise and brave and consider comprehensive. But have you ever thought about it? Tuoba Sigong led troops to help the war, which was thousands of miles away. If we didn't agree to his request for war. Tuoba Sigong is likely to lead the army back to Xiazhou. At that time, the morale of the Tang Dynasty will inevitably be low. This time, there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers of the Party. As long as we fully support Tuoba Sigong to fight against the Daqi army, even if we can't win completely, we can play the prestige of the Tang Dynasty!"

Song Wentong listened to Zheng's words and saw that the bean-sized sweat kept overflowing when Zheng was talking, so he did not object.

Zheng Wei summoned the generals and assigned the combat tasks: "Du Mei and Song Wentong led 30,000 horses and quickly drove to the Tuqiao. Gao Zhou Yi and Wu Yanhong led 20,000 horses to attack Fengtian. I have written a letter to Tuoba Sigong asking him to send troops to the Tuqiao and destroy the main force of Huang Siye's third army!"

Sun Chu said, "Lord Zheng, Wang Duo, you want him to immediately send troops to attack the south and east of Chang'an and respond to our army's actions in Tuqiao and Fengtian!"

Zheng Wei nodded: "Yes, I have written to send this, and it is estimated that Wang Duo will receive it in a few days. Generals, I am seriously ill and can't act with the army. I wish you victory and success!"

In the Hanyuan Hall in Chang'an, the General Qi Command held a military meeting.

Huang Chao, the emperor of the Qi Dynasty, said, "Siye sent a war report, saying that the main force of Tuoba Sigong's army has left the martial arts and headed north. It is estimated that he will attack the Great Qi army in the Tuqiao area. Fengxiang's enemy has also been frequently mobilized recently and moved to the northeast, asking the commander-in-chief of Daqi to send troops to reinforce Tuqiao.

"It seems that they are going to fight with Li Tang this time. Zheng Wei and Wang Duo lost their generals in the attack and defense of Chang'an, and their vitality was greatly damaged. The main force of the Tang army in Shaanxi has been unable to attack Chang'an. This Ba Sigong is very active, leading 50,000 Party soldiers to help Tang attack Qi. We must eliminate it! Eliminate the idea of helping Tang in all cities and towns in Shaanxi. Chaicun analyzed.

Zhao Zhang said, "Your Majesty, I think this earth bridge battle is indeed very important. In addition to eliminating the 50,000 elite soldiers of Tuoba Sigong, our army will also completely defeat the remaining main force of Zheng Wei. I estimate that the total strength of the Tang army is about 100,000, so my army will make up my mind to mobilize a large army to surround and annihilate the Tang army from Tuqiao to Fengtian, and determine the world in the first battle!"

Huang Chao nodded and said loudly, "What your brothers said is very true. I have decided to send a large number of elite soldiers and horses to fight against the Tuqiao and Fengtian areas to fight against the main forces of Zheng Wei and Tuoba Sigong! At present, Wang Pan and Liu Tang's soldiers and horses of the Third Army of Daqi are stationed in Tuqiao, with about 30,000 people, forming a confrontation with the soldiers and horses of Tang general Zhu Mei; Siye led more than 20,000 troops and stationed in Yinzhou and Fengtian to stop Zheng Wei's main east criminals. The Third Army of Daqi is under great pressure. The Chinese Army, the First Army and the Second Army must help and resolutely eliminate all enemies who dare to invade Daqi together with the Third Army!"

If you want to know what's going on, let's take a look at the next chapter.