Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Huo Yi Breaks Song Laosheng's Righteous Brothers and Sun Daxia Joins the Army

Tang Jun waited outside Huoyi City for many days, and finally kept the clouds open to see the sunrise. Before the emerald green color of the nearby green hills was covered with dust, Li Yuan decided to take the mountain path and march to the city siege. Soon, Tang Jun had already arrived outside the city wall of Huoyi.The opponent in front of him is Song Laosheng.If he can't stick to it, there must be no result if he runs out of ammunition and food.Li Yuan asked Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin for advice, and Li Jiancheng expressed his thoughts. His whole plan is not going well, and his film and television performances are as follows:

Hundreds of cavalry rushed to the east gate of Huoyi; Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin led dozens of cavalry under the city (south gate), waving and commanding, as if they were commanding thousands of troops.Song Laosheng looked down from the city and saw a crowd of soldiers and horses, but he was not sure how many were there. The two armies were in a tense confrontation. Seeing that there was no movement in the city, Li Jiancheng suddenly pointed at Song Laosheng on the city and cursed: "Song Laosheng, come out and die!" Song Laosheng felt very angry, but he still held back. At this time, Li Yuan had already led tens of thousands of people to gather at the south gate.

After scolding for a long time, Li Jiancheng got nothing.Li Yuan was in a hurry in front of the south gate, and Li Jiancheng's story ended here.Next, it was Li Shimin's turn. Seeing that Song Laosheng did not respond, Li Shimin pointed at Song Laosheng and cursed: "Song Laosheng, you are a beast that is not as good as a pig or a dog!" When Song Laosheng heard this, he was furious, and led 10,000 horses out of the south gate to kill them.The toughness of the old man was revealed at this time, and in an instant, he beat up Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng's large troops all over the place.

Li Yuan retreated and ordered Yin Kaishan to lead the rear army to support them. The rear army arrived and divided the troops into two gates in the southeast.Li Shimin is in charge of the east gate, while Li Yuan and Li Jiancheng are in charge of the south gate.The Sui Army at the South Gate was led by Song Laosheng, and they were extremely fierce and defeated Li Yuan.Seeing that Nanmen couldn't hold on any longer, Li Shimin quickly led his troops to meet him. The two sides fought and suffered heavy casualties. In the middle of the vast crowd, Li Shimin rushed to the front with a big knife in his left and right hands, slashing fiercely at the enemies who rushed up.Wherever he went, arms, cheeks, intestines, and eyeballs flew everywhere, and the front of the city gate instantly turned into a sea of ​​blood.In the end, Li Shimin's two knives became combs.

Li Shimin was indeed attracting attention, however, on the battlefield at this moment, there was a person who took away Li Shimin's limelight. In the midst of the chaotic army, this person ran on with his saber and galloped, galloping freely and horizontally, as if entering the land of no one, and frightened Li Shimin who saw him from a distance.Li Shimin thought to himself: Our army has such a strong general, it will be invincible!It's a pity that this person is Song Laosheng, the leader of the enemy army. Song Laosheng was rampaging in the crowd like a rhinoceros. Seeing that he was about to break through the army led by Li Shimin, Li Yuan's follow-up troops rushed over.They took advantage of the trend to fight, and their reputation was greatly shaken. The soldiers who had been sluggish just now became excited as if they had been pumped with chicken blood.After the chaos, Song Laosheng disappeared from Li Shimin's sight.After a while, someone in the army yelled, "Laosheng Song is under arrest!"

There was a burst of cheers. Song Laosheng is not a person who gives in easily. He was blocked outside the city gate by the rebel army.Seeing that there was no power to return to heaven, he got off his horse and slammed into the ditch, dying for his country. How magnificent! It's a pity that he didn't get killed. When Li Yuan first started fighting, the quality of the entire army was not optimistic.Seeing that the guard of Huoyi City was still alive, Liu Hongji, who was in front, grabbed Song Laosheng, pulled him with a machete, and killed him like cutting cabbage.At this time, the corpses of the Sui army had already spread several miles (the number of zombies), covering the wilderness outside the city.On the city wall, Song Laosheng's soldiers still stood firm.

The Tang army had no siege equipment, so they could only be forced to attack. History books euphemistically called it "hand-to-hand combat".Going to attack a city without siege equipment is often death. However, this is a group of demons who used to be red-eyed, but now they are red-eyed.I don't know what method to use, a large group of soldiers climbed up the city wall.The soldiers who had a deep-rooted hatred with the Sui Dynasty vented their anger on the equally innocent soldiers of the Sui Dynasty, and the battle soon ended. The Sui army was defeated and Li Yuan won. The burden that had been placed in Li Yuan's heart for several months can finally be temporarily relieved. What he has to do now is to reward those soldiers who have made outstanding contributions to the attack on Huoyi.Li Yuan's first battle was very critical, and his reward method was directly related to the fighting spirit of the soldiers, which was a problem that had to be paid attention to.

Just after the attack was over, some people in the army said that Mr. Tang came from aristocratic background, and he was not on the same road as those who came from poor families like us. If he awarded rewards, he would only give them to those with good backgrounds. As for us, what should we do? Anyway. However, Li Yuan smacked the mouth of the person who said this with his actions. He not only rewarded all the meritorious personnel fairly, but also continued his unfinished business - sealing officials. History has proved that no matter what kind of city it is, as long as you don't do anything to massacre the city, the people will accept it if you give some small favors after you take it down.In Huoyi City, those who received Li Yuan's official rank all hoped from the bottom of their hearts that this man would succeed in the rebellion and become emperor.Li Yuan smiled and looked at the crowd of people who came over to be the leader with a burst of joy.However, someone poured cold water on Li Yuan.

At the right time, at the right place, and in the right atmosphere, that person said this sentence: "Mr. Tang, will this make the appointment of officials too indiscriminate, and the success of the king's career in the future must be too many people. What should I do then?" Li Yuan smiled and said: "The reason why the Sui Dynasty became the virtue it is now is because it was too stingy with the power in its hands and did not reward those who made meritorious deeds. To kill them?" If there was Weibo at that time, Li Yuan would definitely be scolded by netizens. However, Li Yuan is Li Yuan.In this way, he successively implemented the plan in Huoyi, Linfen, Longmen and other counties, and achieved excellent results.Taking advantage of this enthusiasm, the army successively took down several very important cities:

On August 8, Li Yuan entered Linfen County to comfort Huo Yi. On August 12, marched into Gushan. On August 15th, take down Longmen. On August 18, to Fenyin. On August 21, marched into Hukou. The next goal is to achieve Qu Tutong, which will be a long and arduous process.At such a moment when the morale of the army was greatly boosted, a more gratifying thing came from the General's Mansion—the Turks sent fire support.It turned out that from the beginning of the uprising, Liu Wenjing was sent by Li Yuan to Turkic to ask for assistance, and Liu Wenjing took two taels of silver (or maybe four taels) to northern Xinjiang and negotiated with the Turkic Khan.

Negotiation results: Turks agreed to send 500 troops and 2,000 horses. Li Yuan was very happy that Liu Wenjing came back so late. If he came back a little earlier, he wondered if Turkic would suddenly change his mind and stab himself in the back.After Liu Wenjing came back, Li Yuan said to him overjoyedly: "We are heading west and are about to cross the river. In the past, there were more soldiers and fewer horses, but now there are fewer soldiers and more horses. It's all thanks to you!" Are you serious? Can't take it seriously. After all, we have only just begun to fight the country. When Comrade Li Yuan was busy, he met a famous local person. This person's name is Sun Hua, and he is called "Guanzhong Hero" (not Lu Qinghou).This Guanzhong hero was originally not a hero, but the leader of the thieves, but he who knows the current affairs is a hero, and it was his correct choice to join Li Yuan.When Li Yuan's army arrived in Fenyin, this Daxia Sun received his surrender order. Sun Hua has tens of thousands of brothers under him, and it stands to reason that his strength is not far behind Li Yuan.But that's logical, it doesn't make sense when it comes to Li Yuan and his son. After Comrade Sun Hua received Li Yuan's sincere letter, he didn't even think about it, and decided to hang out with Li Yuan.Because when Li Yuan attacked other places, Sun Hua expected that Li Yuan would not let him go.After a period of observation, he found that these days, Li Yuan's army has grown rapidly, and his side is still the same as before. There are not many people with leadership skills, and not many who can really fight. Instead of fighting against Li Yuan, it is better It's not bad to join the gang and be a prince. On this day, Sun Hua crossed the river in a small boat with several horses and several people.They went ashore and came to Li Yuan.Li Yuan received him cordially, and he held Comrade Sun Hua's hand, too excited to speak.If you can't speak, don't speak.Therefore, he conferred several honorary titles to Comrade Sun Hua, and at the same time gave many official positions to Sun Hua's subordinates. Everything is taken care of, Sun Hua is safe. At this harmonious and beautiful moment, Li Yuan suddenly spoke.This was the first task he entrusted to Sun Hua: "This time to attack Hedong, you should cross the river first!" Li Yuan: When I was young, I heard a song that was very nice. There was a line that said "a sesame ball, I will cherish it if I don't eat it", please ask for the name of the song! Sun Hua: ...Could it be? Song Laosheng: "Song of the Seven Sons", you know that Macao is not my real surname.