Chapter 23 Chapter Twenty-Three

When Zong Luohu returned to the camp, Xue Renguo was sitting on the bed and sighing.Seeing Zongda come back, he stared at him, and even said with a slight cry: "I ran away, I ran away!" Zong Luohu knew it was wrong, but he didn't know whether Xue Renguo meant that the bastard ran away, or ran away like a fool up.From Xue Renguo's expression, Zong Luohu figured out that he had just run away. Hungan, male, an important military general in the Western Qin Dynasty, his deeds are unknown, only that he defected to Li Shimin at the most critical moment. An unbelievable thing happened, Xue Renguo's eyes became moist under the persecution of many aspects.Yes, his eyes are moist.Crocodile's tears, Ximen Qing's tears, all kinds of tears are not enough to describe the preciousness of the moisture in Xue Renguo's eyes.It looked like he was about to cry.

But, who cares? No one cares. Everyone knows that there is no good fruit to follow Xue Renguo, and defecting to Li Shimin is their only way out.After running away, Xue Renguo was terrified, and he prepared to mobilize all the remaining troops to launch a desperate counterattack against Li Shimin.His method of counterattack is still unique, and the soldiers were bravely lowered down the city wall with ropes and sneaked to Li Shimin's barracks. What he didn't know was that there was absolutely no need for his tens of thousands of troops to talk nonsense with Li Shimin.Li Shimin led a total of two thousand troops to encircle and wipe him out.

Things have to go back to the moment when Zong Luohu fled. When Li Shimin saw the enemy army was in chaos and scattered, he immediately decided to lead two thousand elites to attack Huanglong.Everyone felt that this matter was very unreliable, and there was no need to calculate it at all. Two thousand elites were against tens of thousands of troops, and ghosts could imagine the outcome of the story.However, Li Shimin believed that Xue Renguo had already been frightened, and if he did not attack quickly at this time, he would not be able to win quickly anyway. Li Shimin's old uncle Dou Gui first jumped out to express his objection. He asked Li Shimin: "King Qin, do you think this is reliable?"

Li Shimin said: "Reliable." Dou Gui was in a hurry at that time, "Damn, rely on Mao Pu, who do you think you are? How dare you lead two thousand people to besiege a city with tens of thousands of people, are you looking for an entrance or death?" Li Shimin calmly Said: "Everything is already under my control, don't talk about it, uncle!" Hearing this, Dou Gui pulled his horse's head anxiously, hysterically persuading his nephew not to do stupid things. But, it doesn't work. When it is broken, it will be disrupted.Li Shimin embarked on the journey resolutely, and led his elite troops straight to the gate of Gaochao City.When we got to the place, it happened to be sunny noon.When the defenders of Gaochao City saw the arrival of the Tang army, everyone was in danger.There are only two paths before them.One is dead and the other is alive.Undoubtedly, for an emperor like Xue Renguo, his soldiers were already prepared to take every possible opportunity to escape, but there was no chance.

At dusk, a strange army of Xue Renguo descended from the city, preparing to surprise Li Shimin. This group of people was sent down, and then, a surprising scene happened again.But seeing them put down their weapons one after another, they rushed into Li Shimin's arms.No one would have expected that this group of people would be Xiqin soldiers who had just come down from Gaoqi City!Li Shimin burst into ecstasy, and the scene that followed made him even more happy. After the first wave of defenders was lowered, the rope was immediately pulled back, and the second wave was lowered again. In this way, in a short period of time, there were countless surrenders.Xue Renguo, who was sitting on the bed and moaning, would not know that his carefully planned, boldly argued, shameless and deceitful spell would fail on a nineteen-year-old young man.He had never suffered such a big loss in his life, but Xue Ju was dead, and no one could clean up this mess for him.

The 2,000-man army was tensely recruiting and surrendering. In the middle of the night, Dou Gui led the follow-up army to arrive. The number was 300,000. This time, Gaoqi City was truly impenetrable.The cold air cut Xue Renguo's face and made his heart feel like a thousand pieces of meat.To besiege the city, as long as it takes two days to ascend, Xiqin will fall apart.To Xue Renguo, whether to surrender or resist is completely meaningless.Because for someone like him, he would die in both cases. Don't bother. In the cold winter, on the eighth day of November, Xue Renguo went out of the city to surrender.

Li Shimin got more than 10,000 elites, more than 50,000 men and women, and the Western Qin Dynasty perished.Just as it came and went, Xue Renguo, who had done a lot of evil, was tied up with his friends by Li Shimin and sent to Chang'an.The arrest of an emperor of a country is of course not a trivial matter. Li Yuan ordered: "Put Xue Renguo and his followers to death!" Everyone clapped their hands and applauded, only two people disagreed.One is Li Shimin, and the other is Li Mi.The matter should be traced to Zong Luohu, who had scolded his mother until his mouth cramped. After he was arrested, Li Shimin helped him up and untied him himself.This is enough to make Zong Luohu cry. If Zong is not strong enough to bear it, what Li Shimin will do next will make him ashamed to death.

Li Shimin never mentioned (nor allowed his subordinates to mention) the scene where Brother Zong scolded his mother, and even led him out hunting together to enhance their relationship.The most unbearable thing is that he returned all the troops of Zong Luohouyuan's army, with great arrogance.You know, it is a very dangerous thing to send troops to the enemy who has just returned from suppressing the rebellion.Li Shimin didn't care about Zong Luohu's status, and treated him like a friend.Zong Luohu couldn't take it anymore, he must ask Li Shimin's thoughts, he must ask. Li Shimin smiled and said, "What I want is a sage, not an enemy."

These words made Zong Luohu follow Li Shimin wholeheartedly for the rest of his life.In addition to Zong Luohu, Li Shimin also recruited a large number of talents, the most famous one being Chu Liang.Li Shimin worked hard to find this person, talked with him, and confirmed that he was a rare talent, so he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.If it wasn't for Li Shimin's intercession, none of the people who originally followed Xue Ju would have ended well. The execution was imminent, and Li Mi also spoke for this group of people.He said: "Your Majesty is famous far and wide. Everyone knows that you are a wise king. However, you also know that Xue Ju and his son have come to this point because of killing innocent people. how to think?"

Li Yuan pondered for a while, and felt that what Li Mi said was quite right, so he ordered that only those who committed serious crimes should be executed, and the rest should be returned to the Tang Dynasty for my use. Maybe now many people are starting to wonder, isn't Li Mi still fighting with others in the east, when did he come under Li Yuan's flag? The reason is very simple. It has been a long time since Li Mi made his fortune in Wagangzhai, and now Li Shimin has returned to the dynasty in victory, and the story in between has also followed.As for how Li Mi fell into Li Yuan's arms, it was not a very easy thing to say.However, I still hope that I can make it clear in a few words, otherwise I am really sorry for the people's deep love for Li Mi.

First of all, Zhai Rang and Li Mi discussed a partnership to kill the officials in Shandong, Henan and other places, and succeeded; Then, Li Mi killed Zhai Rang and became the king himself, freeing Wagangzhai from the fate of copycat version; Then, Li Mi attacked Dongdu, seized the granary, became stronger, and joined forces with Wang Shichong again; Later, Yu Wenhua and King Killer fled to the west, and happened to be stuck behind Li Mi's buttocks, and Li Mi was attacked by the enemy; Then, Li Mi felt that the situation was very unfavorable, so he defected to the Emperor Taizhu of Dongdu, who ordered him to fight Yu Wenhuaji, and Yu Wenhuaji was defeated; Later, Li Mi cooperated with Wang Shichong, who was actually in power in the eastern capital. Then, Li Mi found out that he had been tricked by Wang Shichong, so he was furious, had a fierce exchange of fire with him, and was defeated; In the end, Li Mi with a bright forehead had no escape route, and led the rest of the people to submit to the Tang Dynasty and fell into Li Yuan's warm embrace. From the above, we can draw several conclusions: Li Mi's life is still miserable; Wang Shichong's life is still very cunning; Yu Wenhuaji is a stick. The matter has passed, and it is meaningless to discuss whether Li Mi is tragic or not, Wang Shichong is cunning or not, and whether Yu Wenhuaji is a stick or not.Li Mi's surrender brought great changes to the situation at that time. The failure of his insurgent army marked the end of the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty.The final winner is the noble group.Everyone knows that only intellectuals are the mainstay of their fortunes, and at the end of the Sui Dynasty, most of these people were nobles. Although he took refuge in Li Yuan, Li Mi was not convinced by him.When Li Yuan first rebelled, he still remembered the extremely nasty words he wrote in the letter.What now?Although Li Yuan no longer called Li Mi his elder brother, he still had affection. Although Li Mi was sixteen years younger than Li Yuan, Li Yuan resolutely changed his name to Li Mi his younger brother. However, this younger brother is called a coward. Li Mi is not inferior to Li Yuan in terms of accepting talents and improving the relationship between monarch and minister.But when it comes to cultural accomplishment, Li Yuan is really a bit behind Li Mi.Li Mi can never forget his past, let alone let go of his stinky airs of reading thousands of volumes, so he has always looked down on Li Yuan.Li Mi's current situation tells us that if a person always praises his past, it means that he has a particularly failed present. Li Mi is such a person. Before Li Shimin returned from conquering the Western Qin Dynasty, Li Yuan assigned Li Mi a special task - to line up in Binzhou (sound: Binzhou) to welcome him. Before that, Li Mi had never met Li Shimin, but he had met Li Yuanji.If arranged according to the arithmetic sequence, Li Shimin's appearance must be between Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji; if according to genetics, Li Shimin may be uglier than Li Yuanji.After all, they are father and son, Li Mi even looks down on Li Yuan, let alone his son who is less than twenty years old. For this reason, Li Mi sat down and made full preparations. Line up, play music, horns, big drums, a group of people and horses came around a tall horse, and the person wearing the golden armor immediately was Li Shimin.After actually seeing Li Shimin, Li Mi was stunned.Under Li Shimin's smile, what he saw was a soaring aura, this is a person who is not angry and arrogant, and only such a person can have such a good reputation in the society! According to Li Mi's pre-conceived scenario, Li Shimin should be wearing a sack, with a pot lid on his head, holding a handful of egg yolk pie, so ugly that he thought he was handsome.But Li Shimin didn't. The combination of majesty and kindness in this young man made Li Mi unaware of the shock.Li Mi patted Yin Kaishan and asked, "This is King Qin?" Yin Kaishan replied: "Yes, this is King Qin." Li Mi continued to look at Li Shimin in a dazed state, and after the welcoming ceremony was over, he regained his senses, grabbed Yin Kaishan privately, and exclaimed, "King Qin is so handsome! If it weren't for this, how could such a big disaster be put down? (The king of Qin is also a true hero! How could it be so? How can there be disasters and chaos!)" After a day's rest, the army set off and returned to Chang'an.In Chang'an, Li Yuan didn't feel comfortable with the West Qin incident, and what followed was a movement to kill thieves spontaneously organized by the masses. Xue Renguo: Hello, your QQ account has been selected as Today's Star by Tencent... Douzi: I traveled upstairs, and I never forgot to trick someone when I was about to die.