Chapter 45 Chapter 45 Wang Shichong Lies Waiting for Xia Jun Dou Jiande to Help and Meets King Qin

If you retreat into Luoyang City, you should know that there will be today's results. No food. Running out of food is easy to say, but it is fatal to suffer.For more than a month, a large number of people in the city starved to death, and the number of households decreased from 30,000 to 3,000.More than 26,000 households starved to death, and if one household counted as four people, more than 100,000 people died of starvation.The remaining 3,000 households may not be able to survive, because the food can only be eaten less and less.Due to the lack of food in the city, high officials were not immune to suffering. Officials below Shang Shulang (the emperor's confidant) had to go to the warehouse to carry the pitifully small amount of food by themselves, and ordinary officials were sallow and emaciated from hunger.

Some of them are fine, but those who don’t can only starve to death.Eating bran is your blessing, eating soil is your courage, and Yi Zi and Shi appeared in this ancient city again.Even more bleak, the living people ate mud cakes made of grass clippings floating in the soil with water, which resulted in swollen bodies and foot problems. This way of eating, the result is only one word - death. It stands to reason that the people and soldiers in Luoyang City should rebel. If they don't, what awaits them is starvation to death or being killed.But they didn't resist, because Wang Shichong began to speak with wool.From Wang Shichong's mouth, they heard different voices.One day, the starving people heard Wang Shi's hopeful loud announcement:

"Wait another day, Xia Jun's food will arrive!" The effect of this sentence can only be described as great and epoch-making, because I don't know how many times Lao Wang said "wait another day".When he spoke for the first time, Wang Shichong's speech was as exciting as a big city that had been cut off for a month and suddenly had normal power supply.This time, the soldiers and the people believed it, because Wang Shichong said conclusively that what Dou Jiande sent was not chaff, but rice, white rice! Regardless of the consequences, as long as you can have a full meal, you can let me die!

The lives of the soldiers are so low that one cannot but praise Wang Shichong for his clever tricks. Dou Jiande did come to rescue Luoyang, and he did bring enough food, but the so-called enough food was enough for his own people, not for Lao Wang.Wang Shichong never made drafts when he said nonsense. In fact, Dou Jiande could not approach Luoyang at all at this time, because if he was not sure, the Tang army would ambush him and kill him first, and the two countries would be finished.Therefore, Dou Jiande chose to enter Huazhou (Hua County, Henan).Here, he was warmly welcomed by Wang Shichong's men.

Comrade Cao Hong, the general guarding Huazhou, said that Emperor Zheng fought hard in Luoyang, and if the friendly army came, he would be able to help justice, and the unrighteous teachers of Li and Tang would be eliminated.Well said, but things still need to be done.Dou Jiande spoke. He believed that the coalition forces should garrison Suanzao (place name, Xinxiang City) and direct their troops at Luoyang.Suanzao is 300 miles away from Luoyang City, and cavalry can reach it in ten hours, and infantry can reach it in two days.However, if the Tang army wanted to attack us, they could only move Suanzao troops from outside the city, which could easily be detected by the Xia Zheng coalition forces.This place can be attacked by advance and defended by retreat. Dou Jiande's approach is indeed good.

Dou Jiande and Cao Hong have a combined army of 150,000 troops, which is claimed to be 300,000 (both of them can brag like that). As a result, Li Shimin, who was extremely calm, encountered unprecedented confusion. Those who obstructed him were Qu Tutong and Xiao Yu. They were all old ministers, with a straight temper and straight talk, and they never played hide-and-seek games.What they mean is that our army has long been exhausted, and Xia's army is new and very fierce.It's better to retreat to Xin'an, avoid its edge, wait for the opportunity, and then defeat it in one fell swoop!This is a very humane point of view. Tang Jun has been doing it for more than a month, banging and smashing against the wall. If he doesn't surrender or say anything, he is exhausted to death.Now that Xia Jun came to rescue Luoyang, it was a vigorous army of hundreds of thousands, Tang Jun should retreat first to avoid the sharp edge.As soon as this remark came out, most generals raised their hands in favor.

Li Shimin's attitude is very firm. no. Once he left, the work for the first eight months would be zero; if he didn't leave, Dou Jiande would not dare to send troops easily. How to convince these veterans? Li Shimin's approach is: Wang Ling is so, whoever refuses to obey, die! Well, all opponents shut up, and those who say retreat will die.Not long after saying this, Li Shimin suddenly set off with a large army, and he was also about to abandon Luoyang. Many people wondered, didn't they say that they would not give up Luoyang? Why did Li Shimin go back on his word, slap himself, and leave with the army?The answer is so simple, but also so distressing: Luoyang is almost finished, and Comrade Li Yuanji (pay attention to this person) is in charge. Li Shimin's departure is not to retreat to Xin'an, but to Wulao, to meet him, and to confront Dou Jiande .Others couldn't hide in time, so Li Shimin went up to meet him.

unexpected! The city of Wulao is very special. It was originally called Hulao, and it is adjacent to Suanzao. It is a dangerous military center.The reason why the name was changed to Wulao was because Li Yuan's grandfather had the character for tiger (李虎) in it.Li Shimin can't call Hulao Hulao, he can only find a similar word to replace it.From now on, Hulao is Wulao, Wulao is Hulao, Huya Lang will be equal to Wuya Langjiang, taboo, do you understand (you understand)? It is very reassuring that the confrontation task in Luoyang City has been handed over to Qu Tutong and others. The only thing that is not reassuring is that Comrade Li Yuanji has become the commander-in-chief of the Luoyang general attack.The siege of Luoyang is actually just a game.Wang Shichong will not fight unless he really can't think about it and wants to fight his life with the well-fed Tang Jun.

Li Shimin led the Xuanjia Army and other arms, a total of 3,500 people, and drove from Beimang to Wulao via Heyang.Yes, 3,500 people, going to fight against the 150,000 army.This scene was seen by Wang Shichong, who climbed high and looked far in Luoyang City.On the high platform, Wang Shichong thought to himself, hey, what does this guy want to do?Are you going to take my back, or are you going to find Wang Renze desperately?Wang Shichong couldn't figure out what these thousands of people were doing. What made him even more confused was that these people had been engaged in revolution for nine months, and they were exhausted to death. Seeing that Dou Jiande's army is coming, why don't you hurry up and get out?

Can't figure it out, really can't figure it out.Wang Shichong didn't dare to move, he was afraid, afraid that Li Shimin would be cheated. Soon, Li Shimin put the army in the martial arts prison. The next day, he personally led five hundred elite soldiers to the east (Xia Jun) to investigate the enemy's situation. When he traveled eastward for more than twenty miles from the barracks, Li Shimin thought of something.At this time, he did a very bright thing, ordered Li Shiji, Qin Shubao, and Cheng Yaojin to lead 500 soldiers and horses to hide by the left and right roads, and he led four people to the east to seduce Xia Jun.Li Shimin doesn't take himself seriously because others take him too seriously, he wants to have fun with Dou Jiande.

When Li Shimin was riding three miles away from Dou Jiande's barracks, he happened to meet Xia Jun's wandering brave.If I were Dou Jiande's patrolling soldier, I would be so angry that I would cry out that fate is unfair.Because this group of roaming warriors met Comrade Li Shimin who likes to trick people when they first started patrolling, they were played by Li Shimin. When the rangers saw soldiers dressed differently from themselves and riding handsome tall horses, they decided that they were scouts from the Tang Army, and they muttered to catch these five men.Seeing them discussing things there, Li Shimin shouted with golden eyes: "I am the king of Qin!" As he said, an arrow shot straight at the captain of Youyong, who was killed on the spot.The rest were shocked, shouting the slogan "Hurry up and catch the enemy king" and reported to the camp.After Dou Jiande heard about it, he was shocked. He also heard that there were only four people. No matter how shocked he was, he immediately sent 5,000 troops to chase them down. Ordinarily disturbed Dou Jiande, Li Shimin had to run fast.But Li Shimin was very leisurely, he just smoked a cigarette to calm down, exhale blue smoke rings, and write a poem happily. His subordinates were terrified and asked Li Shimin to withdraw quickly.But Li Shimin waved his hand and said: "Don't be afraid of this, you go first, and Jingde and I will take care of you." I have seen a cow, but I have never seen such a cow!After Li Shimin finished speaking, the rest of them ran back.Yuchi Jingde and Li Shimin walked slowly, chatting and laughing as they walked.They were probably talking about the past between Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, or the agreement they made before they came. Li Shimin said something like this to Da Laohei: "Old Hei, we are together, I shoot arrows, you kill people, even if there are millions of soldiers, we can't do anything to us!" Da Laohei smiled, as if bathing in the sun, feeling Li Shimin very nice.Everyone thinks Li Shimin is good, because Li Shimin cares about affection.Even Xia Jun's soldiers fell in love with Li Shimin, because Li Shimin's head was equal to three consecutive promotions. They caught up. Li Shimin heard a chaotic clatter of horseshoes behind him, ignored him and continued talking with Lao Hei.In an instant, he touched the bow, loaded the arrow, turned around, shot, and killed the enemy leader, then turned his face away, and then talked about ideals with Lao Hei.But there were many chasing soldiers, and a few people took the opportunity to catch up.It was Yuchi Jingde's turn to act, he deliberately waited for one of them to approach, and then Lao Hei took the big spear and hit the head, hitting the soldier's brains to burst.I really don't know how strong Da Lao Hei is, but judging from the results of historical books, the combined force of his two arms should be at least five hundred catties.The force of five hundred catties was applied to the edge of the knife, and then to the forehead, the consequences can be imagined.In a short period of time, Li Shimin shot and killed several people in a row, and Yuchi Jingde killed more than a dozen people in a row. This is not the effect Li Shimin wanted. Li Shimin said to Yuchi Jingde: "Dehei, we can't do this. Let's pretend to be our grandson and hide with our tails for a while, so that they can catch up." Old Hei understood Li Shimin's meaning, so he accepted the order and pretended to run away with Li Shimin. And it's a little slow.This method really worked. Li Shimin, who pretended to be afraid, did arouse the favor of the pursuers. Seeing Li Shimin's distressed expression, they galloped after him and chased him to a forest. Yes, here it is. The 500 elite soldiers of Li Shiji and others waited for a long time, but only three of the five came back. After waiting for a long time, they saw King Qin and Da Laohei running back with a pair of eggs smashed on their faces. excitement.Then, Dou Jiande's soldiers caught up. What are you waiting for... kill! Before the words were finished, several tiger generals rushed up with five hundred elite soldiers.They fought hard with all their strength, Xia Jun was defenseless, defeated and beheaded more than 300 ranks. Dou Jiande lost, but fortunately the loss was very small.Dou Jiande didn't hesitate to withdraw, he didn't know how much Wang Shichong hated him at this time, and hated that he might break the covenant in the future (hard enough).After this battle, the situation only made Xia Jun sober up a little bit, and someone put forward opinions to Dou Jiande. The person who put forward his opinion was named Ling Jing, a scholar. Ling Jing suggested that Dou Jiande should go north instead of wasting time with Li Shimin here.Dou Jiande heard different voices and felt good, so he asked him to continue talking.Ling Jing said: "Your Majesty captured Heyang and Huaizhou and sent heavy troops to guard them. Then they crossed the Taihang Mountains, joined Shangdang, and captured Taiyuan and Pujin. Only then could they defeat the Tang Dynasty. There are three advantages to doing this: first, the Xia army attacked It's easy to go to the uninhabited land in the north; second, you can expand the land and recruit troops to preserve your strength; third, the siege of Luoyang will be relieved after the shock in Guanzhong." Dou Jiande thinks that Ling Jing's words make sense, and he also thinks so Do it.Unfortunately, he is a thin-skinned person. The benevolence and righteousness on the battlefield are for life and death brothers, not for interest groups. Dou Jiande is benevolent and righteous to everyone, and in the end it will be a dead end. Wang Shichong's nephew Wang Wan and special envoy Comrade Sun Anshi learned the news that Dou Jiande was going to withdraw his troops to the north, and they tried to prevent it from happening.So, they came up with a good idea - to go to Dou Jiande's army tent every day to cry for father and mother, so that Dou Jiande could keep his promise.Dou Jiande really couldn't stand the cries of the two dead fathers, and was in a dilemma. At this moment, his subordinates couldn't stand it anymore. Wang Wan and Changsun Anshi knew that emotional attacks must be used to deal with Dou Jiande, but they must be lured with money to deal with Dou Jiande's gang.These generals of Dou Jiande were all born in poverty, and not only could they not enjoy life after they established their careers, they had to follow Dou Jiande to practice strict frugality.If they were given gold and silver at this time, they would definitely accept it.Generals who are open to money will not consider the future of the Xia Kingdom. Wang Wan bribed Dou Jiande's men with all the treasures he brought, and now they are going to speak for the person who gave them the money.The generals said to Dou Jiande in a very righteous tone: "What kind of thing is Ling Jing? What's in the eyes!" They said so and so, righteously and awe-inspiringly, and said a box of good things (just enough). Dou Jiande was originally unwilling to tear up the contract, but once he heard that his subordinates objected, he made up his mind not to break the contract. Dou Jiande said to Ling Jing: "Now our army is in full swing, God help me, I don't want to retreat." Ling Jing was surprised by Dou Jiande's changes, so he argued hard.Ling Jing has a straightforward personality and speaks very excitedly. In the end, Dou Jiande was furious, and he was kicked out.If someone raises an objection at this time, it will only make Dou Jiande even more annoyed.However, there was one person whose opinion he could only listen to patiently.His wife, Cao Shi, told him that she actually agreed with Ling Jing's statement.She urged Dou Jiande to withdraw his troops and develop northward, and also said various benefits.But at the end of the hearing, Dou Jiande heard what his wife meant, and he still let himself be dishonest.So he said: "This is not something you women can understand! Retiring now is a breach of faith, we can't do that!" Well, since Dou Jiande is determined to unite with Wang Shichong, what awaits Li Shimin will be the two most difficult bones.A treacherous and scheming man, a benevolent and righteous hero, together with Wang Shichong's generals in other regions, also poses a huge challenge to the Tang army.Li Shimin's psychological and practical attacks were in full swing, and Li Yuan's side also began to be chaotic.Because the new East Turkic Khan Jieli, who had been silent for a long time, began to make a move against the Tang Dynasty. He inherited the fine tradition of the Chuluo Khan, and he wanted to take advantage of the fire to loot. This is a scene that the Turks have long dreamed of. Wang Renze: My uncle is Emperor Wang Shichong, do you know that? Li Yuan: I feel really sad for your uncle!