Chapter 170 There will be no compromise, no concessions
Li Jiancheng's eyes, with sharp eyes, stared at Du Jingtong, and slowly said, "It's no basis for saying it, do you have any evidence?"
Du Jingtong suddenly raised his head, took a deep breath, and said in his voice: "Yes-!"
Li Jiancheng said with a cold face: "Come on."
A general in the hall, holding a package in his hand, slowly walked into the hall.
The general of the station hall slowly opened the package in his hand, revealing a piece of sealed letter. The general of the station hall raised countless seals of letters with both hands.
The eyes of the ministers were involuntarily absorbed by the letter.
Chen Ying looked at the letters and an inadvertent smile appeared on his face.
"Abide by the letter of honor and make brotherly friendship!"
"Life and death are entrusted, good and bad are saved!"
"Good and misfortune depend on each other, and hardship depend on each other!"
"If outsiders mess with my brother, they will be killed if they accept the letter of surrender!"
"If a brother messes with my brother, he will be killed if he accepts the letter of a letter!"
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When the senior officials saw the letter, their faces were pale, their bodies were shaking like sieves, and their sweat was like grout. They wished they could die like Chen Shuda.
These letters are nothing else, they are letters of fame they have accepted to Li Shimin, and they are letters of loyalty they have written to Li Shimin.
You can directly deny the words, but the letters cannot be faked. At that time, the aristocratic families cooperated with Li Shimin, and in order to win the trust of Li Shimin, they did everything they could.
In particular, the truth about the defeat of Longyou Dao slowly surfaced. Not only did Li Daozong surrender to Li Shimin, but he was in charge of the twenty-one states under his command, including Chengzhou, Linzhou, Hezhou, Langzhou, Shanzhou, Shazhou, Wuzhou, Minzhou, Weizhou, and Qinzhou, all of them obeyed Li Daozong's command and turned against him without a single arrow.
Nearly half of the Longyou Dao army was familiar with the detailed information of the Longyou Dao strategic arrangement, and took advantage of the situation and took control of the Longyou Dao without any effort.
What's even more hateful is that they used their power to sell the armored armored warehouse of Longyou Road to the sky, especially the 70,000 troops under Xueyantuo's troops. Almost instantly, they replaced the cannons and obtained the Tang army's standard armored weapons. To make matters worse, the Tang army soldiers in Longyou Road were not even full of equipment, and they used water (setting fire), bandits robbers, or soaking in heavy rain to destroy most of the entire Longyou Road, Guannei Road and other supplies warehouses...
Every word and sentence are like a bolt from the blue, exploded in the Tai Chi Hall, making everyone dizzy and almost unconscious! They also knew that the Tang army was defeated in Longyou and Jiangnan, and Lingnan was defeated in Lingnan, but they did not expect the truth to be so terrifying, it was simply terrifying!
The elders and important officials looked pale. They knew they were finished. If these letters were released, they would be ruined even if they were not torn to pieces by the angry Tang army soldiers! The most important thing is that Chen Ying would never let them go!
how so?
At this time, the officials with some conscience looked at the old and important officials with resentment and hatred. Even though Chen Shuda's head had fallen off, even if he had already turned into a corpse, they wanted to pounce on him immediately, drink his blood, and eat his flesh...
Du Jingtong said slowly: "The thing happened, in fact, this is the case. Under the selfish command of their group of selfish command, our elite troops in the Tang Dynasty sent the strong bows, crossbows, hard bows, armor, horizontal swords, and spears in their hands respectfully to the enemy. The enemy threw away the stinking leather armor and stone-tooth arrows, replaced them with these exquisite equipment, and slaughtered the soldiers and civilians of the Tang Dynasty without restraint. They followed the enemy to take advantage of the situation! Those literati even criticized our soldiers for being too wary and killing, and they could not be kind to their neighbors, slaughtering gentry, and disrespect the scholars, and they really wanted to destroy themselves... Hahaha, is it fun? Are you funny? The soldiers shed so much blood and died, just to guard this territory for the Tang Dynasty, but they were in exchange for the words "self-destruction"?"
Li Jiancheng's face was as cold as water. He was torturing all the ministers: "Why is this happening?"
Wei Zheng also had a headache: "Why is this happening?"
Fang Xuanling's face was also scaryly pale: "Why is this happening?"
Several veteran officials still roared hysterically: "You are talking nonsense and slandering people!"
Chen Ying stepped out and said slowly: "Because they Xiang Zixuan is the master of this world. Since Chen Qun founded the Nine-rank Zhongzheng system, since Emperor Wu of Jin, the emperor has been a puppet in their hands. As long as they are willing, why not Sima Zhong, who eats meat, is dementia and cannot do anything, but can stand out among the twenty-five sons of Emperor Wu of Jin, and pass the numerous assessments of Emperor Wu of Jin, and eventually become the emperor. Since Emperor Yuan of the Eastern Jin was scared to death in the palace, which emperor can truly achieve great power?
?None of them, for the sake of benefit, they could make Emperor Wu of Zhou Yuwen Yong die suddenly, or make the former Sui Crown Prince Yang Yong lose his virtue and lose his position, or support Yang Guang to take office. However, after Yang Guang saw through their hypocritical nature, he began to gradually gather the power in their hands. These shameless people began to overthrow the whole world... They would rather ruin the whole world than make the world do fairly, because they were afraid that Your Majesty would select scholars in the imperial examination, and the poor children would gain the right to speak, and ultimately threaten their status."
At this time, the combat power of the Tang Dynasty soldiers was still extremely powerful, but the sharp claws of the hero were tied tightly and their mouths were sealed. They were almost unable to swing their claws and could not roar.
I believe that the feelings of the Tang army soldiers at this time were as angry, sad and desolate as the Tang army soldiers in the Hexi Corridor after the Tang Dynasty were severely injured more than a hundred years later.
They clearly have such powerful combat power, and no enemy dares to confront them head-on, guarding such a vast land but being powerless, so they can only watch the iron cavalry outside the frontier flooding like a tide, flooding them!
"Kill these traitors! Kill these traitors..."
The censor and the young officials who had suddenly realized the sudden roared in anger, and hundreds of people roared out loud, with horrifying momentum, and the entire Tai Chi Hall was rumbling.
Li Jiancheng raised his hands and pressed down slightly. The officials stopped roaring and stared at them fiercely. As long as Li Jiancheng made a gesture or coughed, they immediately rushed forward and tore the old immortals into pieces!
However, Li Jiancheng did not do this, but stared at Dugu Mou and others with a sharp look and asked coldly: "What else do you have to say?"
Gu Dumu stood up tremblingly and said sternly: "These letters are all fake and fake, and we will never admit them!"
Li Jiancheng's expression changed, his tone calmed down, he turned to look at Wei Zheng and said, "Wei Prime Minister, what do you think?"
Wei Zheng left the squad and bowed and said, "Liu Hongji, Chen Shuda, Dugu Mou, etc., are rebels. The ministers, the ministers, and the subordinates all have the crime of misunderstanding..."
Li Jiancheng said coldly: "Issue an imperial edict to dismiss Chen Shuda, take his title, and the three tribes of Yi, confiscate the property, and confiscate the public. His wife and daughter sent a military official to the Jiaofang Office to sell..."
The ministers in the court looked shocked.
Li Jiancheng continued: "Issued an edict to dismiss Li Daozong, seized his title, and the three tribes of Yi, confiscated the property of the family, and his wife and daughter were sent to the Jiaofang Office to sell the official..."
"Abolish Dugu Mou, seized his title, and the three tribes of Yi, confiscated the property, and his wife and daughter were sent to the Jiaofang Office to sell it!"
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Li Jiancheng seemed to be addicted to raiding his home, and issued 157 imperial edicts one after another, all of which were dismissed from office and title, and the three tribes of the country were searched.
Of course, this is because of a story Chen Ying told him.
There is also a small story in Chen Ying's dream. It is the Ming Dynasty that once had a treacherous minister and a famous minister.
This treacherous minister is Yan Song, and his famous prime minister is Xu Jie.
Out of his own selfish desire, Yan Song killed Xia Yan, the chief assistant who had the kindness of Xu Jie, and killed the loyal general who was loyal to the emperor and the country, and killed the loyal ministers who spoke righteously. He allowed the Tatars to march straight into the border areas, and even once attacked the capital city, causing harm to the country and the people. This was all.
Xu Jie could see all this clearly, but he had been patient and unwilling to speak out. After fifteen years of preparation, he finally overturned this powerful hero in one fell swoop.
Everyone thought he would avenge those who fell in front of him and paved the way for him to win with his life, but he did not. He did not touch Yan Song a hair and asked him to take his grandson home, but killed Yan Song's son and confiscated Yan Song's home, leaving the once traitor who was once a tyrant, who became a beggar. After two years of meal, he died of starvation in the deserted village.
When Li Jiancheng finished listening to this story, he was chilling. Such revenge was really cruel, a hundred times more cruel than directly pursuing the other party Lingchi!
But now, Li Jiancheng has applied this trick to the elders and nobles without hesitation. Only such revenge can make hundreds of thousands of innocent soldiers die in vain and rest in peace.
It should be said that the aristocratic families welcomed Li Shimin's strong return and made sufficient preparations to uproot Li Jiancheng and Chen Ying.
On the one hand, he used this defeat to smear Chen Ying and the Tang army to slam his reputation and try to ruin him; on the other hand, he forced Li Jiancheng to banish Chen Ying's military power;
On the other hand, while fighting in literature, these old guys were also preparing for the fight, mobilizing hundreds of thousands of troops loyal to the aristocratic clans, and also employed more than 100,000 to attack from east to west Yizhou. At this time, the Anxi army was under tremendous pressure. To the west, there were the Sassanian Empire, Byzantine Empire, Western Turks, Gothic Empire and other coalition forces led by Cheng Zhijie, with a total of more than 2 million people.
At this time, the Anxi Army successfully attracted the attention of more than 2.5 million troops from Li Shimin's forces. They firmly believed that such powerful military strength was enough to smash the Anxi Army group like a destruction!
It is really not easy to prepare well and plan carefully, and almost everything is taken into consideration.
Unfortunately, they just took almost everything into consideration, and they could only be almost the same. After all, they were not gods, nor were they Kaishen Gong, and they could not do everything under their control. There were three points that were out of their control.
First, in an era of poor communication, unified command of such a large-scale battle is impossible. Therefore, the entire coalition forces are fighting on their own. There are coalition forces in the snow-capped area of Tubo in rebelling sporadically, and they are almost oppressed by the Anxi Army and survive in various poor mountains and remote areas.
As for the more than 2 million coalition forces of various countries led by Cheng Zhijie launched a crazy attack in the area of 3,000 miles from north to south of the Pamir Mountains. It was a pity that the Pamir Mountains' geographical advantage was too powerful. Only Geluo Ridge, Xiashule and Nankunlun Grand Canyon were able to attack in a large scale. But in these three places, there were solid fortresses built by the Anxi Army, which almost became flesh and blood. Although the rebels attacked wildly, they did not achieve any results except leaving a corpse and consuming a large amount of Tang army's arrows and tincture oil.
Second, they never dreamed that the Anxi Army's logistics supplies were so abundant. When they wanted to kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of casualties, they could also use up the arrows and equipment of the Anxi Army.
However, it is a pity. Anxi of the Tang Dynasty has entered the industrial age and the steam age. For example, in the primitive period, it took thousands of craftsmen to build millions of crossbows and arrows, and they could barely do it.
However, now in Anxi, only a few blast furnaces, dozens of mold casting machines, plus steam grinders, and hundreds of workers can satisfy the consumption of millions of Anxi Tang army every day.
For armor, horizontal knives, crossbows, and even refined tincture oil, the Anxi Army can produce their high-intensity consumption in one month with a one-day production capacity. For the Anxi Army, the biggest difficulty is not production, but transportation.
Even if it is train transportation, manpower is always needed. Now it is impossible to completely mechanize it.
Third, they did not expect that the army loyal to them would be so despicable. Those coalition forces that were temporarily pieced together were even worse than the mobs that were temporarily pulled up by the thirty-six anti-kings and the seventy-two dust smoke at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
When they found that they had paid a heavy price of casualties and could not chew on the defense system of the Anxi Army, they began to stop attacking. They came to make money, not to die! It was fun now. The aristocratic clans urged Cheng Zhijie to open a breakthrough in the West. Cheng Zhijie was also speechless, which could only mean that the Pamir Fortress system is easy to defend and difficult to attack unless the allies make breakthroughs from the East.
This formed a vicious cycle and a dead knot that could not be untied. Both sides blamed each other and quarreled, and they almost broke up.
As the saying goes, we must first settle the country when fighting against foreign countries.
After killing the old stubborn people from the aristocratic clans, General Chen Ying and Chen began to make a brilliant appearance.
The first place to attack was Licheng.
Li Jiancheng's imperial decree was read out outside Licheng City, "Those who are in the same heart as the court go, and those who are not in the same heart as the court take it!"
Luo Shixin, the general of the cavalry sent by Chen Ying, sincerely advised them not to quarrel and to be harmonious. Of course, General Luo was not very eloquent and could not directly agree with these troops and gentry loyal to the aristocratic clans. However, he had a way to let these guys understand the spirit of the court, which was to use horse hooves to open the heads of these guys and let them have a great enlightenment!
Sixteen cavalry regiments of hook and sickle lances, nearly 10,000 cavalry were arranged in a tacit understanding of the cavalry walls of twenty times five hundred, laying flat hook and sickle spears, and rolling forward.
Luo Shixin was still worried about the governor Ye Hufuli Army, who had been in the future for several years. He made a film based on the treatment of the most elite Fuli Army of the Western Turks.
As a result, before the horse's hooves of the cavalry lances stepped onto the other party's corpse, Liu Hongji's army collapsed, and even the "old immortals" invited by the aristocratic clans at a high price were no exception! Faced with the swarm of cavalry walls, these old immortals immediately changed their appearance of death, and ran away, only to regret that their parents had fewer legs.
Su Dingfang and Luo Shixin looked at each other. These guys were nonsense, right? Before I even had a good position, my army collapsed. However, these immortals actually ran so fast and even passed the group of soldiers. This is too unscientific!
No matter how many of these immortals are, these gangs are too cruel. Even Turks are like little white rabbits and good babies in front of them.
This is a big fuck! With their peeing nature, it would be really unscientific if they could muster up the courage to fight such a terrible opponent!
So, they chose to surrender very scientifically.
What awaits them will be labor, labor forever until death, or they will not be able to redeem their sins.
In Licheng, with the help of Luo Shixin, Su Dingfang's troubles were completely solved.
In addition, he brought back Chen Ying's latest instructions and informed the entire army.
In fact, this instruction was that Chen Ying, the General of the Great Sima of the Tang Dynasty, convened a speech by all officers at the 16th guards, Zhaowu, and above the rank of the lieutenant of the 16th guards.
Chen Ying talked in response to the generals: "Soldiers, the Tang Dynasty is facing the most deadly crisis since its founding! Due to the outstanding performance of the aristocratic clans, our initial war was completely defeated. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers fell to our own hands and died with their eyes open. Lingnan has been lost, Jiange is no longer owned by the Tang Dynasty before, the rebels' troops have crossed the Huai River and advanced towards Xuzhou. The Tang Dynasty is in danger. Except for the Sixteen Guards, there is no force in the entire Tang Dynasty that has combat effectiveness!"
The Sixteen Guards Army has been acting as mascots for a long time. Especially the Anxi Army in the west, the Anbei Army in the north, and the Andong Army in the east. For all the war problems, it is not the Sixteen Guards’ turn to take action.
The days of the gentle village of the Sixteen Guards quickly slacked off.
Chen Ying looked at the generals and continued: "I believe that after this time, everyone has realized that there are only two allies in the Tang Dynasty, namely the horizontal sword and horse spear in our hands. We must make all enemies realize that although they have won two battles by chance, the war is not over yet! There will be no more compromises, no more negotiations, no more concessions, or even no power to abstain! Only when we, or one of them, completely falls, will this war be considered over!"
The generals felt their blood boiling, and excited rosy appeared on their faces. Their fists were clenched tightly.
Chen Ying slowly raised his arms and clenched his fists: "I recommend Xuanyuan with my blood!"
Chapter completed!