Ten thousand cavalry and five thousand internal guards arrived at Sizhuyuan in Hu County before dark. They did not rush to get close to the target. Instead, they first stationed themselves at an air force camp in Hu County and waited patiently for the time to attack.
The 10,000 cavalry were led by Zhuge Qingyun, the tiger general. He was Xi Wanli's general. He was highly skilled in martial arts and led the cavalry to many military exploits.
The five thousand inner guards were led by another deputy commander of the inner guards, Zhao Jingnian. The two deputy commanders of the inner guards, Xie Sen, led 3,000 people and 10,000 cavalry to Fengxian County. Zhao Jingnian was in charge of Hu County.
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Li Chenghua unified command in Chang'an. Once the eight thousand rebels are eliminated in Hu County, she will immediately capture Li Lin's family.
As the time gradually reached the fourth watch, 10,000 cavalry and 5,000 internal guards surrounded the manor.
The reason why we chose the fourth watch time is because the opponent's training ends at the third watch, and the soldiers are very tired, so the fourth watch is the time when they are most asleep, so it is just the right time to start.
In the night, more than twenty men in black climbed over the wall. Immediately, more than a dozen mastiff dogs rushed towards them, roaring. The men in black were well prepared. They raised their crossbows and fired. The poisonous short crossbow arrows shot through instantly.
The bodies of the mastiffs were shot for only a moment, and all the dozen or so mastiffs were shot dead.
More than a dozen men in black jumped into the manor and ran towards the camp in the distance. These men in black were all highly skilled in martial arts and accurate in their arrow skills, and quickly killed all eight sentries.
Without sentries, the manor became an undefended military zone. The gate of the manor was opened, and five thousand internal guard soldiers rushed in, rushing towards the camp area two miles away in darkness.
At this time, the tents caught fire, and the men in black used torches to light one tent after another. The wind took advantage of the fire, and the fire burned rapidly.
The soldiers who were sleeping were woken up one after another, panicked and fled out of the tent.
At this moment, Li Zhen led hundreds of people to kill him. He was seriously injured when the Helong Army attacked Bashu. Everyone thought he was dead.
This time he became the commander of 8,000 men and became even more fierce.
He wielded a sixty-pound iron rod and led three hundred soldiers into the inner guard group. Dozens of inner guards were caught off guard and were knocked over by his iron rod.
Li Zhen shouted, "Everyone pick up weapons and fight them!"
The warriors who came to their senses ran back to get their weapons. At this moment, ten thousand cavalry came from three directions to kill them.
Li Zhan was shocked. He immediately realized that the situation was over, turned his horse's head and fled. He happened to meet Zhuge Qingyun, the tiger general. Zhuge Qingyun used a 40-pound Yanling broadsword, but he was good at using the hidden weapon meteor hammer, and he hit the target with every shot.
, so he was also called General Meteor by the soldiers.
Li Zhan roared and swung the iron rod towards Zhuge Qingyun's face. The attack was extremely fierce. Zhuge Qingyun dodged with his horse and the two horses passed each other. Zhuge Qingyun waved his hand and a meteor chain hammer the size of a child's fist came out.
Brush the ground and hit it out, it's incredibly fast.
Li Zhen was unprepared, "Get down!" The chain hammer hit him in the back of the head. Li Zhen screamed, rolled to the ground, and fainted immediately.
Zhuge Qingyun raised his knife and chopped off Li Zhen's head.
At this time, the 10,000 cavalry were divided into 100 squads, interspersed among the chaotic warrior ranks. Most of the warriors did not carry weapons and were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy. Only Li Zhen's 300 soldiers were still fighting desperately, but not long after.
, were also killed by the cavalry.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the fierce battle was over. These villagers seemed to be well-trained, but in fact they had never been on the battlefield. They were frightened by the bloody killings and fell to the ground shouting to surrender.
Li Ye had ordered that these villagers should not kill but capture them alive, and asked them to explain one by one which manor they were transferred from. They would be the best witnesses.
A group of inner guard cavalry rushed to Chang'an with Li Zhan's head.
Li Ye rested at home for only one day and then came to the official office. There were not many memorials left for him, most of which were reviewed and processed by his wife Dugu Xinyue.
There are only a dozen more important memorials on the table, which must be approved by Li Ye.
The first one is the new city construction budget, which involves a cost of 400,000 guan. The previous estimate was about 300,000 guan, but now it has increased by 100,000 guan, mainly because there are many additional projects.
The second one is Tang Zhidao, which is also the project that Li Ye is most concerned about.
A straight road from Chang'an to Beiting and Anxi is almost three thousand miles long, four times as long as the Qin Straight Road. It is expected to cost two million yuan and take five years to complete.
This is a huge project that Li Ye began to consider when he was appointed as the governor of Helong. The difficulty of the project is not high, but the main problem is that too many people are requisitioned.
But this is not the same as the construction of the Grand Canal and the Great Wall in the Sui Dynasty. Not only did the Sui Dynasty build the Grand Canal for free, but they also had to bring their own dry food and endure extraordinary labor. The people's physical strength could not withstand this kind of labor intensity, so they died.
Very much.
Li Ye's Tang Zhidao was built for a fee, hiring laborers, and using a large amount of animal power, even tens of thousands of elephants, so the human labor intensity was greatly reduced.
The key is that it is of great significance. Once the construction of Tangzhidao is completed, the journey that originally took two or three months will take only one month to reach Anxi. This will of course greatly enhance the imperial court's control over Anxi and Beiting.
So after Li Ye proposed the idea of Tang Zhidao in October last year, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War jointly sent people to investigate along the way and negotiated with the officials along the way. It took more than half a year to finally complete the investigation and come up with a complete plan.
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Li Ye carefully read the memorial. The plan of the memorial was a unified design by the imperial court. The construction was carried out in various states and supervised by the imperial court. The biggest cost was the labor expenditure. According to the standard, the general workers were fifty cash per day and the craftsmen were one hundred cash per day.
Calculating, if twenty people are hired, it will cost 1.2 million gu a year, and there will be a food supply of hundreds of thousands of dan.
If calculated like this, two million guan in five years is simply not enough. At least five million guan is needed.
Li Ye paced back and forth in the official room with his hands behind his hands. He spent five million yuan to build a Tangzhi Road just to reduce the two-month journey to one month. Is this cost-effective?
But then again, the Qin Zhidao at that time was not a dedicated military road. In fact, it was more of a business road and a people's road. It will be the same with Tang Zhidao in the future.
Moreover, Tangzhi Road is not only the road from Chang'an to Anxi, it is also a local road, such as Lanzhou to Weizhou, such as Liangzhou to Ganzhou, etc. This kind of short-distance trip of one or two days will be used more. The original two or three days
A day's journey is compressed into one day.
In addition, this high-level road will greatly promote the development of small towns and counties along the way. No checkpoints or tax offices are allowed to be built along the way, which is simply the greatest blessing for caravans.
'If you want to be rich, build roads first!'
At this moment, Li Ye made up his mind that he must build it. In order for future generations of the imperial court to control the Western Regions, this expressway must be built and put into actual operation as soon as possible.
At this moment, someone at the door reported: "Your Highness, the internal guard Li Dutong is asking for an urgent meeting!"
"It's probably news from Hu County!"
"Send her in!"
After a moment, Li Chenghua hurriedly walked in, bowed and saluted, "I'm sorry to see you, Your Highness!"
"Tell me! What's the news?"
"I received news from Hu County that all eight thousand villagers have been wiped out, and basically all of them were captured alive. In addition, the opponent's leader Li Zhen was killed in the fierce battle, and his head has been sent to the inner guard!"
Li Ye nodded, "What else? News from Fengxian County."
"Your Highness is right. Their target is indeed Qiaoling. The officials guarding Qiaoling were bribed by them. Hundreds of people dug through the passage in Qiaoling. Our men have been closely monitoring the enemy. Once the opponent succeeds, we will dispatch
Arrests."
Li Ye said slowly: "Li Yu must have an army, so he is so eager for money. If the people in Qiaoling want to capture him alive, they must know where the army is?"
"I humbly obey orders!"
Li Ye pondered for a moment and said: "Li Lin can take action, but just touch him. The other clans will not move, as if nothing happened."
Li Chenghua nodded, "Are you going to arrest Li Lin?"
Li Ye shook his head, "Send him on the road with poisonous wine, and all his descendants!"