Chapter 870: Annihilation of a Hundred Thousand Thieves!
Chapter 870 One hundred thousand thieves were wiped out!
"Um?"
Li Yuanchang and other members of the aristocratic family who were standing deep in the mountain forest were stunned when they saw this.
"Is the Tang army about to attack?"
"We are deep in the mountains and forests, and our number is twice as many as theirs. We even have hand-thrown bombs. How dare they attack?"
All the people from the aristocratic families could not help but look shocked and angry.
However, after seeing the cannons exposed behind those shield soldiers, which looked like crouching steel behemoths, the expressions of all the family members changed drastically.
"artillery?"
"Why so many?"
"Haven't all the artillery built by the Tang Dynasty in recent years been installed on steel ships and taken away by Li Shimin?"
"Could it be that the King of Jin removed the artillery on the wall of Chang'an?"
Li Xuan: "..."
Li Yuanchang even saw with his own eyes that a big iron ball hit the head of a member of a family not far away from him. The head of that family member exploded like a cold melon.
If he suddenly goes crazy, he suddenly turns around and attacks Lijiazhuang.
As for Li Yuanchang, he was pinned down by several personal guards and protected tightly.
Faced with such a collapsed enemy army, the 50,000 Tang troops had no intention of killing the enemy and instead shouted directly.
"Farewell to His Royal Highness King Jin..."
"Okay, there are still a lot of things that need to be dealt with by you and the soldiers. Where can you find the time to celebrate?"
If the King of Jin had given the Crown Prince face in this battle, they would have felt strange following the Crown Prince into the city.
Therefore, if there is nothing important these days, I will not come to Chang'an!
If anything happens, the prince can discuss it with Duke Wei, the Prime Minister, the eldest grandson Sikong and others and handle it!"
However, those bombs and arrows seemed to have eyes, and they focused on hitting the group of armored soldiers.
"Everyone dispersed quickly..."
"Uncle Wang, for this great victory, Cheng Qian and others are holding a banquet in the palace to celebrate Uncle Wang and all the soldiers..."
Although above their heads, there were still some branches blocking the way.
then.
"The King of Jin has given an order, and the entire army will attack!"
On both sides, stood a group of ordinary people, at least hundreds of thousands of them.
"Uncle Wang, don't blame me. The people around me were very curious and ran out of the city after hearing the good news. There were even many people from nearby villages who came specially to greet Uncle Wang and the generals. Cheng Qian also
Sorry to drive you away!"
Immediately, they felt a wave of air coming, and the guards on the periphery were shocked, and they flew up.
Regardless of whether they were old soldiers from bankers or soldiers from aristocratic families, all of them were filled with fear.
You can also use the rebellious leaders of the aristocratic families as bait to lure out the hidden rebellious people in the city.
With the circulation of newspapers, the things that had to be said between the King of Jin and His Majesty had already been known to the people of Chang'an City, and even the entire Guanzhong and the Tang Dynasty.
The army of 100,000 thieves will inevitably be defeated.
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, along with hundreds of officials, as well as the people in the city, welcome His Highness the King of Jin on his triumphant return!"
Fang Xiang, eldest grandson Sikong, Wei Guogong and others are all very good at these things.
I learned that there were 100,000 thieves not far from the village.
After saying that, Li Xuan's voice said again, "In a few days, after we have uncovered all those traitors, you can hold a banquet in your East Palace."
"Cheng Qian respectfully sends Uncle Wang off!"
"Good break!"
By the time the bombing was over, the entire mountain forest was littered with limbs and limbs, and it was like a hell on earth.
A group of generals from the Fifth Guards also came over with admiration on their faces.
Therefore, when Li Xuan and others were still five miles away from Mingde Gate in Chang'an City, they saw the darkness outside Mingde Gate.
Outside the forest, Li Xuan snorted coldly and ordered again.
Sure enough, if you walk forward for a while, you will see the dragon flag in front of Mingde Gate!
As for the three rebellious prisoners from aristocratic families, each guard will guard one!
Anyway, for now, Li Chengqian directly guarantees that these five guards are the safest.
As expected, His Highness, Prince Jin, could just let go of such a great victory and go directly back to his village!
Everyone couldn't help but admire him, and at the same time, they felt it was natural.
Hearing what Li Xuan said, Li Chengqian could only nod slowly.
The five-guard army in the arc battle formation rushed directly into the mountains and forests, like making dumplings, using steel shields to surround the 100,000-strong army in a large circle.
All the soldiers subconsciously clenched their weapons, their faces full of alertness.
However, under the cover of 2,000 bombs and 20,000 arrow bombs, no one can escape the bombing range.
In less than half an hour, 80,000 prisoners were escorted by 50,000 troops to Chang'an City.
"Congratulations to Uncle Wang for defeating the rebels and returning triumphantly!"
Originally, the villagers and old soldiers had long wanted to surrender, and seeing that the soldiers guarding them had also been killed, they couldn't care about them. These were brought here by the noble family.
The dealers and soldiers all threw away their swords and guns one by one and surrendered!
Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction, "Don't arrest the three who escaped immediately. Follow them and see if you can induce some rebellion!"
In front of the Mingde Gate, a group of civil and military officials, hundreds of thousands of civilians, and 50,000 soldiers and generals who had just returned from victory saw that the protagonist of this battle, His Highness the King of Jin, had not even entered the city, but was with the Crown Prince.
After His Highness said a few words, he took his bodyguard directly and rode towards Lijiazhuang!
Unfortunately, before Li Yuanchang and the people from the aristocratic families could pass on their orders, the five hundred artillery pieces they could see all shuddered, and as the muzzles spit out a stream of white smoke, they roared one after another.
It just sounded.
at the same time.
The number of people was actually larger than their 50,000-strong army and 80,000 prisoners.
Hearing this, Li Chengqian, Changsun Wuji, Li Jing and others couldn't help but be startled.
"King, be careful!"
After looking for a long time and finding nothing, Ma Xi narrowed his eyes and shouted: "Release the dogs!"
Li Xuan snorted coldly with a look of disgust, and asked again: "How many of those aristocratic families can be caught for being rebellious?"
Deep in the mountains and forests, the entire 100,000-strong army, especially the places where the armored soldiers were concentrated, were directly blown to pieces by bombs, and their bodies were scattered in all directions, as if the world was at the end of the world.
In this regard, although the dead soldiers of the aristocratic families who were still resisting desperately were very angry about this, there were only a few armored soldiers who could draw swords to kill people. The remaining armored soldiers were either taken care of by the five guards, or were taken care of by the bankers and old men around them.
The soldiers swarmed forward and were unable to move!
At this point, the mighty 100,000-strong army, which carried the greatest hope of rebellion from all the aristocratic families, was defeated and captured by Li Xuan's 50,000-strong army within an hour!
"Your Majesty, the King of Han has been found! However, a group of King Han's personal guards were pressed under him. He seemed to have been injured by an explosion, and one of his legs was broken!"
"Send the order, all troops attack!"
"Chengqian, thank you Uncle Wang for your teaching!"
Li Xuan basically didn't need to worry about the rest of the matter. Those generals were much more professional than Li Xuan.
Under the banner were the crown prince Li Chengqian, Sikong Chang Sun Wuji, Zuo Pu Shefang Xuanling, Wei Guogong Li Jing, and hundreds of officials in the court.
Suddenly, when passing by the field, a group of small dogs barked at the field, and each one stood upright, trying to break free from the rope around its neck and rush forward.
Maxi was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, and the whole village was immediately on alert. All the guards, old soldiers, and dealers directly put on steel armor, held swords and guns, and used all their hands to throw bombs, arrows, and bombs to guard behind the village wall.
"Also, we and I, the Fifth Guards Erlang, only suffered less than 500 casualties in this battle!"
However, regarding the excited expressions of Li Chengqian and Changsun Wuji, Li Xuan did not make a fuss about it by asking, he just dismounted and had a polite conversation with Li Chengqian.
"Okay, it's getting late, so I'm going back to the village. Although I've wiped out all the 100,000 rebels, a few people from aristocratic families have escaped. I've also sent school captains to chase them.
take.
When the army was still one mile away from Mingde Gate, Prince Li Chengqian, Sikong Chang Sun Wuji, Zuopu Shefang Xuanling and others came directly towards Li Xuan.
Li Xuan said with satisfaction.
"Back to the King of Jin, four members of the rebellious family were killed by the bombing, three were captured, and it seems that three more escaped. We are pursuing them with all our strength!" the school captain reported.
As soon as they walked a few steps away, Li Yuanchang and several personal guards heard a roar in their ears.
"Very good!"
Li Xuan didn't worry about this. When he saw Li Chengqian, he was already thinking about going back to Lijiazhuang.
Maxi and the guards immediately became alert.
He couldn't help but be nervous, there were 100,000 rebels.
"Woof woof~"
Unless these five thousand people are all kings of their own family, perhaps brave men like Pingyang Hou, otherwise if five thousand people are to fight against one hundred thousand people, there is no suspense. If they can resist for half an hour at most, they will definitely lose!
It wasn't until they heard the familiar roars not far away that everyone in Maxi and Lijiazhuang slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
After King Jin and the others were no longer visible, Li Chengqian, Li Jing and others quickly summoned the five generals, separated the 80,000 prisoners, and each escorted more than 10,000 prisoners to their respective bases.
In fact, when the Thunder Army was bombarded by 500 artillery pieces, Li Chengqian, Li Jing and others stood on the tower of Mingde Gate and looked outside the city with worried faces.
"No problem!"
"Boom boom boom~"
"Uncle Wang..."
However, I am worried that those rebellious people still have back-ups around Chang'an City. Seeing that the situation is over, it would be a bad idea to attack Zhuangzi, the king, just to vent his anger.
Suddenly, war drums thundered and war flags flew.
He led his troops out of the city at noon, but killed a group of rebel troops in the forest twenty miles outside Chang'an City, and returned in the afternoon.
"Yes, His Highness King Jin!"
In Lijiazhuang, after Li Xuan led an army of 50,000 people out of the city to attack the 100,000 bandit army, he sent two personal guards to notify Ma Xi, who was staying in the village.
The march of more than 20 miles took less than half a day. Is this considered a triumphant return?
In this era, most of the battlefields were about killing a thousand enemies and suffering eight hundred losses. When an army of fifty thousand faced one hundred thousand enemy troops with less than five hundred casualties, it was possible for all generals to achieve such results.
Things that are unthinkable.
"The King of Jin has an order not to kill anyone who surrenders..."
Before Li Chengqian could finish speaking, Li Xuan shook his head.
However, in order to prevent the defeated bandit army from escaping to Lijiazhuang, Maxi began to send out scouts again.
It's already getting late now, I have to rush back to Zhuangzi before it gets dark, so I won't stay any longer!"
"To inform the King of Jin, this time we killed more than 10,000 people in the 100,000-strong army, and more than 5,000 people were killed by us because of resistance. In addition, there were more than 2,000 soldiers from aristocratic families who were killed by those aristocratic families.
The bankers and old soldiers who came here were killed.
The faces of the guards beside Li Yuanchang changed greatly. They took out their shields and ran away from Li Yuanchang, whose legs were weak from fear.
At this time, everyone in Maxi and Lijiazhuang truly relaxed.
Hearing this, all the soldiers felt relieved.
As for whether we can fish out the rebellious people around us, I don't know yet.
In addition, the prince still needs to send people to interrogate those families who have been caught as traitors.
Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment, and then he bowed his hands to Li Xuan respectfully.
The captain looked happy, bowed quickly, and ran away.
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
All the generals and commanders quickly bowed their hands in salute.
And in Chang'an City, there are countless good people guarding the city gate.
They couldn't help but raise their heads, and saw huge black iron arrows and white smoke arrows falling among their army.
Li Chengqian said embarrassedly.
As long as the king leads an army of 50,000 to capture the 100,000 thieves, they will have nothing to worry about!
At this time, the cavalry rushed over from the city gate and shouted at the same time.
"I believe soldiers have reported all the results of this battle to you. However, the prince still needs to send people to bury those corpses in the mountains and forests outside the city.
"There are only a hundred thousand thieves, and they are not worthy of coming out of the city to greet the prince in such a formation!"
"snort!"
All dealers take off their armor, throw bombs from their hands, and return arrow bombs to their warehouses!
However, Maxi still brought a group of personal guards and slender dogs to search for the village, fearing that a thief would slip in.
Outside the forest, a school captain walked over quickly and reported to Li Xuan.
It wasn't until half an hour later that a scout reported that his king had completely wiped out the 100,000 bandit army, killed 20,000, and captured 80,000. In the end, only a few hundred people of the 100,000 army had escaped.
"Congratulations to His Highness, Prince Jin, for defeating the rebels and returning in triumph..."
at the same time.
The 100,000 thieves who had never encountered such a situation were so frightened that they ran around like headless flies.
"Everyone back off!"
However, Li Yuanchang could still feel the ground shaking.
After a while.
"Boom boom boom..."
"The King of Jin has an order not to kill anyone who surrenders!"
"Sweep the battlefield quickly and send someone to report the victory to the prince. Then, escort all the prisoners back to Chang'an. Keep an eye on those rebellious families and not allow them to commit suicide. After returning to Chang'an, hand them over to the prince for interrogation!"
Your Jin King, Li Xuan, has just led an army of 50,000 to win such a huge victory. Before you even enter the city, you are going to abandon the army and run away?
With this kind of victory, all the generals and commanders were filled with joy.
In this battle, we captured more than 80,000 people!"
"yes!"
As the guards untied the ropes from the thin dogs' necks one by one, dozens of thin dogs jumped directly into the fields and ran away.
However, before the thin dog could run a few steps away, several figures emerged from the fields in the distance and ran quickly into the distance.