Qin Hao, who received the system prompt, had arrived in Luoyang, but his return journey was not simple.
Qin Hao's original route back to Luoyang should have been to enter Jizhou, pass through Wei County, go west to Hedong, cross the Yellow River in the south, and finally arrive in Luoyang.
But before Qin Hao left Youzhou and reached the border of Jizhou in Jiangu, he received a secret message from Heibingtai.
The Shu and Chu spies lurking in Jizhou secretly contacted some Hebei aristocratic families, as well as martial arts sects such as the Songshan Sect, the Yellow River Gang, and the Iron Palm Gang, and prepared to intercept Qin Hao on his way back to Luoyang.
Liu Xie is dead, and there is no one who can restrain Qin Hao in the end. Qin Hao will definitely stand on his own behalf for the Han Dynasty when he returns to Luoyang.
As clan members of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu and Liu Ji could not remain indifferent to this, but there was no way to stop Qin Hao. They could only move dangerously and use all the forces lurking in the Qin State to intercept and kill him.
Shu and Chu thought they had a very secret plan, but they didn't know that all their actions were in the eyes of Heibingtai from beginning to end, and Qin Hao changed his route back to Luo.
This assassination not only involved the Jizhou family and martial arts sects, but also involved forces from other countries, but it was still not taken seriously by Qin Hao.
Although Qin Hao returned to Luo this time with light armor and few guards, Lu Bu and Sun Lingming were there. With just the two of them, they were able to kill all the people involved in the interception.
But considering the situation in Luoyang, Qin Hao didn't want to be delayed too much on the way, so he agreed to change the route halfway and go west, passing Daijun, entering Yanmen, and then all the way south, crossing the Yellow River and returning to Luoyang.
At the same time, there was another team disguised as Qin Hao and his party, and continued to return to Luoyang through Jizhou. The purpose was naturally to lure the snake out of its hole and then annihilate it in one fell swoop.
After entering Jizhou, this team had a smooth journey without encountering any crisis. However, just when they were about to enter Wei County, they were attacked by three thousand bandits.
These Hebei aristocratic families and martial arts sects did not dare to blatantly intercept and kill Qin Hao, so they pretended to be bandits as a cover. However, there were a large number of first-class masters among them, and there were also a few super first-class masters, and there were even five grandmasters. Obviously
It can't be bandits.
This interception was destined to be impossible to succeed, and the fate of those who participated in the interception was also destined to be miserable.
After the forces involved in the interception and killing were exposed, Tian Feng, the governor of Julu, Jushou, the governor of Qinghe, Wen Zhong, the governor of Zhaojun, and the governor of the three counties personally came to the county soldiers to surround the opponent and cut off all the opponent's escape routes.
In addition, Black Ice Platform dispatched a grand master, two half-step grand masters, ten masters, and dozens of first-class swordsmen to assist Tian Feng Jushu and others in the encirclement and suppression.
In the end, all the three thousand rebels who participated in the siege died under the siege of the Qin army. The Jianghu people headed by Zuo Lengchan were also killed by Heibingtai.
But not only has this storm not ended, but it has just begun.
After the siege was over, Tian Feng Jushu and other talents returned with their troops and launched a purge across the entire Jizhou. They labeled all the families and sects involved in the siege as traitors and directly sent troops to attack them.
Black Ice Platform provides a list of names and the corpses of participants as a means of fighting, so there is no case of wrongful killing or injustice.
In order to intercept and kill Qin Hao, these rebel forces have mobilized all their forces, and now they have no resistance at all in the face of the Qin army's encirclement and suppression.
In just three days, the nine counties of Jizhou were filled with mourning.
Twenty-three large and small families, including the Anping Yuan family, Jinan Zhang family, and Bohai Yan family, and twenty-seven large and small sects, including the Songshan Clan, the Yellow River Clan, and the Tie Zhang Clan. A total of thousands of people were arrested, and there were also related
Two thousand people were implicated.
In the end, Tian Feng executed 1,300 people for rebellion, and demoted the remaining people into slaves. The men were sent to Bingzhou to mine, and the women were reduced to official chickens.
From then on, the black and white roads in Jizhou were clear and clear, and there were no longer any anti-Qin forces.
Back to the topic.
After Qin Hao secretly returned to Luoyang, he discovered that he had underestimated the damage done to Sizhou by the Tang army.
After crossing the Yellow River, Qin Hao headed south and found that a large number of fertile fields had been destroyed, most of the inns he had worked so hard to build had been burned down, and the factories built outside Luoyang had been evacuated.
As for the imperial capital of Luoyang, it was even worse. Not only was it besieged by Li and Tang's army for more than a month, but the imperial party even launched a direct rebellion.
This also triggered a battle between the fourteen great masters and a group of master masters in the city.
This was the battle with the largest number of experts so far. It directly destroyed nearly one-third of the buildings in Luoyang City, and thousands of people died as a result.
After the war, even though the government tried its best to provide disaster relief and help people rebuild their homes, many people are still living in tents to this day.
The Tang army's attack on Sizhou this time did not cause too many casualties, but it caused great losses to Sizhou's agents.
Qin Hao's preliminary estimate is that Sizhou's grain harvest this year will be reduced by at least half. As for taxes, don't even think about it. All of them may not be enough for disaster relief.
If Sizhou wants to completely recover from his trauma, he may have to recuperate for a while.
"The four kingdoms of Shu, Chu, Tang, and Sui jointly sent troops, but all three kingdoms returned without success. Only Tang State inflicted heavy losses on Qin State. Li Shimin is indeed my king's great enemy."
Qin Hao sneered, thinking about how to get back revenge, because just after returning to Luoyang, he received news that Li Jing had captured Wuguan in a sneak attack.
After the Battle of Sizhou, the offensive and defensive relations between the Qin and Tang Dynasties were reversed. Li Jing ordered Zhang Liao to lead the army to suppress Tongguan openly, but secretly led his elite troops and generals to surprise Wuguan.
Li Shimin was focused on defending Tongguan, but he did not expect that Li Jing would sneak attack Wuguan. His defense of Wuguan was slightly lax, and Li Jing successfully attacked Wuguan.
When he learned that Wuguan was lost, Li Shimin was immediately shocked and quickly mobilized his troops, hoping to take advantage of the Qin army's unstable foothold to retake Wuguan.
But with Li Jing personally guarding Wuguan, how could it be so easy to seize?
Moreover, with the restraint of Zhang Liao's army, the Tang army could not spare many troops to attack Wuguan.
In the end, after a fierce attack to no avail, Li Shimin finally chose to give up, and instead deployed heavy troops to guard Lantian County after Wuguan, and rebuilt the long-abandoned Aoguan Pass to block the Qin army's route from Wuguan to Guanzhong.
It has to be said that although Li Shimin's attack on Sizhou caused considerable losses to the Qin army, his own losses were also considerable.
Of the 150,000 invading Tang troops, only 80,000 returned to Guanzhong, and 70,000 elite soldiers died in Sizhou. Not only did they not gain an inch of land, but they also lost their gateway to Wuguan, which was a heavy loss.
In contrast, the Qin army successfully completed the great cause of unifying Hebei and added tens of millions of people. Once it is absorbed, the national power will skyrocket to a terrifying level.
The Tang State suffered heavy losses and lost no territory, while the Qin State gained two and a half new states. As one goes and the other goes, the gap in national power will become wider and wider.