Chapter 34 Er Feng pushed all the way to Luoyang. Zhang Xun: What are you doing to me?
Yin Ziqi must die, but Li Shimin wanted Zhang Xun to kill him even more.
It was because he had already learned from the sky that in the Tang Dynasty without him, on the day Suiyang City was broken, three thousand iron-blooded soldiers fought and died.
After being captured, Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan, Nan Jiyun and others refused to surrender to the enemy and would rather die than surrender, and died heroically.
[Legend has it that Lei Wanchun was once shot by six arrows while defending a city, but he still stood firm, his body covered in blood.
The enemy even thought he was a puppet, but when they finally discovered he was a living person, they all called him the God of War.
Therefore, Zhang Xun should kill Yin Ziqi and avenge all the soldiers and civilians in Suiyang City!
Li Shimin also planned this, and Zhang Xun and others were also very happy when they heard that a large army was coming.
Nan Jiyun was even more forthright:
"That's great! What are we waiting for? Get ready to leave town, damn it!"
Xu Yuan covered Nan Jiyun's mouth with his hand, and Zhang Xun hurriedly apologized to Li Shimin:
"Jiyun, don't be rude in front of His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan!"
"That's fine, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty should have this kind of unstoppable and invincible momentum!
Jiyun's words are exactly what I want!"
"Did you hear that? His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan is praising me! Sir Xu, please let me go!"
Nan Jiyun broke free from Xu Yuan's hand and glared back, then laughed at Li Shimin.
The King of Yan has a good eye for talent. Unlike Xu Yuan, that pedantic scholar, why would he care about etiquette during a war?
Xu Yuan's mouth twitched, he wanted to say that His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan had a good temper, could you, a gangster, please show some respect now?
However, Nan Jiyun didn't even look at him. He chased after Prince Yan and asked when they would go out of the city for a decisive battle. He also approached Li Shimin and said that he would definitely cut off Yin Ziqi's head.
"The army has just arrived and is exhausted. They should rest for the next few days and not fight.
Moreover, our Suiyang City is as solid as a rock, which is just the right place to wear down the enemy's fighting spirit."
Li Shimin has always had a keen eye for strategy. All the generals listened to Li Shimin's arrangements and analysis, and nodded in agreement, convinced.
No wonder His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan was able to defend Chang'an single-handedly at that time.
Now it seems that the Prince of Yan is not only capable of fighting on the battlefield but also of strategizing. If he were not a prince of noble birth, he would be a legendary general whose name will be recorded in history!
Li Shimin ordered part of the army to sneak into the city under the cover of night, while the other part was divided into groups of several thousand people and scattered far away around Suiyang City to avoid being discovered by Yin Ziqi's scouts.
However, since the food in Suiyang City was exhausted and almost all the military horses were killed, even if the cavalry brought by Li Shimin could spare some horses, the number would still be insufficient for the decisive battle.
Therefore, Li Shimin decided that the army should stay put for a few days to recuperate, and sent out a small group of cavalry to harass the enemy and steal some horses.
“When I was fighting General Li Guangbi in Taiyuan, General Li used mares to cause a commotion among the stallions.
Perhaps we could take a few pregnant mares with us on our way out of town?"
Li Shimin wanted to follow suit. Although most of the opponent's horses were castrated colts, there were also some stallions, right?
[Oh, there's no need to go through so much trouble. It's hard to find a mare in heat over there. Let's use modern technology - information biomimetic!
Apply it directly to the horses you ride, and I guarantee that the stallions will immediately become horny and run over to you when they smell it.
By the way, you all have to ride castrated horses, lest your own horses go crazy first.]
Most of the Tang Dynasty's war horses were castrated, so Li Shimin quickly recruited two biology doctors to help.
Soon, two people, a man and a woman, wearing white coats and glasses appeared.
The two men shook hands with Li Shimin very excitedly and asked him to sign their white clothes. Then they took out a new type of feed to feed the horses in front of Li Shimin and applied scent on the horses.
Li Shimin couldn't smell any difference, but the female doctor Zhao Yuan quickly explained:
"The feed contains hormones and equine estrogen, which can secrete glandular odors.
Odorogens are more direct and can directly simulate the smell of a mare in estrus, providing double protection!
Don't worry, Master Erfeng, I guarantee your warhorse will become a succubus among horses!"
[What kind of horse succubus? Hahaha, it feels like putting a delicate and beautiful omega in heat among a group of alphas. I'm looking forward to it!]
[I suddenly felt like reading this! Which lady can write something about eating cars?]
Li Shimin: ...? What kind of weird hobby is this for modern people?
Li Shimin didn't understand, so he continued to do what he was good at.
He mounted his horse and led hundreds of cavalrymen including Lei Wanchun and Nan Jiyun out of the city to harass the enemy troops.
It was afternoon at this time, and Yin Ziqi's vanguard troops were making a fire, cooking, and resting. Since there was no progress in the siege in the morning, the soldiers were very tired and hungry.
At this time, the gate of Suiyang City suddenly opened, and Li Shimin rushed up first on a war horse.
"Your Highness, let me lead the way for you!"
Nan Jiyun was excited and full of pride as he went out of the city to fight alongside the King of Yan for the first time.
However, he had just finished saying this when he looked up again and saw that Li Shimin was already dozens of feet away from him and had rushed into the enemy army first.
Nan Jiyun: ………?
When they fought side by side with Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan before, although these two also went out of the city to kill the enemy, they were civil servants with weak combat effectiveness and would not rush out first.
Prince Yan...he really gets involved when something happens!
Nan Jiyun suddenly became anxious and hurriedly rode his horse to chase after him:
"Your Highness Prince Yan, please wait for me. Lei Wanchun, don't just stand there, hurry up and chase after him!"
King Yan, please wait a moment and let me cover you. Don't rush too fast or we won't be able to catch up with you. Can you please slow down?
Nan Jiyun and Lei Wanchun hurriedly chased Li Shimin all the way, and the enemy army was instantly thrown into disarray. The generals ordered everyone to put on armor and meet the enemy.
Seeing that Li Shimin only brought a few hundred people out of the city, the enemy generals were eager to try.
With such a great head right before your eyes, who can resist?
Soon, Yin Ziqi ordered the cavalry to capture Li Shimin alive, and thousands of cavalry rushed forward with thousands of horses.
Seeing this, Li Shimin did not want to fight anymore and walked around the horses from a distance. Suddenly, one or two percent of the horses smelled the scent and ran towards the horses of Li Shimin and others.
Li Shimin immediately rode away, but the enemy's horses kept chasing him.
The rebel cavalrymen tried to pull the horses to control the direction, but the horses, controlled by the mare's scent, ignored them.
He knocked the person over with a few moves, kicked him a few times, and then ran after Li Shimin's horse.
A group of horses sniffed the butts of Li Shimin and others, looking intoxicated, obsessed and in love. There were even shameless stallions that stuck out their tongues to lick the horses' butts.
The horses of Li Shimin and others were so frightened that they fled desperately into the city, fearing that they would be caught up by the large group of stallions behind them.
[Haha ...
Imagine you were a eunuch, and suddenly you became an omega. Then a group of ministers, who usually treated you like brothers, surrounded you, kissed and hugged you, and said with an intoxicated look on their faces, "Brother, you smell so good!"
Ahahahahahahaha! There's a picture!
But you won't believe it, this actually happened! During the Ming Dynasty, there was a very handsome eunuch named Feng Quan. Because the Donglin Party and the Dongchang were already at odds, a member of the Donglin Party publicly raped this eunuch in court.
While taking off his bitter tea, he righteously whipped him, saying that he was ridding the country of a scourge, while openly doing something else, leaving the entire court stunned!
[Fuck, brother, your wild history is really exciting! ]
[This isn't anecdotal evidence; it's a true story, documented! Oh my god, this really left me stunned.]
【! ??? Official history is even wilder than unofficial history! This kind of writing in fiction is so outrageous that it's hard to say for sure!
When it comes to abstraction, it has to be the ancients! 】
The sky curtain looked quite abstract, and at this time, after Li Shimin returned to the city, the stallions in front of him were all on top of their eunuch horses, and they could not be separated at all, which stunned everyone in the Tang Dynasty.
[Hahaha, this wave is about war horses sacrificing themselves for the country.
Sacrifice one horse, and the whole city will be happy! 】
Although the scene before us is a bit hard to describe, this trip was quite fruitful, and we brought back more than 100 stallions from the enemy.
Li Shimin waved his hand and immediately ordered the horses to be separated, cleaned and deodorized, and then found skilled craftsmen to castrate all the horses.
As expected, castrated horses are more obedient. They only know how to eat and sleep and will not be tempted by the beauty of the mares!
Seeing that this trick worked, Li Shimin did the same thing again in the next few days and retrieved hundreds of enemy war horses. This made Yin Ziqi so angry that he was jumping up and down, but he could do nothing about it.
The newly acquired horse had just been castrated and was in so much pain that it had to walk with its hind legs spread apart. It would take a few days to recover. Li Shimin had spent the past few days preparing his army for war, and watching these modern people dancing on the city wall at night.
At first, the screen at night was colorful and full of strange patterns, but at least it was normal.
These days, when Li Shimin was patrolling at night, he saw a large green screen suddenly appear on the sky, with a tabby cat in the middle spinning back and forth rapidly.
The singing also changed from the cheerful but unclear lyrics of modern people to "o oii".
Li Shimin: ???
What the hell is going on?
"No seriously, could you guys please play some normal dance music?
In my Tang Dynasty, Li Bai's poems were popular in music. You modern people should also have popular music, right? "
[Huh? But we’re popular with “oi” and this cat right now!]
Many shopping malls in major cities display this during holidays! It perfectly fits the festive atmosphere. Erfeng, we're putting this up to cheer you on!
Li Shimin: ???
Zhang Xun, Xu Yuan and others looked at the rapidly spinning cat in the sky and the modern people dancing happily with their heads shaking. They didn't even eat the compressed biscuits in their hands, but stared with their mouths wide open, stunned.
Nan Jiyun also widened his eyes, and after a long while he sighed:
"Oh my goodness, I finally understand why His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan didn't allow these people to participate in the war!"
After hearing this, Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan immediately nodded, saying that the Prince of Yan was wise.
That's right. If these people were to go to the battlefield, they would not only give away their heads to the enemy, but also scare their own people into going crazy!
When are these people going to have their brains looked at by a doctor? They're all so mad and weird, so pitiful!
As everyone listened to the "oi" sound of the cat spinning every night, all the stallions that were seduced by the mares were sterilized, and the physical and mental trauma after sterilization was also healed.
The army has also been well reorganized. The 3,000 defenders in the city have been well fed and well-drinking every day recently and have returned to their best condition.
So Li Shimin secretly made a plan for a decisive battle.
Li Shimin first secretly spread the news that he did not lead an army of 30,000, and that the army had long been gathered by Li Heng, who took away the military power and marched north to support Luoyang.
When this news reached Yin Ziqi's ears, he immediately slammed the table in anger:
"Sure enough! This Prince of Yan is just a silver spear and wax head! I thought he had a large army lying in ambush, but it turns out it was all bluffing!
Watch for him. If he leaves the city again in the next few days, I will personally lead the army and take his head!"
After several days of siege without success, the army was exhausted and morale was low. Yin Ziqi thought that if he could capture Li Shimin and several generals from the enemy city alive, he could then use them as hostages to force his way through the gates of Suiyang City.
At nightfall, Li Shimin led his troops out of the city with several hundred cavalrymen, seemingly intending to plunder the rebels' horses as he had done in the previous few days.
Yin Ziqi had already made preparations. When he saw Li Shimin and his cavalry unit engaged in a fight, he immediately led an army of nearly 60,000 to surround Li Shimin.
Li Shimin was defeated and wanted to retreat, but 20,000 rebel cavalry rushed out from the nearby woods and surrounded him from front and back.
However, just as Yin Ziqi's army was fully deployed, shouts of killing suddenly came from behind. It turned out that Li Shimin's 30,000 troops had arrived and surrounded Yin Ziqi's army from behind.
Li Shimin's 3,000 elite armored cavalry also rushed into the enemy's formation to cover Li Shimin's breakout.
On the wall of Suiyang, a group of soldiers drew their bows and arrows and shot at the enemy continuously. After each wave of arrows, a row of enemy soldiers fell down.
Yin Ziqi knew that he had fallen into a trap, but there was no way to retreat at this time. He could only immediately organize his troops to meet the enemy and try to behead Yan Wang Li Shimin to intimidate Suiyang City.
He ordered a group of cavalry to narrow the encirclement and strangle Li Shimin's heavily armored army.
However, he did not expect that the 3,000 cavalrymen led by Li Shimin were so well-trained and as agile as loaches.
When they saw a gap in the enemy camp, they would rush out with Li Shimin, and for a while they had no way to deal with Li Shimin.
Li Shimin led his heavily armored cavalry to charge out of the enemy's cavalry camp, and then led his troops to charge into the infantry camp.
Lei Wanchun, Nan Jiyun and others behind him became extremely anxious when they saw this. They were so angry that they were afraid that something might happen to Li Shimin, so they rushed into the enemy army desperately.
The rebels had not expected to be suddenly caught up in a large-scale melee. They were already exhausted and their morale was low. When they met the enemy, they rushed towards them recklessly. They were all terrified and were killed in chaos for a while.
Zhang Xun had just seen Li Shimin surrounded. Although he knew it was the Prince of Yan's plan, he was also extremely anxious. Seeing that the battle situation was tense, he immediately led his troops to break out and protect His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan.
Zhang Xun and his soldiers finally fought their way into the enemy's cavalry camp. When he looked up, he saw that Li Shimin had already rushed into the enemy's infantry camp.
Zhang Xun: ………?
Zhang Xun almost couldn't breathe, and his eyes went dark. He could only raise his Mo Dao and shout, leading his soldiers to chop the enemy's horses while charging into the enemy's infantry camp.
[Hahahaha, my hardworking 996 boss and his overworked subordinates?
Screenshot of Zhang Xun's tired expression pack! 】
Zhang Xun was chasing from behind, and Li Shimin was flying in front.
While Yin Ziqi was trying to organize the chaotic formation, Li Shimin had already rushed to Yin Ziqi. After a few blows, Li Shimin quickly knocked the weapon out of Yin Ziqi's hand and stabbed him several times.
Then he thought it would be better to let Zhang Xun kill this man.
"I surrender! I surrender!"
Yin Ziqi had been stabbed several times and had lost his will to fight. He knew that the King of Yan never killed those who surrendered, so he was about to raise his hands in surrender when he was suddenly grabbed by Li Shimin, who covered his mouth with blood.
Li Shimin ignored his shouting, suppressed his voice, and shouted at Zhang Xun:
"Master Zhang, come and kill the bandit quickly. The head is yours!
This thief is abominable. He refuses to surrender. Come and chop off his head!"
Yin Ziqi: ………?
Zhang Xun: ...?
Zhang Xun had actually heard Yin Ziqi shouting surrender, but since the King of Yan said so, he naturally pretended to be selectively deaf, and then rushed up without saying a word and chopped off Yin Ziqi's head.
Li Shimin and Zhang Xun then immediately shouted, "The enemy general is dead, everyone surrender!"
The soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered in panic.
Since Yin Ziqi's army was not stationed in the city, but instead divided its troops to attack reinforcements and set up camp in the wild, the rebel forces in the nearby Yongqiu and Chenliu cities were very weak.
Li Shimin immediately ordered Lei Wanchun and others to take the heads of the rebel generals and quickly recapture the two cities.
The main force of the rebels had surrendered. Seeing that the situation was not good, Linghu Chao fled north with more than 10,000 cavalrymen under his command.
Upon seeing this, Li Shimin immediately led his cavalry to pursue.
Zhang Xun wanted to catch up and persuade the King of Yan to "not pursue a desperate enemy", but Li Shimin said that the enemy had no backup plan and if they did not pursue them now, they would miss the opportunity.
Zhang Xun was persuaded, so he led the soldiers around him to follow Li Shimin in pursuit.
Several people led their troops to pursue the enemy all the way to the northwest, day and night, from Chenliu and Yongqiu all the way to Sishui.
Li Shimin accelerated forward to cut off Linghu Chao's path, while Zhang Xun blocked him from behind.
Seeing that he was surrounded from both sides, and that Li Shimin was waiting for him in front with a bright look on his face, Linghu Chao finally gave up resistance, sighed, and surrendered.
Soon, Li Shimin captured all of the enemy's more than 10,000 cavalry. Linghu Chao was brought before the two men. He smiled wryly and said:
"As a fellow Tang Dynasty county magistrate, I was forced to surrender to the enemy simply to save my family's lives. The situation was such that I had no other choice."
Zhang Xun sneered and was about to say something to the King of Yan, but Li Shimin knew what was going on and ignored his pitiful words.
"If you surrendered to the enemy simply to protect your family and the people of the city, I wouldn't blame you.
But after you defected to the enemy, you became a general and led your troops to attack Suiyang City repeatedly. It is clear that you are just a fence-sitter, pursuing your own power and ambition. How can you be innocent?
Li Shimin quickly ordered his men to tie him up and bring him back to the court for questioning.
Zhang Xun breathed a sigh of relief, drank a sip of water despite being exhausted, and then looked around, wondering where they were now.
At this time, in Si Shui City, Gao Shi, who had been appointed as the governor, was leading his troops to besiege Luoyang.
Gao Shi soon heard that there seemed to be a battle outside the city, so he immediately led his troops out of the city. He was surprised to see his old acquaintance, His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan, and stepped forward to ask:
"Your Highness, Prince of Yan, weren't you ordered to go to Huainan to quell Prince Yong's rebellion? Why are you suddenly in Luoyang at this time?"
[Ahahahahahahahaha, Li Shimin clearly chased me all the way from Shangqiu in southern Henan to the city of Luoyang! Isn't this a coincidence?
Now that you're here, don't leave. Why not visit Luoyang before heading back? It'll save you an extra trip and save you money on travel expenses.
Only at this moment did Zhang Xun realize that he had fought all the way to the city of Luoyang!
But that's not right. Wasn't he originally advising Li Shimin not to pursue the desperate enemy? How did he end up chasing from Suiyang City to An Qingxu?
How on earth did he get here?
Zhang Xun thought about it, his mind still a little dazed.
Li Shimin also just realized that he had arrived at Sishui City. He immediately touched his nose and said:
“If I say that I accidentally got lost and ended up at the outskirts of Suiyang City.
Then, seeing that the enemy Yin Ziqi's troops had better horses, he wanted to steal a few of them, but accidentally killed him.
Finally, he gathered his 100,000 troops and pursued them all the way to the city of Luoyang. Do you believe what I said, Mr. Gao?
Gao Shi: ………???
Gao Shi's expression was indescribable. He just wanted to say, "King Yan, do you treat me like a three-year-old child?"
But then he thought about what the King of Yan had done with him before, and he ran away faster than anyone else. He opened his mouth, but really couldn't say anything.
He may not believe others, but he cannot help but believe the King of Yan!
[Hahaha, that’s right, our Erfeng really gave up!
When he was emperor, he finally had a chance to go hunting, and he chased the prey all the way from Chang'an to Liupan Mountain!
[This will give us, the Generals of Tian Ce, a lot of fun!]
Haha, Zhang Xun's confused expression is killing me.]
Well, now that I'm here, I might as well not leave. I'll find a way to join Luoyang.
Zhang Xun quickly returned and reorganized the newly recovered city with Xu Yuan and others, and took charge of the city affairs.
Li Shimin had no intention of leaving when he arrived, but he was winning victory after victory at this time. It was a headache for him to think about how to write a petition letter and memorial to Li Heng so that he would stay in Luoyang.
Whether it was the old father or the new father, if his generals led the troops to fight and suffered a defeat, there would be no severe punishment.
But once a victory is won, especially a great victory in which a smaller force defeats a larger one and becomes famous throughout the world, then it will be dangerous.
Could it be that this memorial really states that he wanted to steal the enemy's warhorse and ended up chasing him all the way to Luoyang?
Gao Shi might believe it, but Li Heng, who was as cunning as a hornet's nest, would never believe it.
Gao Shi came in at this time and wanted to talk about the conflict between the nine military governors who besieged Luoyang and Yu Chaoen.
However, seeing that His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan seemed to be worried about writing a memorial, he couldn't help but sigh, his heart filled with sadness. He put down his meal and walked out.
After a victory, not only could they not take credit for it, but they had to repeatedly belittle themselves, fearing they would arouse the emperor's suspicion. If even fathers and sons acted this way, how could the military governors and generals protect themselves?
Traitors are in power, and there is no reward for those who die for the Tang Dynasty. The current emperor is truly chilling!
Finally, Li Shimin wrote down the story of his great victory as a letter of apology after he got lost and sent it back to Chang'an. But at this time, he suddenly heard another piece of news.
"What did you say? Guanyinbi is pregnant?"
After hearing this, Li Shimin's head buzzed and he almost became dumbfounded.
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