"Li Tian, don't think that just because you have saved the country, you can do whatever you want. As the majestic leader of Da'an, how can I abandon the city and run away? Isn't this making the world laughable?" When the emperor heard this, his face was extremely ugly. If this was the case,
In normal times, he would have been charged with being disrespectful long ago, and the ministers also started talking about it.
"Your Majesty, the enemy has 600,000 troops, and they are the vanguard. We, including the guards patrolling the city, only have a total of 120,000 people. If we don't abandon the city, there is only a dead end. If we keep the green hills, we won't be afraid of running out of firewood.
Burn, now is not the time for us to fight head-on. We must be prepared for a protracted war. Of course, if everyone wants to die here, then there is nothing I can do." Li Tian knew that it would be difficult to persuade these die-hards.
Only if you can force him to die.
The emperor also understood that what Li Tian said was right, but that he couldn't save face. But compared with death, the emperor still chose to save face first. It was more important to live.
Since the emperor chose to abandon the city, these ministers were even busier than the emperor. They hurried home to pack their things, and the palace began to become busy.
On the second day, when Li Tian saw it, his head was so big that he couldn't even see the rows of carriages and horses. These guys wanted to bring the chamber pots at home. There were four beds for the emperor alone. Li Tian could see
Dumbfounded, he came to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, we are abandoning the city and running away, not moving the capital. With these things, we will be overtaken by the rich army in less than two days. If you are more heroic, you really want to die.
, I’m sorry, I, Li Tian, will take the first step, and next year I will offer you a few sticks of incense.”
After saying that, he ignored the emperor's reaction and turned around and shouted: "Come here, gather the soldiers and horses in Chaodu. Let's escape for our lives first. Before leaving, we kowtow to the emperor and ministers. We won't do this in the future."
Opportunity."
When the emperor and the ministers heard this, they were all frightened. The emperor looked at Marquis Wang Ping for help. But Wang Ping and Ben pretended not to see it, so the emperor had no choice but to discuss with Li Tian, "Li Aiqing, I
Everything is up to your arrangement, but these things are all loaded into the car, don’t you think?"
"Your Majesty, if you want to survive, you must keep all these things. Of course, I will not leave them to the rebels. I will burn them all as soon as you leave."
The emperor was heartbroken and said, "Hey! That's fine! I'll just follow your arrangement." After saying that, he went into his dragon trap and never came out again. He was probably secretly feeling sad.
With the emperor's words, Li Tianhao unceremoniously withheld all the supplies. Many ministers shed tears when they looked at their belongings.
Li Tian formed a temporary army with the generals and servants of these ministers, plus the emperor's bodyguards, which numbered nearly 10,000 people. They were all led by Long Biao, the chief bodyguard. Only 2,000 Wang Ping's troops were assigned to escort the emperor and his party.
When going to Chaodu, he was specifically ordered to walk non-stop on the way. Except for His Majesty the Emperor, anyone who delays the trip will be killed without mercy.
Li Tian and the others did not leave. After all, the rebels would arrive in four days. If they did not wait for two days, it would be easy to catch up with the fleeing emperor and ministers.
The magic stick didn't leave either. According to him, he had the confidence to follow Li Tian, but he didn't have the confidence to follow that group of people, but he had some foresight.
When Li Tian saw the emperor and ministers leaving the city, he ordered his soldiers to gather together what was left behind by the palace and ministers.
Looking at the carts of seized supplies, the magic stick thought with his feet and knew that Li Tian would not let it go. He looked at Li Tian with contempt and said, "Two to one add to five, and we will share half of it when we meet."
Li Tian looked at the God Stick seriously and said: "Gun, I think you are definitely not a servant of the Sun God. You should be the settler of the God of Wealth's family. You made a mistake in calculating the account and owed money to his family, so you ran away to the mortal world to collect some money.
I'll use the money to repair the holes, I've never seen you like this."
The magic stick also said sheepishly: "Don't you just want to get some money? It depends on what you said, and I won't let you down."
"Stop talking nonsense, are your treasures ready?"
"There are fourteen cars in total. This is the account book. Please sign it for me." After saying that, the magic stick carefully took out an account book from his arms.
"Sign it, I haven't inspected the goods. Who knows if there are some stones inside to make up for the number. I'll ask them to stamp you with the official seal when the tide comes. That'll be fine."
"Don't cheat." The magic stick added uneasily.
Li Tian ignored him and arranged for five thousand elite soldiers to escort all supplies and property from another route to Chaodu. After they arrived in Chaodu, he arranged for all the six chiefs to hide in the forest.
Go, and you must not let the emperor and ministers see you.
Wang Ping was not busy with Li Tian. He was thinking about how to hold off the rebels for two days, or more.
The difficulty is not small, 100,000 versus 600,000, and the opponent's general is also a veteran of Da'an, named Zhang Chengliang. He has been guarding the border for many years and is a tiger general under Qian Fu. If you fight against such a person, even if you can stand for two days
, I am afraid that I will also lose a lot.
Seeing that Wang Ping was a little worried in the past two days, Li Tiankuan said heartily: "Father-in-law, isn't it just for two days? Just follow my arrangements. I'm sure everything will be fine. Don't worry."
Wang Ping was really a little convinced, and even in such a nervous situation, Li Tian, as the general marshal, actually ran to the palace and the homes of the ministers with the envoys respected by thousands of people, bit by bit.
Looking for the treasure left behind, the two of them often fight over a beloved thing.
Zhang Chengliang's advancement was not slow. On the afternoon of the third day, the soldiers and horses arrived outside the capital. They came to report. On the walls of the capital, flags were fluttering and covered with soldiers. It turned out that Wang Ping of Pingdu was stationed in command.
After hearing the news about Tan Ma, veteran Zhang Chengliang touched his beard and pondered for a while. He also knew that Wang Ping was not easy to deal with. And it was not clear how many soldiers and horses the opponent had. If Wang Ping had many soldiers and horses, he would
If we go to attack hard, the losses will definitely be huge. As a pioneer officer, we haven't encountered any resistance along the way. If we fall in the capital, we will definitely be laughed at by everyone. Thinking of this, we set up camp first, send scouts and then go to find out the news.
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After a while, he heard the messenger coming to report that an envoy from the capital came to give him a letter of war. Zhang Chengliang took a look at the letter of war and saw that it was a letter written by Wang Ping himself and stamped with the official seal, which meant that in two days, in the East
Outside the gate city, he led an army of 300,000 to fight with him.
Zhang Chengliang laughed loudly when he saw the letter. Thanks to him not attacking by force, he was not sure that he would suffer two to one casualties during the siege. Now that Wang Ping has offered to fight him outside the city, it would be best
However, even if Wang Ping is a famous Da'an general, it is impossible for him to kill his 600,000 troops at once. This Wang Ping overestimates himself.
"Okay, go and reply to Wang Ping and tell him that I, Zhang Chengliang, respect him as a famous general in Da'an and am willing to fight him. And tell him that if he is willing to surrender, I am willing to recommend him to Marshal Qian as the commander of the Ministry of War.
General."
Zhang Chengliang thought that Wang Ping was really going to fight him, but he didn't expect that this was Li Tian's delaying strategy. Two days were wasted in vain. He didn't even surround the city, and only sent a few scouts to monitor other city gates.
Wang Ping secretly complained in his heart. If he didn't go out to fight at the appointed time, his whole life of wisdom would be ruined. Li Tian gave him such a bad idea. Wang Ping was so angry that he really wanted to slap Li Tian twice, but Li Tian didn't.
He was very leisurely and carefree, saying that he had already thought of a great plan.
At the appointed time, Zhang Chengliang formed a formation ten miles away from the east gate, with 600,000 troops waiting in formation. He was preparing to attack Wang Ping's 300,000 troops head-on, and then enter the city to capture the emperor alive.
A junior high school student ran over on horseback and said, "Sir, there is no Wang Ping's army ahead. There is only an old man beating a big drum on the city, and the city gate is wide open."
Zhang Chengliang was surprised, what kind of ecstasy formation did Wang Ping set up? He didn't send troops to fight, but instead asked people to beat drums on the city wall?