Chapter 2731 With a hard smile, I always feel that there is something wrong with His Majesty's words
General Wang Zhonglang raised his head, saw Li Shimin's thoughtful expression, and spoke again.
"Since your Majesty has arrived, I would like to ask your Majesty to wait a moment while I go ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and General Cheng to pick him up."
"No need..."
Li Shimin subconsciously raised his eyes and looked at the sky, confirming that it was only two or three quarters of an hour after noon.
He glanced again at the open city gate in front of him, probably thinking that this was the fastest siege he had ever fought in his life.
Ah, no... this is the fastest siege battle I have ever seen.
"Let's go, I want to take a closer look at the magic of the flying thunder cannon created by Chu Bi's son-in-law. It actually defeated the capital of the Tang Dynasty in less than an hour."
"..." The smiles on the faces of the Tang generals suddenly hardened, and they felt that there was something wrong with His Majesty's words.
But this group of people can't control it. After all, everyone is curious about what the flying thunder cannon that that guy Cheng Sanlang is.
Surprisingly, the thunder cannons he set off in the East City still sounded like thunder when they arrived in the West City.
At this moment, someone had already rushed to the palace city and reported to Li Chengqian that His Majesty was already outside the west gate of Luoyang.
This surprised everyone, and they quickly moved forward.
After a short meeting, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty sat idle by the west outer gate of Luoyang City for almost an hour, and then entered Luoyang City gracefully and calmly, and appeared in front of Cheng Sanlang and others.
Li Chengqian saw his father sitting on a horse, wearing golden armor, heroic and majestic.
Surrounded by countless Guanzhong cavalry, walking towards this side, I couldn't help but feel swaying.
Then I heard a low call next to my ear. "Your Highness, cry..."
Then the other ear also heard a low call. "Your Highness, come forward to greet..."
Then he felt a gentle force pushing his back, and Li Chengqian walked quickly forward. Soon he switched from walking to running, and sprinted forward.
"Father……"
Seeing His Highness the Crown Prince being so accepting of others, Cheng Sanlang and Yu Zhining looked at each other in a tacit understanding.
Li Shimin heard Li Chengqian's call and saw his red eyes as he staggered towards him.
Subconsciously, he turned over and jumped off the horse, walked forward quickly, and held Li Chengqian's arm tightly.
"You kid, why are you crying? Shouldn't you be happy when you see your father?"
"My father is fine, my child, my child is really happy..."
Li Chengqian thought about how he was on tenterhooks these days, and how he felt when he first heard the false news that his father was seriously ill in Jinyang. His eyes couldn't help but turn resentful, and he couldn't help but whisper.
"When the child heard that his father was seriously ill, he immediately wanted to rush to Jinyang at all costs."
Seeing the changes in his son's expression and eyes, Li Shimin laughed slightly awkwardly.
"My father never thought that this would happen, well, this matter..."
"Father, don't worry, the child doesn't know anything."
"Okay, okay, this is my good prince."
Li Shimin patted Li Chengqian's shoulder happily, and glanced at Cheng Yaojin and others who were walking quickly at this time.
Li Chengqian also cleared his throat, took two steps back, and bowed respectfully first.
"My son, I respectfully welcome His Majesty the Father!"
"My lord, I respect His Majesty the Emperor!"
Then, tens of thousands of soldiers repeated these words uniformly. At this moment, Zhang Liang's face on top of the city had turned deathly gray.
However, compared to the fear before, at this moment, there is a bit more hysteria and madness.
I saw a godson beside me with a fearful expression on his face, slowly facing back, as if he wanted to escape.
Zhang Liang suddenly shouted loudly, drew out the horizontal sword that he had with him, and slashed the sword directly on the back of his godson, who had turned his back and wanted to run away.
After chopping him up, he chopped him several times and chopped the coward who usually sweetly called him godfather into a headless corpse.
After picking up the bloody human head, Zhang Liang's crazy eyes, coupled with the ferocious expression full of blood spots, scared the surrounding rebel soldiers to the point where they did not dare to move.
"Anyone who dares to take a step back will be killed! Don't forget, there can only be one emperor in the Tang Dynasty, and he is in the palace."
"Everything outside is fake."
"Gongsun Chang, Gu Ping, He He...you guys, each lead a hundred men, to supervise the battle team. If anyone dares to take a step back, kill him. Anyone who dares to harm the morale of the army, kill him!"
"As long as we can defend the palace city for a few days, the troops of Qinwang from all over the country will arrive in time to relieve your majesty's worries and relieve the difficulties in Luoyang. When the time comes, both your majesty and the prime minister will be rewarded heavily!"
"Beat the war drums and don't stop. We must not let the bandits outside the city have a chance to disrupt the morale of our troops."
The drums that had stopped when they saw the elite riders from Guanzhong entering the city resounded in front of the palace again.
The desperate drumming sound almost completely covered up the noise below the city.
This made Li Shimin, who was about to have a few words with his son and other heroes, had no choice but to move the place.
It wasn't until we moved outside Li Xu that the sound of war drums on the palace wall was no longer so loud and disturbing.
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On the official road in the west of Luoyang City, a team of tens of thousands of people was struggling to move forward. The huge siege equipment was crushing the official road and rumbling forward.
Chai Shao and a group of civil and military officers were marching at the front of the team, their expressions very urgent, but the problem was that the speed of the large army could only be so fast.
Speaking of which, fortunately, today's official roads have been covered with concrete. Traveling on such official roads is much easier than traveling on yellow mud roads.
At least on the way from Maojin Ferry to Luoyang, even if it rains heavily, you don't have to wait until the soil is dry before you dare to push heavy equipment like in the past.
Because this cement road can still be smooth and smooth no matter the weather is windy, frosty, rainy or snowy.
Chai Shao was whispering to Li Ji in a low voice. At this moment, he suddenly heard his colleague beside him shouting excitedly.
Everyone subconsciously raised their heads and saw the outline of Luoyang City directly ahead.
Everyone suddenly became energetic again, and Chai Shao waved the riding crop in his hand and pointed straight ahead, shouting fiercely.
"We can already see the city of Luoyang. It's still about ten miles away at most. Brothers, keep on, keep on keeping on."
At this moment, the sound of galloping hooves came from the front, and Chai Shao subconsciously picked up the telescope hanging on his chest and looked forward.
Soon, he saw a group of ten cavalry rushing towards this side, and the leader was a general he sent to His Majesty's side.
"It seems that His Majesty must be very anxious at the moment..." An official on the side couldn't help but whispered in a low voice.