Eight hundred and ninetieth chapters pacify Liaodong
Li Siye sat face to face with the three men in front of the copper stove, and asked them the whole story. He was secretly happy in his heart but sadly sighed: "I didn't expect that Zhang Zhongzhi, who had been in the army for half his life, could not guard against such a conspiracy. The hero died young.
, it is really disappointing. You can rest assured to go back and tell Wang Wujun that I will not treat the soldiers in the city badly after entering Yuguan. I will ask for a decree in Chang'an and designate Wang Wujun as the Lulong Festival Envoy until he enters the pass.
After that, he will give all the rewards together.
The three men said: "Your Majesty, it is urgent to enter Yuguan. Shi Chaoyi will soon send someone to take over. Only by rushing in front of them can Yuguan be easily obtained."
"In this case, I will set off my army to Yuguan tomorrow and ask my three brothers to lead my army in front."
At this time, it was snowing heavily, and the snow on the road could cover his knees. Li Siye put on his armor and led the troops in person, marching through the heavy snow. His horse hooves kicked the flying snowflakes forward, one foot deep and one shallow, one foot deep in the thousands of miles of snowflakes in the north.
Move forward meanderingly.
Shi Chaoyi originally wanted to lead his troops to take over Yuguan in person, but the snow in the Yanshan area was too heavy, so he had to send his trusted prime minister Xue Song to Yuguan first, but the trip was delayed for a long time.
Li Siye took advantage of the heavy snow to arrive in front of the pass. The generals guarding the pass relaxed their vigilance due to the heavy snowfall, so the Ya Barracks took the opportunity to come to the gate of the city. Their recommended general Wang Wujun took the opportunity to hold Zhang Zhongzhi's fish charm and seal in his hands and shouted loudly
He shouted: "General Zhang's fish seal letter is here. He was plotted by the evil thief Shi Chaoyi. We have been specially ordered to open the city to welcome King Yong's army and enter the city to help."
"Nonsense, how could General Zhang give such an order? You rebels, please retreat immediately!" The person who reprimanded Wang Wujun was a lieutenant general.
General Yabing is a special existence in the Youyan Army. They are usually well-equipped and have a high level of vision. Ordinary lieutenants and generals would not dare to point fingers at them. At this moment, the furious Zhonglang General is indeed a warrior.
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Wang Wujun took off his horned bow from his back, aimed at the man and shot an arrow, hitting his eye socket. The man covered his eyes with his hands and screamed and fell from the city wall. A group of Ziya soldiers gathered around and slashed at him randomly.
He beheaded him, lifted the gate block, opened the city gate and let Li Siye's army in.
The general who stayed at Yuguan was Zhang Zhongzhi's remaining subordinates. Knowing that the Hexi Army had entered the city, he had no choice but to go and surrender in front of Li Siye.
At this point, Li Siye took more than two months and countless artillery shells to capture Yuguan, but he took it in one day. At the same time, he also obtained more than 40,000 Youyan troops who retreated to Yuguan.
Li Siye appointed Wang Junwu as the envoy of Pinglu Jiedu and demoted Zhang Jiyao as the deputy envoy of Jiedu. After he led his army into Yuguan, he did not stop the attack. He directly used Wang Junwu's Yuguan army as the forward and headed towards Yingzhou.
And go.
The snow fell even more heavily in Liaodong, and the marching soldiers marched through the snow with their legs deep and one foot shallow. The team of officials sent by Shi Chaoyi to take over Yuguan were also on this road. During their march, they discovered the Hexi Army.
He immediately fled back with a keen sense of smell.
After Prime Minister Xue Song returned, he did not go to see Shi Chaoyi, but went to see Tian Chengsi. The two secretly talked about something in the dark room. Tian Chengsi and Xue Song jointly went to see Shi Chaoyi.
After Xue Song saw Shi Chaoyi, he immediately said sadly: "Your Majesty, the Yuguan Ya soldiers have joined forces with the left-behind general Zhang Jiyao to surrender to Li Siye. Li Jun is currently on the road to kill Yingzhou."
Shi Chaoyi was completely panicked when he heard this, and quickly asked Xue Song and Tian Chengsi: "Mr. Xue, Gong Tian, what should we do now?"
The two of them had already secretly discussed the countermeasures and said to Shi Chaoyi: "Yingzhou is really not a place to stay for a long time. Your Majesty, please move to Liaodong City quickly. General Tian Chengsi and I will stay to guard Yingzhou City together."
Shi Chaoyi was afraid that Li Siye would lead his army to attack the city, but he had to show the toughness of a leader and resolutely said: "As the lord, how can I escape in the middle of the battle? I want to defend the city with the 30,000 soldiers of the Second Duke and Dayan."
"Absolutely not, Your Majesty." Tian Chengsi acted just like the real thing. He rushed to the ground and said excitedly: "The monarch is the foundation of the country. You must not take personal risks. Now Liaodong is in an emergency. Both the front and the rear are one."
.These soldiers and horses in our hands may be able to defend Yingzhou for more than ten days. But if we want to break the siege of Yingzhou, Your Majesty still needs to go to Liaodong City and order Li Huaixian to lead his troops to join forces to drive away the enemy."
Shi Chaoyi finally gave up staying behind, held the hands of the two veteran generals and said: "The two generals will wait in the city. I, Shi Chaoyi, will definitely lead my troops back to rescue Yingzhou and drive away Li Siye."
He took the personal guard battalion he formed to Liaodong City. Just one day after leaving Yingzhou, Tian Chengsi and Xue Song opened the city gates the next day and dedicated Yingzhou to Li Siye.
After Li Siye entered Yingzhou, he asked Tian Chengsi to be granted the title of Yanmen County Prince, and Xue Song was granted the title of Pingyang County Prince. The two were very happy, but they did not expect that Li Siye was so willing to surrender the city in exchange for two county princes.
With one step in place, he must stay in Hebei and serve as the governor, and that would probably be no problem.
On the way to Liaodong, Shi Chaoyi heard that Xue Song and Tian Chengsi had surrendered to Li Siye. He was so angry that he rode on his horse and whipped his whip and said angrily: "Two old thieves mistaken me!"
He now had no one around to ask, so he had to make his own decision and go to Liaodong City to seek refuge with Li Huaixian.
Chaoyi led the guard battalion to march day and night. When he arrived at Liaodong City a few days later, he was already tired and hungry. He shouted in a hoarse voice toward the top of the city: "Mr. Huaixian, open the city gate quickly and let me in!"
There was no movement at the city gate, and the soldiers holding strong bows lowered their heads and looked at him with cold faces.
Shi Chaoyi panicked and shouted again: "I am your Majesty, open the city gate and let me in!"
A general under Li Huaixian stood behind the wall of the gate of the city tower, put his hands on his hips and said loudly: "Shi Chaoyi killed the king and killed his father, corrupting human relations, and he must be punished for his crime. My general is not willing to let your Shi family have no descendants, so I will spare your life.
But there is no way I can be with you! Leave quickly, or else I will be waiting with bows and crossbows."
"Hey! What qualifications do you have to speak to me, little general? Call Li Huaixian out. I want to interview him!"
Naturally, the general was unwilling to shout the words a second time, so he waved his hand and said: "Set me an arrow!"
Suddenly, arrows flew down like rain from the city tower. Shi Chaoyi hurriedly fled with his soldiers and ran north for a distance before stopping. He looked up at the vast sky and said sadly: "The world is so big that there is no place for me."
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The general of the guard camp came to him and persuaded him: "Emperor Xiongwu once married his eldest daughter to Shiwei Khan. Now you are the Khan's brother-in-law. Why don't you go to Shiwei and rely on Shiwei's troops when the time comes.
Go south and restore the Yan State."
He did not dare to think about restoring Dayan Sheji, but it was still possible to find a place to stay in the bitter cold land of Shiwei's snowy mountains.
Hearing that Shi Chaoyi was going to a bitter cold place like Shiwei, the soldiers in his camp also began to think about it. While they were camping at night, people kept running away. When they arrived at the border of Shiwei, the two thousand soldiers only
Three hundred are left.
In February of the fifth year of Yuanshuo, which was also the first year of Li Yubaoying, Li Huaixian sent someone to deliver a letter of surrender to Li Siye in exchange for the title of King of Wuwei. In April, Li Siye led his army to the border between Shiwei and Heishui Mohe.
The Khan came to surrender with Shi Chaoyi's head.
Li Siye granted Wei Khan the title of King of Northern Manchuria and ordered him to continue to govern the vast virgin forests north of Liaodong. The kings of Heishui Mohe and Bohai also sent envoys to surrender, and Li Siye granted them titles in turn. At this point, the entire Youyan and
All of Liaodong fell into the hands of Li Siye, and now only he was left to compete with the southern court.