Chapter 72 War
Because there were fewer people and horses, the march became faster.
In September, Xie Yu's troops arrived in Hedong County and began to participate in the siege of Hedong City, breaking through with tens of thousands of Xiaoguo.
Fortunately, Xie Yu knew on the way that he was going to participate in the siege, so he began to send out his own team of experts to gather in a large area, including the peasant army, bandits and bandits, and the remnants of the defeated Sui army. Although they were a mob again, their strength returned to more than 20,000 soldiers. .
Anyway, they are all good comrades who wear the "talisman of life and death". The main reason is that Xie Yu is a little annoyed and hopes to end the war quickly.
I met the coach Li Jiancheng, the legendary unlucky guy, and also met his generals such as Liu Wenjing, the commander-in-chief Wang Changxie, Jiang Baoyi, and Bao Congde.
Only when Xie Yu came here did he realize that they said they were besieging Hedong City. In fact, the generals were only on the defensive because of Qu Tutong's prestige. What they said was that they refused to defend Tongguan and also defended Yongfengcang.
However, everyone still sent Dou Gui, the consolation envoy with Xie Yu, under Li Yuan, and proposed that all the troops train together for three days and begin to test the power of Hedong City.
In the first offensive in September, Qu Tutong was still very confident in guarding Hedong City even though he was short of troops. He basically didn't show up on the first day.
Li Jiancheng saw that Xie Yu's troops were mostly a mob, so he despised Xie Yu and gave the unimportant siege area to Xie Yu.
In the first half, Xie Yu also did a lot of testing. Seeing that the defenders did not pay attention to Xie Yu, Xie Yu asked the master team to prepare, and he himself also charged in heavy armor.
This was the first time that the master team saw Xie Yu charging in person, but they also knew that they would die if Xie Yu died, so they all wore heavy armor and began to fight with all their strength.
Xie Yu used the Tianshan plum-breaking technique, carrying a heavy spear in his hand, a sword hanging on his waist, and a flying spear on his back, and rushed forward.
At this time, the 140 kilograms of strength and endurance gained by Xie Yu's "Dragon Elephant Prajna Gong" that he had practiced to the 70th percentile played an important role.
Of course, there is also Xie Yu, who has absorbed the thunder and sun energy through thunder and rain, filling his body with skills and reaching the limit of his body with one hundred and fifty years of innate true energy.
Xie Yu fought hard in person, with great strength and accelerating his true energy. Eight flying spears stabbed eight first-class masters of the opponent to death. I don’t want to talk about the death of his subordinates. He successfully rushed to the city wall and then into the city. He opened the gate and all the troops influx.
To be honest, Xie Yu is a master in the realm of Xiantian Grandmaster. His Xiantian Qi is inherently endless, but Xie Yu cannot use it anymore, and he is shaking all over from exhaustion.
However, Xie Yu also tested some of his own limits and discovered many of his shortcomings.
Afterwards, Li Jiancheng was overjoyed. He didn't expect Xie Yu to be a powerful general. He didn't expect to capture Hedong City so easily. He wanted to recruit Xie Yu himself.
However, Xie Yu refused for some reasons, and Li Jiancheng was secretly angry, so he added peasant troops such as Sun Hua and Shi Dayai to Xie Yu's camp. The real elites were taken under his command and allowed Xie Yu to capture Luoyang City.
Xie Yu was very annoyed, but because during the war, Xie Yu couldn't say anything. The official level was crushing people to death. Such general orders Xie Yu had to abide by. Fortunately, the consolation envoy Dou Gui found out that something was wrong and made adjustments. Xie Yu just waited for the opportunity to capture Luoyang, and Xie Yu was relieved.
As the eastern capital of the Sui Army, Luoyang City was a steep city with many soldiers and generals, and many masters gathered there. There must be more than one innate master in the city.
If Xie Yu's skills like this were lost, the possibility of death would be very high.
However, he can only take one step at a time. Next, Xie Yu can only speed up the sorting of the newly obtained 40,000 soldiers and horses, whose strength is seriously uneven.
While sorting out the information about Luoyang City from Buddhism, as before, he sent out experts to fight and gather troops. The more troops you have, the more opportunities you have!
While sorting out the information, Xie Yu discovered that the situation in the world was changing so fast, and he was not without opportunities. In July, Wagang Village tried to attack Luoyang under the command of Li Mi.
Now Li Mi is still fighting against the Sui army reinforcements. They have been fighting for more than a hundred years. It can be said that both sides are losing. Xie Yu secretly discovered an opportunity. There is no saying that the fortress is often breached from the inside.
Now Xie Yu began to make some arrangements. By the beginning of September, when Xie Yu approached Luoyang City, he already had nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses. The troubled times were still not peaceful!
However, with the help of many people, the response of the Luoyang garrison was still a little slow. Xie Yu personally led three thousand disguised Sui army remnants and defeated generals. With the help of thoughtful people, they began to slowly integrate into the Luoyang garrison.
A few days later, rumors spread in the city that the reinforcements had won a great victory and the bandits in Wagangzhai were defeated. The senior officials in the garrison saw that the rumors were beneficial to them and did not refute the rumors.
The morale of the defenders was greatly boosted, but they also relaxed their defensive vigilance. Xie Yu immediately led the army and assigned tasks to start a raid on Luoyang City.
Things went so smoothly that I couldn't believe it. Before the defenders could react, Xie Yu first led the cavalry into Luoyang City in the name of reinforcements, and then swept the outer acropolis. By the time the defenders could react, it was already too late, and there was only a small amount of fighting. Xie Yu then occupied the great city of Luoyang.
Still using the "talisman of life and death", Xie Yu was immediately assassinated more than a dozen times that day, greatly expanding the strength of his "master team".
At the same time, through some means, Xie Yu gained tens of thousands more soldiers and horses. Xie Yu continued to recruit, and the number of troops reached 150,000.
In October, Xie Yu's troops reached 200,000, and Xie Yu barely controlled Luoyang City. Moreover, Xie Yu never attacked Luoyang Palace City, but only sent troops to besiege it.
To be honest, Xie Yu was so depressing when he was assassinated every day. The main reason may be that everyone underestimated him and looked down on Xie Yu as a Taoist priest. But now Xie Yu is indeed famous all over the world.
In mid-October, Li Shimin, the second son of the Li clan, finally came to Luoyang City and began to guard Luoyang City.
Li Shimin also looked satisfied when he looked at Luoyang City, which was generally stable and had not suffered any killings. Compared with Chang'an City, which had been captured with a lot of casualties a few days ago, Luoyang City was a surprise.
It's just a pity that a great talent like Xie Yu is unwilling to serve under his command. It's a pity. Moreover, Li Shimin has made such great achievements for Xie Yu, but he actually wants to hand over his military power immediately and return to the mountain to practice Taoism. I feel admired.
It was just such a talent that Li Shimin was unwilling to give up. After handing over military power and political power, Xie Yu, under Li Shimin's persuasion, selected 500 guards and 300 slaves and returned to Chang'an City to report on his duties.
In November, Xie Yu finally arrived in Chang'an City. In the mansion given by Li Yuan, Xie Yu saw that Li Shimin had successfully captured various cities around Luoyang City and surrendered the remaining Sui troops in the palace city. He had won the hearts of the people and felt that people and people were indeed There's no comparison!
Although Xie Yu succeeded in the raid, many people were still dissatisfied with Xie Yu, otherwise there would be so many assassins there.
After Li Shimin arrived, these people confessed to their faces that these assassins were sent by them to disobey Xie Yu.
After Li Shimin came, they surrendered in person and asked for assassins. Fortunately, Xie Yu was not a hot-blooded young man, so he gave them to him.
Just play games, why are you so serious? As long as the goal is achieved, it's just a red face. This is why Xie Yu has never captured the palace.
Good things are all caused by the leader, and bad things are his own. After working for many years, he is used to it.
