Chapter 933 A generation of heroes came to an end sadly
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Huang Chao's proposal is very tempting, but Li Keyong is no longer the young boy he used to be back then. Even three years ago, when Huang Chao was at its strongest power, Li Keyong might not be tempted by his words, let alone now that Huang Chao is clearly destructive and trusts his temptation.
Huang Chao is now hard to save even a god. If you are involved with him at this time, isn’t you missing a mind?
Li Keyong's reply to Huang Chao's envoy was very simple and clear. He took back his tribe members, then accepted all the precious money sent by Huang Chao with a smile, and then distributed it to his soldiers. Finally, he burned Huang Chao's imperial letter and cut off his head directly and took it to sacrifice to the military flag.
After sacrificing the heads of the envoys to sacrifice to the flag, Li Keyong personally led the main force in Hedong to cross the Yellow River from the Heyang Ferry upstream of Pujin Bridge and entered Tongzhou.
When the Hedong Army entered Guanzhong, Zhang Juyan, the general of the Qi army who had previously created miracles, suffered a defeat this time. He fought with Lin Yan and the Hedong Army in Shayuan, east of Chang'an, and eventually retreated due to insufficient troops. Especially when Li Quanzhong and Zhuge Shuang from Tongguan, Li Sigong, Dongfang Kui and Wang Chongrong from the north were all at this time, they all saw the situation going well and suddenly rushed in and beat the water dog. Zhang Juyan and Lin Yan faced the Eastern Front coalition with more than 100,000 people, and finally lost again and again, and were defeated to the feet of Chang'an.
The governor of the capital, Wang Duo, was very happy. He saw that Huang Chao was about to be wiped out under his command, but at this time, Yang Fugong's brothers suddenly led their troops to approach his military camp and formed an encirclement. Then Yang Fugong dismissed Wang Duo, the commander-in-chief in the name of the emperor, in the name of the emperor. Yang Fugong's reason was that Wang Duo had been in charge of the capital, but had not made any contribution to the size and was just a corpse. Therefore, he dismissed his position as the governor of the capital, and the position of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, was awarded the hands of Li Keyong, the governor of Hedong who had just performed outstandingly.
It should be said that it is a matter of time before Wang Duo will be dismissed. After all, he is the Dudu Tong nominated by Tian Lingzi. In the current internal division of the eunuchs, how could the Yang brothers let Tian Lingzi's people sit in such an important position? Even though Wang Duo has turned to them, he is not his own person after all. Now the situation is clear, and they no longer need Wang Duo. Giving the Dudu Tong position to Li Keyong was also seeing Li Keyong's strong performance, which was much stronger than Zhuzhen. This made them more and more interested in winning over Li Keyong, and the Dudu Tong position is an excellent bargaining chip.
In Chang'an City, Huang Chao is now at the end of his life. He wants to break through the blockade, jump away from the cage of Chang'an, and continue his previous plan of roaming and fighting has completely failed. Faced with the coalition forces oppressed from the three routes of east and west, Huang Chao made a decision to fight the Tang army to the death in Chang'an City.
In August, both sides were doing their best to mobilize their troops.
In the middle of the month, the Qi army assembled the last 150,000 elite troops and troops set out of Chang'an City. They were stationed in Liangtianpi, 30 miles west of Huazhou. The Grand Marshal Ling Shangrang was the head commander, with the attendant Zhao Zhang and the new Privy Councilor Zhang Juyan as the deputy commander. In addition, the heroic army envoy Lin Yan, Jingzhao Yin Wang Fan, and the two princes Huang Ye, Huang Kui all participated in the battle.
The confrontation was the Hankeng Tang Dynasty coalition stationed west of Shayuan, with 65,000 troops stationed by Li Keyong and 30,000 troops commanded by Yang Fuguang brothers, and 80,000 troops commanded by several towns of troops, which combined to reach 250,000 troops. The number was almost twice that of the Qi army.
On August 16, the newly appointed capital Li Keyong personally led the Shatuo cavalry to the front, and the Tang Dynasty coalition launched an attack. In addition to the two princes leading a partial division to attack Huazhou in the south, more than 100,000 main troops formed a formation to meet the enemy. Shangrang commanded the central army, Wang Fan, Lin Yan commanded the left wing, Zhang Juyan, and Zhao Zhang commanded the right wing, and launched a desperate battle with Li Keyong and other Tang troops. Since Huang Chao's rise, the largest battle - the Liangtianpi Battle has begun!
The battle lasted from noon to evening. The Qi army, which was a small number of enemies, could not support it and collapsed across the board. The Tang army took advantage of the victory to chase the enemy. The Qi army was defeated for more than 30 miles and was beheaded and captured by 100,000 people, including Zhao Zhang, the third-ranked Shin-ji, the Grand Qi Dynasty.
The Qi army completely lost. After hearing the news in Chang'an, Huang Chao immediately ordered the fire to burn Chang'an, and then led the troops left behind in Chang'an to break through the southwest overnight!
Huang Chao's two brothers won the victory with the partial master. They captured Huazhou and gave Huang Chao a glimmer of chance to escape.
However, Huang Chao's retreat plan was not successful. Just when Huang Chao was about to withdraw from Guanzhong through Wu Pass from Lantian, Zhu Quanzhong, Qin Zongquan, Zhou Ji and other towns stationed on the southern line, a total of 100,000 troops were garrisoned. Seeing that the situation on the eastern line was very good, under the command of Zhu Quanzhong, he quickly rushed to Wu Pass and took down Wu Pass in just one day, and then went straight into Guanzhong. As soon as Huang Chao left Chang'an, Zhu Quanzhong had already reached Lantian.
Huang Chao was forced to withdraw back to Chang'an and make the final battle of trapped beasts.
On August 27, on the eleventh day after the Liangtianpi Battle, Li Keyong, who had completed the rest and replenishment, led the army back again, surrounded Huazhou, and trapped Huang Ye and Huang Kui in the city. Huang Chao retreated back to Chang'an. After his brother's letter of help, Shang Rang reorganized the defeated troops to rescue Huazhou, trying to save this only way of retreat.
Upon hearing the news, Li Keyong adopted the strategy of surrounding the points and attacking aid, leaving only a few troops to surround Huazhou. He led the main force and Wang Chongrong's Hezhong Army to advance westward and attack Shangrang's rescue Qi army head-on. On September 6, Li Keyong and Wang Chongrong defeated the Qi army and a hundred miles east of Chang'an. Shangrang led the remaining troops to flee to Chang'an in a hurry. Li Keyong took advantage of the victory to pursue the army, and the army entered Dongwei Bridge and divided the troops to occupy Huabei.
In order to suppress Huang Chao's morale, Li Keyong began to transfer his new Flying Tigers, which imitated Li Jing's Qin army's Yingyang Special Forces, and divided the elite special forces into several squads. He used the night to sneak into Chang'an City and launched uninterrupted harassment and attacks. In Chang'an City, the Qi army's official offices, grain warehouses, and armory fired from time to time. The officials and soldiers of the Qi Dynasty who were left alone were frequently assassinated. The whole city was panicked and could not be kept.
On September 27, one month after the Tang army besieged the city, the isolated Huazhou was captured and Huang Chao's two brothers were captured.
In October, in the Tang Army Battalion Command, who felt that the time was ripe, Li Keyong, Yang Fuguang and Yang Fugong ordered a full-scale attack on Chang'an.
Li Keyong's Hedong Army was still in charge of the task, and the Hezhong Army and Zhongwu Army also participated. The vassal states that had not worked hard, now saw that the situation was very good, they were unwilling to miss the opportunity to beat the dogs and take the opportunity to make money in the war, and quickly drove their troops to join the war.
Huang Chao was in trouble internally and externally, and the strong enemy was in a dilemma. The situation was extremely harsh. Huang Chao, who knew he was over, simply defended Chang'an. He built several lines of defense near Chang'an and sent everyone who could catch it on the battlefield, regardless of men, women, old and young, urged them to fight to the death.
The battle was extremely fierce, with more than 20 armies of the vassal states, with a total of more than 400,000 troops and horses, and fiercely attacking Chang'an. Within just one day, the Tang and Qi armies had three battles, the Qi army was defeated three times, and the Chengzao defense line was completely disintegrated.
On October 6, the Tang army unit gathered a large number of troops of a total of 1,000 capitals. According to normal organization, one capital in the Shence Army was a thousand people, and most of the capital in the ordinary vassal states were one hundred people. The armies of more than 20 vassal states had different structures, some had three or five thousand people, and some had one hundred people. The more than 1,000 capitals gathered together, collectively called Qiandu, and actually, including logistics auxiliary troops, had a total force of 400,000.
The Qiandu War began, and from the morning to the afternoon, Li Keyong's Hedong Army first captured the outer city, and then started street battles with the Qi army that refused to surrender and fought a trapped beast.
Huang Chao also took off his golden dragon robe, threw away the scale crown, put on golden armor, rolled up his sleeves, and carried a long sword to command the Qi army to set up formations among the jade palaces in the royal palace. He used the favorable terrain of each hall and each imperial road to engage in fierce street battles with Li Keyong's army.
But today's Chang'an is not Tongguan two years ago, and his "in-person expedition" cannot save the defeat!
When the fierce battle reached dusk, Li Keyong's vanguard had already occupied the Shengyang Hall of Wangchun Palace in the east of the Daming Palace, and the Qi army's defense in the Forbidden Garden was defeated again. Although Huang Chao was unwilling to accept it at this time, he also understood that he had failed and had completely failed.
After a long sigh, he wiped the blood from his face and gasped heavily. The years of life in the deep palace emperor made him, who was once brave, unable to do anything with his sword. The battle just now made him breathless. The beauties, concubines and palace maids in Chang'an Palace corrupted him.
The land of gentleness is the tomb of heroes, and he suddenly remembered this sentence.
Looking back at the Daming Palace, which he had become accustomed to, he sighed again, "Goodbye, Chang'an, my imperial capital!"
Afterwards, Huang Chao ordered to set fire to the Daming Palace and the surrounding forbidden gardens, and let the Qi army break through and evacuate from Chang'an.
Huang Chao did not leave. For the former loser and private salt dealer Huang Chao, he was old and could not escape. Moreover, his life was over at this time, which made him satisfied. He was once a loser and a private salt dealer, but he rang the death knell of the Tang Dynasty. He spread all over the world, causing bloody storms, and killing the heads of the powerful people who once arrogantly despised him, and conquered the concubines and beauties who were once noble and unlooked, and the wives of wealthy families under their crotch.
He put on golden armor, bright yellow dragon robe, scale crown, ascended to the position of the Supreme Nine Five, and sat on the dragon throne.
Enough, even if you die now, it will not be in vain for this life of rolling around in the world.
Chapter completed!