Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 3840 Fight to the death

Inside the carriage, Princess Jinyang's voice was soft and crisp: "Brother-in-law is in charge of important military and national affairs, just go about your business and ignore me. It's just that the war is fierce and dangerous, so you should pay more attention to safety."

Fang Jun said: "Thank you, Your Highness."

Watching the car drive into the gate and turning to the residence behind, Fang Jun rode straight to the tent of the Chinese army.

In the tent, Gao Kan, Cheng Wuting, Sun Renshi, Cen Changqian, Xin Maojiang, Ouyang Tong and others have already arrived, and even Wang Fangyi, who just returned from a great victory, has also arrived...

Fang Jun walked directly to the map hanging on the wall, and asked in a deep voice, "How's the situation?"

Everyone stood behind Fang Jun and surrounded him, Gao Kan said: "Changsun Jiaqing's troops in the east of the city gathered tens of thousands of troops, mainly the private army of Changsun's family, and Yuwenlong in the west of the city also gathered the private army of 'Woye Town', the number reached [-]. The rest are all stationed in the north of the barracks, full of murderous intent, but no further actions have been taken for the time being."

Fang Jun nodded slightly.

Cheng Wuting said: "This raid on Jingzhao Wei's private army must have caused Guanlong to be in a panic, as if he was facing a big enemy. From the perspective of the last general, they may not really dare to fight head-on again, they probably want to provoke Use this small-scale conflict and take the lead, so as to stabilize those powerful and private troops entering the pass."

This guess is very reliable. Now that the food outside Jinguangmen has been burned, the entire Guanlong army is in a huge crisis of food shortage. The army suffered heavy losses from successive raids. It must be that the people were panicked and the morale of the army was lax. They urgently needed a victory to stabilize the morale of the army and boost morale.

Otherwise, they don't even need the right guards to fight, they themselves will collapse...

Fang Jun didn't think so.

He asked Gao Kan: "Is there any news from Li Junxian about the surplus of the rebel army's food and fodder?"

Gao Kan shook his head: "A fire outside the Jinguangmen burned the rebels' food and fodder, and the Guanlongmen Clan urgently collected the surplus food stored by each army and hoarded it in one place, but the external information was blocked very tightly. We haven’t been able to investigate the details yet. However, Li Junxian once said that the remaining grain and fodder in Guanlong can only last for a month at most.”

The "Hundred Knights" penetrated into every aspect of Chang'an's surroundings. Although the detailed figures of Guanlong's grain storage have not been obtained for the time being, Li Junxian's estimate will probably not be too different.

Fang Jundao: "That is to say, Guan Long must make a decision within the next half a month, whether it is war or surrender, otherwise the food and fodder will run out, and there will be nearly 20 soldiers including Guan Long's army and powerful private troops. The army is about to be completely disbanded."

Master Sun Ren, who had a very low sense of presence, suddenly said, "Changsun Jiaqing and Yuwenlong's troops assembled urgently, but they didn't attack us all at the first time, so we were caught off guard. It may not be because of the big defeat last time that caused us to be afraid." Could it be that this is simply used to contain us, but its main force has already been transferred into Chang'an City, ready to storm the Tai Chi Palace?"

The rest of the generals were shocked, thinking it was very possible.

After all, the real battlefields are all in Chang'an City. Even if Youtunwei is defeated, the purpose is to surround and destroy the Eastern Palace.If it is possible to defeat the Six Rates of the East Palace from the front one by one, and then occupy the Taiji Palace and capture the inner gate, whether it is to capture the prince or force the prince to evacuate Chang'an under the escort of the right guards, the control of the entire Chang'an will be lost. It fell into the hands of the Guanlongmen Clan, which meant that the Guanlongmen Clan occupied the central power of the Tang Dynasty.

Even if the prince retreated westward under the guard of Youtunwei and reached the counties in Hexi, he could only fight desperately to return to Chang'an and seize the imperial capital, while the Guanlongmen faction could completely establish another prince, build a center, and establish a brand new regime.

As for who will win in the end, that is another matter. At the very least, the Guanlongmen faction stole the Great Tang Center and used it to command the world, gaining a great deal of time for relief.

Fang Jun also felt that this guess was the most likely, so he ordered: "Order martial law for the entire army, and release all the scouts. This commander must control every move of the Guanlong army! At the same time, send people into the Xuanwu Gate to report the situation to the prince and Duke Wei. , and report our predictions together, so that the East Palace Six Rates will take strict precautions."

"Here!"

Wang Fangyi took the order and left.

Fang Jun stood in front of the map with his hands behind his back, his eyebrows furrowed deeply, and he was worried.

Changsun Wuji is too deep in the city, too far-sighted, and seems to have coerced a big move by all the rebels, but the conspiracy behind it is likely to be deeper in the second layer, or even the third layer... If you think you can see through Changsun Wuji, you will definitely suffer a big loss.

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Tongguan.

Inside the Yamen Office, when the scout sent the Youtun Guards cavalry across the Wei River under the eyes of Xue Wanche's army without fear, and Xue Wanche turned a blind eye to the news, everyone was stunned for a while, and then excitedly clamored.

Yu Chigong's face was dark, and he said angrily: "Mother! Doesn't this Xue Da fool know how to write the word dead? On the night of arriving in Jingyang, he crossed the river to Youtunwei and Fang Jun to drink all night, and today he let Youtun Wei moves freely within his defense zone... Does he still have a commander in his eyes? Is there any military law?"

Zhang Liang fanned the flames from the side: "Marshal, you should send someone to Jingyang immediately to recall Xue Wanche, and then punish him for the serious crime of ignoring military orders and disregarding military discipline, and show his head to the public as an example to others!"

As soon as these words came out, Cheng Yaojin glared at him, and shouted: "Zhang Liang, you are a bad bastard! Everyone is in love, even if there is always a quarrel, as long as there is less communication, To add insult to injury and fan the flames like this is simply not a son of man!"

Zhang Liang was so scolded that his face was red and his neck was thick. He argued: "Military law is like a mountain, how can anyone trample on it? Lu Guogong's officials protect each other, and he is really a sinful minister of the Tang Dynasty!"

"Mother! Are you a bastard looking for a fight? Come, come, let me, a criminal minister, teach you how to behave?"

Cheng Yaojin rolled up his arms and sleeves, and stared murderously.

Zhang Liang shrinks his neck in fright... Although Cheng Yaojin is nearly [-] years old and has gray beard and hair, he has excellent bones and tendons, which are not much worse than that of a young man. His whole body is made of copper and iron, and his fists are like iron bowls. Even if Zhang Liang is ten years younger than him, he is by no means an opponent.

"shut up!"

With a gloomy face, Li Ji yelled, "If you keep making trouble, you'll strip off the flagpole!"

As soon as this remark came out, Cheng Yaojin lost his composure and did it angrily, but he couldn't hold back his face, and muttered to himself: "I despise this kind of insidious villain who stabs a knife in the back the most. Maybe he is in the company of this kind of person." To be stabbed one day is extremely disgusting!"

However, Li Ji was very authoritative, and he didn't dare to provoke him easily, so he sat down and cursed.

Li Ji stared at the map on the opposite wall, and said to the scout who came in to report: "Tell me about the situation at that time again, and the details must not be omitted."

"Here."

The scout recounted the situation at that time in detail.

Li Ji's eyes were deep.

Although the whole Guanzhong knew that either Fang Jun or Li Ji was the one who wiped out the clan's private army, but Li Ji knew that he didn't do it, and the murderer was naturally Fang Jun.However, Li Ji has never had conclusive evidence, and the possibility of someone fishing in troubled waters cannot be ruled out. Now looking at the path of the cavalry from Youtunwei, he can finally confirm this matter.

Obviously, that cavalry escaped into Zhongnan Mountain after raiding Webster's private army, asked Guanlong's army to pursue them, sneaked westward in the mountains, and crossed from the weak defense of Guanlong's army in Mei County after making a big detour. Cross the Weishui River, then turn eastward, follow the north bank of the Weishui River to the vicinity of the Zhongwei Bridge, and swagger back to the Youtunwei camp outside the Xuanwu Gate under the eyes of Xue Wanche...

The scouts stopped asking after seeing Li Ji, and said again: "The scouts in front reported just now that the Guanlong troops on the east and west sides of Chang'an City have assembled urgently, each with tens of thousands of people, but there is no specific movement yet."

"Oh?"

Li Ji raised his eyebrows, pondered for a while, waved his hands, and said: "Notify the whole army, strengthen the guard, and closely monitor the movements of the Guanlong army and the Youtunwei, but don't get involved."

"Here!"

After all the generals retreated, Li Ji leaned back on the back of his chair, sighed, and murmured, "It's Changsun Wuji after all, with far-sighted eyes and a ruthless heart!"

Wrapping all the rebels in a desperate fight, seemingly striving for a chance of survival, but in fact, he exchanged the heads of nearly 20 rebels for the inheritance of the eldest grandson's family, so that the descendants will not be cut off... As for his eldest grandson Wuji himself, he must have seen it through Given the current situation, knowing that he will die no matter what, he must have already prepared a pot of poisoned wine, or a three-foot white silk, and a one-foot green blade...

But there's nothing to be ashamed of.

People die for money, birds die for food, power and wealth are alluring, who can completely get rid of it?From the moment Changsun Wuji felt greedy, the ending was already doomed.

Who made him choose an enemy like His Majesty Li Er?

(End of this chapter)