Great fusion of heaven and earth

Chapter 804 The Worst Choice Before Chengtian Gate
The Li and Tang royal families were well aware of the "neutrality" of Li Jing and Li Ji. During the struggle for imperial power, the neutrality had already favored Li Shimin. With the split of the country, they have already supported Li Jiancheng with great fanfare.

We must know that Li Jiancheng is the legal heir of Datang no matter what, whether he is Li Di or Li Chang, he is the legal heir, and now they support Li Shimin, but everyone expresses their gratitude to Li Shimin who can lead them to continue to fight and earn meritorious service support.

More importantly, they were expressing their dissatisfaction with Li Yuan's killing of Liu Wenjing. Liu Wenjing was the founding father of the country. If you, Li Yuan, killed him as soon as he wanted, then did we have to kill him as soon as he said he wanted? This made them very worried.

Originally, the Shandong gentry supported Li Jiancheng, because supporting orthodoxy is good for them. Legitimacy is very important, and more importantly, supporting Li Jiancheng means supporting the rules. Only when there are rules to play can the Shandong gentry guarantee their own Survival, they don't want to be pushed by the chaos army that day.

But they know better that the military power is in charge in this world, so after Li Jing and Li Ji expressed their "neutrality", the Shandong gentry began to fall to Li Shimin, because they knew that no matter when the military power is in charge, they have the ability to turn the table.

What's more, the civil and military officials have already separated from Li Yuan, so when they faced orthodoxy and survival, they chose survival without hesitation.

This is why Rongyang Zheng sent Zheng Rentai to Li Shimin's side when Li Jiancheng was his son-in-law, and also joined Xuanwumen.

That's why Qinghe Cui wanted to marry her daughter to Cheng Zhijie, even if it was a stepmother, it didn't matter, because they needed to control the military power if they wanted to survive.

And Cheng Zhijie, as the little head of the Shandong gentry, naturally fell over completely when faced with Qinghe Cui's wooing. In his cognition, being able to marry a woman with five surnames is more honorable than marrying a princess.

This is already the truth in the troubled times of hundreds of years in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, because the dynasty will be shattered and the royal family will be crushed into mud, but the five surnames will stand firm, no matter how the dynasty changes, the five surnames will still be on top.

So Cheng Yaojin was tempted, that is to say, from this time on he became Cheng Zhijie, Cheng Zhijie who knew etiquette, Cheng Zhijie who knew the five surnames.

The royal family of Li and Tang also knew about this, so they made the boldest and most helpless decision to fight for the throne, let the prince Li Jiancheng compete with Qin Wang Li Shimin for the throne, and use various means to fight, even including a coup, but Li Jing and Li Ji, these super military leaders, cannot appear. In order to ensure that there will be no accidents in this matter, they also exile Li Yuan, who is beside Li Jiancheng with a [-] soldiers, and are not allowed to enter Beijing to participate in this matter. The super army leader had an excuse to end, causing the Tang Dynasty to fall into disintegration.

But now when Li Shimin was holding the upper hand, Li Jiancheng turned the tables, and these people all ran out. This made the Li Tang royal family unbearable. In order to ensure that the country would not be divided, we even drove off the prince who held righteousness. The Li Shimin you elected is competing for the throne.

We even acquiesced in launching a coup in the palace and letting them fight to the death. Are you still not satisfied?

Do you have to let Li Shimin take the position before you are satisfied?

Princess Pingyangzhao looked at Li Jing and Li Ji and yelled loudly, but these two super military leaders of the Tang Dynasty did not say a word at this time, and now they all feel a little resentful in their hearts. I didn't even bother to support Li Jiancheng. I didn't expect you, Li Shimin, to be out of the court by Li Jiancheng. Then you launched a coup. We also ordered everyone not to come forward. We did everything we could. How come in the simplest way? Siege above, your top commander between the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Li Shimin, a military leader who claims to have no shortcomings, how did you lose?

That was Li Jiancheng who hadn't been to the battlefield a few times.Is your Li Shimin playing us together with the heroes of the world?

If they didn't know that this kind of situation couldn't happen, they would really think that they were being played, but looking at Li Shimin whose armor was a little torn, they knew that there was something really wrong with this guy.

It was indeed Li Shimin who had a problem. He overestimated his strength a little too much. He forgot that whenever he rushed into battle, he would either follow Qin Qiong or Yuchi Jingde, and that he was Wushuang in riding and shooting instead of Wushuang in riding and fighting. The most important thing is that Li Jiancheng's riding and shooting skills are not inferior to him, which makes him afraid to use his full strength in the Xuanwu Gate, and arranges many generals who should go to the battle to protect himself. It made his scene so unattractive that he was beaten by the enraged Li Jiancheng.

And the Changlin army pouring in from outside the door was somewhat beyond Li Shimin's expectations. He thought that the Changlin army was a guard of honor to show the crown prince's glory, but he didn't expect that this army was not under his Xuanjia army. , and is good at infantry combat, and he led the Xuanjia Army, which was originally supposed to be heavy cavalry, but now it is infantry. When fighting, he was not familiar with infantry combat and whether there was a commander of the Xuanjia Army. Naturally, he was beaten and retreated. up.

Also, Xue Wanche came too fast, as if he was waiting for him, Xue Wanche led everyone from the East Palace Guards to attack Xuanwu Gate just after starting here,

This gave Li Shimin the idea that he was being watched. When he thought that his actions were being watched, Li Shimin became a little nervous, so he immediately withdrew his troops, but what he didn't expect was that when he arrived at Chengtianmen , Li Jing and Li Ji brought people here, and Princess Pingyang, Li Xiaogong, and Li Daozong also brought soldiers and horses here, which made him even more afraid.

As a commander, what he fears the most is that he cannot know himself and the enemy. At this moment, he doesn't know who his real enemy is, whether it is Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji, Li Yuan, or all of them have been calculated.

These thoughts kept churning in his mind, and when his third sister, Princess Pingyang Zhao, told him to stop, he pulled his horse and ran to Li Jing's side without saying a word.

At this moment, everyone was stupefied. You must know that although they actually stood in line, Mianzishan didn't stand in line, but now that Li Shimin came running over, the matter would be serious.

But when Li Shimin ran here, he realized that he had made the worst choice.

When Li Jiancheng, who came out later, saw this situation, his whole body collapsed. How could the Tang Dynasty be split up in just one morning?

It was time for him to run to Li Tang's royal camp without saying a word, and then he seemed to slap himself, why did he bring someone here, isn't it best to be neutral at this time?

(End of this chapter)