Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2744 The Fall of the Li Tang Dynasty, Persuading Pingyang to Surrender

Li Shimin is dead!
As he said, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty cannot surrender!

Therefore, in front of the Tang Dynasty palace, in front of Xuanwu Gate, in this place that was once the most glorious, but also became his greatest stain, he drew his sword and committed suicide!
In this way, he preserved his last vestige of dignity as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

However, Li Yuanba, Liang Shitai, and Chai Shao survived.

As the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin wanted to preserve his integrity for himself and the Tang Dynasty, but his brothers did not need to!

Yes, this is Li Shimin, who once killed his elder brother and younger brother and bestowed the title of retired emperor upon his father.

At the last moment, upon seeing the battered and bruised Li Yuanba, he softened his heart and managed to secure a way out for his brother!
Li Mu accepted this ending without hesitation.

Although the city of Kununge has fallen, Li Xiuning of Wandu and Li Guangbi of Liangkou are still alive, which is the fastest way to end this battle.

For the Great Jin Dynasty now, the sooner the war on the eastern front can be ended, the sooner it will be ended!

The Yuan Mongols to the north were their true enemy.

Moreover, Li Yuanba, as well as Que Teqin of Wandu, Huang Mei and Wang Shunchen of Liangkou, were all famous fierce generals of the Tang Dynasty.

Not to mention the many famous Tang generals such as Li Guangbi, Ji Shi Si Li, and Eulji Mun Deok.

Accepting their surrender is a sure-fire way to make money.

However, Li Mu couldn't help but feel a headache when he looked at Li Yuanba's lifeless appearance.

Without Li Shimin, would Li Yuanba still be the invincible Li Yuanba?
He had heard before that, in the entire Li Tang dynasty, only Li Shimin could control Li Yuanba, this humanoid beast.

Even with Li Shimin's instructions to keep Li Yuanba by his side, the other generals wouldn't be able to accurately control him on the battlefield, making it impossible for him to execute attacks precisely. Whether he cooperated depended entirely on his mood.

However, he quickly put this worry out of his mind!

No matter what, this humanoid beast now belongs to their Great Jin, although Li Yuanba seems to have become quite depressed.

"Send the order to bury Li Shimin with the rites due to an emperor!"

Li Mu looked at Li Shimin's corpse, then at Li Yuanba, who was like a walking corpse, and Liang Shitai, Chai Shao, and others surrounding Li Yuanba's corpse. After thinking for a while, he finally gave the order.

"General, shouldn't we inform His Majesty first?" Zhang Liao asked hesitantly.

There's nothing wrong with giving the other person a proper burial; they deserve it. Even if they are an enemy, they deserve our respect.

But was it their decision to be buried with imperial rites?
As subjects, we should always report these matters to His Majesty the Emperor. Even if they have any thoughts, they should only offer a suggestion.

"If His Majesty asks about it someday, I will take full responsibility!" Li Mu waved his hand without hesitation, stopping Zhang Liao from continuing.

"This general will share the burden with General Li!" Xing Tian walked over with one hand hanging down.

It takes a hundred days to recover from a broken bone; the injury on his shoulder will probably take several months to heal.

He didn't say that for Li Shimin's sake, but for Li Yuanba's sake, which is why he spoke those words.

Following Li Shimin's suicide, and in accordance with his dying wish, Li Yuanba surrendered, and Chai Shao and Liang Shitai also obeyed Li Shimin's orders and surrendered to the Jin Dynasty. Not long after, Li Tang strategists Li Yishan and Chen Xiliang, along with Li Zhi, the crown prince of Li Tang, walked out of the palace gates, formally accepting the control of the Jin Dynasty and completely handing over the Li Tang imperial palace.

Three days later, Chai Shao, the son-in-law of the Li Tang dynasty, entered Wandu City, which was only separated from the inner city by a river and was guarding and helping each other, under the orders of Li Mu. He successfully persuaded Li Xiuning to surrender with the city's soldiers and civilians.

Or perhaps, Chai Shao was simply going to relay Li Shimin's orders.

The current situation in Wandu City is not much better than that in other cities. It is also experiencing a shortage of food supplies, with a large number of soldiers and civilians starving to death and countless people resorting to cannibalism.

This city is actually on the verge of collapse.

Even without Chai Shao's persuasion, if the Jin army were to attack later, it would be just like the situation in the inner city, where they would easily breach the city walls.

Without sufficient food, any army will become a spineless coward, utterly ineffective in combat.

Without Li Shimin's order, Li Xiuning would have gathered the last of her elite troops for a battle she knew was a futile endeavor.

However, when Li Shimin's final order came, it gave strategists like Gao Shang and Yan Zhuang, as well as generals like Kül Tegin, Eulji Mundeok, and Pugu Huai'en, a reason to give up resistance.

These generals didn't need to doubt the authenticity of this matter too much.

After all, given Chai Shao's status, his words carry a certain degree of credibility.

Not to mention, even if they don't believe Chai Shao's words, as long as Li Yuanba is really in the Jin camp, this matter cannot be false.

From then on, under Li Shimin's dying wish, Li Xiuning surrendered the city.

After Wandu City, came Liangkou Mountain City, which troubled Xue Rengui for a year.

However, the situation here frustrated Xue Rengui. He had spent about a year here, and was finally about to conquer it.

But at this moment, with Chai Shao coming to persuade them to surrender, the battle ended just like that.

The biggest weakness of Liangkou Mountain City is the same as that of domestic cities and Wandu City: the problem of food supplies.

A year has passed, and the food supplies here have been exhausted. The few remaining warhorses have long been slaughtered, and even the bark on the trees on the mountain has been scraped off.

The soldiers were forced to boil water with leaves from the trees and drink it as soup.

Therefore, even if Chai Shao hadn't come on Li Mu's orders, he was already close to being captured by Xue Rengui.

Given Li Shimin's prestige in the Li Tang dynasty, he was practically the emperor of the Li Tang.

Even if his final order was absurd, and even if it was an order for them to give up resistance, Li Guangbi and his men still accepted it.

He personally opened the camp gates and led a group of generals, including Geshu Han, Yang Wanchun, Feng Changqing, Yang Yizhong, Wang Shunchen, and Huang Mei, to lay down their weapons and surrender.

With Li Xiuning and Li Guangbi laying down their weapons and giving up resistance, the war against the Tang Dynasty, which had lasted for more than a year, finally came to an end in the last month of the seventh year of the Qianyuan era.

From then on, the peninsula fell into the hands of the Great Jin Dynasty.