I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 636 Liu Deran shocked the world again
Soon, from Li Xiang's camp, fierce shouts of killing were heard from the Tucheng side.

Li Xiang has been nervous. He has been waiting for this moment for a long time.

He has been thinking about it day and night since his younger brother Li Li went to Xiao Mengjin to sneak attack Liu Jian's camp.

Of course, Li Xiang was not a complete ordinary man. The violent noises coming from the Tucheng side and the fires igniting at the same time... He was not completely sure whether the current battle situation was progressing in the direction he expected.

He hurriedly summoned the elite scout team that had been prepared for a long time, and headed in that direction to carefully explore the opponent's information.

Soon, the scout brought back the previous news to Li Xiang.

The news reported by the scouts to Li Xiang was that there was indeed a huge fire in the enemy's earthen city!

Moreover, you can vaguely hear the sounds of your own soldiers attacking and killing.
This sound of attack and killing is usually something that the Hebei Army cannot imitate, because the troops Li Xiang sent to Tucheng for a sneak attack this time are all locals from Sizhou and have strong regional accents.

If the Hebei Army wants to imitate, they can just find 300 or [-] people to show off in a hurry, but if they are asked to find thousands or even tens of thousands of people who have the same accent as their own soldiers and horses to shout, I'm afraid it won't be possible. possible.

After Li Xiang got the news, he felt even more convinced!
He immediately organized troops and horses to go straight to Liu Jian's Tucheng and kill him. This time he personally took action. His intention was to boost the morale of the three armies in the front line and break the Tucheng as quickly as possible to gain full success.

This time the number of rebels dispatched was even greater than last time. This time Li Xiang almost took out all of his hundreds of thousands of family assets. The vast army of soldiers and horses rushed towards Tucheng like a swarm of ants.

In order to achieve the best results, Li Xiang took the lead this time. He himself was in the Chinese army and headed straight for Tucheng.

But what Li Xiang didn't know was that a dragnet had been set up around the main city at this time!
Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Xu Rong, Xu Huang, Qu Yi, Gongsun Zan!

There are a total of eight generals, each of whom leads one of the most elite troops, each consisting of 3000 people. Although the number is small, the soldiers and horses of these eight troops can be said to be the most elite troops in the Hebei army.

They just waited for the rebel troops to arrive and immediately harassed and divided the rebels from different directions.

The main force of the Chinese army led by Liu Jian was in the earth city, holding powerful crossbows, catapults and other weapons, waiting for the rebels to attack again.

Soon, Li Xiang's front vanguard army had arrived under Tucheng, and the leader of this front vanguard army was Li Xiang himself.

Seeing the fire in Tucheng getting bigger and bigger, Li Xiang couldn't help but feel excited. He waved his hand and said to the soldiers: "Soldiers, I heard that Liu Jian brought a large amount of grain and grass this time, as well as many gold and silver treasures, which are very valuable. Things, together they are worth hundreds of thousands of gold!”

"Now, these treasures are piled up in that earth city. As long as we attack that earth city, all these treasures will belong to you..."

Before Li Xiang could finish his demagogic words, he suddenly heard a loud sound of horns in Tucheng, mixed with the sound of rumbling drums.

And the shouts and attacks that were faintly heard in the city just now suddenly became smaller and smaller... and finally stopped abruptly.

All this happened too suddenly, and things changed too quickly, so fast that even the rebels who had accumulated under the Tucheng were unable to react.

Immediately afterwards.Driven by these noises and horns, huge commotions suddenly broke out in all directions in the rebel army.

Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Xu Rong, Xu Huang, Qu Yi, and Gongsun Zan, urged by the sound of horns and drums, all began to move out.

The eight soldiers and horses were like eight long dragons, interspersed with hundreds of thousands of rebels at lightning speed, splitting them into several segments, so that their heads and tails could not reach each other, and the formations could not communicate with each other. The entire formation suddenly collapsed. There was chaos.

At this time, the more people there are, the more burdensome they become.

The main reason is that these soldiers and horses are not organized. Although there are many people, they do not cooperate as they should during war.

Once there is a problem, you squeeze me and I squeeze you. Not to mention that each other cannot form an effective enemy formation, as long as it does not create obstacles for the other party, it is good.

And the most frightening thing is that once the situation becomes more and more chaotic and there are more and more people, more and more people will be crowding, pushing and trampling on each other.

At this time, the rebel army was like a group of ants. No matter how others stepped on them, they would just swarm around or gather together, but there was no way to fight back.

The teams led by Hebei's eight famous generals were like eight rotating whirlwinds. They scattered waves of rebel teams and kept shuttling back and forth in the opponent's formation according to the planned route.

To deal with such an army of hundreds of thousands, they don't need to kill too many people at all.

It is impossible to kill such a large-scale rebel army. To defeat them, you only need to disrupt their formation.

As long as their formation is chaotic enough, cannot form a large scale, and presents a situation in which they cannot resist, that will be enough for the Hebei Army.

The situation is indeed developing in this direction.

Soon, beads of sweat appeared on Li Xiang's forehead.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up!"

He shouted loudly at the rebel soldiers around him.

But apparently, his shouting had no effect.

On the contrary, those soldiers became increasingly chaotic due to the impact and isolation of the eight powerful armies!

They were so disoriented that they couldn't find the direction to escape, and they couldn't tell the difference between east, west, and north.

Liu Jian's army in the city finally took action after seeing the eight fierce generals disrupting the rebel army's formation.

The already prepared army rushed out from Tucheng, led by an elite group, none other than Hebei's most proud Youzhou Cavalry.

Liu Jian stood at the top of Tucheng and personally supervised the formation.

He looked left and right, and constantly issued his orders to the messengers around him, allowing the messengers to direct the marching routes and actions of the soldiers under the city through the rhythmic regulation of the horn sounds.

The Hebei Army in Tucheng suddenly launched an attack, and Li Xiang was completely fooled.

At this point, he finally knew that he had fallen into Liu Jian's scheme.

Although he didn't understand how Liu Jian could see through his strategy of attacking from both front and back, and at the same time, he could also set up a strategy to lure him here.

But this matter is not important to Li Xiang now.

What he was thinking about now was how to escape quickly.

But at this time, an even worse news resounded in Li Xiang's mind.

"Shuai Qu, look, our camp is also on fire!"

When Li Xiang heard this, he couldn't help but feel dizzy.

He turned his head quickly to look.

Sure enough, the rebel camp was now ablaze with flames. It was obvious that someone was setting fires everywhere in the camp, but it was unknown who set the fire.

However, Li Xiang also had some candidates in mind for the murderer.

If nothing else, it must have been done by those traitors who secretly wanted to surrender to Liu Jian, took the opportunity to show their merit, and wanted to obtain a certain position under Liu Jian's command.

These beasts really deserve to be killed!

Although Li Xiang was extremely angry, he couldn't care less at the moment!

At that moment, Li Xiang was seen urging his war horses, calling his personal guards, and together they rushed toward the seemingly weakest point in the southwest.

But sometimes, what the eyes see is not necessarily what is actually there.

It's not that there's nothing going on in the southwest direction, it's because there's a special passage there, and Li Xiang deliberately walked that way.

soon!Gongsun Zan was seen rushing out from the diagonal thorn, leading the White Horse Yi Cong he had just formed.

This is an opportunity specially given by Liu Jian to Gongsun Zan.

His senior brother was always thinking about making a big contribution and becoming famous.As a fellow junior, Liu Jian felt that his senior should be given more opportunities.

Soon I saw Gongsun Zan leading Baima Yicong to fight in front of Li Xiangjun.

Gongsun Zan held up a new weapon made by the Hebei official weapons workshop - a long spear. The white horse Yi Cong who followed behind him also held a similar weapon and thrust towards the enemy like a series of meteors. In an instant, he shot at the enemy. Li Xiang's personal guards were cut in half.

Gongsun Zan himself brandished a spear and shouted loudly while riding his horse: "The soldiers of the three armies obey my command and divide into north and south routes. They rush east and west in a staggered way. Don't let the leader of the thieves escape!"

Gongsun Zan's army used the intertwining fighting style of dragons to beat Li Xiangjun into confusion, and there was no way to organize an effective counterattack.

Soon it was seen that Li Xiang's army was smashed to pieces. Although they also caused some damage to Gongsun Zan's army, compared with the damage Gongsun Zan caused to him, it was not worth mentioning at all.

Soon, it was seen that Li Xiang's own team was divided, and there were fewer and fewer knights around him. In the end, there were less than ten knights left, and the rest of the infantry were rushed away.

Li Xiang held the sword in his hand and charged left and right, but to no avail.

At this moment, he was surrounded by Gongsun Zan and others.

No matter how he walked, he could not find a personal knight who could help him, and no matter how he walked, all he met were the white-horse followers of Gongsun Zan.

In the end, after going back and forth like this, Li Xiang's connection with the outside world became increasingly weak.

Even though he has nearly a million soldiers, these millions of people only care about themselves at critical moments, and they are unable to form an effective battle mechanism with the outside world.

Not to mention protecting Li Xiang, these millions of people can now keep themselves out of trouble, and they can burn high incense if they can care about themselves.

It is a pity that so many soldiers and horses can only become a burden to each other without an effective mechanism.

In the end, Li Xiang was shot off his horse by Gongsun Zan.

Gongsun Zan also deliberately wanted to save his life, so he did not kill him with a shot.

After Li Xiang was knocked off his horse, he was immediately captured alive by the white horse Yi Cong sergeants. As soon as Li Xiang fell, his already defeated army of one million people became scattered.

What followed was a huge process of recovery, surrender and appeasement.

It is impossible for Liu Jian to eat all these millions of rebels in one sitting.

And it is impossible for them all to defect to Liu Jian in one fell swoop.

Many mid-level generals led their troops and surrendered to the Hebei Army in this battle, and many ordinary soldiers spontaneously surrendered to the Hebei Army.

Of course, there are many soldiers fleeing in all directions, swarming towards the mountains, forests or other places, but there is no doubt that this largest rebel army, whether it is surrendering or fleeing, this million-strong rebel army has completely disappeared. .

In the land of Sizhou, there will never be a rebellion on such a huge scale again.

There are also many mid-level rebel leaders who took advantage of the chaos and led their men to leave here and continue to go to other places to become bandits or rebels and establish themselves on their own. However, compared to Li Xiang, the scale is far from enough. They are fully formed. No threat.

Just wait for Liu Jian to settle things in Sizhou and slowly deal with these bandits.

……

The Hebei army won a great victory. The next day, Liu Jian brought Li Xiang to his camp in front of everyone.

Li Xiang was also a tough man. When he saw Liu Jian, he did not kneel down and surrender. He just kept yelling that he was a lackey of the imperial court, helping the emperor to persecute the people and making the people of Sizhou miserable.

Li Xiang's current uprising is in response to God's will and in line with people's hearts. It is a pity that he cannot restore the prosperity of Huangtian and make the people live and work in peace and contentment. Today, there is only death.

Liu Jian waited quietly for Li Xiang to finish scolding him, and then slowly said, "Are you done scolding me?"

Li Xiang glared with his eyes as big as copper bells and shouted: "It seems like you don't care about people's livelihood. They are just bent on taking advantage of others. I won't be able to scold you until I die."

Liu Jian said very calmly: "If you can't finish scolding me, you should take a break."

Then, he stared at Li Xiang quietly and said:

"You said that I aided the tyrants and abused the people for my own selfish gain, regardless of the people's livelihood. Hmm, that's simply ridiculous."

"Since Liu arrived in Jizhou, in all areas under Liu's jurisdiction, he has recruited refugees to establish farming, resettled the people, abolished the poll tax, measured the land, and classified taxes into the fields, opened imperial examinations, and allowed Fair official system.”

"In everything, Liu has never followed the same trend as the powerful families. He only pays attention to fairness and creates more opportunities for the common people to survive."

"After entering Sizhou, Liu used Hebei's efforts to suppress the price of grain, and harvested wasteland for confiscation and used it for farming. Refugees from all directions came to seek refuge and were resettled. They had food and rice to use. Live and work in peace and contentment.”

"But it's you, the traitor, who held his soldiers still, regardless of the thoughts of ordinary people or the wishes of his soldiers and civilians, and forced them into the battlefield to fight against me."

"There is no need for a war between the two of us, because I am fully capable of bringing all the people under your command back to a stable life."

"But what about you? You want to dominate, hope to become a hero, and take the opportunity to cause trouble. You are the despicable person who is selfish, hurts the people at the bottom, and stains your achievements with their blood."

When he said this, Liu Jian stood up suddenly and said: "Call those people in."

After a while, I saw several mid-level generals from the original rebel army walking into the tent. They had now joined Liu Jian's command.

Liu Jian pointed at Li Xiang and said, "Tell him, what kind of treatment have you and your soldiers received since you surrendered to me? Have you ever been treated harshly? Have you ever been treated harshly? A day of hunger and a day of cold?"

The mid-level generals of the rebels said hurriedly:

"After returning to the general's tent, those who are willing to join the army will be given food, clothing, and accommodation by the general. They will be included in the army and treated in the same way as other military personnel."

"Those who do not want to join the army will be registered as good citizens by the generals. They will be given rice seeds, fields, and houses so that they can return to ordinary lives. No one will ever go hungry."

"The general has also suppressed the price of food in Sizhou, bringing everything back on track so that the people like me can live and work in peace and contentment and live a stable life again."

Liu Jian said calmly: "Then what kind of life did you live in the rebel army in the past?"

“We can’t eat enough, we can’t live a secure life, our lives are precarious, and people starve to death every day.”

Liu Jian looked at Li Xiang with a sneer and said.

"You heard it, this is what people want. No matter how loudly you scold, no matter how happy you are, you are still a loser in the history books, and you are also a despicable villain who completely plays with people's hearts and the people at the bottom. You will never It will be reviled by thousands of people!”

"It's your self-proclaimed master Zhang Jiao. When you saw him after you went to Jiuquan, you had no shame to be his disciple again."

Li Xiang's face turned red with anger at Liu Jian's words. He gritted his teeth and cursed: "Liu is a despicable villain who wants to win people's hearts. You will not end well. You must die a good death."

Liu Jian said very naturally: "There are many people who don't want me to die a good death, and you are not the only one missing."

Afterwards, he ordered the scribes on the side: "Record the guilt of this animal into the history books, and publish it to the world through Ta Kung Pao, so that his reputation will not be ruined again and again."

"In addition, the thief will be escorted to the capital and handed over to the emperor for disposal."

Gongsun Zan on the side heard this and was very puzzled: "My lord, at this time of the year, why do you have to take him to the capital? It is better to kill him on the spot to shake the morale of the three armies and at the same time promote the lord's achievements."

Liu Jian laughed and said, "Do I still need his head to support my achievements? Does he deserve to be counted as my achievements?"

After saying these words, all the generals present laughed.

The million-strong army was defeated by the Hebei Army, and the leader of the bandits, Li Xiang, was escorted to Chang'an.

As soon as this incident came out, it was a great thing that should have made everyone happy, and it immediately shocked the world.

The first person to be shocked was undoubtedly the Emperor of Chang'an, Liu Bian.

(End of this chapter)