First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 195 Xue Rengao's End

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Little did they know how shocking it was that Xue Rengao's deployment fell on the soldiers of the Western Qin Dynasty.

Xue Rengao, who had always claimed to be the enemy of thousands of people, actually retreated. The morale of the Western Qin Army, which was already low, was even more hopeless when seeing this.

Li Shimin, who was thinking hard about a good strategy, was overjoyed when General Qingan of the Western Qin Dynasty came to vote. He immediately received him grandly. Hearing Qingan's complaints against Xue Rengao, Gao Chong suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He knew where Xue Rengao's deathbed was.

The previous strategy of the Tang army was to procrastinate, because all the generals knew that the Western Qin State was not productive, and the grain production in Longyou was not abundant. The whole country's expedition must be due to insufficient food and grass.

However, after delaying until now, Western Qin not only ran out of food, but also complained internally, as evidenced by the fact that leading generals such as Hungan surrendered in front of the battle.

The lack of food and grass, according to Xue Rengao's tyrannical temperament, will inevitably lead to violent expropriation, looting everywhere, and the people in the city will suffer. Therefore, although the rations of the Western Qin Army are now reduced, they will not starve to death, but Xue Rengao loses the morale of the army. This is completely unsolvable .

"General Hun, are there many generals in the puppet Qin army who were born as barbarians?" Gao Chong asked curiously after three rounds of drinking.

Hungan was already five points drunk, seeing Gao Chong asking, he also knew that Gao Chong was the Sima of the palace, and he didn't dare to neglect, "There are many, when the late emperor and Xue Ju raised troops in Jincheng, many recruited Hu people outside the Great Wall, I am Those who defected back then, but now, Xue Rengao doesn't trust us."

Speaking of this, Hunkan drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, feeling very depressed.

Gao Chong was thinking in his heart, looked at Li Shimin and said bluntly: "Your Majesty, before there was Chi Pai Qiang Zhong all enemies, then there was Minshan Qiang Zhong Lisu, and then General Hu Lang of Liang, General Hun Gan, and many Hu brothers all abandoned Xue Bandit. Go, Xue thief must be more afraid of Hu Bing and Hu Jiang.

Tomorrow, you may send Generals Hun and Liang to the city to speak out, throwing letters of persuasion, urging the barbarians in the city to come and vote, bluntly saying that the king regards Han and Hu as alike, and will never treat barbarians as lightly as Xue Rengao."

Everyone felt that it was feasible after hearing the words. As the saying goes, there are only three things. Now the Hu people in the West Qin Army have rebelled against Qin four times, and these four people are not low in influence.

When Li Shimin heard the words, he turned around and agreed, and looked at the two men, "I don't know the two generals...?"

Liang Hulang immediately got up and agreed, "The sin will be willing."

"But there is no difference in the dispatch," Hungan said in a serious manner.

Li Shimin was overjoyed, "Okay, the two generals will go out, and they will make great achievements."

The next day, Xue Rengao, who was guarding Lingtai City, came to the top of the city early, and saw the Tang army gradually forming an array outside the city.

With the sound of drums, hundreds of elite Hu soldiers, led by Hungan and Liang Hulang, came to the city and stood outside the range of the crossbow.

Hunliang and Liang were the first to speak, and then hundreds of elites echoed and shouted together. It was obvious that they had rehearsed in advance, and they yelled out the concise and concise words of persuasion together.

Xue Rengao saw that the second Hunliang general was already angry, and he was even more furious when he heard the shouting. He immediately ordered to open the city, and Xue Rengao led thousands of elites to rush out.

Seeing this, the two generals of Hunliang hurriedly retreated. Behind them, the Tang army had already prepared. Seeing Xue Rengao rushing out, Li Shimin ordered the flag to wave. The Tang army immediately formed a concave formation and let Xue Rengao rush into the formation.

Li Shimin was overjoyed when he saw this, and then waved the command flag to encircle the two sides in front of him. However, Xue Rengao was also a veteran in the battlefield. After a hundred people fled into the city in panic.

Xue Rengao hated secretly in his heart, first he hated the disloyalty of Hu soldiers and generals, and second he hated Li Shimin's misuse of the army formation, so he had to go back to the temporary palace angrily, and handed over the defense of the city to Zhao Hongan and Wu Shizheng.

Until nighttime, there were no abnormalities at the city gates, except that there were soldiers of the Western Qin Dynasty falling from ropes in some remote places on the city walls.

"Brother, do you have a good place to go?"

"The only way to go is to go to the Tang Army," a soldier whispered back, "Brother, do you have other good places to go?"

"The best place to go is to go to the Tang Army." The first soldier who asked the question said bluntly, "Didn't you hear what those nonsense people said in the daytime? The Tang Army actually has meat to eat. I haven't tasted the smell of meat for a long time." .

"Don't talk about it, I'm so hungry, let's go together," another soldier said straight away, wiping the corners of his mouth.

There are many such things tonight, regardless of Han and Hu, they are all scrambling to climb ropes down the city and go to the Tang army.

The next day, with a heavy face on Zhao Hong'an's face, he went straight to find Xue Rengao who was drunk, "Your Majesty, there were more than a thousand people who went to the city to vote for the Tang Dynasty last night, and I'm afraid it will be worse in the future."

Xue Rengao breathed out a breath of alcohol, but he didn't get angry when he heard the words, but asked: "How many barbarians are there in the city?"

Zhao Hong'an was startled, he was in a bad mood, so he said softly: "There are about two thousand in the army."

"Kill all of them", Xue Rengao's eyes flashed fiercely, showing ruthlessness, "Rongdi's heart is not in Daqin, and his heart is not loyal, so what's the use of keeping it."

"Your Majesty can't do it," Zhao Hong'an hurriedly fell to the ground, "The late emperor's army depends on the barbarians, if he kills innocent barbarians, he will lose the hearts of the people."

"There were two Qiangs from Chipai Minshan in the past, and now there are two thieves from Liang and Hun. Kill them all to avoid future troubles." Xue Rengao sat up awkwardly, kicking Zhao Hongan to the ground, "I remember your mother clan It is also from Xihu, but you have a heart for Hu people?"

Zhao Hongan was terrified, he hurriedly said: "I dare not", and then retreated in a panic.

Back at the residence, Zhao Hongan paced the room, his face uncertain.

After a long time, he seemed to have made up his mind, kowtowed to the west, then closed his eyes and murmured: "I have received the great kindness of the late emperor, and I should serve the country wholeheartedly. However, your majesty is violent and suspicious, and I dare not murder your majesty, so I can only flee."

Then he took out the official robe and put it neatly on the desk, put the official seal aside, changed into a tattered civilian attire, smeared his face with stove ash, turned around and left through the back door, disappearing into the streets and alleys.

In the evening, Xue Rengao was staring at a map of Longyou ecstatically, when suddenly his personal guard rushed to report, "Your Majesty, General Zhao has abandoned his post and fled."

Xue Rengao stopped when he heard it, sat staggeringly on the couch, and waved his hands wearily.

The next day, the Tang army attacked for a while and almost reached the top of the city. However, Xiqin's loyalists did not retreat and returned without success.

With the Tang army's persuasion and the lack of food in the city, more and more soldiers of the Western Qin Dynasty fled. What's more, they climbed down to the city in broad daylight. The generals of the Western Qin Dynasty could not stop this.

"Your Majesty, surrender."Wu Shizheng looked ashen, looked at the decadent Xue Rengao and sighed, "The army is only three thousand, and the food is only three days, so it is useless to support."

Xue Rengao twitched his lips, and wiped the horse's gun on his own, "I have been an enemy of the Tang army since I started my army, and I will die if I surrender to Tang."

Wu Shizheng smiled miserably, "The minister feigned surrender before, killed thousands of Tang troops, and captured Chang Da alive. There is no way out for surrendering to Tang."

Hearing this, Xue Rengao actually laughed, "Then let's die together."

(End of this chapter)