Chapter 52 Who is Liu Rengui?

Xiazhou, Tong Wancheng.

When Chen Ying arrived in Tongwan City, it was already early November of the first year of Kaiyuan.

The snow catkins are flying, and the cold air is arousing the skin.

In the Hetao area, the trees are covered with snow and ice ridges, the mountains are dancing silver snakes, and the original wax figures are beautiful.

Thanks to Chen Ying's arrival, coal was used on a large scale in this time and space. In fact, not only the Tang Dynasty was using coal to keep heating, but even Tongwancheng, Liang Shidu, was using coal to keep heating.

There is no way. Xiazhou is originally the capital of China's mineral resources. It is rich in coal, oil, natural gas, rock and salt. On average, every square kilometer of underground contains 6.22 million tons of coal, 14,000 tons of oil, 100 million cubic meters of natural gas, and 140 million tons of rock and salt. The resource combination is well allocated, which is rare at home and abroad.

In fact, as early as the second year of Wude, Chen Ying wanted to take over Xiazhou and destroy Liang Shidu.

Facing such a piece of fat, no one would be moved. However, at that time, he was just a general manager of Lingzhou and could not be ranked in the Tang Dynasty. He could not make any political decisions. In fact, during Li Yuan's rule, even Li Jiancheng could not control Li Yuan's opinions.

At that time, in order to create a buffer zone with the Eastern Turks, Li Yuan let the Liang army fight back and not chase after him. As long as the Liang army invades, he would beat him as soon as he should, but he would never beat him to death with one blow.

After all, beating a dog depends on the owner.

However, by the time Li Jiancheng was in power, Li Jiancheng had already fought a national war with the Eastern Turks, fighting for a war and destroying his country, so there was no need for this strategic buffer zone to exist.

On the plateau of undetermined platform.

More than 4,000 Dingyuan Army and 16 Hedong Army of Zhechong Prefecture, totaling more than 30,000 troops were lined up in a towering array. The huge army formation lasted for more than ten miles, with fiery red helmets and purple-black battle flags flying in the cold wind, which was extremely spectacular.

Thousands of troops were silent, and the heaven and earth were filled with murder.

Although the Tang army had not yet launched a siege, the murderous aura was like a storm.

Speaking of which, Liang Shi was also unlucky enough. As one of the 36 rebel kings at the end of the Sui Dynasty, all rebel kings who rebelled at the same time, either died or surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. Only Liang Shi was still called lonely, but he was Wang Xiaoer's New Year's Eve——years worse than one year.

Although he changed his reign to "Yonglong", he always had a prosperous future. But no rebel king was as declining as him. Except for the rebellion, he defeated the Sui general Zhang Shilong when he was raising the flag to rebel, he was beaten up by the Tang army all the way.

On the fourth day of the seventh month of the first year of Wude (618), the Liang Shidu invaded Lingzhou and was defeated by Lin Xingcan, the general of the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty (Zhe Chong Duwei). On the first day of the second year of Wude (619), the Liang Shidu invaded Lingzhou again and was repelled by the chief of Lingzhou Yangze. During the third attack on Lingzhou, Chen Ying was pressed to the ground and rubbed.

Since Chen Ying was the chief executive in Lingzhou, the army of Liang Shidu did not dare to rob him across the border. As long as Chen Ying caught his troops, they would throw them into the coal mine to dig coal, and they would have free labor without wages.

Liang Shidu was adjacent to Lingzhou, but he did not have the ability to make money like Chen Ying. Lingzhou under Chen Ying's rule was rich and had no worries about food and clothing, but the people under his rule were even worse than beggars.

I beg my grandfather to report to my ancestors and get some cattle and sheep from the Turks, but Chen Ying pulled a handful of wool.

After finally reaching the point where Chen Ying was transferred from Lingzhou, Master Liang felt that he could stand up and behave like a man. Who would have thought that Chen Ying would come to Li Daozhen after leaving.

This fierce and domineering woman was even more cruel than Chen Ying. Chen Ying just captured her soldiers and threw them into the mine to dig coal for free. However, Li Daozhen became Bengali and led the warriors of the 18 towns of Lingwu under her command, and she took the whole village and the whole village.

Well, in the end, Li Daozhen went back to be her concubine and was the one who was safe to be her concubine. Has the matter been resolved? No, Li Daozong appeared again. After Li Daozong was transferred, Qin Qiong came again. Liang Shidu's opponents were more fierce than each other, and each one was more dark than each other.

The Liang Shidu found that the Tang army outside the city was fighting against the General "Chen" Datao, the cavalry, was not surprised at all.

After so long of their dealings, they had already figured out the temper of this mortal enemy. They were just a piece of dog skin plaster. They would not put it on when they were stuck. They would never give up until they bite their opponents bloodied.

The four major Yehu Khans of the Eastern Turks, twelve of them were sweating, but none of them did not have a headache when facing Chen Ying.

Seeing Chen Ying appear, Master Liang calmed down.

He did not think about driving Chen Ying away while she was not yet firm in her foothold.

Unless the head was kicked by a donkey, he would not fight with Chen Ying at all. The Western Turkic regiment Ye Hu Khan was a typical example of the head being kicked by a donkey. As a result, the 200,000 troops were almost wiped out in a battle, and he was trapped in the formation, which became a point of Chen Ying's merit.

The tall, majestic and magnificent, and sturdy Tongwan City is the last reliance of Liang Shidu. After five years of renovation, Tongwan City has been taller and stronger than Tongwan City in history. Even if Chen Ying has strong field combat capabilities, he will definitely be beaten to death under Tongwan City.

But what made Liang Shi puzzled was that Chen Ying did not build siege equipment. Instead, he braved the cold and started the entire Yonggu military camp.

This military camp is very large and surrounds all directions of Tongwan City. Since it is a cold winter season, construction is very difficult, and only a white mark is left on the frozen ground with waste chlorine.

However, the Tang army soldiers did not have much effort. They directly placed coal stoves on the frozen ground and roasted the frozen soil layer with fire. After the frozen layer melted, the frozen soil on the ground became mud. The Tang army soldiers threw the wood shells like the later construction team poured reinforced concrete, throwing the mud into the shell board, and then after an hour, even the shell board was frozen on the mud wall, which merged with the mud wall.

A huge camp wall rose up around the commanding city. This seemed to be the stance of building a city, not just building a wall, but also like an arrow tower or an enemy tower.

As the outline of the huge military camp appeared, under Chen Ying's order, the people and merchants in Lingzhou, Shuozhou, and Bingzhou were mobilized.

A large amount of food, medicine, clothing, weapons, crossbows, arrows, armor... was continuously transported out of the warehouse, loaded with sleds, and rushed to the Tang army camp outside Tongwancheng City.

Standing on the wall of Tongwan City, Liang Shi was looking at the Tang army camp outside the city, and the food and grass were piled up into small hills. Liang Shi was thinking while chewing beef jerky.

At this time, the beef jerky was not like the method in later generations. Instead, it was very roughly used stone rolls to squeeze out the moisture in the beef, and then spread it with salt and exposed to the sun. The taste was not satisfactory. The key was that it was very hard. The beef jerky of the Tang army soldiers was all ground into jerky powder. When eating, soaked the fried flour and rinsed it with boiling water.

The beef jerky in Mr. Liang's mouth can't be chewed no matter how hard he chewed it. Even if he chewed it, he can't be swallowed, and even if he swallowed it, he can't be pulled out...

In short, it's very hard. No one knows how others are. Master Liang absolutely doesn't like this thing anyway. He chewed it so hard that he threw away the beef jerky and cursed angrily: "I just nod my head when killing people. If you want to suppress them, you need to comfort them. If you don't fight or caress them, what's the point of just consuming them?"

Liu Sheng, the Minister of Liang Shidu, was originally a fat man. Due to lack of food, he successfully lost weight and lost more than 20 kilograms, which was really enough for him. He looked at the beef jerky on the ground, and his stomach was sore and gritted his teeth: "Chen Ying's son was vicious and wanted to starve all of us to death and die of cold in Tongwan City!"

Master Liang is indeed not afraid of Chen Ying’s emergency attack, but is afraid that Chen Ying will be in a stalemate.

Because he didn't have much food to store. Emperors like him all relied on beef jerky that was difficult to swallow, while ordinary soldiers could only use grass roots, mixed grains and wild vegetables to fill up.

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In fact, not only Master Liang couldn't figure out what medicine was sold in Chen Ying's gourd, but even the Hedong General Manager and Hejian King Li Xiaogong could not figure out Chen Ying's pulse.

Li Xiaogong is a model of a noble family. He has the responsibility, ability and loves a luxurious life. Even during war, he has more than a hundred servants around him, always dressing his life. In terms of making a name, the three Chen Yings are not as good as Li Xiaogong.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other in Tongwancheng for half a month.

It was not until the beginning of December of the first year of Kaiyuan that Chen Ying finally began to take new actions.

Early in the morning, the war drums in the Tang army camp were earth-shaking.

As the soldiers of the entire army gathered, Chen Ying finally issued the first order since he surrounded and ruled Wancheng.

This is a ridiculous command.

"There are forty baggage teams in the entire army, leading the troops forward to the land of Tongwancheng with one arrow to make meals!"

Although the generals did not understand Chen Ying's order, none of them dared to question Chen Ying's order.

With the rumbling sound of war drums, the Tang army began to move out.

The first to appear were more than 200 four-wheeled carriages pulling coal stoves. The four-wheeled carriages slowly advanced along the frozen ground and entered the land of Tongwan City with one arrow. These four-wheeled carriages stopped immediately.

One side of the car box is opened from it and a bracket is installed.

The soldiers of the group of soldiers put coal into the stove, and then began to step on the foot blower. The flames of the fire surged out more than a foot high, and a row of four or five hundred large iron pots began to cook.

The steamed buns that steamed buns, the buns that made buns, the rice that made rice that made rice that made rice that made vegetables, and the vegetables that made vegetables that made them very busy.

Li Xiaogong didn't understand Chen Ying's intention at first, but he already understood it at this time.

Tongwancheng was short of food, and all the soldiers of the army, including Liang's army, could not eat enough.

Once the aroma of food wafts outside the city, will the Liang Shidu troops in Tongwan City still have the intention to fight?

In Chen Ying's central army tent, Chen Ying sat comfortably on the soft couch, looking at Li Xiaogong and said, "I have sent an envoy to persuade Liang Shidu to surrender. The condition I gave them is to be a past without any blame, but they must surrender unconditionally. I am a person who likes to be straightforward and does not want to coax them with good words, and then I will use a lot of tricks after they surrender."

Li Xiaogong was a little helpless. In front of Li Jing, Li Xiaogong could still suppress him as an old leader.

However, in front of Chen Ying, none of this worked.

On the battlefield, we should pay attention to soldiers and never get tired of cheating! How can we spread everything out from the beginning?

Li Xiaogong pondered and said, "Mr. Liang is still far from the end of his life. If they surrender unconditionally, they will not agree."

Chen Ying smiled bitterly and said, "When they reach the end of their lives, they probably died almost... Didn't the scouts discovered that they had dug up their leftover bones to make soup?"

Chen should grin and smiled, "If they don't agree, we will fight until they agree! Even though Liang Shidu claims to have more than 100,000 troops, more than 80,000 of these more than 100,000 troops are water, and only 30,000 to 40,000 are directly able to fight, which is not enough for us to fight in one battle!"

All the generals laughed,

Because his lips were frozen and cracked, no one dared to laugh too loudly, and the laughter was a bit strange.

Chen Ying stood up, pointed to the map, and said, "This general originally planned to surround the points to attack the aid. Unexpectedly, the Eastern Turks were cowardly. The Liang Shidu sent sixteen waves of rescue messengers. However, the Eastern Turks did not take any action. It seems that they were preparing to abandon the Liang Shidu's pawn!"

Li Xiaogong nodded and said, "Actually, we and the Turks understand that the meaning of the existence of Master Liang is to avoid the two sides breaking up directly. Now, both our Tang Dynasty and Eastern Turks have lost patience. Therefore, Master Liang has no need to exist!"

"Mr. Liang has never been the target of this general!" Chen Ying smiled faintly and said, "He is not worthy yet!"

Speaking of this, Chen Ying picked up a charcoal pen and drew an arrow on the map. Chen Ying turned to Li Xiaogong and said, "General Li, I will give you a task!"

Li Xiaogong immediately put away his cynical attitude and stood up with a serious expression and said, "The last one is here!"

Chen Ying said: "There are still 28 counties in the Liang Shidu. You don't have to pay attention to Tong Wancheng. Take down all the counties and give them an ultimatum, either surrender or die!"

Li Xiaogong said: "General Chen, as long as Liang Shidu dies or surrenders, other counties will issue edicts. Why bother to spend a lot of money on Zhang?"

Chen Ying said: "At the latest next year, it will be the opportunity for our decisive battle with the Eastern Turks. Liang Shi is very evil. He must have many confidants in each county. Once the situation is not good, he will immediately burn the grain in each county, and escape with light clothes and sloppy. If he only leads a little confidant, he will still have a chance to escape. What's more, if there is a shortage of food, there will be tens of thousands of mouths. Can we watch them starve to death?"

Li Xiaogong clasped his fists and said, "The last general will take the order!"

Chen Ying turned to Luo Shixin and said, "Luo Shixin, you lead the lances and push them in a straight line, and make a strong attack on Dingxiang, and lure the Turks to block the attack!"

This is a very safe way. Whether it is infantry or cavalry war, the Later Sui and Liang Kingdoms could not compare with the Tang army that fought with the Turkic cavalry force with one sword and one shot. Once squeezed into a flat and open area, the lancers roared over, and what awaited them would be a terrible massacre.

Whether it was Chen Ying or Jiancheng, they did not want to see such a massacre from the bottom of their hearts. They hoped that the envoys could convince the Liang State or the Later Sui State to surrender, or to annihilate the main forces of the Liang army and the Later Sui army in a dignified main battle, rather than killing them to make blood flow and corpses fill the wild.

After all, most of the soldiers of the Liang State and the Later Sui State were originally honest farmers, and were forced to survive. Follow Liang Shidu and Yang Zhengdao and others to the point of going to black. Killing ten thousand enemies like this would not add to their honor, nor would it help solve practical problems.

The cold wind blew, so cold.

Thousands of Liang soldiers looked at Chen Ying with dull eyes as he came along with two followers, riding a white horse, without any expression on his face. The envoy was handsome and heroic, both of his appearance and temperament. The two followers behind him were both tall and neither humble nor arrogant. Just like three people, they entered Tongwan City, without any fear, as if they were shopping.

Some of Liang Jun's little leaders were amazed. Such people were rare. Of course, what attracted their attention the most was the three large bamboo baskets in their hands, which were unknown. They were covered with clean white cloth tightly, and a wisp of hot air overflowed from it, and a long-lost fragrance penetrated into everyone's noses, but before they could smell it enough, the cold wind blew away.
To be continued...