A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Starting from the Village Chief

Chapter 82: Yellow Horse and Golden Mace
Hebei, Liyang,
bare hill.

The setting sun was blood-red, the sunset glow was also blood-red, and even the Yongji Canal at the foot of Tongshan Mountain was dyed red with blood.

On the battlefield,
Broken spears were everywhere,
The flags of Wei and Sui mixed and fell on the battlefield.

There was a layer of arrows stuck in the ground, as if the land had grown hideous thorns.

The battle lasted from dawn to dusk, and it was not over yet.
Li Mi, the ruler of the Wei Dynasty, was shot by an arrow and fell off his horse, unconscious. All his personal guards were killed in the battle, and Yu Wenzhi's brave army surrounded him.
An eight-foot-tall warrior with a pale golden face, riding a yellow horse, suddenly appeared out of nowhere, leading a team of cavalrymen to charge straight at them from a distance.

The horses leaped over the piles of corpses,

"Qin Qiong is here, who dares to fight me?"

The brave general immediately leaned down and pulled the unconscious Li Mi onto his horse.

The brave soldiers on all sides stopped in their tracks when they heard the name of Qin Qiong.

"Qin Shubao was the most powerful general under Zhang Xutuo in Henan at that time."

Since the Sui Dynasty, no one in Henan did not know the names of Zhang Xutuo and Qin Shubao. He was also a brave general in the imperial court who fought against refugees.
The Xiaoguo Army, still flying the banner of the Sui Dynasty, watched Qin Qiong and the unconscious Li Mi break out of the encirclement.

Looking around,

The battlefield was littered with corpses.
On one side were the elite Wagang troops who had once rebelled against the Sui Dynasty and now, following Li Mi's acceptance of the title in Luoyang, raised the banner of the Sui Dynasty. On the other side were the most elite guards of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, but after the regicide in Jiangdu, they headed north and wanted to return to Guanzhong.

But after reaching Huaxian, they ran out of food, so Yu Wenzhi had no choice but to attack Liyang warehouse in an attempt to seize the food.

The two elite troops fought bloody battles for a whole day.
Both sides are exhausted.
Qin Shubao rescued Li Mi from the siege on the battlefield.
Li Mi, who had just woken up, looked pale and drew his sword to commit suicide. Qin Shubao grabbed the sword and said, "Duke Wei, the battle is not over yet. Both sides are at the end of their strength. It depends on who can hold out longer."
Whoever gives up first loses the battle."

"Duke Wei, raise the general's flag. I will reorganize the troops and send everyone forward.

Li Mi hesitated. He was wounded by an arrow and was in great pain. The brutality of the battle also made him feel insecure. He thought about retreating and even escaping directly.

"The Xiaoguo Army are made up of elite veteran soldiers from Guanzhong. They are now out of food. They have been fighting desperately for the food in Liyang Warehouse. We have been defeated." Li Mi sighed.

"No, we haven't lost yet. Duke Wei also heard that not long ago, Li Yuan's second son, Li Shimin, led his troops to fight against Xue Ju. The eight generals of Qianshuiyuan were defeated. However, Li Shimin, despite being ill, still dared to fight to the death and attacked Xue Ju's army at night, defeating the enemy in one fell swoop and turning the tide.
Today, our soldiers are still fighting to the death. We can still fight. How can the Duke of Wei give up? "

"Shubao, do you think we can really fight?"

"certainly,"

Li Mi finally gained some confidence and said, "Okay, let's fight."

Qin Qiong jumped on his horse and shouted loudly,
He ordered the remaining troops to follow him and continue the battle.

"Follow my flag and kill as I do."

A yellow-fat horse, a golden mace, a 10-foot-long horse spear, chain mail armor with mountain characters, and a bright red cloak.

People are like dragons and horses are like tigers.

Qin Shubao took the lead and rushed into the battlefield again.
Behind him were soldiers following closely.

Many defeated Wei soldiers on the battlefield also looked at the Qin flag that was heading against the tide, and mustered up the courage to fight again.

There are more and more soldiers behind me.
Qin Qiong went straight to Yu Wenhuaji's banner.

"Who is that person, so brave!"

"Qin Qiong, one of the Eight Cavalry Generals in Li Mi's tent,"

"But was it Qin Shubao, a fierce general under Zhang Xutuo back then?"

"Exactly this person."

Hearing that it was Qin Shubao who was coming to kill him, Yu Wenzhi could not help but get nervous. Zhang Xutuo was known as the most powerful general who had fought against bandits since the Sui Dynasty. Yang Guang had sent someone to paint Zhang Xutuo's portrait and bring it back to the palace.

At that time, there were countless rebels in Henan and Hebei, but none of them could defeat Zhang Xutuo. All of them were defeated by him. Zhang Xutuo even dared to fight against tens of thousands of rebels with only five cavalrymen.
Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin were the bravest generals under Zhang Xutuo. Yu Wenzhi had heard of their heroic deeds countless times when he was with Yang Guang.

"Stop him!"

A brave army went up to meet them.

But Qin Qiong soon killed the main general and broke through them.

Yu Wenzhi stood up in shock.

"This man has a courage unmatched by ten thousand men."

He glanced around and found that none of the guards around him were capable of fighting.

Looking at the entire battlefield, there are no more troops to be withdrawn.
By this point, they were all exhausted and had even been defeated.

"withdraw,"

Yu Wenzhi did not dare to fight Qin Shubao at all and decided to retreat without hesitation.

Xu Jingzong, the attendant of the imperial court, said anxiously, "Prime Minister, we cannot retreat now. The central army's flag is here. If the flag is withdrawn, the soldiers on the entire battlefield will lose their morale, which will inevitably lead to a retreat of the entire battlefield, and a retreat will inevitably lead to a rout.

We can't retreat. Qin Qiong may be brave, but his forces are few. Send all the guards and reserves to stop them. If we hold on a little longer, we'll win this battle soon."

But Yu Wenzhi ignored his advice and just got on his horse and left.

The guards followed closely and took the commander's flag away as well.

In the distance, Qin Qiong saw Yuwen Huaji's flag retreating, and he cheered up and shouted: "Yuwen Huaji has escaped, the enemy army has been defeated, brothers, kill him!" The Xiaoguo soldiers who were trying to stop the battle looked back and ran away.

As Xu Jingzong said,
When the banner moved back,

The battle is won and lost.

The Xiaoguo Army began to retreat across the board, while the Wei Army launched a pursuit with great enthusiasm.

The retreat quickly turned into a rout.
after dark,

The battle is over,

Yu Wenzhi and the Xiaoguo army fought desperately for food, but all their efforts were in vain. Although the Wei army was unable to expand the victory in the end,

But for the Xiaoguo Army, they failed to capture the Liyang Warehouse and were cut off from food, which was already a crushing defeat for them.

They wasted too much time here and now they are badly hurt.

Yu Wenhuaji sneaked into Ji County and sent troops to plunder food everywhere. He also sent people to Dong County to arrest officials and powerful people, torture them severely, and force them to hand over food. Everyone in Dong County was in danger. Xu Jingzong, a clerk who came to collect the food, secretly persuaded the governor Wang Gui to surrender to Li Mi.

So Wang Gui asked Xu Jingzong to bring the letter of surrender to see Li Mi.

Li Mi accepted the surrender of Dongjun and appointed Wang Gui as the governor of Huazhou. He left Xu Jingzong as the secretary of the Marshal's Office and was in charge of paperwork together with the secretary Wei Zheng.

Former Prime Minister Su Wei was also in Dongjun at this time, and surrendered to Li Mi along with everyone else. When Yu Wenzhi heard in Jijun that Dongjun in the rear had rebelled and surrendered to Li Mi, he was frightened and immediately headed north.

His general Chen Zhilue led more than 10,000 brave men from Lingnan, Fan Wenchao led the Jianghuai spearmen, and Zhang Tong'er led several thousand brave men from Jiangdong, but they all refused to go north and surrendered to Li Mi.

Yu Wenzhi had only about 20,000 remaining soldiers and generals, and they marched north to Weizhou.

They entered Wei County and plundered it relentlessly. Soldiers were escaping every day.

Yu Wenzhi also knew that he would be defeated.
"Since we are born to die, why not become emperor for a day?"

When death was imminent, Yu Wenzhi became even more crazy. He ignored the advice of his subordinates and directly gave a pot of poisoned wine to the puppet emperor Yang Hao, poisoning him to death.

That day, in the county government office of Wei County,

Yu Wenhuaji ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, named the country Xu, established the reign title Tianshou, appointed officials to various posts, and announced it to the world.

Northwest Guanzhong,

Jingzhou, Changcheng City,

Xue Ju, the Qin Emperor who had been emperor for more than a year and a month, was almost dying.
The spy he sent to Guanzhong to search for Wuyi and the elixir had just set out, but his condition worsened and he was on his deathbed.
His family was originally the Xue family in Hedong, and later moved to the border. Their family was a general family in the right army of Long. His father was the lieutenant of Jincheng, and he was also the lieutenant of Jincheng. If the world had not been in chaos, his son Xue Rengao would have been the lieutenant of Jincheng in the future.

His family is powerful in Longyou and has a huge fortune.
He was generous by nature, proficient in martial arts, and liked to make friends with powerful people in border areas. He dominated the area to the right of Longyou.

Taking advantage of the chaos, he led his thirteen troops in a rebellion, seized Longyou in two months, and founded a country and proclaimed himself emperor.

But this dream of becoming an emperor only lasted a little over a year and a month.

At this time, he was still very young but had reached the end of his life. He did not die from swords and guns on the battlefield, but from malaria.

"Call the prince back quickly,"

Xue Ju knew that he was dying, so he began to make a will to his ministers, stating that after his death, Crown Prince Xue Rengao would succeed him.

"Prime Minister Hao, I regret not listening to your advice. If I had not attacked Li Gui, but instead rushed east to seize Guanzhong, there would be no place for Li Yuan in this world."

A general brought a wizard and asked him to treat Xue Ju.

The wizard walked around the room and said, "Your Majesty, after the great victory at Qianshuiyuan, you shouldn't have piled up the bodies of the over ten thousand Tang soldiers who died in the battle into a Jingguan. Those ten thousand Tang soldiers turned into wronged spirits and evil spirits that are haunting Your Majesty. It's all their fault."

Xue Ju shuddered.
It seemed as if he really saw countless wronged souls and evil spirits coming to claim his life.
He screamed several times in panic,
Suddenly vomited several liters of blood,

A desperate death.

The Qin Emperor has passed away!
He collapsed in Changcheng City outside Jingzhou City.

Xue Rengao rushed back to Zhecheng City, succeeded to the throne in front of his father's coffin, and posthumously named his father Emperor Wu.

The Qin army was running out of food and supplies, and its morale was low. Xue Rengao ordered his troops to plunder everywhere. If they couldn't grab food and supplies, they would just rob people and eat them like two-legged sheep.

Chang'an,

Xicheng Changshoufang,
Yongzhou government office,

Li Yi and his men brought three thieves to report the crime.

"Are you a spy sent by the Long thief Xue Ju? Are you Li Yi from Yusu Township?" The person who received the report was an old official. He was shocked after hearing this and hurried to report it. Soon another official came and claimed to be a recorder.
"Yesterday we happened to capture several spies sent by Xue Ju. After interrogation, we found out that they were coming for you. We also sent a letter to Wannian County yesterday, but we didn't expect that you had already captured three of them before we even arrived at the village." The clerk exclaimed.

Li Yi was even more surprised.

He just wanted Li Shimin to help him find out if Wei Du was behind the scenes, but how did Xue Ju get involved?

Yongzhou Prefecture immediately reported to the King of Qin. King of Qin Li Shimin was both the Shangshu Ling and the Governor of Yongzhou. Originally, Li Shimin, as the Governor, did not really care about the affairs of Yongzhou Prefecture. Usually, the Beijia and Zhizhong were in charge of the affairs. However, when it came to the matter of Xue Ju being a spy, they had instructed that it must be reported to the King of Qin in a timely manner.

Li Yi was invited to the government office and before he had finished his cup of tea,

Li Shimin sent someone to pick him up and take him to the Secretariat.

(End of this chapter)