Chapter 2485 Waiting for Li Mu to open the city to surrender
Chapter 2482: Wait until Li Mu takes the initiative to open the city to surrender
Jiang Shang knew that Tu Xingsun was unreliable, but he still had to rely on Tu Xingsun. After all, there was no other way to send him out of the city except his earthly skills.
In order to make Tu Xingsun obedient, Jiang Shang had to use some despicable means to impart a highly poisonous method in Tu Xingsun''s meals. While using this as a threat, he promised that he would not only let him go free after leaving the city, but also to relieve the poison.
In response to this, Tu Xingsun was simply crying and without tears. He never expected that the curse seal on his body would be infected with another poison before it was eliminated.
In order to save his life, Tu Xingsun had no choice but to listen to Jiang Shang''s words obediently and use the land technique to send Jiang Shang out of the city.
Before Jiang Shang left, he also found Li Mu, Yang Jian, Yang Ren and Wu Ji, and told them not to leave the city.
"Uncle Master, Junior Brother Tu Xingsun is not honest. Why don''t you let your disciple go with you?"
Yang Ren said worriedly.
Jiang Shang smiled indifferently and said, "Don''t worry, I have my own means to let Tu Xingsun be obedient."
Hearing this, Yang Ren stopped persuading him. After all, Jiang Shang could not have imagined something that even he could think of. Since he dared to leave the city alone with Tu Xingsun, he must have some complete solutions.
Before leaving, Jiang Shang winked at Wu Ji, and Wu Ji realized immediately. The master told him not to show off. If he really couldn''t hold on, he would surrender directly. The most important thing was to survive.
Under the gaze of everyone, Jiang Shang was wearing clothes that were easy to walk on the ground and a helmet with a weird shape that was convenient to breathe underground, and was carried by Tu Xingsun and escaped into the soil.
Even though Jiang Shang has lived for so long, it is the first time he has experienced hiding from the ground.
To be honest, Tu Xingsun’s speed at which he fled the ground was not fast, and the darkness and humidity underground made Jiang Shang extremely uncomfortable.
Even though Jiang Shang was wearing protective gear, Tu Xingsun also used his inner gauze dress to protect his whole body, but he still grinned in pain when he was squeezed by the sand and stones.
After a full night of excavation, Tu Xingsun finally took Jiang Shang to dig out of the city from Baling City, and crossed the Qin army''s encirclement.
After Jiang Shang returned to the ground, his face turned pale, but because he was stained with soil, it turned black and covered in soil. He had no way of being a Taoist master.
This midnight underground was extremely painful for Jiang Shang.
I won’t say much about the dark and humid environment underground and the process of the terrain. The most important thing is that the air underground is extremely thin.
Jiang Shang thought more than once that he could not hold on to his old bones, but he simply survived it.
Jiang Shang''s condition was very poor at this time. Sun Yungong of Tuxing helped him relieve him for a while, and his face improved a lot.
"Uncle Master, I have taken you out of Baling City as agreed. Should you keep your promise?"
Tu Xingsun rubbed his fingers and asked with a thick face. After all, this is a matter of his life.
"Hold it."
Jiang Shang didn''t say anything nonsense, took out a jade bottle from his arms, threw it to Tuxing, and received the goods, "This is the antidote, just swallow it directly."
After Tu Xingsun took it, he immediately swallowed the pills in the medicine bottle and used his energy to drive away the poison.
When he felt that the poison in his body was gone, Tu Xingsun''s face suddenly showed a fierce light. After all, Jiang Shang said, "Uncle Jiang, please go to Qin camp with my nephew."
Hearing this, Jiang Shang smiled and asked, "What, do you want to exchange me for military merit?"
"Because of your intervention, the disciple failed to kill Li Mu. The governor Wu Qi would definitely suspect that the disciple was pretending to surrender, so he could only ask his uncle to explain to his disciple."
As he said that, Tu Xingsun was about to take action and forced Jiang Shang to help him, but before he could touch Jiang Shang, he felt unbearable pain in his abdomen. He couldn''t stand up and kept rolling on the ground.
Jiang Shang walked to Tu Xingsun with a smile and said, "Mr. Tu Xingsun, don''t you think about me, uncle, why dare to give you the antidote?"
Tu Xingsun endured the abdominal pain and asked with difficulty: "Is there poison in the antidote?"
"There is no poison in the antidote, but there is a Gu. Have you heard of the Mother and Child Gu?
You have eaten the Zi Gu, and the Mother Gu is here. As long as I activate the Mother Gu, the Zi Gu will bite it in your body until your internal organs are swallowed. ”
Hearing this, Tu Xingsun was so scared that he was sweating profusely all over, and even wanted to die.
Both Wu Qi and Jiang Shang were all the same guys. These two old silver coins were really counted as he was.
Tu Xingsun endured the pain in his abdomen and knelt down and begged, "I beg my uncle to spare my life. I will never dare to do it again. I just now my disciple was blinded by lard, so I offended my uncle. I really never dared..."
Seeing this, Jiang Shang smiled slightly and stopped activating the mother Gu, and the pain in Tu Xingsun''s abdomen gradually disappeared.
"Please help me serve as a guard for two days."
Jiang Shang squinted his eyes and said with a smile, and this expression seemed even more terrifying than a demon in Tu Xingsun''s eyes.
At the same time, Wu Qi Daying.
"Mr. Governor, all the fifty patrol teams sent out have returned one after another, but no trace of Jiang Shang and Tu Xingsun was found." Zhang Xiu said in a deep voice.
"Sure enough, Jiang Shang ran away." Wu Qi sighed lightly.
"That guy Tu Xingsun dares to betray Daqin. He will definitely kill this guy next time he meets him." Huang Tianxiang said angrily.
Wu Qi shook his head and said, "The betrayal will not happen. What he dares not be. It should be because Jiang Shang is controlled by him and he has to cooperate with Jiang Shang."
"What should I do now?"
"Send cavalry to the section from Baling to Chang''an to chase the news that Jiang Shang escaped from Baling with the life and death general Jiang Shang was sent to Deputy Governor Wang Jian through Feige''s letter."
"No."
Regardless of whether Jiang Shang is in Baling or not, the impact on Wu Qi is no longer great, because he has found a way to defeat the enemy.
The defenders in Baling City probably didn''t know about the news of the defeat of Haojing, the riots in Chang''an, and the destruction of the Yang family.
Li Shimin would never dare to reveal the news and would definitely try every means to block the news.
Therefore, Wu Qi could use this information to attack the morale of the defenders in the city and kill people.
He didn''t believe that Yang Jian could remain indifferent after learning that the Yang family had been destroyed.
Early the next morning, a large number of Qin troops gathered at the city of Baling. The defenders on the city thought the Qin army was here to attack the city, but they didn''t expect that they were just slandering outside the city.
"You don''t know the defenders in the city. Just yesterday, your 60,000 army of Duke Tang Li Shimin was defeated by the 30,000 infantry and cavalry of the governor of Wang Jian in Haojing. He lost miserably..."
"The day before yesterday, in order to suppress the rebellion of several families, the Tang army killed all the aristocratic families in the city, including the Yang family, killing more than 100,000 people in total..."
"Yang Jian, you are fighting to the death for Li Shimin on the front line, but your family has been exterminated by your own people. Don''t you think you are ridiculous..."
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Thousands of Qin soldiers shouted outside Baling City for a whole morning, and to sum up, there are only three things.
1. Li Shimin lost in Haojing.
2. A riot occurred in Chang''an, killing more than 100,000 people;
3. The Yang family of the fourth generation and the third generation of the three dukes was exterminated.
The soldiers at the bottom of the team all scoffed at these three news, thinking that the Qin army''s plan of disagreement was too fake and outrageous.
In the battle of Haojing, Li Shimin personally led 60,000 Tang troops, but lost to Wang Jian''s 30,000 Qin troops?
How is this possible?
His lord Li Shimin is a famous general in the world, and Wang Jian is just an unknown old man. How could he lose if he beats 60,000 and 30,000?
As for the riots in Chang''an, more than 100,000 people died? Even the Yang family was exterminated?
This is even more impossible.
In short, the soldiers at the bottom did not believe any of these three messages.
But after entering the ears of the senior generals, it was completely different. After all, any of these three news was a bolt from the blue.
Senior generals such as Li Mu, Yang Jian, Li Zuoche, and Wu Ji, who all know that Li Shimin urgently summoned Jiang Shang to Chang''an, combined with the news spread by the Qin army, the authenticity will be greatly improved.
If the defeat of Haojing is true, the military strength in Chang''an City will definitely be greatly reduced, and it is obvious that it will not last long. So what is the significance of their persistence in Baling?
If there is a riot and more than 100,000 people die, will there be their families among them?
For a time, all the generals of Baling, including Li Mu, were in chaos due to the news of the Qin army.
Many generals from aristocratic families even formed groups to break into the city lord''s mansion, hoping that Li Mu would give them an explanation.
What can Li Mu do about this? It can only be said that the Qin army was deliberately spreading messages and trying hard to appease these generals.
But it is easy to deceive others, but it is difficult to deceive yourself.
Li Mu couldn''t deceive himself, and he was full of pessimism about whether Baling could keep it.
The incident of several generals forming a group to break into the city lord''s mansion was soon spread in Baling City under the intentional spread of Qin spies.
The soldiers who had originally scoffed at the three news couldn''t help but start to shake and began to talk to each other in the army, and the morale of the army also showed signs of unstableness.
After Li Mu learned about it, he killed dozens of rap soldiers. While announcing that this was fake news, he ordered that the soldiers not be allowed to discuss privately, and he barely controlled the situation.
Defense is more important than defending against Sichuan.
The more Li Mu refused to let the soldiers discuss, the more he was suspected of being guilty. Although the soldiers did not dare to say it, they were clear-headed.
The morale of the Baling defenders is gradually collapsing in this silence.
"Sir, your heart-killing plan has no effect. According to my old man and Sun, it''s better to attack directly." Sun Lingming said.
Wu Qi smiled and said, "I don''t think so. Our army no longer needs to attack Baling."
"Will Li Mu still wait for the city to open the city and surrender if he doesn''t attack the city?" Sun Lingming asked in confusion.
"That''s right, it won''t be long before Li Mu will open the city and surrender. He has no other choice." Wu Qi sneered.
When Sun Lingming and other generals heard this, they looked at each other, obviously not believing that Li Muhui surrendered.
Wu Qi did not explain too much about this, and everyone would naturally know that facts are better than words.
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In a cellar in Chang''an, Ban Chao, Yu Huatian and Li Si, the three culprits who disrupted Chang''an, gathered together again.
"General Wang Jian intercepted Li Shimin''s message. Li Shimin wanted to summon Jiang Shang back to Chang''an to help him solve these messes." Yu Huatian said in a deep voice.
Ban Chao and Li Si heard this and looked at each other, a sneer flashed across the corners of their mouths.
Under their scourge, Chang''an is now a broken ship, and there are too many holes, and it can''t be repaired no matter how it is repaired.
A problem that Li Shimin himself cannot solve, and wants to rely on an outsider Jiang Shang? It’s impossible to think about it. It’s obvious that Li Shimin is already seeking medical treatment in a hurry.
"The message from Governor Wang Jian tells me that you can remind you to incur the matter when necessary." Ban Chao said.
Li Sizi was surprised and said, "Plan in advance? It''s a bit too early."
Their original plan was to launch a mutiny within Chang''an after the main force of the Qin army surrounded Chang''an, seize the city gate, let the Qin army enter the city, attack inside and outside, seize the city of Chang''an in one fell swoop, and set the throne in Guanzhong.
Although the Qin army''s war in Guanzhong is now going smoothly, Li Tang was only left with two cities in just half a month, and he defeated Li Shimin in Baling, but the main force of 100,000 Sizhou has only arrived at Baling and has not yet arrived at the city of Chang''an.
If a mutiny is launched at this time, although it can still be successful, it may have certain hidden dangers and cannot do its best.
"It''s getting late. This time, Haojing was defeated and the Tang army suffered heavy losses.
Now there are only 15,000 defeated troops left in Chang''an City, 20,000 defenders in the four gates and four battalions, 10,000 elite troops, and new recruits recruited at 5,000 at the age of 5,000, totaling more than 50,000 defenders, and most of them are low in morale.
With the power in our hands, it is enough to subvert Chang''an, and there is no need for the main army to arrive.
Of course, to be on the safe side, we naturally don’t need to be in advance if we can proceed as planned. But if Li Shimin noticed it, we can’t prepare at all. "Ban Chao said with a serious face.
(This chapter ends)