Vol 2 Chapter 2471: A river of blood flowed from the victory of Hokyung (2)

Chapter 2471: The Great Victory of Haojing (2): Rivers of Blood

Chapter 2467: A river of blood flowed from the victory of Haojing (2)

The rebel rebellion was so powerful that the whole of Chang'an was plunged into panic, but Li Kui, Li Chunfeng and others in the Tang Palace did not panic at all.

Before Li Shimin left, he handed over Chang'an to Li Kui, Li Si, and Li Chunfeng to jointly manage. The three restrained each other and could prevent rebellion.

“Two adults, this is the list of rebel parties that launched the rebellion.” Li Chunfeng said.

Li Kui and Li Si looked at each other, and Li Kui snorted coldly: "I would like to know who is the rebel."

 Immediately, he took over the list, but the further down he looked, the uglier Li Kui's face became.

"How is this possible? The eldest son of the head of the Wang family in the east of the city died in a battle with the Qin army. In the first Guanzhong battle, the Wang family even dedicated half of its troops. How could the Wang family rebel?"

After hearing Li Kui's words, Li Si continued: "Zhang Fei, the captain who initiated the mutiny in Xiying, also had his father killed in the hands of the Qin army. He and the Qin army had a grudge for killing his father. It can be said that they are sworn enemies. But he still participated in the rebellion, what did he think? "

The more Li Kui looked down, the more frightened he became. These rebellious families were all big families who once supported Li Tang. But now that Li Tang was killed, they all rebelled against Tang. This was really a fall in the wall.

Within the city of Chang'an, 80% of the aristocratic families in Guanxi are gathered. It is precisely because of the financial supply of these aristocratic families that the originally dilapidated Guanzhong can develop so rapidly.

But it was also the gathering of aristocratic families in Guanzhong. Both Yang Jian and Li Shimin were more or less hindered by the aristocratic families after occupying this land.

Compared to Yang Jianlai, Li Shimin's situation was a little better. Because of Ying Hao's land reform policy, the Guanzhong family basically fully supported Li Tang one-sidedly, and their hatred against Da Qin also deepened during the war.

Most of the Kansai aristocratic families have enmity with Da Qin. As long as Li Tang goes against Da Qin, they will fully support him. Those who have money and food will provide money and food, and those who have people will provide people.

But now Li and Tang are almost unable to protect Chang'an. Once Chang'an is captured by the Qin army, there will be no settlement for the failure.

You must know that few aristocratic families who opposed Da Qin’s land reform policy and went against Da Qin had a good end.

Every time the Qin army occupied a place, they would kill the local families who opposed the land reform. They killed so many people that no one dared to object anymore, and the land reform policy was successfully implemented.

The Jingbei family, the Hebei family, and even the Liaodong family were all frightened by the butcher knife of the Qin Dynasty, so they became obedient citizens, and now it is finally the turn of the Guanxi family.

  Among the aristocratic families in Kansai, there are also many families who migrated from Kanto to Guanzhong during the Han-Ming War, and these people are extremely afraid of war.

In addition, some families who have had issues with Da Qin are also extremely afraid of Da Qin's butcher knife. After all, you can't have dozens of members of the whole family die just because of the hatred of one or two people?

Although they have enmity with Da Qin, it is only one-sided. As long as they do not hold grudges, Da Qin will naturally not care about it.

Therefore, if Da Qin had taken an early stand before Da Qin invaded Chang'an and handed over the land in its hands after Da Qin occupied Guanzhong, Da Qin would naturally not settle accounts with them.

Based on this consideration, so many aristocratic families turned their backs on Li Shimin and fell to the Qin camp.

Yu Huatian's activities in Chang'an were very simple. He just opened his mouth, held the banner of Da Qin, and deceived these families in Chang'an. But what he never expected was that his plan to win over the Chang'an family would go so smoothly.

Yuhuatian even thought about whether these aristocratic families were pretending to surrender, but when he thought that they neither knew their identities nor knew who would be involved, the possibility of pretending to surrender was very small, so he gave them A verbal acceptance and reassurance.

What Yuhuatian didn't know was that his acceptance of the aristocratic families was tantamount to a gold medal to avoid death in the eyes of these aristocratic families. Naturally, he would not let go of this opportunity to be accepted by Great Qin.

But what these aristocratic families didn't know was that Yuhuatian was no longer the person in charge of the Qin Dynasty in Chang'an, but the two literati Li Si and Ban Chao were.

 In Li Si’s view, hatred will not disappear, but will only hide deeper.

Moreover, even if these aristocratic families are willing to give up their hatred and take the initiative to hand over their land, they will still leave hidden dangers for Qin's land reform policy.

It's better to take this opportunity and borrow Li Tang's hand to kill all the Kansai family in one fell swoop.

This can not only eliminate hidden dangers and smoothly implement land reform, but also clear the suspicion of the real pro-Qin faction, making it easier for them to take next actions. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

 Facts have proven that literati are often more ruthless than military generals.

In order to complete his plan, Li Si did not hesitate at all and decisively decided to sacrifice the aristocratic families in Chang'an City to pave the way for his own official career. After all, the life and death of these aristocratic families was none of Li Si's business?

You worked so hard to help Li Tang, but now your clan is being exterminated by Li Tang. You are completely to blame for this fate. Li Si sneered in his heart.

Of course, he couldn't say it openly that he used Li Tang's help to get rid of the Guanxi family, nor could he count it as Li Si's credit, but secretly the Emperor of Qin would definitely remember that it was his credit.

At this thought, Li Si showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, looked at Li Kui with a joking face, and thought to himself: Li Kui, Li Kui, how are you going to take the move this time.

“Sir, something bad has happened. The eight major families in the east of the city, namely Cai, Shi, and Bai, have also joined the rebellion.”

"Sir, the six major families of Huang and Lin in the south of the city took advantage of the chaos and rebelled."

“…Sir, the Sun and Cao family in the north of the city took advantage of the rebels’ rebellion, indulged their soldiers, and robbed the commercial area.”

"…grown ups…"

  Bad news kept coming, and the faces of Li Kui and the others gradually turned ugly from calm and composed (Li Si was pretending). After all, there were too many aristocratic families taking advantage of the chaos to rebel.

 At present, the number of families participating in the rebellion has reached more than one hundred.

Even if the clan soldiers of these aristocratic families have been recruited once by Li Tang, there are still a certain number of clan soldiers left.

Even if each family only dispatched fifty people, the total would be five thousand rebels, enough to shake Li Tang's rule in Chang'an.

What's more, if Li Tang cannot suppress the rebellion, more families will join in and completely turn Chang'an upside down.

Even so, Li Kui and the others still did not lose their composure. It was not until a piece of news came that the three of them were shocked at the same time.

“Sir, in the four camps in the southeast, northwest and northwest, many generals from aristocratic families also launched mutinies after hearing that their families had rebelled.

Now the four major camps in the southeast, northwest and northwest are all in chaos and cannot send out troops to suppress the rebels. The rebels are heading towards the Duke's Mansion. "

“What?” Li Kui, Li Chunfeng, and Li Si all exclaimed. The first two did not expect that the rebellion would spread to the military camp, while the latter did not expect that all four camps would be affected.

After Li Shimin led his army to leave, only 5,000 troops were left in the four battalions of Chang'an, which added up to 20,000 troops.

 Now all four battalions have launched a rebellion, and it is obvious that they will not be able to send troops to suppress the rebellion in a short period of time.

 But if the fourth battalion does not send troops, more and more families will rebel in the city, eventually causing irreparable consequences.

Faced with this situation, if the back-up force left by Li Shimin was not strong enough, even the Duke of Tang's mansion might be breached by the rebels.

Li Si made a calculation in his mind, and then looked at Li Si and Li Chunfeng, because the chassis left by Li Shimin must be controlled by one of these two people.

At this moment, Li Chunfeng stood up and ordered with a cold face: "Send the order, the Xuanjia Army in Weiyang Palace will be dispatched immediately to suppress the rebellion."

Hearing this, Li Si couldn't help but be shocked. He saw the Xuanjia Army leaving the city with Li Shimin. How could they still be in Chang'an City?

Sure enough, Li Shimin had long expected that there would be a rebellion after leaving the city, so he left a back-up, secretly hiding the Xuanjia Army in the palace, and dispatched to suppress the rebels at the critical moment.

I just don’t know if Li Shimin has any other back-ups besides the Xuanjia Army.

Li Si thought to himself, and at the same time he was somewhat thankful for his caution, otherwise he would have died this time.

The Xuanjia Army was one of the two most elite battalions of Li Tang. With the Xuanjia Army out, the ragtag group of aristocratic families in the city was naturally no match.

Although the Xuanjia Army was a heavy cavalry, its speed was not slow. Before the rebels reached the Duke of Tang's Mansion, the Xuanjia Army had already arrived first.

The Xuanjia Army has a powerful fighting force. It is extremely easy to deal with these family soldiers, even if they fight ten of them. Therefore, with only one charge, the rebels were killed and their troops retreated steadily.

The clan chiefs who launched the rebellion, as well as the clan chiefs who joined later, saw that the Xuanjia Army was coming. Their faces turned pale with fright, but they all understood that they had no way out.

Facing elites like the Xuanjia Army, they have no chance of being an opponent. The only chance is to use street fighting to delay until their own people from the four major battalions come to support them.

If the anti-Tang rebels in the four battalions cannot defeat the Xuanjia Army, then everyone will have no choice but to die.

Even if these family heads know that street fighting is the only way out, the family and the rebels have not formed a unified leadership at all, and the person in charge of Da Qin in Chang'an has not appeared since the rebellion was launched, so it is impossible to implement this. Go down.

It wasn't until the leader of Da Qin appeared again that the family rebels had a backbone. But what they didn't know was that Yuhuatian led them to a dead end.

"Heads of the family, listen to me. The Tang generals who have surrendered to me, Da Qin, are about to take control of the fourth battalion. Please hold on, reinforcements will arrive soon, so don't go head-to-head with the Tang army. Those who can go home will go home first. We cannot retreat into the mansion and use the walls and terrain to engage in street battles with the Tang army."

Yu Huatian's words allowed the rebel aristocratic coalition forces to find their backbone again, and then they dispersed. Those who went home went home, and those who fled for their lives did not dare to stay on the main road and confront the Tang army head-on.

Yin Kaishan, the commander of the Xuanjia Army, was dumbfounded after seeing this scene. In a head-to-head confrontation, even if the number of rebels was doubled, they would still not be able to match his three thousand Xuanjia Army.

However, if it comes to street fighting, this will not defeat the strength of the Xuanjia Army. If you are not careful, you may even be counterattacked.

Yin Kaishan did not dare to act without permission, so he chased and killed the rebels on the main road and at the same time sent someone to report to Li Chunfeng.

Li Chunfeng kept in mind Li Shimin's instruction of "I'd rather kill the wrong one than let him go" and was also eager to suppress the rebels. So after receiving the news, he decisively gave Yin Kaishan a military order of "I'd rather kill the wrong one than let go."

After receiving the order, Yin Kaishan was in trouble again. After all, there were too many rebellious families, more than a hundred, and it was too dangerous to disperse his troops to attack them. So he divided Chang'an City into four major areas and concentrated his troops one by one. Go and kill the mansions where the rebels are hiding, as well as the families on the rebel list who participated in the rebellion.

What Yin Kaishan and Li Chunfeng didn't know was that although their decision was not wrong, it was not so easy to let go of the butcher's knife.

Even before Yin Kaishan had cleared an area, the Tang troops in the four camps in the southeast, northwest and northwest had already suppressed the rebellious Tang troops.

After learning that there were still rebels in the city who had not yet been wiped out, Li Maozhen, the commander of the East Camp, Li Longji of the West Camp, Li Si'en of the South Camp, and Zhang Shigui of the North Camp, all led their troops to clear out the aristocratic families involved in the rebellion in the city.

 With the order of "I'd rather kill the wrong one than let go", the soldiers of the Tang army completely transformed into human Shura, killing people without any scruples at all.

 When they reached the back, not only the defenders of the fourth battalion, but also the Xuanjia Army were all red-eyed and went crazy.

Without confirming the authenticity, the butcher's knife was turned on those innocent families. A large number of innocent people were involved and died from the butcher's knife, and this also made everyone in the Chang'an family feel at risk.

In order to avoid getting into trouble, the major families ordered their soldiers to close their doors tightly. They must not open the door to let the Tang army in, and they were not even willing to accept the Tang army's investigation.

They thought that this behavior was for self-protection, and only in this way could they have a sense of security. However, in the eyes of Tang Jun, who was red-eyed, this was a guilty conscience.

Then what else is there to say? Just slaughter them.

 For a time, the whole of Chang'an was filled with mourning and blood flowed into rivers. There were innocent people everywhere who died unjustly at the hands of the Tang soldiers.

Hearing the screams outside, Li Kui was tormented in his heart.

In just one hour, he learned that there were thirty-eight families who were exterminated by the Tang army just because they had the same surname.

It was obviously the Wu family in the east of the city who participated in the rebellion, but the Tang army involuntarily massacred the south of the city, the north of the city, and the west of the city, and even another Wu family in the east that did not participate in the rebellion.

This is really a man who made a pot from the sky at home, and was brutally exterminated just because he had the same surname as a family that participated in the rebellion.

This is too indiscriminate, and if the killing method continues, the entire Chang'an family will be killed.

Li Kui really couldn't bear it any longer, so he said to Li Si and Li Chunfeng: "We can't continue to kill like this without distinction between right and wrong. If we continue, I will lose all the hearts of the people of the Tang Dynasty."

   A four thousand word chapter, also the ninth and 10th updates of the Silver Alliance.

Currently, I still owe 1 chapter of Xiangyun Huanyue as a reward, 2 chapters of Struggle to Break the Sky’s Light as a reward, and 5 chapters of Romantic Ten Years. I’ll try to pay them all off before the New Year.

　　

　　

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