Vol 2 Chapter 2502: Li Mu and Yang Jian surrendered to Qin
Chapter 2502 Li Mu and Yang Jian surrendered to Qin
Chapter 2498: Li Mu and Yang Jian surrendered to Qin
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The large iron door, which was made entirely of fine steel and weighed a thousand kilograms, was slowly pushed open with the combined efforts of dozens of soldiers.
The door was only opened a crack, and a variety of lights, including bright yellow and bright colors, shone out from the Treasury, making many people unable to open their eyes.
Soon, all the doors were opened wide, and what came into view was a large number of gold bricks and silver bricks, piled as high as a hill.
There are ten Silver Brick Mountains, and there are fewer Golden Brick Mountains, only two.
In addition, there are a large number of statues of golden dragons, golden Buddhas, and silver horses made of pure gold and pure silver, as well as nearly a hundred cartloads of antiques, jade, coral, agate, calligraphy, and paintings.
As for the copper coins, they were placed in other warehouses and filled several warehouses, roughly estimated to be in the billions.
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Everyone gasped after seeing this scene, and many people even had a hint of greed in their eyes, but they did not dare to make any move.
The laws of the Qin Dynasty were strict. All property captured in wars, except part of it, could be used to meet military needs, and the rest must be turned over to the national treasury.
This is an iron law, and anyone who dares to violate it will be guilty of treason.
“Dear me, how much is this? I’m afraid the treasury of Great Qin doesn’t have that much wealth, right?” Jia Fu couldn’t help but mutter to himself.
Ban Chao nodded. The military generals did not know the wealth in the Qin treasury, but as a civil servant, he still knew something about it.
It is true that Da Qin’s treasury does not have that much money. Although Da Qin earns a lot of money every year, it also spends a lot of money on major domestic projects, as well as raising troops and official salaries.
After all, the money that can be left in the Qin treasury is still an astronomical figure for various countries, but it is not as much as the wealth accumulated by the Guandong and Kansai families for hundreds of years.
Of course, for Da Qin, the greatest value of wealth is not to stay in the treasury, but to spend it.
Ban Chao didn't know the specific value of the wealth. After all, even Li Shimin hadn't finished counting the wealth.
If you want to know how much this is worth compared to wealth, it will be impossible to complete the inventory in less than four or five days.
"Li Shimin slaughtered all the Chang'an family, which can be regarded as a good thing. Such a huge comparison of wealth has made Da Qin cheaper for nothing." Ban Chao said with a smile.
Wang Jian also nodded in agreement. After all, the amount of wealth was much greater than that of Hengfu, and it was second only to the amount of wealth he had previously received from the God's Treasure.
With this money, Da Qin can save military expenses for its next campaign in the Central Plains.
This time the credit is too great.
After briefly looking at the treasury, Wang Jian ordered the treasury to be sealed, waiting for the court to receive it. Then he sent Gongsun Xuanyuan and Jia Fu to lead their cavalry out of the city to hunt down the remnants of the Tang army who had escaped from Chang'an.
The last group of pursuers had returned, but except for Li Jue, all the others had failed. Only Li Jue captured Yin Kaishan alive and returned.
It was naturally not enough to capture only one Yin Kaishan, so Wang Jian sent out a second batch of search troops, tens of thousands of troops, to search in a carpet-like manner, and was bound to wipe out all the remnants of Li Tang who had escaped.
Looking at the scarred Yin Kaishan, Ban Chao went up to him and said with a faint smile: "General Yin, we meet again."
When he was imprisoned in the sky prison, Yin Kaishan was responsible for escorting him. Now he is still receiving good treatment, but the other party has become a prisoner.
Yin Kaishan said firmly: "If you want to kill or chop me, I'll leave it to you."
"Why bother? You should also understand that the reason why Li Tang can exist is entirely due to Li Shimin. And now that even Li Shimin is dead, Li Tang's country will be destroyed in a matter of seconds. Do you still want to die for Li Tang?" Ban Chao said.
"What? The Lord is dead? This is impossible, this is absolutely impossible."
Yin Kaishan’s face was full of disbelief, he couldn’t believe that the news was true.
Ban Chao shrugged. If Li Shimin's body had not been sent to Ba Ling to persuade the Ba Ling defenders to surrender, he could have let Yin Kaishan see Li Shimin's body.
Seeing that Yin Kaishan looked like he didn't believe it, Ban Chao also knew that it was useless to say anything, so he waved his hand and ordered him to be taken down and under strict guard.
“Report... Sir, there has been an accident in the Yang Mansion.”
Hearing this, Ban Chao quickly asked: "What's the accident?"
“Old Lieutenant Yang Biao hanged himself.”
"What?"
Ban Chao was shocked and rushed to Yang Mansion, but when he arrived, he found that Wang Jian and Li Cunxiao had already arrived before him.
Ban Chao squeezed into the crowd of spectators and saw Yang Biao's body hanging on the beam, while a childish child knelt in front of Yang Biao's body, his eyes were red, but he tried not to cry.
“Who is this child?” Ban Chao asked.
“The only two survivors of the Yang family, one is Yang Jian’s sister Yang Chan, and the other is him, Yang Jian’s nephew, Yang Chenxiang.
Speaking of which, this child is really pitiful. He was originally from a famous family, but overnight, his whole family was robbed. He witnessed the tragic death of his biological father, his mother was seriously injured and dying, and now his only grandfather also committed suicide.
If ordinary people suffered from this disaster, they would have collapsed long ago, but this child did not, which is rare. "Wang Jian sighed softly.
Hearing this, Ban Chao felt inexplicably guilty.
Although Li Si planned the genocide of the Yang family this time and had little to do with him, and now that Li Si has been killed, it stands to reason that this matter should be understood at this point, but after all, he is the only one left who knows the truth. people.
"Yang Jian fought **** battles on the front line, but his family was wiped out by his own people. I really don't know how Yang Jian would feel when he knew the news." Li Cunxiao sneered.
Originally, he had some changes in his view of Li Shimin because of Li Shimin's daring actions before his death. However, after learning that the Yang family was destroyed by Li Tang, he only felt that he was too stupid to sympathize with Li Shimin, a lunatic.
He should not have stopped in the first place, and should have killed Li Shimin mercilessly if he had given him the chance to commit suicide. Li Cunxiao thought in annoyance. Looking at Yang Biao's body that had been taken down from the rafters, Ban Chao sighed softly: "Old Lieutenant, why are you doing this?"
Yang Biaohui committed suicide for two reasons:
Firstly, it was because he tried to help Li Tang, not Sui Yang, that finally caused the Yang family to be destroyed by Li Tang, which made him lose the face to live.
The second reason is because of his status as an imperial party and has always been an enemy of Great Qin. If he is still alive, even if Great Qin does not pursue him, it will not be a good thing for Yang Jian, Yang Chan, and Chen Xiang.
Yang Biaoben is an old man with only a few years to live. For the last incense and continuation of the Yang family, it is completely worth sacrificing his life.
Just when everyone was talking about Yang Biao's death, Xiao Chenxiang stood up, walked to Wang Jian and said, "I can help Da Qin persuade my uncle Yang Jian to surrender."
Hearing this, Wang Jian, Ban Chao, and Li Cunxiao were all stunned.
Li Cunxiao touched Chenxiang's head and said with a smile: "My child, you are still young, and you are not allowed to participate in adults' affairs."
"That's right, your mother has woken up. You'd better go and spend more time with your mother." Ban Chao said.
"No, I'm going. My uncle loves me the most. He will definitely believe what I say. If he knows what Li Shimin has done, he will definitely abandon the dark side and turn to the bright side."
Looking at Chen Xiang with a stubborn look on his face, Li Cunxiao and Ban Chao both shook their heads, thinking that the child was a little too sad.
After Wang Jian thought for a while, he nodded and said: "Okay, since you insist, I will help you, but the ugly words are ahead. If you die on the battlefield, you can't blame others."
“Thank you, general.”
Wang Jian sent dozens of cavalry to **** Chen Xiang to Baling, and also caught up with Li Maozhen who was escorting Li Shimin's body halfway.
After a whole day of traveling, Li Maozhen and the exhausted little Chenxiang arrived at the Baling camp smoothly, and met Li Jing, the commander-in-chief of the Qin army, as well as generals such as Wu Qi and Sun Lingming.
At this time, the Ba Ling Camp had completely changed.
Due to the arrival of Sizhou's 100,000 troops, the Qin army now has 130,000 troops in Baling, so naturally a larger military camp can be set up that can accommodate hundreds of thousands of troops.
Before Li Jing arrived, Wu Qi had been attacking Ba Ling, but Li Mu's defense had no flaws. The Qin army lost three armies and surrendered 12,000 troops, totaling nearly 15,000 troops, but still failed to break Ba Ling. Mausoleum City.
Seeing that the casualties were too great, Wu Qi did not dare to attack blindly, and waited for Li Jing's main force to arrive before making plans.
What Wu Qi didn't know was that his attack was not ineffective. Li Mu in the city was almost out of ammunition and food. If he persisted for three days, he would definitely break the city. But he gave up voluntarily, which gave Li Mu a chance to breathe. .
Wu Qi was naturally aware of this, but if the casualties were too great, he would be unsuccessful even if he captured Ba Ling. He might as well leave it to Li Jing to deal with it.
Wu Qi, who has been invincible in every battle since his debut, now encountered his first setback in Baling City. When he encountered Li Mu who was unable to escape, even the military strategist Yasheng was unable to do anything.
Just when Li Jing led his army to Baling, he received news that Li Cunxiao's Banchao had conquered Chang'an, and only paid the price of 500 cavalry.
Li Jing never expected that the attack on Guanzhong would go so smoothly.
The main force of 100,000 troops had not yet participated in the battle, and only six partial divisions were able to occupy and capture Chang'an City.
Is it because the Qin army is too capable? Or did he overestimate Li Tang?
Although Li Jing had little sense of involvement in the Guanzhong War from beginning to end, the overall strategic plan was planned by him, and the spies in Chang'an City were arranged by him in advance. Therefore, even if he was offline throughout the whole process, he still made the greatest contribution to this war. It's still his.
Li Jing looked at Li Maozhen and Chen Xiang below, thought for a while, and then sent a civil servant to take Xiao Chenxiang to Baling to persuade Li Mu and Yang Jian to surrender. At the same time, Li Maozhen took Li Shimin's body to display to the entire city's defenders outside the city, and to the entire city's defenders. The army tried to persuade them to surrender.
Although Li Shimin's body is in the Qin Dynasty, there are many ways to disguise himself in the world. It is impossible to prove that this is true. However, it can also make the defenders in the city suspicious. The real way to destroy his military morale and show off is to rely on Li Maozhen. and little agarwood.
Li Maozhen is a member of the Li Tang clan. He has already surrendered to the Qin Dynasty and appeared in Baling. Something must have happened in Chang'an, not to mention that Yang Jian's nephew is also here with him.
After two hours of persuading to surrender, the gate of Baling City suddenly opened wide. Li Mu led Yang Jian, Li Zuoche, Wu Ji, Yang Ren, Lei Zhenzi and others out of the city to surrender to the Qin army.
Let alone the fact that Ba Ling City is about to lose its hold.
After learning what happened in Chang'an from Chen Xiang's mouth, all the Tang generals in Ba Ling were in an uproar.
No one would have thought that the lord Li Shimin would be so crazy that he would wipe out all the aristocratic families in Chang'an City, including the Hongnong Yang family.
Even though Wu Qi had said this before, the generals in the city didn't believe it at all, thinking that the Qin army was lying to them and wanted to force them to surrender.
But it is impossible for Li Maozhen and Chen Xiang to panic. Since even they said so, it is possible that this matter is true, and Li Shimin is really dead, and Chang'an was also occupied by the Qin army.
The amount of information Agarwood brought was too great, and every one of the two evil words given to Ba Ling's generals was like a bolt from the blue.
Now that Chang'an has fallen, even Li Shimin died in battle, Ba Ling has been reduced to an isolated city, and a series of thunderbolts have hit Ba Ling. The people inside Ba Ling are in chaos. The generals from aristocratic families all hate Li Tang, and the generals from common people are also disappointed with Li Tang. downright.
Ba Ling has been able to persist until now because of unity. Now that people are in confusion, it is naturally impossible to continue to defend. There is no other way except surrender.
After a night of reflection, Li Mu summoned the generals in the city to vote on whether to surrender. The result was unanimous, so he opened the city and surrendered to Li Jing.
“The last general, Li Mu, led eight thousand defenders of Ba Ling and surrendered to Governor Li Jing.”
Li Mu shouted and presented the seal of the roster to Li Jing.
With 20,000 garrison troops, he arrived at Wu Qi's 50,000-strong army. After half a month, only 8,000 men were left.
Li Jing helped Li Mu up after finishing the seal, and said comfortingly: "It is a blessing for the generals to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, and it is also a blessing for the people."
"Yang Jian."
When Sun Lingming saw Yang Jian, he immediately shouted and approached him with a smile, but Yang Jian had no intention of chatting with him. What he wanted to do most now was to go back to Chang'an to see his seriously injured sister Yang Chan.
(End of this chapter)
