Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 656 The Republic and the Emperor (Seventeen)
Winter of the second year of Yan State 440 (652)
The snowflakes were flying, and the earth was a vast expanse of whiteness.

Xue Rengui's 20 troops were trapped in the narrow Liaodong Pyongyang Corridor, with Lieshui River Valley to the east, Xiping City to the west, mountains to the north, and the vast sea to the south.

The 20 army ran out of food and grass, and even the horses were eaten up.

There were [-] Yan troops stationed in Xiping City, which completely blocked the Tang army's way back to Liaodong.

Gollum—

In the Tang Jun barracks, many people's stomachs were rumbling, and they hadn't eaten for many days.

crackle crackle crackle!

There are also soldiers of the Tang Army burning Guanyin cakes with firewood.

The so-called Guanyin cake is to dig a pile of soil, then bake it with fire, and finally eat it in the stomach.

In fact, it is eating dirt.

Even the bark of the surrounding trees was eaten up, and all the grassland was eaten up, so the soldiers of the Tang army could only be forced to eat soil.

"Old Zhang, wake up, wake up!"

"Brother Zhen!"

The barracks was in a state of misery, and people continued to starve to death.

Under the walls of Xiping City, there are already piles of corpses of the Tang army. The Tang army tried to attack the city, but without exception, they failed every time.

Some soldiers of the Tang Army exhausted their last strength and climbed over mountains and mountains, trying to get into the mountains to survive in the wild.

However, outside the encirclement, the guerrillas were waiting for their singles to throw themselves into the trap.

King Yan Yu of Fuyu is rushing towards Xiping City with Fuyu soldiers, Jurchen soldiers, and Shiwei soldiers to further strengthen the defense of Xiping City.

Gu Yanwu led many guerrillas to the Lieshui River Valley to support the Queen and prevent Xue Rengui from crossing the river.

Datang's 20 elite soldiers will be starved to death in this narrow pocket formation.

Early in the morning, on the wall of Xiping City, soldiers from the State of Yan were eating steamed buns happily, sitting on the wall, and looking at the soldiers of the Tang Army who were so hungry that their eyes were dazed.

The smell of food spread down the city wall, and the hungry soldiers of the Tang Army became even more desperate.

Every night, the defenders of Yan State on the city wall would fire artillery at the Tang Army barracks to harass the Tang Army and prevent the Tang Army soldiers from sleeping and resting normally.

Mental and physical double torture!

On the distant sea, there are more than a dozen warships of the Yan Kingdom moored. Once it is discovered that the Tang army wants to make a raft to escape from the sea, they will be destroyed immediately.

"I saw my daughter-in-law, she was smiling at me."

Some soldiers of the Tang Army have begun to hallucinate because they are too hungry.

"God to die for me too!"

Coach Xue Rengui was also delirious from hunger.

But compared to ordinary soldiers, he at least has bark to eat. Ordinary soldiers don't even have to eat bark, they can only eat dirt.

The 20 Tang army was besieged by the [-] Yan army and was completely blocked in this narrow terrain.

Time seems to have returned to the Battle of Changping, 40 Zhao troops were besieged, without food and water, it was miserable.

Some soldiers of the Tang Army began to head towards the Lieshui River Valley, wanting to cross the river.

However, what greeted them was dense artillery, arrows, and firecrackers, and no one could cross the river alive.

In order to prevent the Tang army from surrendering, the queen refused any surrender request from the Tang army, and it was bound to starve the 20 Tang army to a complete collapse.

another five days later
The Tang army started a civil war, and more and more soldiers of the Tang army began to eat the corpses of their comrades-in-arms. Because the corpses were rotten and unpalatable, they would easily get sick if they ate them. They even killed the comrades who were still alive and had to eat fresh meat.

The 20 Tang troops began to kill each other, and only the command post where the coach Xue Rengui was located could barely maintain order.

"I, Xue Rengui... Surrender!"

"I, Xue Rengui... Surrender!"

In the end, Xue Rengui had no choice but to ask the queen to surrender, hoping to save the lives of the soldiers of the Tang army and not let them starve to death.

However...the empress ignored Xue Rengui.

The 20 Tang army is too large. If Xue Rengui pretends to surrender and suddenly launches an attack the moment he surrenders and crosses the river, the Yan army will be finished.

Therefore, the queen ignored Xue Rengui's request to surrender, and still blocked the gaps on both sides to prevent Tang Jun from escaping.

another five days later
The 20 Tang soldiers have completely turned into demons in the world. They eat everything they can eat, and everyone is wary of their comrades around them, for fear of being eaten by them.

The extremely hungry soldiers of the Tang Army went to the beach, drank the sea water crazily, and were finally swollen to death by the sea water.

Many soldiers were killed because they ate too much soil.

The plague also broke out in the barracks, and the soldiers vomited up and down, bleeding from their orifices.

"Please, let us surrender!"

"Please, let us surrender!"

More and more generals of the Tang Army knelt under the walls of Xiping City, begging the Yan Army to accept their surrender.

However, the Yan generals ignored them, they dared not take risks, who knows if the Tang army really surrendered, what if the Tang army falsely surrendered?
another five days later
Of the 20 Tang troops, only more than 1000 were still alive, and the rest were all starved to death. Even the coach Xue Rengui was forced to eat fresh meat from a soldier who had just starved to death.

Only then did the empress accept Xue Rengui's surrender, allowing Xue Rengui and others to put down their weapons and armor, raise their hands to the sky, and line up to cross the river on rafts.

More than 1000 soldiers of the Tang army lined up one by one and were tied up by the Yan army. Even though they were too hungry to walk, the Yan army was still very wary of them.

"Let me see your queen." Xue Rengui, who was tied up by five flowers, accepted his fate, even if he died, but before he died, he still wanted to meet the Queen of Yan, and see this soldier who is like a god Empress.

"General Xue, what do you want me for?"

The queen was wearing a white fur coat, riding a white steed, trampling on the snow-white ground, and holding a long silver sword, she looked like a fairy.

The queen is now 44 years old, but she still looks like eighteen. Even the most beautiful princess of the late emperor Li Shimin is not as beautiful as the queen of Yan.

"God bless me, Datang!"

Xue Rengui held back for a long time, he had a lot to say, but in the end, he still didn't say it, he just sighed.

Beside the queen, Gu Yanwu, the guerrilla leader, was seriously recording this great moment.

Xue Rengui, a famous general of the Central Plains Dynasty, was defeated in the Lieshui River Valley, and the 20 elite Tang army was wiped out.

another three days later
The queen took the main force of the Yan army and began to attack Pyongyang.

At this time, after nearly two months of consumption, most of the five thousand Yan army responsible for attacking Pyongyang City had been exhausted.

"The last general failed to capture the city of Pyongyang, please forgive the empress!"

The general who was in charge of attacking Pyongyang City, Wuyoufei, blamed himself very much.

"You have done a good job. With 5000 people, you have contained Fang Yiai's [-] army for two months." The queen nodded in relief. She had trained many talents in Wuyou Township, and then she began to feel sad about Wuyou Su's death in battle. The matter in Pingshan: "Su, alas..."

In this world, there is never a shortage of talents, especially ordinary talents. Emperor Han Gao only used talents from one county to unify the world.

The queen is the Bole who discovers talents. She can not only discover talents, but also cultivate talents.

Xue Rengui stood under the city of Pyongyang, persuading Fang Yiai to surrender.

Seeing Xue Rengui being captured, Fang Yiai finally realized that she had been tricked, and there were not many people in the Yan army attacking the city.

But now I realize it's too late.

The main force was gone, and it was meaningless for him to continue to resist, so he was forced to open the city gate and surrender to the queen.

Afterwards, the empress issued a call to recover the cities of eastern Liaodong.

The puppet troops surrendered one after another, and in an instant, only Shanhaiguan and Guangzhou remained in the entire Yan Kingdom.

Gu Yanwu called on other guerrillas to take the initiative to hand over their military power.

His reputation is very high, most of the leaders of the guerrillas handed over their military power to the Queen, and at the same time received a reward from the Queen.

A small number of those who refused to hand in, saw that everyone else had handed in, so they had no choice but to follow suit.

"Tell the emperor of the Tang Empire that if he wants to redeem his famous generals and dignitaries, he will exchange them with Shanhaiguan."

The empress sent an envoy to Chang'an to exchange Xue Rengui, Fang Yiai and others to Shanhaiguan.

As for Gwangju, it is too close to the Central Plains, even if you want to come back, you can't hold it.

(End of this chapter)