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"This is the Tang Army, this is the Tang Dynasty!"

Cao Cao was more amazed by the fighting power of the Tang army. He was impressed by the strength of the Tang army. The fact that they could train such elite soldiers showed the greatness of the Tang Dynasty.

"If our Cao Wei had not perished, I wonder if we would have been able to achieve this great prosperity?"

Cao Aman muttered to himself.

As a king, one hopes that the foundation he has built can remain strong in the hands of his descendants and be passed down for thousands of years.

Now with the warning from the sky, the Sima family has been completely wiped out, and Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the south are no longer a force to be reckoned with under the conquest of his army. The achievement of his great cause is just around the corner.

Cao Cao is taking the Tang Dynasty as his target, hoping to create a prosperous dynasty that is even more powerful than the Tang Dynasty!
……

[The rebels fled back to Chang'an with their remaining troops. After this great defeat, they knew that they could no longer defend Chang'an, so they withdrew their troops overnight.]

[After being lost for one year and three months, Chang'an finally returned to the hands of the Tang Dynasty.]

[When the Tang army marched into Chang'an City, the people of Chang'an welcomed them with tears in their eyes. But how could they know that they were sold out to the Huihe people by the Tang Dynasty they loved so much?]

[During this period, the chief marshal of the Tang Dynasty was always held by the emperor's son. Li Heng's son Li Chu was the Grand Marshal of the Army. He stood up and spoke. No, he spoke while kneeling.]

[He knelt before the Uighur Crown Prince Yehu and said, "Please do not rob the people of Chang'an of their money, silk, and children. Let's go and rob the people of Dongdu instead."]

[The Eastern Capital is Luoyang. Li Chu said that if we rob the people of Chang'an now, the people of the Eastern Capital will lean towards the rebels, and it will be difficult for us to capture Luoyang.]

……

Many people felt uncomfortable watching Li Chu kneeling down to the foreign prince.

Especially the emperor and ministers of the Tang Dynasty.

"Think about our prosperous Tang Dynasty, which has always been submissive to all the barbarians. How could we have experienced such a great humiliation?"

Cheng Yaojin shouted angrily.

A prince kneeling in a foreign country is more humiliating than a princess getting married!

Du Ruhui shook his head. The Tang Dynasty was in a state of despair. The war had reached this point and the foundation of the country was damaged. They must not give up the support of the Uighurs.

Isn't this what it's like to be dependent on others?
Unable to even protect its own people, the current situation once again vividly illustrates what it means that a weak country has no diplomacy!
"Tang Dynasty..."

Li Shi was speechless for a while, feeling ashamed towards the people of the world.

……

[Prince Yehu had become brothers with Li Chu when they were drinking together before. Seeing his brother saying this, Prince Yehu couldn't refuse, so he had to say that he would listen to you, so let's go and rob the people of Dongdu.]

[When the people of Chang'an heard that Li Chu had decided to rob the people of Dongdu and not rob them, they all thanked Li Chu and said that Prince Guangping was truly the ruler of the Chinese and the barbarians.]

[I wonder if the people of Dongdu feel the same way. ]

……

"The people are so innocent, they just want to survive."

In troubled times, human life is worthless.

Zhuge Liang's thoughts drifted back to the day when Cao Cao massacred the people of Xuzhou City.

Just because his father Cao Song was killed when passing through Xuzhou, Cao put the blame for his father's murder on Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian.

Not only that, Cao Cao, who had just achieved some success, exposed his cruel and murderous nature. He even let millions of people in Xuzhou be buried with Cao Song!
However, Cao Cao also paid the price for his massacre.

First, his most loyal adviser Chen Gong joined Lu Bu in cutting off Cao Cao's retreat, and then Qingzhou and Yanzhou rebelled together, and Cao Cao almost became a homeless child.

Because Xuzhou was the center of the world at that time, almost all the wealthy families were concentrated in these states in the Central Plains. It was precisely because Cao Cao wanted to massacre Xuzhou that Jingzhou and Jiangdong became full of talents. For example, Zhuge Liang's lineage was the Zhuge family of Langya.

Langya belonged to Xuzhou, located in the north of Xuzhou, bordering Qingzhou and Yanzhou at that time.

It was because Cao Cao massacred Xuzhou that Zhuge Liang became homeless. He fled to Jingzhou to avoid the war in the Central Plains. Finally, he became a farmer in Longzhong and met a wise master! ...

[After retaking Chang'an, Guo Ziyi continued to lead his troops eastward and recaptured Tongguan, Huayin and Hongnong. ]

【Then he cooperated with the Huihe soldiers in Xindian and defeated the rebels.】

[An Qingxu knew that the situation was hopeless, so he led the remaining troops to abandon Luoyang and retreat to Xiangzhou.]

[The people of Dongdu probably heard that they were going to be scapegoats. When the Tang army entered the city, they did not welcome them with tears. Instead, they took the initiative to offer 10,000 pieces of silk that they had collected together, begging the Huihe people to spare their lives.]

[Since then, the Tang Dynasty finally recovered the two capitals, and Emperor Suzong Li Heng finally felt relieved. I have taken back the two capitals. With such great achievements, my throne should be secure. ]

……

"In order to secure his throne, he ignored the greater good of the country and failed to recover Hebei until his death. What is there to praise about this?"

Sun Quan sneered.

This Li Heng is far inferior to him.

If he were the Emperor of Tang, he would surely have defeated the rebels and would not have allowed the people of the world to suffer such hardship.

……

[Li Heng said to Guo Ziyi with emotion, "You have rebuilt my family."]

[You have truly rebuilt our Tang Dynasty. ]

[An Qingxu fled to Xiangzhou with the remaining troops, and the Tang Dynasty was also severely damaged. ]

[It was not until a year later that the Tang Dynasty organized another 20-man army, with the nine military governors working together to deliver a fatal blow to An Qingxu.]

……

"In just one year, two hundred thousand troops..."

Liu Bei was amazed.

"It is worthy of the prosperous Tang Dynasty."

"Despite such a disaster, they were still able to easily raise an army of 200,000. This shows the foundation of the prosperous times."

Zhuge Liang couldn't help but sigh.

Not only could the best troops be mobilized, but two hundred thousand armored soldiers could be easily recruited. This shows the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

……

[This time, the commander-in-chief of the Nine Towns Coalition was not Guo Ziyi. Emperor Li Heng inexplicably gave the command to his confidant Yu Chaoen.]

【Yu Chaoen is a eunuch. 】

[After all, he is the commander of the entire nation's army. Perhaps only the special status of a eunuch can make Li Heng truly feel at ease.]

……

"It's not hard to understand. After all, the rebels were all former Tang generals. It's reasonable for the emperor to be on guard against them."

Zhu Di commented: "Li Longji trusted An Lushan so much, but An Lushan rebelled. What's more, it's Guo Ziyi. It's reasonable for Suzong to be worried if he hands over 200,000 troops to someone else."

"But it is unwise to let a eunuch who knows nothing about military affairs command the battle."

"It is best to let a trusted person supervise the army and keep track of the army's movements at all times."

Thinking of the records about this battle in history books, Zhu Di shook his head and sighed. There were too many cases where amateurs guided experts and led to the destruction of the entire army.

For example...the dog eunuch Wang Zhen who caused the Tumu Incident!
……

[Yu Chaoen was an amateur in fighting, so Li Heng might think it was unreasonable to give him the title of Grand Marshal. So Li Heng used his clever little brain to create a new position for Yu Chaoen, the military inspector and envoy.] (End of this chapter)