Tap, tap, tap...!
Crisp hoofbeats rang out!
Riding a tall horse at the very front, Li Shimin led the vast crowd behind him into Jian'an City, which had already been completely conquered!
The Tang army had officially begun the siege in the morning, and not long after lunchtime, they had taken the city!
Fast!
Unprecedentedly fast!
Even though Li Shimin's military prowess was the greatest among emperors throughout history!
Even he had never experienced taking a fairly sizeable city in such a short time!
Jian'an City was still steeped in the heavy stench of blood and the lingering smell of gunpowder after the battle!
Walking at the front, Li Shimin gave one of the soldiers standing along the roadside a long look, satisfaction showing in his eyes!
And that soldier whom Li Shimin had regarded so closely was none other than Xue Rengui!
Li Shimin had long since learned that Qing Mo and Li Chengqian had brought this famed general—who, in the Tang Dynasty's original history, would only rise to prominence in the future—to Chang'an!
As for Zhao Xinmin, who was participating in warfare for the first time, his brows were somewhat tightly furrowed. After entering the city, he would occasionally see corpses blasted to pieces by cannonballs!
Combined with the bloody stench hanging in the air, it left this scholar feeling somewhat unaccustomed to it!
Meanwhile, the city's citizens, whose faces remained full of terror, were kneeling neatly along both sides of the street. Their eyes as they looked at the Tang army were filled with boundless fear!
Once Li Shimin and the others arrived at the General's Residence in Jian'an City, they dismounted in unison and strode into the General's Residence, which had already been cleaned up!
"Exhilarating! Absolutely exhilarating, Imperial Preceptor!"
"Today, the Divine Might Army truly