Embers of the Tang Dynasty: Dongdu Longqian

In the ninth year of Wude, blood flowed from the Xuanwu Sect. Fortunately, Prince Li Jiancheng did not die from the chaos. He led Qi King Li Yuanji to break out of the siege and rushed to the eastern capital Luoyang at starry night. The former prince became a fugitive, and Luoyang, a majestic city stocked with grain and grass and filled with old troops, became his last stronghold. In Chang'an City, Li Shimin had taken control of the overall situation, and declared to the world as "Qingjun Side", denounced Li Jiancheng brothers as conspirators. Outside the city of Luoyang, pursuers were surrounded, and people's hearts were floating. The Shandong nobles were waiting and watching, and the old troops were also shaken. Li Jiancheng took off his brocade robe and regrouped with blood and iron: on the one hand, he gathered the remaining troops, strengthened the city defense, and contacted forces such as Youzhou Luo Yi to form foreign aid; on the other hand, he faced the stigma of "rebellion", united people's hearts in the name of the crown prince, and formed a north-south confrontation with Chang'an. In the flash of swords and shadows, it is the determination of brothers to fight against each other, the chess game of power, and the life and death contest between two men with the world at stake. The beating of war drums in Luoyang, the eastern capital, will eventually reveal the secret civil war in the early Tang Dynasty that has not been recorded in history, and Li Jiancheng's fate is closely intertwined with the direction of the dynasty. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.