Chapter 220: New Concept War (2)

"How many days does it take for the Beiwei Army to sneak into Luoyang?"

Chen Ying is not the kind of person who will do anything for the sake of the end, and Chen Ying is not afraid to work hard when he knows that he can't do it and has to do it. Of course, when Chen Ying needs to make a decision, he usually chooses the lesser of two evils. In Chen Ying's view, the middle palace went straight and took the Yellow Dragon directly, which was the simplest, most direct, and least loss-making method.

"At most six hours, the army capable of fighting, more than 600 people, all infiltrated Luoyang!" What kind of generals there are, what kind of subordinates there are, hearing this, Liu Tong knew that Chen Ying was going to work hard. Since Chen Ying is willing to work hard, Liu Tong will definitely not be cowardly.

Chen Ying nodded and silently came to the map on the table.

Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying in surprise and asked, "............ you You...... You actually want to use 600 men and horses to take Luoyang City? ”

"Yes!" Chen Ying sighed and said: "The current Central Plains has become a pot of porridge, Wang Shiyun is guarding Yanshi, Wang Ren is surrounding the northern camp of His Royal Highness King Qi, Wang Shichong personally sits in the formation, leading the main force of the Zheng army to surround Cijian, Wang Shichong's soldiers and horses are limited, and now they are divided in three places, so the defense of Luoyang City will be very empty." ”

"Emptiness?" Li Xiuning said: "Have you ever thought that Wang Ren is only more than thirty miles away from Luoyang, the cavalry can return to Luoyang in a quarter of an hour, and the infantry is only an hour, and the Zheng army can return to Luoyang at any time, and take six hundred soldiers to Luoyang, which is simply to send them to death!" ”

Could it be that Chen Ying didn't spare his subordinates at all? The answer is yes.

Chen Ying smiled and said: "Three months ago, there was a fire in Luoyang, in this fire, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Zheng army were killed and wounded, and more than 5,000 houses were burned!" ”

Li Xiuning had heard about it, and she felt that it was very strange at that time. didn't expect that this thing was actually done by Chen Ying. Li Xiuning said unexpectedly: "This is what you sent someone to do?" ”

Chen Ying smiled and nodded: "There is only one team to do it!" ”

"Fifty-four!" Liu Tong said with a smile: "At that time, there was only one team, if all the Beiwei troops sneaked into Luoyang, Luoyang would probably have been burned to the ground!" ”

Li Xiuning frowned and said, "Burned to the ground?" What is the use of Datang asking for a Luoyang City that is burned to white ground? ”

Regarding Wang Shichong and Zheng Jun, Chen Ying and Li Xiuning have different attitudes. Li Xiuning wants to weaken or even eliminate this Zheng State as much as possible, and after more than three months of battle, the two sides have formed a deep blood feud. In Li Xiuning's view, as long as Wang Shichong and his Zheng Guo exist, as long as they exist. Li Tang had no way to take the Central Plains. In this process of competing for the world, the technique is not important, the important thing is the potential. The so-called potential is the general trend of the world, everything that goes well is prosperous, and everything that goes against it is perishable, what Li Tang needs is to destroy Wang Shichong and harvest the hearts of Luoyang people.

Chen Ying considered the military aspect, Wang Shichong in order to eliminate Li Shimin's troops first, almost all the troops drawn by Zheng Guoneng were drawn to Cijian. However, from Yanshi, Luoyang, and Cijian, Wang Shichong set up a long snake formation. Attacking its Yanshi, Wang Shiyun will rely on Yanshi City, Gong County, especially Gong County, which is named after "mountains and rivers are blocked, consolidated and unstoppable", and the past dynasties have been named because of it. And because of the ancient capital of Luoyang, the history has the "lock key of the eastern capital". Chen Ying lacked heavy siege equipment at this time, nor wolf poison smoke, nor fierce fire oil, if he wanted to break through Yanshi City, he might be able to do it at any cost and pay more than 10,000 casualties, but in this place in Gongxian County, Chen Ying had no choice.

However, Wang Shichong's one-word long snake formation, whether it is fought from the east to the west, or from the west to the east, must first break through the danger before they can have a chance. However, whether it is fighting from east to west, or from west to east, there is an awkward problem that there must be siege equipment.

Chen Ying is not afraid of field battles, whether it is the Modao Army or the Hook and Sickle Lancers, in the case of field battles, they can do it with one block ten, but in the city defense war, if Chen Ying does not have the necessary materials, it is really difficult to gnaw down.

Two thousand one hundred and ninety years ago, in the ancient Greek kingdom of Sicily, in the ancient kingdom of Syracuse, there was a great physicist. His name was Archimedes, and Archimedes famously said, "Give me a fulcrum, and I will lift the earth!" Of course, Archimedes does not have a fulcrum that wants to pry the earth, but the fulcrum of the one-word long snake array that Chen should use to pry Wang Shichong really exists.

For Wang Shichong's one-word long snake array, the most critical point is not Yanshi, not Gongxian, not Hanguguan, not Xin'an, but Luoyang City, which is located in the most center.

Regarding the attack on Luoyang, a world-class giant city, Wang Shichong and Li Xiuning's attitude was surprisingly consistent, and it was impossible to storm Luoyang City, which was strong and profound, and was known as the second strongest city in the world with 600 troops. In that year, in the Western Jin Dynasty, Liu Cong of the Xiongnu Han State led 100,000 Han-Hu coalition troops to attack Luoyang City, and fought three battles, two of which were returned under Luoyang City. There is no precedent for success without 100,000 troops in history, and now Chen Ying's soldiers and horses are less than 40,000, plus the people are only more than 50,000 people, and it is even more impossible to succeed, not to mention that more than 10,000 of the 40,000 soldiers and horses are still logistics baggage soldiers, more than 10,000 Zheng tenants, and less than 30,000 real combat soldiers.

However, Chen Ying believed that as long as the troops forced Luoyang City, then Wang Shichong or Wang Ren would inevitably lead the main force of the Zheng army back to the division, so that the siege of Cijian would be immediately resolved.

This plan did work, Chen Ying thought that as long as the army drove to the city of Xiazhou, even if he did nothing, Wang Shichong would withdraw his troops as soon as he got the news.

As for slaughtering and setting fire in Luoyang City, wantonly creating panic, Chen Ying could only shake his head secretly in his heart.

Chen Ying is not a scholar who talks about benevolence and righteousness, and he also knows that the necessary killing can serve as a deterrent and warning. But he absolutely disagreed with the looting and killing of ordinary people. This is not half beneficial to the Tang Dynasty, ordinary people have no opinion on who is the emperor, the emperor they care about the most is good or bad for them, in the current situation, the battle of Luoyang, if you can kill less, you will kill less, you will shed less blood, a measure of killing is too much, Henan Province is hostile and hostile, and if you want to win people's hearts in the future, I am afraid it will be even more difficult. This is the real killing of chickens and eggs. If the Central Plains has a fundamental hatred for Datang, it will be even more difficult for Datang to restore it in the future.

It is not advisable to use deterrence to kill, but if you want to gain a foothold in Luoyang, more than 600 people can play a very limited role, but Chen Ying thought about it and thought of another time and space that could be learned.

Every nation has its own unique national characteristics and temperament, and the Chinese nation is the most unique group among the nations of the world. On the one hand, the Chinese people are very docile, as long as they have a bite to eat, they are willing to be honest and obedient to the people, get it, and never stir up trouble.

On the other hand, the Chinese nation is a very bloody nation. Once the emperor makes it impossible for them to live, they will pull the flag and rebel, as long as they are willing to scrape their bodies, they dare to pull the emperor off the horse.

Chen Ying's plan was naturally to use the strength of the people to learn from Taizu to carry forward the people's war.

Chen Ying patted Liu Tong on the shoulder and said: "I know that your ideal is to crisscross the battlefield and make meritorious contributions, and the name of the Wei army is the first army, but in fact, there are only more than 800 people in the full formation, and you are really wronged by the unified army." ”

Liu Tong said again and again: "General, don't say that!" In the army, there have always been those who are capable and those who are weak, and Liu Tong's ability is not as good as that of General Luo, General Zhang, and General Wei, and there is nothing to complain about when he is a commander of the army. ”

"But you have to go to a higher place, don't you?" Chen Yingdao: "Although I am not very good at employing people, I can also see that you are brave and resourceful, but you can be of great use, I want to do a big thing, I want to ask you for help." It's done, the battle of Luoyang, the first merit is yours, the marquis worships the general, it's not a problem, if it fails, you may be in a different place. ”

Liu Tong raised his eyebrows, stabilized his mind, and decided to do it. In this era of fighting for his father's background, it is not easy to get ahead, and now there is a great opportunity, once he succeeds, he can not only get ahead and make great contributions, but also let future generations remember, how can you do it without fighting? He asked in a deep voice, "General, what should I do?" ”

Li Xiuning is not a fledgling who has never fought a war, but she never thought that the battle could be fought like this.

Chen Ying summoned the three captains under the command of the Beiwei Army, and the six brigade commanders carefully and seriously discussed the specific details.

Three hours later, more than 600 officers and men of the Beiwei Army left the Tang Army camp, and the news was on the vast horizon.

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Thousands of miners set up simple shacks with trees and hay in this inaccessible and wild beast-infested mountainous area, and placed the children and the elderly there, and the young and strong sweated like rain in the mine, swept the crane's beak hoe and shovel to dig hard, and picked out the ore with good color and put it into the rattan basket. What they are mining is a treasure in the Songshan Mountains, kaolin.

Kaolin is a non-metallic mineral, which is a clay and clay rock dominated by kaolinite clay minerals. Because it is white and delicate, it is also called dolomites. Kaolin is the main raw material for the manufacture of ceramics, and it is also one of the raw materials for the main porcelain clay of the Luoyang official kiln.

Due to the lack of heavy machinery, the lack of necessary safety precautions, and the harsh conditions, this kind of work is very hard and full of dangers, and accidents of one kind or another happen every once in a while, but they are still full of energy.

Industrious miners will these smelly and hard ores, grinding into powder, and then with a fine sieve to sift out the fine material powder, due to the Sui and Tang dynasties, found kaolin, but also because of the opening of the Western Regions trade routes, in the Sui Dynasty began, white porcelain began to become popular, in the Western Regions can even be sold with ten times the weight of gold at the same sky-high price.

It is precisely because of the favorable plan that the demand for kaolin has been rising, and there are more people mining kaolin ore in the Songshan Mountains. Most of the people who go into the mountains to mine phosphate are bankrupt local farmers or displaced people who have fled from Guanzhong, Hedong, Henan, Hebei and other places.

Originally, in the last years of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, which was different from the chaos in the world at the end of the Ming Dynasty. This was an internal struggle between the upper ruling class in which the interests of the clan lords and the royal family were unevenly distributed. The root cause of this is the greedy clan gate lords who are frantically annexing land. Originally, Luoyang's land annexation was not serious, but with Yang Guang's establishment of Luoyang as the eastern capital, and raised Luoyang's political status to the same level as Chang'an, and even moved the political center to Luoyang in the middle and later periods.

Land prices in Luoyang began to soar like a rocket. The local land annexation is so serious, so many people have no land to plant, and millions of displaced people, will they still be alive? No one was willing to accept it, so these displaced people had to hide in the inaccessible Songshan Mountains, where they lived by stealing kaolin mines.

The people who open mines here are the kind of more honest, they don't have the courage to kill people and buy goods, besides, if they are lucky, they can earn hundreds of dollars by digging a day of mining, and they can buy thirty or forty catties of miscellaneous grains from Luoyang City, which is enough for a big man to eat for a month, and they don't need to do that kind of knife licking blood.

While the work was in full swing, there was a commotion at the bottom of the mountain, and the person in charge of procurement returned. Everyone stopped what they were doing, hula and surrounded him, looking at Mr. Hu, who was in charge of procurement, with a look of eagerness in his eyes.

Mr. Hu, who was originally a teacher in a private school in Hebei, was also the most learned person among their more than 1,000 people, who could write and calculate, judge things clearly, and enjoyed quite high prestige, so he handed over such things as selling ore and buying grain to do, and every time he took the convoy to Luoyang, he would bring back a little surprise to everyone, either excellent steel tools, or strong and wear-resistant fabrics, or a few jars of salt, of course, the most pleasing thing was that he could always sell ore at the most ideal price and buy grain at the lowest price, selling the same amount of ore, he always brings back more than others.

This Mr. Hu also likes this kind of work, whether it is when he leaves or when he comes back, he always smiles, and after putting the materials into the warehouse, he brings a mysterious face, and conjures up some gadgets to make the children cheer, which is the happiest time for these homeless people.

But this time, Mr. Hu's face was very unsightly, and the food he brought back was much less than usual.

Yang Dazhuang, the foreman, saw that the grain was only one-third of the usual, and asked in surprise: "What's wrong?" Mr. Hu, has the price of food in Luoyang risen? ”

Everyone is afraid, the price of food is what they are most afraid of, in the past few months, Datang and Zheng Guo have been fighting around Luoyang, and the price of food has risen three times a day, and now the food in Luoyang City has soared to one stone and 1,300 Wen, which is more than ten times that of Guanzhong, if the price of food in Luoyang also rises, then they will not be able to live.

Mr. Hu said: "The price of Luoyang grain has not increased by one percent. ”

"Ichisei? Food prices have risen by 10%, why is it so much less than usual? ”

Mr. Hu gritted his teeth and said: "There are three more tax cards on the road, which were set up by Wang Shiwei. ”