Chapter 272: The Battle of Destiny, Who Belongs to the World

Song Zhengben's words were like a boulder falling from the sky, setting off turbulent waves in Liu Heimin's heart, which could not be calmed down for a long time.

In fact, Song Zhengben's worries are not impossible. The truth that the number of people is overwhelming is not unfamiliar to us in a country with a large population. This advantage was also reflected in ancient warfare. But there are two sides to everything, and a large number of people does not necessarily bring advantages and victories. The Battle of Huangshui in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was a typical example of trying to win with superior forces but losing everything.

Now Liu Heimin is a large number of people, because Chen Ying previously gave Li Shiji more than 10,000 troops, let him attack Liyang, and then divide his troops to fight Xiangzhou. At this time, Chen Ying's troops were only in their early 30,000s.

is only one-third of Liu Heimin's department, will Liu Heimin, who has an absolute advantage, repeat the mistakes of Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, and will he repeat the mistakes of Fu Jian in the Battle of Weishui?

Just when Liu Heimin was silent, other Xia army generals such as Gao Yaxian, Dong Kangmai, and Wang Xiaohu fell into deep thought. However, the eyes of all the generals invariably looked at Liu Heimin, expecting his decision. However, Liu Heimin was also silent at this time, without saying a word, everyone remained silent, and this silence made people panic. It's even more palpitating.

Liu Heimin was silent for a long time before he said leisurely: "We are not the careless Wei army, nor the invincible Qin army, whether it is the Cao Wei army in front of the Red Cliff or the Qin army in the Battle of Weishui, there is actually a fatal problem, internal disharmony. ”

Liu Heimin's analysis is not unreasonable, at the time of the Battle of Weishui, the historical records are only a few hundred words, Xie Xuanyu deceived Fu Jian to withdraw his troops and cross the river to fight again, but Fu Jian ordered, and the Jin army shouted "The Qin army is defeated" However, the Qin army was defeated like a mountain. In fact, the main direction of the battle of a million-strong army in the Battle of Weishui did not refer to the line along the Weishui, but was mainly divided into three directions, and Pengcheng, Xuyi, Weixing and other places in the east were also besieged by the former Qin army. Nanyang and Xiangyang on the middle road were attacked by Shi Yue and Fu Pi's troops, and Huai'an was attacked by 250,000 troops from Fu Rong's department with Liu Gao's department. There are also 70,000 troops under the command of Pei Yuanluo, the general of Bashu and Qin.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the decisive battle of Weishui, Fu Jian, in addition to the middle of the middle of the army, the middle of the forward Shi Yue, the east of the east of the Fu Rong and the west of Pei Yuanluo, successively defeated, Fu Jian's four-way army, has been defeated three ways, but Fu Jian stubbornly fought.

The source composition of the Xia army's troops is very complex, and all the generals are military and political, such as Gao Yaxian, the governor of Baozhou, who is not only the governor of Baozhou, but also the land of Yizhou, Zhuozhou, Jizhou, Mozhou, Yunzhou, Yanzhou, Yingzhou, Mozhou, Danzhou, and Kyushu. In other words, nearly a quarter of Dou Jiande's territory is under the jurisdiction of Gao Yaxian. He is the veritable king of the northeast of the Xia Kingdom, and Liu Heimin belongs to the northwest king of the Xia Kingdom, and governs the land of seven states such as Wuzhou, Confucianism, Fuzhou, Xinzhou, Ulzhou, Yingzhou, and Huanzhou. Of Dou Jiande's thirty-nine states, Liu Heimin and Gao Yaxian govern fifteen states.

In fact, the generals are actually similar, they are all grass kings in various states and counties, and the discord between the army under Fu Jian's command is also the same as the Xia army.

Liu Heimin said: "This is how to fight, the opportunity is coming, we must seize it." Chen Ying is willing to fight a decisive battle with our army, we must work together to get Chen Ying down first, and then we will solve the other things ourselves behind closed doors! ”

Liu Heimin said everything to this point, and the generals are not fools. Even if there was some original idea of preserving strength, it was swept away at this moment.

The other ministries began to prepare nervously, and Song Zhengben also opened the treasury of the state of Zhaozhou, and distributed the armor, blades, arrows and various heavy equipment from Dou Jiande's inventory to the generals of the various armies. Why did Liu Heimin rebel later, and he transferred Hebei one by one at once, and almost turned the sky upside down.

It is because Hebei has a large amount of equipment in storage. These equipment were prepared by Yang Guangwei during the Eastern Expedition to Goguryeo and stored in Zhuozhou, but as a result, Luo Yi got a small part of these materials, and most of them were cheaper than Dou Jiande.

The equipment of these Qinwang divisions is actually very ordinary. However, as Song Zhengben opened Dou Jiande's treasury and took out Dou Jiande's treasure at the bottom of the box, these well-made and well-preserved horizontal knives, rifles, sabers, strong bows, hard crossbows, shields, bed crossbows, and trebuchets were issued to the generals of various armies.

When these Qinwang soldiers saw that they had obtained these equipment, they were overjoyed. In the Sui and Tang dynasties, under the condition of the government military system, these equipment, when they were sent to the soldiers, belonged to the soldiers themselves. Even if they retire, they will not turn it in, and they can dispose of it whether they are sold or passed on to their children and grandchildren.

Originally, there was still a trace of dissatisfaction and complaints in the hearts of the soldiers of the Xia Army, but at this moment, the shotguns were changed in a blink of an eye, and they all shouted that this trip was too worthwhile.

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When Xia Jun was nervously preparing, Tang Jun was not idle. After all, this battle is not a joke, the officers and men of all armies, wiping their armor and sharpening their knives, the whole army is just an idler.

That is Chen Ying, Chen Ying was comfortably enjoying the massage given to him by Fukada Huayin, and at the same time patiently doing ideological work for Su Dingfang: "Su Dingfang, a good minister chooses the master, why are you so dead-eyed?" Look at the strength of my Tang Army, the morale is so high, and the equipment is so well-equipped, is it possible for the Xia Army to win? ”

Chen Ying was actually secretly anxious, he was not worried about the war in Hebei, but he was only worried about Lingzhou.

However, to Chen Ying's slight surprise, after conquering Shengzhou, the Turkic army did not immediately go south, but grazed in the Monan grassland, as if they were here to make soy sauce.

What Chen Ying didn't know was that there was a credit to the Tang Dynasty's diplomacy, Tang Jian was ordered by Li Yuan to send an envoy to the Turks, and the bottom line of the Tang Dynasty was made clear to Jielihe Khan, to the effect that we fought with Dou Jiande, you don't care. Otherwise, we will join forces with Dou Jiande, and Datang and Xia Guo will be able to make up an army of millions.

If you think you can defeat the million-strong army of our Xia and Tang countries, you can try it.

Jieli Khan said at the time, "There are ghosts who believe in you."

But Princess Yicheng doesn't think so.

She is Han Chinese, she is familiar with this ethnic group and understands this group.

Once the foreign enemy approaches, Huaxia will really rise up collectively. Princess Yicheng didn't know how many people died in the civil strife at the end of the Sui Dynasty, but she knew that the Great Sui Dynasty had a population of more than 60 million people in the fifth year of the Great Cause, which was 30 times that of the Turks. Even if ten lives are exchanged for one, Huaxia can exhaust the Turkic confidence.

After the patient persuasion of Princess Yicheng, especially the comparison of the strength of Huaxia and the Turks, Jieli Khan was shocked into a cold sweat. In the grassland, this kind of thing is also very common, in a tribe, for the position of the leader of the tribe, the chief's sons will fight to the head, but at the critical moment, once the whole tribe is facing a critical juncture of life and death, they will shake hands and make peace, first resist foreign enemies, and then divide the superiority.

In the end, it was Princess Yicheng who made Jieli Khan decide to watch, and told him that if the two tigers competed, one would be injured, even if the Tang State defeated Dou Jiande, it would inevitably be greatly damaged, and at that time, the Tang army would definitely not be able to stop the Turkic army from moving south, and the pasture at the foot of Yin Mountain was also very fertile, enough for these soldiers to herd horses and feed sheep.

Chen Ying was an afterthought, until May 23, the third year of Wude, Chen Ying received the exact news that the Turks would not intervene in the fateful battle between the Tang army and the Xia army for the time being.

However, at this time, the news that Chen Ying and Liu Heimin were going to fight was also spread to Chang'an, and the entire Chang'an City was in an uproar.

Now Li Jiancheng is fighting with Dou Jiande in Hedong, and the army under Chen Ying is the only strategic mobile force of the Tang Army. Xiao Xiangguo immediately asked Li Yuan for his life, he must let Chen Ying come back, cooperate with His Royal Highness the Prince, defeat Dou Jiande first, and then take Hedong.