Chapter 158: Who is the first military god of the Tang Dynasty?

In March of the third year of Wude, Li Shimin's eastward expedition for three months, almost after any tragic battles, the whole Luoyang was all around, almost all of them were looking at the wind and surrendering, in late February, Shi Derui surrendered to Li Shimin with the seven states of the department, in early March, Zhang Zhenzhou, the general under Wang Shichong, surrendered to Li Shimin, Wei Lu surrendered to Xingyang, and Wang Yaohan surrendered to Bianzhou. In just three months, all the counties around Luoyang fell into the hands of Li Shimin, and Luoyang became an isolated city.

The call of the Central Plains after the First World War became louder and louder in the army, and it seemed that in the eyes of everyone, they also believed that the war against the Central Plains was nearing the end. In particular, the old generals of Wagang, Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, Niu Junda, Xie Yingdeng, and Zhang Shixiangwan refused Wei Zheng's solicitation and directly surrendered to Li Shimin, which made Li Shimin think that Luoyang City was ripe, so he had to reach out and pick it.

Only Chen Ying knows that this war is actually not so easy to end, on the contrary, it has become more bloodthirsty.

Hou Mo Chen Xu left Xin'an very disappointed, Chen Ying not only did not agree to give him a batch of equipment, but even paid a lot of money to buy it, Chen Ying was unwilling to sell it, and Chen Ying also told him conclusively that there was no way out to resist the Tang Army.

Looking at Hou Mo Chen Xu's distant back, a trace of worry appeared on Chen Ying's face. Guo Luo looked at Chen Ying puzzled: "Lord, it's all a family!" ”

"You don't understand, the stronger the strength at this time, the less good it is!" Chen Ying said worriedly: "Lingnan is too far away, lonely and hanging outside, if he had destroyed Lin Shihong and Feng Ang and occupied the entire Jiangnan in the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, even if he fought for his life, he could still fight, but it was a pity that the opportunity had been lost." As the saying goes, the times create heroes, and Hou Mo Chen's luck is too bad. ”

Guo Luo didn't understand, and Chen Ying didn't explain it to him. Anyway, he really didn't understand it. In fact, when Li Tang was in the Wude period, he also made a series of stupid moves, such as Li Yuanji lost the entire Hedong, Li Liang rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, Hexi lost half of it, and the rebellion of the side enterprises and Bashu was beheaded in half. There is also the killing of Dou Jiande, Liu Heimin is opposed, however, Li Tang is like a hanging, all the way up, maybe this is really destiny.

If Dou Jiande is a little stronger, or Du Fuwei is awesome, in fact, it is unknown whether Li Tang can be reunified, but unfortunately, Dou Jiande is too arrogant, if he doesn't want to be beautiful and send Liu Heimin to fight, it is estimated that Li Shimin will not be able to eat and walk around.

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Li Yuan was very happy about Chen Ying's knowledge, what he liked was a smart courtier like Chen Ying, who knew how to advance and retreat together. If it was his son who became the leader of the army, he was not worried, but once Chen Ying became a banner in the army, then he would be worried.

But now, Chen has dispelled his doubts with practical actions. The so-called siege secret art is nothing but poisonous smoke. In this way, the secret weapons superintendent has mastered it, and a sample has been made.

Li Yuan even used more than a dozen pigs, sheep and ten death row inmates to do an experiment, it only took a quarter of an hour, and all ten death row inmates suffocated to death, and the death was extremely miserable, all of them were bleeding and their faces were purple.

With this weapon, 320 poison smoke bombs that can be fired by trebuchets have been intensively built, and they have been transported to the front line in Luoyang. Once these poisonous smoke bombs are transported to Luoyang, it is conceivable that Wang Shichong will be smoked out of the hole like a rabbit.

Especially at this time, Chen Ying actually surrendered wholeheartedly to the work of reclamation of wasteland, which seemed to be like being a generalissimo of reclamation.

Li Yuan looked at Chen Shuda and said, "I heard that Chen Ying should reclaim wasteland in Henan, and this year he will reclaim more than 750,000 acres?" ”

Chen Shuda said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's not enough, it is said that Chen Anfu invented a method of planting hedges to build solid soil in Henan, and using fences to build terraces, which is not only low in cost, but also fast." Chen Anfu ordered a total of more than 25,000 soldiers in the left and right guards of the East Palace, and more than 25,000 soldiers in the left and right divisions, all of whom participated in the reclamation of wasteland, and Xin'an County alone cultivated 150,000 mu, more than 75,000 mu of peach forests, and 200,000 mu of rope ponds, which is expected to exceed 1.3 million mu! ”

"Haha......" Li Yuan's eyes smiled when he heard this: "One million and three thousand mu, you can collect an additional two million mu of grain, and Erlang can send troops to Hebei at the end of autumn for this extra two million stone grain." ”

In fact, Li Yuan's appetite was also amazing, when Li Shimin almost effortlessly took Bianzhou (now Kaifeng), Xingyang, Guanzhou, Ruzhou, Bianzhou, Xuzhou, Chenzhou, Caizhou, Zhengzhou, Huazhou, Yingzhou and other eleven states, as well as Xianzhou Governor Tian Zhan with 25 prefectures to surrender.

Twenty-five states, almost the entire Jingzhou region, this time Li Tang's territory expanded to nearly one-fifth. Of course, this also gave Li Yuan great confidence. At this time, Luoyang was just an isolated city, no matter how Wang Shichong could fight, he wouldn't be able to hold out for long.

Luoyang has not yet been defeated, and Li Yuan's eyes have already set their sights on Dou Jiande's Hebei. Dou Jiande's territory is much larger than Wang Shichong, and unlike Wang Shichong, most of Wang Shichong's subordinates were made by him, and Wang Shichong can't govern the place at all. For example, Tian Zan is nominally the head of Wang Shichong's Xianzhou, but in fact, Tian Zan is the king of Jingxiang in the real sense.

Wang Shichong's tens of thousands of square kilometers of land did not satisfy Li Yuan's appetite at all. The twenty-four states of Hebei can only be regarded as an appetizer at most.

Pei Lin said with a smile: "Your Majesty's account is not calculated like this, this 1.3 million mu of new land has a limited output, and it is estimated that it can produce 2 million stone of grain, excluding the consumption of the 25,000 troops under Chen An's command, and then removing the people's rations, it would be good to have 300,000 stone left." ”

"Bianzhou (now Kaifeng), Xingyang, Guanzhou, Ruzhou, Bianzhou, Xuzhou, Chenzhou, Caizhou, Zhengzhou, Huazhou, and Yingzhou have all fallen!" Li Yuan thought for a while and said, "Then how about handing over these eleven states and Henan Mansion to Chen Yingjingluo?" ”

If you want to say that you know Li Yuan best, it must be Pei Lian. In the past, Li Yuan was not at ease with Chen Ying, and only gave Chen Ying a false official, not a real position, but now Chen Ying is already the right servant of the Shangshu of the Eastern Shaanxi Province, the deputy marshal of the marching army, plus to pacify Henan, if Chen Ying's official position is generally temporary, but he has a high rank.

This rank, if you return to the center, is at least a six-department squire or a vice-minister of the three provinces. That is, the princes of the Manchu Dynasty, there will be no more than twenty people who can surpass Chen Ying in real office.

Pei Lin didn't know how Li Yuan's mind changed, and he didn't know whether Li Yuan meant it or was sincere. Pei Lin had no choice but to say tentatively: "I'm afraid that it doesn't match the system?" ”

"When the dynasty was first established, there were so many restrictions!" Li Yuan said resolutely: "Add Chen Ying as the Duke of Liang Guo, the general of the Zuo Imperial Guard, and the envoy of Henan Province." ”

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Just when Li Yuan was about to catch Chen Ying, a living treasure, and make it to his death, Wang Shichong was also preparing to continue his physical strength and struggle to the death. At this time, Wang Shichong's situation was even worse than in history. In history, as the generals turned against the water, Wang Shichong had at least one champion general Shan Xiongxin by his side.

However, in this time and space, Shan Xiongxin was also fooled away by Chen Ying.

However, this does not mean that Li Shimin can win easily. Wang Shichong's territory shrank sharply, and his generals also defected and surrendered, but Wang Shichong only lost the vassal forces on the periphery, and he was not his real descendant at all. In fact, except for Wang Renze, who lost more than 20,000 men and horses at Hangu Pass, Wang Shichong's descendants did not lose anything.

Finding that Chen Ying's part turned around and reclaimed the wasteland in Henan Mansion, Wang Shichong hurriedly summoned his subordinates to come to the meeting, in fact, Wang Shichong's scene at this time was very tragic, in addition to his sons and nephews, there were only two or three kittens under his command, even if he was promoted to the dynasty, he had to take the eunuchs to make up the number, otherwise the hall would not be satisfied at all.

Wang Shichong actually didn't expect his group of wine bags and rice bags to come up with any clever ideas, he was just conveying his orders, Wang Shichong said lightly: "Li Shimin'er has been careless recently, and Chen Ying'er has also been careless, do they really think that I can let him slaughter?" Now is the critical juncture for the life and death of our Great Zheng Kingdom, you bastards! ”

Saying that, Wang Shichong unceremoniously pointed at Wang Renze, Wang Xuannu and other nephews and shouted: "Throw those little Jiujiu in their hearts aside, either win, sit on the Central Plains, or die, you all know that when you become a royal family, there is no good end after the death of the country, they can surrender, only we can't, they surrender to Li Tang, it doesn't matter if the official is big or small, and we can still be an official, but we don't even have a chance to live!" ”

If Chen Ying heard this, he would definitely give Wang Shichong a thumbs up. At least Wang Shichong still had the foresight, Wang Shichong was spared death because of the surrender of the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin's preface, demoted to a concubine, and exiled to Shu with his brothers, sons and nephews. Wang Shichong was killed by the Dingzhou Assassin Shi Dugu Xiude, the son of the enemy Dugu Ji, at the Dingzhou Fuzhou Station, and his sons and nephews were also killed for rebellion on the way to exile.

In the end, Wang Shichong, like Dou Jiande, was in a different place, and his family was ruined.

After Wang Shichong's conspiracy, after nightfall, Wang Shichong mobilized elite soldiers and strong generals to prepare to launch.

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Li Shimin, who was located in the northern camp, heard the news as soon as possible, and the movement of tens of thousands of horses was earth-shattering, and unless Li Shimin was deaf or blind, it was impossible not to know the news.

Li Shimin took the information and asked suspiciously: "What is Wang Shichong doing here?" ”

Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said: "We have intercepted more than a dozen waves of messengers before, Li Shimin must want to rescue Dou Jiande, Luoyang City is too big, and the messengers we can catch will definitely not be all." ”

Li Shimin stared at Fang Xuanling and said, "So what? ”

"Therefore, Wang Shichong is nothing more than two possibilities!" Fang Xuanling said: "First, take advantage of the night to attack my camp in Pishan, in a vain attempt to turn the tide of the war, if His Royal Highness the King of Qin is accidentally defeated, Wang Shichong will not only get a chance to breathe, but also those newly surrendered Zheng army generals will also repeat." Second, Wang Shichong is breaking through! ”

"Breakout? Is Wang Shichong willing to do it? Li Shimin said disdainfully: "Is he willing to leave behind Luoyang City, which he took for half his life?" Although the world is big, is there still a place for him? ”

Du Ruhui said: "There really is! ”

"Oh!" Li Shimin originally felt that Du Ruhui's idea was very ridiculous, but when he thought about it, he suddenly realized.

Li Shimin suddenly pounced in front of the map and slammed his fist on the top of Nanyang City.

Du Ruhui said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin is wise, Wang Shichong is not nowhere to go, he can also go to Nanyang." ”

Li Shimin nodded and said: "The terrain of Nanyang connects the north and the south, and the north side has both the danger of Funiu Mountain and the solidity of Wuguan, if Wang Shichong leads the elite troops to flee into Nanyang, leaving a partial division to defend Wuguan, it doesn't need to hold on for long, ten days is enough for Wang Shichong to calmly pack up Jingxiang!" ”

Fang Xuanling said: "Then I have to make two preparations, one is to prevent its night attack, and the other is to prepare the cavalry and prepare to pursue." Wang Shichong commanded the young horses, chasing all the way, there will be a lot of gains! ”

Li Shimin nodded and shouted: "Zhai Changsun, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan!" ”

Zhai Changsun, Hou Junji, and Duan Zhixuan came out and hugged their fists and said: "The last general!" ”

Li Shimin said: "You and the other three, go back to the camp immediately, eat and rest, and recuperate!" ”

"Obey!"

Li Shimin said again: "Huang Junhan! ”

"The last general!"

"Your department strictly guards the northern camp, and you must not let Wang Shichong succeed!"

"Yes!"

"Swanbo!"

"Andy Lau!"

"The last general!"

"The last general!"

Li Shimin gave orders in an orderly manner. The whole camp began to move like a machine. When Li Shimin finished arranging the whole army, Fang Xuanling suddenly asked, "Do you want to inform General Chen?" ”

"Chen Ying?"

Li Shimin thought for a while and said, "Send a team of letter cavalry to inform General Chen ......"

At this moment, Li Shimin shook his head and said: "Forget it, don't inform him, anyway, he is more than a hundred miles away from here, and there are many infantry under his command, and when he arrives, the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold." ”

Qin Qiong looked at Li Shimin silently, frowning secretly.

Li Shimin's words are too selfish.

In fact, it is exactly like this, since ancient times, there is no first in literature, and there is no second in martial arts.

The stinky problem of the literati being light is very prominent, but the open and secret battles between the generals are also the same. If Chen Ying had not come forward, Li Shimin would have been the well-deserved god of the Tang Army, the only belief of the generals in the army.

However, since Chen Ying came to prominence, Li Shimin's position in the army was seriously threatened by Chen Ying. This time the Eastern Expedition Wang Shichong, Li Shimin also felt very pressure, after all, Chen Ying attacked Hangu Pass, all the way to Xin'an, and so far, he has not fought a battle with casualties of more than 1,000 people.

Even if Li Shimin occupied all the cities around Luoyang and surrounded Luoyang like an iron bucket, Li Shimin was not happy because of Chen Ying.

Li Shimin decided that he must fight a big victory, and let Chen Ying see who is the first military god of the Tang Dynasty.

Until late at night, Li Shimin was awakened by a commotion. Li Shimin rushed out of the big tent in armor, stood on the north mountain, and looked at Luoyang City in the night. At this time, the gate of Anximen on the north wall of Luoyang City was wide open, and a fire dragon pounced towards the northern camp with its teeth and claws.

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