Chapter Ninety-Four: Wang Bo Descends to Tang (Second Watch)
Weishui is the largest tributary of the Yellow River, and at the same time, the Weihe River basin is also the birthplace of Emperor Xuanyuan and Emperor Shennong, the first ancestors of humanity. Crossing the Weishui River to the north means that Chen Ying has completely left the scope of Chang'an.
People yearn for the prosperity and liveliness of Chang'an, but Chen Ying doesn't like the city of Chang'an very much, he feels that as long as he enters Chang'an, he is like a bird in a cage. The moment he left Chang'an City, Chen Ying felt indescribably comfortable.
When the carriage rolled and walked on the temporary bridge in Weishui, Chen Ying's brain imagined that it was eight years after this temporary bridge, Li Shimin set up a suspicious plan on the temporary bridge, and formed an alliance with the Turkic Jieli Khan to kill the white horse, of course, this price is also quite huge, Li Shimin gave all the treasures of the Chang'an treasury to Jieli Khan.
Chen Ying was full of malicious thoughts, as long as he was in Lingzhou for a day, the Turks would not think about the next step in the south, and I am afraid that there would be no future Weishui Alliance. Of course, if you give yourself seven or eight years of operation, Lingzhou is difficult to culvert, even if it is not an iron wall, at least it is difficult for the Turks to culvert.
Just when Chen Ying was thinking about it, the carriage suddenly stopped.
Chen Ying lifted the curtain of the carriage, looked up at Zhao Chunyang and said, "What's the matter!" ”
In fact, without Zhao Chunyang answering, Chen Ying himself had already seen that a large group of fierce cavalry appeared next to the official road, and the person at the head was actually Chen Ying's acquaintance - Xue Wanche.
Chen Ying and Xue Wanche fought side by side in Jingyang, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are comrades-in-arms.
Although Li Jiancheng did not appear, but seeing Xue Wanche appearing, where did Chen Ying not know that Li Jiancheng was nearby?
However, Xue Wanche seemed to be deliberately showing off his riding skills, and rode his horse towards Chen Ying's carriage. Zhao Chunyang didn't know Xue Wanche, and thought that Xue Wanche had bad intentions. When both waved his big hand, the Dingyuan army and the cavalry were lined up in a lancer shock formation.
Xue Wanche looked at the cavalry with hook and sickle spears and lined up in a wall of pikes, and felt his scalp tingle. Hundreds of paces away from Chen Ying's carriage, Xue Wanche urgently turned his horse's head, and the cavalry followed.
"General......
Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Don't worry, it's General Xue of the East Palace!" ”
Chen Ying hurriedly jumped out of the carriage, asked for a horse from the cavalry soldiers, turned over his horse, and galloped towards the woods.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for a large clearing in the vast woods to spend a huge curtain, and Li Jiancheng, who was dressed in military uniform, saw that looking at Chen Ying's arrival, his originally cold face appeared warm: "I am deeply sorry that this palace failed to practice for General Chen......"
Li Jiancheng stretched out his hand and pointed to the curtain, there were more than a dozen low tables of different sizes, on which there were beef and mutton food and some wine.
"Chen Ying, how can he de!" Chen Ying suddenly found that the cavalry under Xue Wanche's command were carrying marching dry food bags, and the quiver was also a double quiver in combat readiness, fifty arrows, as well as ten sheep's head armor-piercing arrows (both three-edged arrows), water bladders, and a single soldier's sleeping bag invented by Chen Ying. There are also quivers, water bottles, and marching backpacks, which don't seem like going out to play.
Chen Ying tried to ask, "Where is the prince going?" ”
Li Jiancheng sighed leisurely and said: "Liu Wuzhou divided his troops to attack Fenzhou and Jinzhou, Sanhu complained to his father, and even wrote a blood book, and his father ...... Hey, as an elder brother, this palace can't be ignored! ”
Li Yuan didn't want to take care of Jinzhou, but Sui Beihai Tongshou Zheng Qianfu and Wendeng County ordered Fang Hui to surrender to Tang. Zheng Qianfu and Fang Huiquan are nothing, the key is that Wang Bo is going to descend to the Tang Dynasty.
Wang Bo was not the same as Li Mi at this time, Wang Bo controlled Donghai (now Lianyungang, Jiangsu), Qi County (now Jinan City, Shandong), Dongping (now Yuncheng, Shandong), Rencheng (now Jining City, Shandong), Pinglu (near Wenshang City, Shandong), Shouzhang (now Liangshanbei, Shandong), Xuchang (now northwest of Dongping County, Shandong) and other places, and Wang Bo had more than 100,000 horses. In order to maintain the deterrence of Wang Bo, Li Yuan deliberately stationed the elite soldiers of the Tang Dynasty near Chang'an.
In Li Yuan's mind, there are many generals in Jinyang, there are many grains, grasses and armor in reserve, and there are Dou Dan, Yu Wenxin, Liu Dewei and other assistants, so there will be nothing for a while. The biggest problem in Jinyang is that Li Yuanji has a violent temper and is separated from the generals, as long as one of the people who can control Li Yuanji arrives in Jinyang, the danger of Jinyang will be solved without a fight.
When Chen Ying heard this, he sighed in his heart. History has inevitably changed, originally in the history of the danger of Jinyang, Li Yuan successively sent Pei Lian, but unfortunately, Pei Lin also did not solve the danger of Jinyang, but lost Jinyang.
Pei Lin lost Jinyang, which had little impact, because Pei Lin himself was Li Yuan's good friend, and the two of them were in the same relationship, even if the army was defeated in Hedong, Li Yuan did not blame Pei Lian, as always, the trust was good, but Li Jiancheng couldn't go, once he fell into the whirlpool of Hedong, Li Jiancheng wanted to retreat again, but it would be difficult.
Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng with a frown and said, "His Royal Highness the Prince, is it His Majesty's order to go to Hedong here?" ”
Chen Yingsi thought about it, if it wasn't for Li Yuan's clear will, let Li Jiancheng take the opportunity to withdraw, don't mix with this troubled water.
Li Jiancheng heard a vague allusion in Chen Ying's words, squinted his eyes and looked at Chen Yingdao: "Does General Chen think that this palace will be more auspicious if he goes to Jinyang?" ”
Chen Ying shook his head and said, "If that's not the case, the subordinates just think it's not worth it!" ”
If Chen Ying follows Li Jiancheng's words, I'm afraid that Li Jiancheng won't be able to go to Jinyang.
In fact, Li Jiancheng, like Li Shimin, was born as a soldier. In that year, Li Yuan raised troops in Taiyuan, built the General's Mansion, and awarded Li Jiancheng the Governor of the Left Army, unified the three armies of the left, and sealed the Duke of Longxi County. Li Yuan led the Chinese army by himself, that is, the governor of the right unified army, and the governor was Li Shimin. Li Jiancheng was ordered to lead tens of thousands of people such as Liu Wenjing and Wang Changhui to Tunyongfengcang, hold Tongguan, and defeat Qu Tutong. It was only after Li Jiancheng was named the crown prince that he sat in Chang'an and no longer went out to lead the army. If Chen Ying dared to question Li Jiancheng's ability to command troops, I am afraid it would only backfire.
"Not worth it?" Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying with electric eyes, and said word by word: "In General Chen's opinion, Jinyang, as the land of Tang Longxing, is not it worth going to this palace?" “
Chen Ying looked at Li Jiancheng without fear and said, "Your Majesty thinks that it is really unwise for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to go to Jinyang at this time!" ”
"Oh!" When Li Jiancheng heard this, a trace of dissatisfaction flashed in his eyes, and there was warm anger on his face: "According to what General Chen said, how can it be considered a wise choice?" ”
Chen Ying sighed and said: "His Royal Highness the Prince, now Wang Bo, Du Fuwei and others have surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince leaves Beijing at this time, Wang Bo, Du Fuwei, and Li Mi's subordinates will all be accepted by His Royal Highness the King of Qin.
Hearing this, a solemn look appeared on Li Jiancheng's face. Li Jiancheng's brows frowned slightly, and he said lightly: "Could it be that Jinyang just ignores it?" ”
"It's the lesser of two evils, and the heavier of two benefits!" Chen Yingdao: "It's not to ignore it, but to prioritize it, the danger of Jinyang is nothing more than the discord between the generals, His Royal Highness the Prince can stabilize the King of Qi when he goes to Jinyang, is it possible that Princess Pingyang will not be able to stabilize the King of Qi if she goes to Jinyang?" ”