Chapter 115 Li Shimin, who is not favored

The most abundant in the city is not gold, nor steel, but grain. More than two-thirds of the 750,000 mu of grain harvested by Chen Ying, and nearly one million stones, were stored in Jinmancheng. The other third, stored in Huaergou.

Huaergou is only fighting for steel, which is hard power, but the competition for Jinmancheng is for food. Whoever owns grain in the Western Regions has the capital to dominate the Western Regions.

With steel, everyone knows that you can build a blade, and with a blade, you can arm the army, and for the Western Regions, a region where all the people are soldiers, if there is enough steel and food, it is really not a problem to pull up two or three hundred thousand troops.

As for the population of the Western Regions, it has never been possible to count it in detail. As for the population recorded in the Book of Han, it is simply a joke. A country of a thousand people, there may be. But the country of a thousand, a medium-sized horse thief, can be easily subverted. But no matter how powerful the horse thief is, he can't deal with any country in the Western Regions at will.

Although Gao Changguo had a population of more than 300,000, Chen Ying successfully accepted more than 330,000 people, plus more than 50,000 people who were migrated, and other ethnic groups. Datang has a population of more than 500,000 in Xizhou Road. However, after Murong Fuyun came to the Western Regions, Lu Wentai pulled up another 100,000 horses, and no one knew where these people came from.

Of course, none of this matters. The important thing is that Murong Fuyun didn't even say hello, and directly took Tuyuhun people and horses and rushed to Jinmancheng overnight.

By the time Lu Wentai found out that the Tuyuhun camp was empty, he no longer had the strength to curse Murong Fuyun, and even if he was stupid now, he could figure out that something was wrong.

Because, calculating the time, Chen Ying should climb back to Jinmancheng even if he climbs. Lu Boya, Xue Yingxiong, and Li Wentai looked at the earthen wall that had long since turned black and purple, and the eyes of the three of them touched in the air.

Lu Wentai let out a long sigh and said: "Father, it seems that we have to retreat, we have joined forces with the Tuyuhun Khanate, and we are not Chen Ying's opponent, now that Murong Fuyun has retreated, we must also find another way back!" ”

Lu Boya's eyes showed a deep despair: "The world is so big, where is there a place for our father and son?" ”

Speaking of this, Ko Boya couldn't help but regret it. If he didn't run away today and followed the Tang army to Chang'an honestly, the Li Tang court would definitely give him the treatment of a rich man in order to appease the hearts of other tribes. Now, I'm afraid I don't even have that chance.

Thinking of this, Lu Boya's eyes turned red, and he choked up: "Wentai, we can't fight Datang, it's better to surrender!" ”

"Drop!" Lu Wentai shook his head and said with a cold smile: "Father, we have no chance, and there is no way back, Chen Yingxiao will not let go of our father and son, he will definitely kill our father and son and the Koji family......"

At this time, Ko Wentai's face was shrouded in a layer of dead gray, no one could describe the discouragement and even despair in his heart at this moment, but this time, his mind was very much beyond his reach, and he struggled on the edge of the cliff of despair, Ko Wentai still found that his expression was as usual: "Father, don't be surprised, Chen Ying will not let us go, even if we surrender now, we will only bring humiliation on ourselves!" ”

When Lu Boya heard this, he was even more aware.

Xue Yingxiong smiled bitterly: "Looking at the meaning of the crown prince, it must have been decided, I don't know what His Royal Highness the crown prince wants?" ”

Ko Wentai said: "I don't have any clever plan, I can only save the dead from death." Let's go to the Ile Valley and join the Western Turkic Khanate! ”

Koji Boya nodded.

That's a clever idea.

After all, from Jinman County to the Iliel River Valley in the far west, the distance is almost more than 1,600 miles. They also needed to climb the Tianshan Mountain, as long as Chen Ying could allow them to go west for three hundred miles and enter the Tianshan Mountain, Chen Ying would lose the opportunity to pursue them forever. After all, at this time, the Tianshan Mountains had been frozen in snow, and without a familiar guide to guide them, it would be impossible for Chen Ying to find them at all!

After paying attention, Ko Wentai took out five or six thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people from the army, and then singled out their families.

These old, weak, sick and disabled, as well as more than 10,000 wounded soldiers, looked at Ko Wentai worriedly.

Lu Wentai did not shy away from saying: "Now you also know the situation, we have lost, we have lost nothing, I am now taking the young and strong to turn in, your last value is to win us some precious time, whether to do it or not, it's all up to you!" ”

If Lu Wentai said this sentence in the Central Plains, he would definitely be spurned and scolded as a beast. However, in the Western Regions, this practice is the most common thing.

Whenever they encounter natural or man-made disasters, all ethnic groups in the Western Regions are the first to abandon the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving the young and strong. Especially whenever they encounter ice and snow disasters, usually one tribe after another, all of them freeze to death. Looking at their deaths, you will be surprised to find that they are often the old, weak, sick and disabled in the outermost areas, followed by women and children, then teenagers and children, and the innermost are young and middle-aged.

Taking advantage of the night, Lu Wentai left Huaergou with the young and strong main forces of Gao Changguo and other ethnic groups, and rushed all the way to the west. Looking at the wounded soldiers and the old, weak, sick and disabled who were abandoned, these old, weak, sick and disabled howled in despair, and then took their blades and launched an attack on the Tang army camp in Huaergou.

It was a desperate attack like a moth throwing fire, and it was like the last madness.

Duan Zhigan was awakened in this situation, and after waking up, he hurriedly climbed the watchtower.

Standing high and looking far away, a fire dragon was rapidly retreating in the night.

Duan Zhigan sneered: "Even if they have seen through it, there is no need to hide anything." General Denmoto ordered, immediately counterattack with all your strength, and prepare for pursuit! ”

At this time, the trebuchet, which the Tang army was lying in ambush behind the earthen wall, began to speak first. They were not projecting stone bullets, but canisters of oil.

A tank of oil can hold fifty catties of refined oil.

As a rapid short-tone command sounded, rows of trebuchets were pulled down by the soldiers. These trebuchets are all primitive trebuchets of the original kind, but counterweight trebuchets. The 4,000-pound piece of iron fell from a height of more than four feet, and the projectile arm smashed the 50-pound stone projectile into the enemy group.

As more than 4,000 catties of counterweight iron fell to the ground, the ground made a dull sound. At the same time, those canisters of fire oil also fell into the enemy group one after another.

Then the archers of the Tang Army shot densely packed rockets like meteors. Fall into the crowd of enemies and immediately start a fire.

Five or six thousand Gaochang rebels and the soldiers of the Gaochang Army, who were crawling and crawling, gritting their teeth and charging, ready to pull a cushion on their backs, all fell into the sea of fire.

More than 1,300 canisters of fire oil, full of 65,000 catties of fire oil, form a wall of fire about 500 steps wide and deep, and more than 10 miles long.

Five or six thousand burning men screamed miserably in the sea of fire.

Duan Zhigan rode around the wall of fire, slashed over a rebel soldier of the Gaochang Army with a knife, and shouted: "The fifth and seventh folds of the Chongfu stay to clean the battlefield, and the others will chase after me!" ”

Just when Duan Zhigan led the soldiers of the Hebei New Army to pursue the remnants of Liwentai, Li Yuan, who was located in the Wude Hall of Chang'an Taiji Palace, also received an urgent report from Li Shimin in Hedong.

In Li Shimin's urgent report, Li Shimin tearfully denounced the Hedong clan for betraying the Tang Dynasty, betraying him, and selling his marching formation and detailed information on troop movements to the Eastern Turks. Now the Eastern Turks are attacking the empty Yingzhou, Linzhou, Shenmu, Shanyin and other places, and Yingzhou, which has the largest number of troops, has only one Zhichong Prefecture, with more than 1,500 people, and in the face of the attack of tens of thousands of Turks, it will definitely not be able to hold out for a long time.

Seeing this, Li Yuan was immediately anxious, now in the Tang Dynasty, the defense is still Guanzhong, and the sixteen guards have a total of nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses, which are stationed around Chang'an. All the forces that Hedong could use were used. However, Li Shimin is now trapped in Dingxiang, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of heavy troops from the Eastern Turks.

Seeing this, Li Yuan's eyes were about to fall.

Li Shimin is finished!

Does Li Yuan want a white-haired person to send a black-haired person again?

Pei Lin was also dumbfounded when he saw this urgent report.

Li Shimin's record is obvious to all.

The first official appearance was in the 11th year of the Great Cause, Yang Guangyanmen Pass was besieged by the Eastern Turks, and on August 24, Li Shimin was on an errand under the Sui general Yun Dingxing. He offered a plan to Yun Dingxing: "We will go to the rescue of Your Majesty, but our troops are too small to use force directly." To bluff the banner and beat the drum at night, so that the Turks mistakenly think that our brigade reinforcements are coming, and scare him away. Yun Dingxing adopted it.

Later historians often only talk about this place, and avoid talking about the subsequent records, which makes people mistakenly think that this strategy successfully rescued Yang Guang, so they praise Li Shimin, a young general. However, "Zizhi Tongjian" did not say that this plan was successful, and directly ended a whole paragraph, and changed a paragraph to explain the real reason for the Turkic retreat: the emperor sent an envoy to ask for help from Princess Yu Yicheng, and the princess sent an envoy to tell Shi Biyun: "There is an emergency in the north." "Reinforcements from the eastern capital and the counties also came to Xinkou; In September, Jiachen, the siege was lifted. ”

Li Shimin's first appearance was actually a failure.

The second battle was after Li Yuan raised his army, and from July to November of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Shimin led the army to attack Huoyi.

Of course, the battle of Huoyi was fought by Li Yuan, Li Jiancheng, Li Shimin, father and son, and the plan at that time was because Li Yuan lacked the equipment to attack the city, so he took his eldest son to show weakness at the east gate and lure Song Laosheng away from the city wall to fight. The second son was ambushed on the high ground outside the south gate, and when Song Laosheng was scheming, he rushed over, appeared behind Song Laosheng, and attacked him back and forth with his father and brother. Kill Song Laosheng outside the city, and then you can conquer Huoyi.

"The old student can't get in, the people in the city go down the rope to lead him, the old student climbs the rope and wants to go to the ground" "Zizhi Tongjian Sui Ji VIII", when Li Shimin carried out such an ambush mission, in fact, it failed. Song Laosheng actually broke through Li Shimin's encirclement and climbed onto the city wall.

In "The Old Tang Book: The Biography of Liu Hongji": "The old student led the crowd outside the city, Hongji hit it from Taizong, the old student was defeated, abandoned the horse and threw himself into the trench, Hongji beheaded him, and worshiped the right Guanglu doctor. ”

Pei Lin knows Li Shimin's ability, and his biggest ability is to make a mess of the best situation.

Pei Lin hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, we must organize an army as soon as possible to rescue His Royal Highness the Qin Army!" ”

Li Yuan groaned. And did not answer immediately.

In fact, he also has a headache, the key is that although there is an army in Guanzhong, but the army can't fly, Guanzhong is more than a thousand miles away from the east of the river, and there is a Yellow River, even if the troops are sent immediately, I am afraid that they will not be able to reach Dingxiang in half a month.

Not only Li Yuan and Pei Lin are not optimistic about Li Shimin, but in fact, even Li Jiancheng and Li Xiuning are not optimistic about Li Shimin.

Even Jieli Khan, who was far away outside Dingxiang City, was also not optimistic about Li Shimin.

He believes that Li Shimin should be the dish on his plate, and he can catch it with his hands. In order to capture Li Shimin alive and end the battle quickly, Jieli Khan issued the Khan's Golden Arrow Order, and ordered all the Eastern Turkic tribes to capture Li Shimin alive, reward thousands of horses, and give knights and special services! “

However, Jieli Khan didn't know that this time he really looked away!

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