Chapter 124: Who in the world can resist?

Luoyang was closer to Hangu Pass than Chang'an, and as early as when Wang Renze received news that the Tang army had an unclear whereabouts of grain and grass, he speculated that the Tang army might attack from Hangu Pass. That is, four hours after Shan Xiongxin sent out the army, Wang Shichong got the news.

Wang Shichong did not dare to slack off, and immediately summoned his henchman Xue Deyin to come to the palace to discuss matters. Xue Deyin is the son of Xue Daoheng, the former Sui Neishi (equivalent to the Zhongshu Shilang) Shilang Xue Daoheng, who has been intelligent since childhood, can write at the age of twelve, can write at the age of fifteen, and has literary talent and strategy, Xue Deyin and his cousin Xue Shu and nephew Xue Yuanjing are known as "Hedong Three Phoenix".

Eggs are not put in one basket, this is the only way to survive the family gate. Therefore, Hedong Sanfeng, in fact, also served the three parties, Xue Deyin's cousin Xue Shui took refuge in the Tang Dynasty and became Li Shimin's disciple, and was the lord of the Qin Palace. And Xue Deyin took refuge in Wang Shichong and became Wang Shichong's confidant. And Xue Yuanjing, one of the three phoenixes, was originally from Yu Wenhua, and after Yu Wenhua was defeated, he took refuge in Li Tang, and both his uncle and nephew became one of the eighteen scholars of the Qin Palace.

Seeing Wang Shichong's worried face, Xue Deyin was still very strange, and asked suspiciously: "I don't know what Your Majesty is worried about?" ”

Wang Shichong sighed and said: "Li Tang's heart is clear, my hardships and soldiers and horses are not strong, and there is not enough food and grass, I am afraid it will be difficult to compete with Li Yuan's old man." ”

Xue Deyin sneered and said: "Your Majesty, if there is no general of the imperial guard to gain insight into the enemy's situation, I am afraid that Hangu Pass will have twists and turns. ”

"Not really!" Wang Shichong shook his head and said: "Although Hangu Pass is dangerous, but Liu Wuzhou is in danger of Yanmen Pass, how can he be defeated within three days?" If Hangu Pass is under Li Tang's onslaught at all costs, it will be difficult to ensure that it is comprehensive! ”

Xue Deyin said: "If the situation is gradually clear today, Dou Jiande of Hebei, Li Yuan of Guanzhong, and His Majesty of the Central Plains will definitely be Zhuolu in the world, Jianghuai Du Fuwei and Badong Xiao Milling are just a dog guarding the house, so there is no need to worry." Your Majesty can send an envoy to unite with Dou Jiande to resist Li Tang ......"

"But Dou Jiande's puppet declared to the outside world that he was not compatible with my oath!" Wang Shichong also knew that it was difficult for him to attack Li Tang's army, even if Wang Ren could repel the attack of the Tang army this time, it was difficult to guarantee that Li Yuan would not attack again. Wang Shichong smiled bitterly: "Even if I want to unite with Dou Jiande, I'm afraid I won't be able to do so." ”

Xue Deyin said: "Back then, Cao Cao also said that he wanted to be the general of the Han Dynasty in his life, Cao Hou. How can such words be trusted? Cao Cao is not the same, if he really lets him sweep away Hu Lu and dominate the world, it is not his own decision, even if Cao Cao fails to unify the world and is posthumously named Emperor Wu of Wei, but who can restrain him with words. Dou Jiande wants to map the Central Plains, so he will naturally swear to stand with His Majesty, but now Li Yuan has won Guanzhong, Hexi, Bashu, and Hedong, and now Li Yuan has become a big trend. If Dou Jiande is smart, he will join forces with His Majesty to conspire with great things...... If not, he Dou Jiande will definitely regret it. ”

Wang Shichong said: "Although this is the case, he, Dou Jiande, seeing that I am in danger today, will definitely open his mouth and make me pay an unbearable price." ”

Xue Deyin said with a smile: "Dou Jiande has no children, only one daughter, if the family business is big, there is no child to heir, it can be regarded as the biggest regret, if His Majesty hires Dou Jiande's daughter Dou Xianniang as his wife and canonized as the crown princess, Zheng Xia and the two countries will always marry Qin and Jin, how can Dou Jiande stand by and watch?" ”

Wang Shichong laughed when he heard this: "Deyin clever plan! ”

Xue Deyin "Although the minister is not talented, he is willing to lobby Dou Jiande with a three-inch tongue to promote the alliance of Xia Zheng!" ”

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After nightfall, Wang Shichong asked people to turn over the brand of Yang Tong's original concubine, although Yang Dong's poor doll was killed by Wang Shichong, but Wang Shichong for Yang Dong's concubines, especially Yuan Wendu's eldest granddaughter Yuan's although only fourteen years old, but graceful figure, with charming skills, since tasting the taste of Yuan, Wang Shichong almost every three or five let Yuan's sleep.

In his heart, Wang Shichong, who was sick-hearted, hugged Yuan's family and scored three times in one night. After a night of exhaustion, it was not until dawn that Wang Shichong fell asleep in a daze.

Wang Shichong slept this time, and slept for a whole day. When Wang Shichong woke up again, it was almost dark. Wang Shichong looked at the already radiant Yuan, who was already radiant, sitting on the soft bed dignified and generous, looking at a book.

Wang Shichong's body slowly reacted, but thinking about his body that had already been hollowed out, he sighed and said: "The young man quits sex, the middle-aged quit fighting, and the old man quit greed ......"

However, at this moment, Wang Xuanying, the crown prince appointed by Wang Shichong, ran into the palace in a panic and exclaimed: "Daddy, daddy...... Yes...... No...... Father's ...... Father, something happened, something happened, something big happened! ”

Wang Shichong looked at Wang Xuanying's chaotic and undignified appearance, and was very dissatisfied. Because Wang Shichong was born as a Hu person, in the Sui Dynasty, he was often secretly called Hu Manzi, so Wang Shichong not only changed his surname to Han, but also carried out a profound Sinicization education for his sons and daughters. Wang Shichong's face froze, and his eyes stared at Wang Xuanying like electricity: "What's the matter?" ”

Wang Xuan said urgently: "Just now there is news from Hangu Pass, the champion general, the commander of the horse Shan Tong Shan Xiongxin was defeated by the generals, and surrendered to the Tang army Chen Ying, Shan Tong was unwilling to betray his father and the emperor, and committed suicide in the Tang camp......

When Wang Shichong heard this, he only felt that his eyes were dark, he had difficulty breathing, and he almost fell to the ground.

It took a long time before I reacted.

Wang Shichong looked at the Yuan clan coldly, and the Yuan clan hurriedly turned around and left.

watched the Yuan clan and the palace ladies and eunuchs leave the main hall. Wang Shichong sighed and said, "Da Zheng is in danger.

"Father, why can't the sons and daughters understand!" Wang Xuanying asked puzzledly: "Although Shan Tong is brave and good at fighting, but he will die when he dies, and our Da Zheng is not short of famous generals who can fight well, I heard that Li Mi's old subordinates Qin Qiong, Qin Shubao, Niu Junda, and Cheng Zhijie on martial arts are not under Shan Tong......"

Hearing this, Wang Shi was so inflated that he even tore off a few of his beards. He really wanted to smash Wang Xuanying's head open with the golden bone duo now to see if there was any feces inside. As the saying goes, children are their own good, and wives are good for others. Wang Shichong still patiently explained to Wang Xuanying: "Of course, it is not so easy to understand, but I am afraid that at this moment, even Duan Da, Wang Long, Cui Hongdan, Xue Deyin, Yang Wang, Meng Xiaoyi, and Yang Gongqing may not be able to see it as thoroughly as I can." ”

Then Wang Shichong told Wang Xuanying that the fundamental core issue of military power and righteousness.

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On the platform of the military camp outside Chang'an City, Li Shimin's face was gloomy. The cold wind was blowing tighter and tighter, and Li Shimin's face was getting colder and colder. He stood on the platform for half an hour, but there were only a few generals who should gather and drum. Originally, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, Li Shimin was against the expedition in the bitter cold, because going out in such cold weather would be extremely unbearable for the officers and men of the whole army, and it would be prone to large-scale non-combat attrition.

However, when Chen Ying defeated Wang Renze, killed more than 6,000 Zheng army soldiers, captured more than 8,000 people, and beheaded Zheng army generals Shan Tong and Guo Qing, Li Shimin could no longer sit still.

The battle of Hedong made the crown prince Li Jiancheng beautiful for a while, to say that Li Shimin didn't mind, it would definitely be a lie. But now, if Chen Ying is allowed to successfully break through Hangu Pass, the troops are under Luoyang City, and the battle of the Eastern Expedition will not be able to run. Even if Li Jiancheng sits in the East Palace and does not take half a step out of Chang'an City, he can win the battle of the Eastern Crusade, at least half of the credit.

This is something that Li Shimin cannot tolerate.

Today, Wang Renze commanded an army of more than 30,000 people, and only more than 15,000 remnants remained, belonging to a half-dead tiger. If you don't pick peaches at this time, when will you stay?

At this moment, a tall and strong man with a flushed face hurriedly came to Li Shimin and bowed down and said, "The last general, Zhai Changsun, meet the Generalissimo of King Qin!" ”

"General Zhai doesn't have to be formal." Li Shimin looked at Zhai Changsun, and a trace of warmth finally appeared on his face.

This Zhai Changsun was originally Xue Ju Xiqin's internal history order (Zhongshu Ling), when Li Shimin defeated Xue Renguo in Gaoqi, he saw that Xue Renguo's general trend had gone, and with the internal history order, Zhai Changsun, who was defending the capital of Western Qin, decisively surrendered Li Shimin with Zhenliang and his son, and Zhai Changsun was appointed by Li Shimin as the hussar general of the Qin Wangfu.

Seeing Li Shimin's unkind face, Zhai Changsun quickly understood the reason why Li Shimin was in a bad mood. It's no wonder that the generals of Chang'an Zuo, at this time, who doesn't celebrate the New Year at home? The drums of war outside the city were so loud that they couldn't hear them. Zhai Changsun looked at the Xuanjia Army behind Li Shimin, a confident smile appeared on his face, and he smiled confidently: "His Royal Highness King Qin, I heard that Chen Ying, the champion general of the East Palace, has created an invincible Modao Army?" ”

When Li Shimin heard this, his heart was as disgusting as swallowing a fly. In fact, why did Chen Ying create an invincible Modao army?

He founded the hook and sickle of the East Palace Right Guard and led the second mansion of the hook and sickle to break the house, borrowed this almost omnipotent hook and sickle spearman, and formed the Dingyuan Army lancers who were embarrassed by the Turks, and then used the hook and sickle to completely annihilate more than 2,000 tomahawk battalions under Wang Renze at a cost of almost unscathed, and captured more than 2,000 pairs of armor alone.

Li Shimin looked at Zhai Changsun and said, "General Zhai also wants to create an invincible iron army?" ”

Zhai Changsun nodded and said, "The last general has such an idea!" ”

Li Shimin was very jealous of Li Jiancheng's elite soldiers at this time, such as the Modao Army, the Dingyuan Army, and of course, the current Beiwei Army had not yet made a name for itself, otherwise Li Shimin would be jealous of Li Jiancheng's Beiwei Army. Hearing what Zhai Changsun said, Li Shimin was overjoyed and said: "What General Zhai needs, this king is all satisfied!" ”

Zhai Changsun said: "I wonder if His Royal Highness the King of Qin still remembers the former Yan Dazai, Lu Shangshu, Zhou official affairs, the chief regent, and the king of Taiyuan?" ”

Li Shimin thought for a while, and then asked, "Wuji, do you know who General Zhai is talking about?" ”

The eldest grandson Wuji showed a signature smile and said, "What General Zhai is talking about is Murong Kegong?" ”

Zhai Changsun said: "Yes, it's him!" ”

Li Shimin's head slowly remembered who Murong Ke was mentioned by Zhai Changsun, Murong Ke was a famous general of the Xianbei clan in the former Yan State of the Northern and Southern Dynasties during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, he was originally the fourth son of Murong Hao, the fourth son of Murong Hao, the younger brother of Murong Jun, the former Yan Jingzhao Emperor, an outstanding politician and military strategist in Qianyan during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, and was praised as one of the top ten generals of the Sixteen Kingdoms by later generations. Murong Ke was "young and cautious, Shen Shen was generous", he led the army at the age of fifteen, fought in the south and the north, and made many military exploits. The official to Dazai, the general power, but without selfishness, pacified the civil strife, diligent in the rule of officials, assisted the young master, conscientious, and became the pillar of Qianyan. And after its death, the former swallow declined rapidly.

Li Shimin was not very familiar with Murong Ke's understanding, and he knew that Zhai Changsun should not be untargeted.

Sure enough, Cui Changsun said leisurely: "Qianyan entered the customs and competed with Ran Wei to compete in the Central Plains. Emperor Min of Ran Wei Guowu, brave and good at fighting, defeated the strong with the weak, and Murong Ke won ten battles, killing Murong Ke and losing more than 40,000 men and horses. Ran Min bravely underestimated the enemy, and sure enough, he hit the plan and went straight to the iron horse phalanx in the middle of the Yan army. The flank troops of the Yan army attacked from both sides, defeated the Ran Min army, and killed more than 7,000 people. ”

Li Shimin's fine iron armor iron cavalry is now just an ordinary heavy cavalry, in this era, in fact, it is not very rare, but like Wang Renze's tomahawk battalion, it belongs to the kind of military that is very expensive to equip, and there is no way to use it on a large scale.

However, Li Shimin's Xuanjia cavalry has not yet become an iron-blooded strong army that makes the world famous.

However, it is precisely because of Zhai Changsun's dedication that the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry began to change from the original ordinary heavy cavalry to the direction of the heavy armor chain iron cavalry, if the Xuanjia cavalry adopts the iron chain chain, in fact, it has the same effect as Chen Ying's hook and sickle lance cavalry, which is also to defeat the local enemy with unit density, relying on the impermeable iron cavalry, all the way like a road steamroller, constantly rolling the enemy.

Li Shimin immediately asked people to prepare a batch of iron locks according to the method Zhai Changsun said, and then connected them with ten heavily armored Xuanjia cavalry, with more than ten steps between the teams, advancing layer by layer.

When the Xuanjia cavalry who had completed the chain of iron cables, under the orders of Duan Zhixuan and Hou Junji, they slowly advanced like fish scales.

When the Xuanjia cavalry began to launch, the horse's hooves sounded like rolling thunder, and Li Shimin's face couldn't help but change greatly when he saw this scene.

The eldest grandson Wuji followed the sound and saw a black whirlwind, sweeping from a distance. Eldest Sun Wuji felt that his breathing was difficult, and his eyes widened because of the shock.

A chest-high wall, about a foot thick, was frozen hard as iron by ice at this time, and then the iron rider did not hesitate to crash into it, and with a loud bang, the collapsed low wall splashed a large puddle of snow.

Li Shimin was dumbfounded, and his heart was ecstatic: "The power is so terrifying? ”

Hou Junji was silent, but there was a monstrous wave in his heart: "With such a strong army, who in the world can resist?" ”