Chapter 1092: Capture Hanzhong
During the half-month confrontation between the two sides under Yangping Pass, all the troops recruited by Li Yi to attack Shu were finally in place. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Among them, the Tang army gathered in Yangping Pass was nearly 90,000 people, including Yue Fei's First Tang Infantry Legion and Zhang Fei's Third Infantry Legion, as well as a hoplite infantry corps of the Imperial Forest Army led by Li Yi, and a cavalry corps of the Imperial Forest Army.
With more than 70,000 infantry, especially heavy siege equipment, arrived at Yangping Pass, the Tang army launched the most fierce attack on Yangping Pass.
Under the crushing of the absolute superiority of troops and equipment, the Shu Han army still couldn't resist even if it relied on the geographical advantages of Yangping Pass, and only held on for three days, and Yangping Pass was broken.
On the sixth day of the sixth month of June in the third year of Wude, Wude Emperor Li Yiqin led a large army to break through Yangping Pass, more than 20,000 Shu troops, more than 10,000 people were killed, and Wang Ping, the general of Shu Han Zhengbei, only led the last few thousand remnants of the army to defeat the generals, and fled in a hurry to look at the south Zheng of Hanzhong County.
Li Yiqin led 18,000 cavalry regiments of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Imperial Forest Army to pursue Wang Ping, who fled to Nanzheng, all the way.
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On the seventh day of the sixth lunar month, in the afternoon, Wang Ping joined Li Hui, Ma Zhong, and Yin Huang, who fled back from the path. led more than 5,000 defeated troops to return to the city of Nanzheng.
Wang Ping looked at the tall Nanzheng City from afar and settled down a little. Although he lost Yangping Pass, he still has big cities in counties such as Nanzheng and Xicheng, and he has reserve materials, so he can still hold on.
Wang Ping was defeated and lost face, so he asked Ma Zhong to go and open the city gate. Who knew that arrows rained down on the city, Ma Zhong was almost shot, and fled back in a hurry.
Wang Ping was shocked, and everyone looked towards the city, and saw Yang Ren, Yang Song, and Yang Bai walking out of the city gate building proudly, looking at the defeated army outside the city condescendingly.
Wang Ping was furious, and scolded under the city: "Traitor, dare to rebel!" ”
Yang Renfei's face trembled, and he scolded back: "We are Hanchen, and now that Emperor Wude has arrived, he is about to return to the imperial court, how can he say that he is rebelling?" But you, a thief, will die without a place to be buried! ”
Wang Ping was furious, so he shouted to the soldiers under the city to open the gates for himself. How could it be that the Yang family has been in this southern Zhengcheng for generations, and it is deeply rooted, and the soldiers are afraid of them, and they want to return to the powerful and rich Tang Dynasty, so no one pays attention to it at all.
"Break through the city, and you will definitely be beheaded by your Yang family. Come on, prepare to attack the city! Wang Ping looked like he was going to eat people, brandished a big knife and roared angrily.
When Sanyang heard it in the city, his face changed greatly. However, when they saw the dust rising in the distance, they immediately became bold again.
Yang Ang walked to the edge of the city and laughed: "Aha, the army of Emperor Wude of the Tang Dynasty is here, Wang Ping, you kid will come to attack the city if you have a kind!" ”
When Wang Ping heard this, he hurriedly looked back, and saw that the dust that covered the sky seemed to come from the sky. In the shouting of killing, a team of soldiers and horses stood out from the dust and arrived first, and the first general rushed out, waving the mixed iron lance in his hand, and shouted: "Li Cunxiao is here!" ”
One of Wang Ping's generals bullied Li Cunxiao with few soldiers, and led the troops to meet the battle with guns. In the jingle sound, in just one round, Li Cunxiao beheaded the general of the Shu army with the mixed iron lance in his hand.
Li Cunxiao's momentum soared, and he shouted: "Wang Ping, suffer death today!" ”
Seeing this, the generals of the Shu army were afraid and did not dare to move forward. Wang Ping was furious and patted the horse to fight Li Cunxiao.
After just three rounds of fighting, Wang Ping was embarrassed and was about to lose. At this time, there was another shout of killing from the periphery, but it was the Tang Emperor Wude who led the army to kill.
Li Hui was heartbroken, and hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. Wang Ping patted his horse back, he couldn't enter Nanzheng, and now he was really scared, and shouted in the chaos: "De'ang, now that you have lost Nanzheng, where can you live?" ”
Li Hui thought for a while and said, "You can retreat into solidity for the time being." ”
Therefore, before the Tang army launched an offensive, Wang Ping led the army to break through Li Cunxiao's blockade and went straight to Chenggu.
After Li Yi led the army to the city of Nanzheng, he saw that Wang Ping did not enter Nanzheng, but went elsewhere, which was inexplicable. After all, Nanzheng City is the most important place in Han, and Wang Ping has no reason to discard it.
On the one hand, he sent scouts to find out where Wang Ping went, and on the other hand, he gathered troops and horses to surround Nanzheng City.
The three brothers of the Yang family saw Li Yi at the head of the city, and immediately bowed and said: "We are persecuted by Liu Bei, and the Tang Emperor is here today, and I am willing to sacrifice this city to atone for our sins." ”
Li Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately said: "You really endure humiliation and burden, you are loyal and righteous people, don't open the city gate quickly!" ”
The three brothers of the Yang family were overjoyed, and immediately ordered the city gate to be opened to welcome Li Yi into the city. Li Yi got Nanzheng Cheng without blood.
When entering the city, more than 100,000 people in Nanzheng welcomed him. Many of them wanted to sue the three brothers of the Yang family for their lives, but they were all caught by the three brothers of the Yang family and secretly killed.
After Yue Fei, Zhang Fei, Jia Xu, Xun You, Zhuge Liang and others led the infantry army to Nanzheng, Li Yi sent everyone to Anmin, and ordered the three brothers of the Yang family to assist from the side, control the government office, and collect and seal the materials in Hanzhong.
Later, the three brothers of the Yang family returned to their house, still anxious. Because on this day, many people are coming out to sue them.
Yang Ren said with some annoyance: "Those untouchables are like crazy. ”
Yang Ang shook his head and said, "It's not because of Emperor Wude's reputation, Emperor Wude has always protected these untouchables, and these untouchables have the courage to sue us." ”
Yang Song said: "Fortunately, the Tang army is not familiar with the situation, so it can be temporarily blocked, but this is not a long-term solution......
Yang Ren said: "Then hurry up and send Wang Yi over, just say that it is a clan sister, and Emperor Wude will accept it, and he will not do anything to us." ”
The three of them had already made a decision, and the next day they went to persuade the widowed Wang Yi to obey Emperor Wude, and the three of them said that the sky was falling.
This Wang Yi was a strange woman in the original history, and she was also a chaste martyr. In the process of Ma Chao's loss of Xiliang, Wang Yi played a very important role.
However, this time and space has changed history too much because of Li Yi's arrival, and her husband Zhao Ang died in the chaos after taking refuge in Liu Bei while fighting against the Qiang people.
Wang Yi had just married Zhao Ang at that time and stayed in Nanzheng City. Zhao Ang died in battle, and Wang Yi became a widowed woman, but because her brother Wang Ping was reused by Liu Bei, Wang Yi also lived peacefully.
However, this time the three brothers of the Yang family rebelled and detained Wang Yi. Wang Yi is not only a beauty, but also a smart person, she knows very well that if she does not agree to the request of the three brothers of the Yang family at this time, her fate may be miserable. And it's not bad to marry Li Yi, after all, Li Yi is now the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, she married the imperial concubine, and she will give birth to a prince in the future, and the mother will be expensive with her son, so she doesn't have to worry about it in this life.
This is absolutely impossible for a woman who has lost all her relatives to refuse, so Wang Yi agreed.
The three brothers of the Yang family were very happy, and planned to quietly send Wang Yi to Li Yi later in the future. Emperor Wude was happy to see the beauty, and the three of them could sit back and relax.
However, the wishful thinking of the three brothers of the Yang family did not succeed. For the next morning, he personally led the army into battle.
On this morning, Li Yi raised his tent, and when he saw that his subordinates had arrived, he said loudly to everyone in the hall: "The scout has news that Wang Ping has entered Chenggu, which is not far from Nanzheng and is also a big city in Hanzhong. Thinking that after Wang Ping entered Chenggu, he would definitely gather materials and prepare to escape. I want to lead the army today, and I must not let Wang Ping run away again. ”
Everyone agreed with Li Yi's proposition, and the brigade of soldiers and horses immediately left the city, hoping to go away.
After Li Yi left, Yang Song and the three of them met and sighed, "How is this good?" ”
Yang Ren said: "It's okay, Emperor Wude can't get news of the untouchables in the barracks, let's kill more thorns in the next few days, and then offer the beauties when Emperor Wude wins a big victory, but we will be even happier." In this way, not only will you and I be fine, but we will also be able to increase the number of officials and knights. ”
The three of them felt that this plan was good, so they took advantage of their power to kill people who were dissatisfied with the Yang family, trying to control public opinion.
At dusk that day, the cavalry of the Tang Army's Imperial Forest Army first came to Chenggu. Wang Ping, who was packing up his supplies and preparing to leave, didn't expect the Tang army to come so quickly, he wanted to escape alone, but was stopped by Gao Chong, the general of the Tang army, and others, so he could only return to the city to hide.
Then Li Yi led an army of 40,000 infantry to Chenggu, went down to the village overnight, and immediately blocked the water surrounding the city.
The next day, Li Yi raised his tent and ordered the general to wave his army to attack the city.
Although Chenggu City is still strong, the defenders in the city are limited, only more than 6,000 people, and they can't resist the onslaught of the Tang army at all. In the afternoon of the same day, the Tang army broke through the city and captured more than 4,000 generals and strategists of Wang Ping, the general of the Shu Han expedition to the north, and the following generals.
Subsequently, Li Yi waved his army to the east and joined forces with Xu Huang's army, who had just advanced west along the Han River, under the western city. Seeing that he was outnumbered, Zhang Wei, the defender of the Shu army in Xicheng, surrendered the city in order to protect the safety of the soldiers and civilians in the city.
At this point, all Hanzhong County fell under the control of the Tang army.
When Li Yi led the army back to Nanzheng, the good news came that the cavalry army led by Zhao Yun and Xu Maogong successfully captured the Guanghan vassal state, and the Shu army withdrew from northern Sichuan and retreated to Guanghan County.
After Zhao Yun and Xu Maogong and others settled down the place, the cavalry came to Hanzhong to meet Li Yi's main army.
In this regard, the 150,000 troops of the Tang Army's North Route Army, which attacked Shu this time, all gathered in Hanzhong.
In order to destroy the Shu State as soon as possible, Li Yi did not make more repairs in Nanzheng at all, after all, the Tang army had more than two years of repair time before the war, and the war against Hanzhong County this time was not fierce, and the time was not too long, and the soldiers were in a very good mental state, so there was no need to repair at all.
Li Yi appointed Jia Xu as the temporary Taishou of Hanzhong, and at the same time left more than 30,000 people under Xu Huang's command to guard all parts of Hanzhong County and suppress the localities. Then, Li Yi led the main force of the Tang Army, the 12th Army, and went straight to Baishui Pass, the main road to Shu.
It's just that in this way, the idea of the three brothers of the Yang family to use a beauty trick on Li Yi fell through again.